Canadian Academy of Homeopathy

02/13/2026

Allergic rhinitis (AR) impairs quality of life, with intranasal corticosteroids like fluticasone furoate as the standard of care (SOC). Individualized homeopathic medicines (IHMs) are increasingly used as adjuncts. Indian researchers recently undertook a study to evaluate whether an IHM combined with SOC improves clinical outcomes compared with SOC alone in moderate to severe AR.

Their findings?

Adding an IHM to SOC did not enhance clinical outcomes during the 12-week treatment but significantly better symptoms control and quality of life at 18 weeks, suggesting a sustained benefit for AR relapse. These findings support IHMs as potential adjunct for long-term AR management, warranting further investigation.

Source: Dixit, A., et al., Effect of Individualised Homeopathic Medicine as Adjunct to Fluticasone Furoate for Allergic Rhinitis: A Prospective, Randomised, Open-Label, Controlled Trial. Homeopathy. December 2025

02/12/2026

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02/11/2026

Homeopathic Versus Conventional Drugs: A Fundamental Difference

“...most conventional drugs typically target only one specific receptor type, thereby suppressing specific symptoms without treating the person as an integrated whole system/network.”*

In other words, ordinary drug therapies target parts, with the goal of managing symptoms through suppression and palliation.

Which approach makes more sense logically? One, homeopathy, that stimulates the entire organism to reset and re-establish equilibrium (heal); or an approach that focuses on only one part of the organism at a time, as if living organisms are made up of disparate, unconnected parts, simply managing symptoms and palliating?

*Bell IR, The Complexity of the Homeopathic Healing Response Part 2: The Role of the Homeopathic Simillimum as a Complex System in Initiating Recovery from Disease. Homeopathy 2020; 109(02): 051-064

02/10/2026

Adolph Lippe on prescribing empirically...

"Next comes a gentleman who informs us that he found this season Kali bichromicum almost a specific, although in other epidemics it had failed him. Fine talk indeed! What were or rather what are the indications for Kali bichromicum? Or is it proper and right for a healer to use this or the other remedy empirically without indications? Does not the blind hen find a little grain sometimes?"

02/06/2026

Many people worldwide suffer from sleep issues. In America alone, it's estimated that 50-70 million people struggle with this problem.

Researchers in Brazil recently published a small observational, longitudinal, prospective study of individuals 18 and over with insomnia treated homeopathically with 6 months of follow-up in the public healthcare service of Guarulhos, São Paulo.

Their findings?
"Homeopathic treatment significantly improved sleep quality and reduced stress, anxiety, and depression."

Source: Fujino FMSDC, Ribeiro AP, Antunes DC, Gomez RJ, Furtado GE, Colombo-Souza P. Sleep quality and levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in patients treated with homeopathy: a prospective study in the Brazilian public healthcare service. Sao Paulo Med J. 2025 Oct 27;143

02/05/2026

Dr. Adolph Lippe once observed that the indications for the remedy a child needs were generally very plain. It is what is obvious to the senses of sight and touch.

02/04/2026

Adolph Lippe, MD, on prescribing for the individual, not for the disease...

"No doubt one or the other these remedies have cured that disease, under certain circumstances, but to draw the deduction from just one or even more cures that that remedy will cure all such cases is a fallacy, and the fallacy began when the healer attempted to prescribe for a form of a disease and forgot that he must prescribe for the individual and not for a disease; forgot that he pretends to practice Homœopathy and then blundered into inferior allopathy or eclecticism."

02/03/2026

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• Follow-up interactive case analysis with students just days later
• Step-by-step repertorization, differential diagnosis, and remedy selection
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• Plenty of time for questions—and deep learning

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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

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

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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."