Homeopathy is a system of
alternative medicine created in 1796 by
Samuel Hahnemann based on his doctrine of
like cures like (
similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Homeopathy is a
pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a
placebo, suggesting that any positive feelings that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect and
normal recovery from illness.
