Nontraditional branch of medicine

• Alternative medicine
• Alternative medical method
• Method of treating disease
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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 or homoeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann , based on his doctrine of like cures like ( similia similibus curentur ), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.

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 ]