I’m writing this with great concern, as a prominent member of our global homeopathic community has recently promoted Paul Alexander as an objective, authoritative voice regarding the nature of, and responses to, the SARS-CoV–2 / COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander does possess credentials as a medically-trained epidemiologist, but it is important to recognize that his voiced opinions …
WWHD (What would Hahnemann do? Faced with our current COVID-19 pandemic, it feels reasonable to ask, What would Hahnemann do? Of course, he’s not around to ask; Let me break this down into 3 categories: Homeopathic treatment & homeoprophylaxis; it seems obvious that, were he around today, he’s be curious about investigating the individual & …
Douglas Borland Influenzas as this text is currently out of print & unavailable, I offer it here in its entirety. These are lectures given by Dr. D.M.Borland at the London Homoeopathic Hospital, subsequently published in 1939. The drugs are not arranged alphabetically, but in the order in which Dr.Borland considered them likely to be of …
JH Clarke Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe (1899) Grippe or influenza Grippe or influenza – Treatment This is the section of Clarke’s text dealing with “Grippe,” or Influenza. Note the publication date of 1899; this is likely principally in reference to the “Russian ‘flu” pandemic that shortly preceded its publication, which in contemporary retrospective analysis most …
JH Clarke, Catarrh, Colds, and Grippe; section on “Grippe” Read More »
For every kind of poisonous exhalation there is in all probability a particular antidote, only we do not always know enough about the latter. It is well known that the air of our atmosphere contains two-thirds of a gas that is immediately fatal to man and beast, and extinguishes flame. Mixed up along with it …
A receipt has been given to the world, which proved so efficacious in Dünaburg in the Asiatic cholera, that of ten patients but one died. The chief ingredient is camphor, which is in ten times the proportion of the other ingredients. But not a tenth-nay, not one in a hundred of the patients would have …
Cause and prevention of the Asiatic cholera – Hahnemann, 1831 Read More »
Two opinions, exactly opposed to each other prevail on this subject. One party considers the pestilence as only epidemic, of atmospheric-telluric nature, just as though it were merely spread through the air, from which there would in that case be no protection. The other party denies this, and holds it to be communicable by contagion …
The mode of propagation of the asiatic cholera – Hahnemann, 1831 Read More »
The malignant scarlet-fever that has prevailed in Germany for eight years and proved fatal to many thousands of children and older persons, often so unexpectedly, so rapidly, and with symptoms never before heard of under such circumstances, this murderous disease, termed scarlet-fever by almost every one, is really anything but scarlet-fever; it is a new …
Observations on the scarlet-fever (Hahnemann, 1808) Read More »
(published as a pamphlet by Hahnemann in 1801) Preface Had I compiled a large book upon scarlet fever, I should have obtained, through the usual channels of publication, at least as much in the way of honorarium as by the subscription for this little book. But as, according to Callimachus, a great book is a …
From its earliest days, homeopathy has been able to treat epidemic diseases with a substantial rate of success, when compared to conventional treatments. It was these successes that placed the practice of homeopathy so firmly in the consciousness of people world-wide. There is a story told about Joseph Pulte, one of the earliest homeopaths in …
Some history of the treatment of epidemics with Homeopathy – Julian Winston Read More »