Symptomatic treatment does not provide a fundamental solution.
医者は対症療法として痛み止めを処方した。
The doctor prescribed painkillers as symptomatic therapy.
makeshift solution; stopgap measure; temporary expedient
Figurative extension of the medical sense; used for any temporary fix that does not address the root cause.
その政策は対症療法に過ぎない。
That policy is nothing more than a stopgap measure.
対症療法ではなく、抜本的な改革が必要だ。
We need fundamental reform, not a makeshift solution.
The doctor administered symptomatic treatment for the fever.
Instead of making fundamental reforms, they just keep relying on stopgap measures.
This measure is nothing more than a stopgap, and the problem will likely recur.