Canadian Academy of Homeopathy

01/30/2026

Dr. Adolph Lippe on the infallibility of homeopathy:

"These two grave cases [of malignant scarlet fever] show plainly that we may safely trust and rely on the infallible fundamental principles established by homœopathy, that it would have been an error to consult the various opinions of erring men, or to treat only the scarlet fever.

To each of these two cases, as in fact in every case of disease, some characteristic symptoms can be found—symptoms not necessarily belonging to the form of the disease to be treated, but belonging to the individuality of the patient; and these characteristic symptoms will invariably assist us very materially to find the true curative, similar remedy. Homœopathy will never fail us if we are only true to it."

01/29/2026

The average mortality of untreated cases of typhoid fever has been reported to range between 10-20 percent; however the English army statistics for six years ending in 1877 give a mortality rate of 24 percent on home service, 40.07 percent on foreign service and 26 percent for the Royal Navy.

In the Spanish-American War of 1898, there were 20,738 cases of typhoid fever among the 108,000 U.S. soldiers, and 1,580 deaths, a mortality rate of 7.6 percent.

In World War I, the U.S. army had 169 deaths from typhoid among 1,529 cases, a mortality of 11 percent.

Interestingly, in 1879, Dr. Henry Newell Guernsey (an outstanding homeopathic physician) said that after 30 years of practice, homeopathy reduced mortality from typhoid fever to “almost to zero.”

Sources:
Kenneth F. Kiple (ed.). The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 991-992.

H. R. Strout. The present status of homœopathy and its future. San Antonio : Maverick Printing House, 1891, 5-6.

W. L. Bierring. Preventive medicine—Its changing concepts., 1859-1959. JAMA 1959; 171; 2190-2194.

Henry Newell Guernsey. Clinical cases illustrating the principles of homœopathy. Medical Counselor 1879; 1 : 66.

01/28/2026

Ready to Take Your Homeopathic Skills to the Next Level?

🔍 Homeopathy Practicum 2026 is here — and Early Bird pricing is ON!

Starting April 8, 2026, join Dr. André Saine live via webinar as he works through 8 real patient cases over the course of a year. These are in-depth, challenging chronic cases—the kind that truly sharpen your clinical judgment.

✨ What makes this practicum different?
• Live case-taking with Dr. Saine (3–4 hours per case)
• Follow-up interactive case analysis with students just days later
• Step-by-step repertorization, differential diagnosis, and remedy selection
• Final session devoted entirely to long-term follow-up on all cases
• Plenty of time for questions—and deep learning

You won’t just watch. You’ll analyze, submit your own thinking, and then compare it directly with Dr. Saine’s process.

📚 All sessions are archived, so you can attend live or review anytime.

🌍 Now in its 4th year, this international study group includes seasoned practitioners, newer clinicians, and students. Many return year after year—because they see real improvements in their clinical outcomes.

🗓 Live sessions: Wednesdays (case-taking) + Fridays (analysis)
💰 Early Bird Special: $395 until February 15 (regularly $450)

If you want stronger case-taking skills, clearer analysis, and deeper confidence in remedy selection, this practicum delivers.

👉 Learn more & register here:

Join Dr. André Saine by webinar during this on-going international study group, now in its third year. Dr Saine takes the live case of 8 new patients by Zoom over the course of one year, each approximately 3 hours in duration. After watching the live Zoom case, students have 48 hours to repertorize...

01/27/2026

The Case for Individualized Medicine: Homeopathy’s Enduring Insight and Value

One significant difference between homeopathy and conventional medicine is that well-trained homeopaths exclusively practice individualized medicine. They don’t treat a disease – they treat the patient.

Why Treating the Disease Is Not the Same as Treating the Person

Homeopaths justifiably believe, as one of medicine’s greatest prescribers, Dr. Adolph Lippe, MD, so aptly put it, that “there are not two persons alike; they are similar, but not alike; not alike in their physical developments and mental conditions; and being so unlike, can it be presumed that disease, even if we know her function-disturbing power, would attack all persons (who are not alike) in exactly the same manner? There are differences of sexes and of ages, the prevailing climatic influences, the seasons, which change the form of disease frequently. The fact, well known, that even epidemic diseases continually change their character as epidemics, and affect different individuals very differently, even in the same locality, and more differently still in different localities, shows conclusively that the treatment of a specific disease…is an impossibility; and the persistent practice of the Allopathic School of Medicine, which School bases its therapeutics upon the untenable hypothesis of a disease, must forever be a failure… If we attempt to restore health to the sick, we (homeopaths) are bound to individualize; if we attempt to cure diseases, we must generalize.”

Individualization and the Law of Similars

Individualization is a central element in homeopathy. Each patient is considered unique; each symptom, as well as the factors that make that symptom, and the patient as a whole, better or worse, is carefully noted to identify the most characteristic symptoms/aspects of the individual. With this information, a well-trained homeopath takes advantage of a cornerstone of homeopathy – the law of similars (like cures like) – to choose a medicine most appropriate for the patient. Thanks to the work of hundreds of thousands of homeopaths over the last two hundred years, homeopaths know the effects of their medicines in great detail. They have learned, as Lippe wrote, that “medicines, when taken in a state of health, create symptoms similar to a form of disease which they were also known to cure at times… (and will) in the future indicate the condition(s) under which this medicine might be administered for the cure of the disease presenting the same symptoms, with a certainty never known before."

01/26/2026

Sharpen Your Practical Skills! Join us for Homeopathy Practicum 2026

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!!!
FIRST LIVE CASE STARTING April 8th, 2026!

Join Dr. André Saine live via webinar as he takes the case of 8 new patients, approximately 3-4 hours in duration, spread out over the following 12 months.
(There are 9 sessions in total, the last one is a follow-up of each of the previous 8 cases so students can see how the patients responded to the prescription given, and how Dr. Saine managed the case over the months following the initial interview.)

Each live case will be followed two days later by an interactive analysis with the students to discuss the most important symptoms in the case, and proposed remedies - students are invited to analyze each case and submit it before the discussion. This is followed by Dr. Saine sharing his repertorization showing how he determined the remedy, a differential diagnosis between possible remedies, and a discussion of any other pertinent aspects of the case. The discussion lasts 1+ hours and there is ample time for questions.

The new patients will have a variety of difficult-to-treat chronic diseases, and the case-taking and following case-analysis sessions will be archived in the event you cannot attend them live, or for later review.

The cost of joining this practicum is $450 USD for the year and it will be well worth your while as you refresh your case-taking and repertorization skills, your case-analysis skills, and delve deeper into differential materia medica.

This year is the fourth of our Homeopathy Practicum, an international study group made up of veteran practitioners of homeopathy, new practitioners, and students alike. Most return year after year, as they say their clinical results have improved dramatically as they have increased their understanding of which symptoms to emphasize in a case during the analysis, as well as improved knowledge of remedies they knew little about.

Cases are taken live in webinar format on Wednesday mornings, and the analysis is the same week on Friday morning. We have the first new patient case starting April 8th!

Now $395 until February 15th!

Learn more and REGISTER HERE:

Join Dr. André Saine by webinar during this on-going international study group, now in its third year. Dr Saine takes the live case of 8 new patients by Zoom over the course of one year, each approximately 3 hours in duration. After watching the live Zoom case, students have 48 hours to repertorize...

01/23/2026

Important Information...

There are now at least two published studies suggesting cell phone radiation can negatively affect homeopathic remedies. The same is true of microwave radiation. Airport x-ray exposure does not appear to have a negative impact. Make sure you keep your remedies away from cellular devices and microwave ovens.

Sources:
Doesburg, P., et al., Cell Phone-Emitted Electromagnetic Radiation Nullifies Specific Effects of Homeopathically Prepared Tin (Stannum Metallicum 30x). Homeopathy 2024; 113(01): A1-A2
Weber S, Endler PC, Welles SU et al. The effect of homeopathically prepared thyroxine on highland frogs. Homeopathy, Volume 97, Issue 3, July 2008.

01/22/2026

Another helpful case from the files of Dr. Adolph Lippe, MD.

"It was in 1851, on one of those unsurpassably hot mornings that prevail here [Philadelphia] in August, that I was summoned to see a case of cholera at great distance. A Redemptorist Father had been with him during the night, and finding his apparently homœopathic treatment not as successful as he desired, wished further advice. The patient was an emaciated tailor, about 50 years old. He had indulged on the previous day for his supper blood-pudding and cucumber salad.

He was taken about 11 P.M. with Asiatic cholera; he still continued to vomit and to be purged with violent cramp at short intervals. All of these cramps and rice-water discharges ceased during that day; the principal remedy had been Arsenicum album; but from that evening till the next evening he continued to vomit, and apparently was sinking from exhaustion. Thirst was very great; he had to drink large quantities of cold water, and felt better afterwards, till the water became warm in his stomach in from 15 to 20 minutes, and then he had to vomit it up again, to be relieved of this exhausting painful vomiting and thirst by drinking another large quantity of water.

A number of remedies administered produced not the slightest relief. The symptom found by the clinical experiment in this case—cold water drunk is vomited up as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach—was not to be found in our Materia Medica. But there was found, after a long search, under Phosphorus, in the 5th volume of Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases, symptom 745, “In the most terrible agonies he vainly tried to vomit; only the drinking of cold water relieved.”

Nothing could be found in a search for a similar remedy but this symptom; and now we gave this suffering man one dose of Phosphorus 19 M, about 9 P.M., with the order to repeat it every two hours till he was relieved. On the next morning we found that he had been given no more than this solitary dose, and that he was rapidly improving. He recovered without needing any more medicine."

01/21/2026

Homeopathy in History...

In 1910, Dr. Eugene W. Sawyer of Chicago said that in forty years of practice, he had treated about 3,000 cases with typhoid fever and typho-malarial fever with less than 10 deaths. In the same year, Dr. Robert Hall of Providence, Rhode Island, reported sixty cases of typhoid fever in a single epidemic without a single death.

Dr. Deloupy of Nice reported that when he was in Algeria in 1942, he had 2 deaths in 65 cases with typhoid fever treated only with homeopathy, a mortality of 3 percent in an epidemic with a 30 percent mortality rate.

Sources:
George B. Peck. Correspondence. Transactions of the American Institute of Homœopathy 1910 : 249.

Deloupy. Possibilités et limites de la médecine homœopathique dans les maladies infectueuses. Homéopathie Française 1973; 61 : 241-252.

01/16/2026

Historic Moment! If you live in the U.S. - please help!

After seven years of relentless advocacy, sleepless nights, and thousands of grassroots voices speaking up, a bill to protect homeopathy has been introduced in Congress.

Please tell your Congressional representative and both your U.S. Senators to Support the Homeopathic Drug Product Safety, Quality, and Transparency Act (HR 7050). It's called the Homeopathic Medicines Act, for short.

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The FDA is reclassifing homeopathic remedies—this could lead to making homeopathy illegal. Send a comment to the FDA today through AFHC!

01/15/2026

A good case from the venerable homeopathic physician, Dr. E. B. Nash (pictured here):

"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 when a man shook hands with the doctor. My colleague then inquired about the man's 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 her pulse was flickering and weak; Hippocratic face, and they were fanning 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."

01/14/2026

From our colleagues and friends at the Homeopathy Research Institute in the U.K...

"We are pleased to share the latest annual update of randomised controlled trials in homeopathy, adding 11 trials published in 2024. With 6 new double-blind RCTs (3 positive; 3 inconclusive) the overall balance of the DB-RCT evidence remains unchanged.

An analysis of 1,128 systematic reviews of RCTs of conventional medicine had strikingly similar findings in terms of the proportion of positive clinical trials.

01/13/2026

Homeopathy in the U.S. Needs You! And It Needs You Now!

If you love homeopathy, are a citizen of the United States, and at least partially rely on it for your healthcare, your help is needed TODAY. This is NOT a drill.

Major legislation has now been drafted by Americans for Homeopathy Choice - Action (Paola Brown's wonderful group) to protect your access to homeopathy. A Homeopathy Medicine PAC has been created to support the many legislators who support this bill in Congress.

Here's where you come in. We need to show these legislators we appreciate what they are doing. To do that, we need you to make a donation to the PAC of whatever you can afford up to the legal limit. And we need it by the end of the year. It's that important!

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