Strange Rare Peculiar Homeopathy Podcast

The Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy
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Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray discussing everything you REALLY need to know about homeopathy. We’ll look at philosophy, practice, research, and education–all with a little bit of history. If you want to know why we still can’t get enough homeopathy after a combined 50+ years of study and practice, we invite you to join the conversation! Please help us spread the word by sharing this with someone in your life who would like to learn more about homeopathy.

  1. 6d ago

    133: Chronic Disease & Miasms in Homeopathy

    What are miasms actually supposed to tell us about chronic disease—and how does that information change what we do with a case? In this episode, Denise and Alastair go back to Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases to look at what miasms were meant to help us understand, how they can inform a chronic case, and where modern interpretations may have oversimplified the idea. Along the way: Hahnemann’s theory of chronic disease; psora, sycosis, and syphilis; family patterns and miasmatic themes; larger versus constricted totalities; intercurrent remedies; acquired versus inherited miasms; familial predisposition; and, naturally, a few tangents. Listener questions take the conversation into what to do when someone can’t remember ever being well, how to use The Chronic Diseases and the Organon as working references, whether Hepar sulph supports the idea that Hahnemann used mixed remedies, how clinical symptoms make their way into the repertory, when multiple remedies may be appropriate in an emergency, and how to think about the Banerji protocols. Go Back to the Source The Chronic Diseases: Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure — Samuel Hahnemann Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition — Samuel Hahnemann Materia Medica Pura — Samuel Hahnemann Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education.  This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  2. Sep 22

    132: Which Symptoms Matter—and Which Don’t—in Homeopathy?

    Does the “totality of symptoms” mean every symptom belongs in the prescription? In this episode, Denise and Alastair dig into one of the more difficult skills in homeopathic case analysis: determining which symptoms are actually relevant to the case in front of you. Sometimes the picture is broad. Sometimes it is surprisingly small. And getting that wrong can cause you to miss the mark. Through clinical examples—including PCOS, a recurring joint complaint, and a memorable Berberis case—they explore what Hahnemann meant by the totality of characteristic symptoms, why the biggest possible symptom picture is not always the right one, and why good case analysis takes more than simply collecting symptoms. The conversation also continues a question raised by the response to the single-remedy episode: if cases are more complex today, does homeopathy need different principles—or do practitioners need greater skill in applying them? Read for yourself: •Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine — Aphorisms 3, 5, 6, 7, 26–29, 148 and its footnote, 151, 153, 171, 211, and 269 •Samuel Hahnemann, The Chronic Diseases Also mentioned: •Homeopathy Help Now: https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/•Dynamis: https://dynamis.edu/ •RadarOpus Related listening: Episode 131: Is It Still Homeopathy Without the Single Remedy? Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  3. Sep 15

    131: Is It Still Homeopathy Without the Single Remedy?

    Is the single remedy principle foundational to homeopathy—or simply one prescribing style among many? Claims that Hahnemann supported the use of multiple remedies often point to a brief period of experimentation in 1833. But what happens when you follow the historical record beyond that moment? In this episode, Denise and Alastair go back to the primary sources: Hahnemann’s correspondence with Boenninghausen, Aegidi’s reported 233 cases, the 5th and 6th editions of the Organon, and Aphorism 273. They trace the chronology, examine the arguments being made today, and ask a bigger question: if the single remedy is removed as a principle, is it still homeopathy? Read for yourself Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine — 5th and 6th editionsRichard Haehl, Samuel Hahnemann: His Life and Work — pp. 253–254, https://archive.org/details/b29001742_0002/page/n3/mode/2upDavid Little — “The Double Remedy Experiment of Hahnemann in 1833”: http://www.simillimum.com/education/little-library/homoeopathic-philosophy/fhf/article.phpJames Tyler Kent: Lecture No. 6 on the single remedy (published in 1900); Lecture No. 7 on the minimum dose; “Alternation of Remedies,” Journal of Homeopathics, 1899; “Cure and Recovery,” Medical Advance, 1900; and “The Single Remedy in Practice.”Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity.🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is.Explore more:• Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com• Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com• Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org• Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  4. Sep 9

    130: Not All Homeopathic Provings Are Created Equal

    If a remedy is in your kit, your software, or your materia medica, do you know where that information came from? In this episode, Denise and Alastair unpack homeopathic provings—how they are conducted, how symptoms make their way into the materia medica and repertory, and why proving methodology matters. They look at Hahnemann’s approach, the role of toxicology and clinical confirmation, and the very different kinds of provings used today, including meditation, dream, seminar, and trituration provings. References mentioned in this episode: Organon of the Medical Art by Samuel Hahnemann— 6th Edition Wenda Brewster O’Reilly translation The Chronic Diseases by Samuel Hahnemann Dynamis provings by Jeremy Sherr: https://www.dynamis.edu/provings LMHI-ECH Provings Guidelines: https://lmhi.org/proving-guideline Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States proving guidance: https://www.hpus.com/ Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education.  This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  5. Sep 1

    129: Can Homeopathy Evolve Without Losing Its Principles?

    Homeopathy has evolved considerably since Hahnemann’s time. The materia medica has expanded, new methods of case analysis have emerged, education has changed, and new questions continue to push the profession forward. But what can change—and what can’t? Recording together in Copenhagen, Denise and Alastair return to some of the foundational principles of homeopathy and ask what they mean for modern homeopathic practice. If only one similar disease can actively occupy the organism at a time, what does that mean for the totality of symptoms, single-remedy prescribing, complex disease, and the search for the “simillimum”? And what happens when prescribing moves away from those principles? From there, the conversation widens: How should homeopathy evolve? What would Hahnemann have done with thousands of remedies available to him? Where is there room for innovation in case analysis, materia medica, provings, and homeopathic education? And before we keep expanding the system, are there parts of what we already have that need to be better understood, verified, or revisited? It’s a wide-ranging conversation about homeopathic philosophy, prescribing, Hahnemann’s Organon, the history and future of homeopathy—and the difference between developing a system and changing the principles that define it. References mentioned in this episode: Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine — particularly Aphorisms 26–50 on similar and dissimilar diseases and complex disease, and Aphorism 211 on the role of disposition in remedy selectionSamuel Hahnemann, The Chronic DiseasesConstitution and By-Laws of the International Hahnemannian Association (1880)AIH Consensus Definition of Homeopathy Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  6. Aug 25

    128: Homeopathy: Understanding Acute, Chronic & Constitutional Care

    In this episode, Denise and Alastair take on three terms that get thrown around a lot in homeopathy: acute, chronic, and constitutional. What do they actually mean? How does each one change the way a case is approached? And what happens when those lines get blurred? They also get into the growing problem of oversimplified prescribing—and what responsibility looks like in a profession that largely governs itself. Resources Mentioned: SRP Episode 41: Constitutional Prescribing & Chronic Remedies in Homeopathy
https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/srp-41/SRP Episode 95: Constitutional Remedies in Homeopathy
https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/srp-95/ Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition 
https://a.co/d/08o6EZfK The Chronic Diseases
 by Samuel Hahnemann: https://a.co/d/08o6EZfK Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  7. Aug 18

    127: Homeopathy: Misophonia, What to Expect from Chronic Care & Too Many Remedies | Listener Q&A

    In this listener Q&A, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray answer questions from the Strange, Rare & Peculiar community about working with a homeopath, chronic case management, misophonia, remedy repetition, potentization, and bowel nosodes. Listener Q&A begins at 20:00. Before that, Denise and Alastair take on the growing conversation around “gatekeeping,” remedy access, and safety in homeopathy. Questions answered in this episode: How might misophonia be addressed with homeopathy?How long should you wait between remedy administrations in a chronic case?When should a remedy be repeated or changed, and how do you know when its action is exhausted?Why do some people improve quickly with homeopathy while others require months or even years of careful case management?What should a client expect during a good homeopathic follow-up?What changes should you track between appointments to help your homeopath evaluate the case accurately?Can taking too many homeopathic remedies make it harder for a homeopath to understand your case?Where did Hahnemann get the ideas that eventually developed into homeopathy?If travel by horseback or carriage did not lead Hahnemann to potentization, what did?What potencies did John and Elizabeth Paterson use when prescribing bowel nosodes?When the Patersons recommended waiting three months before repeating a bowel nosode, was that after a single administration or a course of treatment?Did Elizabeth Paterson write a separate book on bowel nosodes, and where can it be found?What does a case in which a bowel nosode is actually indicated look like, including the longer-term management of that case? Mentioned in This Episode Homeopathy: It’s a Thing Facebook Group — Have a question you’d like Denise and Alastair to answer on a future episode? Join the conversation in our Facebook group.Homeopathy Basics by Priscilla Medders — Download a free copy.AHE Open House — September 3 — Thinking about studying homeopathy professionally? Join the Academy of Homeopathy Education for our next Open House to learn about the program, clinical training, and the path to professional practice.Kent’s Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica: Hepar sulphuricum — Read the full lecture.Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education.This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity.🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is.Explore more:• Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com• Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com• Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org• Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

  8. Aug 4

    126: The Intellectual History and Origins of Homeopathy

    Where did Hahnemann’s ideas come from? Denise and Alastair explore the scientific and philosophical traditions surrounding the development of homeopathy, including alchemy, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine-making, and the work of figures such as Paracelsus, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton. They also challenge the familiar story that potentization began with remedies being shaken in a horse-drawn carriage and discuss how Hahnemann deliberately refined both the principles and pharmacy of homeopathy over time. The conversation concludes with why understanding this history matters when defining homeopathy, supporting safety, and establishing professional standards today. Mentioned in this episode:AIH Consensus Definition of Homeopathy: advancehomeopathy.org/what-is-homeopathy Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we’re focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann’s original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity. 🎧 If you’re ready to look deeper — beyond trends, beyond opinion — join the conversation and rediscover what homeopathy truly is. Explore more: • Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com • Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → homeopathyhelpnow.com • Support the future of homeopathy → advancehomeopathy.org • Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

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Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray discussing everything you REALLY need to know about homeopathy. We’ll look at philosophy, practice, research, and education–all with a little bit of history. If you want to know why we still can’t get enough homeopathy after a combined 50+ years of study and practice, we invite you to join the conversation! Please help us spread the word by sharing this with someone in your life who would like to learn more about homeopathy.

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