Classification of allopathic drugs with criticism of allopathy

 

 

MAJOR DRUG CLASSES FOR THE TREATMENT OF VARIOUS DISEASES

1. Autonomic drugs

These drugs target the autonomic system which is the major

involuntary, unconscious autonomic portion of the nervous system.

a. Cholinoceptor-activating and cholinesterase-inhibiting drugs

b. Cholinoceptor blockers and cholinesterase regenerators

c. Sympathomimetics

d. Adrenoreceptor blockers

 

2. Cardiovascular drugs

a. Antihypertensive agents

b. Drugs used in the treatment of acute coronary syndrome

c. Drugs used in the treatment of heart failure

d. Anti-arrhythmic drugs

e. Diuretic agents

 

3. Drugs effecting smooth muscle cells

a. Histamine, serotonin and ergot alkaloids

b. Vasoactive peptides

c. Prostaglandins and their modulators

d. Nitric oxide donors and inhibitors

e. Bronchodilators

 

4. Drugs that act on the central nervous system

a. Sedative/hypnotic drugs

b. Alcohols

c. Anti-seizure drugs

d. General and local anesthetics

e. Skeletal muscle relaxants

f. Anti-parkinsonian drugs

g. Anti-psychotic drugs

h. Anti-depressant drugs

i. Opioids analgesics and antagonists

j. Drugs of abuse

 

5. Drugs with actions on blood, inflammation and gout

a. Anti-anemia drugs and hematopoietic growth factors

b. Drugs used in the management of thrombosis

c. Anti-hyperlipidemic agents

d. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents

6. Endocrine drugs

a. Hypothalamic and pituitary hormones

b. Thyroid and anti-thyroid drugs

c. Corticosteroids and antagonists

d. Gonadal hormones and inhibitors

e. Pancreatic hormones, anti-diabetics and hypoglycemic drugs

f. Drugs that affect bone mineral homeostasis

 

7. Chemotherapeutic agents

a. Antibiotics

b. Anti-fungal agents

c. Anti-viral chemotherapy

d. Anti-protozoal drugs

e. Anti-helmentic drugs

f. Cancer chemotherapy

g. Immuno-modulators

 

8.Vaccines, complex biologic drugs and immune globulins 

9.Drugs used in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders

10. Stem cell therapy

Criticism: 

Stuart close has said "When we come to, examine these allopathic drug classifications from the standpoint of that knowledge of drugs which is derived from actual observation of their effects upon the healthy, as recorded in homœopathic provings, we find them to be of the crudest character, based upon the most superficial knowledge of drug action. The gross toxic effects of the drug, as observed accidentally in men or animals or as guessed, are set over against equally crude generalizations of diseases, usually on the antipathic principle where any principle at all is discoverable.

     For although the allopathic school of medicine of the present day repudiates any law or principle, it is plain that the rule of contraries still dominates it. One has only to take down any standard allopathic work on materia medica to find its drugs arranged in some twenty-five or thirty classes, the names of which either begin with "anti" or imply the same thing, as pointed out by the late Dr. Conrad Wesselhœft, of Boston. Thus we find anti-toxins, anti-spasmodics, anti-periodics, anti-pyretics, anti-acids, antiseptics, anthelmintics, alteratives, tonics, counter-irritants, etc. Manifestly, the appellation "allopathy" holds good today, as it did a hundred years ago, when Hahnemann applied it."

 

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