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Volume 106 Number 2
88 AJHM Summer 2013
Joyce Frye, DO
September 2009 to March 2011were identified by the in-
patient pharmacy director in a search of the dispensing
database. EMRs were reviewed to note diagnoses, days
on MV prior and after introduction of
Kali bichromicum
ventilator settings, and sputum description. Timing of
Kali bichromicum
was inconsistent; in several cases it
seemed a last-ditch effort after many days of intubation,
and the patient succumbed. No patient would have met
inclusion criteria for the Vienna study and all had multiple
co-morbidities; yet consistent sputum descriptions suggest
that the concept of “genus epidemicus” may be applied to
some medical conditions beyond the epidemic situation.
Physician observations were generally favorable.
Methodology for assessing generalizable “real-world” use
of homeopathic medicines is critically needed.
About the author: Dr. Frye is a former president of both the
AIH and the National Center for Homeopathy (NCH), and
she served as chair of the Scientific Committee for the AIH-
sponsored 2010 LIGA conference in Redondo Beach, CA.
Dr. Frye is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics
and Gynecology and by the American Board of Integrative
and Holistic Medicine (ABIHM).In 2012 she authored the
update on CAM for the American College of Physicians. Dr.
Frye currently serves as the Chair of the Pharmacopoeia
Revision Committee for the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia
Convention of the United States (HPCUS).