homeopathic
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌhoʊmiəˈpæθɪk/
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homeopático
- She prefers homeopathic options over conventional medicine for managing her symptoms.
- homeopathic medicine
And you know, you can take homeopathic doses of everything without being sullied.
- And you know, you can take homeopathic doses of everything without being sullied.
- They had put up an ad, some homeopathic medicine which will work for all kinds of snake bites.
- Also, what appeals to me most is that kind of homeopathic approach to a joke.
- A lot of people said that's not what you describe is not homeopathic medicine.
- Theodore Morrell, who is this sort of quack Doctor Who uses all manner of homeopathic sort of progressive remedies.
- The crumbling and throwing away is a form of forgetting, but it leaves some kind of a homeopathic trace behind.
Examples
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Being an American, I had not previously been aware that the MHRA licensed homeopathic remedies.
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Oh, in the meantime, I found a new homeopathic cure.
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- Homeopathic medicine has been around for thousands of years.
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I would note that the website for the British Homeopathic Association appears to be down.
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A mountain of homeopathic medicine and health food is on the counter.
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The head of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital was vocally unhappy about it.
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So, if you pay for a homeopathic remedy, you are wasting your money.
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Underlying this work is a different view of illness and modes of treatment that rely on homeopathic principles of healing.
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Homeopathy should not be funded on the NHS, and the MHRA should stop licensing homeopathic products.
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Many people believe that homeopathic remedies can effectively treat certain ailments.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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8.1
Connected with usual modern medicine that treats disease with drugs or surgery
How Regulated
Surface Forms
Morphology
homeopathic = homeopathy (semi-transparent) = homeo + pathy + ic
Formed regularly from the noun 'homeopathy' + '-ic', but the combining form 'homeo-' is a learned Greek element (not the common word 'home'), so learners may be misled.
Etymology
Homeopathic comes from Greek parts homeo- meaning 'similar' and -path meaning 'suffering' or 'disease', and you can see homeo- in homogeneous and -path in sympathy. So homeopathic medicine uses very small amounts of a substance that would cause similar symptoms to try to help the body heal.