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homeopathy

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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 ).

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 ]

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 ...

Usage examples of homeopathy.

It combined all the best features of osteopathy, chiropracty, magnetism, homeopathy, and other systems of drugless medicine.

We could hospitalize you, stuff you with drugs, irradiate your skin, smear you with calamine lotion, even conduct experiments in homeopathy and acupuncture and moxibustion.