Strange Rare Peculiar Homeopathy Podcast

Why would an experienced homeopath and educator decide to go back to nursing school?

After more than a decade of practicing and teaching homeopathy, Kelly Callahan is taking an unconventional path. She joins Denise and Alastair to share what led her back to school, what she's discovering about nursing and healthcare, and her vision for bringing homeopathy into primary care in her rural Maine community.

Along the way: the surprising similarities between nursing and homeopathy; the importance of medical knowledge and critical thinking; evidence-based practice; informed consent; client safety and professional accountability; and what happens when the way homeopathy is practiced begins to move beyond its established principles.

Kelly also shares her experiences with homeopathic provings, her approach to experiential education, and how studying another healthcare discipline is giving her a new perspective on the work she's been doing for years.

Read It Yourself

• Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine: A Handbook for Practitioners in Australia and New Zealand — Michael Weir
• Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica — James Tyler Kent, Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum
• Organon of Medicine — Samuel Hahnemann, Aphorism 1 and its footnote

Mentioned in This Episode

• New IAH Publication: Case Report Documents Sustained Improvement in Cerebellar Ataxia Following Homeopathic Treatment
• Academy of Homeopathy Education — Postgraduate Homeopathy Programs
• Homeopathy Help Network (HHN) — Virtual homeopathy clinic

About Kelly Callahan

Kelly Callahan is a registered homeopath who has been in private practice since 2011. She began teaching homeopathy at her alma mater, Baylight Center for Homeopathy, in 2016, bringing her background in experiential and individualized education into the classroom.

A 2013 graduate of Jeremy Sherr's Dynamis School of Advanced Homeopathy, Kelly also contributed to the team behind the Repertory of Mental Qualities. In 2016, she launched 1M: A Homeopath's Podcast, producing episodes for five years and connecting with homeopaths around the world, including Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

That connection led to her joining the Academy of Homeopathy Education faculty in 2019, where she continues to teach and work with students in the classroom and clinic. Now pursuing nursing education, Kelly hopes to combine her experience in homeopathy with a broader role in primary care.

Visit Kelly's website — Concentric Healing

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 modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring more than 50 years of experience to conversations designed to help you question assumptions, return to the sources, and deepen your understanding of homeopathy.

🎧 Ready to go deeper?

• Study homeopathy professionally → academyofhomeopathyeducation.com

• Access affordable virtual homeopathy care → https://homeopathyhelpnow.com

• Support the future of homeopathy →http://advancehomeopathy.org

• Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → http://advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

Recording from Paris, Denise and Alastair explore the remarkable final chapter of Hahnemann's life, from his unexpected relationship with Mélanie d'Hervilly to their busy homeopathic practice and the controversies that followed his death.

Along the way: a visit to Hahnemann's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery; the exhumation and identification of his remains; Mélanie's reputation and her contributions to homeopathy; the fate of the sixth edition of the Organon; and historical accounts that offer a fascinating glimpse into the Hahnemanns' daily lives.

Drawing on contemporary letters, biographical records, and an eyewitness account of a visit to the Hahnemanns' Paris practice, Denise and Alastair revisit a story that may be more complicated—and more human—than the version we've inherited.

Go Back to the Source

• Official Account of the Exhumation of the Body of Hahnemann at the Cemetery Montmartre, and of Its Removal to Père Lachaise— The Homoeopathic Physician, August 1898, Vol. XVIII, No. 8.
• Samuel Hahnemann: His Life and Work, Volume II — Richard Haehl.
• In Search of the Later Hahnemann — Rima Handley.
• The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, Chapter 71 — Thomas Lindsley Bradford. Includes Anna Cora Mowatt's account of visiting Hahnemann and Mélanie in Paris.
• Organon of Medicine, Sixth Edition — Samuel Hahnemann. Online text includes the fifth edition translated by Robert Ellis Dudgeon and the sixth edition translated by William Boericke.

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 modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring more than 50 years of experience to conversations designed to help you question assumptions, return to the sources, and deepen your understanding of homeopathy.🎧 Ready to go deeper?• 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

Can Hahnemann's Organon be brought into the 21st century without changing the principles of homeopathy?

Jeremy Sherr joins Denise and Alastair to discuss his new Adaptive Organon, a four-year project to make Hahnemann's teachings more accessible through contemporary language, examples, and explanations while remaining faithful to the original philosophy.

Along the way: the four fundamental principles of homeopathy; why the search for the simillimum can keep practitioners stuck on the first prescription; the meaning of cure in Aphorisms 1 and 9; the challenge of interpreting dose, potency, and quantity; and what happens when Hahnemann's roasted pigeons become drive-through burgers.

Jeremy also shares his fascinating project of assigning a homeopathic remedy to every aphorism, the addition of cross-references and a thematic index, and why he hopes the Adaptive Organon will help practitioners rediscover the depth of homeopathic philosophy.

About Jeremy Sherr, PCH, FSHom.

Jeremy Sherr is an internationally recognized homeopath, author, lecturer, and founder of the Dynamis School of Homoeopathy, established in 1986. He has conducted more than 40 Hahnemannian provings and is the author of The Dynamics and Methodology of Homoeopathic Provings, among other works.

Jeremy lives in Tanzania with his wife, Camilla, where they founded Homoeopathy for Health in Africa, an organization providing free and low-cost homeopathic care.

Go Back to the Source

• Organon of Medicine, Sixth Edition — Samuel Hahnemann
• The Chronic Diseases — Samuel Hahnemann
• The Issue of Dose in Samuel Hahnemann's Writings: Quantity, Potency or Entity? — Jeremy Sherr

Explore More

• Dynamis School of Homoeopathy
• Jeremy Sherr's Books

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 modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring more than 50 years of experience to conversations designed to help you question assumptions, return to the sources, and deepen your understanding of homeopathy.

🎧 Ready to go deeper?

• 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) → http://advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

You can learn the principles of homeopathy. But when do you begin to understand why they fit together?

While preparing a lecture on Psora, Denise revisited notes from 15 or 16 years ago and realized how much her own understanding had deepened. That sparked a bigger question: can we move from simply doing homeopathy to truly thinking homeopathically?

This episode explores what deeper understanding can look like—and the difference between going deeper into homeopathy and simply adding more to it.

Along the way: Hahnemann’s theory of Psora and chronic disease; miasms in homeopathy; infection and inheritance; the Organon and The Chronic Diseases; the law of similars; potentization and Hahnemann’s alchemical influences; metaphor versus mechanism; and how deeper study can shape the way we practice homeopathy.

Go Back to the Source

• Organon of Medicine, 6th edition — Samuel Hahnemann, especially Aphorisms 78, 269 & 284
• The Chronic Diseases — Samuel Hahnemann
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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 modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring more than 50 years of experience to conversations designed to help you question assumptions, return to the sources, and deepen your understanding of homeopathy.

🎧 Ready to go deeper? Join the conversation.

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

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

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The Chronic Diseases: Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure — Samuel Hahnemann

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Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition — Samuel Hahnemann

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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

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

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 editions
• Richard Haehl, Samuel Hahnemann: His Life and Work — pp. 253–254, https://archive.org/details/b29001742_0002/page/n3/mode/2up
• David Little — “The Double Remedy Experiment of Hahnemann in 1833”: http://www.simillimum.com/education/little-library/homoeopathic-philosophy/fhf/article.php
• James 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

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

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 selection
• Samuel Hahnemann, The Chronic Diseases
• Constitution 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) → http://advancehomeopathy.org/pgrn

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

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

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

How should nosodes be used within the principles of homeopathy? Denise and Alastair examine the original use of bowel nosodes, Paterson’s warning about repetition, and the difference between individualized prescribing and routine protocols.

They also explore homeoprophylaxis, epidemic prescribing, and whether fixed nosode schedules remain consistent with a dynamic, individualized system of medicine.

Mentioned in this episode:

Paterson, John. "The Bowel Nosodes." British Homoeopathic Journal 40, no. 3 (July 1950): 153–162.
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-0785(50)80005-4. Presented to the Rhodanienne Homoeopathic Society at the meeting of the International Homoeopathic League Council, Lyons, August 1949.

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

Homeopathy is not just about using potentized substances.

Drawing on what they are seeing in the clinic and their research into the history and education of homeopathy, Denise and Alastair ask what happens when the remedy becomes the center—and the system meant to guide its use is lost.

Mentioned in this episode:

Episode 100: Homeopathy Mythbusters: Did Hahnemann Use More Than One Remedy at a Time?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1q0P9mKQ19zqQPKk59yBz2?si=kyPaVJoGRDi8l6DEF0rnig

📚 Comfort Care Practitioner Course

Dates: July 22nd and July 29th

Host: Denise Straiges

Focus: Homeopathy hospice and bedside supportive care for end-of-life

Registration: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/comfort-care-course/

🎙️ Inside AHE: Clinic, Community, and Student Life

Date: July 22 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time

An event is for prospective students who are considering professional training and want a clearer sense of what it’s really like to learn at AHE.

Registration: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/events/

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

In this episode of the SRP Podcast, hosts Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray dive deep into one of homeopathy's most misunderstood concepts: what does real healing actually look like—and what should clients truly expect when working with a homeopath?

From Hahnemann's original writings to modern practice debates, they unpack the difference between gradual health restoration and quick-fix protocols that can overwhelm the vital force.

Whether you're a practicing homeopath, a student, or someone considering working with a homeopath, this conversation will reshape how you think about outcomes in homeopathy.

Episode Highlights

✔️ What Does "Cure" Really Mean?
Exploring Hahnemann's definition from the footnote to Aphorism 1 and why the word carries more complexity than popular marketing suggests.

✔️ Acute vs. Chronic: Different Expectations
Why healing trajectories differ dramatically between short-term conditions and long-standing chronic disease patterns.

✔️ The Vital Force Does the Work
Understanding how remedies function as keys rather than force—and why gentle intervention beats bombardment every time.

✔️ Case Study: An Eight-Year Healing Journey
A detailed look at one young man's path from multiple diagnoses (EOC, Crohn's, PANDAS) to improved health—complete with acute flares that signaled progress, not regression.

✔️ "Fake Homeopathy" vs. Hahnemannian Practice
How to identify simplified protocol homeopathy practices vs. rigorous, principle-based treatment—including warnings about excessive nosode protocols and "detox" regimens.

✔️ Miasmatic Disease in Context
Why Hahnemann's thinking evolved from syphilis observations to the broader concept of chronic miasms—and what that means for modern practitioners.

✔️ Mansplain Corner
Light-hearted but pointed discussion about online discourse, unsolicited expertise, and the responsibility that comes with public homeopathic education.

Mentioned in this Episode:

🎙️ Live Q&A: Becoming a Homeopath
Date: July 8th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
Topic: Questions about studying homeopathy, what to look for in schools, and career paths
Registration: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/events/

📚 Comfort Care Practitioner Course
Dates: July 22nd and July 29th
Host: Denise Straiges

Focus: Homeopathy hospice and bedside supportive care for end-of-life
Registration: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/comfort-care-course/

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

Choosing the remedy is only one part of homeopathic practice. What happens next may be even more important.

In this episode of Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray continue the conversation from case analysis into case management: how a homeopath evaluates the action of a remedy after it has been given.

Was that reaction an aggravation? A proving symptom? A return of an old symptom? A sign that the dose needs to be adjusted? Or a reason to retake the case?

This episode asks some of the most important clinical questions in homeopathy: How do we know what the remedy is doing? How do we manage chronic cases over time? And what happens when multiple remedies, repeated potencies, nosodes, sarcodes, and “clearing” protocols make it impossible to know what actually happened?

Denise and Alastair also discuss why single-remedy homeopathy is not just a philosophical preference, but a practical foundation for safety, observation, and clear clinical decision-making. When too many interventions are layered together, the homeopath may lose the very thing needed to manage the case: the ability to evaluate the remedy response.

They also touch on remedy reactions, aggravations, the difference between homeopathy and isopathy, the ethics of prescribing based on disease names, and common myths around menthol, camphor, coffee, and antidoting.

Mentioned in this episode

Homeopathy and Integrative Wellness
Denise’s free four-part series explores the relationship between homeopathy, integrative wellness, and supportive practices such as movement, mindfulness, and reflective practice.
Register here: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/homeopathy-integrative-wellness/

Comfort Care Practitioner Course
Denise is teaching the Comfort Care Practitioner Course again this summer for homeopaths interested in palliative, hospice, and end-of-life care.
Register here: https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/comfort-care-course/

Homeopathy Help Now
If you are looking for homeopathic care, visit Homeopathy Help Now for acute, chronic, complex, and comfort care services.
Learn more: https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/

Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy
Learn more about the Institute’s work in access to care, outcomes research, education, scholarships, and the historical research library.
Visit: https://advancehomeopathy.org/

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

How does a homeopath move from case taking to a remedy recommendation? In this episode, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray explore the complexities of homeopathy case analysis and why there is no single method, shortcut, protocol, or formula that works for every case.

They discuss the many ways to look at a case — including totality, mapping, organ affinity, physical generals, symptom constellations, miasms, polarity, keynotes, and the clinical judgment required to know which lens fits. This conversation is about what happens between case taking and remedy selection, and why careful analysis is essential to the practice of classical homeopathy.

They also answer listeners’ questions about how to describe homeopathy accurately and legally, whether homeopaths should participate in provings, and which materia medica and repertories are best for students and newer practitioners.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Give the Gift of Homeopathy Auction — supporting the HHN Care Grant Program.
• AHE Open House: Inside AHE — Training, Clinic, and Student Life— June 24 at 7 pm Eastern.
• Homeopathy & Integrative Wellness Free Webinar Series with Denise Straiges.
• Academy of Homeopathy Education Events Page
• Homeopathy Help Network — request care or learn more about accessible homeopathy services.
• HHN Care Grant Program

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/hohm-pgrn

Homeopathy has become a bit like a game of telephone.

A system of medicine grounded in clear principles — similars, totality, the single remedy, the minimum dose, and careful observation of response — has often been reduced to “take this remedy for that symptom,” or stretched to include any protocol, combination, detox, or nosode-based approach that uses potentized substances.

In this episode, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray ask what homeopathy actually is — and what it is not. They trace how the definition has shifted over time, from Hahnemann’s original principles through later debates in education, pathology, germ theory, and modern prescribing trends.

The question is not whether people can use homeopathic medicines in different ways. The question is whether all of those uses should be called homeopathy.

For students, practitioners, and serious home prescribers, this conversation is an invitation to go back to first principles — and to ask whether the word homeopathy still means the medicine Hahnemann gave us.

AHE is currently enrolling for fall. Find details and registration links for these and other upcoming events at AHE.online.

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June 16 @ 7 pm EST: Homeopathy & Integrative Wellness Session 1 with Denise Straiges (Free 4-session webinar series)

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June 17 @ 7 pm EST: Your Path to Becoming a Professional Homeopath: A Live Q&A for Future Practitioners

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June 24 @ 7 pm EST:Inside AHE: Training Clinic and Student Life-An Open House for Future Homeoapaths

Have a question you’d like Denise and Alastair to answer in a future episode? Leave us a comment!

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 → https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/

• Access affordable, virtual homeopathy care → https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/

• Support the future of homeopathy → https://advancehomeopathy.org/

• Join the practitioner-generated research network (PGRN) → https://advancehomeopathy.org/hohm-pgrn

How do we know what a homeopathic remedy actually does?

That question takes Denise and Alastair into one of the things that truly sets homeopathy apart: provings.

In this episode, they talk about how remedy knowledge is gathered, why Hahnemann insisted that it come through experience — not “mere intellectual exertion” — and why the paper trail behind our materia medica matters. They also look at what happens when that trail gets muddy: incomplete provings, speculative remedy pictures, intellectual shortcuts, and remedies being used or sold without clear proving information.

The conversation moves from Causticum and Hahnemann’s own proving symptoms to Langhammer, Scholten’s periodic table work, nosodes, isopathy, and the modern temptation to simplify what was never meant to be simplistic.

If you’ve ever wondered where remedy pictures come from — or how to think more critically about what’s in the materia medica — this episode is for you.

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/hohm-pgrn

In Episode 118 of Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray begin with a question from the AHE teaching clinic, which opens into a discussion of Hahnemann’s evolving understanding of chronic disease, the “1816 problem,” and why relapsing chronic conditions required him to ask deeper questions about disease, miasms, and cure.

In this episode:

• Why medical language still matters in homeopathy
• Disease names, homeopathic diagnosis, and individualization
• The “1816 problem” and Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases
• Psora, miasms, and the classification of disease
• Flexner-era confusion and the loss of homeopathic clarity
• Listener comments on "homeopathy snobs" and the availability of OTC remedies

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/hohm-pgrn