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n. - A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated.

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  • The term homeopathy comes from the Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease.
  • The term homeopathy and its formal definition came from German physician,
  • Samuel Hahnemann defined the term homeopathy and the methods of provings and potentiation.
  • The term homeopathy, its formal definition, and the methodology of this medical system derived from German physician,
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