Melanie Hahnemann has been judged for generations — especially after Hahnemann’s death.

In Episode 105, we revisit the romance, the rumors, and the real historical stakes behind her legacy — including the moment that complicates the easy labels: what Hahnemann asked of her, and what came next.

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.

Where homeopathy lives and breathes.

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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

Acute cases aren’t always simple — and there’s often more to think about than you might realize.

In Part 2 of this special conversation on Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Denise and Alastair explore the art of clinical decision-making in homeopathy for acute care.

From case tools like LoCoMoCo (Location, Complaint, Modality, Concomitant) and CLAMS (Condition, Location, Aetiology, Modality, Sensation), to key concepts from the Organon, they break down what it really takes to prescribe well in acutes.

You’ll hear:

• Why understanding the complete symptom is the foundation of good prescribing

• What makes a symptom strange, rare, and peculiar (Aphorism 153)

• Why Hahnemann insisted we do the work — even in “simple” acute cases

• Why AHE students receive intensive training in acute prescribing — and why that matters

📍New here? Start with Episode 103 (Part 1) before diving into this one.

🎧 Listen now and rethink what it really means to observe, understand, and act in acute cases.

• Feeling stuck in an acute situation? Visit HomeopathyHelpNow.com to connect with a trained homeopath.
• Have you ever followed a protocol or used combo remedies? We’re doing a research study — and your experience matters. 📧 Email [email protected] to participate in a one-time focus group.

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — 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/hohm-pgrn⁠

Hosted by ⁠Denise Straiges⁠ and ⁠Alastair Gray⁠.

This week, we’re talking about acute prescribing in homeopathy—what it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s so often misunderstood.

What actually makes something acute? When should you prescribe… and when should you let the body do its job?

And why don’t homeopaths just take a remedy every time they get sick?

We break down how acutes relate to your chronic state, why over-prescribing can backfire, and why rest is sometimes the most “homeopathic” choice of all.
If you want a clearer, smarter way to think about homeopathic acute care, this episode is your guide. Stay tuned for part 2!

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — 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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

In this episode, Denise and Al answer a question from a listener in New Zealand:

"I would love for you guys to do a podcast on posology. I'm seeing all these 'miraculous' cures being posted by people using Fibonacci Homochords and all other high potencies and I'd love to know what Hahnemann wrote about this…and the history behind potencies."

Where homeopathy lives and breathes.

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — 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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

In this episode we give you a taste of the types of questions and conversations that happen throughout all programs and cohorts at AHE.

We discuss:

• Chronic Disease

• Homeoprophylaxis

• Combination remedies

• X potencies

• Cell Salts

Where homeopathy lives and breathes.

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — 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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

Did Hahnemann Use More Than One Remedy at a Time?

Let’s hit the books and find out!

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education.

Where homeopathy lives and breathes.

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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

Considering your educational options for becoming a professional homeopath? We were joined by Carli Auer from the North American Homeopathy Examiners (NAHE) to talk about it.

In this episode we cover:

• Why ‘Accredited Program’ doesn’t always mean what you think

• What you need to know about certification and licensing for Homeopaths

• The origin story of The North American Homeopathy Examiners (NAHE) and their role in supporting the homeopathy profession through the administration of the Homeopathy Practitioner Licensing Examination (HPLEX). https://homeopathyexaminers.org/

Mentioned in this episode: 

84: Homeopaths: The Truth Might Change Your Opinion (The Flexner Report)

67: An Alternative Route For Student Homeopaths 

65: Homeopathy Education- Accreditation Matters

Where homeopathy lives and breathes.

Welcome to Strange, Rare & Peculiar — 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/hohm-pgrn

Hosted by Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray.

The organization of information is at the core of every Homeopath’s practice, and it's been that way from the beginning.

In this episode we introduce you to some of the early names in Homeopathy with a penchant for organization who helped Dr. Samuel Hahnemann to create a searchable index in pre-digital times and more!

Pour yourself a cup of tea, and you may also want to grab your favorite dictionary...

There’s still time to register→https://homeopathyusa.org/homeopathy-groundbreaking-science-and-global-health/ 

October 17-19  “Homeopathy – Groundbreaking Science and Global Health.

Online registrations will close at 3:00 PM EDT on Sunday, October 19. We will also be accepting walk-up registrations on-site all weekend.

Strange Rare Peculiar is  a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray 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! Please help us spread the word by sharing this with someone in your life who would like to learn more about homeopathy. 

If you’d like to study homeopathy, visit:

https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/

Denise Straiges MA, CCH, RSHom(NA), PCH is fiercely committed to raising the bar in academic and clinical training for all Homeopaths. She is the President and Clinical Director of The Academy of Homeopathy Education (AHE), and established HOHM Foundation, whose initiatives include the Homeopathy Help Network, a not-for-profit, research-based initiative focused on delivering high quality, affordable Homeopathy care to all. Under her leadership, AHE was named exclusive educational provider for the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), the oldest medical society in the US.Denise is a 2023 graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her dissertation, Contingent Evolution: Homeopathy and 19th Century Biomedicine explores how the uptake of bacteriological discoveries into the canon of 19th century medical knowledge was an interdependent and non-linear process in both orthodox and heterodox spaces. In conjunction with HOHM Foundation, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on clinical outcomes and education in integrative medicine, and her dissertation was released as a book in 2023. She is completing a compendium of homeopathic case analysis with expected publication in 2024/25.Denise maintains a busy practice in classical homeopathy with a focus on complex neurological and autoimmune conditions and provides clinical supervision and mentorship to students and professional homeopaths around the world.

Alastair Gray has a Ph.D. in Public Health. More specifically he is an expert in the field of Complementary Medicine education. Much of his research has a focus on technologies in the field of CM and learning technologies in the education of future practitioners. He teaches at and heads the academic, operations, and research at the Academy of Homeopathy Education. In addition, he holds various consulting roles: academic (College of Health and Homeopathy, NZ), educational (National Centre for Integrative Medicine, UK), as well as consulting to many organizations on homeopathic provings and e-learning worldwide. A regular seminar and conference presenter worldwide and having spent a decade in the higher education arena in Australia, he is the author of 23 books and numerous articles on primary research in natural medicine. Originally educated as a historian, he teaches the history of health, healing, and medicine at schools, colleges, and universities in multiple countries. Alastair has been in practice for more than 30 years.

What does it really mean to practice homeopathy today?
In the Season 4 premiere of Strange, Rare, and Peculiar, Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray return with deeper conversations and a guiding question at the heart of it all: truth. They revisit Hahnemann’s original principles, reflect on the state of homeopathy in 2025, and ask how this medicine became “all things to all people.” Is that really homeopathy—or have we strayed too far from its foundation? If you care about clinical safety, professional standards, and the future of the field, this episode is essential listening.

Strange Rare Peculiar is  a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray 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! Please help us spread the word by sharing this with someone in your life who would like to learn more about homeopathy. 

If you are a practicing homeopath and would like to join the Practitioner-Based Research Network (PGRN), visit: https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/

If you’d like to study homeopathy, visit:

https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/

To support homeopathy research and help make homeopathy accessible to all, visit: https://hohmfoundation.org/

For accessible homeopathy care, visit: 

https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/

Will you be attending the upcoming conference Homeopathy – Groundbreaking Science and Global Health 2025 at UConn Health in Farmington, CT in October?

Today we are joined by a special guest Lisa Amerine, ND, DABHM and after you listen to this episode we hope your answer is yes!

Find all the conference details here —>

https://homeopathyusa.org/product/seminar-access-homeopathy-groundbreaking-science-and-global-health-2025/

Strange Rare Peculiar is  a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray discussing everything you REALLY need to know about homeopathy.

Lisa Amerine, ND, DABHM, is a Naturopathic Doctor with an expertise in homeopathy practicing in Lafayette, Colorado. After attaining her Naturopathic Doctorate degree from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (now Sonoran University), Dr. Amerine went on to become one of few doctors in the country who have achieved Diplomate status with the American Board of Homeopathic Medicine.

In addition to her busy practice, she is the current president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the oldest medical organization in the United States.  She represents the United States as the National Vice President for an international organization known as the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis.  Dr. Amerine also serves on the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians where she is a past president and the current treasurer.  She has spent countless hours serving on other boards and consulting with different associations with in the homeopathic profession.  Dr. Amerine has spoken nationally and internationally sharing and teaching her passion of homeopathy. 

Denise Straiges MA, CCH, RSHom(NA), PCH is fiercely committed to raising the bar in academic and clinical training for all Homeopaths. She is the President and Clinical Director of The Academy of Homeopathy Education (AHE), and established HOHM Foundation, whose initiatives include the Homeopathy Help Network, a not-for-profit, research-based initiative focused on delivering high quality, affordable Homeopathy care to all. Under her leadership, AHE was named exclusive educational provider for the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), the oldest medical society in the US.Denise is a 2023 graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her dissertation, Contingent Evolution: Homeopathy and 19th Century Biomedicine explores how the uptake of bacteriological discoveries into the canon of 19th century medical knowledge was an interdependent and non-linear process in both orthodox and heterodox spaces. In conjunction with HOHM Foundation, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on clinical outcomes and education in integrative medicine, and her dissertation was released as a book in 2023. She is completing a compendium of homeopathic case analysis with expected publication in 2024/25.

Alastair Gray has a Ph.D. in Public Health. More specifically he is an expert in the field of Complementary Medicine education. Much of his research has a focus on technologies in the field of CM and learning technologies in the education of future practitioners. He teaches at and heads the academic, operations, and research at the Academy of Homeopathy Education. In addition, he holds various consulting roles: academic (College of Health and Homeopathy, NZ), educational (National Centre for Integrative Medicine, UK), as well as consulting to many organizations on homeopathic provings and e-learning worldwide. A regular seminar and conference presenter worldwide and having spent a decade in the higher education arena in Australia, he is the author of 23 books and numerous articles on primary research in natural medicine. Alastair has been in practice for more than 30 years.

https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com/professional-program/