Also spelled Homeopathy, a system of therapeutics, notably popular in the 19th century, which was founded on the stated principle that ?like cures like,? similar similibus curantur, and which prescribed for patients drugs or other treatments that would produce in healthy persons symptoms of the diseases being treated.

This system of therapeutics based upon the ?law of similars? was introduced?

A doctrine of preventive and therapeutic medicine that emphasizes the necessity of looking at the whole person?his body, mind, emotions, and environment?rather than at an isolated function or organ and which promotes the use of a wide range of health practices and therapies. It has especially come to stress responsibility for ?self-healing,? or ?self-care,? by observing?