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Parent topics

• Complementary and alternative medicine [r]: Set of therapies and treatments not considered mainstream or scientific. [e]
• Diagnosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Symptom [r]: A subjective description of an abnormal state, recounted by a patient, which is informative, but different from the objective result of a sign. [e]
• sign [r]: An objective finding on physical examination or diagnostic testing, complementing the subjective symptoms reported by a patient [e]
• Syndrome [r]: Group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition. [e]
• Etiology [r]: Study of causation, or origination, usually applied in medicine to the causes of disease. [e]

Subtopics

• History of homeopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jacques Benveniste [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Water memory [r]: A pseudoscientific concept, according to which water molecules can store information on the kind of molecules they had been in contact with. [e]
• Samuel Hahnemann [r]: (1755 - 1843), physician who founded homoeopathic medicine. [e]
• Homeopathic proving [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tests of the efficacy of homeopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Avogadro's number [r]: The number of entities (such as atoms, ions, or molecules) per mole; dimension mol⁻¹ [e]
• Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy [e]
• Clathrate [r]: Crystalline solids which occur when water molecules form a cage-like structure around smaller 'guest molecules' [e]
• Distillation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hormesis [r]: A quantitative and qualitative dose-response relationship in which the effect at low concentrations occurs in the opposite direction from that expected from the effect observed at higher concentrations. [e]
• Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. [e]
• Meta-analysis [r]: A quantitative method of combining the results of independent studies (National Library of Medicine). [e]
• Pathology [r]: The medical specialty that is expert in the use of laboratory methods to support clinicians in diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis [e]
• Pharmacology [r]: Study of the changes produced in living animals by chemical substances, especially the actions of therapeutics, substances used to treat disease. [e]
• Prospective [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Randomized controlled trial [r]: "Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table." (Anonymous, (2009) Randomized controlled trial (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
• Medical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically relevant objects. [e]
• Solution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Water [r]: A chemical compound with one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms (H₂0). It is often in a liquid form and makes up the bulk of the oceans, lakes, rivers and living organisms. [e]
• Sympathetic magic [r]: The cultural concept that a symbol, or small aspect, of a more powerful entity can, as desired by the user, invoke or compel that entity [e]