Canadian Academy of Homeopathy

10/24/2025

A recent German study compared homeopathic and conventional treatments for acute upper respiratory tract infections.

From 3,628,295 patients with aURTI diagnosis initially identified in the database in the relevant time interval, a total of 610,118 patients, fulfilling the in- and not violating the exclusion criteria, were retained for analysis.

Their findings?
"The study demonstrated that follow-up recurrence and antibiotic prescriptions in patients with uncomplicated aURTI are at least comparable between patients treated with homeopathic and conventional medicines in real-world practice. Despite some methodological limitations inherent to the database used, the results of this study indicate that homeopathic medicines present a valuable therapeutic option for managing aURTI."

Source: Banik N, De Jaegere S, Niederle S, Reineke T. Homeopathic and Conventional Treatments for Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: Real-World Cohort Study on Recurrence and Antibiotic Prescriptions. Complement Med Res. 2025;32(1):13-25.

10/23/2025

Indian researchers recently published a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of individualized homeopathic medicinal products in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis in children.

Their findings:
After 3 months of treatment, the frequency of bedwetting events was statistically significantly less in the group of children treated with individualized homeopathy vs those treated with placebo.

Source: Junayed Akram, Arpita Basu, Md. Sakhawat Hossain, Soumya Bhattacharyya, Saima Shamim, Pintu Debnath, Rizwana Rahaman, Sourav Goswami, Usashi Nag, Priyanka Ghosh, Abdur Rahaman Shaikh, Chandrima Chatterjee, Munmun Koley, Subhranil Saha, Sangita Saha, Shyamal Kumar Mukherjee, A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of individualized homeopathic medicinal products in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis in children,
EXPLORE, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2025

10/16/2025

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10/15/2025

Another really wonderful case from the case files of E. B. Nash MD:

"This remedy [Colchicum autumnale] has one of the most positive and reliable characteristic symptoms in the whole Materia Medica, and one which cannot be accounted for from any pathological standpoint that I know of... "The smell of food cooking nauseates to faintness."

To illustrate the value of this symptom I will give a case of my own practice; it was also my first experience with a potency as high as the 200th. Patient was a lady, seventy-five years of age, who was suddenly seized with icy coldness at the stomach and vomiting of blood in large quantities; then bloody stools followed, which were at first profuse, then became small and of bloody mucus. There was great tenseness and pain in the bowels. Aconite, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Ipecacuanha, Hamamelis and Sulphur; all tried as well as I knew how to select them at that time, but no relief came, and at the end of twelve days, my patient was rapidly going down, and it looked to me as though she must die. She had become so weak that she could not lift her head from the pillow. By actual count the number of stools passed on cloths in the bed was sixty-five, in twenty-four hours, the pains, number of passages and all symptoms were aggravated from sundown to sunrise.

Now during all this sickness this patient had been so nauseated and faint at the smell of cooking food that they had been obliged to keep the doors closed between her bedroom and the kitchen, which was two large rooms away. I was not so well acquainted with Materia Medica then as now, and while I did not overlook the symptom did not know of any remedy that had it. But I had my Lippe textbook of Materia Medica in my carriage and I went out and got it and sat down by the bedside; determined to find that peculiar and persistent symptom and "fight it out on that line if it took all summer." I began at Aconite, and looked at the stomach symptoms of every remedy, until the first time I remembered ever having noticed it, there it stood in plain English under Colchicum. Then I looked in my medicine case for the remedy. None there, and I was four miles from home.

I had a box of Dunham's 200ths under my carriage seat that had been there for over a year, but which I had never used for want of confidence in high potencies. It was the best I could do for the present, so I dissolved a few pellets in a half-glass of cold water, and directed to give one teaspoonful after every passage of the bowels. On my way home I stopped my horse two or three times to turn around and go back and give that poor suffering woman some medicine. I felt so guilty, but I said to myself this is Lippe's Materia Medica, and these are Carrol Dunham's potencies, and here is a clean-cut indication for its administration, and the other symptoms do not counter-indicate.

Well, I got home. But I started early the next morning to try and make amends for my rashness (if the patient was not dead) of yesterday. Imagine my surprise as I stepped into the sickroom when my patient slowly turned her head upon the pillow and said, with a smile, "Good morning, Doctor." I had been met with a groan several past mornings. I felt faint myself then. I dropped into a chair by the bedside and remarked, "You are feeling better." "Oh, yes Doctor." "How much of that last medicine did you take?" "Two doses." "What!" "Two doses; I only had two more stools after you left." "Don't you have any more pain?" "Pain stopped like that" (putting her hands together) "and I feel well except weakness." She took no more medicine, quickly recovered, and was perfectly well for five years after, and finally died at eighty years of age. I never got over that surprise."

10/14/2025

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10/10/2025

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10/09/2025

Henry N. Guernsey, MD, was an exceptionally good homeopath and contemporary of Adolph Lippe. Here, he talks about what makes up the genius of any case before you...

"It is a well-known fact that, in the various forms of disease there are many symptoms and conditions common to all or nearly all forms; and there are other symptoms and conditions which have, by their dissimilarity, enabled pathologists to effect classification and nosological arrangement; but besides all these, we have, in each case of disease, as it comes before us in our business as physicians, symptoms, and conditions which give it individuality, and set it apart from all other cases as a distinct entity; and the combination of these peculiar and characteristic symptoms and conditions goes to make up the genius of that disease, or more properly, of that case of disease.

Every homeopathic practitioner knows that cases of scarlet fever differ essentially from each other, even during the same season and in the same family or neighborhood. Whatever may be the influence that gives origin to the disease, different effects are produced in different individuals, even so far that each patient affected may present symptoms entirely his or her own. I do not wish to be understood as asserting, by this, that one case of scarlet fever differs from all other cases, for there may be numerous similar cases coming within the range of observation of even a single practitioner, but it does not follow that scarlet fever having made its appearance in a family or neighborhood, all children seized by the disease will necessarily exhibit precisely similar symptoms..."

10/08/2025

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10/07/2025

E.B. Nash MD was a younger colleague of Dr. Lippe's and a very fine homeopath (every homeopath should have a collection of Dr. Nash's books). Here is a report from Dr. Nash in 1911:

"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 (Dr. E.), we were walking on the street. We met a man who shook hands with Dr. E who them introduced me to the man. Dr. E. then inquired of him about another case (his niece). The man 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 pulse flickering and weak; Hippocratic face, and the family was 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, and let us know if she was alive in the morning.

She was in fact 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 fully recovered."

10/03/2025

Dr. Adolph Lippe on the importance of single symptoms...

"The importance of a single symptom becomes most apparent when we detect in the patient a single characteristic symptom corresponding with a similar single characteristic symptom observed in the proving of a drug. To illustrate this position I will, first, quote a case from my own case book in which an objective symptom indicated the truly specific remedy.

This case was one of very malignant “ship fever.” The patient had been sick nine days when I found him in the morning, lying on his back, perfectly unconscious; eyes wide open, glaring, and fixed on the ceiling, pupils dilated; cheeks red and hot; mouth wide open, the lower jaw hanging down; tongue and lips dry, black and cracked; picking of bed coverings; pulse 200. The pathological condition was most certainly approaching paralysis of the brain. Now if I had followed the advice of retrograding physicians, I should have gloried in having found in this pathological condition the important single symptom. Should I then have administered Morphine, or Helonia, Hydrastis and O***m in alternation, by the spoonful, drop, or more?

The unconsciousness in this case reminded me at first of Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Muriatic acid, O***m, Rhus tox., or Stramonium. The eyes indicated Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, O***m, or Stramonium. The tongue and lips of Arsenicum album, O***m, or Rhus tox.. The picking of the bed-clothes of Arnica, Arsenicum album, Hyoscyamus, O***m, or Stramonium. The hanging of the lower jaw of Arsenicum album, Lycopodium, or O***m. Not being able to select a remedy, I further examined the patient and found that he had passed urine involuntarily all night, but this single symptom again left me to choose between Arnica, Arsenicum album, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, or Rhus tox.; but upon still further examination I found on the sheet of the patient, that the urine involuntary discharged, had made a large deposit of red sand, resembling brick dust. Here was the objective symptom characteristic of the case and of the remedy. I now concluded to give Lycopodium, therefore I dissolved six pellets of the 200th potency in half a tumbler full of water, and had a spoonful, every two hours, put in the open mouth of the unconscious patient. When I saw him again, at 2 P.M., I found him with his eyes and mouth firmly closed in a natural sleep and in a very heavy perspiration. He finally recovered fully and enjoyed perfect good health for many years."
Source: Homœopathic Physician 1883; 3: 149-155.

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