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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 03:24 With a Moo-Moo Here … 12:24 And a Cluck-Cluck There … 24:30 Everywhere a Meow-Meow … 31:35 Treating Animals and Humans with Homeopathy LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Calcarea carbonicum (for milk fever in cattle) “Fowl Cholera Epidemic! Homeopathy Averts a Catastrophe in the Flock.” Cuprum metallicum 30C (for fowl cholera) Sulphur 30 (for foul odors/illness in feral or barn-raised animals) “Homeopathy is Purr-fect” My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 106 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. This podcast was recorded after the Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy course semester began. So, depending on when you’re listening to this recording, the course may or may not be open for registration. But not to worry — new semesters open regularly. So, stay tuned. And now, let’s get started with the podcast: “Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O …” Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I bet you’re wondering what Old MacDonald’s farm and homeopathy have to do with one another. Well, I actually just wanted to listen to Joette sing again. Welcome, Joette, to the podcast today. Joette: I love working with you, Kate. Kate: Because we’re silly, that’s why. Joette: Yes, I know it’s fun. To do this or not, the podcasts must go out!! Kate: So, we’re going to talk about animals and homeopathy today. Just a little teaser, if you haven’t seen it already, by the time this podcast is aired, the kids’ curriculum that you’re producing should be out and have started. We’re pretty excited about that. We’re in the mode of talking about animals and what homeopathic medicines to use — along with the medicines for humans as well. But in this course, we are going to be discussing a lot of the homeopathics for animal issues. So, we’re going to focus in on that today, right? Joette: The Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy: Become a Revolutionary, Independent Thinker with Practical Homeopathy®. Kate, you’re giving yourself too little credit. Kate is the lead person who is organizing and putting this all together and helping me produce it. Basically, you’re producing it, and I’m helping you. Kate: I’m just using your materials to put it together, so, we’re a good team. I’m super-glad to be doing it. Today, Joette, I want you to share some of your stories of how you’ve used homeopathy in the past with some of your animals — of which you’ve had many. Let’s start off with a cow story. How about that? Joette: Yes, well, so I want to put it in perspective because if anyone’s been following me, then you know that I live in South Florida, and I don’t treat animals so much anymore. But we raised our children in the country, south of Buffalo. And we had a small farm — 15 acres — and it was kind of a “hobby” farm of sorts. We had ducks and chickens and goats and down the road were llamas, and cows and horses. And so, it was really a great place for me to learn how to treat animals, and to live around animals! Even though I’ve always been a city girl, it was a great opportunity for me. You want to hear a cow story? Kate: Yes, I know you have a lot of stories with animals. But I think there’s one in particular about a cow that it was a dire situation, and you helped the cow. With a Moo-Moo Here… Joette: Yes. Let me also preface this by saying that for those who believe that homeopathy is just placebo: I don’t know how a cow would be able to pick up on the intention of the farmer giving a specific homeopathic medicine. So, if it shows anything, it shows the efficacy of this medicine, and that it is absolutely not placebo. So, one day, I got a call. At that time, I had a brick and mortar office, and I got a call from someone I knew whose cow had just birthed its calf and was dying. This farmer was a seasoned farmer and had seen this happen many times: It’s called milk fever. The medical term is hypocalcemia. I was unfamiliar with it; I’m not a vet; I don’t have a lot of experience. My study was in anatomy, physiology and pathology for humans, certainly not veterinary study. I didn’t know what it meant, and he said, “Well, it’s a fatal disease.” It’s a metabolic disease that occurs when the blood serum — I’m reading this now because I jotted it down — blood serum of calcium drops to below normal levels. If it’s not handled properly, a cow can go from healthy to dead within a matter of hours. And as I said, this farmer was very seasoned and had seen many cows die from this. He was, you know … I don’t know if I’d call him panic-stricken, but he was certainly pretty worried. The calf, of course, was fine. But the cow was breathing heavily, and he said, “She’s collapsed, and it’s a calcium drop.” So, without knowing about protocols, specifically — because I didn’t have a protocol for that, and it was many years ago —the first remedy I thought of was I have to come up with a calcium medicine. Not only is it a calcium medicine, but it’s got to be a calcium medicine that has collapse, and something that has to do … that’s metabolic. The first remedy, I thought it was Calcarea carbonicum. For short, it’s Calc carb. It’s one of our first medicines that we ever learn in homeopathy: Calc, C–A–L–C, Carb, C–A–R–B or Calcarea carbonica, C–A–L–C–A–R–E–A and carbonica. This farmer had a homeopathy kit, thank goodness. Because otherwise, if he had to order it online or had to run to a health food store hoping that they had it, it would have put him in a great disadvantage. But he had the kit. He said, “Okay, so what do I do?” I said, “Open up the bottle. Pour some of the contents into the cap.” Normally, we use … that happened to be, I think he had the Washington Homeopathy kit. In that case, you would use maybe six pills. But no, this is a big cow. It’s a big animal, hundreds of pounds. I said, “Just fill up the cap with the medicines. Open up her mouth and pour it in.” If you can get it under her tongue, then she won’t chew it, and it won’t go away.” Not that you need … let me parenthetically say … you don’t need to put it under the tongue. But in this case, it was such a dire situation, we want to make sure that we put it in the most efficacious location in the animal’s mouth. He lifted her tongue and inserted the pills under the tongue and then gently closed her mouth. He said that her eyes were rolling back; she was going to die. He said, “She looks like she’s going to die within minutes.” I stayed on the phone with him for a little while. But then I had other calls I had to take, and so I left. Within about — it’s hard to remember this was, I don’t know, 25 years ago — but I stayed on the phone only for a short period of time. When he called me back about 20 minutes later, he said, “You’re not going to believe this.” Whenever I hear that, I say to myself, “Oh, yes, I am.” He said, “She stood up. She’s fine. She’s absolutely fine. I can’t believe it! It’s like a miracle! She just stood up! And now the calf is nursing.” I said, “That doesn’t surprise me. But it always gives me goosebumps.” It always gives me … what … thankfulness for this medicine. This is God’s medicine, folks. I don’t know any other way of saying it. How is it that a medicine without side effects, a bottle that costs $12, could cure a cow — save the cow and the calf and the farmer from expense and time? How could that be? Because this medicine is something everyone needs to know about. He said, “So that’s it? That’s all I do?” I said, “No, well, no. Watch her. If she starts to look weak, her eyes look like they’re sinking back again, or they’re rolling back in her head, or she starts to fall back down again, you give her another dose. To be honest, I think that you should be giving her two or three doses every day for about three days.” And he did. And, in his gratitude, he named the calf after me. So, the calf’s name is Joette. He sent me a photograph of her and for the longest time, I had it as my front page of my desktop. Then when we moved, we lost it, unfortunately. The computer we had was probably corrupted or something. But anyway, the photograph was lost. So, the calf Joette is now just a distant memory. But that’s how homeopathy works. Now, some people say, “Well, yes, but I’ve had this condition for many years.” (Not that kind of condition.) What I’m saying is that speed depends on the … what’s the word … the more dire the condition, the faster the medicine will act, generally speaking. This cow needed it. She was going to die as witnessed by this farmer time and again. She needed this medicine immediately, and so it was used immediately. I’ve seen that at births. I was at a friend’s birth, and she was hemorrhaging. Somebody would say, “Well, how do you know it’s going to work very fast?” “Well, because she needs the medicine so badly.” I will never forget that I administered this medicine to my friend, and she was hemorrhaging terribly, and she had two previous … This is a side story, but it illustrates more thoroughly. She had had two previous births where she hemorrhaged and had to be taken to the hospital and given pints of blood. This situation was the first time I was with her at the birth, and we use the homeopathic medicine for her at that moment. It was actually Pulsatilla, and it brought her around. It aborted the hemorrhaging — within seconds — because that’s what was needed. It needed “in-second” speed and action. That’s something that you will observe time and again as you use these medicines: that the more serious that condition — the more dire it is — the faster the medicines work. How is that? It’s God’s medicine. What can I say? Kate: So, Joette, I know people are wanting to ask this question. What potency did you use with that cow? Do you remember? Joette: Yes, it was a 200. Kate: Okay. Joette: So, hypocalcemia or milk fever is the name of the condition. If any farmers out there need to know what to do… If you go online and look at milk fever, you’re going to see that they die within minutes of falling to the ground. That’s the key, they fall to the ground, and then they die within hours, sometimes minutes. Kate: One more thing I want to talk about is when you were telling us how you told this farmer to dispense those pellets in the cow’s mouth. You were talking about whether you would use four or five pellets or a whole cap full. I just want to clarify for a second there, because I’ve used just two pellets of Arnica, say, on my horses, and they worked — seemed to work — great. So, I would think that what you’re saying is that you just want to make sure that the medicine gets in the mouth and is absorbed into the body, right? Joette: That’s it. Exactly. Two pellets, would they’ve worked? Possibly but we didn’t have time to check it out. I would use two pellets if I didn’t have very many, and I had to treat more than one cow at the same time, and we had to distribute accordingly. But because this cow was on her deathbed, then it was important that we just give it to her and not worry about being sparing in our usage of our pills. Kate: Okay. I just wanted to clarify that for those who are listening that you didn’t have to … it’s not a higher dose because that’s a larger animal. It’s just that you just want to make sure that this medicine got into that animal. Joette: Well, I did allude to that a moment because the cow is big. I found it goes that generally you can get away with just a few pills for even a large animal. But at that moment, I was calculating in a way just to be absolutely certain. But you’re right, two pills probably would have done it. Kate: Yes, that’s what I’ve used with my horses, and I just kind of hold their mouths to make sure that the pellets stay in there. Because inevitably, this cow was down, and she was probably easy to get the medicines into her mouth. But when you have a horse that seems fine, and you’re putting that medicine in, they toss their head around, and those pellets just come popping right out. And a Cluck-Cluck There … Kate: So, let’s move in Old MacDonald’s farm to chickens. Joette: Well, when we bought our land south of Buffalo, I knew that we wanted to raise chickens. It was more of a hobby. I wanted our children to have that kind of responsibility of raising animals. I wanted fresh eggs. And I thought it would be a nice family project. So, we bought our chickens, and this was the first flock that we had. We bought … I think it was about 40 chickens at the time. We learned later you don’t do this with chickens. But we got them as chicks, and my sons were young, and they named some of the chickens — some of their favorite chickens — Gloria and Rosie. It was Dolores. It was very sweet. But you learn not to do that with chickens because they die so readily by either a fox or a possum or something like that or diseases, that it’s foolish to name them because then you become too emotionally attached, and then you lose your pet. So, it’s best not to name them, but we learned that years later. One day, one of my sons came in the house and said, “Mom, this chicken just died. I just watched her. She just fell over. She couldn’t walk for a while. She was actually walking in a strange fashion, and I saw her lay down, and then she just died!” I said, “Oh my.” Then my other son came in and said, “Mom, there’s another chicken acting really weird.” And so, they were saying — they were coming back and reporting — “Oh my gosh, these chickens are really sick. They’ve got diarrhea, and they’re dying.” I think we lost a few. It’s been a long time, so I don’t remember. But we lost a few before I said, “Uh-oh, something really serious is going on here.” So, I called a vet who was a friend of mine. I described to her what was happening. She said, “They have diarrhea, right?” I said, “Yes.” She says, “They have a strange gait, right?” I said, “Yes, that’s true.” She said, “It sounds like cholera — fowl cholera. Not cholera that can be transmitted to humans or vice versa, but it is a disease that will kill them all.” She said, “They’ll probably all die and probably within just a few days.” So, I said, “What can I do?” She says, “There’s really nothing you can do. The few that survive will not lay eggs any longer once they survived this because they will have gotten it, and they will have chronic fowl cholera.” I went to my chicken health handbook — believe it or not, I had one of those — and I looked up fowl cholera. Indeed, everything she said was absolutely true. It said that there are antibiotics that can be administered, but they’re really basically of no use, and the chickens all die. Now, I know about cholera. Cholera is one of the first diseases that was treated by the homeopaths back in Europe. And I knew that the medicine that was specific for cholera was Cuprum metallicum. In the back of my mind, I knew that. But what I did instead is, I opened up my repertory — because I was not a practical homeopath at the time; I was still using only classical. I opened up my repertory and looked under cholera. Indeed, the medicine that was the most valuable was Cuprum metallicum. So, once you determine … I can’t remember maybe 30 medicines named under the disease of cholera, and you have to choose which one is it (in classical homeopathy). Not only do you have to choose what the medicine is, you have to determine what potency, and then how frequently to use it. But I looked at C…
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