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- noun Alternative spelling of
homeopathy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
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Examples
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(WHO) has called homoeopathy the second largest growing therapy in the world.
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The British Medical Association (BMA) may have called homoeopathy a "witchcraft", but it's unlikely to impact the popularity of the alternative medicine.
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Further research into the efficacy of therapies such as homoeopathy is unlikely to settle the debate, such is the controversy surrounding the subject.
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Further research into the efficacy of therapies such as homoeopathy is unlikely to settle the debate, such is the controversy surrounding the subject.
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Further research into the efficacy of therapies such as homoeopathy is unlikely to settle the debate, such is the controversy surrounding the subject.
Latest headlines from BMJ Power, M. 2010
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Further research into the efficacy of treatments such as homoeopathy is unlikely to settle the debate, such is the controversy surrounding the subject.
Latest headlines from BMJ O'Brien, M. 2010
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My interest in it is having the ability to combine this very accurate rhythmic bioidentical hormone therapy with constitutional homoeopathy which is you have the bio-energetic stimulation, particular bio-energetic stimulation on a mind, body, spirit plane together with biochemical, bio-hormonal stimulation and bringing in both in the balance ideally to gain perfect health and well being.
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'homoeopathy' means 'healing through like'; the basic principle is to treat disease symptoms with highly diluted substances which produce similar symptoms if ingested in normal quantity.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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So we can, in this way, reject (as whole sciences) astrology, homoeopathy, Freudian psychoanalyisis, or Marxist economics.
Which Economists to Trust?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy were identified by a comprehensive literature search, which covered 19 electronic databases, reference lists of relevant papers, and contacts with experts.
Nightmare Advice on Allergies Steve Carper 2008
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