‎Strange. Rare. Peculiar. on Apple Podcasts

61 episodes

Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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.

Strange. Rare. Peculiar‪.‬ Strange. Rare. Peculiar.

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 12 Ratings

Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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.

    61: Like A Fireside-Talking Homeopathy  

    61: Like A Fireside-Talking Homeopathy  

    Join us for a multi-layered library chat where we meander through situating James Tyler Kent on Homeopathy’s timeline, miasms, Vitalism, the psoric triad, Auras and much more. Several times a month we regularly hold space for talking to our students about Homeopathy without a set agenda. This podcast is a bit like one of our AHE Fireside Chats…



    Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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! 

    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN!

    ⁠⁠https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/⁠⁠

    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/⁠⁠

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

    For accessible homeopathy care, visit: ⁠⁠https://homeopathyhelpnow.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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.








    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srp-podcast/mes

    • 50 min
    60: Kerfuffles, Homeopathy Provings & Ethics 

    60: Kerfuffles, Homeopathy Provings & Ethics 

    What are the things that a healthy person who’s exploring participating in a Homeopathy proving needs to consider before eagerly raising their hand for the journey? Reflecting on decades of experience, we share our take on some of the ways provings may impact individuals, couples and even family members…

    Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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! 

    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN!

    ⁠⁠https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/⁠⁠

    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/⁠⁠

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

    For accessible homeopathy care, visit: ⁠⁠https://homeopathyhelpnow.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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.




    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srp-podcast/message

    • 57 min
    59: Homeopathy Research- Who's Coming To See Us?

    59: Homeopathy Research- Who's Coming To See Us?

    Who are the clients coming to the Homeopath? There is data about who's using complementary medicine, but the data about who's coming to see the Homeopath still needs to be collected at scale. With the help of our data angels the Practitioner Generated Research Network (PGRN) aims to answer this question and more. Join us! 

    Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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! 

    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN!

    ⁠⁠https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/⁠⁠

    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/⁠⁠

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

    For accessible homeopathy care, visit: ⁠⁠https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/⁠⁠

    About Denise Straiges

    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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.




    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srp-podcast/message

    • 54 min
    58: Homeopathy For True Acute Illnesses

    58: Homeopathy For True Acute Illnesses

    Ever wonder what a couple of homeopaths do when they themselves succumb to an acute illness? How fast do they reach for a remedy when there's an illness in their own family? What’s the role of illness? We cover all this and more in today's episode…



    Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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! 

    Please help us spread the word by sharing this with someone in your life who would like to learn more about homeopathy. 


    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN: 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/⁠⁠



    About Denise Straiges

    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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.




    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srp-podcast/message

    • 50 min
    57: True To Homeopathy- Research & Re-Interpretation 

    57: True To Homeopathy- Research & Re-Interpretation 

    How far are we from the origin story of Homeopathy?  Let's have a chat about Homeopathy's past, present and future with a touch of rabble-rousing...rooted in research.



    Welcome to Strange Rare Peculiar, 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! 

    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN!

    ⁠https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/⁠

    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/⁠

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

    For accessible homeopathy care, visit: ⁠https://homeopathyhelpnow.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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.




    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/srp-podcast/message

    • 53 min
    56: Homeopathy Help Now! HHN's Birth Story

    56: Homeopathy Help Now! HHN's Birth Story

    What would you do if while on holiday in NZ you'd received an urgent tip from a well-informed source saying it'd be wise to cut your trip short & get back to the US because it was looking like travel will be restricted due to an emerging disease of epidemic scale?

    Cozy up with a cup of your favorite brew as we share the story of how Homeopathy Help Now was born out of necessity for such a time as this...

    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! 

    Homeopathy Help Now!  For accessible homeopathy care, visit: ⁠⁠https://homeopathyhelpnow.com/⁠⁠

    Become an Active Participant in the Future of Homeopathy with Practitioner-Generated Research. Join the PGRN!

    ⁠⁠https://hohmfoundation.org/hohm-pgrn/⁠⁠

    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/⁠⁠

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



    About Denise Straiges

    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.

    About Alastair Gray

    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.

    • 57 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

Ages Apothecary ,

Episode 38 and new student orientation

Chandra Jones here lol can’t help but wonder if the 30 second sh-ch rant is Chandra induced 🤔 😂

Sasalovesjoto ,

Perfection!

Denise and Alastair are so welcoming! You feel as though you’re right there with them- enjoying a cup of coffee, basking in nature or relaxing at nite by a bonfire with a nice adult beverage. You’ll laugh, be amazed and maybe even cry as they share past memories, nuggets and truths of homeopathy that will guide you into the future! Five stars all around!!

AGATCH ,

One of the best homeopathy podcast out there

Fascinating podcast for anyone interested in homeopathy.

Top Podcasts In Health & Fitness

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
iHeartPodcasts
Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
Uncared For
Lemonada Media
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
John R. Miles
Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
Ten Percent Happier

You Might Also Like

1M: a Homeopath's Podcast
Kelly Callahan CCH, RSHom(NA)
Homeopathy Hangout with Eugénie Krüger
Eugénie Krüger Homeopathy
Homeopathy 247 Podcast
Mary Greensmith
Homeopathy Health with Atiq Ahmad Bhatti
Atiq Ahmad Bhatti
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation w/ Hilda Labrada Gore
Learn True Health with Ashley James
Ashley James