Homeopathy
Homeopathy\xa0or\xa0homoeopathy\xa0is a\xa0pseudoscientific[1][2][3][4]\xa0system of\xa0alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician\xa0Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called\xa0homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called\xa0similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like".[5]\xa0Homeopathic preparations are termed\xa0remedies\xa0and are made using\xa0homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product.[6]\xa0Between each dilution homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent remember the original substance after its removal. Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease.[7]
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