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homeopathy

Homeopathy is an alternative medical treatment that fights an illness using small doses of a remedy to help a person naturally fight the illness. (noun)

Taking small tablets specific to your illness purchased from a health food store is an example of homeopathy.

See homeopathy in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a system of medical treatment based on the theory that certain diseases can be cured by giving very small doses of drugs which in a healthy person would produce symptoms like those of the disease

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homeopathic adjective

See homeopathy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(hōˌmē-ŏpˈə-thē)

noun pl. ho·me·op·a·thies

A system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself.

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