homeopathy

1. n. The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. Source: opted

2. 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 Source: wordnet

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

4. 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.] Source: adambom

5. n:100 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 Source: ecdict

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