(n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Popular beliefs about the cause of jaundice appear to have evolved to fit therapeutic practices adopted by vaidyas from allopathy.
(2) It is applicable in the fields of homoepathy and allopathy, however, there are many different ways of treatment.
(3) To insure that allopathy is properly understood and utilized within the pluralistic context, the identification and training of coordinating personnel who may specialize in diagnosis or referral demonstrates promise.
(4) The purpose of this article is to show the advancement in knowledge of cesarean sections among African traditional healers before the advent of colonialism and introduction of scientific medicine (allopathy) to Africa.
(5) In general, ayurveda can play an effective complementary role to allopathy’s emergency medical care system,” says Vasudevan, who believes the lowest economic strata can benefit the most from these choices in treatment.
Homeopathy
Definition:
(n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Actual contacts with alternative practitioners are mostly limited to those practicing acupuncture, homeopathy and manipulative medicine with a regular medical or paramedical education.
(2) In this review the author describes the main principles of homeopathy, the stages of its development, methods of approach to the treatment of diseases of the internal organs.
(3) To me, homeopathy wasn’t as strange as it would be to many other people because, in a way, I was brought up on homeopathy – our family doctor was a homeopath,” he says.
(4) Until now there is no proven mechanism for the mode of action of homeopathy.
(5) Homeopathy has been disputed from the early beginning.
(6) 80% offered minor operations, one-third manipulations, 10% homeopathy, 6% hypnosis and 5% acupuncture.
(7) I recently asked the General Medical Council about homeopathy.
(8) This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture.
(9) Household income: £20,000 a year (£12,000 from homeopathy, £8,000 from nursing).
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thompson had been studying homeopathy at college with the hope of a career in natural medicine.
(11) Leading scientists have also questioned Hunt's suitability to be responsible for the NHS because he endorses homeopathy, which many scientists believe has no value and is a waste of NHS funds.
(12) Among unaccustomed treatments for low back pain homeopathy matter given by injection has been joined with usual care.
(13) Accordingly, homeopathy is presently an unacceptable system with no physical basis, supported by inexplicable observations and a mixture of magic effects.
(14) Data concerning acupuncture, balneotherapy, dietary measures, enzymic therapy, Seatone, homeopathy, manual therapy and fever few were found.
(15) The results range from apathy to the sort of pitched battles raging in homeopathy .
(16) The following methods are discussed in detail: regulation thermography, Lüscher's test, homeopathy, homeopathy autoblood therapy, nosoden therapy, acupuncture, magnetic field therapy, ozone therapy, Mora therapy, lymph drainage, management of symbiosis, and anthroposophical medicine.
(17) Thompson had been studying homeopathy at college with the hope of a career in natural medicine.
(18) The conclusion emerges that the literature available does not make it possible to pass a verdict on the question whether homeopathy and isopathy are scientifically justified or not.
(19) The most universally accepted requirements which scientific research has to comply with having been enumerated and explained, a number of experimental studies in the fields of homeopathy and isopathy are put to the test of these requirements.
(20) In the intervening period, HRH has discovered the consolations of organic farming, homeopathy and a happy marriage.