homeopaths
Like-cures-like practitioners
Homeopaths are practitioners of homeopathy, an alternative medicine system based on the principle that highly diluted substances can treat conditions whose symptoms they would cause in larger doses.
Most homeopaths lack conventional medical training and operate outside mainstream healthcare: The homeopath prescribed a series of remedies for her chronic fatigue.
Treatments that restore health
- dilutionReduction in concentration
- provingsActs of establishing validity
- tincturesMedicinal solutions in alcohol
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
individualized · Hahnemann · repertory · aggravation · potency · acute · chronic · dosing
Disposition toward doubt
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- quackeryFraudulent medical practice
- criticismJudgment of faults
- debateFormal argument on issues
efficacy · evidence-based · anecdotal · scrutiny · regulation · misinformation · fraudulent · double-blind
Natural remedies practitioner
- herbalistPractitioner using plant medicines
- apothecaryHistorical medicine preparer
- allopathMainstream medical doctor
- acupuncturistOne who treats with needles
chiropractor · ayurvedic · licensed · certified · clinic · patient
Non-physical life principle
- holismWholes trump components
- energeticHaving much vigor
- individualizedAdapted for one person
- self-healingAble to repair itself
natural · integrative · mind-body · preventative · terrain · susceptibility · totality · constitutional
remedies
Treatments that restore health
- dilutionReduction in concentration
- provingsActs of establishing validity
- tincturesMedicinal solutions in alcohol
constitutional · individualized · Hahnemann · repertory · aggravation · potency · acute · chronic · dosing · consultation
skepticism
Disposition toward doubt
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- quackeryFraudulent medical practice
- criticismJudgment of faults
debate · efficacy · evidence-based · anecdotal · scrutiny · regulation · misinformation · fraudulent · double-blind · ethics
naturopath
Natural remedies practitioner
- herbalistPractitioner using plant medicines
- apothecaryHistorical medicine preparer
- allopathMainstream medical doctor
acupuncturist · chiropractor · ayurvedic · licensed · certified · clinic · patient
vitalism
Non-physical life principle
- holismWholes trump components
- energeticHaving much vigor
- individualizedAdapted for one person
self-healing · natural · integrative · mind-body · preventative · terrain · susceptibility · totality · constitutional
- healersnurse, doctor, physician, surgeon, medic
- homeopathyremedies, calendula, dilutions, like cures like, hypericum
- fringe believerstruthers, conspiracy theorists, flat earthers, QAnon, moon landing deniers
homeopathspharmacists
Licensed medication dispensers
medical doctors · physicians · MDs · scientists · oncologists
homeopathsscientists
Systematic knowledge seekers
empiricists · skeptics · rationalists · debunkers · pharmacologists
- homeopathic remediesDiluted substance therapies
- homeopathic cureDiluted substance as medicine