The Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine (CCHM) introductory home-study certificate course in Classical Homeopathy designed for those wishing to learn the fundamentals of treating disease naturally and effectively. A certificate is awarded upon completion.

The course is go-at-your-own pace and is the first two lessons of the Homeopathy and Health Sciences Diploma Correspondence Program It provides a solid grounding in the philosophy and fundamental principles governing the practice of this great art, along with studies of some primary remedies.

Self-assessment questions are given for each unit along with associated readings and assignments.

Unit 1: Discovering Homeopathy

PHILOSOPHY

• Introduction
• Holistic Medicine
• Health
• Disease
• Hippocrates, Paracelsus and the Origins of Homeopathy
• Samuel Hahnemann and the Development of Homeopathy
• The First Proving
• Fundamental Principles
• Remedy Sources
• Remedy Preparation

MATERIA MEDICA

• Aconitum napellus
• Belladonna
• Chamomilla

Unit 2: The Vital Force

PHILOSOPHY

• Vitalism
• Role of the Vital Force
• Resonance
• Subtle Causes of Disease
• The Simillimum
• Amplifying the Symptoms to produce the Opposite
• Totality of Symptoms – Getting the Whole Story
• The Exciting Cause
• Maintaining Causes
• Introduction to the Miasms

MATERIA MEDICA

• Sulphur
• Calcarea carbonica
• Lycopodium clavatum