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I've never heard it referring to all pseudo-medicines. Wikipedia seems to agree on a narrow definition about just heavily diluted shits.
by temac 5y ago
I've never heard it referring to all pseudo-medicines. Wikipedia seems to agree on a narrow definition about just heavily diluted shits.
- gunapologist99 5y agoPlease review the sidebar on the homeopathy page for "fringe medicines", which includes the other examples I cited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
- meowface 5y agoThe third sentence: >Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like". I think homeopathy just applies to the pseudoscientific/fake "like cures like" dilution method. The broad category is just known as "alternative medicine", I believe. Some other forms of alternative medicine aren't necessarily quite as baseless.