Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.
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Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.
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Homeopathy advocated the use of single drugs at lower doses and promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of how living organisms function.
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Homeopathy coined the expression "allopathic medicine", which was used to pejoratively refer to traditional Western medicine.
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Homeopathy experienced fever, shivering and joint pain: symptoms similar to those of malaria itself.
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Homeopathy published a collection of provings in 1805, and a second collection of 65 preparations appeared in his book, Materia Medica Pura .
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Homeopathy's assertion was that if these symptoms were suppressed by medication, the cause went deeper and began to manifest itself as diseases of the internal organs.
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Homeopathy maintains that treating diseases by directly alleviating their symptoms, as is sometimes done in conventional medicine, is ineffective because all "disease can generally be traced to some latent, deep-seated, underlying chronic, or inherited tendency".
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In 2016, the University of Barcelona cancelled its master's degree in Homeopathy citing "lack of scientific basis", after advice from the Spanish Ministry of Health.
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Homeopathy uses animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic substances in its preparations, generally referring to them using Latin names.
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Homeopathy is fairly common in some countries while being uncommon in others; is highly regulated in some countries and mostly unregulated in others.
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Homeopathy is one of the most commonly used forms of alternative medicines and it has a large worldwide market.
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Homeopathy is used in China, although it arrived a lot later than in many other countries, partly due to the restriction on foreigners that persisted until late in the nineteenth century.
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