The Materialist View of Homeopathy: An Alternative Hypothesis and the Connection with Hormesis

Rajendra Prakash Upadhyay

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1617760

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Homeopathy 2018; 107(01): 046-049
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1617760

Letter to the Editor

The Faculty of Homeopathy

The Materialist View of Homeopathy: An Alternative Hypothesis and the Connection with Hormesis

Authors

Rajendra Prakash Upadhyay

¹Simillimum Welfare Society, Nainital, Uttrakhand, India

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