Canadian Academy of Homeopathy

07/18/2025

Another good case from the patient files of Dr. Adolph Lippe:

"I was called to prescribe for a lady, who was suffering from a true panaritium (a purulent infection of the fingers, typically affecting the nail bed or surrounding skin), all the bones of the index finger of the right hand were already involved. Symptoms—Burning pain, for which cold water dressings had been applied, pain worse from 10 o’clock to 4 in the morning, depriving her of all rest, and compelling her to walk up and down the room.

Apis had been administered without giving relief; I gave Arsenicum album 200, but upon my visit in the morning, I found the pain and distress increased. I again examined the case and found that warm poultices of bread and milk had been applied, but the warmer they were when applied the more severe the pain became; it now became evident that Arsenicum album could no be the proper remedy, as this characteristic symptom of Arsenicum album was deficient, “better from heat,” although all the other symptoms seemed to indicate it clearly.

I again compared the symptoms, and as the Lycopodium pains are always aggravated by wrapping up warmly, and as all the other symptoms were also to be found under the provings of Lycopodium, I administered one dose of Lycopodium 2000. The next night the patient was comparatively easier, the poultices could be applied warm, the improvement continued for four days, when Silica became indicated, and one dose of it in the 200th potency was given, and the freely suppurating finger was gradually healed."

07/17/2025

07/11/2025

Another important insight from Dr. Adolph Lippe...

“In high sensitives the high potencies aggravate too much, and less high are better. These terrible, long-standing aggravations are not necessary, and though they are rare exceptions, we must learn to avoid them. There must be a difference; it is impossible that one and the same potency should always heal speedily and gently in all sicknesses and under all circumstances. There is a wide field open, and only the experiment and experience can decide.”

Source: Medical Advance 1890 1890; 24: 190.

07/10/2025

A wonderful paper by Dr. Adolph Lippe - "The Second Prescription"

This paper is supplementary to that great paper by the late Dr. von Boenninghausen on Hahnemann’s Three Precautions, published first in the Neues Archiv, and translated in the American Homoeopathic Review. It is addressed to such members of the medical profession who have accepted and appreciate h...

07/09/2025

Why homeopathy?

Pharmaceutical antidepressants are only partially metabolized and then eliminated in urine and f***s. Since wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove pharmaceuticals, antidepressants and their metabolites eventually reach the environment.

In a just published study of water samples from the Great Lakes, 10 antidepressant substances were measured in nearly 1300 surface water samples at levels known to produce adverse environmental impacts.

Source: Pappas, J. et al., Ecotoxicological implications of increased antidepressant concentrations in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin, 2018–2023. Science of The Total Environment. Volume 981, 15 June 2025, 179331

07/08/2025

A conference well worth attending - at UConn Health - an allopathic medical school and teaching hospital in the U.S.

Learn more at https://homeopathyusa.org/homeopathy-groundbreaking-science-and-global-health/

07/04/2025

Dr. H.C. Allen relates a story involving Adolph Lippe's practice...

“Here is one of the most important topics for all of us; the repetition of the remedy. I think that, as a rule, we make more mistakes in this than in any other part of the practical art of curing. We frequently fail by a too frequent repetition of the dose. To know when to repeat and how to repeat requires a master in the art. Dr. Lippe once made a statement in my hearing that I thought the most audacious I had ever heard. He said that if he could visit a case of diphtheria the first time, before anybody had had a chance to spoil it, and make the first prescription, he would generally cure the case with one remedy and often with one dose. I went to Philadelphia and stayed there a month to see Dr. Lippe do it. At that time I was giving two, three of four remedies at a time or in alternation. I saw Dr. Lippe clear up serious cases of illness over and over again in pneumonia, bronchitis and so on with a single prescription. Not always, but often. The secret is first to find the remedy and then to know when to repeat and when to refrain from repeating. It is in this, that skill is manifested; this is the work that marks the difference between the artist and the bungler.”

Source: H. C. Allen. Discussion. Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association 1901: 43-44.

07/03/2025

From the editors of the Michigan Journal of Homœopathy in 1849...

"In a few diseases is the superiority of the homœopathic practice more manifest than in dysentery. The allopathic physician who investigates homœopathy, is not only delighted with the result of the treatment, but is also able to see the cause of the frequent failure of the old treatment...

Another very great advantage which homœopathy has over allopathy in the treatment of this disease, as in all other severe diseases, is the fact that her remedies are much more immediate in their action. A large share of the cases of dysentery we have treated here this season have been cured within from one to three days; some few have continued longer, but we are satisfied by our observations that the average duration of this disease, under homœopathic treatment, is not half as long as under allopathic, and the danger is almost nothing in comparison. "

Source: John Ellis, S. B. Thayer. Dysentery. American Journal of Homœopathy 1849; 4 : 77-78

07/02/2025

A recent study sought to investigate the usefulness of classical homeopathy for the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI) in patients with spinal cord injuries (SCI).

Participants were patients with chronic SCI and ≥3 UTI/year.

Interventions: Participants were treated either with a standardized prophylaxis alone or in combination with homeopathy.

Outcome measures: The number of UTI, general and specific quality of life (QoL), and satisfaction with homeopathic treatment were assessed prospectively for one year.

The findings: "Adjunctive homeopathic treatment led to a significant decrease of UTIs in SCI patients."

Source: Pannek, J., et al., Usefulness of classical homeopathy for the prophylaxis of recurrent urinary tract infections in individuals with chronic neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction. J Spinal Cord Med. 2018 Feb 27:1-11.

07/01/2025

The Lippe Society of Philadelphia was organized as a social and scientific club in 1880. It met at a member' house twice a month and continued to meet for many years after Lippe's death in 1888.

At a meeting held on March 16th, 1880, Dr. Lee reported a case where there was pain in the right arm; must lie on the arm. The patient complained of being unable to raise the arm to the head. There was no particular reason why she should raise the arm to the head, but this spontaneous expression of the symptom led him to give a dose of Sanguinaria. It produced no effect, whereupon he gave it more frequently in water, and the patient was relieved in that arm, and the pain then appeared slightly in the left. This would seem to show the advantage of many doses.

He asked the question as to whether he should have let the one dose have more time to act.

Dr. Lippe answered that he probably did right; that the repetition of the dose was necessary in many patients with feeble vitality; that Dr. Lee’s patient was a poor subject, and that there would be much trouble in curing her. In such cases it is necessary to repeat the remedy.

06/27/2025

Dr. Adolph Lippe on the remedy, Tilia Europæa

"The seeds, the inner bark and the flowers of the Linden tree were used by the ancient physicians, and after the common school had forgotten all about it, our inquiring brethren in Vienna constituted a very exhaustive proving with the flowers of this tree. We find careful reports published in the fourth volume of the Oesterreichische Zeitschrift, in 1848, embracing all the day-books of all the provers.

Very few reports of cures with this well-proved remedy have been published, and we now lay before our colleagues a few symptoms characteristic of this remedy, and sometimes forming a very troublesome accompaniment to a very painful form of disease.

When, in rare cases of rheumatic fever, a profuse perspiration breaks out, hope is held out that this perspiration is a beneficial crisis; but, instead of this hope being fulfilled, the sufferer complains of an increasing pain just in proportion as the perspiration increases; motion becomes more painful, so does the swelling of the extremities and joints, and the sore feeling of the whole body increases, there is more thirst and a decided decrease of the urinary secretion. After sleep, especially in the morning, the warm perspiration becomes very profuse.

In a recent protracted case of rheumatic fever in an old gentleman, one dose of Tilia CM (Fincke) removed the perspiration and pains at once, and had only to be repeated once in five days. The improvement continued till full health was restored. It will be observed that the Tilia perspiration is “warm,” differing from the Mercurius, which is either cold (forehead) or clammy, oily perspiration, which fails to relieve pain."

06/26/2025

E.B Nash MD was a contemporary of Adolph Lippe and a very fine homeopath. Here is an instructive case from his patient files...

"During the terrible epidemic of typhoid fever in Ithaca a few years ago I was called in consultation in four cases. One of the worst was as follows: After I had seen three light cases with the physician who called me, we were walking on the street and a man who shook hands with the doctor and then introduced me to him, inquired of him about another case (his niece). He answered, there is no hope. Two physicians have just left her to die.

Dr. E. then told him that I was there to counsel him. Well, said the man, my brother is poor, but if your doctor will see her I will pay the bill. She was certainly in an apparently hopeless condition. She had had no movement of the bowels for fourteen days, notwithstanding old school cathartics in abundance, and they had informed the family that the bowels were paralyzed and would never move again. The abdomen was enormously distended. She laid upon her back with her knees propped up. She was cold, and the pulse was flickering and weak; Hippocratic face, and they were facing her to try to give her breath. There was no restlessness like Arsenicum album. She was past that. In answer to the doctor's look, I said there was but one small chance left, and I felt it. We dissolved some pellets of Carbo vegetabilis 200 in water with directions to give a teaspoonful once in two hours, and let us know if she was alive in the morning.

She was alive in the morning and better, and under the remedy the bowels moved naturally in a couple of days, the tympany rapidly gave way. The Carbo vegetabilis was followed by China 200, and the girl recovered."