1) Alternative medical method 2) Alternative medical system 3) Consumer fraud 4) Homoeopathy 5) Medical aid 6) Medical care 7) Study of cozy places
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1) Homoeopathy
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belief in giving a patient with symptoms of an illness extremely dilute remedies that are thought to produce those same symptoms in healthy people. These preparations are often diluted beyond the point where any treatment molecule is likely to remain. Studies of homeopathic practice have been largely negative or inconclusive. No scientific basis fo...
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a type of medicine which is based on the principle that small quantities of medicines capable of producing symptoms are provided for cure of a particular condition
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• (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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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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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 in the patient. Also called homeopathic medicine.
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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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<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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(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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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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Alternative healing method developed into a system by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s, and based
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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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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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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 (
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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 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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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, 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 cent...
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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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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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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. Developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnem...
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See definition of homeopathy.
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the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
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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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