1796 Samuel Hahnemann At the commencement of this century, the unmerited honour was conferred on chemistry, more especially by the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of tempting it to come forward as the discoverer of the medicinal virtues of drugs, particularly of plants. This folly, which was, with divers variations, perpetrated for nearly half a …
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 …
I assume we’ve all seen the news reports of Aaron Rogers claiming he was “immunized” against COVID-19, as he’d “received a homeopathic treatment from his personal doctor to raise his antibody levels.” This of course has been followed by reports suggesting that “homeopathic remedies do not work,” and by ridicule equating homeopathy with crystal healing & …
I initially posted this to my Academy FaceBook page, but I’m growing even more disillusioned with that platform for a great many reasons, and will likely be closing my account soon, so am posting it here as well. I’ve been alarmed by the de facto rejection of vaccination by the global homeopathic community in the …
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Cholera infantum, or, as this form of disease is generally termed, “summer complaint,” comprises all the various diseases of the digestive organs and brain with which children are attacked during the summer, and most frequently during dentition, during their second summer. The various forms of diseases of the digestive organs are those attacking the stomach …
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 & …
In reaction to my ongoing since-stroke voice issues, with a recent acute set-back, I’ve been reflecting on effective “pedagogies” (in reference to adult learning, I suppose that’d be “adultusogogies”), most particularly with regard to lecture as a means of teaching/learning. I have a real love/hate relationship with lecture. On the one hand, I quite detest …
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 …
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Chapter XI Symptomatology The Homœopathic Materia Medica. – The Materia Medica of Hahnemann is an enduring monument to the genius of its author, original in its conception and design and unique in its form and contents. Its foundation is on the bedrock of natural law. It is constructed of the cut stones of accurately …
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Are the obstacles to certainty and simplicity in practical medicine insurmountable? 1 Dr. Herz’s essay “On the Medicinal uses of the Phellandrium aquaticum,” andc., in the first part of the second volume of the Journal der practischen Arzneykunde, plunged me into a sort of melancholy, which only by dint of long continued reflection has given …
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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 …
Translated from the Allg. hom. Zeit., Vol 67, pp. 113-165 The Physician’s Record is without doubt a subject which deserves for many reasons and in many respects to be seriously considered and discussed. That it is indispensable to every true Homoeopathic physician follows undeniably from the necessity of individualizing all the characteristic symptoms in every …
A Contribution to the Judgement Concerning The Characteristic Value of Symptoms (Boenninghausen, 1858) It is now over three years since the great Homoeopathic Congress was held in Brussels, Germany being, I am sorry to say, but little represented. In the last session of this meeting after several propositions had been read, my resolution was adopted …
James Tyler Kent, The Homoeopathician, Journal for Pure Homoeopathy, No. 2. August 1912. Provings of remedies are not continued to the extent of producing tissue alterations-indurations, infiltrations, suppuration, caries, etc. Most of the indications for the use of remedies in these conditions must be learned clinically; from the use of remedies in patients when these …
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 …
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(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 »
This is how I translate the expression ‘Einseitige Krankheiten,’ which we find interpreted in the other translations of the Organon into French, as “partial illnesses,” which of course, is a mistake. This is what HAHNEMANN says in Paragraph 172: “A similar difficulty in the way of the cure occurs from the symptoms of the disease …
Dr. Kent, Dr. Gibson Miller, and others, can tell you, from long years of successful work and experience, how to do it. I feel that I am equally well qualified, from some years of poor prescribing and much failure, to tell you how not to do it. I used to get brilliant flashes of light …
The ordinary mode for acquiring knowledge of remedial agents – namely, merely by experience during practice – cannot be termed studying the medicines, and no directions are required for it. Much time and labor may be expended in this mode without ever attaining a complete command of the medicinal agents. Many a homeopathic practitioner will …
On the Study of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Constantine Hering Read More »
The medicine of experience – Samuel Hahnemann, 1805 Often considered to be the “precursor” to the first edition of the Organon Man, regarded as an animal, has been created more helpless than all other animals. He has no congenital weapons for his defence like the bull, no speed to enable him to flee from his …
The second prescription – James Tyler Kent lecture read before the International Hahnemannian Association at Niagara Falls in 1888 Editorial Note: What perplexing problems we often meet in practice! How we crave, at times, the advice of a master mind! We are so often the victims of prejudice, over-confidence or ignorance, and our patients suffer …
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The Medical Observer Samuel Hahnemann from the introduction to Materia Medica Pura In order to be able to observe well, the medicinal practitioner requires to possess, what is not to be met with among ordinary physicians even in a moderate degree, the capacity and habit of noticing carefully and correctly the phenomena that take place in …