Dr. André Saine

Vita

D.C., N.D., F.C.A.H.

 

Education:
1980-82 National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon. Graduated in June 1982 with the degree of Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (N.D.).
1976-80 Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, Ontario. Graduated in June 1980 with the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.).
1971-74 CEGEP de St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. Graduated in February 1974 with a college degree in Health Sciences (DEC).
Certification and Recognition
2013 Honorary Member of the American Institute of Homeopathy
2000 Honorary Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy (F.C.A.H.).
1988 Diplomate of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians (D.H.A.N.P.) (U.S.A.).
Experience
1995 present Private practice in Montreal, Canada
1995 present President of the Quebec Association of

Naturopathic Physicians

2016 Essentials of Therapeutic Fasting. A three two-hour webinar series. April, May, June 2016. http://www.homeopathy.ca/livecourses_det06.shtml
2014 – 2015 Lecturer on the Philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine and History of Medicine, and Essentials of Therapeutic Fasting at the École d’enseignement supérieur de naturopathie du Québec, Montreal, Canada
2013 – 2014 Invited professor at the Fundacion Universitaria Escuela Colombiana Medicina Homeopatica Luiz G. Paez in Bogota, Colombia
2011 present Instructor in Case Analysis and Case Management for the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy and the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association, Montreal, Canada
2009 present Instructor for the International Hahnemannian Study Group, Montreal, Canada
2008 – 2009 Instructor for the Hahnemannian Prescribing course, Canadian Academy of Homeopathy, Toronto, Canada
2008 Invited professor of Complementary Medicine at St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
2006 – 2015 Instructor in Illustrated Comparative Materia Medica Pura for theCanadian Academy of Homeopathy and the Illinois HomoeopathicMedical Association, Montreal, Canada
2006 present Instructor in Essentials of Acute and Chronic Prescribing for the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy and the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association, Montreal, Canada
2005 present Instructor in Illustrated Comparative Materia Medica Pura for the Gesellschaft Homöopathischer Aerzte in Schleswig-Holstein, Nierdorf, Germany
2005 The Importance of Hahnemann’s Legacy for the World. Keynote address at the occasion of Hahnemann’s 250th anniversary in Meissen, Germany on April 10, 2005.
1987 present Dean and instructor in homeopathy at the postgraduate program of the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy
1993-98 Instructor in hydrotherapy, philosophy of naturopathic medicine andhomeopathy, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Scottsdale, Arizona
1987 – 2004 Instructor in homeopathic materia medica and philosophy and chronic prescribing for the National Center for Homeopathy Professional Summer Course, Washington, D.C.
1981 present Instructor of many postgraduate courses and seminars inmanipulative therapy, hydrotherapy and homeopathy, and guestspeaker at many conferences throughout Canada, U.S.A, Latin America and Europe
1988 – 1997 Instructor in homeopathy at the Groupe Hahnemannien de Montréal,Montreal, Quebec
1988 – 1995 Private practice at the Clinique médicale Saine, Montreal, Quebec
1986 – 1995 Private practice and supervising clinician at the Toronto HomeopathicCentre, the teaching clinic of the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy, Toronto, Ontario
1987 – 1994 Secretary of the Council on Homeopathic Education, Washington, D.C.
1987 – 1993 Lecturer on Introduction to homeopathy, University of Toronto Medical School
1986 Instructor in homeopathy for the postgraduate    program, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario
1984 – 1985 Clinical assistant professor of naturopathic medical
philosophy,hydrotherapy, manipulative therapy and introduction to research at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon
1982 – 1985 Private practice and supervising clinician at the Portland Naturopathic Clinic, the teaching clinic of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon
1982 – 1985 Instructor in hydrotherapy at the John Bastyr College of Naturopathic
Medicine, Seattle, Washington
1985 Instructor in hydrotherapy for the postgraduate program at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario
1981 – 1984 Instructor in naturopathic philosophy, hydrotherapy, manipulative therapy and introduction to research at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon
1980 – 1981 Private practice during the summer months at the Clinique médicale
Saine, a clinic specializing in the care of patients with chronic
degenerative diseases, Montreal, Quebec
 

Main publications and presentations:

2016 The American School of Homeopathy and the International
Hahnemannian Association: The High Point of Homeopathy. Part III
Pneumonia and Hahnemannian Homeopathy. Liga News 2016; No. 16 (Feb.): in publication.
2015 The American School of Homeopathy and the International Hahnemannian Association: The High Point of Homeopathy. Part II. Liga News 2015; No. 16 (Dec.): 14-19.
2015 The American School of Homeopathy and the International Hahnemannian Association: The High Point of Homeopathy. Part I. Liga News 2015; No. 15 (Aug.): 14-17
2015 Summary of the response to Dr. Steven Novella’s post-debate question, What do you consider to be the best clinical evidence supporting the efficacy of homeopathy for any indication? http://homeopathy.ca/pdf/Saine
Novella_2013DebateSummary.pdf
2015 An Important Advance in the Homeopathic Treatment of Patients with Serious, Progressive Pathologies —A Practical Response to the Debate on LM Potencies. Joint American Homeopathic Conference, Philadelphia, May 2015.
2015 Asafoetida: An excerpt from the Materia Medica Pura Project (co-authored with Timothy Fior, MD). American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 2015; 108 (2): 65-72.
2014 Some Interesting Anecdotes about Case Taking and Case Analysis. Liga News 2014; No. 13 (November): 6-7.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det41.shtml
2014 The Materia Medica Pura Project: A Systematic Updating of Our Materia Medica and Repertories. Congress of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis—Paris—July 2014. About the Materia Medica Pura Project
http://www.homeopathy.ca/MMPP_ActiveHomeopathyMateriaMedicaPuraPoject.php
2014 An Address by Samuel Hahnemann, Delivered before the Paris meeting of the Gallican Homoeopathic Society held on September 15, 1835. Liga News 2014; No. 12 (June): 17. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det38.shtml
2014 An Open Letter to the Members and Trustees of the American Institute of Homeopathy. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det29.shtml
2014 A Letter from Hahnemann. Liga News 2014; No. 11 (April):  4-5. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det31.shtml
2014 Foreword to Edouard Broussalian’s Homeopathy: Principles of the New Medicine. Adaptation and Comments on the 6th Organon. Volume 1. Geneva, Switzerland, 2014. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det34.shtml
2013-2015 Post-debate questions and answers on homeopathy with Dr. Steven Novella, Associate Professor of Neurology, Yale University.May 2013: Part I of the answer to Dr. Novella’s first question, “What do you consider to be the best clinical evidence supporting the efficacy of homeopathy for any indication?” http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates_2013-03-22Q1ns.shtml July 2013: Part II: http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates_2013-03-22Q1-2ns.shtml February 2014: Part III: http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates_2013-03-22Q1-3ns.shtml March 2015: Part IV: http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates_2013-03-22Q14ns.shtml
2013 Homeopathy: Great Medicine or Dangerous Pseudoscience? Debate with Dr. Steven Novella, Associate Professor of Neurology, Yale University, held at the University of Connecticut Medical Center on March 22, 2013.
http://mediasite.uchc.edu/mediasite41/Play/f45177db9279460797ffe70714a3f5611d
2013 Post-Debate Questions and Answers on homeopathy with Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, and the public. http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates.shtml
2012 Homeopathy: Mere Placebo or Great Medicine? Debate with Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, McGill University November 27, 2012. http://www.homeopathy.ca/debates.shtml
2012 Should naturopathic medicine be regulated as a primary care service in Quebec and should naturopathic doctors have full scope of practice? Debate with Joe Schwarcz PhD, Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, McGill University, May 8, 2012
http://bcooltv.mcgill.ca/Viewer1/?rid=9080d73a-1d54-470193b607e33a03f3d9
2011 The Heart and Soul of Medicine. Certainty Versus Conjecture in Medicine. Annual Meeting of the Ontario Naturopathic Association, Toronto, November 20, 2011. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det26.shtml
2009 If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Well, Keys for Becoming a Successful Physician. Naturopathic Gathering, National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2009. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det22.shtml
2008 A Debate: Homeopathy—Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine? Steven Novella, M.D., Rustum Roy, Ph.D., Donald Marcus, M.D., Iris R. Bell, M.D., Ph.D., Nadav Davidovitch, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., and André Saine, N.D. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2008; 14 (1): 9-15.
2008 The Rational Basis of “Nature Cure.” Naturopathic Gathering, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Tempe, Arizona, November 15, 2008. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det25.shtml
2007 A Debate: Homeopathy—Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine? An international forum to explore the facts around this controversial modality in an attempt to determine whether it has any place in medical care. Donald Marcus M.D., (Baylor), Iris Bell M.D., Ph.D., (University of Arizona), Steven Novella M.D., (Yale), Rustum Roy Ph.D., (Penn State), Nadav Davidovitch M.D., Ph.D., (Columbia & Ben Gurion), Andre Saine N.D. (Canadian Academy for Homeopathy). University of Connecticut Health Center, October 25, 2007. http://mediasite.uchc.edu/mediasite41/Play/407916ea 6301-4ede-b04f-c3650e4073a7
2006 Foreword to the German edition of Homoeopathy in Medicine and Surgery by Edmund Carleton, 1913. (Vorwort. Homöopathie in Praxis und Klinik von Dr. Edmund Carleton. Leer: Grundlagen und Praxis GbmH & Co., 2007.) http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det36.shtml
2005 The Importance of Hahnemann’s Legacy for the World. Samuel Hahnemann’s 250th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Address. Meissen, Germany—April 10, 2005.
2004 Interview mit André Saine. R. und K. Vigoureux. Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie 2004; 48: 117-127. (A two-part interview in English: Is it not Part of the Deal in Promoting a Method of Practice to also Demonstrate its Efficacy? http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det27.shtml and Homeopathy is a Natural Science in its Purest Sense http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det17.shtml
2004 Wie man bei schweren Fällen verschreibt: Mittelfindung bei Patienten mit Schweren Erkrankungen. (Teil 2) Homöopathie Zeitschrift 2004 (I): 22-32.
2004 La ley del Hering: ley, regla o dogma? Homeopatia Mex 2004; 73 (628): 11 18.
2003 Foreword to the Handbuch homöopathischer Charakteristika. Eine Arzneimittellhre für die Praxis. Stuggart: Karl F. Haug Verlag, 2003 (German edition of the Text Book of Materia Medica by Adolph Lippe, 1866). http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det37.shtml
2003 Homöopathie am Mont Royal. Ein Besuch bei Dr. André Saine. Von Karin und Ralf Vigoureux. Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung 2003; 248: 189 192.
2003 Antwort André Saine. Homöopathie Zeitschrift 2003 (II): 11-15.
2003 Wie man bei schweren Fällen verschreibt: Mittelfindung bei Patienten mit Schweren Erkrankungen. Homöopathie Zeitschriftt 2003 (I): 17-32.
2003 Homöopathie oder nicht Homöopathie—wo siehen wir die Trennlinie? Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung 2003; 248 (2): 57-72
2002 Drawing the Line in the Sand: Homeopathy or not? American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 2002; 95 (3): 69-88. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det08.shtml
2002 Homeopathy Has Nothing to Do with Eclecticism. Simillimum 2002; 15 (2): 21-23. http://www.grundlagen-praxis.de/diskussion/englisch/eclectic.pdf
2001 Bioccular transcerebral iontophoresis.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det30.shtml
2001 Um eine Displin zu beherrschen, müssen wir von ihren Wurzeln augehen. Hamburg: Grundlagen und Praxis GmbH & Co, 2001.
2001 Reine Homöopathie Unser Erbe von grossen alten Meistern (PureHomeopathy: Our Legacy from the Great Master of the past). AnnualAddress before the Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Arzte, Hamburg, Germany, May 24, 2001. Allgemeine
Homöopathische Zeitung
2001; 245: 1-10. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det06.shtml
2001 Aloe Socrotina. A Most Valuable Remedy in need of rediscovery. Simillimum 2001; 14 (Summer): 18-47 and 2001; 14 (Winter): 81-106. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det14.shtml
2001 Homeopathy versus Speculative Medicine. A Call to Action. Simillimum 2001 (Fall); 14: 34-53.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det07.shtml
2001 Homeopathy without Hahnemann. Homeopathy Today 2001; 21 (6): 18.
http://www.grundlagen-praxis.de/diskussion/englisch/without.pdf
2000 The Causes of Failure in Homeopathy. Simillimum 2000; 13 (4) (Winter): 12 21.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det02.shtml
1997 Prescribing for Cases with Serious Pathology. Simillimum 1997; 10 (1) (Spring): 3-24. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det32.shtml
1995 How to Become a Homeopath. Homoeopathica, Journal of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis 1995 (Winter): 45-52. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det05.shtml
1994 “To Master a Discipline, We Have to Start at its Roots.” Homoeopathica, Journal of the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis 1994 (Autumn): 11-19.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det04.shtml
1993 Akut manische Anfälle eines überempfindlichen Patienten. Homöopathie in Österreich 1993; 4: 147-159
1993 Die Homöopathische Behandlung des MS-Patienten. Naturheilpraxis 1993; 46 (2):123-34.
1992 Foreword to Trevor K. Salloum’s Fasting Signs and Symptoms: A Clinical Guide. East Palestine Ohio: Buckeye Naturopathic Press.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det35.shtml
1992 Foreword to Thomas Kruzel’s The Homeopathic Emergency Guide. A Quick Reference Hnadbook to Effective Homeopathic Care. Berkeley, CA: North American Books.
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det33.shtml
1991 The Story of Kent’s Repertory. The Homœopath 1991; 10 (3): 81-86.
1991 Classical Homeopathy and the Canadian Academy of Homeopathy: Setting the Record Straight. Simillimum 1991; 4: 5-19.
1989 Lectures in Naturopathic Hydrotherapy. Co-authored with Wade Boyle, N.D. East Palestine, Ohio: Buckeye Naturopathic Press.
1988 Hering’s Law: Law, Rule or Dogma? Presented at the Second Session of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians, Seattle, Washington. Simillimum 1993; 6 (Winter): 34-50. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det12.shtml
1987 The Homeopathic Treatment of the Multiple Sclerosis Patient. Transactions of the First Session of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians, Portland, Oregon http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det13.shtml
1986 Our Noble and Beloved Carroll Dunham
http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det10.shtml
1982 The Placebo Effect and its Implications for Homeopathy. Thesis. (Winner of the Hahnemann Scholarship) National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon.
1982 The Essential Role of Homeopathy in Wholistic Practice: Five Case Reports. NCNM Review 1982; 3 (2): 9-20. http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles_det28.shtml
1979 Homeopathy: How Valid is it? Healing Crisis, Journal of the Ontario Naturopathic Association 1979; 2: 10-13.

 

Publications and projects in working progress:

The Weight of Evidence: The Extraordinary Success of Homeopathy in Epidemics. (2,500 pages have so far been written and over 10,000 references have so far been found and entered into our database. They will now need to be read and integrated.)

Lessons in Pure Homeopathy: From The Writings of Hahnemann’s Best Students and Medicine’s Most Successful Practitioner, Adolph Lippe. M.D. (The last draft of 600 out of 1,600 pages have so far been completed.)

The Materia Medica Pura Project: With the assistance of over fifty colleagues from America and Europe, we are currently reviewing the homeopathic literature for provings, cured cases and clinical experience, and cases of intoxication reported in other literatures of the last 200 years for updating our materia medica and repertories.

 

Contact:
E-mail: asaine@homeopathy.ca

 

 

 

 

 

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