Stephen Blendell - Stephen Blendell Homeopath

Why opt out of organ donation

In February 2024 the Irish government signed into law The Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act […]

Side-effects of statins

Are statins safe, effective or even necessary? Do you know that the first person to discover statins, Akira Endo, when […]

Discussion on homeopathy – philosophy of medicine, evidence, efficaciousness, limits, proof, etc

In the video discussion on WCAT Radio, based in Ohio, on homeopathy (see below), I am joined by Fr Jacek […]

How not to treat a pandemic

conventional isopathic vaccines have no rational, experiential or scientific foundation; Jenner and Hahnemann proved nature prevents and cures homeopathically

Covid queries: theory and practise

? Questioning the Pandemic, in Theory and Practise • “Long covid”. It has been said – although I believe greatly […]

homeopathy and pandemics

Pandemics: What Dr Hahnemann Knew (pp. 131. €15) Contents Preface 1 Enlightening the Homeopathy Witch Hunters 5 Science Fraud and […]

Vaccines: guilt, force or choice?

my response to an article by Sarah McInerney in The Sunday Times (12/04/20), insisting all should be vaccinated, whether they want to be or not.

Organ donation – over my dead body!

Corporeal Appropriation Dr Christiaan Barnard Mr S___, a consultant surgeon (FRCS, Ed.) likes a good adventure. On his latest expedition, […]

Bottled water: mineral, spring or filtered?

Think Before You Drink! Bottled water: mineral, spring or tap? Have you been duped? Have you ever been duped? Customers […]

news and new book on homeopathy and medicine

New homeopathy book available You might like to know of 2 developments: first, my book Medicine That Makes Sense: Selected […]

Solzhenitsyn’s cancer of stomach cured

Stomach cancer cured in Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn and stomach cancer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian dissident, was “nearly dead at that […]

Churches oppose mandatory vaccination

Mandatory Vaccination An Irish broadcaster and doctor, Ciara Kelly, has suggested that religion should stay out of medicine. Forgetting religion […]

VAT the health stealth tax

Proposed VAT Increase on Vitamins, Minerals and Fish Oil Supplements Tom was shrewd. He wanted to use his motorbike at […]

Ethical practice and homeopathy

Homeopathic practice as an ethical problem By Fr Jacek Norkowski, MD, Ph.D (philos), OP In the following article by Fr Norkowski, […]

What Cartesian witch hunters can’t explain

Why Homeopaths Can’t be Burned at the Stake This is one of a number of learned articles (as well as […]

Trust women – on Gardasil reactions

Politics and Gardasil Reactions “I trust women” was the rhetorical ploy of Simon Harris, Minister for Health, during his campaign […]

Narcolepsy, politics and swine flu vaccine

Narcolepsy and Swine Flu Vaccine: HSE Sleeping on the Job It hasn’t been a good month for vaccine manufacturers or […]

Repeal reveal ironies

Revealing Repeal Ironies I love irony, as you might have noticed from previous articles. Listening to and watching campaigners on the […]

“Entrenched” science, subjective experience and vitalism

Steven Pinker, the experimental psychologist, commented in a Financial Times interview when asked if he believed in an afterlife: No. […]

Pretend Paediatric Prescribing

Paediatric Prescribing: Questionable Science and Ethics On the cold night of 23rd February 1994, Karlee, from Rouleau, Canada, ventured out […]

Miasmatic prescribing: Ghatak’s cases

Miasmatic Prescribing Dr N. Ghatak worked in Calcutta 100 years ago. A great prescriber, he understood the need to address […]

Memories not so sweet

Memory, Sugar and Miasms “Half of Americans said they were angrier than a year ago” according to one survey. We […]

Deducing or inducing the law of cure

Induction, Deduction, Medicine and Scientific Method It has been argued recently that the HPV vaccine is safe because so many millions […]

Gardasil safety and the game of thrones

Gardasil Safety, Bishop Cullinan and Minister McGrath The Gardasil vaccine continues to raise controversy. Recently in Ireland a junior health […]

Brazil – Homeopathy research and post-truth sceptics

Brazil’s Contribution to Homeopathic Research and Evidence To those who demand scientific evidence for homeopathy* (With Thanks to Dr Marcus Zulian […]

Antibiotics – don’t finish the course

Don’t Finish Full Course of Antibiotics Scientists take much for granted regarding antibiotics. As previously mentioned – TCD scientist misunderstands antibiotics […]

Medic nun loses faith in pharma

Teresa Forcades on Justice and Healthcare A rebel nun has lost her faith! Sr Teresa Forcades is a Spanish nun but […]

The unprejudiced observer

The Objective Unprejudiced Observer “But surely you need to be objective?” Miriam O’Callaghan asked Colin Davidson, the Belfast portrait painter, during an […]

Hahnemann’s charitableness towards suicides

Hahnemann’s Sensitivity to Suicides At a talk on suicide sponsored by a charity, the speaker, a consultant psychiatrist, stated that […]

Parent jabs journalist over vaccines

To Vaccinate or Not In 2011 a parent wrote to a journalist who had made comments about vaccines. The parent gives […]

Favourite stories of healing with homeopathy

Three Cured Cases Homeopathy is replete with beautiful cured cases, including heavy pathology and psychiatric symptoms. Here I have chosen three […]

Opidemic – making a killing with painkillers

America’s Opioid Abuse Epidemic TV3, the Irish television channel, has been running a series called Doctor in the House. In March 2017 it […]

Ethically withholding and refusing treatment

Ethical Reasons to Withhold and Refuse Medical Treatment One might agree that a doctor should withhold medical treatment in certain situations. […]

Doctor Do Harm and Doctor Death

Do-Harm Doctors Dr Gwen Adshead in her essay “The doctor’s dilemma: is it ever good to do harm?” in the Guardian suggests […]

Revising the revisionist histories of medicine

Revisionist and Biased Medical Histories There are histories and there are histories. Some give a fuller and truer picture than others. […]

Caring not killing – homeopathic euthanasia

Care for the Dying is not Killing with Homeopathy Unlike the high-priests of modern liberalism who advocate sacrificing the dying for […]

Psychiatry and homeopathy

Hahnemann as Psychiatrist “I always tell GPs: ‘Adults don’t suddenly become depressed. The depression is possibly linked to a malignancy.’” […]

Case-taking: acute, chronic and epidemic

Taking a Medical Case History Case histories are simple or complex and vary from individual to individual – regardless of […]

Pain and painkillers – the painful truth

Pain and Painkillers First, a joke. Pressing his index finger against his knee, a patient says to his doctor: “Doctor, every time I […]

Comfrey and herbal remedies – “The greatest surprises”

Healing Power of Plants The Irish Times this week published two features on herbal medicine and folk cures (see here and […]

Deficiencies: vitamins, minerals and laboratory tests

Unexpected Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies Folate Deficiency A young lady recently had her baby delivered here in Ireland. Not feeling […]

Hay fever – doc cocks nose at local honey

Local Honey and Hay Fever The Irish Times recently received an interesting letter from a gentleman explaining his experience using […]

How medical establishment fat cats cream it

The Medical Establishment Fat Cats The day before the Brexit referendum a group of French people travelled to London to […]

Science fraud and misconduct

“Science Fraud is Huge” Science requests that its discoveries should be repeatable and testable. A furore was created recently when […]

Treating pathology is mistreating

The Limits of Pathology “When we couldn’t help a patient anymore and we had got as much money as we could […]

Carbon Remedies Conference

Irish Society of Veterinary Homeopaths Conferences These well-organised conferences have been an annual event for five years now, organised by […]

Unhealthy Business

Big Pharma: Unhealthy for Patients, Economy, Science and Democracy “As a MP in Nigeria, drug companies offered me houses in the […]

Chronic Diseases – Hering’s overview

Chronic Diseases: Their Specific Nature and Homeopathic Treatment, by Samuel Hahnemann Medicine cannot explain why some symptoms resolve quickly of […]

Homeopathy doesn’t work, it…

Does Homeopathy Work? Homeopathy doesn’t work, but it does work in a particular way. It doesn’t work by treating or […]

HPV: Minister guards Gardasil reactions

Minister for Health’s Reaction to Gardasil Reactions Recently our minister for health, Leo Varadkar, made a dictatorial speech on adverse Gardasil […]

Mind-brain split splits psychiatry

During a frontal lobotomy operation, the surgeon asked the patient, “Do you know where I am now?” to which […]

The term “practical homeopathy” has finally got the better of my curiosity. I first came across it in the early […]