What's the difference between homeopathy and homoeopathy?

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.

Homoeopathy


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The traditional concepts of the homoeopathy are challenged with the modern knowledge arising from basic and applied research.
  • (2) A whole number of trials concerning both basic and clinical research have given evidence of the efficacy of homoeopathy and of the way it works.
  • (3) The results of the review may be complicated by publication bias, especially in such a controversial subject as homoeopathy.
  • (4) Homoeopathy was established in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843).
  • (5) For homoeopathy, ascorbic acid and ginkgo the proportion of all trials found by Medline was 17%, 36% and 31% respectively and for Embase 13%, 25% and 58% respectively.
  • (6) A growing number of physicians in everyday practice use homoeopathy not as an alternative but rather as a supplementation to conventional medicine.
  • (7) By the establishment of an institute called Institutum homoeopathicum et magneticum the homoeopathy concentrates for a long time on Anhalt territories also after Hahnemann's retirement.
  • (8) High scores were especially found for manual therapy, yoga, acupuncture, hot bath therapy and homoeopathy.
  • (9) The fight against homoeopathy permanently remains on the programme of the scholastic medicine, which certainly appeals to existing laws, but cannot prevent the development of a prospering business with homoeopathy.
  • (10) Yes, we insist, somehow the British will struggle on without Charles’s biscuits , his architectural guidance, his deeper thoughts on nanotechnology, homoeopathy and “the beingness of things”.
  • (11) In 14 trials some form of classical homoeopathy was tested and in 58 trials the same single homoeopathic treatment was given to patients with comparable conventional diagnosis.
  • (12) To establish whether there is evidence of the efficacy of homoeopathy from controlled trials in humans.
  • (13) Trials of classical homoeopathy and several modern varieties were considered separately.
  • (14) In the years between 1821 and 1835 the domiciliation of Samuel Hahnemann in Köthen induces a consolidation of the homoeopathy in the district of the Anhalt territories.
  • (15) Most of the 360 (60%) GPs who replied expressed on interest in alternative practice; and 47% revealed that they used one or more alternative methods themselves, most often homoeopathy.
  • (16) In 1976, the term of "special therapy methods", denoting homoeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and phytotherapy, was incorporated into the German law concerning pharmaceutical preparations.
  • (17) Homoeopathy, health food preparations and herbal remedies were used most.
  • (18) There is a very wide range of alternative approaches to allergy, including the methods used by clinical ecologists and other treatments such as acupuncture and homoeopathy.
  • (19) This was performed for controlled clinical trials on the efficacy of three interventions: homoeopathy, ascorbic acid for common cold, and ginkgo biloba for intermittent claudication and cerebral insufficiency.
  • (20) The revival of neomysticism, especially promoted by nonqualified representatives of press and tv, leads to a worldwide trend to homoeopathy, acupuncture, herb-cure, Christian-Science, and to many others.

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