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2. Allopathic medicine - Wikipedia

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   Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy, by Alexander Beideman (1857) Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor of modern evidence-based medicine. [1] [2] There are regional variations in usage of the term.

3. Homeopathy - Wikipedia

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   In other countries, such as Belgium, homeopathy is not covered. In Austria, the public health service requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments and homeopathy is listed as not reimbursable, [238] but exceptions can be made; [239] private health insurance policies sometimes include homeopathic treatments ...

4. Homeopathic dilutions - Wikipedia

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   A popular homeopathic treatment for the flu is a 200C dilution of duck liver, marketed under the name Oscillococcinum. As there are only about 10 80 atoms in the entire observable universe, a dilution of one molecule in the observable universe would be about 40C.

5. Terminology of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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   Allopathic medicine or allopathy is a pejorative term used by proponents of alternative medicine to refer to modern scientific systems of medicine, [86] such as the use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of diseases or conditions.

6. List of forms of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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7. Evidence and efficacy of homeopathy - Wikipedia

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   Cessation of unpleasant treatment – often homeopaths recommend patients stop getting medical treatment such as surgery or drugs, which can cause unpleasant side-effects; improvements are attributed to homeopathy when the actual cause is the cessation of the treatment causing side-effects in the first place, but the underlying disease remains ...

8. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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   Ernst has concluded that 95% of the alternative therapies he and his team studied, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, and reflexology, are "statistically indistinguishable from placebo treatments", but he also believes there is something that conventional doctors can usefully learn from the chiropractors and homeopath: this is ...

9. List of homeopathic preparations - Wikipedia

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   Homeopathic name Substance Common name Aconite [1] Aconitum napellus: Monkshood, monk's blood, fuzi, wolf's bane Aesculus hippocastanum [1] Aesculus hippocastanum: Horse-chestnut Allium cepa [1] Onion: Aloeaceae [2] Aloe succotrina: Aloe: Arnica [3] Arnica montana: Leopard's bane Baptisia [1] Baptisia tinctoria: Wild indigo, horseflyweed ...