Homeopathy

<p> <strong>Homeopathy</strong> or <strong>homoeopathy</strong> is a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudoscientific" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscientific">pseudoscientific</a><sup id="cite_ref-Tuomela2_1-0" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-Tuomela2-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith20122_2-0" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-Smith20122-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baran2014_3-0" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-Baran2014-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ladyman_4-0" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-Ladyman-4">[4]</a></sup> system of <a title="Alternative medicine" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine">alternative medicine</a>. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician <a title="Samuel Hahnemann" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann">Samuel Hahnemann</a>. Its practitioners, called <strong>homeopaths</strong>, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called <em><a class="mw-redirect" title= "Similia similibus curentur" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similia_similibus_curentur">similia similibus curentur</a></em>, or "like cures like".<sup id= "cite_ref-Hahnemann_5-0" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#cite_note-Hahnemann-5">[5]</a></sup> Homeopathic preparations are termed <em>remedies</em> and are made using <a class="mw-redirect" title="Homeopathic dilution" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic_dilution">homeopathic dilution</a>. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product.<sup id= "cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href= "https:/