12 Facts About Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

Homeopathy advocated the use of single drugs at lower doses and promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of how living organisms function.

Homeopathy coined the expression "allopathic medicine", which was used to pejoratively refer to traditional Western medicine.

Homeopathy experienced fever, shivering and joint pain: symptoms similar to those of malaria itself.

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.

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".

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.

Homeopathy uses animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic substances in its preparations, generally referring to them using Latin names.

Homeopathy is fairly common in some countries while being uncommon in others; is highly regulated in some countries and mostly unregulated in others.

Homeopathy is one of the most commonly used forms of alternative medicines and it has a large worldwide market.

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.