| n. | 1. | (Med.) 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 |
| Noun | 1. | homeopathy - a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated Synonyms: homoeopathy Antonyms: allopathy - the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself |