Medical term referring to the system of alternative medicine based on the principle of 'like cures like'.
Homeopathy uses extremely diluted substances that cause symptoms to treat illness.
The more common loanword for homeopathy in modern Japanese. 同毒療法 is a kanji-based term used in formal or academic contexts.
Compound of 同 (same), 毒 (poison), and 療法 (therapy), calqued from the German 'Homöopathie' or English 'homeopathy', reflecting the principle of treating like with like.