What's the difference between homeopathic and homeopathy?

Homeopathic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author discusses this unusual history and examines the significance of a course of homeopathic "complex therapy" administered during the decisive period.
  • (2) A rural area of Bangladesh with a population of 191,000 had 643 health care providers, of whom 324 (50%) practiced allopathic (Western) medicine, 152 (24%) were spiritualists, 109 (17%) were herbalists, and 58 (9%) were homeopaths.
  • (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) Homeopathic medicine cures in as much as it depicts the disease of the sick body as an external object which is, at the same time, similar to the illness itself.
  • (5) The homeopathic drugs are considered as holograms and the human organic as a biohologram.
  • (6) When the drug is prescribed it should be used in a therapeutic and not homeopathic dose.
  • (7) Four homeopathic drug preparations with extract dilutions between D1 and D30 (expression for the homeopathic grade of potencies) and some additives (minerals and animal toxins) were investigated, using two in vitro and one in vivo phagocytosis models.
  • (8) The general principles of homeopathic therapy are described together with a number of homeopathic drugs used for the treatment of acute bovine mastitis.
  • (9) Nitrates are old drugs, introduced into medical treatment more than 100 years ago, initially as a homeopathic remedy against headache (1850), and only later against angina pectoris (1867).
  • (10) In a controlled randomized double-blind trial carried out by 47 physicians in private practice with totally 152 patients with sinusitis the therapeutic success of the following homeopathic drug preparations was investigated: Group A: combination of luffa operculata D4, kalium bicromicum D4 and cinnabaris D3.
  • (11) That is the reason why homeopathic medicine can be understood as a representation of the illness.
  • (12) Treatment modalities include conventional, herbal, and homeopathic medicines.
  • (13) "Alternative" medicine, especially homeopathic practice, is dealt with from medical, social and comparative law aspects.
  • (14) Homeopathic drugs may exert pharmacodynamic (but also toxic) effects at low dilutions (D0-D6), but there is no scientific proof for specific effects of higher dilutions except for substances with a high toxic potential.
  • (15) Meanwhile Britain's "greenest government ever" has shown what it thinks of scientific evidence, by placing a homeopathic medicine enthusiast in charge of the National Health Service, and a reputed climate sceptic as environment secretary .
  • (16) For while offering homeopathic doses of reform, the G20 package is all about reinforcing the existing structures of economic power – notably the IMF and the World Bank – no matter how disastrous their record as creators of human suffering.
  • (17) The homeopathic medicine was suspended but symptoms persisted.
  • (18) She was treated 10 months before this present admission by an excision of a nodular melanoma, and she was treated, thereafter, by a homeopathic practitioner until she came late to follow-up.
  • (19) A case study is presented in which a pharmacist in a Drug Information Center is queried by a patient about how to obtain a homeopathic medicine.
  • (20) The 6-week homeopathic treatment consisted of thuya 30 "centésimal hahnemannien" (CH) (one tube containing 200 pellets weekly), antimonium crudum 7 CH (5 pellets daily) and nitricum acidum 7 CH (one tube containing 200 pellets daily).

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.

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