The doctrine of signatures, also known as the doctrine of correspondences, states that herbs or animals have physical or behavioral traits that mirror...

signature scheme Signature song, the song or songs a performer is most identified with Signatory (disambiguation) Doctrine of signatures, the notion that...

Bennett, Bradley C. (2007). "Doctrine of Signatures: An Explanation of Medicinal Plant Discovery or Dissemination of Knowledge?". Economic Botany. 61...

"An Account of the cause of the Change of the Variation of the Magnetic Needle; with an Hypothesis of the Structure of the Internal Parts of the Earth"...

plant was thought, by the doctrine of signatures, to be able to cure the throat disease scrofula because of the throat-like shape of its flowers. Mills, S...

Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine produced a draft report on the origins of the Enneagram to aid bishops in their evaluation of its use...

Kabbalistic emanations (sefirot). Doctrine of signatures Ceremonial magic Correspondence, a concept in the philosophy of the 18th-century theologian Emanuel...

power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in the Canterbury Tales story "The Pardoner's Tale," with...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It was devised...

since the Middle Ages to treat coughs and diseases of the chest, because of the doctrine of signatures whereby Christian doctors believed that plants that...

the doctrine of the four temperaments, as a medical theory retained its popularity for centuries, largely through the influence of the writings of Galen...

drew on theosophical ideas of the "lost worlds" of Atlantis and Lemuria, particularly Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine written in 1888, with its...

ailments because of its perceived similarities to the shape and texture of animal livers. This is an example of the doctrine of signatures. Marchantia polymorpha...

cracked nipples and ulcerated breasts, especially under the doctrine of signatures on account of the flower buds' resemblance to nipples. Nanakusa-no-sekku...

greater efficiency. Which of the two doctrines is true? The thoughtful mind must concede that, as is so often the case where doctrines are opposed, each view...

thermodynamics in a cyclic process (see also entropy). The signature of a perpetual motion machine of the second kind is that there is only one heat reservoir...

infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong, and that...

knobby tubers of the plant resemble piles, and according to the doctrine of signatures this resemblance suggests that pilewort could be used to cure piles...

States, while a European Citizens' Initiative that started collecting signatures in May 2024 is also calling on the European Commission to outlaw such...

in his 1970 evaluation of Dianetics: Objective experimental verification of Hubbard's physiological and psychological doctrines is lacking. To date, no...

books, most notably Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods. Experts have described Hancock's investigations of archaeological evidence, myths...

Blavatsky, and Ariosophy. The racial policies of Nazi Germany, the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, and the racist doctrines of Adolf Hitler considered Jews, Roma and Slavs...

not adhere to the framework of rigor of formal mathematical practice. Common areas of pseudomathematics are solutions of problems proved to be unsolvable...

or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed...

Reiki is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine originating in Japan. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm...

interaction. Experiments to prove the existence of telekinesis have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no...

label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from...

producer. Her book The Secret is based on the pseudoscientific belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly...

thicken. Hepatica was once used as a medicinal herb. Owing to the doctrine of signatures, the plant was once thought to be an effective treatment for liver...

Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology...