Keys for Becoming a Successful Physician

Naturopathic Gathering, NCNM—November 7, 2009 If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Well When I was invited to this Gathering, I had a recent graduate from a naturopathic college working as an assistant in my office. I asked her what she thought would be a worthwhile subject to present before the naturopathic students. She spontaneously […]

The Rational Basis of “Nature Cure”

Naturopathic Gathering, SCNM—November 15, 2008 William Durant, the great American philosopher and historian, said, “Philosophy is the pursuit of understanding through perspective.” There are no subjects more vital to humanity than the ones related to health, disease, healing, and the quality and prolongation of life. Unfortunately, much confusion continues to reign over this domain despite […]

Drawing a Line in the Sand: Homeopathy or Not Homeopathy?

What is to become of an art (to which the charge of human life has been committed) if fancy and caprice are to have the upper hand in it?1 Samuel Hahnemann If our School ever gives up the strict inductive method of Hahnemann we are lost, and deserve to be mentioned only as a caricature […]

Homeopathy Has Nothing to Do with Eclecticism

Dear Editors,On June 5, I handed in with great disappointment my resignation as a board member of the HANP. My raison d’être on the board was to support Hahnemann’s homeopathy. With the irrevocable resignations of Peter Wright and Barbara Osawa as editors of Simillimum and the determination of others to have an eclectic journal, my efforts were […]

Homeopathy versus Speculative Medicine – A Call for Action

“If we are true to homeopathy it will be true to us — that is our experience.“ —Lippe Twenty-one prominent members of the homeopathic community have signed their name to a letter (click here to read the letter) addressed to Mr. Julian Winston, editor of Homeopathy Today (May 2001: 21-22). They accuse him of being […]

Homeopathy is a Natural Science in its Purest Sense

The following interview was conducted on September 13, 2001 by Drs. Ralf and Karin Vigoureux of Neunkirken-Seelscheid, Germany, at the time of their three-week visit with Dr. Saine in Montreal, Canada. Parts of this interview were originally published in German in the Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie 2004; 48 (3): 117-127. Question: During our time in […]

Homeopathy without Hahnemann

In recent issues of Homeopathy Today your editorials and book reviews have been more critical of the new trends in homeopathy even to the point of asking the question, “But is it homeopathy?” It is an extremely pertinent and vital question. The answer to this question is easily found in Hahnemann’s writings as he was the one […]

Aloe Socotrina – The Most Valuable Remedy in Need of Rediscovery

At the annual meeting of the International Hahnemannian Association in 1888, William P. Wesselhœft presented a paper entitled Aloe Socotrina, an Anti-psoric Remedy.[1] This paper (which is recommended reading) can be found in the Homœopathic Physician section of ReferenceWorks and starts with the following sentence from Hering: “Aloes has many symptoms like Sulphur and is […]

Pure Homeopathy: Our Legacy from the Great Masters of the Past

In Paragraph 53 of the Organon, Hahnemann says that “the pure homœopathic method of healing is the only correct one, the only one possible to human art; it is the most direct one, just as certainly as there is but one possible straight line between two given points.” The question, which naturally arises, is what […]

Against Divisiveness

Homeopathy Today 2001; 21 (May); 21-22. Dear Editor, It was with a heavy heart that we read the latest edition of Homeopathy Today. The editorial attacks on the ideas of Rajan Sankaran, Jan Scholten, Nancy Herrick, Todd Rowe and others are unwarranted. While it is very clear that Mr. Winston has a great love for […]