Homeopathy

[Sarah]

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and itspractice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedieswhich produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms ofthe complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies beingusually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr.Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.[Written also homoepathy.]

[Sarah]

Essentially: Quacks. A pseudo-science based purely on anecdotal evidence. This field thrives purely because it is inimical to real science.

Do not be fooled by phrases such as: 'memory of water' as basis for the molecular basis of homeopathy's effectiveness. Such claims have been systematically discredited.

[Sarah]

Medicine able to cure everything except actual illness.

[Sarah]

A fraud scheme that has been running since the 1700's by which a guillible person is sold a substance, usually pure water, as a cure for various ailments. At its inception, an elaborate set of pseudoscientific/pseudoreligeous principles, as a basis for homeopathy, were developed as a smoke screen for the perpatrators to avoid prosecution by the state. Due to the fact that medical science was embryonic at the time, convincing con artists could put forth wild stories regarding how their wonder cures worked, and no credible establishment could contradict them.

The statement like

[Sarah]

An alternative, none science-based medicine which originated on the now outdated and completely disproved principle that water holds a memory of diluted substances, and that the

[Zipporah Schumaker]

A system of complementary medicine in which ailments are treated by minute doses of natural substances that in larger amounts would produce symptoms of the ailment.

[Justin Bieber]

Homeopathy, which was developed in Germany in the late 1700s, is a medical system

[Dave Paprocki]

Developed in Germany in the late 1700s, homeopathy is a medical system based on the principle that like cures like (the law of similars). A substance that, when given in large doses, causes a certain set of symptoms is believed to cure the same symptoms when it is given in minute to nonexistent doses. The minute dose is thought to stimulate the body’s healing mechanisms.

Treatments are based on the patient’s unique characteristics, including personality and lifestyle, as well as symptoms and general health. Homeopathy aims to restore the flow of the body

[Greta]

The treatment of disease by minute doses of natural substances that in a healthy person would produce symptoms of disease.