References
Every remedy page draws on the classical sources below; the research debate is on the Evidence page.
I. Classical materia medica (public domain)
Original texts published before 1928, digitised by the Internet Archive and the Digital Library of India. All are in the public domain; the summaries on this site are drawn from the original texts.
| # | Work | Author & edition | Archive identifier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory | William Boericke, 9th ed., 1927 | archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.125811 |
| [2] | A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, Vols. I–III | John Henry Clarke, 1900–1902 | archive.org/details/adictionaryprac03clargoog (Vol. III; Vols. I–II as sibling Google scans) |
| [3] | Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica | James Tyler Kent, 1st ed., 1904 | archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458552 |
| [4] | Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons | Henry C. Allen, 1898 | archive.org (multiple scans) |
| [5] | Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics | Eugene Beauharnais Nash, 1899 | archive.org / Library of Congress |
| [6] | A Clinical Materia Medica | Edward A. Farrington, 1887 | Library of Congress (public-domain collection) |
The imponderabilia chapters
The eight imponderable remedies — the forces and energies — come from the same authors, whose chapters on the forces are the source of every portrait:
| Remedy | Source chapters |
|---|---|
| Sol | Clarke, Dictionary, "Sol" — Swan's 1880 pathogenesis and Finsen's light-therapy; Boericke, "Sol". |
| Luna | Clarke, Dictionary, "Luna" — Goullon's 1897 essay on the moon; Swan's proving of Luna 1m. |
| Electricitas | Clarke, Dictionary, "Electricitas" — the symptoms of Caspari; Boericke, "Electricitas". |
| X-Ray | Boericke, "X-Ray" — Fincke's 1897 proving and the clinical record of radiation injury. |
| Magnetis poli ambo, polus arcticus, polus australis | Hahnemann, Materia Medica Pura (the magnet and its poles); Clarke, Dictionary, the three "Magnetis" chapters. |
| Radium bromatum | Boericke, "Radium bromatum" — Diffenbach's proving; Clarke, Dictionary, "Radium". |
II. Modern scientific sources
| # | Source | Position it represents |
|---|---|---|
| [7] | EASAC, Homeopathic products and practices: assessing the evidence (2017) | Negative: no reliable disease-specific evidence |
| [8] | UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee, Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy (2010) | Negative: performs no better than placebo |
| [9] | NHMRC (Australia) evidence assessment (2015), summarised in NHS England "Clinical evidence for homeopathy" (2017) | Negative (methodology since criticised; NHMRC stated it did not conclude homeopathy "ineffective") |
| [10] | Alimoghaddam K, J Res Pharm Pract 2014; PMC4305381 | Real pharmacology of arsenic trioxide; APL mechanism (PML-RARα) |
| [11] | American Cancer Society, "Non-Chemo Drugs for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia" (2025) | ATO + ATRA standard of care; side-effect profile |
| [12] | FDA Trisenox records (2000; expanded 2018); Lo-Coco et al., NEJM 2013 | Regulatory status; ~97% 2-year EFS in low-risk APL |
| [13] | Standard toxicology references (acute arsenic poisoning syndrome) | Origin of the classical symptom picture |
| [14] | Chikramane PS, Suresh AK, Bellare JR, Kane SG. Homeopathy 2010;99:231–242 (PubMed 20970092) | Positive basic research: source-metal nanoparticles detected at 6C–200C by TEM/SAED/ICP-AES (IIT Bombay) |
| [15] | Chikramane et al., Langmuir 2012 (froth-flotation hypothesis); Chikramane et al., Homeopathy 2017;106:135–144 (hormetic activation) | Proposed mechanisms for nanoparticle retention and bioactivity |
| [16] | IIT Delhi + CCRH (Int. J. High Dilution Res. 2011); IIT Kharagpur (J. Anal. Methods Chem.) | Further nanoparticle / activity reports in plant- and cardiac-glycoside-derived remedies |
| [17] | Mathie et al., Systematic Reviews 2014;3:142 and 2017;6:63; Hamre et al. 2023 | Positive-leaning meta-analyses: small effects, mainly for individualised treatment; risk-of-bias caveats |
| [18] | Rao et al. (PMC8207273) review of hormesis/nanoparticle models; critiques incl. Van Wassenhoven non-replication and guest-editor concerns (Homeopathy/Thieme) | The contested status: replication gaps; detection ≠ clinical efficacy |
| [19] | CCRH, Govt. of India — ccrhindia.ayush.gov.in; Indian J Res Homoeopathy | Ongoing government-funded trials on 18 conditions; 97 completed clinical studies |
A note on sources: the classical works above are in the public domain in their original editions. Where modern websites re-host these texts, their page presentation carries its own copyright; every portrait here is drawn directly from the original public-domain texts.