Originally Posted By: PastorVon
... since most of modern medicine is allopathic and a "cure" is usually associated with the relief or removal of the symptoms, it would seem to me that palliative might be an appropriate term although there may be a better one.


I ain't sayin' nothin', but, since "without effecting a cure" is part of the definition of palliative I mo assume that it's not the right word. I ain't sayin', I'm just sayin'.