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Podcast 81 – Ladies Only Sep 19, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:16 Infections 08:48 When the remedy is acting; use of observational skills 14:59 Uprooting the condition 18:08 UTI and honeymoon cystitis 20:53 Feminopathy relaunch Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 81 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette again today for another podcast. Today, we’re talking about female issues. So, all you ladies, listen up. This is going to be an important podcast for you. We’re going to talk about a common condition that a lot of women experience. Get your pens and papers ready to take some notes. All right, Joette, let’s get down to business and talk about these feminine issues. What do you want to discuss today? Infections Joette: Well, one of the most common female conditions is infections: bladder, kidney, urethra, ureter, et cetera. I do want to cover that. Particularly for those who have chronic UTIs, I’m speaking to you because everyone believes that they have to take antibiotics. In my experience — not my personal experience, although I’ve certainly had a few UTIs many years ago — but in my experience in listening to my students and clients and taking cases for the last 25-30 years, I have noted that the history — because I take the history and I take the history of a person’s health quite seriously — that the history is often, “Got a UTI, used an antibiotic. Got another UTI, used an antibiotic; another UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic.” It gets faster and faster and tighter and tighter. Now, they’re using that more and more frequently until after many rounds of antibiotics, we often see women left with interstitial cystitis that feels like a urinary tract infection, but they don’t find the microorganisms in the urine. So, it’s declared, “Nope, you don’t have an infection!” “But it feels like it. I have the urgency. I have the frequency. I have the pain, pain afterwards. Sometimes the pain radiates down the legs. I have aching in my kidneys. What is going on? You don’t find anything?” That is often interstitial cystitis. Kate: What is “interstitial cystitis?” That’s a tongue twister. Joette: Yes, it is. Well, interstitial cystitis is what they often call bladder pain syndrome. It is a feeling as though you have a bladder infection and those other areas: lower urinary tract, upper urinary tract, in the back, et cetera. Often if it lasts more than about six weeks, that is frequently what is then pronounced as, “Well, it’s a syndrome instead of an acute infection.” Not nice! Because what it is — a syndrome, especially in this particular case — means what was originally an acute condition is now a chronic condition. What’s the difference? An acute comes and goes, and it’s over with. If treated properly, it comes and goes and is often over with for many months or years or perhaps even forever. If treated incorrectly, in a sloppy manner such as just throwing drugs at it that only kill microorganisms, then we often end up with a chronic condition — which means that the person, the woman is suffering (it’s usually a woman) … suffers from this chronic pain and discomfort and urgency and frequency. But more often, it’s really awful pain. One person described it to me once as, “It felt like someone set my uterus on fire, and then stomped on it with combat boots.” The pain was horrible! So, it felt like she had been kicked. But before she was kicked in the bladder, there was tremendous burning pain. And so, their entire lives — and I’ve worked with many, many women with this condition — their entire lives are focused around one organ, the bladder (and those that are relative to the bladder, so, the kidneys, the ureter, the urethra, et cetera), and it ruins their lives. Now, they can’t go anywhere. They can’t count on anything. They have to wear pads. The pain is all encompassing. Being tethered to the bathroom is chronic. It’s not nice. I believe that the problem has to do with the sloppy, poorly way the urinary tract infection was dealt with at the onset. If we use a homeopathic medicine that is correct, that suits this condition and this person, we will find that there is no need to go to a bazooka to kill a mosquito. Kate: A bazooka. What an image. Right! That happens so often. Joette: Listen. I know that antibiotics have been lifesavers in the past. They have saved people from disease and death. There is a place for antibiotics, but not if you have homeopathy, to be honest. But let’s say you didn’t have homeopathy; I have to give credit where credit is due. However, what has occurred in our society, not just the U.S., North America, but all over the world. Certainly, the same thing happens in South America and Europe and India, et cetera, and China, is that any time there’s any infection, the doctor automatically gives antibiotics. So, infections come. We live on this earth where there are microorganisms everywhere. It happens frequently. So, that means that antibiotics are administered frequently. They become less and less valuable as time goes on, not only for that particular person but for that particular microorganism. So, we want to try to avoid them at almost any cost, if possible. Now, if you don’t have the homeopathic medicine or you’ve used it, and it’s just not working for you … because most of these medicines, when we discuss this, will work on approximately 80% to 85% of the population who has this particular condition. That’s a very high percentage. How do we know those numbers? The Banerjis have done the research. They have shown time and again that by using their specific protocol for this condition, that is the kind of result that they can expect. Now, what happens if you happen to be in the 20% to 15% of society in which that doesn’t do any good? And I will say parenthetically, most people think they belong there? Kate: That’s true. Joette: It really is true. Most people feel, “Oh, well, what if I’m there? I guess I am there. It’s not working fast enough, et cetera.” We have a second line. I teach this particular condition in Alternatives to Antibiotics, my course. But I also teach it in our course Feminopathy. We’re going to be talking about that. Should you be interested, this is where I train you how to use this. But I’m not going to leave you high and dry now. We will go into, in-depth, what remedy I would certainly begin with. I’ve also talked about it on my blog. So, any time … also parenthetically, let me also mention … any time you have a condition, just in your browser, put in the words “Joette Calabrese” and the name of the condition. You’ll find that I have probably covered it with the name of the medicine, the potency, the frequency, and often a story behind it so that there’s a little more understanding of how to use it. When it becomes a more complex condition, then I say I have to save that for when I teach courses. That’s where we really dig in and learn how to use these medicines. Kate: Joette, when someone has a urinary tract infection, they want relief right away because they’re suffering. So, how easy is this to solve with homeopathy? When the remedy is acting; use of observational skills Joette: Well, I think it’s relatively easy. But I will tell you that the most difficult part is not finding the homeopathic medicine. That’s the easy part because I give it to you. I’m going to give it to you today. I give it to you in all of these forums. If you get a simple homeopathy book on the shelf of a bookstore, you will find the medicine that probably will do the work. The hard part, I believe, is in observing “what is it that you are now seeing.” Most of us want more, faster. A lot of times, they’ll say, “But I still have the urinary tract infection!” Well, does it still feel as though someone set your bladder on fire, and that you’ve been stomped on by boots? Or is it now maybe a 6 instead of a whopping 10 in degree of pain and discomfort, urgency, frequency, et cetera? That is the part that folks don’t understand that they need to pay very close attention to. Kate: Right. They just want it all gone right away within hours, I think, really. Joette: Right. It can happen that way. But more often than not, we see not only the condition abating (so, that is the pain is not as extreme; the frequency is not as grand; the urgency is not as trying), but we also see that their disposition has changed. I know that sounds like, “How could that possibly matter?” But it does matter because they become less frantic. They feel as though they can take a nice long nap and when they get up from the nap, they can feel refreshed. Or, they find they have more energy now, and their focus isn’t on the constant sensation in the bladder. They still have the sensation, but now they’re able to prepare their meals. Now, they still have the sensation of urgency, but it’s not so bad that they can’t get to the grocery store and get what they need for their families. Kate: If this isn’t yourself that you’re treating, say you’re helping one of your children or another family member, you can often tell how a remedy is working by looking at their face, I’ve found. Because like you said, if their facial expression is that of pain and they’re not talking, that’s often a higher pain level. Then when they start to relax a little bit, maybe take their mind off of the pain and do something else or start talking to you, that is often that the pain is lessening. They may not realize how much their pain has lessened. But if you watch their body language, you can tell. Joette: That is absolutely so! What homeopathy offers us, as the person who is healing the members of their family, is the opportunity to gain observation skills that they might not have had before. Instead of asking questions, we just observe: Is her face still in a frowny position? Is she still rocking back and forth? Is she still running to the bathroom sighing and freaking every time she goes? If you see that that’s changing, then you know it’s very likely that you’re onto the right homeopathic medicine. Kate: The person, themselves, may not realize that there’s a change, but you can see that there’s a change. That’s very important. Joette: Yes, it is. They probably won’t realize there’s a change until there’s quite a dramatic shift. You’re looking for the nuances to observe. One of the things that I love about homeopathy is that when we’re using a homeopathic medicine, whether it’s for an acute condition or a chronic condition or a species of both, is that the medicine, if it works 10%, don’t give up and say, “Oh, it’s only 10%. It’s not good enough. I have to go to another medicine.” No, no, no. This is where the mistakes are made. Continue using the medicine and go to 28% improvement. Then keep using the homeopathic medicine and use it accordingly — meaning you’re going to use it according to the need. In other words, the greater the symptoms, the more frequently we use it, usually. Then it goes to 28% improvement. Then we watch, and we watch. Now, we’re on the second day. Now, we’re seeing 60% improvement. If we keep going, we will see that it will most likely take us to 100% — particularly in an acute condition or an acute UTI. Kate: But, Joette, what if the person has that 8 out of 10 level pain? You hate to see someone suffer like that. We just went through this with a family member. How often should you give it? You’re talking about that 10% you’re watching. And say, the remedy works, and their pain level comes down now from an 8 to a 7. Right? That 7 is still very painful. You’re talking about, “No, stay with that remedy because it still helped that 10%.” Joette: If the pain is severe enough, then we’re going to use it more frequently. We would use the medicines maybe every hour. If the person was in danger, let’s say hemorrhaging, and you’re on the way to the hospital, you might use it every 15 minutes. I don’t imagine that someone is going to generally hemorrhage from a urinary tract infection but using that as another example. Or if the pain is very, very severe, yes, you can use it every 10 minutes. As the pain minimizes, then you start going to every 30 minutes. As you see that the person’s shoulders are now dropping instead of being tight up against their ears with angst, now it’s getting better and better. Now, you’re going to administer it every hour … every three hours …then perhaps every six hours. If you start every six hours — let’s say by the second day or even later in the first day — and now at six hours, you can see it’s not close enough, then go back. You’re looking for that tipping point. You go back to every five hours or every four hours and allow it to do its work. And then try to go back to six hours later, and then to 12 hours. Usually, a urinary tract infection that’s an acute, particularly in a young person, will abate within hours. You see some shift within hours or a day or so. Then over a period of three or four days, we can put it to rest. Uprooting the condition Kate: Say that infection clears up. Now, two weeks later, a month later, the infection comes back, now what do we do? Do we just repeat those medicines again? Joette: I never tinker with success. Certainly, we start with the medicines that were used last that did the best work. We start in exactly the same fashion. We’re going to use it again, start it up again. But! I pretty much guarantee — it’s not hundred percent of the time so maybe it’s not a hundred percent guarantee — but I see it so frequently that the second round (without antibiotics and all the medications that are allopathic and using only homeopathy that the second time this infection comes back, it doesn’t come back as a screaming 10 like the bladder was set on fire and tromped on by combat boots. Now, it feels like it’s achy. It’s back again, and mostly more often than not, women will say, “Oh, no, it’s back again.” I say, “Oh! It’s great that it’s back! Not because I want you to suffer, but here’s another opportunity to uproot it.” Because homeopathy’s unique ability is to uproot the condition, not suppress it, not kill the bugs, not kill the microorganisms. There’s no need to determine whether this is a bacterial, it’s a strep B, whether it’s a viral infection. That’s unnecessary. What we need to know is what is the name of the condition (it’s a UTI), and how is it presenting. Once we see that, we know what to use. We use it a second time around. Now, instead of it coming back as a 10, it’s come back as say a 7 — 7 is still pretty painful or still too much urgency and frequency. However, once you started at 7, now you can go down to a 3 or a 4 faster. Then we go down to a 2, and then we go down to a 1 — administering all along. Now, the infection is gone again. Now, let’s say it happens again. Let’s say six months from now, it happens again. This time — and it’s not always perfect like this, but it often presents this way — this time in pain, in urgency, frequency, et cetera, instead of starting at a 7, now it’s more likely to start at a 4. However, what most often women experience is the angst that goes along with it. The first thing they think is, “Oh no, it’s coming back again!” No, no, again, another opportunity to uproot. Now, how many times does this take? It depends on the person. It depends on how many drugs have been thrown at this condition. Let’s say this is honeymoon cystitis. Honeymoon cystitis, you know, when young couples first get married, the woman often ha…

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Podcast 80 – What is Homeopathy? Part Two Aug 26, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:30 How the books define homeopathy 11:08 A nurse’s comment 16:45 I have a mission 22:05 Kate’s Study group 23:51 Ignatia amara LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Gateway to Homeopathy II: Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced above) Joette’s Blog, podcasts, Facebook Live, and articles in Wise Traditions Free Resources (articles, research papers, studies) Find a study group: Joette’s Study Group: Find your New Study Group Friends Ignatia amara Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 80 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Joette, we’re here to talk again about, “What is homeopathy?” We’re going to answer that question and expound upon that a little bit more today in this podcast. Joette: Yes, that’s right, Kate. The reason that I wanted to expound on this a little bit more is because last time when we discussed, “What Is Homeopathy?” I gave more of a history of homeopathy so that people can understand what’s behind the story and also what to say to folks. This time, I would not urge people to get too involved in explaining this, but sometimes we want to have a better understanding ourselves. Should we come across someone who wants a little more explanation, that’s what I wanted to offer today — just to get a little bit clearer about what homeopathy is. Kate: So, in the Gateway II, we talk about this very question, “What is homeopathy?” I know the reason that you put that in there is because you wanted to give people tools that they could use when they’re asked that question. So, I know that you wanted to talk about what you’ve written in your Gateway II study guide. Joette: Now, Gateway II is the second group that follows after taking Gateway I, which is a study group. These are all virtual study groups for those of you who don’t know what is available for learning experiences. Kate: So, it can be virtual, or it can be some ladies or men. We’ve had a group of men getting together in their home and going through these study guides. It’s a really great resource for people who want to learn more about homeopathy. So, I know you wanted to dive into that book just a little bit. How the books define homeopathy Joette: Yes, yes. So, this is what I’ve written. I’m going to read directly from the book, page 35: “Homeopathy is a system of medicine that’s fundamentally different from conventional allopathic medicine. Whereas allopathic medicine focuses on suppression of symptoms, generally, homeopathy seeks to correct the underlying imbalance that cause the symptoms in the first place. Homeopathy achieves this by strengthening the body’s own defenses, thereby allowing the body to heal itself. Another way to explain homeopathy is that it works on the principle that “like cures like.” This principle says that any substance that can cause illness in a healthy person can cure that illness if manipulated in such a way as to minimize the toxic properties and leave only the curative ability. That’s done, of course, through homeopathic medicines. This is accomplished through a manufacturing process where each medicine is prepared using a series of repeated dilutions and succussions.” By the way, this is very mathematical and pharmacological. It’s not done willy-nilly. This is done in a very systematic way. “So, these medicines are made by homeopathic pharmacies in accordance with the standards and processes described in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, which is HPUS, and are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.” So, homeopathy is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration because it is considered medicine. They’re not supplements, not herbs, not vitamins, not essential oils. In fact, I used to consider it holistic, and now I’m thinking a little differently about how we present that because as soon as you say holistic, people think that what I mean is it is synonymous with holistic. Homeopathy is not. It is a very specific medical paradigm that does not use conventional drugs. That’s really the best way to put this. Kate: I think that is the main thing that homeopathy is confused with is they hear the word homeopathy, and they think that it means just general natural medicine including all of those things that you mentioned: essential oils, and herbs, and every type of natural medicine. Don’t you think that’s the biggest misconception? Joette: Well, it’s the misconception of someone just hearing the word for the first time. Yes, it’s very common, because unfortunately, in the word “homeopathy” is the prefix homeo-. People think that means “home” such as in “home remedies.” And that really throws off the discussion from that time forward. I remember having a discussion with a friend, oh, 35 years ago, who said homeopathy means “holistic.” I said, “No, it doesn’t. It means it’s a specific kind of medicine.” She said, “No, it really means it’s, you know, it’s herbs.” I said, “No, it really isn’t. I don’t want to get into an argument with a friend, but you really need to look this up.” Now, at that time, of course there was no internet to look it up. But I even worry about that because harkening back to the discussion we had in the last podcast, was that I don’t trust Wikipedia — not for a New York minute. But if you look it up according to the National Center for Homeopathy and organizations that promote homeopathy, you will get a better definition of course. But I also want to read something that’s from a fabulous book called “Nanodynamics.” It’s written by Dr. E.S. Rajendran. I love the way he puts this. He tells us — and it is absolutely so — homeopathy is nanoscience. It’s nanomolecular. So, I’m just going to read this little section: “In the process of scientific evolution, the greatly acclaimed Cartesian mechanistic model is making way for the realities thrown up by nanoscience and the related technology. Now, we realize that there is a clear and subtle world present in nanoscience. So, nanoscience and nanotechnology accept and realize that particles smaller than the size of 100 nanometer process properties entirely different from that of particles of a larger size. They’re capable of showing new chemical and physical properties absent in particles of bigger dimensions. It is observed that these particles smaller than a critical size have different electronic structure, conductivity, reactivity, melting temperature, and mechanical properties.” Then he goes on to say that the reason that we know this, that we’ve been able to experience this or note this is the recent advent, of course, of nanoscience and its related technology with the advanced electron microscope. We’re now capable of seeing the particles that homeopathy has been saying are there for all these 230 years. Kate: There is a video on YouTube that I found in the last couple of years. It actually shows that there’s a man, I don’t remember his name, but with a large microscope, and he was talking about that very thing that you just said, Joette. That now, they can actually see the molecular structure left, say, on the glass of water that you put some homeopathic remedy in. They pour it out, and they see that molecular structure is left on the glass. So now, with those microscopes, they’re seeing these particles. Joette: Yes, so it’s now become no longer enigmatic. What we’re talking about is something that was misunderstood for all these years because there simply wasn’t the clear evidence. Now, we have the clear evidence. However, having said that, they did not know the mechanism of aspirin for more than half a century — 75 years. Yet, conventional doctors still administered it regularly. It was only just discovered — the action or the mechanism in aspirin — about, I’m going to say (I’m guessing now), that it was discovered about 25 years ago. But up until that time, it didn’t mean they use it just because they didn’t understand the mechanism. They just knew that it showed action. When there was a fever, it brought the fever down. That’s clinical evidence. When there was swelling, it brought the swelling down. Clinical evidence, observation. If we don’t use that observation and dismiss it as only an occasional event or not holding enough water because there was no study of hundreds of thousands of people behind it, we are going to lose out on an awful lot. In fact, it always makes me chuckle when personally I have seen in the very beginning, when I was first using homeopathy long before I was in practice or teaching it, that when I use Belladonna for an extremely high fever in my children (one son in particular), the fever went down in very short order. One could say, “Well, that’s just the progression of the illness, and that was going to happen anyway.” But not when it’s time and time again. So, it’s not unlike you put the key into your car, and you turn it, and the ignition goes on. “Well, how do you know that was what did it?” “Well, because every time I do that, it works!” “How do you know?” “Well, because I’ve done it 500 million times, and it works.” That’s how we know. Kate: You can’t necessarily explain how it works. You just know it. Joette: That’s right. I know nothing about cars. My husband and my sons could tell you everything about cars. I know nothing. All I know is I put my key in, turn it, and it starts, and then I’m on my way. That’s good enough because that’s pure observation and logic. So, for those who don’t believe in homeopathy, all they need is to be cured of something or observe a cure in someone else, particularly someone who they have a vested emotional interest in. So if you see your child suffering, and the child is no longer suffering because you’ve just given whatever — Belladonna for the extreme fever or Arnica for pain or whatever it might be — and you see it time and again, after a while, you kind of have to sit back and show some respect to this medicine. A nurse’s comment Kate: Joette, I wanted to bring up something that I find very interesting. On our last podcast, there was a nurse that wrote down a comment, and I just want to read it to you. She says, “Excellent podcast. Thanks for letting us read it, too. I feel an exciting door has opened for me. I’m a retired pediatric nurse but have moved away from traditional medicine. I’m a believer in natural cures, healthy eating, staying away from allopathic medicine unless necessary.” So, what I find fascinating is the number of nurses that I see on your Students of Joette page, or writing comments to blogs and podcasts, or even in the study groups that I lead. Almost every study group, there is at least one nurse. So, I find that very exciting. Joette: Well, nurses are unique because more often than not, they’re in the trenches. The doctors prescribe the drug for let’s say a chronic condition — because I do have to separate those two. I think that in acute situations, drugs can be lifesaving. For chronic conditions, then that’s where I think modern medicine falls short. But they’re in the trenches. The doctor prescribes it on the phone or now fax or email … Kate: Tablet. Joette: … texting or whatever. I don’t know because they have to be legal about this, so they have to be very careful. So, the nurse administers the medication, and then she’s there, and she observes. I’ve heard many, many countless numbers of nurses who say, “I see what these drugs are doing. He doesn’t see. The doctor doesn’t see it. He’s not there. He’s busy somewhere else.” It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s that that’s the structure of medicine, and the way it has to be run. So, she’s seeing the pitfalls. He might see the report. She might report this or that. But observing someone suffering at the hand of a drug, observing someone going downhill at the hand of many drugs, firsthand observation is very powerful. I would say that in all our study groups, and we have lots of them from all over the world, there’s almost invariably always a nurse. Usually a retired nurse who had been in the trenches, as I said earlier, and has seen too many problems associated with drugs and had decided that she was not going to use drugs unless necessary. Now, I also want to say because that’s an important statement that she said, “Unless necessary.” What is necessary? That’s a very subjective word. If you ask the prescribing doctor if it’s necessary, you think he’s going to say, “No, this isn’t necessary.” Of course, he’s going to say it’s necessary because he believes it is. In his world, it likely is! It’s the only choice. But we have to parse that out, pick it apart. Tease it apart and find a way to look at it a little differently because what might be necessary in one person’s opinion is not necessary in another person’s opinion. It depends on your education. It depends on how much time you put into your own education. Because if a child has a fever of 105 as my child did some 32 years ago, if I had taken him to the pediatrician and not been dogged about it, I’m certain that the pediatrician would have said, “This is necessary that we give this child acetaminophen and an antibiotic.” But I found that the medicine Sulphur 30 brought down the fever within minutes and proved to me, my mother, and one of my closest friends, as we observed my child come out of this high fever lingering for days, that it indeed would have been unnecessary and that what was necessary was Sulphur 30C. So, what is necessary? We want to change that. It doesn’t mean that you don’t listen to doctors. I would never say that. I think that they can be very valuable for diagnostics. We do want to bow to their knowledge in that arena. But it doesn’t mean that the treatment is always the exact answer. We don’t want to be foolish about this, but we have to weigh out the words. We have to weigh homeopathy against allopathic medicine in many, many circumstances. As a mother or a grandmother, that’s a hearty, heavy-duty responsibility. But if we take our mothering and grandmothering seriously … this is where it all boils down to, separating the girls from the women, the ones with gut, spunk, and moxie from those who are unsure. Don’t get me wrong. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to be unsure when you make these decisions. But if you can hoist up your thinking, your confidence by good training in homeopathy, it’s likely that you’ll get it right more often than not. And by training, I mean self-training. I’m not saying going to college or going to a homeopathy school. I’m saying that you can learn this, folks, on your own! You can learn this all by yourself! I have a mission But, of course, what I love best is that folks join study groups, which is why I’m happy that you mentioned that earlier, Kate. Because for every person in your study group is a story attached to that person — perhaps two or three stories — and how they used this medicine, and how it worked … or how they used that homeopathic medicine, and it didn’t work, or it did work. Each of those stories are much more memorable than if you’re just reading a book. You will never forget the time that Alice said when her dog got hit by the car, the dog was screaming, and she gave the dog Aconitum and Hypericum that the dog was relieved. You’ll never forget it! You’ll have that image in your mind forever! Then there’s Alice and her daughter who are in the study group. Then there’s the oth…

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Podcast 79 – Moms with Moxie: “Catastrophilia” Aug 14, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:21 Gut Issues, bronchitis, hormonal issues 09:24 A supportive family 13:20 All about dogs 21:00 Spreading homeopathy with Arnica, Ipecac, Aconite-Bryonia 24:20 Arsenicum album 200 & Antimonium crud 200 for bed bugs 28:08 “Catastrophilia” LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: The Weston A. Price Foundation My articles in Weston A. Price’s quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 79. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi! Welcome again to another Mom with Moxie podcast. Today, I am here with Sharon. Sharon, welcome to the podcast! Sharon: Thank you. I really appreciate the opportunity of talking with you. Kate: Well, I’m excited to learn more about what you’re doing with homeopathy. I know you have a unique family situation, and that you have a lot of pets that you use homeopathy with. Sharon: That’s true. Kate: So, you have a lot of stories about taking care of those pets and using homeopathy. So, I’m excited to hear about that. Sharon: Well, we live in a country situation. We have lots of strays — cats, dogs, we’ve had a goat or two, a horse. I’m not treating any of those, but we have taken in quite a few stray dogs and stray cats. And we have chickens! My husband was adamant about having chickens so that we could have eggs. I made him promise that we wouldn’t have to eat them. The chickens have been very healthy overall. But when there has been a problem, it’s very easy to put a pellet in water for them to take. I know that they’re going to get an appropriate dose of what their needing to have for that particular thing that’s going on. So, I’ve given the chickens remedies. Kate: That’s awesome. Let’s start by getting to know you a little bit better. Tell us a little bit more about yourself. Sharon: I was born here in California. I am the oldest of five children. My dad, he went to medical school. We moved to Oregon, and he started a general practice. Then we moved several places after that because he wanted to do more education and ended up being a psychiatrist. So, we moved all over the place. One of the things that I remember that relates to how I ended up becoming interested in homeopathy is that my mom and my sisters and I went to Germany to meet my dad who was already there. Before we went to Germany, we had to have … I don’t know how many … 15 different vaccines because of all the things that we might encounter as far as diseases were concerned. We also had to use a military dentist. I remember I had so many cavities in my mouth. I don’t know if that was nutrition going on before we were there, but I had all these cavities in my mouth. I ended up with a lot of gut issues that I was having a hard time finding ways to deal with. I believe that it all went back to that period of time where I had so many vaccines in my body and so much mercury in my mouth that that kind of led eventually to me going on a path to become more healthy. Kate: So, that leads us into how you came to be interested in homeopathy. You talked a little bit about that. Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about the specifics of you learning about homeopathy? Gut Issues, bronchitis, hormonal issues Sharon: I had tried many things. I had gut issues. They basically had been there through a lot of my life, but I dealt with them. I didn’t know that there were any other ways to treat them. Especially being the child of a doctor — because there’s always a medical thing that you can do when your father is a doctor. So, all of those things were tried. I got to the point where I was in my, probably, late 20s, early 30s, and I kept getting recurrent bronchitis issues. Whenever I had a cold, it would go straight into my chest. At one point in my life, I went to school to become a court reporter which is a stenographer kind of a thing where you sit in a courtroom or lawyer’s office. You take the back and forth questioning and the conversation down on a steno-type machine. So, that was my job. I had to be invisible unless somebody asked me a question and asked me to read something from the record. So, the coughing that went along with my frequent bronchitis was embarrassing. I’d have to leave the room sometimes because I was coughing so hard and gagging. So, I wanted to resolve that, but it just kept continuing. I was having bronchial episodes almost every winter. Then at the same time … this is in my 40s then … I started having hormonal issues, perimenopause. It was very difficult for me because I was having constant headaches, like 40 headaches a month. Kate: Wow! Sharon: I tried different ways of dealing with the symptoms that I was having which was uncontrollable anxiety, and not wanting to do medication to treat anxiety because I’m very sensitive to medication. I don’t like the way those things made me feel. So, long story short, I ended up in a practice where there were alternative methods for dealing with menopause. I did go on hormones. It was a big improvement in terms of the anxiety, but I could not get enough appropriate hormones into my body through the transdermal method. So, I was exposed to a lot more hormones than I needed to. But the one thing that I took away from that (I’m off of them all now), I was told that my respiratory issues were due to my gut being inflamed. That was the first time I had ever heard that concept. So, I was told to do an elimination diet, which I did. Everything improved. I no longer had to use inhalers and so forth to not have bronchitis anymore. But I wanted to get off hormone replacement. Through Weston Price, I started following that diet pretty much. Everything just went away after I did that. I was looking for another alternative way that was not medical (and involved medications and pharmaceuticals) to treat my gut so that I could be healthy after I had gotten all of this stuff out of my system. That led to finding Joette’s quarterly post in Weston Price’s magazine. I decided that I wanted to call her. I did and made an appointment with her and became a client. Kate: How many years has that been now? Sharon: I think we’re going on 2½ years, maybe 3. Kate: Since that time, I know you’ve taken some of Joette’s courses and done a lot of research and learning on your own as well. Tell us what you’ve studied with Joette. Sharon: I’ve purchased two of Joette’s courses. Whenever I have free time, which is not frequently these days, I sit down and listen to a portion of it. I read through her materia medica. I research her on her website a lot. Through just doing that and then trying things in my home environment with my pets and my husband and myself, I have learned a lot about how it works, and what not to do, and how to tell when it’s not acting in the way that you would expect, how to choose a remedy and so forth. That’s purely from the copious information that Joette has on her website which is absolutely fantastic. I send people links all the time. When they have questions, “Go to Joette’s website because she’s got so much information that you can really get started and feel confident about what you’re doing for the most part.” Kate: Yeah, you can learn a lot from that. You had mentioned your husband. What’s interesting is he’s in the medical field, and I had asked you earlier if he’s supportive of you using homeopathy. Tell the listeners a little bit more about that. A supportive family Sharon: He was initially skeptical. It’s not that he didn’t think homeopathy was legitimate or valid. He believed that it did help people, but he wasn’t that interested. It’s not that he was allopathically-oriented so that it was just like, “I don’t want to hear about that. It’s an alternative thing. I believe in allopathy.” And it wasn’t that at all. Being a busy person, he did not have time to delve into it the way that I did. So, he said, “I trust you. Sure, I’d be happy to try anything.” Little by little, he’s gotten more and more convinced to the point … he’s not telling other people about it, but he is happy to take remedies and to try things that I think might help him when he gets a cold or … He recently had a sinus infection that was pretty dramatic, and he had to work. So, I recommended (or I found one) that matched his symptoms, a remedy that happened to be a Banerji Protocol. So, I said, “Why don’t you try this?” And, within three or four days, it was, like, gone. He was just amazed. Kate: So, what’s also interesting is that your husband is also a client of Joette’s. Sharon: He is. Initially, I was kind of nagging him about it because I thought that it would be a good thing for him. He was, you know, “Not yet, not yet, not yet.” But after he had had a couple of successes with me giving him remedies, and it having a good effect on him, he was fine with seeing Joette. He makes her laugh. He’s a real jokester. He likes to have fun with people and so forth. Kate: Well now, I want to meet him! Sharon: You should. Kate: I think we all do. Sharon: At the end, I’ll have him come in and say hi. Kate: Perfect. Sharon: He’s on board. His chemistry background and medical background has kind of intersected in a way that’s interesting. He is unlike many psychiatrists or even doctors. He does not believe in polypharmacy. Polypharmacy, for people who are listening, is where you give somebody a lot of different drugs to try to treat problems. If you give someone too many drugs, you don’t know which drug is doing what, and how they’re interacting. So, he’s famous for starting people on one drug. Let’s see how the person responds to that. Then we’ll see if we need to add something or subtract something. Sometimes with remedies, it’s so tempting to just start it. It doesn’t quite have an effect that you think you want, or it’s not acting fast enough, and so, you go and try a couple of different remedies. And it’s the same thing: you don’t know which one is doing what. He’s helped me a lot in that area to just be calm and choose your remedy. Do it carefully. Administer it and give it some time to act. So, my granddaughter responds really well to Ipecac. I’ve given it to her for hiccups. I’ve given it to her for coughing. I’ve given it to her for nausea. So, it’s been her remedy. An example with her … she’s seven … she’s not terribly coordinated yet. So, she tends to fall a lot, and she scrapes her knees a lot. And, she’s very dramatic. She fell and scraped her knees. I gave her an Aconite. I said to her mom, “Watch. It’s just going to be a minute or two, and she’ll be fine.” Sure enough, she had been whimpering. I gave her the Aconite. Within, oh, it was less than a minute, the whimpering just was slowly, slowly, slowly going away, and the sniffing went away. Then she was just like sitting there, and I was able to take care of her knee, and she was fine. She went back out and played. So, it’s beautiful when that happens. Kate: That’s great. Sharon: So, that’s a remedy that I’ve told my stepdaughter that she should keep on hand for the girls. All about dogs Kate: So, Sharon, tell us some other stories about how you’re using homeopathy. Let’s specifically talk about some of your animals because as you mentioned earlier in the podcast, you have quite a few animals. I want to hear some of those stories. Sharon: One of the most dramatic ones, Kate, was my neighbor up the road … they had a stray show up. This particular dog was quite dominant. One of her other dogs had used to be the dominant dog. And they got into a scrap. The stray dog just tore into my neighbor’s little just, like, a Westie kind of a dog. I just happened to talk to her the next day. She told me what had happened. I said, “Oh my goodness!” (This is when I was brand new.) I said, “Well, I’ve heard about some remedies that might help with that situation,” because she was covered in bites especially on her abdomen. She was just in bad shape. Our neighbor, she doesn’t have a big income. So, taking her dog to the vet was not an option at that point. I said, “Well, why don’t you try these two things. Please call me first thing in the morning and let me know how they worked for you.” She was afraid the dog was going to die through the night. I was hoping that I had chosen the right thing to give her. So, I waited. The next morning, I actually called her, and I said, “How is Muffy doing?” She said, “Oh my goodness. She’s so much better this morning. We’re able to dress her wounds. We didn’t think she was going to make it through the night. She just cried the whole night. But the things that you gave her calmed her down. So, we were able to pet her and put her in a more comfortable position. Then in the morning, we were able to clean her up. I’ll keep you posted.” She just kept improving and improving and improving. So, she eventually recovered from that situation. The stray dog had to find another home, of course, because that wasn’t going to work I was telling you about the lady who delivers the mails through our house. She has probably 12 or 13 dogs. One of the things that have come up a lot with her dogs is … she’s a “little dog” fan. So, all of her dogs are tiny ones. So, they get ear infections a lot. She was running to the vets to treat all of these issues. It was putting a strain on her pocketbook to be giving her dogs antibiotics all the time. She came to me fairly recently with a situation where the dog’s ear was just not healing very well. One of the groomers had poured vinegar down it. I don’t know about using vinegar for ear infections. It’s not something I’ve ever tried. But I said, “You know, it could be it’s kind of boggy in there. Let me give you something else that you might try and see how that works for her.” I ran into her in a couple of days. She told me that the dog was feeling so much better. She stopped scratching her ears. It wasn’t red. It was not sore and sensitive anymore. It was really on the way to being better. We’ve done that a couple of times, and she’s been very excited about homeopathy. She doesn’t have time to learn it, but she’s happy to ask me. Kate: So, do you have any dogs in the room with you right now while we’re recording the podcast? Sharon: I happen to have a dog in here. She was making a noise on the door, so I’ve let her in here. I don’t know if you can hear the panting, but she’s in the corner over there. That’s my beagle, Luna. Luna is 10 years old. She has been the busiest dog we’ve ever had. She was a stray. The thing about beagles is that they are very allergy prone. Their noses take them everywhere that there’s food. We live in the middle of lemon orchards. There are no houses visible for half a mile where our house is. So, lots of orchard to explore. Periodically, the workers will prune or pick the lemons, and they always leave lunch bits and breakfast bits behind. So, Luna is so very good at cleaning up the orchards. We’ve taken her to the vet numerous times with itchy skin — just to the point where she is biting on herself, and she can’t sleep a…

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Podcast 78 – What Is Homeopathy? Jul 28, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:37 Allopathy versus homeopathy 10:00 Joette’s elevator speech on homeopathy 15:20 How to get started 20:58 Conventional medicine as needed LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: My blog Weston A. Price, the Wise Traditions (my articles) Quick Start Guide (decide what steps to take next as you learn homeopathy) Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum My Free Community (links to research and articles about homeopathy) Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 78 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Joette, a few minutes ago, we were talking about what we did this weekend and last week. We both had occasions where we had to answer the question, “What is homeopathy?” I think this is a really good question that gets asked a lot by the people that I talk to and I’m sure your students, right? Joette: That’s right, all the time. Kate: So, you had an interesting conversation with someone. I want to hear how you answered that question with this person. So, tell us a little bit about what happened, and who you met, and how you answered that question. Joette: Well, the person that was asking me the question is a very seasoned businessman, very successful. I had to do a presentation in front of a group, and I was being critiqued on what it is we do in my work. So, it was very important to me that I made it super-clear what it was but without carrying on and on. It is difficult when someone has been using homeopathy — even if it’s just for a short period of time or even a longer period of time — it’s easy to get caught up on how homeopathic medicines are made because they are made so differently from conventional medicines. Conventional medicines are just … they get a substance, they mimic it synthetically, and they manufacture it in a manufacturing pharmacy. Homeopathy, of course, is much different than that. So, because of that, many of us — especially in the beginning when we first learn about homeopathy — get caught on that rung of the ladder. When instead, what people are looking for is, “What is this and how can it help me?” Or, “How did it help you, and then I can decide whether or not it could help me.” Kate: It’s almost like — when I’m listening to you talk — that it’s what we learn in sales. Right? I mean, we’re not trying to sell this person on something, but we can overcompensate. Joette: Oh, yes, we are! I’m trying to sell the world on homeopathy! I want this medicine out there. I think that humanity will be much improved if we can get rid of the dependency that we so deeply have on synthetic drugs. I believe homeopathy can do wonders for the structure of the family. I think it can do wonders for the elderly and for — here’s one of my big things — for independence, because we tend to get depressed. Excuse me for going off on this tangent, but I believe that we, as humans, get depressed when we’re dependent. My mother is dependent on me. (I don’t think it depresses her. She has late stage Alzheimer’s.) But when she was going into it, it was her greatest concern. It was my father’s greatest concern: “I don’t want to be dependent on you.” That’s why I think it’s so bad for adult children to stay at home too long. I think it’s so bad for people to go on welfare for long periods of time. I understand if it’s needed, in a time of need for a short period of time, but if you want someone to be a fully active, vibrant human being, they have to be independent. So, if I have not sold you on homeopathy, I have not done my job! I want you to be so sold on homeopathy — not you Kate because you already are — but I want you listeners to be so sold on homeopathy that you can now sell it to others. That’s what I try to do when I explain what homeopathy is. Allopathy versus homeopathy So, this is what I said to this group of people. I said, “There were two kinds of medicines in North America. There were the conventional medical doctors (the AMA types that we all know today), and there were the homeopaths. Both went to medical school. The homeopaths went to homeopathic medical school — just as rigorous in those days as conventional medical school was back in those days (in the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, even long before then). I’ve actually written a book on it! We had just over 100 homeopathic hospitals in the U.S. The conventional medical doctors had just under that … as I recall, it’s something like 96 conventional hospitals. All of the hospitals that the homeopaths built were big, stalwart hospitals. They were the mainstay of communities. They were big and beautiful and well-funded. Not well-funded by industry, well-funded by women’s auxiliary groups and patients who donated because they were so pleased with what occurred. So, two factions: The first faction had aspirin, very strong drugs such as cocaine; they had surgery; and that was pretty much what … and mercury. And then they developed antibiotics during World War I (it didn’t get out into the market until just around World War II) and psychotropic drugs. So, with those two categories, the pharmaceutical industry that was backing them — that was right there along with them — flourished tremendously. So, with that, they felt empowered! Meanwhile, the homeopaths had the same medicines we’ve had for 200 years. There was a competition. The conventional doctors got together and decided, “Now that we have this strength in these two considerable drugs …” (I might add they were quite considerable) “… then now we can get rid of the competition.” It was that simple. So, they organized, put together a plan — a very well-funded (because the pharmaceutical industry was behind them), very intelligently orchestrated plan to eliminate the competition. And the homeopaths were the only competition at the time, pretty much. So, the first medical association in the U.S. was a Homeopathic Medical Association. The second one was the American Medical Association. So, that medical association deemed that if any of their members sent one of their patients to a homeopath, they would be eliminated from the AMA. If any of them accepted a patient from a homeopath, they would have been eliminated; blackballed from the American Medical Association, if they played golf with a homeopath. And yes, this was all written. It’s all stated. You can read about it. So, the homeopaths foolishly thought, “The cream will rise to the top!” People will understand how great homeopathy is, and that there are no side effects, and that it can be quite curative, and that it’s not synthetic, and it’s inexpensive to purchase, and it gives families an opportunity to treat their own, et cetera. But that’s not what happened because the marketing from the other side was voluminous and stellar. So, homeopathy died in the late 40s in the U.S. — well, North America, so Canada as well. It did not die in England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, South American countries. But it died in our country because of the strength of the advertising and the work that was done. Also, I might add, in conjunction with governmental bodies, the AMA worked very diligently and hard to get their medicine at the forefront. We still see it today. Now, ask a conventional doctor about this, and they won’t know what you’re talking about because they don’t study the history of medicine. They’re studying “this” condition means “this” drug or “this” surgery. So, when I finished saying what I just said to you now, one of the men in the group who I behold in very high regard said, “That’s it! Now, I get it. Now, I understand.” He didn’t need to know that they were all little white pills. He didn’t need to know that they all come from nature. He didn’t need to know that they were inexpensive. (I mean, I led up to that slightly.) He didn’t need to know how they were made, that they were potentized and diluted, et cetera, and that they are not owned — there’s no patent on each one of them. He didn’t need to know any of that! But we get caught up in that when we’re learning homeopathy. Joette’s elevator speech on homeopathy Now, even a shorter version of the same, what I might call my elevator speech, is: “What is homeopathy?” “Homeopathy is the medicine we all thought we were getting, the one that was going to cure.” I also say, “You know when you go to your doctor, and you have a sinus infection time and time again, or those urinary tract infections keep coming, or that eczema is now worse than ever? Now, you can’t have gluten, and you can’t have dairy. Well, this is the medicine that uproots that. This is the one we really were supposed to be getting all along.” Now, you don’t have much time to explain any further than that because the door opens, and they exit on the seventh floor. Kate: Right. That’s very fast! Joette: Yes, especially when you started on the fifth! Kate: Now, you’ve piqued their curiosity. Joette: Right, right. “Wow! What is this?” “Well, you’re interested, you can go to my website, and I talk about it and give lots of information for free.” So, that’s what it boils down to. Now, if someone wants to know more than that: “Well, so do you have a medicine for …?” (That’s usually the next question.) “Do you have a medicine for … ” (And then fill in the blank — you know, gout or arthritis or eczema, whatever.) “Yes, yes, we have a medicine for that.” “Are there double-blind tests?” Most people, if they start digging around on the internet, they’re going to find information that leads people to believe that there is no scientific evidence and there is voluminous scientific evidence. In fact, the term double-blind is actually a homeopathic term. Kate: Really? Joette: Yeah, because that’s how provings are done. The provings began in the late 1700s. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann used double-blind strategy. That’s how we learn what our materia medica is made up of. How do we know what these medicines are capable of if we don’t prove them in a proving using double-blind methodology? Kate: So, when they are doing the provings, there’s actually a group who does not take the medicine, and then a group who does take the medicine, and they don’t know which is which and they write down? Joette: Yes. When I studied homeopathy in Toronto, I was part of a proving. There were actually three groups. One group took the medicine (not knowing what it was.) The second group administered the medicine (not knowing what it was). And the third group (because I was chicken) … Kate: Now, I thought you said you were pregnant. Joette: At one point I was pregnant, but it was a five-year class — five years’ worth of these provings. I was pregnant and chicken. So, I was part of the group that did the collating, organizing, and putting it all together. Then when it was all done … and there were hundreds of people in these groupings. There were 300 people in the class — 340 people, something like that. So, 100 people actually took the medicine. Then once it was collated and organized, then we spent countless hours listening to what came of it. And there were unifying threads. Out of the 100 people, 20% experienced anxiety upon waking at 4:00 in the morning because they were proving it. They didn’t need the medicine, so they were being made uncomfortable by it. That’s how we learned what these medicines are capable of. That’s one way. Another way is clinically. After a while if someone hits their head time and time again — not one person, if many people hit their heads — and there’s an astute practitioner noticing that, “Gee, every time someone hits their head, and we use Arnica, it works!” Do we need a proving to show that? No. Clinically speaking, that’s evidence in-and-of itself. Kate: So, getting back to that question — that second question that people asked after you give the elevator speech or the history of homeopathy — you talked a little bit about going to your blog. Then we talked about there is evidence and provings and studies. But if they ask specifically, “Well, okay, but do you have a remedy for asthma?” What do you say then? Joette: The answer is yes. It depends on how much time I have with this person. If it’s someone who’s suffering an asthma attack right then and there, and I’ve actually done this in airports. I see someone suffering and we’ve got hours before we catch our next flight. I actually say, “Here’s a medicine. If you’re interested, you’re welcome to take it. You don’t have to take it. Here are some of my cards so you can see that I am not a “fly-by-night.” This is something that could be of use to you.” But if it’s someone I only have a few minutes to talk to, then I’m going to tell them, “Yes, there is a medicine for that, and should you be interested, just Google my name and the name of that condition, “Joette Calabrese asthma,” “Joette Calabrese high fever.” Because although I’ve authored this blog for over 10 years, I’ve also populated other people’s blogs with my articles and other people’s newsletters (Weston A. Price, the Wise Traditions, a column that I have been writing for 10 years). I have a lot of information out there that’s absolutely free for the taking. How to get started That’s where I like people to get started. If they find that they’re interested, then they can start thinking about, “Gee, I do want to learn more. I don’t want to just use this. I want to use this for my entire family. How do I learn more?” Then they follow the guidelines on my site that teaches them how to … “Okay, what’s next? What should I consider? Should I start a study group? Should I join a study group, et cetera, so that I can learn more?” Once they start the study group … and that’s what I want them to do … I want people to get hooked just like I got hooked so that they can raise their families, or if their families are already raised, or they don’t have a family, they can utilize this medicine in place of the far-too-many synthetic drugs that we’re all swallowing on a regular basis. Kate: Joette, that’s the exact, same thing that I do when people ask me, “Is there a medicine for XYZ?” I refer them to your website, or I say Google “Joette Calabrese” plus the condition. That’s the exact, same thing that I say. We point them in the direction of your website. I also tell them that they can learn on your website what homeopathy is, specifically, if I don’t have time to explain things. Like you said, maybe we don’t even go into it. I probably go into it even too much rather than just giving them a very brief … Joette: Oh, yeah, because if you give them too much information, you can see their eyes glazing over. They have to make one step at a time. “Oh, this is interesting. Yes, I would like a medicine that doesn’t have side effects. Yeah, I would like a medicine that’s not going to keep me from being able to eat foods for the next 30 years of my life because the antibiotics undid all my good bacteria and gut bacteria, et cetera.” So, another area as I always say to people when they say, “Really? This is proven? I don’t know. I go to Wiki-paid-ia.” (Oh, excuse me. I mispronounced the word, “Wikipedia.”) “And it led me to believe that homeopathy was quackery.” Well, I just hinted as to why I believe that is found on Wikipedia. Regardless of how many times many homeopaths have tried to correct that, within minutes, minutes, it’s put back again, and it’s eliminated. So, Wikipedia is not organic, folks. Just so you know. It’s not been organic, I think from its inception because this has been a problem no…

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Podcast 77 – Moms with Moxie: This is Powerful Stuff! Jul 15, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:19 Plantar Fasciitis 07:51 Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30 15:28 Celiac disease and Crohn’s disease 20:43 Detached retina 22:02 Blood poisoning LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: The Weston A. Price Foundation A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions Joette’s blog posts Joette’s podcasts Joette’s Facebook Live archive Homeopathic Remedy Kits Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 77. Joette: Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Kate: Hi! This is Kate. I am here with another Mom with Moxie today. Her name is Holly. We’re getting to know each other a little bit, and she’s fantastic. I think you guys will love to hear from Holly and the things that she’s doing with homeopathy. So, Holly, welcome! Holly: Hi, Kate. Kate: Thank you for being here, taking time out of a busy family weekend to do this. So, thank you. Holly: Thank you so much for having me. This is exciting! Kate: I’m super-excited to get to know you. So, tell us a little bit about yourself, Holly. Holly: Well, I am a somewhat stay-at-home mom. I home school my 13-year old son. I do marketing and communications for our family business. I have been working with homeopathy off and on for about ten years but really only seriously the last few years — maybe three years. Kate: But you’ve known about homeopathy and used it for actually a very long time. You started to use it anyway, right? Holly: Yes. Yes, I did. Actually, I came across it … we had a tragedy in our family. We lost my stepdaughter to cancer when she was ten years old. Kate: Oh, my goodness! Holly: It led me on this discovery of alternative medicine, therapies, diet, nutrition. Jordan Rubin, his book, “The Maker’s Diet” … I read … mentioned the Weston A. Price organization, so, I started reading a lot of their information. That’s actually how I found Joette and some of her early information that she had. Again, this was about 12 years ago, I guess. Then I purchased a homeopathy kit after reading some of Joette’s blog posts and articles that she had published with the Weston Price organization. I didn’t really know how to use it. At that time in my life, I was so busy and absorbed with a toddler. I would just read a little here and there, and I didn’t educate myself enough. So, I didn’t really know what I was doing, and so, I would just use it here and there. Thankfully, my son was really healthy. We didn’t have a lot of occasion, I guess to use it. So, it kind of went off on a shelf, got dusty, and I forgot about it for a long time. Kate: You seriously forgot about it? Holly: Well, I knew it was there, but it almost overwhelmed me, I’ll be honest. Because he would get the flu or a couple of little things like that, but I would try it. And I really only understood the classical approach at that time — even that, I barely understood. So, when you see a list of 15 possible remedies, and you’re supposed to analyze your 2-year-old’s emotional state and all of these different things, it seemed impossible to me — or very daunting, I should say that. So, I didn’t have a great success with it and hadn’t really tried to use it a lot. Like I said, I just kind of set it aside, and it would just be in the back of my mind. Kate: I understand what you’re saying, Holly, because when kids are young, they can’t answer your questions. In classical homeopathy, you really have a lot of questions that you could ask them that would be helpful for you to choose the right remedy. So, when kids can’t answer those questions, it makes it a lot more difficult, I think. Plantar Fasciitis Holly: Yes. That’s how I felt. So, I was just intimidated by it. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe that it worked. I just thought, “This is probably too much for me right now.” I had already, at the same time, was delving into learning about nutrition and essential oils and herbal remedies and decided that maybe that was easier for me. So, I spent many years really using oils and making a lot of things from scratch, tinctures and salves, and focusing on that area. Again, the homeopathy was in the back of my mind, but I just never really went back to it. Occasionally, I would get an article or a blog post from Joette and skim through it, but it didn’t quite resonate with me yet. It wasn’t until I had plantar fasciitis. I had started working out. I am not an athlete. One of my friends dragged me to CrossFit one day. I said, “Okay, I’m going to do this. I’m going to really give this my all.” Well, I got plantar fasciitis. So, here I am trying to get really fit, and I can’t do anything. I look even more pathetic. I mean it was really funny. The trainers were awesome. They tried to help me. Then I was doing all these stretches and different therapies and wearing a special brace at night and this sock during the day and icing it. You name it, I was trying it … different supplements for inflammation. Nothing works. I would rest and not do anything for days and just think maybe that’s it. Nothing helped. I broke down and even went and saw a podiatrist and got a steroid injection which at that time I knew was not an ideal thing, but I was desperate. I thought, “Okay, I’ll just do this once.” Well, it didn’t do anything, nothing, zero. Maybe it helps some people. It did nothing for me. So, I thought, “Oh, I can’t believe this.” It just happened that in my email was a blog post from Joette about treating … I think it was actually tennis elbow was maybe the focus of the article she wrote … but she mentioned plantar fasciitis in it. So, I thought, “Oh, I need to try this. I’m going to get out my kit.” I didn’t even have the exact potency at the time that was recommended. But there were two. It was mixed or two remedies, and I didn’t have the exact potency of the one, but I thought, “Well, I’ll just use what I have here.” So, even using that, it was probably two, maybe three days, and it was completely gone. That was again three to four years ago, and I’ve never had it again. Kate: Two to three days is super-fast! Holly: I know. It actually spoiled me. I’m glad it happened that way because I’m someone that likes to see results. I mean, we all do, right? A lot of us don’t have the patience we need, myself included. I needed to see results, and I did. So, I really thank God for that because, you know, I’d been praying actually about it: “I want this to be taken care of so I can attend to my physical health.” So, it was amazing. So, I recommended this combination to a lot of people, and I’ll say, “Okay, it may not happen that quickly for you. So, don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t.” But it did, and it was amazing! Honestly, for acute conditions, I have found homeopathy to be so fast acting most of the time. I mean, I know that it’s not always, but it’s amazing to me. Kate: I feel like when you get the right remedy, it’s generally pretty fast acting especially with acutes. Holly: That just built up my confidence in it then, and I was totally astounded! I shouldn’t have been. Again, I shouldn’t have been, but I was astounded. Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30 Kate: I know that there is a blog post that Joette did that’s called “Homeopathy for Plantar Fasciitis.” Did you use the remedies listed in that blog post; do you know? Holly: I did. It was Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30 mixed, and I took it twice a day. Kate: So, after your pain went away, after the plantar fasciitis went away, did you keep taking the remedy for a little bit yet, or did you stop right away? Holly: I took it probably for another day or two. I cannot recall now, but I stopped because I think Joette was pretty clear in the post. It’s like with anything. Once it’s healed, you stop taking it. Kate: Then you’ve never had that again? Holly: Never again, yeah. I must admit, I’m not doing CrossFit anymore. Kate: That was it. That ended your CrossFit career. Holly: Well, I kept going for a while after that, but I decided it wasn’t for me. Kate: Oh, gosh, that’s funny. Holly: So, Kate, that’s actually one of my favorite combinations. I feel like I’ve used that the most and recommended that to people the most, and they’ve had a lot of success with it: the Symphytum and the Rhus tox. One really fascinating … at least to me … example is my husband hurt his knee. He had jumped out of the back of a truck and landed on concrete and just landed poorly on that knee. It had probably gone on for a couple of months that he had pain. So, he was going to a trade show. We were going to be doing some site seeing, and we knew we’d be doing a lot of walking. I said okay, “You’ve got to do something about this.” I thought, “Maybe we should try this combination. It worked so well for me.” So, he started taking it, and he’s a pretty disciplined person. He was taking it twice a day. I didn’t think much of it. (This was about a week before we left.) We were walking around at an amusement park, and I looked at him, and I said, “How’s your knee?” He said, “You know what? It doesn’t hurt!” I said, “Okay, that’s awesome!” He’d had this for months, and it didn’t hurt anymore. I said, “Well, you can stop taking that. You don’t have to take it anymore.” It was that great. So, it was just completely healed. Again, the thing that is just really interesting to me is that my husband had a compound fracture, a broken bone in his wrist when he was ten years old. As the years had gone by, he has felt more pain in that — you know, obviously arthritis of some kind. At night, he would just kind of rub it. He’d lie there in bed and just say, “Oh, you know, my wrist just hurts. It’s okay.” I noticed this was happening with increasing regularity over the last few years. Nd a he took that remedy, I realized that he wasn’t rubbing his wrist anymore at night. Again, same kind of thing, I said, “Wait, does your wrist hurt anymore? I don’t notice you rubbing it at all.” He said, “You know what? It doesn’t! I can’t remember the last time that it hurt.” That was all we had done — or he had done — you know, is take that. So, that was absolutely amazing! Basically, a 40-year old injury … I’m assuming it was arthritis. Kate: I bet he was pretty impressed as well. Holly: Yes. I mean, it was one of those things that honestly, I was so new to working with homeopathy, we weren’t even trying to address that. I don’t know that I would have thought you could at the time. It wasn’t even a goal to heal that pain there. Kate: Right. It seems like that happens to me a lot with homeopathy. I’ve been taking a combination of Symphytum and Calc phos that Joette recommended for me to help strengthen my bones, and my jaw, my teeth because I’ve been having some issues with my teeth. Prior to starting that, I was having a lot of arm pain from some broken bones that I had in my arm. I just realized — actually in the last week — that that pain that I’ve had for a while now is gone. I think it’s those remedies because that’s the only thing that I’ve changed. So, yeah, Symphytum is super-powerful. Holly: You know, it’s that same combination that helped another family member of mine who’s having a lot of issues with her hip. It caused a lot of pain when she was walking and such, and that helped her remarkably. I think Symphytum is actually the homeopathic form of comfrey which is known as “knitbone.” So, it’s very interesting then that it would work that way homeopathically. Kate: So, yeah, it makes sense. While we were talking, I pulled out Joette’s materia medica, and it says also that it’s the number one remedy for traumatic injuries to the eyes. I always forget that. It says, “It can be also beneficial to other areas of the body after having suffered from blows, bruises, or broken bones.” So, it’s for bones, sinews, tendons, joints, and eyes. Holly: I did not realize that about the eyes either. Kate: I love reading materia medicas because I always learn so much, and I read about remedies. But I have a hard time then remembering it. I don’t know about you. Holly: I know. I have to write it down. In fact, it’s funny. After I had a few of these successes, I thought, “Okay, this is really powerful stuff. This is more powerful than any of the essential oils I used, any of the herbal tinctures. I mean, I have to learn more.” So, I just spent every free minute I had reading and just digesting Joette’s blog posts and taking notes. Celiac disease and Crohn’s disease Okay, so, you’ve had some pretty amazing things that you figured out on your own that I want people to know about. Tell us a little bit about your stepson. Holly: Well, my stepson is 19 years old. Three years ago, he was diagnosed with Celiac and then Crohn’s disease. When he was first diagnosed, the treating physician said, “Listen, there is nothing that you can do — diet, supplement-wise, alternative medicine — to help this. There’s nothing. You just need to take these drugs,” which were … I believe the one was … it’s an immunosuppressant, potentially chemotherapy drug, a rheumatoid arthritis drug. And, I said, “I know that’s not true. I know too many people who have been healed of these conditions or are managing them through diet, supplementation, alternative therapies. So, I think we need to at least explore those options.” So, bless his heart, he was all for it. We were able to get his symptoms under control and turned around in a very short period of time. We were doing blood work. We were working with a practitioner. We were able to see drastic results in a six-week period of time. Through that, again, I was still relatively new to homeopathy. So, I did not introduce the Crohn’s protocol. I don’t think I probably even knew it existed. But I did give him things sporadically for different symptoms initially. So, of course, you have diarrhea, bleeding, stomach upset. Then, probably his main thing that came back after we controlled all of those things originally was joint pain. He was in the marching band, and he was a drummer, and he would have a lot of pain — his hands, knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, everywhere. So, I put him on that combination remedy again: the Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30. He took Rhus tox 200, as needed, if it was really severe. He was skeptical to say the least at first. What are these little, white pills that I’m going to be taking? He came back and he said, “This is amazing. I’m telling my friends about it.” It worked! I laughed because I said, “Okay, if this was placebo effect, I’ll take it! Whatever!” I didn’t think it was placebo effect, but you know what some people say about homeopathy. But it’s great. This kid just didn’t want to be in pain anymore. So, he was very thankful, and he took that throughout that season, and then he was done. He actually hasn’t had joint pain since. That was just initially right after his diagnosis. Then, as I have learned more about homeopathy … I mean, he’s only had three flare ups in three years. Kate: Oh my gosh! Wow! So, what you’re doing is you’re just treating the acute symptoms? Holly: Well, that’s what I was doing initially. I wasn’t aware there was a Crohn’s protocol. I hadn’t really searched for it because we were managing individual symptoms. H…

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Podcast 76 – Here an Itch, There an Itch, Everywhere an Itch-Itch Jun 22, 2019

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I wanted you to have this podcast as quickly as possible the transcript is below. Warmly, P.S. If you want to jump ahead, download Skinderella, my infographic and read more about Skin the Ugly Truth Course: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy –Click here and simply follow the prompts IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:02 Swimming and blepharitis 06:44 Skin allergy remedies 14: 25 The need for Sulphur 16:42 Suppression 23:20 Skin, The Ugly Truth 24:05 Getting sick is inevitable LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Facebook Live (referred to in this podcast regarding my eye) Sulphur 200 Antimonium crud 6 and Arsenicum 200 (Banerji Protocol) Skin, The Ugly Truth Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 76 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: It is summertime right now, and we are enjoying the weather outside. I know I am. I’m here with Joette. Joette, you have a new hobby that you’ve been doing this summer. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve got going on. Swimming and blepharitis Joette: Well, I’m now in Southeast Florida, and so it’s summer all the time here. Since I’ve moved here, I have found swimming again in my life because there is this pool right at my patio. I mean, literally, I open my gate from my patio out into the little common area, and I could dive into the pool right from there. There are only six units in our complex, and I’m the only one who uses this pool. Kate: It’s like your private pool. Joette: Oh, my gosh! It’s fantastic. Then I see my neighbors once in a while, and it’s really nice. I’ve been swimming in this pool 45 minutes a day, and it has really limbered me up, and I’m sleeping better, and everything is really great … but then something started to happen. I started to break out, and my left eye got swollen. I had blepharitis. First, I thought it might have been conjunctivitis, you know, infection. But no, no, it didn’t feel like an infection. It was just, as I said in my Facebook Live, my eye looked like a puffer fish that was pregnant with octuplets and had just finished a meal that was highly inflammatory. Kate: Oh, my gosh! Joette: I mean, my eye, around my eye was so edematous and so swollen that it turned inside out. The lid turned inside out! I was looking at the inside of my lid as I looked in the mirror. It was so gross. Kate: I was trying to picture that, Joette, as I was listening to you on the Facebook Live. I mean, I don’t even know how that’s possible. Joette: I mean, I’m laughing now because I’m better. But it got so “fluffy” below and above, and the bridge of my nose widened. I mean I looked, really … I didn’t even look human anymore. Then it got so full and edematous that it just — “poop” — just popped open. Plus, it was cracking. Oh, my gosh, it was a mess! I was obviously in allergic reaction now. I had an allergic reaction similar to this in seventh grade when my parents got a new car, and we drove down to Florida from Buffalo in this brand-new car. I remember feeling really sick and soporific (is the best way to describe it). I just couldn’t stay awake. I slept the whole time. I felt out of it, drugged even. We realized later that it must have been the brand-new car. But when we got to Florida two-and-a-half days or three days later, this is exactly what happened to both my eyes. They got very swollen and puffy. My parents were beside themselves. They didn’t know what to do. But it didn’t bother me that much. I was in seventh grade and life was fun. We were in Florida. It was our first vacation ever, and it was really fun. Then I didn’t have it again until a few weeks ago. So, I was in denial as I often go into — as we all do, but I do it a lot. I did not want to accept that it was the pool, that it’s the chlorine in the pool or something in the pool. I don’t know what it was, but I really was thinking pretty much it was the pool. I stopped wearing all makeup. And, I don’t wear a lot of makeup. I wear a little bit of eyeliner pencil and some lipstick when I go out. That’s it. So, I stopped that, so then I looked ugly on top of ugly. I looked unkempt on top of ugly! Kate: I’m sure you didn’t. Joette: Oh, my gosh, it was horrible! Kate: You just talk about it. Joette: So then, I went out with sunglasses. I wore sunglasses wherever I went because there were times when it looked so bad, people would stare at my eyeball. So, I wore sunglasses, and then I would wear a lip gloss. Actually, it was coconut oil, to make me look a little kept … or kempt I should say. (Not kept, I was not a kept woman! I was a groomed woman.) You know, I’ve got this philosophy about grey hair. I’ve got a lot of grey hair. Now, my hair is mostly white. My philosophy is that it will make a woman look haggardly unless she wears earrings and puts a little makeup on. That’s what changes the whole thing! That’s it! If you’re dressed nicely, and you have your nails look nice, and you have earrings on, you have a little makeup on, and you’ve done a little something with your hair — you don’t just let it hang there and look kind of like you did in the 60s, but if you do a little something — then that’s what makes grey hair look beautiful, as far as I’m concerned. Kate: I think that’s true. I mean, I know we’re going off on a little tangent here, but as you know, I’m in a nursing/rehab facility with my mom. These little, old ladies that are in their … there’s even a man here, 103. (I should sit down and interview him.) Joette: Yes! Kate: But the only change — the ones that look really sharp — are the ones that have a little bit of lipstick on and maybe a bandanna. Joette: Yes, a little something. You’ve got to just look like you’ve put something into yourself. Kate: Some effort. Joette: Yes, a little effort goes a long way. So um, so, where were we in the story? I forgot. Summer! We’re back to summer. So, I’ve been swimming. And so, I was in denial, and I said, “I’ll be darned. I’m going to swim.” Now, I don’t put my head in the water necessarily, although it does inadvertently go. But I’m doing the backstroke, and the sidestroke, and the breaststroke. So, water gets on my face, but that wasn’t the issue because it was affecting my skin all over my body. I had outbreaks of eczema that, again, I have not had since I was in seventh grade. Now, let me just put this into perspective. Seventh grade was 1965 … just so you get an idea. Kate: That is a long time. Joette: Seventh grade was not 15 years ago! Kate: But you’re not old though!! Skin allergy remedies Joette: No, not at all. So, I did not want to stop, and I wanted to use homeopathics. But even in the beginning, I said, “Ohhhhh! It will just go away. I’m not even going to bother using anything. It’s just a little nothing.” And it got worse and worse and worse, and then it kept me up at night. I was scratching, and the itching was maddening. So, I used Argentum nitricum, and I used Syphilinum, and I used Apis. I used, oh my gosh, I’ve used them all. then I used Sulphur 30. Then two nights ago, although I was slightly improving … I was using Bovista and Calc carb for allergies … Kate: How about Antimonium crud? Joette: I used Antimonium crud. Arsenicum was helping for a while. Bovista seemed to be helping for a while. Even those were not just getting to it fast enough. It was helping a little. I have to admit that it wasn’t quite as severe. My eye didn’t look like a pufferfish any longer. Now, it looked like a pachyderm. Kate: You changed species. Joette: Different species, a land species now, in Africa, in dry dessert of Africa — after the elephant or the rhinoceros was in the muddy water and had been away from the muddy water and now in the dessert for the last 10 years. You can imagine all the cracking around their ankles and all … that’s the way my eye looked. Kate: Was it painful? Joette: At times it was. It was burning and prickly. Burning, burning, burning, and burning. The reason I say that it’s not that it was burning an awful lot, but I’m pointing that out because it is an aspect of the medicine that we’re going to talk about here. Because the itching had now gotten way past my eye and my face, it was on my scalp; it was on my back; it was on the flexors of my elbows. I mean you name it, and I’m not going to. Any place in my body — that I’ve ever noted — is now a place of itch. Then I said, “I’m going to take Sulphur 200.” Now, I had taken the 30. It had done nothing. But I took Sulphur 200, one dose and it went — hold your ears — BAM! Within an hour, not even an hour and a half, I was instantly better! The swelling in my eye went down. The itching was completely gone all over my whole body. I felt this peace come over me. I also felt energized and happy. I was kissing my husband and my son who’s in town. I was kissing. I was so happy. I felt so good. I said, “Okay, let’s make dinner, then lets’ go for a walk on the beach. Let’s devour life.” Up until that time, I had been just kind of slogging along, just barely getting my jobs done. So, I knew I had hit it. Now, I’ve taken it for a couple of days. Last night and the night before — because this was actually two days ago — I had the most delicious dreams. They were so much fun; I didn’t want to get out of bed. They were such happy times. My parents were young, and my brother, and my friends, and our old neighborhood. And then we went to another chapter. You know how dreams can seep from one part of your life to the next, but they were all lighthearted, joyous dreams. So, I know I’ve hit it. So now what I’m doing is I’m taking it twice a day. Now, I had also taken — because I want to talk about this other remedy because I’m not going to tell people that they need to use Sulphur any time they have an eruption like this. But it was kind of screaming Sulphur all along. I had just thought, “Well, I’m going to try everything else first, and I’ll put Sulphur on the backburner.” Let me also say, let me go back and say, parenthetically, I’ve always known that Sulphur would be a very good medicine for me at some point. Because the eruptions that I had had as a child had been suppressed for so long, because my family is Sicilian, and Sicily is known for Sulphur mines. I’m kind of drawing from all of that. But I’ve seen a lot of Sulphur characteristics on both sides of my family — my mother’s and my father’s side of the family — that I believe many members of my family would have been benefitted by the use of Sulphur. I was kind of waiting for a skin eruption to re-present, and it took all these years for it to re-present. Why didn’t I go to it sooner? Well, because I guess I was in denial because I wanted to swim. I guess that was part of it. The other part of it was when I repertorized — and I did repertorize, and I also used protocols — Sulphur always shows up. When you repertorize, you go into any repertory, and you look up anything of the skin, you’re going to find Sulphur. Some say it’s over-represented in the repertory. So, you have to kind of put it aside and say, “Yes, we get it. Sulphur is in there somewhere possibly.” So, you put it aside and then try everything else and then when nothing else works, then you go to Sulphur. That was basically my philosophy. Kate: But Joette, you did use Sulphur in there during that time. Was it once or twice? Joette: I only used one dose, and that’s really not a good indicator. I did it half-baked — kind of half-baked effort. What I mean by that is I took Sulphur, and then I went ahead and took Antimonium crud and Arsenicum as well. So, I really would not have had much of an indicator of which ones were acting. Kate: As we’re talking about this, I want people to understand. You’re not just taking one dose of Arsenicum, one dose of Sulphur, half an hour later, a dose of … Joette: Thank you for saying that. No, no, no, you have to commit to it. When I was in a real acute state, I was taking these remedies approximately every three to four hours. As it backed off and wasn’t as severe and my eye was no longer flipped inside out (my eyelid), then I was able to open it up and take each one of them maybe twice a day. Kate: So, give us a more in-depth picture, Joette. Because maybe you took Arsenicum album, every three or four hours, and then you would switch to another remedy? Or did you take Arsenicum album and then Antimonium crud? Joette: I actually took Antimonium crud 6 and Arsenicum 200 simultaneously. Kate: Because that’s a protocol. Joette: It’s a protocol. I decided on Antimonium crud 6 because it has a unique aspect to it, and that is itching everywhere. Not because there’s a rash everywhere but it’s just here an itch, there an itch, everywhere an itch-itch. Kate: Now, that’s confusing to me because I thought the Antimonium crud was for the rash or the eczema (some skin condition), and then the Arsenicum album was to take care of the itching. Joette: That is so, except that Antimonium crud is also useful for itching and particularly when the itching is here, there, and everywhere. Those two, Antimonium crud and Arsenicum album are very interchangeable in many ways. So, that’s what did it. I mean, now my eye looks a little funky, and the other one looks not so great. But I don’t look like there’s something wrong with me. I look aged by about eight years, before it was 15 or 20 years. Now, I’m in my 70s according to my eyes! Kate: So, when you say that’s what did it, it’s the Sulphur that did it. Joette: Oh, my gosh, the Sulphur did it. There’s no doubt about it. Now, how long will this hold up? I don’t know. We’ll find out. I’m going to be using it for the next many days until this has completed. So, I’ll be taking Sulphur 200C, twice daily probably for another week or so. I’ve not been swimming in my beloved pool. I’ve not swum much in the ocean because the ocean where I live right now is just loaded with seaweed. I mean not just a little bit; I mean you’re covered in it. You can’t swim in it very easily without it just covering you. So, I’ll wait until that passes, and then I’ll get back into the ocean. Then I’m going to try the pool again. I’ve got to find out whether or not it’s the pool. The need for Sulphur Kate: So, Sulphur, to just recap, is a great medicine for skin … Joette: … eruptions, especially when you’ve tried many others, and nothing is acting. There’s itching everywhere — and especially if you can rationalize it with a history of the need for Sulphur all along. In other words, the skin issue is likely presenting from a history of suppressed eruptions. I’ll go back and explain that I had eczema from the time I was 6 weeks old until I was about 13. I didn’t have just a little patch here or there; I was literally blanketed in it for the most part. We used steroid ointments. You name it, we used all the drugs that were available at the time in the ‘50s and ‘60s. There were plenty of drugs to use. So, when we see that kind of a picture, then we, again, put Sulphur in the backburner because it is so ubiquitous when we look up skin conditions in the repertory. We keep it kind of at bay, unless it’s screaming. If I had been super-hot — these are characteristics of Sulphur, of the need for the remedy Sulphur — if I had been super-hot which I wasn’t; if I had been sloppy. My desk is kind of sloppy lately, but I mean really sloppy. I keep a very tidy house. Sulphur is usually messy. They have a sloppiness. They are very intellectual. (I don’t think I’m that intellectual. I think I’m more involved w…

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Podcast 75 – Moms with Moxie: Joette’s “Truth Bombs” Jun 07, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:24 An undiagnosed illness 05:53 Joette’s truth bombs 10:57 How homeopathy worked 15:48 Supplements 20:45 A tooth story 26:16 Some dog stories LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Joette’s blog, podcasts, and on Facebook Fizzy Lizzy CD Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Good Gut, Bad Gut course Purchasing a homeopathy kit Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 75. Joette: Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Kate: Hi, this is Kate. Today, I’m here with a very special Mom with Moxie. She has some amazing stories that she’s going to share with us. It will have you in tears by the end of this podcast. I’m sure of it. But not sad tears, they’ll be happy tears! So, I’m excited for you all to get to meet Jennifer. Hi, Jennifer! Jennifer: Hi, Kate. Thanks for having me. Kate: Oh, of course! We are looking forward to hearing how you’re using homeopathy. Because, really, in your family, you’ve seen some pretty drastic, life-altering changes with homeopathy. So, I’m really excited to have you with us and to share your story. Jennifer: Thank you. Kate: So, before we get too far, tell us a little bit about yourself. Jennifer: So, we used to live in New York, and we moved a few years ago to Tennessee. We have animals — chickens, dogs, cats. I raise my three boys. We homeschool, we’ve been homeschooling for 13 or 14 years now. And, that’s about it. Kate: One of the things that we’re going to talk about today, Jennifer, has to do with something that happened before you moved from New York. Why don’t you tell us a little about what happened while you were in New York and one of the reasons that you got into homeopathy? An undiagnosed illness Jennifer: Well, a few years ago, my son started exhibiting just signs of fatigue and just tiredness, headaches, things like that. So, we took him to the doctor a few times, different doctors. We weren’t getting any answers or results. And, there’s another doctor (and some friends) who suggested possibly considering Lyme disease and asked if he’d ever been bitten by a tick. And we said, “Well, yes, actually he has. And that little tick had been on there a couple of days before he was ever even noticed by my son.” So, he started to continue to develop more signs of illness, but we couldn’t get any positive Lyme disease test results. So, we just kept looking for answers and moving along in that direction — the path of Lyme disease — just trying to find some connections because he was exhibiting all the typical signs that you would see in someone with Lyme disease. So, we ended up moving here a couple of years after that. He continued to get sicker and sicker. He was exhibiting signs of insomnia, dizziness. He was having heart trouble, headaches, chronic headaches daily, chronic fatigue. He was unable to run anymore — went from not being able to run to not being able to walk. He just didn’t have the strength. He had the headaches. He was just so exhausted. Walking was a chore. Walking made him dizzy. Any movement made him dizzy, chemical sensitivities and food sensitivities, motion sensitivities, had difficulty walking up the stairs — that was a big one. Walking up the stairs was hard for him to do, and I’m talking about 12 or 13 stairs. By the time he would get to the top, he would just have to either sit on the ground and catch his breath or wait for the dizziness to pass. So, that was difficult for him. He had so many symptoms. I can’t quite think of them all. Oh, the sore joints and bones — that was a big one. He had very sore joints and bones. Kate: So, this was life-altering. This wasn’t, oh, some mild illness. He had trouble getting out of bed every day, had trouble just functioning, right? Jennifer: Yes, every day was a challenge just for him to get out of bed, just so he could get to the couch. Just so he could make it to be around everybody else in the family and try to just engage in some type of daily activity with us. But he didn’t have any energy to do anything. And this just progressively got worse over the last few years. We just kept searching for answers through all that time just visiting different doctors, different types of doctors. The thing is they really didn’t give him a diagnosis. Most of the doctors were like, “Well, we don’t know what it is. And how about trying gluten-free?” “Well, we’re already doing that. So, what’s next?” We just kept looking because we didn’t want to go down any path of unnecessary treatment and to put him through any more stressful situations just because it was hard for him to get in the car and drive with all the motion, and being a lab rat — a pin cushion really — for all of his blood work that he was getting done. Kate: I can’t imagine watching your son suffer like that and not having any answers. That must have been horrible. Jennifer: It was tough. It was tough. We did a lot of worrying, a lot of praying. I did a lot of crying. There were a lot of sleepless nights for me and for him. It was hard for me to sleep when I knew he was having trouble sleeping. So, that was tough. Kate: So, tell us what happened next. Joette’s “truth bombs” Jennifer: Well, I’m very thankful for the way the Lord just brought Joette into our life, and it was unexpected. I was not searching for homeopathy. I had only heard the word “homeopathy” once in my whole life and never connected any dots. But I had a girlfriend of mine forward a Lyme disease summit that was taking place in June of 2017. I decided that I was going to listen to the whole week’s worth of doctors and professionals in the Lyme disease area. So, I sat down. I had my little notebook that I was taking notes on everything that everybody had to say because I was really just hoping for an answer through one of these people. Everyone was wonderful. Then we got to Joette! Joette was extremely bold and very forward! I just remember the thing that grabbed my attention the most was when she said, “It doesn’t matter if you have Lyme disease.” I was like, “What? How can she say something like that? What is she talking about? How could you imagine saying, ‘It doesn’t matter if you have Lyme disease’?” So, I was really intrigued by that because I’ve never heard of anything like that before. Everything that I was immersing myself in was, “Oh, this is going to be such a struggle. This is going to be so hard on your body … the recuperation time and maybe there will be no recuperation,” and you know, on and on it goes with that. But she was just very bold, and I just loved that. So, I was very interested at what she had to say as to why it didn’t matter, and what is this homeopathy she’s talking about. So, that’s when I really dug in and called her office right away. Kate: You said you used a term for Joette. Jennifer: Oh, yeah! She drops these big “truth bombs” on you! Kate: That’s right. “Truth bombs!” I love that. Jennifer: That’s what it was! When I first heard her say that, I literally could have fallen out of my chair if there hadn’t been arms on it. I would have dropped right over. But I was like, “What is this thing that she’s talking about! How could it not matter?” She gave the example of the iceman from 5000 years ago, I think she said. So, she backed up everything she said. I’ll be honest. At first, I was a little offended because here we are with our daily grind of suffering, and “How do we get out of this place that we’re in because my child is getting older and older. He’s got to graduate. He’s got a life to live. We can’t get past the front door.” So, I was a little offended at first, but that’s what I needed. We need to hear truth and sometimes truth is a little shocking. Maybe it hurts a little bit, but it gets you to move. Kate: I’m interested to know, what was it like when you actually consulted with Joette? How did that go? Jennifer: Well, it was great. I was able to get an appointment with her. It took us a little while because I had to talk to my husband and, you know, try to explain to him what homeopathy was even though I really didn’t have any idea. But I was just trying to learn as much as I could from Joette’s blog, and listening to these Moms with Moxie podcasts, and listening to her on Facebook when she does her live talks and things. Any recordings I could find, I was just trying to gather information so I could relay that to my husband. We listened to her Fizzy Lizzy CD together, and that was really helpful. So, he said go for it. I made an appointment with her in August. We decided that we would stop supplements and vitamins and anything else (essential oils, herbs, teas. We were doing everything). We were very naturally-minded to begin with. So, we were doing everything that we could nutritionally being gluten-free, dairy-free because those were all things that he was very sensitive to. So, we had eliminated those things. We lived on a farm in New York. We were raising our own meat, and our own vegetables, and things like that. So, we were not guzzling soda and potato chips and the sad American diet or whatever they call … “standard” American … It is sad, but it’s standard American diet. Kate: You actually let him eat whatever he wanted to at that point as well, right? Jennifer: Yes, yes. We said, “You are free to eat whatever you can handle at this time.” Because obviously, he was sensitive, and he was already fatigued. And then if he ate something he was sensitive to, he would get lethargic and blurred vision. He would just go down even worse … and stomach upset, and the whole rigmarole of all that. So, we just said, “It’s up to you.” Joette said, “We’re not going to know if these remedies are working if you’re completely avoiding all these foods.” He wasn’t allergic to them. He was just intolerant to them. So, it’s a different story there. So, he could have a glass of milk and see, “Gee, how do I feel? Is this getting better or worse or whatever?” So, yeah, we decided to stop all the other extras because we wanted to see exactly what homeopathy could do and if we were putting our money in the right answers for him. Kate: So, fast-forward now. How homeopathy worked Jennifer: So, fast-forward of a few months, and it was probably October — from August to October. We went out to an indoor waterpark (which was huge that he was even able to go with us to that). He went up these stairs which were, you know … waterslide, the stairs are huge. He just went up this humongous flight of stairs, and I wished I knew how many steps there was. But I just remember thinking, “Oh my word! I have got to take a picture of this and send this to Joette,” because I was floored! I was just absolutely shocked, and a picture is worth a thousand words. And I am holding back tears. I had to snap a shot of that for myself — and my husband because I wanted to show him. But I was just thrilled that he could climb those stairs, and spend the day with his friends, and enjoy what he’d been missing out on so many years. So, I just love having that picture as proof that we were just moving in the right direction. Kate: You know, it’s funny because we talked earlier, and we both were crying when you were telling that story. Well, this time I’m not going to cry. I just had to struggle to hold back the tears because what an amazing thing that is to watch your child who couldn’t climb stairs, climb all the way up! And that visual! Joette showed us actually, in staff meeting, the picture that you sent to her, and we all were just so thrilled for you. We’re just so happy that homeopathy been such an amazing thing for your family. Jennifer: Yes, it was just shocking, because it felt like 12 or 13 steps to get up to upstairs in our house. And for him to not even be able to do that, and then to be able to go up (and then down) the slides, to be in the water with all the chemicals that they dump in … I mean, you walk in there, it’s an indoor pool! It’s an indoor park. So, you get hit in the face with the chlorine as soon as you walk in. For him to be able to do that in such … I think three months is a short amount of time for someone who has lived with chronic illness for a few years. So, I just can hardly ever tell that story without crying — and all the other ones like it. But it is just miraculous to see. Kate: That’s so great. I’m so happy for you, guys. So now, you’ve said he’s even working, and he runs. Jennifer: Yes! He runs. He can run a mile in under seven minutes. He works 30 hours a week. He’s involved in leadership training. I don’t even know what the number is — hours of community service that he’s done. He went and assisted during hurricane Florence for a whole week and was there passing out food and water and tarps and just helping people in need. I’m going to start crying again. I have to pause. Oh, my gosh! Kate: Oh, my gosh! Probably everyone else who is listening is crying, too, at this point. Jennifer: I’m getting bleary-eyed. Bleary-eyed. I can’t see. Kate: So, you were so sold on homeopathy that I think the next thing you did was you started a Gateway group, didn’t you? Jennifer: I did. That November. I mustered up, not knowing many people here because we had just moved here. I was able to muster up a couple of girls. I started the Gateway group because I wanted to make sure that I didn’t have to rely on any over-the-counter meds, any antibiotics, or anything like that. I wanted to make sure that he could just keep moving in this direction of progression. One of the things that Joette had said in the first meeting that we had back in August was she wasn’t going to tackle it from a Lyme disease point of view. She suggested that it was a gut issue that we were potentially dealing with. So, we went at it from a gut point of view, and that is working beautifully. Kate: Well, the way that you guys went about it was obviously very effective and has helped him to regain his life which is nothing short of miraculous. (I mean, not when we know about homeopathy and how it works.) But just to see his life change like that is great. I imagine you shouting from the rooftops about homeopathy now and how excited you are. Jennifer: Yes, yes. I do want to say another one of those “truth bombs” that she dropped on me which will just lead into what I’m going to say next. When we were again in that first meeting, the reason why she had gone with the gut issue is because we didn’t have a definitive diagnosis that it was indeed truly Lyme disease. So, one of the things she did say to me, though, about the supplements … We were talking about supplements, and she said, “So, why are you supporting your problem?” I was, like, “Ahhh, uhmm, hmm. I don’t know.” Kate: So, explain a little bit more about what she meant by that. Supplements Jennifer: The supplements weren’t correcting the problem. We were on them to try to alleviate some of the discomfort, the tiredness, maybe some of the sore joints. It wasn’t doing much of anything, honestly, but I didn’t have any other answers to go on, so we just continued to use them. So, she was really just bringing that to light, as to “Why do you continue to go in this direction if nothing is being accomplished?” Kate: I think that’s really good because we have to think about whatever it is that we are doing. Is it really correcting the problem, and wh…

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Podcast 74 – Moms with Moxie: Introducing Teens with Tenacity May 10, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 A study group for teenagers 09:02 Apis for bug bites 10:51 Arnica for gymnastics injuries 14:48 The importance of a teen study group 16:10 Some uses of Apis and Arsenicum album 20:22 What will the teen study group look like? 22:50 Closing thoughts from me (Joette) LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Gateway to Homeopathy 1 study group Top 100 Remedy Kit Zoom (online virtual meeting software) Podcast 56 – Moms with Moxie: From Learning to Leading Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 74. Joette: Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Kate: Parents dream that they can pass on things to their children that are important to them. Homeopathy is something that we would all love to see our children embrace as they grow and have families of their own. Today I’d like you to meet a mother/daughter duo that is doing just that … learning homeopathy together and sharing it with their family, friends and now, sharing their passion for homeopathy through study groups. Sheena has passed her love of homeopathy on to her daughter, Lucy, and the rest of her family. Even Sheena’s husband, a practicing physician trained in conventional medicine, is supportive of her family using homeopathy. Lucy is going to share something very special she is doing in just a bit, but first, I’d like you to hear from Sheena, Lucy’s mom. Sheena, tell us what Lucy is doing, and why you think it’s important. A study group for teenagers Sheena: Lucy is going to lead her own Gateway to Homeopathy study group, and it’s going to be just for teens. No parents are going to be invited. Kate: They’re not allowed! Sheena: We’re not allowed. The reason is because teens are different, and their needs and their conversations will be different. But I think it’s really important for that age group to learn homeopathy … for a couple of reasons. One is that we really are experimenting with our children’s immune systems right now. We’ve never had so many generations where kids have not had childhood illnesses. We don’t know what that’s going to do because our immune systems haven’t been trained the way they have in the past. So, I think these kids are really going to need a medicine to deal with what their bodies will have to be dealing with. The other reason is teens like to do their own thing. They don’t necessarily want to do what their parents want them to do. They like to find their own way. They should know how to use homeopathy and decide for themselves if it’s the right choice to use it. I think they’ll be more empowered if they do that. The other thing I’ve really seen with the teenagers is the fear-mongering that adults get, I think, is exponential for the teens: the fear of illness … just the fears of everything. And fear basically forces us or pushes us to make very bad decisions in a rush based on fear, instead of making a choice based on knowledge. If you make it based on fear, such as the fear of fevers, can lead to bad choices. Kate: Yes, it can almost debilitate us from thinking clearly because we’re scared to think that we can’t handle them ourselves. So yes, homeopathy is very empowering in that way. Sheena: I have a lot of Lucy’s friends and my other daughter’s friends who I’ve given homeopathy to — with their parents’ permission — and the kids come back to me for more. Not the parents, but the kids come back for more because they feel it in their bodies, and they see that it’s very curative, and they feel better. Especially, muscular skeletal injuries of the athletes … I find it really interesting that it’s the kids who want more and, in some cases, ask their parents to learn so that they can use homeopathy on them. Kate: Yes, thank you, Sheena. We’re going to switch over now. We’re going to meet Lucy, her daughter, who is stepping out, and she wants to share homeopathy with other teenagers. She’s going to start a Gateway to Homeopathy 1 study group. She is looking for other teenagers who might be interested in joining her. So, I’m excited for you all to get to meet Lucy and to hear about what she’s got going on. Hi Lucy. Lucy: Hi. Kate: I’m super-glad to have you here with us today. Lucy: Thank you for having me. Kate: You are welcome. Lucy, tell us a little bit about yourself. I know that you’re a teenager, and you live in sunny Florida. That’s great. Lucy: It’s so much fun. Kate: If you guys could see Lucy right now, she’s super-cute. She has this really fuzzy chair that she’s sitting in with her little headset. She’s adorable. It looks super comfortable. Lucy: It is. It’s very comfortable. Kate: Okay. So, Lucy, tell us a little bit about yourself. Lucy: I live in Florida. I have a younger sister, and we have a small family. We live on the water. I do gymnastics. I do a lot of martial arts, and I really like to read. Kate: And so, when you say live on the water, do you live on the ocean or is it a lake? Lucy: It’s an inlet. Kate: Ah, okay. So, what is your favorite hobby? Lucy: I would probably say gymnastics. Kate: I think your mom was telling me that you compete at a pretty high level. Is that right? Lucy: I used to do competition, but now I’m actually on a show team. So, we do shows at Disney and such. Kate: Really? I’ve never heard of a gymnastics show team. I didn’t know that was a thing. Lucy: It’s very fun. We do some stunts, too. It’s a little bit like cheerleading except with much less dancing, much more tumbling, and no talking. Kate: Okay. So, what’s the hardest thing that you do in your show? Lucy: Probably, a round-off back layout which is a round-off and then basically a backflip except your body is completely straight. Kate: Yes. You have to get pretty good height for that, don’t you? Lucy: Yes. Kate: That’s sounds terrifying, Lucy. Oh, my gosh! Did you ever have any injuries from gymnastics? Lucy: Oh, yes, many! Kate: I bet you used homeopathy? Lucy: Definitely, for sure. Kate: Is that how you learned about homeopathy, from your mom using homeopathy when you got in accidents? Lucy: No. Actually, I originally started learning about homeopathy a couple of years ago. My mom did a Gateway 1 study group, and I joined her rather than doing some of my science for school. It was kind of like my science curriculum for that year. It was very interesting. You know, I question things a lot. I like to know every detail, every fact. So, I was a bit wary going in, and I did a lot of research. But then I realized that it worked pretty well. Kate: So, is that what convinced you … is when you saw it working? Lucy: Yeah. There have been a couple of times when we used it on animals or friends. Well, the animals obviously can’t talk, but my friends would be like, “Wow! That actually works. That’s impressive!” Kate: Yeah! So, then you thought to yourself, “Yeah, it does work!” That’s great. So, you went into this Gateway to Homeopathy study group kind of not really knowing what you thought of homeopathy for sure, but you thought, “I’m going to study it. I’m going to dig in, and I’m going to see what there is to this medicine.” Lucy: Right. Yeah. Originally, it was just something that my mom was very interested in, and she kind of intrigued me a little bit. It was an excuse to get out of a couple of weeks of science lessons. So, I was like, “All right! Let’s go for it.” Kate: But then, as you start to study it, then what? Lucy: Then I got very interested in it because I learned lot of good ideas behind it and the legitimacy of the actual theory behind it. Kate: Yeah. So, you thought that was a really good curriculum, and it helped you to understand more about how homeopathy works and how it’s used? Lucy: Yeah, and even how the human body heals itself. Kate: That’s such a foreign concept to people these days. I think they’re used to taking a medicine and saying they’re going to rely upon the medicine — as opposed to helping the body to heal itself. Apis for bug bites Lucy: Yes, absolutely. For most of my life, my mom had us on very good diet, and we used that as a medicine. But in some cases, like obviously because we live in Florida, there are a lot of weird bugs. My sister would get bitten by a bug and have an allergic reaction, and you can’t heal with that with bone broth. We needed something else. Kate: Yeah. Okay, so, now you got my curiosity piqued. When you say, “Weird bugs,” I guess I haven’t seen weird bugs in Florida. So, tell me. Lucy: Just like crazy, mean ants or strange beetles. We have unusually aggressive mosquitos — especially where we live. Kate: Wow! So, you’re getting bit a lot? Lucy: Well, they don’t like me too much. But my sister and mom, they love. Kate: Oh wow! Okay. This is maybe a good time to share your favorite remedy to use for those bug bites. Why don’t you tell us what you guys use? Lucy: We use usually Apis 200C, sometimes 30C. That seems to be the most effective for my sister especially. Kate: I’ve used Apis 6, too, when there’s been a bite, and it’s not been severe. Lucy: My mom uses that a lot. Kate: She uses that a lot for her bug bites? Lucy: Uh-mmm. Kate: I used that once for my daughter who got stung by a bee, and it worked really well. Lucy: Luckily, we haven’t used it on bee stings, yet. Fingers crossed: I haven’t been stung by a bee in a while. I stay away from them. I’m very scared of them. But it’s nice to know that if I do get stung, I have that. Kate: Yeah, exactly. All right, so let’s talk a little bit more about gymnastics, and how you’ve used homeopathy with the different things that have happened to your body doing gymnastics. Arnica for gymnastics injuries Lucy: There have been quite a few incidents where I’ve needed to use homeopathy because of gymnastics. Not only are we tumbling, but our routines … there’s many people in them, so very often there’ll be collisions or other sorts of things. There was actually one incident where there was a difficulty with timing. I think someone hadn’t been there the day before, and I went on cue, but they didn’t. I couldn’t see what was going on around me. So, I ended up kicking my friend in the eye. It was very, very bad. We had a show the next day, and we were so concerned because we were, like, “We’re going to show up at the show, and she’s going to be looking like she just got in a fight.” So, I went over to her mom, and I gave them Arnica 1M. I said, “You can give this to her. I think it will help with the bruising.” She had no black eye the next day — like, there was no sign of it. Kate: Wow! That’s awesome! So, you were brave enough to go over and tell them that, and you don’t worry about what people are going to say. You just say, “Hey, I have this medicine, and it could help.” Lucy: Right. I mean Arnica is definitely one of the ones I’m more comfortable with. Usually, I am cautious with offering people things. I don’t want to seem strange offering them strange, unfamiliar medicine. Kate: Yeah. I know it can be nerve-wracking. Because you have this medicine; you know it can help them, but you’re hesitant because then they’ll ask you, “What is this that you’re offering, and how does it work?” And then you have to explain it all. Lucy: Yes, exactly. Kate: It can be uncomfortable. That’s for sure. Lucy: But I was pretty confident that the Arnica would work on this. It seemed like a pretty textbook case where a high dose of Arnica would be good. It worked very, very well. Kate: Tell us some more examples about injuries with gymnastics. Lucy: Actually, one of my best friends was on the team a few years ago, and she ended up kneeing me in the face. Again, I think we had a show in a few days, and I had to fix it. So, I took Arnica … and nothing. Kate: I bet you have that on hand at all times in your gymnastics. Lucy: Yeah, absolutely. I get hit quite a lot. Kate: Have you ever had a concussion? Lucy: No. Luckily, I have not. I’ve fallen out of the sky a few times and nearly broken my neck, but … Kate: I think if I was your mom watching you do all that, I would be a nervous wreck. I would have to take homeopathy for myself. Lucy: Right! Kate: Let’s talk a little bit about your vision for a study group. Lucy, you said that you are planning to start a Gateway to Homeopathy study group for other teenagers. You want to teach them about this medicine. Why are you interested in doing this? Lucy: Well, I think it would be a really unique thing to do. It would be a good experience because I think it’s good for teenagers to have an alternative to popping a bunch of Advil or whatever whenever they’re in any kind of pain. I think it’s good for us to have a natural way to heal our bodies. Because the world we live in today is pumping us full of all these crazy drugs, that I think it’s just good to have ways to minimize that as much as possible and try to heal ourselves more naturally. Kate: So, you have learned about this medicine, and you just want to share it with others? Lucy: Yeah. Kate: So, how are you going about advertising for this study group? Lucy: My mom is very involved in many homeopathy groups. So, she’s contacting those people, posting on Facebook about it. I’ve asked a few people I know whether or not they will be interested. We’re doing a couple of different things. Kate: I think this will be a podcast that will be great to share with your homeschool groups or on your Facebook page so that other people might see this — or hear this, I should say. Then they could contact the office if they want to know how they can get involved in your study group. The importance of a teen study group Lucy, talk to those teenagers who are listening to this podcast today. Tell them why they should be interested in taking the study group. Lucy: Not only is it good for your body, but I think it’s also very good for your mental well-being. To know that if you get punched or if you have a bad allergic reaction or something like that, that you have a way to help yourself and avoid just having to pump yourself full of drugs that may not even work the way that you need them to. I think that’s very powerful, for especially the crazy world we’re in today, to have a good way to heal yourself and be confident in your ability to use these medicines. Kate: So, it gives you independence. It helps a person, like you said, to feel confident that they have some tools that they can use to heal their bodies rather than having to rely upon a doctor in all circumstances. Because obviously, there are times when we may need a doctor. If we’re in a severe accident, and we have a broken bone or something like that, we’re going to need to go to the emergency room and be seen. But homeopathy is so empowering. And, if you learn that early on like you are, just think of how it can really change the world. Lucy: Yeah, absolutely. Some uses of Apis and Arsenicum album Kate: Give us some more examples about how you have used homeopathy yourself. Lucy: I’m actually, lately, allergic to carrots and apples. Whenever I eat them, my throat gets itchy. My tongue gets itchy. The carrots, I don’t care about so much. But I love apples, and I want to eat them. So, what I do is I’ll just have an apple. My throat and mouth will start to itch like crazy. I’ll just take Apis 200C, and it will go away within a minute. So, it allows me to eat one of my favorite foods and still feel fine. Kate: So, you…

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Podcast 73 – My Time With the Banerjis Apr 28, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:58 Learning about the Banerjis and their background 08:32 The case-taking process 16:45 Conditions encountered at the clinic 21:18 Meeting and working with the Banerjis 36:06 A beneficial insight from Dr. Prasanta Banerji Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 73 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Good morning, Joette. Joette: Hi Kate, always good to see you. Kate: Another podcast, super-excited because we’re going to talk about the Banerjis today! I want people to know — I want to know — more about your time at the Banerji clinic, and how you came to meet them. Maybe you’ll sneak in some protocols that you learned there that we haven’t heard a lot about. So, I’m excited for the podcast today. Joette: Okay, great. This is podcast what, number 70 or 71 or something? Kate: I think it will be, like, 73 … something like that. You have done a lot of podcasts! There is so much to learn; I feel like we could go on forever. Joette: Oh, that’s my goal — into eternity. Kate: You can never retire. I know a lot of people are wondering. They’re worried that someday you might retire, and then what? We’ll be stuck. Joette: Yeah, I don’t know that I’ll retire. I might slow down a bit, but I can’t imagine stopping this altogether. It’s in my blood now. Kate: Yeah, I can’t imagine you not doing it either. Okay, so let’s talk about the Banerjis. Tell me, Joette, a little about how did you come to find out about the Banerjis and then start your discussions with them. Learning about the Banerjis and their background Joette: Well, if you’re in the homeopathic community, you couldn’t help but hear about them. So, some 20-some years ago, I heard at one of our national conferences, “You know, there are these … this father and son team in India who each sees a hundred patients per day.” I thought to myself, “That’s impossible. How could that possibly be?” Because I only knew classical homeopathy which requires that you take a case that lasts at least an hour, more often an hour and a half. Then you’ve got hours’ worth of work after it often. So, I was incredulous. Then about a year or so later, I went to another conference, and someone else said exactly the same thing, “You know, there is this father and son team in India who each sees a hundred patients per day.” I said, “I just, I don’t get it.” So, I had always known that if I really wanted to learn homeopathy in great depth that I had to work alongside a homeopath that was seeing many patients per day and had not had any interruptions in his education and the generation before him or the generation before him. Kate: So, I have a question. Let me stop you right there for a second. When they were talking about these Banerjis seeing a hundred patients a day, were they talking about them in a negative way or just sort of matter-of-fact way? How were they portrayed? Joette: No, it was just matter of fact. It was of interest because we were all heavily burdened and mired down with these heavy classical methodologies that require that it took us an hour and a half to take a case. It’s not that we were complaining because we didn’t know any other way. But it was certainly something that was so juxtapositioned that it pricked up my ears. Kate: Maybe we’re jumping ahead of ourselves here, but that leads me to think about the Banerjis and how they originally started. They must have used the classical method of practicing homeopathy, is that their background as well? Joette: Well, it had been passed down through their families. Each of them had studied homeopathy. So, they had all gone to homeopathy school, but in India, that’s medical school. So, they were medical homeopathic physicians. They had gone through many years of study and had put their time in so that they could be in practice and understand. I mean, obviously if you’re in medical school, you’ve got anatomy, physiology, pathology, et cetera. That’s a very important basis of being in practice. So yes, they did have traditional homeopathy as their background. But when your patients are lining up in front of your clinic — your research center — the night before, and they’re bussing them in from small villages, and as they open the doors of the bus — and I’ve watched this daily when I worked there — and the doors would open, the bulging bus would empty out, I don’t know, 80 people, 100 people? I don’t know. Maybe I’m exaggerating but at least 80 people. Then they would just line up and sit on the sidewalk with their blankets and wait until the next day to see them! Kate: Oh, my gosh! Joette: After a while, when you’re seeing the same condition over and over and over, and then another condition over and over and over, by the sheer numbers, after a while it narrows down to, “It’s most likely this remedy.” If you see — just like we know in classical homeopathy for acutes — if you see someone with a hematoma, the first thing we think of generally speaking is Arnica. Now, we can also use Hamamelis. We can also use Bellis perennis. We have other choices, but we have all learned in day one of homeopathy school, Arnica montana for hematomas or ecchymosis. Kate: So, isn’t that in essence a practical protocol? Joette: Yes! It absolutely is a practical protocol. When I was practicing classical homeopathy, I wanted more protocols. I had some; that was one of them. I knew that strep throat was met with Belladonna. I mean, everybody knows that. We can also use Hepar sulph. We can certainly use Mercurius. There are other remedies that we can consider. But we generally start out with an extremely painful strep throat, it’s generally speaking Belladonna. Now, how did we come to that? Well, after a while, you’d have to be, as we say in Italian, “Testa dura,” which means hardhead, to not pick up on the fact that this works time and time again for most people — not everyone but for most people. So, when they came up with these protocols, it was out of sheer need to be able to fulfill the requirements of meeting with a thousand people a day. Because, of course, they weren’t the only doctors treating. They had, when I was there — the last seven, eight years that I was there — there were twelve senior doctors and correspondingly junior doctors to take the cases (start opening the cases for each of those senior doctors). With twelve of them all seeing a hundred patients per day, do the math: that’s 1,200 patients in a day. That means at the end of one week, it is 7,200 people. Kate: Right. I often wonder — and we were talking about this earlier — that if Boericke or Kent or Hahnemann had that many people at their doorstep everyday, if they too wouldn’t have come up with these protocols. Joette: They would have had more protocols. They would have been forced to come up with answers more quickly so they can get to the next person who was being carried in in a sling or with his family carrying him in a … We used to meet the ambulances in the back of the homeopathic research foundation. The ambulance would drive in. We would walk outside because the person could not be carried in. I mean, the facilities were much different than the facilities that we’re accustomed to. So, the family had put the person in the ambulance. Now, we went out and met with the family and the patient. We would take that case. When we finish with it, went right back into the office again, and the next 75 people were waiting in line to get their turn in. We did not leave until every person was taken care of. Kate: They have quite the staff, too. So, there’s a big process as far as people receiving the information. It’s not just one doctor alone seeing those hundred people. Joette: No, there’s a senior doctor and a junior doctor. Then there’s a junior-junior doctor. Then there are the pharmacists, and then there are those who do the processing and the accounting. Then when that’s all finished, and the case has all been taken, there’s the junior doctor (who was on the case with the senior doctor) goes up to the second floor and hands it to the person who inputs it into a computer. So now, we’ve got a record of it. The second floor is just as humming as the first floor. Kate: So, what typically happens? So, say, I’m a person outside the Banerji clinic. I’m waiting in line. Now, it’s my turn. What happens? The case taking process Joette: The first thing they do is they stand in line. When they get in to their time to meet up with someone, there’s a little window like a bank window — almost like a bank teller. They get their name. They get a little bit of information, and they said, “Okay, we’ll call you in a little while.” Then they have a loud speaker, and they call out the name of the person an hour later … who knows how long it is … 10 minutes? I don’t really know that logistics of that. But when they’re called in, then they’re sat down in a large room where the junior doctor starts taking the case. “Let me see your X-rays that you’ve brought in. Let’s see the blood labs, whatever you’ve got.” Some people don’t bring those. Some do have them with them. “Give me your age, your name,” et cetera, et cetera. They get all the statistics and all that information. Then what is the chief complaint? What are the satellite concerns, et cetera? And it’s all written down. But it’s written down in a very concise way. By the way, it’s all handwritten! Kind of interesting. It must be required, absolute, in perfect penmanship. It’s gorgeous. What they hand to the senior doctor is perfection. If Pratip Banerji saw one little mistake, he’d give it back to the doctor (the younger doctor) and say, “Do it right! I don’t want any misspelled words. I don’t want any scribbling. Use white-out. Clean it up. If you have to do it over again, do it again.” The penmanship had to be perfect. They were real sticklers for protocol. Kate: Wow. Hmm. Okay. So now, what happens next? Joette: Then usually the case is taken. I imagine that they’re told to sit back down again until they’re called again — now to meet with the senior doctor. That’s when they’re brought in by the junior doctor into the consultation chambers as they call it. The person is led in by the junior doctor. The junior doctor then sits next to the senior doctor. I was, of course, privileged to sit between them, which was wonderful because I was privy to everything that was going on and could observe the case that was taken and what was now going to be considered — what medicines were going to be used. So, the patient is sitting in front of us at the desk. If Pratip deemed that it was necessary that he palpated, then there was an examining room, and the person was instructed to get on the examining table. If it was something more personal, then the person was brought into a separate little side room. Pratip would observe what needed to be looked at. And then the person would get dressed again, come back and sit down. If none of that was required, he might check their pulse. He might listen to their heart. I shouldn’t say, “might.” He often did it for the most part; he would use these methods. If they brought their X-rays, he’d turn on the little X-ray light and put the X-rays up so we could all see. He would look at that and look at the CT scans. Anything that they brought in was observed. Even though the junior doctor had already done that, Pratip would always look again to make sure that everything was tight and orderly and organized. Then the patient would explain to him what was going on. Pratip spoke many languages, so did Dr. Prasanta Banerji and so did most of the doctors because they’re educated people. Many of them had been educated in England. So, they came with English plus many of the dialects. I don’t know if they could speak all of them, but they certainly understood the dialects of India, and there are a myriad of them. So, by that time, that’s when Pratip then starts speaking to this junior doctor, and he is directing him as to what the medicines are. The junior doctor is writing it down. The junior doctors that had been around for a long period of time knew exactly what he was going to say because they are protocols. Knowing what the condition is, they’ve already written half of the case up already in anticipation of what Dr. Pratip or Prasanta was about to say. They were usually right. Kate: Okay. So, if they were certain or had an idea, they would write that down, and then … Joette: In advance, just to move things along faster. After that was completed, then the junior doctor would hand the form … it was a small form with all of this gorgeous penmanship on it. There was no English; it was all in Sanskrit and in Latin because that’s what the homeopathic medicines are, of course. They’re all Latin. That’s all that was there. Nothing was in English. He would hand it to the senior doctor, Dr. Pratip or Dr. Prasanta Banerji, or any other senior doctor who was taking the case, and they would sign off. Now, that sign off meant that was done. Hand it to the junior doctor. The junior doctor would guide the patient back to the large room where they would then direct them to go to, now, the pharmacy which is all connected. It’s all part of the compound. They would take their form with them. Then the pharmacist knew exactly what to do from there. Kate: Now, I’m curious. If you were sitting in between them, and they were speaking another language, how are you able to write down what their protocols were? Did they talk in English much? Joette: The doctors would speak in English. The patients would speak in their tongue. Kate: Oh! Joette: But the doctors understood what the patients were saying, but the conversation between the two doctors was always in English. Kate: Oh, that’s nice. Okay. Because I’m imagining, you know, “How are you translating this Joette?” Joette: Right. Well, the first year, I was lost. I had watched many Indian movies before we got there so that I could kind of get up to snuff … so I could understand their English because, of course, it is different than ours. I listened to hours and watched hours of Indian movies, good and bad ones. Bollywood, which is mostly dancing, you’re not really learning much of the language. But you get the idea of the culture, that’s for sure. So, the first year was very difficult for me. I was really lost in what they were saying, especially because I was working with Dr. Prasanta Banerji, Pratip’s father. He was a little more difficult for me to understand. He did not have the English that I understood as well as I did Pratip’s. But nonetheless, I knew what the condition was, and they would also discuss the condition. You know, I’m going to take that back. Was there anything written on this form that said in English what the condition was? No, there wasn’t. Not that I recall, there wasn’t. I can’t believe I can’t remember that. I was there for … I figured out cumulatively, I was there for just over a year and a half. Kate: Oh, my gosh! Really? Joette: Yeah. That’s how long I spent there. I would go every year. I’d have to come back to the US because I mean, I had to work! Nobody was paying me to do this. I had to work. I had a family. My children were all adults, but, nonetheless. Actually, the first year I was there, my youngest son was in high school. My parents were around so that he was with them a lot. But I did have a life, so I had to go back home again and then recover! The amount of hours and work was phenomenal. Kate: And you were always sick. Joette: I wa…

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Podcast 72 – Moms with Moxie: Air Traffic Controller, Pilot and Homeopath Apr 18, 2019

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 06:48 Homeopathy’s role in an air traffic controller’s life 09:06 Car accident 12:06 Childbirth story, cell salts, & Arnica 18:43 Keep learning, keep sharing and keep a remedy kit LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Allergic!? Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Gateway to Homeopathy II: Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced above) Homeopathy Kits Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 72. Joette: Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Kate: Hi! This is Kate, and I’m here today with Mary. I’m looking forward to some of the things that Mary is going to be sharing with us. So welcome, Mary, to the podcast. Mary: Thanks, Kate. Great to be here! Kate: Great to have you. All right, let’s get to know you a little bit. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself? Mary: I’m a retired air traffic controller, and also, I’m a private pilot. Well, I’m a commercial pilot — that’s a different rating. So, I used to tell the pilots what to do and fly for fun. Kate: Oh my gosh! How exciting is that? Have you done this your whole life? Mary: Yes, since I was 26. Kate: Was it like a childhood dream? Mary: No, it was divine intervention. Kate: Okay! Well, tell us. Mary: I got out of high school. I was going to get married and have kids. I didn’t get married and have kids, so, I went to work. Then the steel mills went under because of foreign imports. Then I took a job with my husband’s credit union. I wanted to run for the board of directors. They told me if I run for the board of directors, they would fire me. In the meantime, they gave the air traffic controller’s test out. But you had to die in order to get a job. So then, I went to work, and then the strike came, and I got hired — divine intervention. Kate: Wow! I think it sounds super-fascinating. So, you said you have your commercial license, as well. Did you fly as a pilot then for an airline? Mary: No, you have different ratings. So, you have a private pilot’s license, and then you have an instrument rating, and then you have a commercial pilot’s license. It’s just a rating. Kate: Oh, okay, I see. I bet you have some pretty interesting stories from your days as an air traffic controller. Mary: Oh, I do. Now, they have this thing called ATC live where you can listen. Back in my day, they didn’t. So, I could say whatever I wanted and not get caught. Kate: So, anybody can listen to air traffic controllers, is that what you’re saying? Mary: Yes! Yes! Kate: What? I didn’t know this. Mary: See? You don’t even have to be in an airplane. Kate: Oh, my goodness! That’s amazing. So how do you do that? Mary: Download the app, I guess, ATC Live. Kate: ATC Live. Mary: Or Live ATC … it’s one of the two. Kate: Okay, wow! So, you’re a pilot. You’re an air traffic controller. What else? Mary: I’m a homeopath. So, I mean, talk about oxymorons. I mean, that is yin and yang. They’re two different brains. Kate: How did that happen? Mary: Well, my husband retired when he was 50, and he wanted a dog. I said I didn’t want a dog. But my girlfriend had this Dalmatian, and she had two little boys, and Dalmatians are very high energy. She gave the dog up, and she was the sweetest dog. I said, “I cannot believe you gave that dog up.” She said, “I can’t believe you wanted her.” So, she got the dog back, and we adopted her dog after six months. She was six months old when we got her. So, she had these terrible allergies. I took her to the special vet. They shaved her hind legs, stuck with 57 needles, told me I had to feed her kangaroo or moose, gave me two vials to give her a needle twice a day. Six months later and a thousand dollars, she was just as bad if not worse. They said, “Well, it’s not an exact science.” Kate: I think that’s a pretty common story, what you’re saying. Our dog had allergies, kind of the similar thing. So, I think you’re speaking to the masses here. Mary: Exactly. Which is why Joette’s course on allergies is fabulous, and as long as somebody’s going to practice, it might as well be you. Kate: Yeah. So, that’s how you originally got into homeopathy? Mary: I did. There’s a vet called Dr. Khalsa who is brilliant that came from New England. I took my dog to her, and that’s how I started it. Then I found this study group in ’93, and it went on from there. Kate: When you say, “this study group,” was there a group of local people studying homeopathy together? Is that what you mean? Mary: Yes. So, like Joette, we had a teacher. We would go to her house, and we’d take cases and study remedies. It was amazing. Kate: So, you started studying with this group of people and learning classical homeopathy. Mary: Correct. Then somewhere along the line, we found Joette. I think one of our study group members brought in the thing for Gateway I, and I was a study group leader. Then we took Gateway I, and then we took Gateway II. Kate: Oh, so you were completing Gateway I, and then Gateway II came out right after that? Mary: Yes, yes. Kate: Did you find, as someone who had studied homeopathy for quite some time, that it was too basic, or did you still learn quite a bit? Mary: In homeopathy, you’re always learning. We learned every remedy part she puts out. Like the insomnia — the Arnica 200 for insomnia — who knew? I’ve been studying for 25 years or so, I’ve never known that. And the protocol for fleas? Nobody knows that either. It’s always interesting. Kate: Yes, she has so many free things on her website that you really could just study that and learn a ton without even taking a course. Mary: Right. So now, we do our own study group, but then we do Joette’s study group. We’ll do a Zoom class just like we’re doing now. We’d take some of her podcasts, and we’ll pick them apart. Kate: So, you guys are just going through some of the podcasts or blogs and talking about the different things that you’re learning there and just having discussions around those then? Mary: Yes, there’s just so much information that you miss some of it. So, by having a study group, and everybody bringing something to the table, then what you might have missed, somebody might say. Kate: I find every time I go through the Gateway book, I learn something or I remember something. It’s always super useful. So, you can never read things too many times. We just did another podcast with another woman who said she read Dorothy Shepherd’s book over … I think it was … eight times or something like that. Then on the eighth time is when she caught something that she had never seen before. Homeopathy’s role in an air traffic controller’s life So, Mary, when we were talking earlier, you were saying about being an air traffic controller, and why homeopathy is so important to you. Tell us a little bit more about that. Mary: Whether you’re an air traffic controller or you’re a pilot (whether it is as a commercial pilot for the airlines or a private pilot that just flies around for fun), you have to take a flight physical once a year. The important things for that is that as an air traffic controller, if you can’t pass a physical, you don’t have a job. As a pilot, if you don’t pass the physical, you don’t have a job. So, for instance, back in the day before I knew homeopathy, I would take Flexeril for lower back pain. You cannot work for a week after you take that Flexeril. You have to stay home. Kate: Really? Mary: Really. And if you take DayQuil for a cold, I think it’s three days — you can’t fly for three days after you take DayQuil. Kate: So, that tells you how long that stays in your body, right? Mary: It just tells you: you don’t want to be taking it. Kate: That’s right. You don’t want to be taking it. Mary: You don’t want to be taking it. I mean, they’re just a few examples. Your best thing is to just be well, and homeopathy helps you do that. Kate: Exactly. So, give us some other examples of some of the ways that you’ve used homeopathy over the years. Mary: Back in the beginning before I had learned homeopathy myself, I had a godchild. She was born five pounds, nine ounces. A month later, this child is five pounds, nine ounces. So, you know that’s not good, right? Kate: Right. Mary: So, the allopathic people took her off the breast milk, put her on rice. Anyway, we took her to this homeopathic doctor. He gave her one dose of Nux vomica, and in one day, she gained FOUR ounces! How do you explain that? Kate: Wow! That’s incredible! Mary: I know. You want to see her now. She’s 18 years old. She’s beautiful. Kate: That makes me wonder why they gave her Nux vomica. Yeah, very interesting. So that got you really intrigued then. Mary: Absolutely. So, I took my girlfriend to the same doctor. She couldn’t even breathe to get up the stairs. I think he gave her Crataegus, and it was like a light bulb went off. She was, like, so light after that. You could just tell in her face that it just changed something. Car accident Mary: So, I have to tell you about my car accident. Kate: Oh! That doesn’t sound good. Mary: It wasn’t. December 8th, we were coming home from a Christmas party. I was driving down a dry road, and this 19-year-old T-boned me doing 40 miles an hour. Now, I had my tonsils out when I was 22 (before homeopathy). I wouldn’t have done it now. But at 22 was the last time I was in the hospital. So, at 65, I took my first ambulance ride. Kate: Oh, my gosh! Mary: They used the Jaws of Life® to get me out. I broke my wrist in two places. I called my sister at 10:30 at night and I said … (All my siblings have homeopathic kits. We can talk about that because there’s nothing more frustrating than somebody to call you for their advice, and you tell them what to take, and they don’t have it. So, I agree with Joette. Everybody needs a homeopathic kit.) So anyway, I was looking for Arnica. Now, they’re going to do a CT scan — which I’m not fond of. They’re going to put an IV in me — which I’m not fond of. So, I take the Aconite, and within seconds, I was calm enough for them to work on me. Then I took the Arnica. I would go into, like, shock, and I would take the Arnica, and then it would go away. So, it’s just amazing! I don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t have my sister and my kit after this accident. Kate: Oh, my gosh! I feel like you are very blessed to be alive after that accident. I’m sure there was a lot of bruising, but the only broken bones were your wrist? Mary: Well, I think I had my left hand on my thigh because that was the only thing that was bruised, probably ribs and my thigh. I think the armrest got me. So, he T-boned me, and the armrest got me, and that’s how I broke my wrist. Kate: Wow! That’s so scary. So, Arnica and Aconite for accidents. Oh, you just never want to be without them! Mary: Never, never! Well, that’s what Joette said, “Put the Aconite in your handbag.” That’s the first remedy she talked about because we just talked about this in our study group: Aconite 200 in your handbag — always. Kate: Exactly. Mary: But, I have to tell you another funny story. My sister was expecting her first grandchild. Now, she’s in Pennsylvania, and her son and his wife are in Texas. So, she makes an airplane reservation for Friday, and this is Wednesday. The doctor says there’s no action here. So, the daughter-in-law calls my sister and says, “Can you change your reservation because the baby won’t be here by the time you get here?” So, I called my friends in Texas, and I said, “Do you have health food stores?” And they said, “Mary, of course. Texas is, like, the epicenter of alternative medicine.” I called the food store, and I wanted Caulophyllum 30C. I took a picture of it. I sent it to my niece. I told her, “You walk in the store. It’s on aisle 4A on the third shelf.” I sent her the picture. Well, do you know by the time my sister got there, the baby was there? Kate: Wow! Mary: So yes, I mean just exciting stuff. Childbirth story, cell salts, & Arnica Mary: My girlfriend’s daughter was having her fifth child. They sent the husband home, and my girlfriend went in, and she said, “Are you going to have this baby, or aren’t you?” (I don’t remember what we gave her. It might have been the Caulophyllum.) She said, “Yes,” but for whatever reason she was afraid this time. (I mean, your fifth child, you would figure you wouldn’t be afraid.) I don’t remember what we gave her, but we gave her a remedy. Ten minutes … they delivered that baby in the bed. So much fun! Kate: Oh, my gosh! That’s great. Things went really well? Mary: Absolutely! Kate: Oh, my goodness, yeah, ten minutes. So, jumping back a little bit to the Gateway II study group that you did, I know you said you enjoyed some particular sections of that study guide. So, tell me a little bit more about that. Mary: Well, we probably did that a couple of months ago. But what we found very interesting is that they just resonated with those cell salts. Everybody went out and bought it: cell salt travel kit [No longer available.] Everybody found a different use for them just like me with my homeopathic kit. So many people went and bought their children the cell salt kits because Joette just puts such a different spin on it that we don’t really even think about cell salts so much. But my broken wrist, I still have a lot of edema in my fingers, and so I use the Nat sulph for the edema on that. That seems to be helpful. Kate: So, Nat sulph 6X, then? Mary: Yes, correct. Kate: Yeah, there is a ton of information in that cell salt section. I know it’s a lot to get through in one study group session even, but there are so many things that you could pick out of there that apply to your life. I always talk about when we were going through that whole section now, “Don’t think you have to take every cell salt. Because you’re going to find something, as we’re talking about each of the cell salts, that you feel like applies to you.” Did you guys find that also? Mary: Absolutely. Kate: Yeah. So, are there other things that you found, are there other examples maybe from that, that you wanted to talk about? Mary: I remember my cousin. He was like four years old, ran into the corner of a table. I had the birthing kit with me. It had Arnica 200 in it. This child screamed at the top of his lungs. I took out that Arnica and popped it in his mouth. I mean, seriously it’s a wonderful thing. So, there was a guy that fell here. The dog tripped him, and he had this goose egg. You would not believe how big his goose egg was. I gave him Arnica 200. He ended up with nothing. Kate: I’ve watched that happen too. My son fell backwards when he was young. He was standing on a chair, and he fell backwards, and there’s concrete. He hit his head on that concrete. He had a goose egg on his head. He felt dizzy. I gave him Arnica 200 a couple of times, and I watched that goose egg go down. It just went away. Mary: And it works great for animals, too. I started talking about the dog, but I had this horse that was a champion. He whacked his head on the barn door. So, his head was tilted. His owner brought me over to see him, and we gave him Nat sulph. He got so much better. I mean, he was like normal after that. The amazing thing about animals … I don’t know whether you ever di…

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