Nontraditional branch of medicine

• 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
• Alternative medicine
• Alternative medical method
• Method of treating disease

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 ...

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 ]

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.

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 ).