The American Institute of Homeopathy

12/05/2025

We, at times, get the question: "why talk about homeopathy in history? How can that be relevant to modern medical care?"

Homeopathy is relevant now and at all times, regardless of the type of illness, because it is based on a fixed principle of nature. That principle states that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in a healthy person. It was discussed by Hippocrates and later carefully researched and developed by a brilliant German physician and chemist, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann proved that disease is idiosyncratic to the patient and requires individualized care. He and his colleagues (past and current) meticulously tested hundreds of medicines on healthy volunteers to determine their effects, and in doing so were able to bring clarity to treatment options and the practice of medicine.

The dominant paradigm in medicine is based on no such fixed principle, with therapeutic options and standards that seem to change with great frequency - and whose drug therapies almost universally cause harm at some level of the organism (and subsequently the planet).

So - when we show reliable statistics regarding the successful, lifesaving treatment of patients during past deadly epidemics - that data is as relevant today as it was in the 1800s - because homeopathic principles are sound and never change.

12/04/2025

In 2023, researchers in India conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled and parallel-arm trial to assess the effect of homoeopathic medicines on chronic rhinosinusitis.

Their findings?
"This study provides a positive trend to support the effect of individually selected
homoeopathic remedies in patients with CRS and warrants further evaluation."

Source: Oberai P, Kaushik S, Ramteke S, et al. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled and parallel-arm trial to assess the effect of homoeopathic medicines on chronic rhinosinusitis. Indian J Res Homoeopathy, 2023;17(1).

12/03/2025

Why Homeopathy?
The head of the World Health Organization recently warned that “antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide."

Can homeopathy help in this crisis? Based on 200 years of clinical success and research - the answer is undeniably - YES.

12/02/2025

Do you know that some of the very best homeopaths that ever lived (Hahnemann, Lippe, Hering, Wells, Nash, Guernsey, the Pulfords, and others) left instructions on how to practice homeopathy at the highest level?

Hahnemann was a prolific writer and wrote the "Organon of Medicine," "Materia Medica Pura," "Chronic Diseases," and more. Many of the others published journal articles that can still be found in these great old journals:

IHA transactions 1881-1930.
Volumes 1-10 of the Homoeopathic Physician.
Volumes 1-4 of the Organon.
All of the Hahnemannian Advocate
Volumes 1-3 of the Hahnemannian Monthly
Volumes 1-6 of the American Homoeopathic Review.
Many volumes of the Medical Advance

12/01/2025

11/27/2025

All of us at the American Institute of Homeopathy wish you a happy Thanksgiving with family and friends!

11/26/2025

More from our friends at the Homeopathy Research Institute:

"Can homeopathy boost photosynthesis in fig plants?
A new greenhouse study explored this question, finding that homeopathy increased net photosynthesis after cumulative applications, increasing leaf emission and improving plant readaptation...

Source: https://www.ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/51586

11/25/2025

Another instructive 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, sharp faced fellow, a 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 cramps 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 drank 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."

11/24/2025

Homeopathy in History...
In 1826, Dr. Herrmann of Dresden arrived in St. Petersburg with Countess Ostermann-Tolstoy to serve as the family physician for the Countess. At the same time, he developed a large and profitable practice in the higher circles of influence in St. Petersburg.

There, during an epidemic of dysentery, he achieved such brilliant results with homeopathy that he was commissioned by the Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich to go to the hospital in Tulczyn in the Province of Podolia, Ukraine, to treat members of the Imperial Guards suffering with dysentery, fevers of various kinds, and other acute disorders. For this, he received a salary of 12,000 rubles.

This salary excited the envy of other military doctors, who received 700 rubles, so they arranged to have a large number of cases with incurable disease sent to the homœopathic department, though this was contrary to the wishes of the Grand Duke.

During a 100-day trial, Dr. Herrmann treated 165 patients. Of these, 141 were declared cured and 6 died, a mortality of 3.6 percent. The 18 remaining were suffering from incurable organic defects and had been treated without success in other hospitals.

Source: Carl Heinrich Rosenberg. Fortschritte und Leistungen der Homöopathie in und ausser Ungarn nebst einer Darstellung ihrer Grundsätze von ihrem gegenwärtigen wissenschaftlichen Standpunkte und Hinweisung auf die Vortheile, die daraus für Staat und Staatsbürger resultieren. Leipzig : Verlag von Ludwig Schumann, 1843, 12.

11/21/2025

Dr. Robert Hahn is Section Chief of Research, Education, and Development at Södertälje Hospital and an adjunct professor of anesthesia and intensive care at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He has published more than 360 scientific articles and is not a homeopath. But he was curious about the topic so he undertook a comprehensive meta-analyses of pooled clinical data in homeopathy.

What he discovered surprised him... here are his findings in his own words: "To conclude that homeopathy lacks clinical effect, more than 90% of the available clinical trials had to be disregarded. Alternatively, flawed statistical methods had to be applied."

Source: Hahn, R. Homeopathy: Meta-Analyses of Pooled Clinical Data. Forsch Komplementmed 2013;20:376–381

11/20/2025

Dr. Adolph Lippe reporting on the outcome of one of his first cases...

"The first practical evidence that I had of the quick action of the truly homœopathic highly potentized remedy was in a case that I saw in consultation some twenty years ago. The lady was over sixty year of age, had been suffering from an attack of [Asiatic] cholera fourteen hours before I saw her; at 4 P.M. Arsenicum album and Camphora in alternation, and finally Arsenicum album and Cuprum in alternation had been repeatedly given in large doses, but the disease progressed, the suffering from the cramps was great, and the hope of recovery very small.

A careful comparison of the symptoms pointed to Veratrum album as the truly homœopathic remedy. The patient was given a few pellets of Veratrum album 200 (Jenichen), the change in the pulse was at once perceptible, and in less than ten minutes the patient fell asleep, became warmer and awoke after more than two hours of sound sleep; the pain and cramps returned, and a second dose of Veratrum album 200 was again administered with the same good result, a profuse warm perspiration broke-out, and when she again awoke, all cholera symptoms were gone. She received no other medicine but two doses of Veratrum album 200."

Source: Adolph Lippe. Cholera. A Lecture Delivered at the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania on December 5th, 1865. Philadelphia : Collins, 1866.