Method of treating disease

• Nontraditional branch of medicine
• 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 medical method
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Almost two in three of the 897 housewives surveyed in June believed homeopathy and acupuncture were effective. ▪ As always with homeopathy , the choice of acute remedy depends on your child's symptoms. ▪ Brenda has started a ...

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 ...

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 ).

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 ...

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.