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1) "Homeopathic" -- As to homeopathic medicine ho·meo·path·ic Pronunciation: "hO-mE-&-'pa-thik Function: adjective 1 : of or relating to homeopathy 2 : of a diluted or insipid nature <a homeopathic abolitionist -- W. A. White> - ho·meo·path·i·cal·ly /-thi-k(&-)lE/ adverb Pronunciation Symbols It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. (Discuss) See also: classical homeopathy, clinical homeopathy, and complex homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy Homeopathy (also spelled homÅ“opathy or homoeopathy) from the Greek words όμοιος, hómoios (similar) and πάθος, páthos (suffering)[1], is a method of alternative medicine that treats "like with like." The term "homeopathy" was coined by the German physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) and first appeared in print in 1807,[2] although he began outlining his beliefs of medical similars in a series of articles and monographs in 1796.[3] Homeopathy attempts to treat the sick with extremely diluted agents that, in undiluted doses, produce similar symptoms in the healthy. However, processes used cause the dose to be exactly zero in most cases: Its adherents and practitioners assert that the therapeutic potency of a remedy can be increased by serial dilution of the drug, combined with succussion, or vigorous shaking. This is, however, not supported by chemistry or physics. Homeopathy regards diseases as morbid derangements of the organism,[4] and states that instances of disease in different people differ fundamentally.[5] Homeopathy views a sick person as having a dynamic disturbance in a hypothetical "vital force", a disturbance which, homeopaths claim, underlies standard medical diagnoses of named diseases.[6] Scientists describe homeopathy as pseudoscience [7] and quackery.[8] The theory that extreme dilution makes drugs more powerful by enhancing their "spirit-like medicinal powers"[9] is inconsistent with the laws of chemistry and physics. P..." 2) "Medicine" -- As to homeopathic medicine med·i·cine Pronunciation: 'me-d&-s&n, Britain usually 'med-s&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin medicina, from feminine of medicinus of a physician, from medicus 1 a : a substance or preparation used in treating disease b : something that affects well-being 2 a : the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease b : the branch of medicine concerned with the nonsurgical treatment of disease 3 : a substance (as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease 4 : an object held in traditional American Indian belief to give control over natural or magical forces; also : magical power or a magical rite - medicine transitive verb Pronunciation Symbols

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Medicine (or Biomedicine), is derived from the Latin ars medicina, "the art of healing", and is pronounced as a disyllabic word (i.e., med-sinn) by many native speakers of standard English. However, those from Scotland and the US usually pronounce it as a trisyllabic word (i.e., meh-dih-sin).^[1]

Medicine is a branch of the health sciences, and is the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. It is both an area of knowledge – a science of body systems, their diseases and treatment, studied by medical researchers (Biomedicians) – and the applied practice of that knowledge, which principally constitutes a physician's work in clinical medicine.