Nontraditional branch of medicine

• Study of dwellings?
• Method of treating disease
• Alternative medical method
• Healing system
• A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from German Homöopathie , coined 1824 by German physician Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann (1755-1843) from Greek homoios "like, similar, of the same kind" (see homeo- ) + -patheia (see -pathy ).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homeopathy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research, reviews, and debates on all aspects of homeopathy , a controversial form of alternative medicine . It is the official journal of the Luton-based Faculty of Homeopathy . The journal was established ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: homoeopathy ] [ant: allopathy ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homeopathy \Ho*me*op"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? likeness of condition or feeling; ? like (fr. ? same; cf. Same ) + ? to suffer: cf. F. hom['e]opathie. See Pathos .] (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease ...