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Homeopathy (also referenced as homeopathic medicine, homeotherapeutics, homoeopathy): Form of energy medicine (vibrational medicine) developed by German physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (17551843), who coined its original name. The major homeopathic theories include five that Hahnemann either hatched, or embraced and expounded:

• The law of similars ("like cures like"): According to this principle, the most effective potential remedy for a particular disease is that substance which in healthy persons has effects similar to the symptoms of the disease if the substance is applied in quantities that render it bio-active.
• The doctrine of individualization (the rule of the single remedy): According to this principle, the ideal potential homeopathic remedy for a particular ill person is that substance which induces in healthy persons all the health problems, mannerisms, and dispositions the ill person has related if it is applied in quantities that render it bio-active.
• The doctrine of the minimum dose ("less is more"): According to this principle, peculiarly selected substances trigger healing without side effects when they are applied in quantities that render them nonbioactive or even when they are only seemingly, spiritually applied.
• The doctrine of potentization ("dynamization"): According to this principle, successively diluting and vigorously shaking a potentially therapeutic liquid or successively thinning and vigorously grinding a potentially therapeutic solid spiritualizes the substance, thus increases its curativeness, and detoxifies it.
• The doctrine of the vital force: According to this principle, the alleged vital force (for which Hahnemann coined the word "dynamis") is the source of all biological phenomena, it becomes deranged during illness, and homeopathic "remedies" work by restoring it. Hahnemann also developed "the theory of the chronic miasms," which holds that all chronic diseases resistant to homeopathic treatment stem from three alleged hereditary propensities: "psoric," "sycotic" (gonorrheal), and syphilitic "miasms." According to the "miasmatic" or "miasmic" theory, "psora," the alleged original miasm, manifests itself as scabies and other skin diseases.