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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 illn...
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Homeopathy
A method ofÂ 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 -...
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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 earl...
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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 ...
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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 administe...
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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
(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., ad...
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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 i...
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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 Hahneman...
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy i (also spelled homoeopathy or homœopathy; from the Greek hómoios- ὅμοιος- "like-" + páthos πάθος "suffering" ) is a form of alternative medicine. Practitioners treat patients using highly diluted preparations believed to cause symptoms in healthy individuals similar to th...
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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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homeopathy
Type: Term Pronunciation: hō′mē-op′ă-thē Definitions: 1. 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 ce...
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homeopathy
System of alternative medicine based on the belief that symptoms of disease are part of the body's self-healing processes, and on the practice of administering extremely diluted doses of natural substances found to produce in a healthy person the symptoms manifest in the illness being treated. Devel...
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Homeopathy
The use of small amounts of natural substance(s) to stimulate a natural healing response in the body.
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Homeopathy
The use of small amounts of natural substance(s) to stimulate a natural healing response in the body.
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Homeopathy
A type of medicine based on a principle of 'like cures like'. A homeopath believes that, if a substance causes particular symptoms in a healthy person, the same substance (in small doses) can be used to treat those symptoms in an ill person.
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An alternative approach to medicine based on the belief that natural substances, prepared in a special way and used most often in very small amounts, restore health. According to these beliefs, in order for a remedy to be effective, it must cause in a healthy person the same symptoms being treated i...
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