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homeopathy and pandemics

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Carbon Remedies Conference

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

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 […]

Practical homeopathy, practical nonsense

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

Sligo, Dublin, Literature & Homeopathy

Sligo and Dublin Writers and Homeopathy James Joyce Joyce wrote humorously of homeopathy and some homeopathic remedies in Ulysses which […]

Vague, unusual and inexplicable symptoms

Vague, Undiagnosed and Inexplicable Symptoms Occassionally it happens that a patient will present with a symptom which doesn’t fit a diagnosis […]

Homeopathy in Co. Mayo and Sligo – a reflection

Homeopathy in Co. Mayo and Sligo The Beginning “I’ll give it six months and if it’s not working out I’ll […]

Psychiatry is not a science – in practice and theory

Psychiatry is not a Science – a Recent Practical Example The trial took place in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin last week of […]

Could that cough be whooping cough?

Overlooking Whooping Cough Have you ever met a child with a cough that lasted a long time? I’ve come across […]

Burns – treat with heat not cold

Fight Fire with Fire Fire cools fire, within the scorched veins of one new burn’d – Shakespeare (Quoted by Dr Kentish) […]

Nature uses homeopathy not isopathy

Isopathy v Homeopathy Have you ever wondered how measles can prevent whooping cough (par 46 of the Organon), cowpox prevent […]

Media quackery – Irish Times and unscientific bias

Media Bias Here is my response to one of the many of the anti-homeopathy articles and letters in The Irish […]

“Managing” psoriasis – some clarifications

Managing not Curing Psoriasis Psoriasis, a common curse, was discussed by Pat Kenny on his show this morning. He interviewed […]

Don’t treat cradle cap

The Crowning Treatment for Cradle Cap “Oh you have to get rid of that, it looks awful,” said a pharmacist to […]

Taking a case means taking sides

Spot the Difference Ok, apart from the size, what is the difference between the two? This is important for […]

Aristotle through Aquinas to Hahnemann

Aristotle, Aquinas and Hahnemann Why did the great Dr Hahnemann call his remedies potencies and powers? From where did he […]

Shingles jab proves homeopathy

Shingles Jab Homeopathic to Warts and Moles Told you so! In a recent post (here), commenting on two articles in […]

Classifying remedies: an introduction

Why Classify? I often wonder how to store my books on the bookshelves. Having been indecisive once, now I’m just […]

No metaphysics no medicine

Metaphysics and Medicine What has metaphysics got to do with the practise and theory of medicine? Well, as soon as […]

Evidence based medicine evidently isn’t!

Medicine Lacks an Evidence Base – Economist Professor Alan Maynard was not the first to challenge doctors, the NHS and […]

Catholics & homeopathy 4: Fr Muller SJ

Fr Keith Augustus Muller S.J., 1841-1910 “My God,” said Dr Lobo, “you haven’t heard of Father Muller’s Hospital?” Dr Lobo […]

Anthropologist proved homeopathy – yaws prevented syphilis

Yaws Prevents Syphilis Here’s an interesting obituary about an anthropologist who upset many preconceived notions about Columbus, syphilis, the harm […]

Catholics and homeopathy 3: doctor/monk defends homeopathy

Modern Science, the Church and Homeopathy On Catholics and homeopathy, religion and science, who better to refer to than a […]

Catholics & homeopathy 2 – Benedictines brought homeopathy to Oz

Benedictines, Homeopathy and Western Australia “Welcome to my country, I give you permission to stay,” was my greeting from Bruce, […]

Catholics & homeopathy 1: four popes

The Catholic Church has a tradition of establishing hospitals and working in health care but an overlooked part of its […]

Dutch honour homeopathic doctor

On April 25 2014, Jan Scholten, one of homeopathy’s leading lights, has been decorated as Knight in the Dutch Order […]

Are homeopaths wrong Mr Grimes?

Grimes and his Logical Fallacies Resorting to libellous generalisations of an ad hominem nature, with rhetorical ploys such as caricature, here’s two […]

Antibiotics: scientist doesn’t host the host

Antibiotics Have Run Their Course “Golden age of antibiotics could come to harsh end. Complacency and casual misuse could render […]

Philosophy and case management

Achieving and Maintaining the Similimum by Dr Luc De Schepper (I wrote this in Nov. 2004 for the Homeopathic Times) […]

Bacteria and viruses as medicines

Spectrum Materia Medica, Volume I Monera: Kingdom Bacteria and Viruses By Frans Vermeulen Publ.; Emryss Publishers There is so much […]

An Insight Into Plants

An Insight Into Plants, Vols. 1 and 2, by Rajan Sankaran Publ.; Homeopathic Medical Publishers Available at www.minervabooks.co.uk These guys in […]

Provings – a tale of two swans and more

Dynamic Provings, Volume II by Jeremy Sherr Dynamic Provings, Volume II by Jeremy Sherr and his Dynamis School is not only a […]

Syphilis and destructive diseases

Dynamic Materia Medica: Syphilis: A Study of the Syphilitic Miasm through Remedies, By Jeremy Sherr Considering its relevance to Hahnemannian […]

Louis Klein’s Clinical Focus Guide

Clinical Focus Guide Vol. I., by Louis Klein www.homeopathycourses.com I’ve known very little of Louis Klein but what I read here […]

Sea remedies and minerals of support

Praxis: Notes From The Second Three-Year International Postgraduate Course In Bologna, Italy. Dr Massimo Mangialavori Dr Massimo has been running […]

Spiders as medicine

Bitten in the Soul: Experiences With Spider Remedies In Homeopathic Medicine By Massimo Mangialavori and Hans Zwemke. “A Real Materia […]

Miasmatic Prescribing by Dr Banerjea

Miasmatic Prescribing: its philosophy, diagnostic classification and clinical tips. Miasmatic repertory & miasmatic weightage of remedies, By Dr. Subrata Kumar Banerjea. […]