What are the main differences between osteopathic and homeopathic medicine?

Very Different: Osteopathic medicine refers to the use of manual manipulative treatment for musculoskeletal ailments as well as holistic patient centered approach to medical treatment whereas homeopathic medicine is the use of tinctures of herbal meds that are very dilute and reported to decrease symptoms by causing an opposite clinical effect of what the herbal medicine would normally cause.

Very Different: Homeopathy is a form of medicine developed by samuel hahnemann, md, in the early 1800s, which uses the law of similars to treat conditions. Osteopathy, developed by a.T. Still, md in the late 1800s, involves the manipulation of the skeletal system to affect change in the body. Osteopaths (D.O.S) are consider equivalent to mds. Homeopaths may be mds, or other practitioners.

Differentiation: Osteopathic physicians receive the "doctor of osteopathic medicine" (do). This involves physical body manipulation as well as all other "conventional" practices, and was founded by dr. Andrew still. Homeopathic medicine stimulates healing by using small doses of medicine, prescribed according to the principle "like cures like". Both try to relieve suffering & illness, & increase health.