Ayurveda vs. Homeopathy

Ayurvedanoun

(Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life; sometimes regarded as a 5th Veda

Ayurveda

Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific.

Homeopathynoun

A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.

Homeopathynoun

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.

Homeopathynoun

a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated

Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann.