Homeopathy was developed within a very different medical world. So what happens when we interpret it through the assumptions, language, and diagnostic frameworks of modern medicine?
In Episode 139 of Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray explore how that tension may shape the way homeopathy is understood and practiced today.
The conversation moves from presentism and hermeneutics into the practical realities of case analysis: why starting with a diagnosis can lead somewhere very different than starting with the totality of symptoms, why repertories are not interchangeable, and why the framework behind a tool matters just as much as the tool itself.
It raises a bigger question for anyone studying or practicing homeopathy: Are we understanding homeopathy on its own terms—or filtering it through a medical model that was built differently?
Listen to Episode 139: Did Modern Medicine Change How We Think About Homeopathy?
Go Back to the Source
- Organon of Medicine — Aphorism 3
- Robin Murphy — Clinical Repertory
- James Tyler Kent — Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica
- C. M. F. von Boenninghausen — repertory works and methodology
- George Dimitriadis — “Bogus Boenninghausen”
Mentioned in This Episode
- Academy of Homeopathy Education — Postgraduate Homeopathy Programs
- Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy — Research Office
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Strange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Academy of Homeopathy Education discussing everything you REALLY need to know about homeopathy. We’ll look at philosophy, practice, research,and education–all with a little bit of history. If you want to know why we still can’t get enough homeopathy after a combined 50+ years of study and practice, we invite you to join the conversation!
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