Look up: homeopathy

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   homeopathy
   [n] - a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
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   Homeopathy
   A system of disease treatment involving application of minute doses of a remedy that, in a healthy person, would produce symptoms of the disease.
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   Homeopathy
   Therapy which treats individuals with extremely diluted agents that, in undiluted doses, produce similar symptoms in the healthy
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   Homeopathy
   Discovered and developed more than 150 years ago by a German physician named Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who became disenchanted with the medical status quo of his time, and sought alternative methods of healing. He discovered that when introducing a medicine, which produced the same symptoms of the illness, the disease disappeared. Thus was born the co...
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   Homeopathy
   A method of  treating illness with very dilute doses of a substance which, in maximum doses would (in a healthy person) produce symptoms of the illness being treated e.g. to treat vomiting a homeopath would use very dilute doses of a substance that would cause vomiting if taken in large amounts - The reasoning behind this is that symptoms are not c ...
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   Homeopathy
   Homeopathy is a complementary therapy. Homeopathy claims that if a substance that causes a symptom is taken in small amounts, it can cure a medical condition with the same symptoms. There is currently no clear clinical evidence that homeopathy works.
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   Homeopathy
   A system for treating disease based on giving patients very small amounts of a substance that, in very large amounts, produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself.
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   Homeopathy
   A system of medicine based upon the principle that 'like cures like'. Homeopathic medication given in extremely small doses which can produce symptoms of the disease to be cured, in order to stimulate the body`s defence (immune) system
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   Homeopathy
   Almost two centuries old, it is a system of medicine in which the treatment of disease (symptom pictures) depends on the administration of minute doses (attenuations) of substances that would, in larger doses, produce the same symptoms as the disease being treated.
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    Homeopathy
    Homeopathy: A system of therapy based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself. Homeopathy was invented by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was both refined and populari ...
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    Homeopathy
    Ho·me·op'a·thy noun [ Greek ... likeness of condition or feeling; ... like (fr. ... same; confer Same ) + ... to suffer: confer French homéopathie . See Pathos .] (Medicine) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured ( tuto , cito , et jucunde ) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects si ...
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    homeopathy
    <medicine> The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr ...
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    homeopathy
    homoeopathy noun a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
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    Homeopathy
    `Homeopathy` is a controversial form of complementary and alternative medicine created in the late 18th century by German physician Samuel Hahnemann. The principles of homeopathy were laid out in his textbook, `The Organon of the Healing Art`, which remains in wide use today. Homeopathic remedies are made from substances that, in undiluted form, cause symptoms similar to the disease they aim to treat. The therapeutic applications of the remedies...
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    homeopathy
    (ho″me-op´ә-the) a system of therapeutics founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843). Diseases are treated by drugs that are capable of producing in healthy persons symptoms like those of the disease to be treated, the drug being administered in minute doses. adj., homeopath´ic., adj.
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    Homeopathy
    • (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Sam...
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    homeopathy
    a system of therapeutics, notably popular in the 19th century, which was founded on the stated principle that `like cures like,` similia similibus ... [3 related articles]
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    homeopathy
    homeopathy, homeopath, homeopathology A system of medical treatment based on the use of small quantities of remedies that in massive doses produce effects similar to those of the disease being treated. Homeopathy, historical background Homeopathy was invented by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was both refined and p...
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    homeopathy
    A system of therapy developed by Samuel Hahnemann based on the “law of similia,” from the aphorism, similia similibus curantur (likes are cured by likes), which holds that a medicinal substance that can evoke certain symptoms in healthy individuals may be effective in the treatment of illnesses having similar symptoms, if given in very sm...
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    homeopathy
    homeopathy (hōmēop'uthē) , system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars—that like is cured by like. It was first given practical application by Samuel Hahnemann of Leipzig, Germany, in the early 19th cent. and was designated homeopathy to distingu...
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