homeopathy
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- noun
- /ˌhoʊmiˈɑːpəθi/
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homeopatía
- Many patients choose homeopathy for its natural approach to healing.
- homeopathy medicine
Should your doctor also tell you about homeopathy?
- Should your doctor also tell you about homeopathy?
- This is now called a double-blind trial, and that too was invented to debunk pseudoscience, namely homeopathy.
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I would ask the same question as is posed for homeopathy: Is the supposed mechanism even plausible?
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I'd expect discussions of the safety of homeopathy in pregnancy, for example.
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As it turns out, that treatment was homeopathy given to him by his doctor.
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The report is called Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy, and I'll cut to the chase.
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So, Don, are you seriously saying that homeopathy and therapeutic touch are supported in nursing theory?
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Hi Tim, I recently read your book and noticed you commented on homeopathy at one point.
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In the case of so-and-so, homeopathy had helped.
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There has been enough testing of homeopathy and plenty of evidence showing that it is not efficacious.
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However, I imagine the debate on NHS funding for homeopathy may be more protracted.
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After being treated by a chiropractor who uses applied kinesiology and homeopathy, she went back to work full time.
Academic text (2010)
Antonyms
- Specialized
Medical treatment that uses drugs or surgery instead of alternative treatments
How Medical
Surface Forms
Morphology
homeopathy = homeo + pathy
Formed from Greek combining forms ('homeo-' = similar; '-pathy' = disease/treatment) that are not familiar to average B1 learners and can be mistaken for the unrelated English word 'home', so the meaning is not guessable from everyday vocabulary.
Etymology
The word homeopathy comes from Greek parts homoios meaning 'similar' and pathos meaning 'suffering' or 'disease'. A helpful way to remember it is 'like cures like' — homeopathy treats a problem with a very small amount of something that would cause similar symptoms, so it uses tiny doses to try to help the body heal.