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Definition of Homoeopathy/Homeopathy

What is Homeopathy ? :-                          A method of treating disease by prescribing minute doses of drugs which, in maximum dose, would produce symptoms of the disease. Homeopathy is derived from two Greek word Homeo and Pathos where Homeo means 'similar' and Pathos means 'Suffering or diseases'.  Homoeopathy is a specialized system of therapeutics, developed by Dr. Samuel Christian Friedreich Hahnemann, based on the natural law of healing : " Similia  Similibus  Curantur"  which means " Likes are cured by likes".  Dr. W. E. Boyd has defined Homoeopathy as :- "Homoeopathy is a therapeutic method which assumes that a deviation from the fundamental mean within reversible limits can be restored to normal by means of stimuli , usually appliedin the form of drugs, only sub-physiological doses of which are necessary because of hypersensitivity in disease and whosr action is always dir...