homeopathy
Like-treats-like healing
Homeopathy is an alternative medicine system based on the principle that substances causing symptoms in healthy people can, in highly diluted forms, treat similar symptoms in sick people.
Practitioners use remedies diluted so extensively that little or no original substance remains, believing the water retains a "memory" of the active ingredient.
Mainstream science considers homeopathy ineffective beyond placebo, but it retains devoted adherents: She turned to homeopathy after conventional treatments failed.
Reduction in concentration
- individualizationTailoring to one person
- provingsActs of establishing validity
- miasmHarmful airborne emanation
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
Homeopathy's founder
- syphilisSpirochete-caused venereal infection
- 19th-centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- GermanyCentral European nation
- SamuelName meaning "God heard"
provings · vitalism · Kent · classical · traditional · founding · Leipzig
Inactive therapeutic substitute
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- efficacyAbility to produce results
- evidence-basedSupported by verified data
regulation · FDA · criticism · meta-analysis · mechanism · research · double-blind
Herbal bruise treatment
- belladonnaToxic herb yielding atropine
- sulphurElement sixteen, yellow solid
- phosphorusGlow-in-dark element
- sepiaReddish-brown pigment
Mutually supplying lacks
- alternativeAnother available choice
- integrativeCombining into a whole
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
- self-careMaintaining personal wellbeing
preventative · gentle · non-toxic · mind-body · wellness · CAM · functional · patient-centered
Meeting seeking expert guidance
- repertoryCollection of prepared works
- prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
- follow-upSubsequent action on something
- dosingGiving measured medicine
dilution
Reduction in concentration
- individualizationTailoring to one person
- provingsActs of establishing validity
- miasmHarmful airborne emanation
Hahnemann
Homeopathy's founder
- syphilisSpirochete-caused venereal infection
- 19th-centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- GermanyCentral European nation
Samuel · provings · vitalism · Kent · classical · traditional · founding · Leipzig
placebo
Inactive therapeutic substitute
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- efficacyAbility to produce results
evidence-based · regulation · FDA · criticism · meta-analysis · mechanism · research · double-blind
arnica
Herbal bruise treatment
- belladonnaToxic herb yielding atropine
- sulphurElement sixteen, yellow solid
- phosphorusGlow-in-dark element
complementary
Mutually supplying lacks
- alternativeAnother available choice
- integrativeCombining into a whole
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
self-care · preventative · gentle · non-toxic · mind-body · wellness · CAM · functional · patient-centered
consultation
Meeting seeking expert guidance
- repertoryCollection of prepared works
- prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
- follow-upSubsequent action on something
- German Inventionsprinting press, diesel engine, automobile, X-ray, aspirin
- healing practicesacupressure, holistic healing, Ayurveda, self-healing, chiropractic
- home remedieshoney, lemon, ginger, garlic, turmeric
- natural remediesherbal tea, essential oils, echinacea, ginseng, elderberry
- alternative medicineacupuncture, acupressure, Ayurveda, ayurveda, herbal medicine
- debunked beliefsflat earth, phlogiston, spontaneous generation, geocentrism, phrenology
homeopathyallopathy
Treatment opposing disease symptoms
biomedicine · evidence-based medicine · pharmacotherapy · clinical medicine · drug therapy
homeopathyscience
Systematic study through observation
evidence-based practice · empiricism · scientific method · skepticism
- homeopathic remediesDiluted substance therapies
- homeopathic cureDiluted substance as medicine