. . . "Homeopathy (/\u02CCho\u028Ami\u02C8\u0252p\u0259\u03B8i/) 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."@en . . .