Strange Rare Peculiar Homeopathy Podcast

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) → 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