In Episode 118 of Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray begin with a question from the AHE teaching clinic: if homeopathy does not prescribe on a named condition, why was the conversation with this particular client so medical?
That question opens into Hahnemann’s evolving understanding of chronic disease, the “1816 problem,” and why complex cases require more than matching a remedy to a diagnosis.
Denise also connects Hahnemann’s understanding of chronic diseases with modern autoimmune patterns, asking what it means when conditions do not occur in isolation and when disease seems to arise without a clear external cause.
In this episode:
- Why medical language still matters in homeopathy
- The “1816 problem” and Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases
- What happens when we veer far from the principles of homeopathy
- Psora, miasms, and the classification of disease
- What makes chronic cases different from acute self-care
- How Hahnemann’s chronic disease theory may help us think about autoimmunity
- Listener comments on “homeopathy snobs” and the OTC availability of remedies
Scroll down to listen to (or watch!) Episode 118 of Strange, Rare & Peculiar.
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