homeopathy
system of pseudoscientific alternative medicine based on the doctrine of "like cures like"
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Summary
homeopathy is an alternative medicine[1]. homeopathy ranks in the top 5% of alternative medicine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,468 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: branch of pseudoscience[3], parascience[4]
- Founder: Samuel Hahnemann[5]
- Subclass of: alternative medicine[6]
- Commons category: Homeopathy[7]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1796[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Homeopathy[9]
- OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=homeopathy[10]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], The American Cyclopædia[14]
- Uses: homeopathic preparation[15]
- Hashtag: homeopathy[16]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q27096430[17]
- Practiced by: homeopath[18]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]
- WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/homeopathy[20]
Why It Matters
homeopathy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] homeopathy is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]