Joette Calabrese Podcast

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/181-learn-it-use-it-pass-it-on/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Learn It, Use It, Pass It On!

03:59 Very first success: Daughter in hysterics with a hot and red face

05:45 Classical homeopathy versus Practical Homeopathy®

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

08:54 Helping friends and family with myriad health issues

10:00 How to learn Practical Homeopathy®

Joette’s blog articles

Joette’s podcasts

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®

Protocol Courses in The Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

12:15 Stages of homeopathic education: a natural progression to healing

17:16 Learn It, Use It, Pass It On!

Advocates for Practical Homeopathy®

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives, formerly Facebook Lives)

27:31 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 181.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Learn It, Use It, Pass It On!

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today I’m talking with Amanda, a mom of six, a Gateway study group leader, and someone who came to Practical Homeopathy®, I’d say, the long way around.

Amanda first met homeopathy through a local homeopath after she had begun questioning a lot of the standards she had trusted for so long.

She saw those little white pills work again and again for a chronic issue with her husband. So, she wanted to learn more and bought a kit. She bought the books, and she taught herself.

So, today she’s going to share with us about the night her youngest daughter was flushed, hysterical, and what happened in less than a minute. She’ll also share how she’s used Practical Homeopathy® for chronic ear infections, migraines, OCD, infected spider bites, depression, kidney stones, and the ordinary emergencies of a house full of children.

She leads Gateway study groups and so much more, and I’m thrilled to welcome Amanda.

Hi, Amanda.

Amanda:

Hi, Kate. It’s an honor to be here. Thanks for having me.

Kate:

We are excited that you agreed to do this. So, I want to ask you to start at the beginning, Amanda.

Amanda:

Sure. Well, it was really, I say, by the grace of God, I came to learn about homeopathy. I have six kids (and a hubby) but only had two when I had started considering homeschooling. And I started hanging out with some outside-the-box thinking homeschoolers and found myself questioning the standards of the day all of a sudden.

And I realized when I started doing my research that many of the things I’d put my trust in were not the best for our family and many, downright harmful. I decided to look up “natural health,” I think it was, online, and up came the name of a local homeopath.

She helped us with whatever came up, including this chronic issue — it was a swallowing/choking issue for my husband.

Kate:

Oh!

Amanda:

Yeah, it was pretty serious. It was not uncommon to have him get up from the table and be choking on food. So, it was pretty distressing to watch and for him, obviously.

And so, this homeopath helped us with this issue, and we saw the power of those little white pills again and again. When I started asking questions to learn more, I quickly found out our homeopath was not one to educate on the subject.

So yes, I did what you had mentioned. I bought myself a kit and all the books I could get my hands on, and I followed some different homeopaths and gleaned as much as I could. Really, I was just starving for any tips and wisdom I could get into this brain, and I knew this stuff worked.

I just wanted to be more capable and confident. And you see, our homeopath was not on call for us 24/7.

Kate:

Right. You still had to figure some things out.

Amanda:

I did.

Very first success: Daughter in hysterics with a hot and red face

Amanda: (03:59)

So, I’ll never forget my first success with using homeopathy for my daughter. I remember all the keynotes screaming at me, as well as my youngest daughter screaming at me.

All of a sudden, she was hysterical. Her face was flushed, red and hot. In her ear was red too, and her pupils were enlarged too.

I’ve been studying some of the most common remedies and thought, well, here goes nothing. If this isn’t a case for Belladonna, I don’t know what would be.

So, I popped one pill of Belladonna into her mouth, and, no kidding, in less than a minute, she calmed down and proceeded to now be distracted and playing with her siblings.

Kate:

Wow. You must have been so excited!

Amanda:

I was a bit flabbergasted.

I started actually second-guessing myself that it actually happened that way, but then a couple hours later she was in a bit of an uproar again, albeit a lesser intense version than the first.

So, I gave her one more Belladonna, and that seemed to be the end of it. So, this was confirming to me.

This was my fifth child. And I know that when something like this came on, it didn’t typically end this quickly. And I could expect some stay-at-home time the next day or two, getting through whatever it was, but that didn’t happen.

And I knew that the remedy had helped us avoid it — whatever it was.

Kate:

Yeah, “it.”

Amanda:

I didn’t need to know, though, because I was quite happy and feeling quite accomplished in that victory. I’d only wish there were more than my children present to witness it.

Kate:

That’s fantastic. Yay!

Classical homeopathy versus Practical Homeopathy®

Amanda: (05:45)

Yeah. So, I continued to grow in my experience and trust in this medicine for about 12 years before following Joette.

Believe it or not, I’d actually been warned against the Joette method and avoided her site for years.

Kate:

Oh, really? Okay.

Amanda:

For those of you who might not know, the classical method of homeopathy holds to some very specific rules that I’d been following for many years. I’d seen many successes over the years, but they were always limited to only simple acutes.

So, as far as repeating remedies often, using more than one remedy at a time, or using a specific protocol for a specific condition, well, basically, Practical Homeopathy® breaks through these boundaries of traditional guidelines, and it takes homeopathy farther, both in efficiency and success rates.

So, I didn’t really get here until my son developed a chronic ear infection, and it kept coming back every two to three months for about a year.

I wasn’t seeing success with my homeopathic medicine kit like I had been, but I knew the power of homeopathy, and I decided, well, it was time to go off to “the dark side.”

And I went over to Joette’s website and found a protocol which I used. After all, I had the medicines on hand. I knew they worked, and what have I got to lose?

The ear infection cleared up, and it didn’t come back.

And I was left thinking, “What have I been avoiding all these years?” I started gobbling up all of Joette’s blog posts — well, as many as I could read at a time and her podcast episodes.

Kate:

And now here you are.

Amanda:

And now here I am.

Over the years previous to finding Joette, I’d followed traditional classical rules. So, I’d be using a great fitting remedy for a specific condition, but sometimes I just didn’t have the success. And I knew the keynotes of many of the medicines, yet I was missing something.

Now, I look back to times when I clearly had the best matching remedy, yet I was fearful to repeat the medicine. And I believe that if I had, I would likely have found more success.

Kate:

Yes, yes. I’ve heard others say that as well.

Amanda:

Yeah. So, using Practical Homeopathy® has really given me the knowledge and resolve to help others even more.

And with Joette’s protocol-based homeopathy and her wisdom and the things that I learned, my successes have really skyrocketed. The Academy has definitely boosted that and also studying with Joette in Mastery this year.

Kate:

So, what Amanda was just talking about was The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, and then there’s a second year of study called Mastery, and those are year-long programs. And so, I just wanted to clarify that for those who are listening who might not have heard about that.

Helping friends and family with myriad health issues

Amanda: (08:54)

Yeah. So, since starting The Academy, I just jumped right into being able to help some family members and friends with chronic conditions too, and many acutes — whatever came up.

I used to personally have severe migraines every month, and Sepia has really brought them down to an occasional dull headache. I’ve helped others with OCD, infected spider bites, very serious depression, kidney stones, and much, much more.

And at this point, I’m really thinking, “Well, what can’t homeopathy help with?”

Kate:

Right. Wow. You’ve done a lot, Amanda. Those are serious things that you mentioned, and every time you see this medicine work, don’t you just feel in awe and so thankful for what it can do?

Amanda:

Yes. I feel full of gratitude and just amazed every time it works. It’s funny how that just doesn’t get old, but with each success, it’s just like, “Wow, mind-boggling!”

How to learn Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (10:00)

Amanda, I imagine people who are listening are thinking, “Wow, I want to have the knowledge that you do and be able to address some of these conditions.” They either experience them themselves, or they know someone who has these conditions or other ones.

What would you suggest to them if they want to know how to help people like you have been?

Amanda:

I would highly encourage checking out Joette’s blog articles. They are amazing.

Her podcasts are just full of her wisdom, and you will learn so, so much from those.

If you want to fast-track, like I did, consider taking the Protocol Courses or jumping into the Gateway — I guess comes first, Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®.

And after the Gateways, the Protocol Courses are the next thing where it is just a little more intense, a little deeper dive, but then you’re going to feel so much more confident about taking on more chronic conditions and being confident.

And then there’s always The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, which has been just a life-changing experience for myself and my family. We’ve benefited in so many ways. And while it was a boatload of information coming at me in that one year of immersive study with Joette, I was so thankful for each and everything that I learned. And I’m still going into it and reviewing it, but I’m seeing it play out in real life.

It’s like everything that kind of comes up, I now know why I made that choice and did take the deep dive and jump into The Academy year because it’s just so truly benefited our family and friends. So, I have no regrets.

Kate:

And Joette’s Academy does encompass all of those Protocol Courses that you mentioned earlier, too. So, a lot of people go from the Gateway to The Academy if they just want to dive right into the deep end.

And if you want information on any of these things that Amanda or I talked about, you can go to http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ and find the information.

Okay, Amanda, let’s get back to your story and what came next.

Stages of homeopathic education: a natural progression to healing

Amanda: (12:15)

Sure. So, I think of all of the various phases I’ve gone through on my homeopathy journey so far. You’ve heard a little bit, but I thought it might be fun to describe them, as I’m sure maybe many listeners can relate — or if they haven’t made that jump start yet, they will relate when they do possibly.

From the start, I was collecting books and reading as much as I could about homeopathy. I was so ecstatic to have found out about this medicine, and I was probably a little overenthusiastic.

Then, I’d be taking notes on exact symptoms of a very mild, simple cold with maybe only a slightly runny nose and repertorizing like a madwoman.

Kate:

I remember those days.

Amanda:

Yeah. I couldn’t wait. I was so excited to use my newfound remedy kit and match the symptoms. Whereas, now, a little farther down the road, I realized, “Wow, for a relatively mild illness, let’s just get to bed early, cut out any sugar, and get some chicken soup on the stove, and call it a day, and we’re good.”

So, I learned a little bit later on that we don’t need a remedy for every little thing. Early on as well, my husband would be teasing me, asking me about what kind of “potion” I was giving to him and the children.

For everyone’s information, though, let me be very clear. This is a valid medicine based on repeatable, observable scientific methods — 200 years of good science, I might add.

And my joking hubby actually approaches me for remedies now. And since helping him with that chronic serious throat condition he had, now he comes to me. And I can tell my “potions” are finally working. Kidding!

Just looking back, I remember the early sweet stages of babies and having little ones. And I always found that was just such a blissful time, where my sweet darling kiddos would just trust me and depend on me for everything.

Whatever you dole out — any remedy — they are your biggest fans and reward you with cuddles and kisses. So, you could not do any wrong.

This was also the phase where they love the remedies and the taste of the remedies. And you may watch out because I did find one of my remedy kits all dumped out, with all of the little white pills all over the floor.

Kate:

Oh, no.

Amanda:

And some of the vials completely half empty and dripping with drool.

Kate:

What a picture in my mind.

Amanda:

Right? Well, I was thankful this medicine is safe and cannot be overdosed on because the loss of my remedies was real, and it was akin to accidentally spilling the pumped breast milk. There may have been some tears.

Another phase I call … it’s the “eye-rolling teenagers” phase, and you are familiar. I’m still actually in this one because we still have three teenagers in our home, but I’ve got a couple out of it now.

And sometimes these teens, they just want to be like everyone else and pop that Advil when things come up, or don’t you dare pull out those remedies when their friends are around and maybe embarrass them.

And then, “What, Mom? I can’t take this at work. What if someone sees me?” have I heard over the years.

And a good tip for anyone with teenagers is that the remedy Chamomilla 200C. Don’t think of that as just for teething babies, because we have found it can be used for irritable, demanding teenagers, too, who might be getting their wisdom teeth.

Kate:

That’s great. That’s great advice.

Amanda:

More recently, I’ve really been soaking up the 20-something stage. Our oldest daughter just got married. She calls more often “just because” and asks me about remedies she could use for anything that comes up.

It’s really a gift to still be needed in that way as I miss her in our home, especially when she was one of those eye-rolling teenagers not so long ago.

Kate:

That’s a good shift.

Amanda:

Yes, it’s a good shift for sure.

Kate:

And what about now?

Amanda:

Now, I find word is getting out that I can help with Practical Homeopathy® — more opportunities to help others that just seem to be popping up every week.

So, all in all, it’s really been one step at a time, though. And when illness, infection, injury happens, it’s no longer a panic. It’s a quiet confidence that I have and also just another opportunity for me to use this medicine for good and just see its awesome abilities in real life for healing.

The blessing of knowing these medicines and how to use them has been invaluable to me and my loved ones.

Learn It, Use It, Pass It On!

Kate: (17:16)

That’s sweet. I would love to hear next your motto, because you have a really great motto. In fact, I want to start using it. It’s so good.

Amanda:

Yes, I do have a motto for Practical Homeopathy®. In fact, I put it on some t-shirts recently. And it is basically this: Learn it, use it, pass it on.

So, I want everyone to — if they have benefited from homeopathy and seen it work — to be able to take the time to share it with someone else.

Kate:

Absolutely. So, learn it, use it and pass it on. That’s great!

Amanda:

A recent Gateway student of mine that I can think of, and she’s a retired nurse who had been on conventional pain medication for years for back pain after an injury. She took a deep dive into Gateway with me, and she started using the remedies.

She no longer requires her medication and is even taking less of the homeopathic remedies.

So, she is amazing. She’s really applied the motto. She’s telling people about this medicine constantly and helping others with conditions that come up in her life. And it’s just been such an inspiration to know her and see her passion to share her story with others. She sends me success updates on the regular, telling me of her latest victories with Practical Homeopathy®, and she is really on a mission, and I love it. (Trish, that’s for you.)

Kate:

Go Trish!

So, Amanda, you’ve recently had an opportunity to pass it on in a big way, or I should say at a big event near you. Tell us about that.

Amanda:

Yeah! Recently I had the amazing opportunity at what is known in Ontario as the International Plowing Match. And it was in Walkerton, Ontario. It’s a huge agricultural affair. Over 70,000+ people come from all over. There were all kinds in attendance, and I was so thankful to be able to hold an exhibitor table at this event.

It just so happened my table was right across from Public Health’s table and also beside one that was raising money for an MRI at a local hospital.

And it was interesting: One nurse actually came to my table just to have a look and say, “Everyone should know about this medicine and use it first before coming to conventional medicine.” And that really struck me.

Another attendee (who joined my latest Gateway study group with her husband) shared that her husband’s mother was a nurse and had raised them using homeopathy.

And yet another attendee had a separate homeopath for herself and her dog, and she was so excited to hear that she could learn about using this medicine herself as well and just be able to use it in practical ways for whatever comes up.

There were some who had no idea still yet what homeopathy was, and some who were eager to dip their toes in it, and many eager to hear about it.

Overall, it was an incredible time to get a feel for how open people are to this medicine. And they are really open.

Kate:

Wow. Wow, that’s great. You are in Canada, and it’s a bit different there than in the U.S. I know people listening to this podcast are from all over the world, but I would love for you to share your perspective as someone who uses homeopathy living in Canada.

Amanda:

Yeah. Canada is tightly regulated when it comes to homeopathy. And many people are still yet unfamiliar with it, but I think it’s making a comeback. It really wasn’t that long ago that homeopathy was brought here to Canada in 1845, I learned.

And one fact I love is that an Emily Stowe — who is famous for being the very first female physician to publicly practice medicine in Canada — she was actually a homeopathic physician.

During this period, like, late 1800s, people were wanting a more gentle approach and were actually choosing homeopathy over conventional care. Imagine having that choice when you went to the hospital.

Kate:

Yes.

Amanda:

Right? And it is great because homeopathy doesn’t interact with other medications, so I think this would be an invaluable addition back into our hospital care.

Kate:

Yes, for sure.

Amanda:

And there were actually homeopathic hospitals in Toronto, Ontario, in the late 1800s. It may be long-forgotten history, but I’m so grateful homeopathy is truly on the rise.

Kate:

Absolutely.

Amanda:

When I dream of places like homeopathic hospitals, I really know it has to start in the homes and in families. And this is basically my “why”: to bring this medicine and educate others to use it in practical ways for their families.

And that’s what really lights me up. One day I do see it taking the forefront in medicine, and I see healthier, stronger, more independent people, families and communities.

Kate:

So, one of the ways that you’re doing this is your Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups. Tell us a little bit about that.

Amanda:

Yes. As far as my Gateway study groups and the privilege of sharing this with others, I really just jumped right in as soon as I heard about this Gateway. I know I took it, I think, with Michelle and you, Kate, to start, and then I learned I could do it, too.

So, I really felt this calling to share it with others, and there was no time to wait. It wasn’t perfect, and it was definitely not fancy. I hadn’t started The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, but I simply went through the Gateway I study guide with my friends.

Kate:

It’s as simple as that, right?

Amanda:

Yeah, that’s all it was. And no pressure. It was super fun, and I was able to share some of my experience. And I was able to learn more as I reviewed the whole Gateway guide myself. And I also gleaned wisdom from my friends, too, who also were bringing different experiences and insights to the table.

And I found that’s really the beauty of learning together. It’s definitely true what they say. If you want to master something, teach it.

Kate:

Absolutely.

Amanda:

My own knowledge, experience and confidence have grown so much in leading study groups and talking with others about this medicine. And if I can encourage anyone only to just start with leading one Gateway with their friends. Each time you will start to think about it again — that you can do it again — because each time it just gets easier.

Kate:

Yeah. And you’ve had a lot of opportunities as this has continued to snowball, I guess I would say.

Amanda:

Yeah. The more and more people you meet, the more people that hear about it, friends and family members of those who are in your Gateway become interested and want to know a little bit more too.

So, yeah, it keeps the ball rolling.

And now I know the opportunities just keep expanding. There’s now the Advocates for [Practical] Homeopathy® group that is free to join for those who are wanting to maybe hold Gateway study groups and looking for some guidance, support and encouragement to get started. And really, it’s just all laid out for you.

Kate:

Yes. Yes. We have so many opportunities for those who want to do this and want help. Our Advocates for Practical Homeopathy® group is growing. And we’re right there to hold your hand and give you the tools that you need and support to lead those study groups.

Amanda:

I love that. That’s just such a gift because I know there’s a lot of people who say, “Well, I couldn’t possibly do that,” or “I don’t have the confidence.”

And let me tell you, I never did either. I definitely had to take some Gelsemium doses for anticipatory anxiety prior to sharing on Zoom or sharing speeches or whatever I do. Gelsemium has been my friend for that, so keep that one in mind.

I know — and likely many of the listeners as well know — that if you just learn the basics of some of these top remedies and how invaluable they can be to everyone, even if it’s just for first-aid situations.

I know Arnica can be such a lifesaver for trauma. My hockey-playing sons have used it more than a few times for concussions or Aconitum for shock.

Reminds me of a time I was dressing a nasty gash on my son. Meanwhile, his older sister almost hit the floor in shock.

Kate:

Oh, wow!

Amanda:

And Aconitum brought her down.

Or Hypericum even for pain. One instance was another daughter had excruciating tooth pain from clenching, and it stopped within minutes of Hypericum.

So, these top three marvels alone can do so much great work for healing.

And why is it so important? There’s a quote that comes to mind that I like to share in my Gateways, and it is by Robin Murphy, a great naturopathic physician and homeopath that I love.

And this is a condensed version of his quote, but he said, “The highest form of homeopathy is first-aid prescribing. If someone had a home remedy kit and knew what to do, this whole chain of health problems would never have needed to happen.”

So, I really believe the spread of this medicine can change the trajectory of health of our nations, in time.

And wouldn’t it be incredible to see the next generations get healthier and more resilient and living longer with a great quality of life?

Kate:

Yes, for sure. I love this podcast for that reason — that it reaches out to so many.

And I hope that the messages that you can do it, to Amanda’s story, and so many others that you hear on the podcast are examples of people who just want to learn. And they just take the first step of either joining a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group or leading one or reading the blogs and listening to the Facebook lives [Monday Night Lives], and it really is that simple.

So, Amanda, just appreciate you being here today and for sharing what you have and for the example that you are to so many that you can do it. And it just takes really the tenacity to take that step and start learning.

Closing advice

Kate: (27:31)

So, I’d love to get any final thoughts that you have as we end the podcast.

Amanda:

Sure. Thanks for having me, Kate. Thanks for all you do and spreading this far and wide.

I guess last thoughts, I’d say if Practical Homeopathy® has helped you or your loved ones, pass it on. Truly one of God’s gifts to us, and Hahnemann said that himself: God’s gift to man.

And it’s here for us to multiply. I’ve seen it firsthand in my own life, so I know that you will be blessed by sharing it with others.

Kate:

Wise words. Thank you so much, Amanda. Great to have you on the podcast.

Amanda:

Thanks for having me, Kate. It was an honor.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Disclaimer: Joette is not a physician, and the relationship between Joette and her clients, students and followers is not that of prescriber and patient, but that of educator and learner. It is fully the learner’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Joette presents. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” an illness; it addresses the entire person as a matter of wholeness that is an educational process, not a medical one. To be treated or diagnosed, Joette believes that the advice of a holistic physician is in order.
Claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. Not FDA evaluated.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/180-pets-parasites-practical-homeopathy/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Pets, Parasites and Practical Homeopathy®

01:38 Cooper’s doing the bum-scoot boogie

03:07 Symptoms are important, but sometimes a diagnosis is needed

05:26 The premier homeopathic medicine for parasites

07:14 Homeopathy doesn’t kill parasites

09:04 The same homeopathic medicine is for animals and humans alike

10:44 Choosing between a mother tincture or potentized homeopathic medicine?

11:31 Other remedies to consider

Parasites!

14:33 Would the whole family take this remedy?

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

16:10 Closing advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 180 with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Pets, Parasites and Practical Homeopathy®

Joette: (01:00)

Welcome, friends. I’m Joette Calabrese, and this is the Practical Homeopathy Podcast.

Today, we’re talking about something that makes people a little squeamish. We’re talking about worms — not earthworms — parasite-type worms. And we’ll be specifically about pinworms in this particular podcast.

Now, Kate is joining me with a case about a dog who has pinworms. So, Kate, let’s get started.

So, Kate has a dog. Kate, tell us about this dog. What leads you to believe that the dog even has pinworms?

Cooper’s doing the bum-scoot boogie

Kate: (01:38)

Yeah, his name is Cooper. He’s super cute. He’s a mid-size mix, about four years old. And it makes me a little embarrassed to share this, but for the last couple of weeks, he’s been scooting across the rug. You know what I’m talking about?

Joette:

I do.

Kate:

And I’ve seen him licking back there a lot, too.

Joette:

Yeah, don’t be embarrassed, Kate. No, no. Itchy bottoms have been around as long as there have been bottoms.

So, what else is going on with this Cooper?

Kate:

So, at night he seems restless, and I’ve been Googling a lot and trying to figure out what’s been going on. And everything I read points to him having pinworms.

Joette:

It’s not been officially diagnosed by a veterinarian?

Kate:

No, I haven’t taken him to the vet yet. It’s just the signs of the pinworm — or I assume that’s what it is.

Joette:

Well, assumptions are where we get into trouble. Have you actually seen pinworms?

Kate:

No, I looked, and I haven’t seen any of those white threads or anything yet, but I thought maybe I just missed them.

Joette:

So, what makes you think, though, that they’re pinworms, or maybe they’re a different kind of a parasite?

Kate:

Yeah, I guess it could be. It’s the scooting, the licking, and once I thought I saw something in his stool, but I don’t know for sure.

He’s a little hungrier than usual, and I know that can be a sign. I’ve seen him rub his face on the carpet like he does when …

Symptoms are important, but sometimes a diagnosis is needed

Joette: (03:07)

Like his nose itches, which is a part of this. Yes, yes, yes.

Kate:

Right.

Joette:

Well, listen, we really do go by observation. Symptoms are very important. We don’t want to make assumptions.

However, I have to say scooting — especially if it’s happening a lot — and the itchy bottom could also be anal glands. It can be something else entirely.

That’s why an official diagnosis is so useful. A fecal exam could tell you whether you’re dealing with worms at all, or if so, which kind.

Now, true pinworms, Enterobius, are mainly a human story. Dogs more often have other intestinal parasites, but the picture people describe — rectal itching (because this is a human concern, too), restlessness, sometimes grinding teeth, sometimes a ravenous appetite, or the other way around, there’s no appetite.

That picture is one homeopathy has spoken to for a very long time — and in people and in animals.

Kate:

So, you think I shouldn’t just treat Cooper based on what I think it might be … a hunch?

Joette:

Well, you can start observing, and you can learn. But these are medicines, these homeopathics. And I always prefer that we know a condition is present before we use a homeopathic.

Now look, if you’ve seen this before in him and you said, “Oh my goodness, I’ve had a diagnosis, it was … that’s exactly what it was before,” that would be a slam dunk.

If you had a number of dogs and the other dogs have had this, and you witnessed it a number of times, I think that that’s a pretty decent diagnosis.

It doesn’t necessarily need to be from a professional, but I do like to be as specific as we possibly can, mostly because I guess I’m gun-shy. I’ve heard far too many people say, “I have a thyroid problem.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, I think I have hypothyroidism.”

“Well, what do you mean you think? Has it been tested?”

“Well, no. But then I used the homeopathic medicines, and it made it worse.”

“Well, it’s probably because in the end it wasn’t a thyroid problem. It was maybe a polyp or mucus that was gathering at the back of the throat, and you were using the wrong medicine. And it can indeed confuse the picture and cause proving. So that’s why I like to emphasize the importance of really knowing what the condition is that you’re treating.

The premier homeopathic medicine for parasites

Kate: (05:26)

Okay. So, you’re saying that I should probably take him to the vet, and if it is worms, what would I use homeopathically? And then I’m concerned about my family, and what if we got these worms?

Joette:

You’re right. Yeah. That’s a concern. Yes. It’s not a horrible concern.

Pinworms are not very common in dogs in the first place, but you don’t want the … scooting across the carpet leaves the eggs behind on the carpet. That is something to be concerned about.

So, in my experience with clients, students, and even my own family — and yes, animals — the first medicine we would consider for parasites — pinworms or otherwise — is Cina, C-I-N-A.

So, people sometimes get this medicine mixed up with China, but don’t. It’s Cina.

And sometimes — just so that you know when you go to purchase it — it’s called Cina meritima or it’s Cina artemisia. It’s pretty much one in the same. They’re just different locales is the way that I remember this.

So Cina is [one of] a number of homeopathic medicines I consider for intestinal parasites such as pinworms. By the way, pinworms and threadworms are the same thing. Then, there are also roundworms in that whole gastrointestinal neighborhood.

You don’t need every keynote, my friends. And what I mean by a keynote, if you’ve studied homeopathy over any period of time and you have a materia medica, you’ll know that a keynote are the most noteworthy symptoms that the medicine addresses.

So, the grinding of teeth, itching of the nose, picking the nose — if it’s a child, picking the nose — itching of the rectum, I think we said earlier, a ravenous appetite … and those can all be there. They don’t all have to be. But sometimes all you know is … I just know that there are worms, and that’s good enough.

Homeopathy doesn’t kill parasites

Joette: (07:14)

So, homeopathy doesn’t kill parasites the way a vermicide does. I don’t know. I guess the best way to put it is it “evicts” them. It makes the body an unfriendly place to live, and then they leave.

That’s the idea.

And I’ve seen it work so many times. Sometimes, you can see the pinworms as they’re expelled. Sometimes you never see them again, and the symptoms simply abate and eventually — or maybe not so eventually — go away.

Kate:

So, how does that work if it doesn’t kill them?

Joette:

Well, it’s not a chemo — doesn’t burn. And sometimes, as I said, it will extract, but that doesn’t happen as often as you might think.

I guess the best way is just to repeat what I said. It nudges the living system, the gastrointestinal system, so the terrain is no longer hospitable, and the parasites leave, or they don’t propagate.

It’s not always, that I’ve noted, that you actually see an exit. Sometimes you can see the pinworms evicted rectally. But that’s one way you know the medicine is certainly acting, but it’s an eviction notice — not a pesticide. And the way that you’re going to know if you never see them is to just see that the symptoms start abating.

Conventional vermicides have that word that I caution people about all the time, “cide.” Vermicide. It’s in the name for a reason. We want the worms gone without treating the body like a battlefield.

Vermicide is a pesticide. “Verma,” meaning, well, vermin generally, but it actually means worms or parasites. And it can cause a lot of trouble, these kinds of drugs. Some people have no trouble at all, but for those who are sensitive, it can cause some pretty uncomfortable symptoms, if nothing else, as a side effect.

The same homeopathic medicine is for animals and humans alike

Kate: (09:04)

Okay. So, if my dog has these parasites, these worms, can I use the same medicine for a dog or a human?

Joette:

Yes. Yes. Homeopathy works on the same principle in animals as in people.

For pets with that parasite picture, I have long started with Cina and often in Cina mother tincture (so that would be MT). It’s been used for centuries for parasites in humans and animals.

And typically, it’s given twice daily for a minimum of two months. We must carry on for two months and stop with the animal — the dog — is very much better. Stop if there’s no change after a fair trial or if things have gotten worse.

I’m going to repeat that though, minimum two months, because that’s the life cycle. It’s a 30-day life cycle, and you need two 30-day cycles. Sometimes I go a little longer, even though the symptoms are much improved. Still, this is one of those situations in which you don’t go strictly by symptoms to know when to stop.

This is one of those situations that, if they are indeed parasites, you’re going to need a minimum of two months of using this.

I often use Cina in a potentized, which makes it purely homeopathic, and I use it in a 3C, a 6C. I’ve used it in a 30C, but I usually like to go with lower potency, like a 3 or a 6.

So, I urge it being used twice daily for minimum of two months, more likely three months because these parasites have a life cycle, and it’s, usually, it’s a 30-day cycle. But that means there are eggs. And just in case there are eggs that remain, by all means, I would carry on for the longer period of time just to be extra safe.

Choosing between a mother tincture or potentized homeopathic medicine?

Kate: (10:44)

Okay. So, I know you mentioned Cina mother tincture (MT) and then Cina 6 or 3. How do I choose which to use?

Joette:

Well, Cina mother tincture has been used for centuries. And of course, homeopathy has been used for at least two centuries as well. So, you really do have a choice.

Now, mother tincture means it’s in alcohol. So, if you don’t want the animal to get any alcohol, you wouldn’t put it directly into their mouth anyway. You’re going to put it in water, but they might not drink the water because of the taste.

That could preclude the decision, help make the decision, firm it up so that it’s pretty clear that we’re better off perhaps just using it potentized because then there’s no awful taste.

Kate:

So, if it’s for the dog, I could choose a 3C or a 6C potency.

Joette:

That’s what I would use. Yes, for a dog. Yes.

Other remedies to consider

Kate: (11:31)

And what if Cina — after that two to three months — what if the dog, I go maybe back to the vet and confirm that the dog still has these parasites, what would I do then?

Joette:

Well, let me just say that in my experience, it doesn’t fail.

However, should it fail, just be sure that … are you treating the condition you thought you were treating?

But then there is another medicine to consider, and that’s Teucrium, Teucrium marum. And the keynotes can include intense rectal itching — again, not a little rash itch, but more like a pinch itch. That’s the way it’s been described to me … and sometimes that shudder-like involuntary movement.

But Teucrium marum, twice daily for several months, has also been used in my practice.

Now, if Cina and Teucrium have both had their due time, a third consideration might also be Spigelia, Spigelia anthelmia [anthelmintica] 200C. And that’s also twice daily for several months because Spigelia too is noted for worms, including pinworms.

But I’m going to revert back again, and I’m going to say even with all of these medicines — I’m going to also talk about Sulphur here as well — Cina has not failed me.

I’ll give you one more medicine, just in case. So further down the line, if needed, Sulphur 30C can be considered when the itching has a burning quality.

Now, you wouldn’t know that if it’s a dog, but you may see it in other respects. They might have other aspects of Sulphur presenting.

They could be, maybe, a dirty dog. I mean, they don’t want to be washed, or you wash them, and they get dirty immediately. Or they’re very hot; they have an odor; they don’t like to be washed, et cetera.

So, I’m kind of giving you a broader picture of Sulphur, particularly because Sulphur is such a great homeopathic remedy on all fronts for many dogs — especially mutts — whether it’s for parasites or even other conditions. So, that’s why I wanted to spend a little bit more time on considering knowing how to use — or what is incorporated under — the category of Sulphur.

And one other thing: They could be a very lazy dog. They gobble their food. They have other skin conditions or itching.

So, those are the top medicines to consider. And again, I hope I’ve emphasized it enough that Cina usually does the trick.

Kate:

So, I think I’ve seen on your blog, Joette, that you’ve written about this as well. Would you recommend I go and do some more research there, or …?

Joette:

Well, definitely use my blog. There it is for the asking. It’s free. It’s readily available.

You can send people to it if they have a concern — or whether it’s on parasites or whatever it might be — but always read more on the topic, always. You want to know what you’re using because again, we don’t want to take this frivolously.

These kinds of conditions … they might be a little annoying, but parasites left untreated can cause more havoc than you might think in some people, in some dogs.

Would the whole family take this remedy?

Kate: (14:33)

So, if it’s confirmed that my dog has parasites, would I have the whole household take this Cina, or what would you suggest?

Joette:

Yeah, good question. So, pinworms can spread from animal to human. If one pet or one person truly has them, it’s not unusual for others in the household to have them as well.

So, hygiene still matters. Clean hands, clean nails. Don’t be reckless … shared bowls of popcorn.

Don’t become a prisoner of boiling every sheet at midnight, however, because that can drive you crazy. If you look up pinworms and what has to be done in a household to address them, you might be absolutely made into a neurotic mother.

It doesn’t take much because they talk about boiling the sheet every day. If it’s a family, if it’s a dog, then you’re boiling the dog’s bedding; you’re scrubbing all around the area. It’s really maddening.

Homeopathy, however, brings us peace of mind. And again, know what you’re treating. Often a test is using a tape test or a proper stool test is not old-fashioned.

It’s just clarifying, so you may want to go that far.

Kate:

Okay. So bottom line, my homework is: Get Cooper checked out and get a diagnosis.

Joette:

Yes, yes. And watch him. Write down what you see: the scooting, the licking, appetite, sleep, the visible worms, itchy nose, et cetera.

And then you and your veterinarian — if you study homeopathy or work with a homeopath who understands Practical Homeopathy® — you can choose from the knowledge instead of a late-night search on TikTok.

Kate:

Okay. Sounds great, Joette. Thanks for your help.

Closing advice

Joette: (16:10)

Alrighty. So, friends, let me say this plainly as we close. Often, an official diagnosis is important and helpful. It keeps us from treating the wrong thing. It keeps us from calling every itch, itchy rear end or itching anywhere else as pinworms. It gives the medicine a fair job and gives you a fair jump ahead.

You do not need to be frightened by parasites. The internet will try to frighten you: shopping cart handles, schoolyards, et cetera. Use common sense, wash your hands, observe.

And remember, we have a method that is gentle and, in my clinical experience, powerfully reliable when it’s used as a medicine and not as a usual or casual cleanse and not as a just-in-case.

So, my friends, you are capable: your care for your pets, for your family, your children. And your children will grow up watching you solve these conditions with this method, Practical Homeopathy®. And they’ll learn by watching because this is what their family simply does.

So, share what you learn with your family and friends and your children and grandchildren. Share your successes because with Practical Homeopathy®, you’ll be able to enjoy an itch-free life of health freedom.

So, if you know someone who might benefit from listening to this podcast, take a minute now and share this episode with them. And once again, thank you for being willing to ask the awkward question. And Kate, thank you for being willing to ask that question. That’s how families learn.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

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https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/179-nursing-faith-practical-homeopathy/

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58 Introduction: Combining Nursing, Faith and Practical Homeopathy®

02:49 Faith community nursing

10:33 Incorporating Practical Homeopathy® into nursing

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

12:15 Success Story: Aches, pains and anticipatory anxiety

14:09 Success Story: Eczema

Escape Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, Food Intolerances, and More with Homeopathy: Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

A Success Story: Atopic Dermatitis

JoetteCalabrase.com

Joette’s Learning Center

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

17:53 Jump. Leap into Practical Homeopathy®. Don’t look back.

20:19 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 179.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Combining Nursing, Faith and Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (00:58)

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast.

I’m Kate, and I am so glad you’re here with us today. This is the place where we show you how Practical Homeopathy® can become a real, everyday tool for taking care of yourself and the people you love.

Whether you’re brand new to homeopathy or you’ve been studying it for a while, these conversations in this podcast are meant to encourage you, equip you, and remind you that you are not alone on this journey.

Today, I have the pleasure of talking with Kena. Kena has been married nearly 40 years. She’s the mother of three adult children and a proud grandmother. Arizona has been her home most of her life, and faith, family and nursing have always been the foundation of who she is.

After years of working as a nurse, Kena discovered faith community nursing, and immediately, she knew it was where her heart for people and faith could come together. She’s currently serving as a volunteer faith community nurse in her church, caring for others physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Her path to homeopathy began when her aunt received a serious diagnosis and conventional medicine offered limited options. Watching her aunt improve with homeopathy and lifestyle changes lit a fire in Kena.

She spent years searching for solid homeopathic education until she found Joette’s podcast a little over a year ago, and she just recently finished The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

She’s seen beautiful results with homeopathy, and I can’t wait for her to share some of her stories, including a story about eczema. Her heart’s desire is to blend her nursing experience with Practical Homeopathy® so she can serve her family, friends, church, community and the next generation.

Kena, welcome to the podcast.

Kena:

Hi, thank you. Thanks for having me.

Faith Community Nursing

Kate: (02:49)

Absolutely. I can’t wait to get into your story.

So, let’s start out by — if you wouldn’t mind — sharing a little bit about your journey. And I’m really interested in that nursing component where you made a little bit of a shift after a career in nursing, and now you went into faith community nursing, and now that’s becoming integrated with your homeopathy education. So, talk to us a little bit about that journey.

Kena:

Sure. Interestingly enough, my mother was also a registered nurse, so it kind of runs in the family — or a miasm, I guess. (A little humor there.) But that to be said, I did traditional bedside nursing, medical floor, went through the AIDS epidemic at bedside, so it was really relevant to things that we’ve encountered in more recent years with that experience.

But somewhere along the way, I knew that I wanted to take the education I had and be of service to others outside the hospital setting, with people that would come to me saying, “Well, you’re a nurse, what do you think?” And I had to be so thoughtful about what to do with that.

So, I discovered that there was a way to combine that with my faith. It used to be called parish nursing, but they broadened that term to be called faith community nursing. And every state board of nursing is regulated differently, so it may not apply to every state.

In the state that I reside in, which happens to be Arizona, it is a recognized discipline and a scope of practice that they apply to nurses who want to pursue that to maintain an active RN license, which is what I chose to do.

And my reason for doing that was so that I could bridge the gap with the people that I had a lot of relationship and conversations with, within an appropriate way … in terms of how do I bridge the knowledge and experience I have with my nursing, coupled with the unique community that I have a relationship with.

In order to do that, there was a group — I don’t think they’re offering it now, probably because of funding — where I did some training that taught me basically how to apply my experience and knowledge in a faith community setting. And so that’s pretty much how I stepped into that … and to this day.

Kate:

So, for those people who might be listening to the podcast, and they’re a nurse, and they want to explore this option in their state or maybe even Arizona: What tips do you have to help them explore this option?

Kena:

Great question. There’s a couple of organizations. If you do an internet search and insert the term either “parish nursing” or “faith community nursing,” and a couple of organizations will pop up.

From there, you can read through educational opportunities. You can get very certified, so to speak. You can make it very technical, but it’s not required for all boards of nursing. It can simply be a declaration of what you’re doing.

Now, it is important for those that choose to do that, at least in my state, to keep records of your hours, whether you’re employed in that role or, in my case, I volunteer those hours. So, it’s recorded and documented to show that I’m actually providing that kind of education to the folks that I serve.

Kate:

That’s so interesting, and thanks for that information. I’m sure there are people who want to look into this.

What is the highlight of this new direction that you’ve gone with nursing and working with your faith communities?

Kena:

Highlight is, I think, it’s a really necessary gap. It’s a bridge of trust. And so, it also is very weighty in that I think it takes you to the highest standard of accountability personally, morally.

Kate:

Yes.

Kena:

I don’t know how else to say it. At least that’s how I feel about it.

Just because of the familiarity of knowing somebody, I always have in the back of my awareness that they’re viewing me through a different lens — a trusted lens. And it certainly is not my desire in any way, shape or form to ever needlessly betray that out of stepping out of my scope of practice when I’m in that role or otherwise.

Kate:

So, do you have any tips for nurses who want to do this now that you’ve made that transition and been doing this for a while?

Kena:

I think every individual is unique, and also how they connect that with their expression of faith.

But I guess for me, if I were to say, “tips” and put it in that way of thinking, I would say it has to come from your heart. It’s not just a technical skill. It’s not as simple as taking vitals at bedside, so to speak, or hospital-setting type interests. It’s a deeper level.

It has to be something where you feel really connected with from an innermost being, in service to others with respect to who they are, where they’re at, but also remembering it is still a scope of practice, and with that goes an understood code of conduct.

So, it doesn’t give you permission, so to speak, to step into clergy role unless it’s defined in some particular way by a body, I would assume, or a group. I don’t know.

In my case, it’s strictly understood when I do that in terms of more health education — a bridge of understanding — but someone that understands how that works within the expression of faith for that group.

So, I think it’s really important to be connected to the group and share a common set of values and stay within what is defined as within that group.

Kate:

What does that look like on a regular basis? Do you go to a building to see people? How do they come to see you, or do you go to their homes, or what does that look like?

Kena:

Typically, someone is reaching out by email, text, phone calls — all those kind of ways — and it can be all of the above. It could be a phone call; it could be an email.

Or, for example, a situation I can think of that illustrates this: They had their extended family member in a hospice setting. And so, I came in service as a faith community nurse to the congregational members to support them in terms of that environment. Even though they didn’t have a lot of questions, just to support them in that environment and answer any questions that would be helpful for them in that setting.

And so, that’s going to a physical place when that’s requested, or in the home or in the hospital. I’m very comfortable in that environment. And so sometimes, it’s just reassuring to have somebody that you kind of feel like is on your side that can bring clarity to what’s going on with respect to where you’re at at that time.

Kate:

Kena, this sounds so beautiful. I get chills just listening to you talk about this.

What if I’m a person who wants to, say, look for someone like that in my community … someone, a faith community nurse? How would I go about finding that? Do I talk to a local churches and just see if they know of anything, or how do I find someone like you?

Kena:

Well, that probably would be a bit of a challenge. I wouldn’t say it’s the majority of folks out there. In fact, a lot of nurses I’ve encountered had no idea that it even existed.

So, I think the first place I would stop … if I was really trying to choose, I would reach out to the state board and see if there’s any way that they provide a list.

If not, I would start out with my local place that I participate in, a place of faith, or ask if anybody there knew of a congregation of some sort that supported that.

But typically in my experience, nurses know each other. Word gets around. Especially if you say it’s a secret, we’ll find out.

Incorporating Practical Homeopathy® into nursing

Kate: (10:33)

All right, let’s transition a little bit because now you’ve been learning homeopathy for quite a while, and you’ve recently just completed the final exam for The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

It’s a whole new world that has opened up now that you’re not studying all the time, I can imagine.

So, tell me about how you are integrating homeopathy in with what you do, and what would you say that that advantage that that provides you and those that you help?

Kena:

Great question. First, I start with family. Always starts at home for me. I just absolutely believe that. If it’s not happening at home, I’m not really feeling too encouraged to take it anyplace else because that’s where my heart is.

So, for me, it’s been applying the principles of homeopathy and all the good it does for my immediate family and my extended family.

Then from there, in terms of how that extends further now with the faith community piece, my primary role is education and making people aware of options, choices, answering questions more so than anything else. It’s giving people the information that allows them to make a truly informed decision about their healthcare, what might be a fit for them or not.

For example, I’ve done this several times, and it feels so good when I can direct them to Joette’s website. They can read for themselves, and then, if they have questions, then they can refer those questions back to me for context.

So, it’s not a whole lot different than what I’ve done with the faith community nursing at bedside in a conventional setting. Now it’s a bridge of understanding from, I feel, trusted sources like Joette and The Academy to expand that knowledge when they’re making decisions about their well-being.

Success Story: Aches, pains and anticipatory anxiety

Kate: (12:15)

Yeah, that’s great.

So, speaking of starting at home, I know you have some stories to share.

Kena:

That’s true.

Kate:

So, would you just get into a couple of those ways that you’ve used homeopathy to help with various conditions?

Kena:

Sure. Try to go through every possible way it’s been used, but I’ll give you some quick ones.

I do have a few aches and pains here and there. I do a lot of physical work, and, so, I use Rhus tox, and it works for me consistently. I’m telling you, I feel like I’ve lost 10 years off of my body in terms of aches and pains. It’s just wonderful.

Here, though, we don’t get a lot of rain in Arizona. We talk about wishing for it often. When we do get what we call our monsoon season, it’s notable, and a lot of us feel it before it starts.

And so, Kali bichromium [bichromicum] to the rescue for headaches that I sometimes experience with the rare rains that we get … which was recent.

So, that was just about three weeks ago. I thought, “I know what to do for this.” And so, the rain is truly a blessing, with something to calm the other part that comes with it.

Another thing, which is so relevant … and I laugh: Before our recent exams, I thought, “Gosh, I think I’m really nervous about this. I haven’t been this nervous since I took my state boards for nursing a really long time ago.”

And so, I thought, “Wait, I know what to do for this.”

I took Gelsemium. And I am not making this up, guys — I know you all believe me — but after about three doses, I felt like I could think again. I almost didn’t recognize myself. I thought, “Gosh, guys, you say it, but this really works!”

I mean, it really worked. I felt about as calm as a person could.

Kate:

What potency did you use? Gelsemium 30?

Kena:

I did Gelsemium 30. I took it twice a day, and by the third dose the next morning, I could really tell that all was much better.

Kate:

Wonderful.

Success Story: Eczema

Kate: (14:09)

You also have a story about eczema, and it seems like so many people deal with eczema these days. So, share with us what you did for your granddaughter.

Kena:

One of the things that … I’ll just say she’s one of my “whys,” as you might imagine.

She has had quite a bit of issue with eczema since she was a toddler, I would say, that was distinguishable. It was brutal at times, all the way to waking up at night with the bleeding and all that one can know about that, either reading or experiencing it. It was heartbreaking to me.

And so, once we had enough information from our coursework, I knew exactly where I wanted to go with that. So, I introduced our granddaughter to the homeopathy, basically. (Parent approval … and that’s very important. You got to honor your family at all ages, including adult children.)

It was a slow process, but it started improving … started improving slowly, started improving slowly. Obviously, there’s dietary considerations and gut health issues there, but it got better and better and better. And it’s very minor now, is what I’m going to say.

And so, if nothing else was accomplished this whole year, just that for her is enough to bring tears to my eyes.

I feel like she got her life back. I’m so grateful. No words.

But yeah, the protocols work. Balancing that out with a bigger-picture course material — so important because everybody’s so unique in their situation. I just couldn’t be more grateful.

Kate:

So, for those people who might be listening and wondering, “How do I help my daughter or granddaughter or relative? What information can I share with them about eczema?”

Kena:

What I think is so important … and I’m going to go back to my roots about informed decision-making. I think education and information is a starting point. The “a pill for every ill” is not relevant here. It doesn’t work. But when you take it in context of reading and understanding from trusted resources, then you can step into what works more safely.

Instead of just throwing random darts at a wall, so to speak, you can have a strategic way to see if something’s working for your needs.

So, for example, if someone came to me and I didn’t have this experience and I hadn’t had the schooling yet, what would I do? Let’s say I was in the discovery phase of that. I would immediately go to Joette’s website. Why? Because I can reference material there and get context. If I felt like I had enough base on that to at least take steps forward, I might start there.

If not, I would reach out to see if there’s somebody they could recommend that could guide me in that process if I didn’t have a way to do that myself. That’s exactly what I would do.

Kate:

I know Joette has a blog called A Success Story: Atopic Dermatitis. People could just search for even “eczema” in the search function at JoetteCalabrase.com.

Also, I think the Allergic?! course is really great. Lots of information about allergies, eczema, and those kinds of issues. And I know that’s one of the courses that you went through in The Academy, Kena, correct?

Kena:

Yes.

Kate:

And that’s a course that you can take. You don’t have to go through The Academy to take that course. You can just go again to http://joetteslearningcenter.com/, and there you’ll find all of Joette’s courses.

And as you mentioned, if they wanted help because this is something that they didn’t feel like they wanted to take on, there are homeopaths such as yourself at http://findapracticalhomeopath.com/. You can go there and look at those who have graduated from Joette’s Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery and choose a homeopath that could help you.

Jump. Leap into Practical Homeopathy®. Don’t look back.

Kena: (17:53)

I’d also like to add, this has been quite a year of learning and growing filled with gratitude that will last the rest of my life. It will allow me to impact those that I most care for and those that I’m privileged to care for with what I feel are the best tools available.

However, one thing, if I could share with anybody who might be listening to this and even thinking about The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® or just taking an individual class: I did not have a wide background before starting.

I think I heard of Joette’s blog and podcast a few months before enrollment began, and I looked at it, thought about it, prayed about it, talked with my husband about it, and then I dove in.

And I could not possibly say enough that if you’re even slightly thinking about it, I’d encourage anybody to pursue it, to dive in with both feet, with both hands, whatever part of your body, jump, leap, don’t look back.

Why I say that is this: Everything that was shared to my experience has been true. When Joette says, “I know how to teach this,” she knows how to teach this. All different learners.

When it was emphasized your study group is so important, it’s the truth. It’s the absolute truth.

I learned so much and continue to from my study group classmates. I couldn’t have done it without them. I couldn’t have done it without … obviously, with The Academy, couldn’t do it without any of you. But it truly becomes a different family of care.

It’s a shared journey, and that alone is going to help you with anything else that’s going on in your life — not only for your own well-being — but putting you in a position to be of service to others in a way you couldn’t achieve any other way without this Academy.

Kate:

Oh, that’s so special. I’m glad that you shared that. It’s really exciting to hear students talk about their study groups and how close they’ve gotten with their study group members and how, like you said, it’s become lifelong friends and a second-almost family that they get to do life with and help each other and support one another, share information.

So, yeah, I’m so glad that you had that experience, and I can’t wait to see where this takes you in the future now. Hopefully you’ll be graduating soon. And then are you moving on to Mastery?

Kena:

I’m waiting to see how it turns out.

Closing advice

Kate: (20:19)

Okay. Well, so that decision is yet to come.

But do you have any final thoughts, Kena? I’m grateful for what you shared and wondered if you had anything else that you wanted to talk about before we end the podcast.

Kena:

No, just to say thank you from the bottom of my heart — and whether they keep it or not — Kate, you need to know what a blessing you are. You’re the person that I talked to first. You’re the person that I talked to a month ago, and now this is full circle for me, so my cup is overflowing. Thank you.

Kate:

Oh, you’re so sweet. Yes, you’re so welcome. It’s very special to be able to interview you and to watch you grow and see where this takes you. Thanks for sharing, Kena.

Kena:

Thank you so much.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Disclaimer: Joette is not a physician, and the relationship between Joette and her clients, students and followers is not that of prescriber and patient, but that of educator and learner. It is fully the learner’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Joette presents. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” an illness; it addresses the entire person as a matter of wholeness that is an educational process, not a medical one. To be treated or diagnosed, Joette believes that the advice of a holistic physician is in order.
Claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. Not FDA evaluated.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/178-types-of-sore-throats-homeopathic

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Types of Sore Throats and Their Associated Homeopathic Medicines

02:24 An easy go-to combination medicine for sore throat

04:09 A painful, fiery red, quick-onset sore throat

07:45 Infected sore throat with a splinter sensation

09:40 A sore throat with excessive saliva and odor

12:22 When to stop the chosen homeopathic medicine and when to pivot

13:42 Two more considerations and some supportive tips

14:49 A sore throat recap

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 178, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Types of Sore Throats and Their Associated Homeopathic Medicines

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I have a question for you, Joette.

Joette:

Let’s go.

Kate:

I’ve been thinking. A sore throat is one of those symptoms that seems so ordinary, yet it can keep you from everyday things like talking, eating, sleeping, even sometimes thinking clearly.

So, I want your perspective. When that annoying sore throat occurs, many people reach for lozenges, maybe a saltwater gargle, sometimes even an antibiotic.

Joette:

Exactly. But we know, of course, with Practical Homeopathy®, we have some really efficacious solutions. We don’t think of a sore throat as just a sore throat, regardless of the presentation. We often look at the kind of sore throat that’s in front of us.

Because a fiery red, sudden, painful sore throat is not the same as one that’s pus-filled, splinter sensation in the throat, and neither is the same as the one that makes the pillow wet from drooling.

They’re all a little different.

Kate:

I’d like to ask you, Joette, to give us some homeopathic solutions to different kinds of sore throats. Can we look at three very different sore throat pictures, and will you share the medicines that might match those pictures?

An easy go-to combination medicine for sore throat

Joette: (02:24)

Sure. I’ll give you some clear practical tools you can use the next time a sore throat shows up in your home. But let me also say, before I discuss the different types of sore throat, I’d like to share an easy go-to combination homeopathic medicine by Boiron. It’s called ThroatCalm®.

Now, I also have to say parenthetically, Boiron’s not the only manufacturing homeopathic pharmacy that we can buy combination medicines from. But this is just one of them that I’d like to talk about today.

So, these combination medicines, I think, have extraordinary value because they’re so easy to use and easy to share with loved ones and friends.

So, I’m looking right now at the back of the box of the product called ThroatCalm. Every ingredient is, of course, homeopathic. There’s also a spray that they call ThroatCalm Spray. And what’s interesting is that remedies that are in it are Echinacea 1X and Plantago major 1X.

Kate:

And that’s the spray, right?

Joette:

That’s the spray. Yes. I should have made that clear. Yes. Yes.

Kate:

I love these combination medicines from Boiron and other manufacturers, like you said, Joette, but can you share some specific types of sore throats now and what specific single homeopathic medicine we might consider for each of those types of sore throats?

And friends, I just want to mention that we’re coming into cold and flu season, depending on when you’re listening to this podcast, of course. So, I want to suggest that you have these medicines on hand so you don’t have to try to get them when someone comes down with a sore throat.

Joette:

That’s prudent. No doubt about it.

A painful, fiery red, quick-onset sore throat

Joette: (04:09)

So, the first homeopathic remedy I think of for a sore throat, especially if it’s really painful and fiery red, and especially if it has a quick onset. In other words, one minute the child or the person (whomever it might be) is fine, and then the next minute, oh my gosh, it is really, really painful.

And so, it’s a quick onset. It’s sore, it’s bright red, sometimes with high fever. Sometimes, it’s a high fever.

Now, if it’s an adult, usually there isn’t a high fever, but the face can be flushed, red — and face or skin. For those of you, my friends, who have been studying homeopathy, you probably already have figured out that it’s likely Belladonna.

So let me go further with it.

Tonsillitis, it can have that. There can be little or no pus. The throat might be dry, and it’s painful. Swallowing is painful. Even warm liquids can be painful.

So, you might think, “Well then, but why Belladonna?”

Well, it’s the first remedy to consider when the inflammation is intense, sudden-onset and dry and red.

And then the next question is, “Well, if I decide to use this, how do I administer it?”

Well, I like a 30th potency — 30C. If you happen to only have 30X, that’s really great. And it can be taken every four hours, for example.

At the height of pain — let’s say it’s very severe in the very beginning — you might use it every few hours, and for one to three days you might need to take it … to use it that long.

And a lot of times people think that if the first dose doesn’t do it, then it’s not working. No, you really need to show some repetition, not over a period of many days necessarily, but at least enough repetition to allow the medicine to act fully.

Kate:

I just want to clarify, Joette. You had said that you might take it up to maybe every two hours if it’s really painful, but you wouldn’t do that for three days.

Joette:

No.

Kate:

It’s generally, you’re going to see improvement, right?

Joette:

Yes. Yeah. I would like to see some improvement over a period of a day or so.

So, in the beginning, we might use it more frequently. And then as the symptoms back off a little bit — not just the pain in the throat, but also the well-being of the person (maybe they have a little more energy or the fever’s not as high or et cetera) — then we’re going to back off and use it less frequently.

One of my important teaching points is if it came on like a lightning strike and everything looks red and hot, Belladonna is a good medicine to consider. So, it’s a good way to differentiate from others.

Kate:

Okay. Do we have to have all of those symptoms that you just mentioned to warrant the use of Belladonna, or how do we determine how many of these symptoms we need to lead us to consider this medicine?

Joette:

Well, when I’m describing a homeopathic medicine picture, you don’t have to have all the symptoms to warrant the use of the medicine. But if this general picture occurs or develops — perhaps two to three of these or other symptoms — that might indicate the use of this medicine … actually could be a good indication that this medicine would be a good fit.

So, the symptoms I just mentioned are just a few of the keynotes of this medicine.

And as I always say, it’s always prudent to do your due diligence, my friends, and look up these homeopathic remedies in a materia medica. And if you don’t own one, you can look up one online for free. Just Google the name of the homeopathic medicine and the word “materia medica” and you’ll likely find some good information there.

Kate:

Okay, let’s go on to the second type of sore throat and what homeopathic medicine you might consider.

Infected sore throat with a splinter sensation

Joette: (07:45)

The next one is a sore throat that’s infected. There might be a splinter sensation in the throat.

First medicine that I think of for that is Hepar sulph. The full name of the remedy is Hepar sulphuricum calcaria [Hepar sulphuris calcareum], but Hepar sulph, for short.

So, in this information — this picture — we get severe, infected feeling. There can be swollen tonsils with pus or just plain old swollen tonsils. There might be a sensation of something stuck in the throat like glass or a splinter or even a fishbone. And the pain, often it can extend to the ears.

And when someone has this, we often see, not always, but we can see someone who might be irritable, or chilly, or worse from cold air or cold drinks, or warm drinks make them feel a little more comfortable.

So, let’s talk about why Hepar sulphuricum calcarea [Hepar sulphuris calcareum].

When the throat feels infected, and there’s a certain sensation to that … might say, “Well, isn’t Belladonna infected too?” Yes, but there’s a sensation, and the pain has a distinct, sharp, stuck quality.

And I also want to point out that the lymph nodes might be swollen as well (tonsils are lymph nodes) and not only on the inside, perhaps on the outside under the ears.

So, when we’re using this, the same general frequency, adjusted according to the intensity of the symptoms, as we discussed for Belladonna. Pretty much they’re all about the same.

So, let me give you one more teaching point. If the person is crabby or cold and describes a splint or a stick in the throat — just to reiterate it again — I want you to think of Hepar sulph.

Kate:

That stick or splinter feeling is such a great indication for that remedy.

All right, let’s move on to the third type of sore throat.

A sore throat with excessive saliva and odor

Joette: (09:40)

The third one has often a distinct set of symptoms. One of them is that the person can be drooling either in their sleep, or they find that they have excessive saliva, and they have to kind of suck the saliva in so that it doesn’t come out of the sides of the mouth.

There can also be bad breath. And some people call this the way it looks. If you look at the throat, it looks like pizza throat. And so, what that means is it looks like it’s all red and white and pussy, and it really looks bad. And when they open their mouth, there’s an odor.

The picture is that the glands are swollen, not unlike Hepar sulph, but there’s these other pictures that help you distinguish between the two. There’s raw, sore, smarting, burning throat, and it’s also pretty painful.

But in this case, there’s often a desire to swallow, sometimes even constant. Perhaps it’s because of the excessive saliva that’s being emitted from the mouth.

So, there can also be painful dryness of the throat. And again, the throat looks bright red and pustular and puffy, like pizza or macerated meat.

And again, profuse salivation that’s excessive. The pillow might be wet because of the drooling, and there might be a constant need to swallow. And again, there’s an odor from the mouth, and the voice might be rough and/or hoarse.

It might often be — if we need to use Mercurius — we’re going to be looking at how often it is worse at night.

So, just to reiterate a little bit, why Mercurius sol? There’s another name for another remedy that is very closely related. It’s called Mercurius viv. They are different homeopathic remedies, my friends, but they are so closely related that they’re pretty much interchangeable.

So, there’s excessive saliva, foul odor are prominent alongside the sore throat.

And how often is it used? Well, it’s usually used in a 30C. That’s the way I like to use it. Again, the same way that we would use Belladonna and Hepar sulph. And they space out and use the remedy less frequently as the condition improves.

So, just a little quick teaching point again — reiteration. If the pillow is wet and the breath is offensive, Mercurius is usually the remedy.

Kate:

And again, this is just a reminder that you don’t have to have every symptom Joette just listed to warrant the use of this particular medicine. We look at the overall picture, and if the sore throat has two or three or more of these indications, this could be the homeopathic medicine for the type of sore throat that you’re experiencing.

Joette:

Yes. And it’s always good to read up on that medicine again in the materia medica and see if the picture fits.

When to stop the chosen homeopathic medicine and when to pivot

Kate: (12:22)

Joette, can you explain how we know when to stop using a medicine if it’s not acting or when we would try a different homeopathic medicine?

Joette:

Well, when using homeopathy, especially in an acute situation such as this, we don’t keep repeating a medicine indefinitely hoping it will eventually work. For acute conditions, we generally give the chosen remedy a fair chance, often about four doses, based according to the intensity of the symptoms.

And if after those doses there is still no clear improvement — we want to see even just a tiny bit — we might stop that medicine and move to, perhaps, a better-matched one, one that is now presenting because the symptoms may have changed.

On the other hand, once we see that the remedy is acting and the person is becoming a little better or even very much better, then when it’s very much better, we’re going to stop using it because its work is done.

And then we should know that we go back to it again should it return, say, two or three days later.

The key is observation, my friends. Continue only while meaningful improvement is occurring and switch promptly when there is no response or the condition is very much improved.

Kate:

Okay, great. Are there any other medicines, Joette, that you want to mention for sore throat before we finish today?

Two more considerations and some supportive tips

Joette: (13:42)

Well, there are plenty of homeopathics that could be used for a sore throat, but let’s just go to two more because they’re pretty common.

One is Arsenicum album, and then Arsenicum album’s keynote is it has a burning pain. And often the person can be restless, and they can be chilly with a fever. They want a drink. They want a warm drink, and they want to sip it. They don’t drink long drinks; they drink little sips. So, Arsenicum album is another consideration.

Then another is Phytolacca, and that’s when the sore throat has a dark or red or purple hue to it, and the throat and body aches are prominent as well as the sore throat and, of course, then swollen glands.

So, in all of these, a good supportive measure is to gargle with warm salt water to keep the throat clean and don’t push foods.

If someone doesn’t have an appetite, it is an indication that they don’t need to eat, even if it goes on for a few days. Oftentimes, the body just needs to correct what’s going on, not to take on the digestion from eating.

A sore throat recap

Kate: (14:49)

Okay, so I want to recap what you just said, Joette: the three pictures that we covered today for sore throat.

The first is, of course, Boiron’s combination remedy ThroatCalm, and that covers a wide range of symptoms.

But the three specifically you spoke about: one is the Belladonna sore throat, which comes on suddenly. It’s dry and a fiery red sore throat.

The next is Hepar sulph, and that is often a pussy, has a splinter sensation, and the person is irritable and chilly.

And the third is Merc sol or Merc viv. And that might be indicated by drooling, bad breath, and a puffy or pizza-looking sore throat.

You also mentioned that the person should stop taking the homeopathic medicine when very much better or after about four doses if the condition shows no improvement, and at which point, we reassess and pivot.

Joette:

Yes. Yes, I would say that’s a really good recap, Kate.

So, when you see the difference between these presentations, you can stop guessing and start matching the correct homeopathic remedies with how the sore throat presents.

And I’d like to ask that if you found this podcast helpful, friends, please consider sharing it with a friend who may need this information. They’ll not only thank you, but then, you’ll have a friend in alignment with the way you are thinking and being able to share this kind of information back and forth can really encourage your learning curve.

So, until next time, keep your kits stocked and your observation skills sharp.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Disclaimer: Joette is not a physician, and the relationship between Joette and her clients, students and followers is not that of prescriber and patient, but that of educator and learner. It is fully the learner’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Joette presents. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” an illness; it addresses the entire person as a matter of wholeness that is an educational process, not a medical one. To be treated or diagnosed, Joette believes that the advice of a holistic physician is in order.
Claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. Not FDA evaluated.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/177-children-practical-homeopathy/

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58 Introduction: Raising 11 Children With Practical Homeopathy®

02:11 It all started with autism

03:06 The mystery of the little tubes

Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, Food Intolerances, and More with Homeopathy: Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

03:56 Then came the Gateway community

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

04:36 On to The Academy and Mastery

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:21 Using homeopathy for snake bites and autism

The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

08:55 Maintaining a calm presence through it all … even the scary bites and stings

10:42 Success Story: Dog poisoned with xylitol

11:42 Success Story: Gallstones

12:56 Success Stories: Injuries

16:36 Success story: A burn from boiling water

18:00 Closing Advice

Joette’s Mighty Members

Mighty Members Plus

Joette’s Protocol Courses

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 177.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Raising 11 Children With Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m thrilled you’ve joined us today for this podcast. I think you’re going to find this particularly interesting because it will have you on the edge of your seat and give you some ideas that you can use in some scary situations.

So, today I have the pleasure of introducing you to Mary. Mary has homeschooled 11 children, and she is now thoroughly enjoying her 10 grandchildren. She has a deep love of learning and an affection for classical literature.

So, today in this podcast, Mary will be sharing her extensive experience with acute trauma cases — as you would expect with having 11 children, right? Mary has handled snake bites, scorpion stings, brown recluse spider bites and a wide range of sports injuries, always with a calm presence with homeopathy coming to the aid.

And it all started with autism. So, Mary, welcome to the podcast.

Mary:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

I’m so glad you’ve joined us, Mary. Thank you for doing this. You have many interesting things to share. So, let’s get started with how you came to homeopathy.

It all started with autism

Mary: (02:11)

All right. It all started with our twin daughters acquiring autism after they had their infant shots. And I found out our family was sensitive to pharmaceuticals, so we had to find a way to take care of our family’s health.

I first started learning about herbs and added essential oils in, but I became really curious about homeopathy. It just worked so well. It was very efficient.

First time I used it was for my son, and he was getting injured in wrestling. So I went to the store, and someone helped me find something for that. And she pointed out homeopathy, and she gave me two vials of homeopathy. And I brought it home, and it must have worked because he ended up asking me for more.

Kate:

Wow!

Mary:

Yeah, right? A high school boy asking for more homeopathy.

Kate:

Yeah.

Mary:

Yeah. So, I thought, “Oh, maybe it’s time to learn this.”

Kate:

Maybe.

The mystery of the little tubes

Mary: (03:06)

It was a mystery to me … all the little tubes. That was around 2006.

And so, we went to a classical homeopath to get some help, and she was a sweetheart. She was really good at it because she taught it, but I wanted to learn more. She helped me with some acute situations, but I thought there was more I wanted to learn.

And then another friend showed me Joette’s website. The first course I took was Allergic?! because my food allergies had gotten so bad I needed to do something.

And I fell in love with Practical Homeopathy® because it was a way I could learn it and get pretty well caught up in learning it quickly. It was usable, and my food allergies started to go away.

So then, of course, I was using it with the whole family for their allergies also. We just saw it; we made some really great gains in the allergy area.

Then came the Gateway community

Mary: (03:56)

In 2020, I started leading Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups, and I continued to do that because I really love it. And I have some of the same people from that time keep taking it over and over again, and we keep learning.

Kate:

Do you find that you’ve really built a community that way by doing those?

Mary:

Absolutely.

Kate:

Yeah.

Mary:

It’s been really sweet. Even the people that don’t keep doing the groups, I still hear from … how they’re doing. My husband and I are thinking about doing a trip to where we can see a whole bunch of people from my …

Kate:

From your study groups? Oh, how exciting.

Mary:

Yeah. And go out east and do that. Yeah, that would be very fun.

On to The Academy and Mastery

Kate: (04:36)

So, you were leading these Gateway study groups, and then I know you’ve gone into The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and graduated, and now you’re in the Mastery program. So, tell me what led you to do that.

Mary:

So, after I took the Allergic?! course, I started taking Joette’s courses — one or two a year. I think I took six courses. One of our daughters ended up in the hospital with ITP, which is idiopathic thrombocytopenia. And I couldn’t crack the case.

APH … I knew it was available, and I was talking to my husband about it because I wanted to learn more. I wanted to be able to take care of our family even better than I had been taking care of them with homeopathy.

Kate:

Yeah, you wanted to have more knowledge.

Mary:

Yes, I really needed more. And the amazing thing was there are points in The Academy … things that I learned that helped me to take care of my daughter.

At first, it seemed like she’d have to stay on this medicine the rest of her life, and now she does not have to be on those medicines for the rest of her life. And homeopathy took care of her issue, and it’s because of The Academy.

Kate:

Wow.

And now you have a whole ‘nother group of study group friends that you’ve gotten throughout the years of being in The Academy and Mastery, right?

Mary:

Yes. I’m so excited that three of the people in my study groups are in this year’s Academy. I’m so excited for them.

Kate:

Oh!

Mary:

So much fun learning. So, yeah.

Using homeopathy for snake bites and autism

Kate: (06:21)

So, Mary, you’ve had so many experiences. It’s hard to know what to ask you about first.

But maybe let’s dive right into snake bites because you’ve had several instances of those, unfortunately, in your family. So, talk to me about how you handled those situations.

Mary:

We’ve had snake bites, spider bites and scorpion stings. And I have used The Survivalist Guide as a start on how to take care of those. And it’s been really, really helpful here in Texas.

Kate:

Yeah. So, your daughter was actually hospitalized, and you didn’t know it was a snake bite at first, right?

Mary:

Correct. Yeah. She was hospitalized with what they said it was idiopathic thrombocytopenia, and her platelet counts was down way too far.

And so, they worked on it in their paradigm, but the medicine would make her autism worse. She was just sitting on the couch staring. So, I knew I had to do something else because I didn’t want her going backwards in her development.

So, I got in The Academy, some of the things in the Organon lessons and learning about the remedies helped me to figure out what remedy would help her to get over this. And now it’s not a problem for her. She doesn’t need to be on the medicines.

Kate:

And I think you said earlier that they said she would have to be on this medicine for the rest of her life.

Mary:

Yes, they did. And that’s why I was like, “No, no, no, no. I can’t have my child going backwards.”

We worked a long time with her for her autism, and she made so many great improvements that I couldn’t watch that.

Kate:

And so, we had said earlier in the podcast that this all started with autism. So, talk to me about how you’ve helped your daughters with autism.

Mary:

We have used homeopathy for that, and it’s actually the same remedy that I used for Katherine with the ITP. And I’ve been seeing them continue to improve and learn more.

We just visited family last week for a wedding, and people were commenting on how good the girls were doing that they were shocked. How they can cook and clean, do laundry. They’ll remind me of things that need to be done.

And their reading level is great. We also did a neurodevelopmental program with them for years, so that gets some of the credit, but homeopathy is helping them to continue to develop well.

Maintaining a calm presence through it all … even the scary bites and stings

Kate: (08:55)

Yeah. You’re amazing working with two autistic daughters — and all 11 of your children actually — and homeschooling, and all that you’ve done. It’s really incredible.

And what strikes me about these situations — and we’re going to talk about a few more of them — is that you seem to handle this with such a calm presence. I mean, you’re talking about snake bites, scorpions, all these things. And to me, that sounds terrifying, you know?

How do you do it? How do you handle these situations so calmly?

Mary:

I really give that credit to God for keeping me calm during these situations. I just have the presence of mind to know what to do, but that is because I have been learning it. Learning about the remedies. Learning what they’re for, and not being afraid to use them. And I think that’s kind of a key.

We’ve had a brown recluse bite and used Lachesis. Grandson had a black widow-relative bite, and I helped them out with their remedies for that.

Kate:

Scorpion bite.

Mary:

Oh, yeah, the scorpion sting. And we used the scorpion remedy for that one.

And like Ledum, which is great for puncture wounds. So Ledum’s always up there with all those bites.

You can always give Ledum. Ledum for ticks, Ledum for snake bites, puncture wounds, dog bites, because we’ve had a dog bite too. I forgot.

Kate:

Oh, my goodness.

Mary:

Yeah, we had a dog bite.

Kate:

So, it sounds like Ledum has had a big presence in your family’s life.

Mary:

Yeah. We’ve also used it for old puncture wounds too … ones that are older. And they’ve helped the family … that have helped with that a lot.

Success Story: Dog poisoned with xylitol

Kate: (10:42)

So, let’s move on to your dog, because I hear there was a situation where it was very serious.

Mary:

Yes. Jax, the dog, got into some xylitol gum. It was quite a bit.

He came downstairs, and he started throwing up and having diarrhea at the same time. And then he collapsed.

And my daughter called me and said, “Mom, Jax … he’s dying. I don’t know what to do.”

So, we used Aconitum and then dosed Arsenicum — and she was dosing it frequently. And after an hour, he was able to get up and go outside.

And normally xylitol gum will kill a dog, and he was on his way.

So, Joette was laughing about him being the gum-chewing dog.

Kate:

Well, I mean, I guess it wasn’t funny at the time, but …

Mary:

It wasn’t funny, but he’s still around, and he still tries to get into things. But we don’t have xylitol gum in the house anymore.

Success Story: Gallstones

Kate: (11:42)

Yeah. That’s amazing.

Okay. How about gallstones?

Mary:

Gallstones. So, this was my big win with my husband because he wasn’t quite sure those little sugar pills were doing anything.

And he had a stone that must have been horrible because he just asked me to take him to urgent care.

So, he went to urgent care, they gave him some morphine. And I think that helped relax him, and the stone passed.

I had some remedies ready, but I didn’t have the whole Banerji Protocol yet.

So, he appreciated the relief, but then he did not like the effects of morphine. And so, the next time he was ready to go with the homeopathy. I had it ready to go for him, and we used it, and the events became fewer.

The time where it was hurting became less, and now he doesn’t get them anymore. And the option that the doctor had given him was to take out his gallbladder, and he didn’t want to do that.

So, that was his big win. That made him see that homeopathy is really terrific and can work well. I mean, he saw it with some of the children, but sometimes it helps to have your own experience with it to know that it works well.

Success Stories: Injuries

Kate: (12:56)

Right. All right. Let’s move on to sprains and concussions and talk about some of those things.

Mary:

Sure. So, our son. He sprained his ankle playing baseball, and he’s limping back to the car. He takes his shoe off. His ankle quickly swells up.

I had my remedies in the car ready to go. So, we started dosing on Arnica and Ruta. And by the time we got back home, it was pretty sore. It wasn’t as swollen. And the next day he could put on those athletic sandals to go to practice to just watch.

Kate:

Wow.

Mary:

Yeah. Three days later from the sprain, he was able to get his shoe on. I mean, he could do it the day before, but he was able to get his shoes on and go practice gently.

So, by the next week, there was no problem with his ankle whatsoever after taking the remedies.

And because he grew up in our family, he knows how to take the remedies. He knows how to take them well, and he does it on his own now, which is really amazing.

Kate:

Awesome. So, your husband’s on board; your son is on board.

Mary:

Yes.

Kate:

Yeah. And then concussions.

Mary:

Okay, concussions. I was in a car accident during APH and hit my head twice. Car hit me going 40 or 50 miles an hour.

Kate:

Oh, wow.

Mary:

The remedies were just amazing. I took Arnica to start healing the brain right away.

There were remedies that I took for memory. There were remedies I took for depression because a friend warned me. She said, “Mary, you might get depressed after a concussion at some point.” So, I knew in APH what I could take for that also.

I think I healed up pretty well considering my age. Every once in a while, my neck might hurt, and then I take something for that.

But for the concussion part, I think I’m pretty well healed up.

And our daughter has gotten concussions from judo, from hitting her head. We’ve used it for her.

And then my husband, he had an event where he gets vasovagal syncope. So, he passes out if he laughs too hard …

Kate:

Oh, wow!

Mary:

… because he has had asthma before. I think it shuts him down because it thinks something is dangerous.

So, when I was in Chicago visiting our daughters, and he was here, he was laughing at a video and stood up because he couldn’t breathe and fell back and hit his head on the bookshelf. And he woke up in a pool of blood.

And one of the twins with autism knew where to find the remedy I told her to get. She got Arnica, and she gave him the Arnica.

The bleeding was slowed down quite a bit. And then, my other daughter came home, and she gave him Aconitum.

And it was amazing talking to him on the phone because it just … all of a sudden, I could tell his head cleared. He could think about what he needed to get done. He needed to get to the doctor to get the wound closed.

So, it ended up being an eight-staple wound on his head. And our girls took care of him with homeopathy.

They stayed with him in the hospital to make sure he had an advocate there. And it all turned out really well.

This happened on a Friday, and he was able to go to work with a clear head on Monday.

Kate:

My goodness.

Mary:

Yes. I know, right?

Kate:

Such quick recovery in your family.

Mary:

Yeah, it’s been really good. I mean, he needed a little bit going forward for a little while, but really not very long. So, it’s so cool. Such a great medicine.

Success story: A burn from boiling water

Kate: (16:36)

Yeah. So, what else have you done?

Mary:

Recently, my daughter was boiling noodles for spaghetti, and her hand slipped on one of the handles, and it dumped on her stomach. And she had this huge burn spot.

So, I went over and grabbed the Cantharis and Hypericum and Aconitum and gave her the Aconitum for the fear, to help clear her head.

And myself, I gave myself some, too, because it helps for the person taking care of them too —to have that Aconitum. It just helps you think clearly.

So, I alternated Hypericum and Cantharis, and I touched her stomach, and it was warm. After I would give her the Cantharis, it was cool. It was amazing to find that out, that part of Cantharis, that it will cool the burn.

She didn’t end up having a big blister. There was just a little scab in the middle where it had been the worst. And then, it would’ve been good to keep dosing Cantharis.

After we were done with the Cantharis and the Hypericum, I used Calendula and comfrey salve to finish the healing. And then the skin just was lightening up.

It’s very small now, which is quite amazing considering it was boiling water. I mean, it made the kitchen tiles hot to walk on.

She still cooks and boils noodles.

Closing advice

Kate: (18:00)

Mary, you have shared so many things with us, and I know that you have so much more that you could go into. But I want to ask now that you end this podcast with some words of wisdom that you have for the listeners, because really I’m amazed at all you’ve accomplished, both with your family and with homeopathy.

So, what advice do you have to share with those who are listening today?

Mary:

I would say to learn about homeopathy as much as you can. You can never stop learning about it. And the benefit to your family and your friends is enormous.

So, there are so many options with Joette to learn at the level that you are. You could start with study groups. She’s got Mighties. She’s got Mighty Members Plus. She’s got courses to take.

And eventually, if you wanted to go to The Academy, I’d highly recommend it. It’s fantastic. And Mastery is super wonderful.

And if you need any help, there’s plenty of Practical Homeopaths™ now available to help you on your walk through learning homeopathy and getting help for … You know, sometimes we just need a little help — it’s a little more than we can handle — and we can get advice from other people too.

Kate:

So, what Mary was referring to was https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/. You can go there and find those people who are leading study groups or seeing clients that have graduated from the Academy/Mastery programs.

So, Mary, I really appreciate you taking the time to share with us from your many years of experience. It’s been a pleasure having you, and I’m excited to see what your future holds. And hopefully you won’t have any more emergencies that you’ll need homeopathy, but we know that that is what happens in life.

So, I’m so glad for this medicine, and I know you are as well.

Mary:

Yes, I am so thankful for it. It’s God’s medicine, right?

Kate:

Yeah.

Mary:

It’s a special blessing He’s given to us, and we can take advantage of it and learn it and use it.

Kate:

Yeah. And I like what you said to me earlier, Mary, that people should just start now. That’s your advice. So, I think that’s wise, wise words.

So, thanks for joining us on the podcast today, and we’ll see you next time.

Mary:

Okay. Thanks, Kate.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Disclaimer: Joette is not a physician, and the relationship between Joette and her clients, students and followers is not that of prescriber and patient, but that of educator and learner. It is fully the learner’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Joette presents. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” an illness; it addresses the entire person as a matter of wholeness that is an educational process, not a medical one. To be treated or diagnosed, Joette believes that the advice of a holistic physician is in order.
Claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. Not FDA evaluated.

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Diarrhea: Specific Symptoms Indicate Specific Homeopathic Medicines

01:33 Homeopathy: the little nudge the body needs

02:57 Intense diarrhea? Veratrum album

04:12 Burning diarrhea from food poisoning? Arsenicum album

05:25 Gurgling, explosive diarrhea? Podophyllum

06:32 Great loss of fluids? China

07:20 How to use homeopathic medicines

09:04 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 176, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Diarrhea: Specific Symptoms Indicate Specific Homeopathic Medicines

Kate: (01:00)

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate.

Today, Joette will be tackling a topic that’s equal parts common and uncomfortable. Yes, it’s diarrhea. But don’t worry, we’re keeping things light and practical.

Joette, are you ready to help our listeners feel empowered instead of panicked the next time the tummy rumbles?

Joette:

Yes, Kate. Yeah, let’s turn those bathroom dashes into a thing of the past with a little — I don’t know — I guess I’d call it “homeopathic know-how.”

Homeopathy: the little nudge the body needs

Kate: (01:33)

Agreed. Okay, so how about we start with the fundamentals? For anybody who might be new to this podcast, can you explain a few of the basics about homeopathy and why it’s such a game changer for issues like diarrhea?

Joette:

Yeah, absolutely. Let’s get started.

So, homeopathy is based on the principle “like cures like.” We use highly diluted, potentized — which means it’s highly diluted — medicines from natural substances that in larger amounts might cause similar symptoms.

But in these tiny, micro or nanodoses, they very gently nudge or stimulate the body’s own ability to heal itself.

And these medicines … they have been helping families for over 200 years. There are no side effects, just smart support that works with the body.

It’s actually our first stop for all sorts of woes, including belly troubles. Think of it as giving your system the precise little nudge or whisper it needs to remember its own ability. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

Kate:

Yes. Oh, I love it.

Okay. It also empowers us, I would say, to handle things at home, and so helps alleviate that fear that we don’t have something to help.

Intense diarrhea? Veratrum album

Kate: (02:57)

So, we’re going to get practical right now. What are the top medicines for diarrhea, and how do we match them to the various kinds of diarrhea that one might experience?

Joette:

Okay, first, let’s talk about Veratrum album — two words: Veratrum and then the word album — for the more intense cases. Doesn’t have to be intense, but we know that if it is intense, we are going to be thinking about this.

So, there might be severe, voluminous diarrhea, even with vomiting or nausea, cold sweats, clammy skin and weakness. There’s kind of a real weakness. It’s an in-depth weakness. It’s the big debilitating picture.

And often I’ve paired it with Cuprum metallicum — two words, Cuprum metallicum — in a Banerji-style approach for cramps.

So, Veratrum album steps in like, I guess I’d call it a “steady hand,” helping restore balance and strength. Used judiciously and hydrate well and watch what I’d call the “bounce back.”

Kate:

It’s pretty incredible. I’ve used Veratrum album many a time in our family for this condition, and it is a game changer. Absolutely.

Burning diarrhea from food poisoning? Arsenicum album

Joette: (04:12)

Yeah. Then we have another remedy that I like to consider, and that’s Arsenicum album. So, we have Veratrum album and Arsenicum album.

And so, Arsenicum is my hero for diarrhea that feels like food poisoning or something that didn’t sit right.

So, think frequent, watery stools with burning — often there’s burning. It can be at the site, or it could be in the belly. It could be burning anywhere in the body.

Plus, a sense of restlessness and anxiety. And sometimes the person can be chilly, and they want warmth. And often, they’re thirsty, but not for thirst in large, long drinks, but rather for small sips.

So, Arsenicum album. When used every hour or so at first — and then spacing out as it improves — it can calm this kind of a storm beautifully. I’ve seen it rescue many on a vacation or a questionable dinner out, for example.

Kate:

Good to know, especially for those travel tummy surprises.

So, I keep Arsenicum album in my bathroom — just in case — and emergency homeopathic kit for any issues with food that might not be sitting quite right.

What’s next?

Gurgling, explosive diarrhea? Podophyllum

Joette: (05:25)

Another homeopathic medicine that’s really great is Podophyllum.

And just so you know, for those of you who are new, these are all Latin terms because this is science, and so we are using the Latin words. It is phonetic. So, Po-do-phyl-lum. Podophyllum.

And this is perfect for explosive episodes. Profuse, watery. Sometimes the stool is yellowish or greenish with lots of gurgling and rumbling beforehand.

Now, when we are looking at Podophyllum, we’re thinking that it’s often painless, but urgent. It can be quite striking, especially in the morning. It’s great for kids or after too much fruit, which is a questionable behavior anyway.

Podophyllum 200 turns Niagara Falls back into a gentle stream. So, if your toilet’s suddenly a waterpark, this one’s your friend. Really makes it memorable.

Kate:

Waterpark? Think Podophyllum.

Joette:

Right, right.

Kate:

Okay. So, we need to keep that in our kit as well. Any other remedies we should consider?

Great loss of fluids? China

Joette: (06:32)

Yes. We want to also keep in mind that the homeopathic medicine China … sometimes it’s known as cinchona bark, but it’s China. They’re two names for the same remedy. China 200, which I think can be really great for a loss of fluids.

So, I want you to know that this is not just for a loss of fluids through diarrhea. It can be a loss of fluids through perspiration that’s associated, for example, with some of the other medicines — with Veratrum album, for example. Or loss of fluids even if there’s a lot of coughing and mucus is lost.

We think of China for loss of fluids. And let me also say parenthetically, China’s a great remedy for loss of blood from an accident or even heavy menses.

So, remember China or Cinchona in a 200 is really great for this condition.

How to use homeopathic medicines

Kate: (07:20)

So, we have to keep these medicines on hand.

Could you give us a quick reminder on how to use these homeopathic medicines for those who may be new to homeopathy?

Joette:

Well, the first place to start is to match the symptoms to the homeopathic remedy. Because as you can see, each of these remedies have specific characteristics, just like the person who’s suffering has specific symptoms.

So, we start with a 30C, often for most acute cases and repeat as needed based on the improvement.

Remember in homeopathy, less is more.

And we stop when the symptoms ease up. And we always combine these remedies with rest, the correct amount of fluids and common sense.

Don’t expect to have an appetite. People often say, “But I haven’t eaten in three days.” Well, that’s because the body is not ready to do that. So, we follow what the body’s telling us to do.

And “I can’t get out of bed.” Stay in bed then. Your body’s telling you, you need to do that.

So, if it’s severe, of course we’re going to seek professional care.

But homeopathy works with the body, not against it. And we can often take care of a lot of these conditions on our own without any medical intervention.

Kate:

Such wisdom as always, Joette.

So, remember, as she said, if you are experiencing severe symptoms and it’s a medical emergency, we always recommend that you do go to the hospital or to your physician and get help.

But this is why we love our homeopathics … that oftentimes, we can avoid those things. So, we have our medicines with us, and we’re ready if the diarrhea or the waterpark begins.

Closing advice

Kate: (09:04)

Any final thoughts or encouragement for the audience before we wrap up?

Joette:

I think of one of the most important concepts that I have not made clear here, I don’t believe — so, I want to make a point of it: And that is we needn’t know whether it’s amoebic, whether it’s viral, whether it’s bad food, whether it’s from the weather change. That can be useful in determining which medicine to consider, but we don’t really need to know what the microorganism, for example, is that’s causing this.

If we have that information, okay, we can consider that. But long before there were microscopes or anything in order to determine which microorganism might be causing this, we were able to — “we” meaning homeopaths — were able to determine which homeopathic medicine to use.

Because again, it’s based on “like cures like,” not “specific microorganism causes this or that, hence it must be dealt with differently.”

So now let’s get back to the subject at hand again, and that is that diarrhea might try to crash the party, but with Practical Homeopathy® and a very well-stocked kit, you’ll be equipped to send it packing.

Stock those remedies. Study the symptom pictures. I mean, just study them right then and there while this is going on. And don’t take wild guesses. Really look at the differentials between the remedies that we just discussed today and keep empowering your family.

Kate:

Absolutely. So, just to summarize this episode today, we’ve covered the basics of homeopathy that like cures like in potentized form, and it gently supports your body’s own healing.

And we highlighted three powerhouse remedies:

Veratrum album for severe depleting storms, you might call them. The Arsenicum album for burning, anxious and food-related upsets, and Podophyllum for the gushing, gurgling episodes.

Joette, thank you so much for sharing with the listeners today. And listeners, if you’ve enjoyed this podcast, please share it with a friend and check out Joette’s other offerings on https://joettecalabrese.com/or https://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Join our community. We have so many amazing people. They’re all learning together.

Joette:

Thanks, Kate. Until next time, stay prepared. Keep your remedies ahead and keep your powders dry.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

Disclaimer: Joette is not a physician, and the relationship between Joette and her clients, students and followers is not that of prescriber and patient, but that of educator and learner. It is fully the learner’s choice whether or not to take advantage of the information Joette presents. Homeopathy doesn’t “treat” an illness; it addresses the entire person as a matter of wholeness that is an educational process, not a medical one. To be treated or diagnosed, Joette believes that the advice of a holistic physician is in order.
Claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. Not FDA evaluated.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/175-sinus-infections-stuffy/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Sinus Infections and Other Stuffy Situations

02:00 What is Practical Homeopathy®?

03:33 A closer look at Boiron’s SinusCalm®

SinusCalm®

08:18 Using a homeopathic repertory

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

11:30 Closing Advice

JoetteCalabrese.com

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 175, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Sinus infections and other stuffy situations

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back, everyone, to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. In today’s episode, Joette will be talking about how we handle stuffy situations, you know, the ones that require endless tissues, nasal rinses, maybe a hot shower to get relief from the steam, and anything else that brings comfort to help with the pain and congestion of a sinus infection.

And worse yet, sometimes those sinus infections can even go to our ears and cause earaches.

Joette, sinus infections seem to last a lifetime when we’re experiencing them, and if it’s allergy season, that can make it even worse.

Joette:

Yes, I suffered for years from allergic states, but now I no longer suffer. I don’t at all, actually.

We have our homeopathic medicines that we can turn to … should I need to. But it’s so occasional now, I might use a dose or two, and it’s gone for another year.

So, we don’t have to sit in a stuffy suffering or resort to drugs.

What is Practical Homeopathy®?

Kate: (02:00)

I think you should take a minute, just talk about what is it that you’re referring to when you refer to homeopathy?

Joette:

Yes, because I’m not referring to just any homeopathy. This is different. What I teach is a method that I call Practical Homeopathy®.

Why we call it that is because it’s straightforward. And it’s protocol driven, which means that there’s a specific condition, then we use a specific homeopathic remedy. The potency and frequency are often baked into the whole protocol.

And it makes it easy for families to confidently use homeopathy instead of wondering, “Oh my. What remedy again? What potency? What frequency? How often should I be using this?”

I make it extremely easy. It’s like a recipe of sorts. When the symptoms first start presenting, you can address them right away, even if you have a few remedies or a small kit at home.

And I hope that, should this condition plague you or someone in your family, that you have these medicines at home already. Because there’s nothing worse than saying, “Okay, I know what to use, but, ohhhh, I don’t own it.”

Kate:

Right, right. So, as you listen to these podcasts, read Joette’s blogs, be writing down the names of those remedies and start purchasing them when you can.

We say, Joette, that we don’t buy shoes. (Well, maybe we buy a few shoes.) But instead of buying lots of shoes, we accumulate homeopathic medicines.

Joette:

Yeah, it becomes a source of pride when you go to your cabinet and say, “Oh wow, look at all the choices that I have for all the different conditions that my family suffers or may suffer.”

A closer look at Boiron’s SinusCalm®

Joette: (3:33)

So, getting back to sinus infections, let’s start with something that you can definitely find at a local drug store or even many grocery stores or even big box stores.

Yes, these homeopathic medicines can be found there. And usually, they are the combination homeopathic medicines manufactured by a homeopathic pharmacy, such as Boiron.

And one of my favorites is SinusCalm® made by Boiron. And yes, you can find this in grocery stores.

Now I’ll share some other single homeopathic medicines shortly, but this is a great option to start with. And it’s so easy and so accessible, and it looks like any other drug of sorts because it’s not in the little blue tubes (although we also consider those), but they’re in bubble packs, and you’ll see that it’s got all the directions and everything is laid out perfectly.

Kate:

Yeah. I keep those Boiron combination remedies around. I like to have them on hand just in case, but I also love it because I can show people here’s what homeopathy looks like, and you can find these in stores. So, it’s helpful to be able to share with friends and family that way.

Joette:

Yeah. So, if you look at the homeopathic medicines on the package — if you read what’s on the package — it will actually give you the medicines that are most frequently used if you decide … let’s say you decide … No, let’s try just choosing, instead of one of those three or four medicines that are written on the back of the package, you try one of the medicines in a blue tube, and you’ll see that that may help you indeed.

So, that’s how you’re going to learn about homeopathy as well.

So, if you look at the homeopathic medicine, for example, in SinusCalm, it includes Belladonna 3C, Sanguinaria 3C, and Spigelia 3C.

Now, what’s interesting is that Belladonna is specifically for pain and/or fever and/or redness and heat, et cetera, in the area. SinusCalm reads it temporarily relieves symptoms of sinus pressure, headaches and nasal congestion.

And if you look on the box itself, what the names of the medicines are that are incorporated, there are three: Belladonna 3C, Sanguinaria 3C, and Spigelia 3C.

So, I want you to consider depending on these kinds of combination medicines, but I also want you to then crack open a materia medica and look up each of these and see how they fit into this relief of sinus pressure, headaches and nasal congestion. And then that’ll help you understand why Boiron, for example, chose these three.

Now this specific remedy called SinusCalm, I would use it perhaps every four to six hours, but I have to say they already tell you that on the package. They give you an idea of time.

And so, if you find this isn’t acting within the first, say, I don’t know, 24 hours or so, I would consider switching to a different homeopathic medicine altogether. And we want to see a shift in the symptoms. May not be perfect, but you might find the head pain or the sinus pain is not as grand.

It may not be perfect. You might still feel a little stuffy, and you still have a little headache, but you’re finding you have increased energy.

And that in many ways, my friends, is the whole point of homeopathy, that we watch our symptoms and see what’s helping spur our body on to a fight against this condition.

And we will see that there might be little satellite conditions that are associated with the sinus infection that you hadn’t even considered, like fatigue. You were so perhaps focused on the pain in the sinuses or the stuffiness that you hadn’t noticed that you were also fatigued.

So, we’re watching for that also to melt away.

Kate:

Now, if it doesn’t help in the first or the second dose, would you stop using the medicine, or how long would you continue?

Joette:

I would go … First, second dose? No, I would carry on. First, second, third, fourth, I would definitely get a full day out of it and perhaps even into the next day.

But then the next day when you wake up in the morning, that’s the time for assessment to determine whether or not there’s been any shift, even a small shift. And if there’s been some improvement but not enough, then we can carry on into the second day as well.

Allopathic drugs cover up symptoms like a Band-Aid on a gash, whereas homeopathic medicines actually help the body to know how to fight the cause of the symptoms and therefore heal the body. And the reason it’s such a beautiful system of medicine is that we’re not suppressing.

Using a homeopathic repertory

Joette: (08:18)

So, for those of you who are one of my students, especially my Academy students, I wanted to talk a bit about how you find this in your repertory.

Kate:

Right. Because it’s not necessarily intuitive, but this is a good discussion.

And if you are not a student in Joette’s Academy or you’re not familiar with a repertory, we want to inspire you to maybe look into the tools that we use in homeopathy to figure out what medicines are helpful. So, a repertory is one of those tools.

And so, Joette, how would we find sinus infection in the repertory?

Joette:

First of all, what is a repertory?

It’s a consolidation of pretty much all of human suffering categorized in a very organized fashion. And it gives us … There are no sentences. They’re simply the names of the medicines that are used for specific conditions and/or symptoms.

So, for those of you who are familiar with a repertory, what you might do (if you want to look at it that way) is to go under the category of “nose” and then “sinusitis.” And that’s where you’ll find the medicines that are considered, certainly by Boiron. They’ve done their homework. There’s no doubt about it.

It will show you that the medicines that are showing up in that combination medicine are indeed listed in this little rubric. So, there we see Kali bichromium [bichromicum] is one of the top medicines, which is a mainstay medicine for sinus infections and for headaches that may come with them.

Even, I might add, something that’s not necessarily an infection. It might simply be barometric pressure shift, might simply be allergies, but it feels like it could also be an infection.

Kate:

Oh, another one of the top medicines listed there I know is Sanguinaria, which we already talked about in that combination from Boiron. So, we’re sharing now about the other ones.

Joette:

And so Sanguinaria is one of our great medicines in these kinds of conditions because it is such a hyper-focused remedy on the sinuses in general — the nose and the sinuses.

It’s also good to note as well that in your repertory, these medicines have other abilities.

For example, Kali bichromium is also listed for bronchitis or rheumatism and, of course, sinusitis.

So, if your sinus infection is accompanied by or started after those other issues, it might be smart to grab a materia medica or your repertory and think about how this medicine can help address more than one issue simultaneously — because that is often the way homeopathy works. It has such a sweeping ability in each of its medicines that you might find conditions that you thought were unassociated are indeed associated with your propensity for getting these infections.

So, the medicines, in summary, that we want to consider first is, as I said, that combination medicine by Boiron, which is called SinusCalm.

And if that is not available or you can also consider using the medicines that are perhaps included in SinusCalm, such as Kali bichromium or Sanguinaria or Belladonna.

And so, you can see that we’ve got a couple of different avenues from which to approach this.

Closing advice

Kate: (11:30)

Now, if you’re listening to this podcast and you’re saying, “Wait, I’m not taking notes, but I want to write these things down. Don’t worry. You can go to the transcript of this podcast on https://joettecalabrese.com/.

Joette, this has been great. Is there anything else that you want to say as we finish up this podcast?

Joette:

Just that healing can be in your hands. It doesn’t have to be stressful or a rushed trip to a doctor just for them to prescribe you something that only induces temporary relief and causes new symptoms … or worse yet shoves the cause of your symptoms to become suppressed and driven to a deeper state.

So, this is in our hands and the freedom — the health freedom — that this promotes in your life will be really surprising.

I think many of you, if you’re not familiar with this, I encourage you to give it a try. It is a completely different system of medicine.

And remember, homeopathy is not to be confused with the general category of, say, natural remedies or holistic medicine. It is its own system of medicine.

Once you really learn about homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy® and start using it, nothing else compares.

So, friends, if this information has been helpful to you and you know someone who might benefit from what I share today, send them this podcast and remember, stay curious.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/174-remaining-relevant-homeopathy/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Remaining Relevant in Your Family with Practical Homeopathy®

01:58 Three mothers; one conclusion

03:02 It’s their realization that they need us

05:41 A mom helping her son through hip surgery

08:28 A grandmom helping her children, their spouses and grandchildren

11:20 When they’re sick, they have more time to get closer to you

13:17 Homeopathy for the caregiver

15:15 Closing Advice: Everybody wins

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 174, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Remaining Relevant in Your Family with Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today we’re going to do something a little different. And honestly, it’s kind of special.

Because earlier today, the three of us — Joette, Nathalie and I — found ourselves deep in conversation, and it felt really important, and we wanted to share these little nuggets with you.

So, today we’re talking about what it means to stay connected to our adult children and grandchildren as life shifts and roles change. Woven through that conversation, you’re going to find a beautiful realization that knowing homeopathy doesn’t just help us keep our families healthy, it helps keep us relevant in their lives. And it gives us a way to show up, to be useful, to be present, and that presence naturally brings us closer.

So, today we’re inviting you in to eavesdrop just a little … to pull up a chair and join us as we pick up on that conversation right where we left off.

Three mothers; one conclusion

Joette: (01:58)

Hi friends. We’re happy that you’re here with us today — eavesdropping, as Kate put it. We have three mothers here, and we’ve all come to the same conclusion. Right, Nathalie, wouldn’t you say that?

Nathalie:

Exactly.

Kate:

Yeah, it was such a fun conversation, and we thought that the listeners could benefit by some of the things that we’re saying.

And I had a pivotal moment when I was talking to my daughter.

And Joette, you were the one that says over and over again how homeopathy keeps you relevant. And recently my daughter had several illnesses back-to-back. And, Nathalie, your son, what happened with him?

Nathalie:

My son had a major hip surgery, and this was very recent. So, it definitely brought some things to light.

Joette:

You said though, Nathalie, it didn’t just bring things to light. It made you closer to him.

Nathalie:

It made me much closer to him, partly because we’ve spent so much time together these last few weeks, but also because I’ve been able to help him and be there for him in a way he didn’t realize I could.

It’s their realization that they need us

Joette: (03:02)

That’s it. It’s their realization. They have to come to that realization. And as I was saying earlier, the sicker they are, the more they need us, the more they’re willing to learn from us.

And I think it was so much fun because we started to talk about it’s not just about giving them the remedies and bringing them their bone stock and keeping them warm or whatever they need to keep them comfortable. It’s also an opportunity to kind of get in there a little bit more, especially when the children are adults or young adults.

Sometimes we think, “You know what? I think I missed that idea about how important it is to uphold our family name. Or maybe I didn’t stress enough how shame can be a good thing in life, so we want to do what’s right. Or maybe I missed the point …”

And so, you’re thinking: This is an opportunity.

You administer the medicine, you listen to them, and then maybe you give them a couple of words of wisdom that come from the mother. That might have come … remind them:

“You know what? This came from your grandfather.”

“You know what your grandmother used to always say?”

These are opportunities to be close to them when they’re most in need. I don’t mean to say we’re taking advantage of their suffering, but in a way it’s an opportunity for them and for us. No doubt.

Kate:

Well, knowing homeopathy is the catalyst that brings them to us. Right?

For my daughter, it’s the conversation to her mom, “Mom, what do you think? ” And she knows homeopathy, so she does pretty well. But when we’re sick, it’s so nice to have that person we can call and help us to brainstorm what to do.

And so, it’s that little fire that ignites — that draws them to us, I should say — and it gives us that opportunity.

So, I just encourage the listeners to use their knowledge of homeopathy — or even to learn it to help. So, that their kids come to them when they are adults or when they’re adults and they have children, they come to us. And that is the little spark that ignites that time together.

Joette:

You know, I think that, for humans in general, we have memorable moments that are happy moments that bring tears to our eyes and really touch us deeply. But I think that what really is indelible is our sufferings.

And so, when we’re suffering, if we can fill that in and help them move out of that, I think we’ve touched a nerve. I think we’ve touched a place that maybe is, I don’t know, more special, more sacred. I’m not sure what it is, but I think we’ve touched an area in them that will perhaps hold and carry on, as you said, not just for them, but for their children and maybe their grandchildren too.

A mom helping her son through hip surgery

Joette: (05:41)

So, I love what you were saying, Nathalie, because that’s kind of how we got started on this. Because your son has gone through this surgery, and you had some remedies that you helped him with before because he was worried, right?

Nathalie:

Yeah. He was very worried about the surgery. He had never been in a hospital before. He had to stay overnight. So, he kind of depended a lot on Gelsemium, and it made him feel better just to hold it in his hands sometimes … just knowing “My mom gave me this; this is okay.”

He’s a young adult. He’s not a child. But I think sometimes when we’re sick — and especially if it’s a major thing — we almost emotionally regress a little bit. So, he was very happy to have Gelsemium.

Joette:

Did it help him, Nathalie? Did the Gelsemium help him with the anxiety?

Nathalie:

It did.

Joette:

Oh, that’s great.

Nathalie:

It helped him a lot.

After the surgery, he was greatly affected by the anesthesia — coming out of the anesthesia and then the pain medication they were giving him. So, at that point, we gave him Ignatia because he was very, very emotional, and it was almost like a grief.

It was hard to explain, but when we are in what felt like a dire situation for him emotionally, it came kind of out as grief. And that helped him a lot.

Joette:

So now he’s gotten some relief. He’s got his mother by his side, and he’s learned two homeopathic medicines that have helped him.

Nathalie:

Yes. And he loves that. He’s asked me to order more so that he can have it with him when he needs it.

And one of the beautiful things is that my younger children, because they have helped me take care of him, they’ve grown very observant.

And so, my son’s 19. He has a little bit of a quirk where he definitely teases his younger sisters. He’s not big on hugs. He’s a little reserved in that area, but my younger children have learned to be very observant while they’re helping me.

And they’ll say, “Mom, I think Wyatt needs some more medicine. He’s being very nice.”

Because he’s very sweet when he’s sick or in pain. He changes to this just angel, and that’s very sweet.

So, they’ll say, “Mom, Wyatt’s being really nice. I think he needs some more medicine.”

Joette:

So, in other words, that means that he’s feeling a little weakened. A little bit …

Nathalie:

Vulnerable and weakened.

Joette:

Vulnerable.

Nathalie:

When he feels that way, that’s usually because the pain of something’s creeping up.

Joette:

Yes. That’s just precious.

So, it’s that trickle down. It’s going down to the next children without even waiting another generation. That’s already been observed by them. And so, they’re learning what the watchful eye of a mother means. Now it’s the watchful eye of the siblings. It’s so great.

A grandmom helping her children, their spouses and grandchildren

Kate: (08:28)

And Joette, tell us about how homeopathy helps you remain relevant for your now-grandchildren, with your children and their spouses.

Joette:

I’m not someone who uses texting very often, but when I know someone in the family is not well, then I will make sure that my phone is consistently plugged in at night, and I know where it is.

And so, I will get a text even about my son’s cat or his best friend’s mother. And I love being connected that way.

Not only do I know about who they’re spending time with and what they’re worried about and what’s going on in their lives, but even small things. “Mom, the cat has not been … the cat’s, I think, got a urinary tract infection. Did we use Cantharis last time?”

That’s the kind of stuff I want to know. I want to know what’s going on. Because again, of course, my kids are adults and out of the house. And now with grandchildren, I have my daughter-in-law who contacts me, which is a great thing.

And sometimes even her family. I’m in touch with them as well. So, it even connects me to my daughter-in-law’s family, which is also a great thing.

It’s a reach-out-to-others opportunity that you might not get under any other circumstances. I don’t want to just see them at the christening. I don’t want to just see them at the birthday parties. I want to be in contact with them, too, because they’re such an important part of my daughter-in-law’s life and my grandchildren’s lives.

So, this really extends further and further and further. And so, when we talk about community, this is the ultimate of what we’re talking about.

Kate:

Yeah, it’s a bridge builder — right — with not only our children, but with others around us. And yeah, my son’s girlfriend … I’ve become closer to her because of homeopathy. And she’s interested in homeopathy now, and it gives you another thing to talk about.

Joette:

Yeah, when you’re on the same page about something and especially if they’re interested in learning, and then you can say, “Well, maybe you want to, I don’t know, read this book or listen to the podcast or listen to this podcast.” Or just give them suggestions and then back off and let them do it at their own pace because that really has a lot to do with it.

And a big part of this is also we raise our kids, and we’re always … we want so badly that they learn this — that they learn good eating habits, and they know how to use homeopathy, and they don’t fall into line with what society is feeding them. And we wonder if we’re overdoing it.

Well, this is that opportunity. Because as you said, they’re vulnerable, they’re willing, they’re open.

Nathalie:

They’re captive.

Joette:

Yeah, they’re captive. It’s like the same thing when you drive them to school or something.

You got them for 45 minutes. I’ve got them. I’ve got them full-time now, and I’m going to pick them up on the way back again — another 45 minutes. I can just listen and then throw in a couple of little bits of wisdom if I can possibly slip it in.

When they’re sick, they have more time to get closer to you

Kate: (11:20)

Well, I was talking to my daughter about this and why we’re closer during the times that she’s sick. And she said, “Mom, it’s because I have the time to talk to you more.”

And she has the need to talk to me more to talk about the remedies, but also, she has the time because she’ll work less if she’s really sick.

And I hadn’t thought of it that way until she mentioned that, but yes, it slows their lives down and enables that time with you.

Nathalie, Wyatt is with you, and he’s a captive audience there because he had to have a surgery, like you said on his hip. He’s on crutches, and he’s really slowed down for a long period of time.

Nathalie:

Yes. He’s very slowed down. And I think I was telling you both earlier, we are closer and more friends than we ever have been in his life. I mean, being a young adult, of course I’m getting to know him better, but this was a very concentrated time that I got to really get to know him, and he got to know me.

And my children have always said nice things about me. That’s great. But because he’s sick and I helped him, he bragged about me! And I thought, “Oh!” Well, that made me so proud, I thought, bragging about me!

Joette:

Isn’t that a great feeling?

Nathalie:

Yes. Especially from some of our kids. I think maybe especially the boys. They’re a little more stoic; they’re a little more tough. They’re not talking about these things a lot. So, it felt good that he thought I did something important by helping him.

Joette:

Because you had. It was important. Yes. Yes.

And if they come — when they come out of the anesthetic after surgery, and there you are right there, you’re his guardian angel.

Nathalie:

That’s going to make me get teary-eyed. You say it like that, Joette.

Joette:

Well, he didn’t see your wings. They were tucked down, folded back.

Nathalie:

Yeah.

Homeopathy for the caregiver

Kate: (13:17)

So, I want to ask Nathalie: When Wyatt had that surgery — because it was a pretty major ordeal — did you take anything?

Because I was thinking about (as we were talking) how you get that phone call, and you’re hoping that the adult child is calling you with some good news. But there’s always in the back of my mind like, “Okay, is something wrong?”

Because nowadays, we text so much that if you actually get a phone call, you wonder, “Okay, is everything okay?” So, there’s that heart, maybe, rate increase for just a moment.

So, what did you do for yourself during that time?

Nathalie:

So, in the beginning, what I did is took Aconite. Because I felt like to me this was a great big thing.

Yes, it built up to the surgery, but it didn’t feel like I was prepared. I did feel shocked afterwards. So, I did that.

And then I did also take Ignatia for about a week, but you know what? Then, it was fine because I think the emotional side of us being close together and me being with him all the time actually calmed me down because I could see what was happening. I could respond to what was happening. I didn’t feel lost and not in-the-know.

So, after that first week, I didn’t need to take anything anymore. And I felt like, I don’t know, I was really happy with how we got through it.

Kate:

That reminds me of that text message I got from my daughter when I was out of town, and she said, “Mom, I’m not feeling well. I have really bad lung congestion and wheezing, and I’m having trouble breathing.”

Nathalie:

I remember that.

Kate:

Yeah, full stop. And then, she did not text me back.

I’m texting her frantically, and she didn’t text me back for many hours. I had to take something at that point because you start worrying about your son or daughter, and you’re wondering what is happening.

So, I took Ignatia, and I think maybe Aconite at the time because it was a fright to get that text message and knowing good remedies.

Closing Advice: Everybody wins

Joette: (15:15)

Well, what I love about all this, too — and kind of circling back around again — is the continuity.

It feeds them, then it feeds you, then it feeds them, then it feeds the younger kids, et cetera, et cetera.

I love that natural flow of being able to do this. And a lot of this could be done just by being there, even if you knew nothing about homeopathy, just being there by their side.

But there’s something about having something that actually works, and works to counteract ill effects of the anesthetic, or ill effects of the lung infection or whatever. We have an extra measure of ability that, unfortunately, a lot of mothers and grandmothers don’t have.

That’s our mission is to get it out there because this is very, very important information for people to get.

Kate:

Well, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening in on this conversation and appreciate Nathalie, your willingness to share so openly.

Joette:

Thank you both for doing this because it did seem kind of private when we first started talking about this earlier. But we thought, you know, this is the kind of thing that women like to share. So, let’s do that.

So, I hope we’ve shared enough information with you today so that you can feel confident in passing this on even to others who could be benefited by this kind of thought.

And also, you want to pass it on to someone who you already have a relationship with. Perhaps it’s your daughter; perhaps it’s your son; maybe it’s your sister. So, get this information out, friends. We need to share this. It’s really important stuff for the family.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/173-practical-empowerment-healing/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: From Frustration and Overwhelm to Empowerment and Healing

04:17 Going Back to School … Again

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:20 Spent My Twenties Chasing Health

08:40 Success Story: Migraines

Podcast 169 — Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good

13:31 Success Story: Parasites

Intestinal Parasites, 6 Homeopathic Remedies to Consider

16:24 Success Story: Thyroid issues

Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy

21:01 Success Story: Plantar warts

Not Just Any Warts; Molluscum Contagiosum

22:36 Success Story: Trigeminal neuralgia

Facial Neuralgia: A Torturous Pain

Podcast 139: — Cavitations Healed! What Dentists Think Prevention Is: Fluoride, Pastes, Rinses, Flossers, Brushes, Scrapers and Sealants

27:11 Closing Advice

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Joette’s Mighty Members

Mighty Members Plus

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

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Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 173.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: From Frustration and Overwhelm to Empowerment and Healing

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today we’re diving into a story that I believe many of you will resonate with. It’s the journey from frustration and overwhelm to empowerment and genuine healing through Practical Homeopathy®.

I’m joined by Nicole here today. She’s a homeschooling mom of seven, a registered nurse and one of Joette’s Mastermind students. Nicole has walked through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® program, Mastery and now serves as one of Joette’s Ambassadors and is in the Mastermind program.

But more importantly, she’s someone who came to homeopathy the way so many of us do. Not skipping but crawling … searching for answers. Nicole’s story is raw, relatable, and incredibly encouraging: from debilitating migraines and autoimmune diagnoses to parasites, hormone issues and more. She has lived it, and she has uprooted so much of it using Practical Homeopathy®. You’ll hear more about that in just a minute.

So, on today’s podcast, she’s going to share how she went from her chronic illness and conventional limitations and years of searching to raising a family that relies solely on homeopathy. She now has a busy, thriving practice teaching homeopathy and helping her clients regain their health.

Nicole is here today to share what she’s learned, what she teaches, and why she believes there is hope for those who feel like they’ve tried everything. And this is going to be good.

Welcome, Nicole.

Nicole:

Thank you so much, Kate, for that beautiful introduction. Thank you for having me. I’m super-excited to be on with you today, and I cannot wait to dive into all of this.

Kate:

Yes, I am excited, too, because you mentioned just a minute ago, while we were talking before the recording, how you said that this has changed your life. Can you just elaborate on that just a bit?

Nicole:

Yeah. I mean, just a bit is so hard because it’s been so profound. This has just touched my life in so many different ways, not just from a business perspective and a shift, but it’s also affected my family greatly.

And then, as you mentioned in the beginning, just on a personal health struggle, I’ve conquered so many different ailments through Practical Homeopathy®. So, I’m ever grateful for all of the education that I’ve learned with Joette.

Kate:

And you went from learning about how to help yourself to now helping so many others through your teaching and seeing clients in your busy practice. And I think that’s exciting too, and how now you’re using what has been given to you, to now give to others.

Nicole:

Exactly. I started out as a conventional registered nurse. And for me, it was always my passion to help people. And when I quickly found in the health care system that we were essentially putting a Band-Aid on things, I knew there had to be a better way.

And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I knew that that was going to be my contribution to help give back and to help people see true health can exist and give them back hope.

Going Back to School … Again

Kate: (04:17)

I think it’s funny because you said when you told your husband that you were going back to school yet again …

Nicole:

Yes.

Kate:

What was his reaction?

Nicole:

Oh, my goodness.

So, like I said, I started out as a conventional nurse, so that took some years to complete that schooling.

Went through conventional nursing; realized it wasn’t what I thought it was. So, I went back to school for my holistic bachelor’s degree.

My husband’s like, “Okay.”

Then I went back to school for nurse coaching — holistic nurse coaching. I dabbled in all these different modalities and all these things.

And then, when I learned Practical Homeopathy® was the missing link, and Joette started her Academy program. I turned around to my husband, and I was like, “Babe, I’m sorry, but I have to go back to school yet again.”

And he laughed, but he encouraged me to do so.

And then after I went through APH, Joette had, at that point, created the Mastery program. So, I was like, “Okay, Hon, I know I said, ‘yet again,’ like last year, but now I have to do this another year.”

So, I love education. I love learning, and I feel like this is kind of an area where we can learn forever. We can continue learning forever.

So, my husband, I think at this point, knows that I’m just going to keep on going. I’m just going to keep learning and adding.

Kate:

Right, because now you’re in Mastermind, and that could go on for years.

Nicole:

Exactly, exactly. You guys are kind of stuck with me at this point.

Kate:

No, we’re not stuck with you. We’re blessed to have you.

So, let’s just go through some of the things that you’ve personally addressed in your life with homeopathy, and then we’ll break it down — maybe several of those. And those who are listening to this podcast can hear how you helped with all of these conditions, and they can get some information and pass this on to others who might be needing it as well.

So, can you go through some of the things that you’ve addressed?

Nicole:

Yeah, absolutely. So, I have a long list, unfortunately.

Kate:

You’ve been pretty sick. Yeah.

Spent My Twenties Chasing Health

Nicole: (06:20)

Yeah. Yeah. I spent a lot of my life very sick. I do look at it as a blessing now, though, because it’s led me to be able to, like you said, be able to help other people and really come from it from an empathetic place of understanding and my own healing to kind of inspire other people with that. So, again, that’s what I like to do.

But my story kind of starts back in my 20s, when I kind of knew something was wrong. And I spent all of my 20s basically chasing my health, as so many people do. I was so sick that I looked at my husband one day, and I was like, “Wow, if this is what I feel like in my 20s, what am I going to actually feel like when I’m older?”

My husband used to look at me and say that “You are the oldest young person that I know.” Because I would get up and my knees would crack, or I would have aches and pains and all those things.

So, I spent all my 20s chasing my health. Being told by practitioners that I just needed to eat better; I needed to sleep better; I needed to exercise.

I, Kate, kid you not, that I even went to the ER once because I felt like something was stuck in my throat. And I was told by the doctor that I needed to chew my food better, that I probably just scratched my throat.

Well, it turns out, years later, that I was actually diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and that thing that was in my throat turned out to be a thyroid nodule. So, I know how to chew my food apparently.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

Yeah. So that’s kind of where my journey began with my laundry list of diagnoses. After that, I had almost every diagnosis under the sun, every letter of the alphabet: my EDS and my MCIS and all those different diagnoses that we accumulate over the years. But I’ve been able to turn a lot of that around.

I found great help in the holistic world, but there was still a missing piece. And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I was able to reverse a lot of that. So, I don’t know, did you want me to go into a little bit of each of those?

Kate:

Yes, I think that would be helpful. Do you want to start with the migraines?

Success Story: Migraines

Nicole: (08:40)

Yeah, absolutely. So, the migraines that I had were debilitating.

I first started suffering with those when I was probably about 14 years old. They definitely affected me greatly in my teenage years.

I remember I would be out with friends, and I would know that they were coming. I would sense that they were coming on, and I knew that if I didn’t go home quickly that the next thing would be vomiting.

And the only thing that really helped me at that point was going home and laying down and trying to sleep them off. So, that was earlier on.

As the years got older and I started working and became a mom, you can’t always go home and go to sleep. So, I ended up starting to use Excedrin. And so, Excedrin was basically the only thing that would take my migraines away, but I even got to the point where sometimes the Excedrin wasn’t working.

A lot of times, I would end up in the ER.

Sometimes, these migraines lasted days and even weeks. They were really debilitating. I would say that I got them very often, at least a couple times a week. So, they were very disruptive of my daily life.

As a nurse, I remember when you count your medication cart, you’re not supposed to stop. And I remember getting so bad that I would have to stop counting my med cart so that I could go into the bathroom and vomit because the migraines were so bad.

I remember driving home from my shifts and pulling over and vomiting.

So, it was brutal. It was really disrupting my life.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

And to say that I have not had a migraine in years, that is one of the most profound things to me.

A couple of months ago, I looked back at my husband, and I said, “Do you realize that I have not had a migraine in years?” Not even had to take a pharmaceutical for it or even a homeopathic remedy for it. I don’t get them at all anymore, Kate. They’ve been completely uprooted.

So, something that affected my life so significantly … to not have it at all and not even have to use homeopathic remedies for it anymore, there’s no better medicine than this.

Kate:

Yes. Wow. And tell us what was one of the medicines that you used? I think, was it Bryonia that you …

Nicole:

Yeah. Yeah.

So, a funny story: When I first started with homeopathy, I was basically like most people, where I was like, “Okay, this stuff is great. I have a laundry list. Where do I start? I need 35 remedies for all the things.”

And obviously that’s not the way we do homeopathy. But in the beginning, I was like, “Where do I start?”

And so, I tried to tackle my headaches first. And headaches are one of the hardest things to … You’re like shaking your head, right?

Kate:

Yes. Yes.

Nicole:

I know because Joette did a podcast, I think, on this recently about how headaches are so hard to cover. And that was one of the things that I wanted to tackle first.

And believe it or not, at first, I didn’t know what the right remedy was. And it wasn’t working because I wasn’t choosing the right remedy. And I almost gave up on homeopathy because I was like, “Oh, this stuff isn’t working.”

And then I found the right remedy.

I found Bryonia, and that was what worked for me. I found that actually by taking the Gateway classes, some of the keynotes of Bryonia is worse from movement, better lying down, you know, that kind of thing. And it’s a really great headache remedy in general, and that fit my picture so well. And that’s something, like I said, I learned in the Gateway classes.

So, when I started taking Bryonia, I was just taking it as an SOS for acute headaches, and I started noticing over the years that I was getting them less and less often, to the point where I wasn’t getting them at all anymore. So, it was kind of unintentional, but that’s how it worked. So, that was Bryonia.

Kate:

Yeah. There are many homeopathic medicines that address headaches, and it depends on the type of headache that you have. But yes, Bryonia can be one of the ones. And I’m so glad that that worked for you because I just can’t imagine having to deal with that, those debilitating headaches like that.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, one of the other things that I wanted to mention about headaches is that when I took the pain (Make It Stop!) In the Protocol Course, I found multiple remedies, including a Banerji Protocol, that can help with headaches and migraines. So, that might be helpful for your listeners to check that course out.

Kate:

Right. That’s a great course.

Success Story: Parasites

Kate: (13:31)

Let’s talk now about parasites. I feel like parasites are a hot topic these days. So, tell us your story with dealing with parasites.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, my story with parasites happened just before they were a hot topic. I know that they’re a hot topic right now, but when I was actually going through The Academy, I was dealing with all kinds of health issues.

My health was moving along pretty well. I was pretty stable at that point with my thyroid conditions and all the things. And something hit me out of nowhere, and my health tanked. My thyroid numbers tanked, my nutrient levels tanked. I had yellow around my mouth. I had facial swelling; my lupus was flaring; I was having recurrent pink eye; skin things were popping up. I had elevated liver enzymes — enlarged liver.

I mean, all of this hit me out of nowhere. And I was doing a little bit of research on parasites at that time, and I was completely convinced that this was a parasitic infection that triggered all my autoimmune things.

And I actually went in to my holistic doctor thinking that she was going to run the labs and help me out that way, and she essentially blamed all my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

So, then I went in to a conventional medical doctor with a textbook parasite story, and that doctor also blamed all of my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

And my husband looked at me, and he said, “Nick, you know the parasite protocol with homeopathy.” He said, “So what have you got to lose? Why don’t you just give it a try?”

And all of us want validation, right? We want someone to agree with you and say, “This is it. This is what your problem is.” But I wasn’t getting that. And so, my husband was like, “Just do the protocol.”

Kate, when I did that protocol — within a week of being on the parasite protocol — I actually started detoxing parasites and within three days after the first parasite that I had detoxed, a skin condition that I had for years that nothing was touching ended up resolving and has not come back since.

And that was probably about three years ago at this point. Everything that I had going on then, all resolved after that.

Kate:

There is a blog that Joette wrote called “Intestinal Parasites, 6 Homeopathic Remedies to Consider.” So, for those of you who want to know more about that, you can go to that blog.

Nicole:

Yes. And that blog actually includes Cina, too, and that is one of the remedies that I had used that was mentioned in that blog. And that’s where my health really turned around using that remedy.

Success Story: Thyroid issues

Kate: (16:24)

Nice.

So, you also mentioned just a bit ago your thyroid and problems that you’ve had with that.

Nicole:

Yes. Thyroid’s another hot topic, unfortunately. Unfortunately, hypothyroidism specifically is usually very either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. I mentioned earlier that I had been chasing my health earlier in my 20s, and when I finally hit 30, I was so incredibly sick at that point, Kate, I thought I was dying. I thought I had cancer.

I crawled into the doctor, basically like Joette says. I crawled in, and I was like, “You missed something. I’m dying. I have cancer.”

My body systems were completely shutting down. And this is after a decade of going to various doctors and being told again that I just need to eat better, sleep better, exercise, all those things.

And so, they finally had diagnosed me. Nobody had thought to check my thyroid in all of those 10 years. And that happened, I think, because I wasn’t overweight for the norm, but I was overweight for me. And so, nobody thought to look even though I had every other textbook symptom.

Once I was finally diagnosed, I was thrown on a synthetic drug. Did not do well with that synthetic drug.

Then I went to a holistic doctor. She put me on the natural thyroid hormone. I had great success with it. However, the one thing that really hit me once I learned Practical Homeopathy® was that by being on a natural desiccated thyroid hormone that I was on, we’re essentially tricking our body into thinking that we healed, right? Because we’re putting something into our body and we’re telling our thyroid, “Okay, you don’t have to do the work anymore. We got this.” Right?

And so, we’re really not getting to the root of the problem. My body is depending on me to get lab work done and put this medication in my body. And I went the holistic route because I wanted to heal. I wanted to get better. And when I found out that there was Practical Homeopathy® for hypothyroidism, it became my goal to heal my thyroid so that I no longer needed these medications, even though they were considered natural.

So, that’s what I did. It took me a long time; I’m not going to lie. It definitely took me a long time, but I am now at the point in my life where, after using various thyroid protocols … which again, they can be found in several of Joette’s courses. She covers hypothyroidism in Good Gut, Bad Gut and Feminopathy and all those things. She does a lot on hypothyroidism in her courses.

But I found that I was able to not only get off of being on medication. For at that point, I had 20 years of my thyroid not functioning. At that point, my thyroid was severely atrophied. And I was able to come off of my thyroid medications, which I was told by natural doctors and holistic doctors that I would be on for the rest of my life — that my thyroid was so damaged that I would never come off of those medications, and Practical Homeopathy® changed that for me.

The protocols changed that for me. So, I am at a point now where not only have I been off of those medications, but I don’t even need the protocols, for the most part.

Kate:

Wow. That’s really incredible because, like you said, when you have a condition for so long, it sometimes can be difficult to heal from that. And so, I think that’s pretty incredible.

Nicole:

It’s been life changing. And again, it’s one of those debilitating disorders that can cause you to not participate in life because there’s so many umbrella symptoms with hypothyroidism, including crushing fatigue.

So, just to be able to free yourself from that and not have to worry about even taking a daily medication and seeing a doctor and getting labs done and getting the prescriptions filled and all those things … to alleviate all that stress off of you and to be able to function like a normal person again, it’s profound. It’s amazing.

Kate:

That’s a really good point. It’s not just having the right homeopathic medicine, it’s that you don’t have to do all those extra things and pay all that money. Really good points.

Success Story: Plantar warts

Kate: (21:01)

Okay. Well, let’s go into something not quite as serious: plantar warts.

Nicole:

Yeah, definitely not as serious as some of the other things that I’ve experienced. However, they were not fun either.

So, I had this plantar wart at the bottom of my foot. It was embedded into my foot, so it was flat. But it was causing me so much pain that I found myself that I was kind of walking on the side of my foot a lot to avoid stepping on it all the time.

As a nurse, I was on my feet a lot. That pain was getting to a point where it was really difficult.

And again, at that time I was working with a holistic doctor, and even she said, she’s like, “Even holistic things don’t really work for this. Usually, people have to have them cut off or frozen off, lasered, all these things.”

And I was like, “I don’t want to do that. I want to do it the natural way.” Right?

So, I found in Joette’s blog … it’s for warts. That blog is …

Kate:

“Not Just Any Warts; Molluscum Contagiosum.”

Nicole:

Yes, that one. I refer so many people to that blog because it’s so beneficial. She has a couple variations on that blog. There’s a couple of different remedies on that blog that were suggested, and just within about a week of using Antimonium crud (suggested on that blog), my wart resolved and has not come back. And that was probably about six years ago.

Kate:

I love it.

Nicole:

So, even the holistic doctor said I couldn’t get rid of that thing, and homeopathy did it.

Success Story: Trigeminal neuralgia

Kate: (22:36)

Yeah.

Okay. There are a few more things that I would really like to fit in if we can, because we could probably go on for a long time — many hours — but maybe we’ll have to do another podcast.

But today we’re just focusing on some of the things that you have experienced and one of those — and this is again, a painful condition — trigeminal neuralgia. So, talk about that.

Nicole:

Yeah, Kate, this is one of the most excruciating pains I have ever dealt with in my life, and I’ve dealt with some things. I’ve had kidney stones and migraines and all of these things, but this one came about. I had a dental cavitation, which, incidentally, I had learned through Joette that that was a thing.

Once I realized that I had a cavitation issue, I went to my holistic biological dentist, and I said to him, “I don’t know how I don’t have a cavitation, so we need to look at that. ” And he did the proper testing and found that I had several dental cavitations.

While I did use Practical Homeopathy® to help support my body through that healing, I also chose to go ahead and do a surgical protocol where they go in, and they basically clean out the jawbone and the infections. It’s a pretty extensive surgery.

It’s very taxing on your body, and I actually had three of those done within less than a year. And I probably, in retrospect, should have waited and should have spaced that out. But that third one was like opening up a Pandora’s box of I-don’t-even-know-what in my body, and with that came the trigeminal neuralgia.

I also have burning mouth syndrome, all of these things happening, but the trigeminal neuralgia is known as the suicide disease. And they call it that because the pain is so excruciating that people literally don’t know what to do with themselves.

And I attest to that pain. Hey, it’s a nerve pain in your face, and it goes in different areas. So, this pain was shooting into my ear. It was shooting up my eye. It was going down into my chin. It was excruciating pain. And luckily, Joette had a blog on trigeminal neuralgia.

So, of course, I went to her blog for that, and I was able to within less than a day find alleviation from those symptoms. And it was really sad for me because I’ve seen — now that I recognize it, and I’ve experienced it myself — I’ve seen other people experiencing it. And this is a condition that goes on for people for years, and I cannot imagine living with that type of pain.

And it’s no wonder they call it suicide disease because if you had to live with that kind of pain for that long, that’s horrible. If only people knew that there was a homeopathic solution and they didn’t have to suffer with that pain, that would just be profound for people to be able to deal with that.

Kate:

Oh, yeah. How long had you suffered with the pain before you found the remedy?

Nicole:

I right away went on the Joette’s blog and was looking for answers. So, I dealt with it maybe for a day or two. It was immediate relief. It was only a few doses, and it was immediate relief, and it did not come back.

Kate:

I was going to say that’s incredible, but I say that, it seems like, every day with homeopathy. I say, “That is incredible!”

Nicole:

I’m telling you, Kate, I cannot tell you how many times a day that I say that with even my own healing testimonials. We hear from students, from colleagues, from clients. It’s just you can say it forever.

Homeopathy does so much healing that it never gets old.

My dad used to say it, “You never cease to amaze me.” Well, Practical Homeopathy® never ceases to amaze me.

Kate:

So, in case people are wondering, that blog is called “Facial Neuralgia: A Torturous Pain.” So, you can look that up.

She also has Podcast 139, where Joette talks about cavitation. So, that would be another resource.

Nicole, I know these are just a few of the conditions that you’ve dealt with over the years, and I would love to hear more of your story at some time, and maybe the people that you’ve helped because you really have built a thriving practice now. And I know you have these kinds of stories. You hear them every day, which is so exciting. But can you give us some of your final thoughts as we wrap up this podcast?

Closing advice

Nicole: (27:11)

Absolutely, Kate. And again, thank you so much for having me on and just allowing me to share all the suffering that I’ve dealt with. I would love to be back on at some future date and share the so-many success stories that we’ve had with our family and clients as well.

But just from a personal note, again, like you said in the beginning, something that Joette has always said is that we don’t come skipping in; we come crawling in. And that is certainly the way that I came into homeopathy.

And so, some of your listeners might be in the same place of suffering, or I find a lot of people start to feel hopeless. They start to think that there are no solutions for them. Maybe they’ve been let down like I was by conventional medicine or even holistic medicine. I just want to let everybody know that with Practical Homeopathy®, there is hope. There is healing.

We can uproot the chronic conditions, and the things that we’ve been told that we can’t heal from is possible. So, I think, as Joette says, this is the medicine that we all thought that we were getting.

And so, I think that our listeners should jump in and get started on their healing journey so they could take back their health and allow their body to do what it was meant to do, which is to heal.

Kate:

Well put, Nicole, if you’re listening to this podcast and you’re wondering about maybe finding a Practical Homeopath™ like Nicole, you can go to http://findapracticalhomeopath.com/, and there you’ll find Nicole and many other Practical Homeopaths who can help you on your journey.

And so, I hope that Nicole’s story has brought you encouragement, clarity and maybe even a spark of hope that you didn’t expect. Her journey is really a testament to what can happen when you refuse to give up and finally find a system of medicine, Practical Homeopathy®, that aligns with how the body was designed to heal.

So, if you are ready to begin your journey, there’s a place for you. It’s here.

Whether you’re brand new or you’re already deep into your studies, you’re welcome here. And we’d love to see you in Mighties, Mighties Plus, Joette’s study groups (The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy Study Groups), and The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, which, actually, we’re starting a new class soon.

So, if you’re hearing this podcast, you might want to check that out as well, and we’ll put a link in this podcast so that you can join our Founders’ list and get more information on The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

But for now, share this podcast with someone you know who could use the encouragement and information that Nicole shared here today. And I want to thank you for spending this time with us. We’ll see you in the next episode.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/172-broken-bones/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

01:23 Be prepared in case of emergency

02:03 What is homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy®?

06:35 What homeopathic medicines might we use over the next few days?

10:25 After the bone has been set and it’s healing

12:02 Addressing the emotional component of physical injury

13:33 If surgery is required

17:35 Case management

19:46 Closing Advice

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 172, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the podcast, everyone. Today we have another jaw-dropping, bone-shattering episode with Joette.

We’re going to hear from Joette about her decades of experience with broken bones — how she’s handled those situations and the details — broken all the way down for you, even case management.

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Where do we start with this topic?

Be prepared in case of emergency

Joette: (01:23)

Yeah, no one wants a broken bone, right? And it’s always so shocking and scary when it happens, especially at that moment. You’re wondering if that bone will ever be the same.

It’s a very scary thing, and it can be for any age. But especially as people age, it’s even more important.

So, we need to know what to do and own the medicines and have them on hand. That’s important.

It’s one thing to know what to use and not have them on hand. In the end, it becomes very frustrating.

Kate:

I know we take our remedies — our homeopathic medicines for emergencies — with us when we’re on the go because that’s the definition of an emergency. You just don’t know when it’s going to happen.

Joette:

That’s right.

What is homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy®?

Joette: (02:03)

So, I want to take a step back first and start at the very beginning. Since you’re listening to this podcast, you might already know what homeopathy is, but for those who are new to homeopathy and listening for the first time, I want to explain what it is.

It’s often confused with the general term natural medicine or naturopathy, et cetera, referring to kind of a broad category: modalities such as herbs, essential oils, supplements, vitamins, et cetera.

Kate:

Yeah. We hear that all the time, don’t we?

“Oh yes, I know what homeopathy is.”

And come to find out they think it’s other things.

Joette:

They think it’s vitamins or nutrients or something.

Kate:

Yeah.

Joette:

But that’s not the case.

So, homeopathy — let’s give you a definition — is a system, a very specific system of medicine that is fundamentally different from allopathic medicine, which is the conventional method and also other natural healing modalities.

So, let’s start with allopathic medicine, which is conventional. It tends to focus heavily on suppressing symptoms — just getting rid of the pain at the cost of something else, perhaps.

But in contrast, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the body’s own healing mechanism because it’s always looking to correct the problem (that’s what fever’s about; that’s what pain and swelling is about) and correct that underlying imbalance that causes the symptoms in the first place.

So, symptoms are not worthy of being removed. They’re worthy of the underlying problem being corrected, so the symptoms are no longer needed.

And now Practical Homeopathy®, which is what I teach, is the method of using homeopathy in a more straightforward, protocol-driven — so formulaic — way for families (especially mothers and grandmothers because they take that so seriously) to confidently heal their families at home, even in conjunction with modern medicine.

Kate:

It’s pretty exciting because you’ve trained actually hundreds of homeopaths through your Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, and they’re helping people all over the world with this method.

Joette:

Yes.

But if you’re a mom and you want to treat your own family —or grandmother — this is your place.

So, let’s get back to broken bones, shall we? Right.

What do we do immediately after a bone break?

Joette: (04:17)

What do we use after the accident happens? Right after it’s happened. You discover there’s a broken bone, or you don’t even know if it’s broken yet. You just think, “Uh-oh.” You might feel disoriented. You don’t know where to go from here.

What do you do next?

So, let’s start with some homeopathic medicines that help with the severe pain and even the initial shock. And you want to have these on hand, friends. I can’t reiterate it enough.

There are three medicines: Aconitum (Aconitum napellus), Arnica (Arnica montana) and Hypericum (Hypericum perforatum).

So, I like to use these generally. I like to have them in a 200 potency. Or sometimes we own higher potencies, too. Arnica or Hypericum can easily be used in a 1M. So, you might want to have that on hand for when the trauma is pretty noteworthy.

So, what do we do with those three medicines?

Well, I like to call it “toggling.”

We toggle these medicines back and forth when the accident first happens for the first, say, hour or two, or even after that.

And we begin to space them out, as the use of the medicines become less and less needy.

So, at first, you might perhaps alternate them every five to 10 minutes. Aconite, Arnica, Hypericum. Then, the next one.

Now you’re not using them all simultaneously in the mouth all at once. You’re toggling them so that there’s time in between them — maybe five, 10 minutes or so.

And you use that over the first hour or two, and then you would take them less and less frequently as the symptoms determine.

Now we’re not treating symptoms, remember. We’re using the symptoms to determine how often these medicines should be used.

And what are the symptoms? The shockiness, the shakiness, the anxiety, the pain, the disorientation.

We’re using these medicines to see how these things move along … how these symptoms move along.

Kate:

Now, you’re not saying don’t go to the hospital if you know you have a broken bone.

Joette:

No. I’m not saying that. No, you’re on the way to the hospital.

In fact, if you’ve got someone in your family who knows how to use this (because perhaps you’ve trained your children how to do this), they’re driving, and maybe someone else is in the car administering the medicines to you (if it’s you who has the broken bone or potential broken bone).

What homeopathic medicines might we use over the next few days?

Kate: (06:35)

Okay. So that’s the first few hours. Now what about the rest of the day and the following day, once you’ve received the proper medical attention that is needed, what would you do next?

Joette:

Well, we might continue using Aconitum a few times every day, especially if it’s that shocky feeling. Again, Aconitum is for that sense of being overtaken by something big like this. And you can use that in the next few days.

But usually, we stop that medicine because that shocky, that shaky feeling, that core feeling like something big has happened starts to go away. And what replaces it — or is in conjunction with it — is the pain.

The pain of a broken bone can be really noteworthy. So, then we would continue perhaps with Arnica montana and Hypericum — toggling them.

And, as we use these medicines, I want you to take note. “Wow, every time I take that Hypericum, I do feel a little bit of relief. Arnica sort of helps, but Hypericum is really the one that …” Okay. Now we’re going to concentrate more on Hypericum and maybe back off of Arnica.

Or it might be the other way around. It might be that Hypericum is not acting as well as Arnica is. So, then we pull away from using Hypericum as frequently, and we drop any that we don’t need.

But always, my friends, we’re keeping in mind that you may not need it now, but in six hours, 12 hours, a day later, “Oh my gosh! I think I need that Arnica again.”

Or “I think that Hypericum really was helping.”

Reinstate it back in again. Don’t assume that what’s happening is that that medicine is no longer correct. No, we’re going to adjust accordingly.

Kate:

Talk about how we can maybe go down in potency as well. Maybe we’re using it in the 1M potency at first, but we could start to see as the pain gets less and less that maybe, now, we don’t need it in the 1M potency anymore, and we go down to 200.

Joette:

Yes. And that could be … maybe.

It’s too complex at this point in time if you’re not experienced with doing this. But yes, we adjust. We adjust accordingly.

If we start with Hypericum in a very high potency, like a 1M because the pain is extraordinary, and we’re finding that it’s acting, then we might go down a little bit. We might go to a 200, but I don’t know that it’s as necessary as you might think. We might just stay with Hypericum 1M and just use it less frequently.

You’ll get the hang of it after a while, and the more accidents that you treat broken bones, et cetera, the more likely.

Or maybe it’s not even a broken … maybe it’s a bruised bone. We don’t know that until you get into the hospital and get those X-rays.

Once we’ve got that extraordinary first few minutes, that first day under our belt, then we can start thinking about another medicine, and that medicine is Bryonia (Bryonia alba).

It’s for that pain that is worse from movement, especially if it’s significantly worse from movement. It’s kind of a dull and aching and bruised pain. Sometimes it might have something more stabbing (pain), but it is generally known for its bruised and aching pain.

And so, people who end up needing to use Bryonia usually want to be completely still — at least in that bone, that area of the body — and rest. Or they want to apply a little bit of pressure to it to help hold it in place and give it a little more comfort just to have that gentle pressure applied.

There’s your indication that Bryonia alba is the medicine you want to start using.

Kate:

Okay, great.

So, to recap, the first-line medicines that we might think of are Aconite, Arnica and Hypericum. And then we transition to Bryonia if the pain continues and we feel like something else is needed to help with that.

Joette:

Especially if there’s elements from movement. Yes.

After the bone has been set and it’s healing

Kate: (10:25)

Okay. So, what about after the bone has been set? We know what to do for the pain. It’s getting better. What is next?

Joette:

The next place to go is you can still employ some of these pain medicines should they be needed, but they may not at some point. Depends on the person and the location, et cetera.

Then we start thinking about a combination medicine of Symphytum officinale — Symphytum 200 and taken with Calc phos 3. (Now, sometimes people don’t have Calc phos 3. They only have 6. I would call them both very valuable.)

Sometimes they’re mixed together: you can mix them together in the mouth and put them in simultaneously. Sometimes, they’re toggled also: Symphytum 200 and then a few minutes later, Calc phos 3 or 6.

These two medicines are specific for bone injuries and especially for knitting the bone. And the reason that I emphasize the word “knitting” is because before we start knitting, we have to make sure that the bone is in its proper place.

So, if there’s a chance that this bone could get out of place, and it has to be … and the doctor is assuming that it’s going to be many, many weeks before they’re going to even look at placement again. No, no. You want to make sure that you’re using this medicine ONLY if the bone is absolutely in its place, because no one expects this medicine to work as quickly as it does — except for homeopaths.

So, the doctor will not know this. It’s important that you do not use this medicine until the bone is absolutely in its proper place.

Addressing the emotional component of physical injury

Kate: (12:02)

Along with these physical injuries, there can be excessive worry. The ongoing stress of this accident happening, maybe even infection, the “what-if” questions: “What if this doesn’t heal correctly?”

What would you use for those kinds of thoughts?

Joette:

Well, the biggest one that I always think of is Ignatia (Ignatia amara) 200C.

See, fixing the bone is great, but sometimes the trauma of the accident happening or the body going through surgery (which could happen … could result in surgery) in a kind of unsteady mind.

That is completely normal and real, but don’t use Ignatia if it’s not necessary … if the person doesn’t have these feelings. But if they do and they’re plagued, by all means, Ignatia 200, twice daily, is a great medicine for this.

So, you’ve most likely seen this through a lot: emotional pain because of the trauma of an accident happening or a physical pain or trauma of a bone being broken. All that goes with this: the bruising, the blood loss, having the bone reset, et cetera. And not to mention if the person needs surgery, the body is then subjected to a bunch of drugs and anesthesia.

Now, all of this can be hard on the body and the mind. So, in a case where, after we’ve experienced all of this, this whole cacophony of your life after such a condition or a situation, things are then left constantly worrying. I would definitely choose Ignatia 200, say, twice daily.

If surgery is required

Kate: (13:33)

That’s great, Joette.

Now, what about surgery? Because sometimes we have to go in and have that surgery to correct that fracture.

Joette:

Surgery: We’re going to be looking at the use of Arnica montana, which you might’ve already been using. We might use Arnica montana just before the surgery, which helps protect against bleeding and infection, et cetera.

But what might even precede that is the angst of surgery. Now, not everyone feels angst over surgery. Many people feel nothing about it. Don’t give it a second thought. They’ve never had surgery. They don’t realize what a big deal it can be. It’s not always … what it can be.

And that’s when we use a medicine named Gelsemium. So, we don’t ever want to overlook this because Gelsemium is the medicine for courage, and it really does act. It’s amazing how often we might want to use that for the angst that precedes or starts boiling to the surface when we know that surgery is forthcoming.

So, before they wheel their loved ones into the operating room, Gelsemium is a quiet hero for those facing that ordeal: the dread, the trembling or that heavy anxious feeling — feeling like the knees go weak and the mind gets foggy with anticipation.

So, it’s especially useful for someone who feels overwhelmed by the thought of the anesthesia, the incisions, or all of those little details that keep piling up on their thought process.

And sometimes those people who get to this point and have such angst that they even can get chills or even diarrhea from that nerve-wracking thought of forthcoming surgery.

So, then I suggest Gelsemium 30 taken every, maybe, two or three times the day leading up to the surgery and maybe the morning of if needed.

And I find time and again — I’ve used it myself — it calms the nervous system. I’ve actually used it before I go into a dentist’s office. It doesn’t dull the mind like psychotropic drugs do, like synthetic drugs do in the allopathic world. But instead, just helps the body go into the procedure in a more relaxed state.

And it doesn’t force relaxation; it simply puts you back to yourself. And then, I think it helps lead to a smoother recovery afterward.

Kate:

Okay. So, before we talk about case management, what if the person has had things like screws or plates put in the body during surgery? Is there anything else that we might need to know about maybe an infection or possibility?

Joette:

Yeah, let’s talk about one more medicine, shall we? And that’s Staphysagria.

Staphysagria, usually in a 30 or a 200 potency, my friends, is especially important when surgery is involved. And it is specific for the incision at the site of the screws, the plates, the pins holding that bone together. Staphysagria is the go-to medicine for when there is a clean surgical wound.

And that’s not before. Generally, we’re going to use it afterward.

It’s remarkable for that sharp, stinging, cutting pain that lingers after the surgeon’s knife, and it helps the tissues heal smoothly around foreign objects like hardware, metal hardware.

So, we give it once or twice a day. This is after the surgery, shortly after, within a day or so, and then tapering as the incision calms and the pain eases.

So, we watch for that typical Staphysagria picture: The person may be oversensitive to pain or feel as though the wound is still fresh even many days after.

You might not realize that this should be used until many days after. Because when it’s used, it prevents excessive scar tissue, reduces the deep soreness around the screws and those incisions, and it keeps the body from building into an infection and allowing the body to accept the hardware without ongoing inflammation.

Case management

Kate: (17:35)

Great. Now we’re going to talk a little bit about case management.

Once you’ve gone through these things, and you’re on your way to healing, can you tell us how to know which medicines are working and how to know when to stop using the medicines or maybe start another one again?

Joette:

This is one of the most common questions, and it’s a good one.

Let’s talk a moment about proper case management. This is huge, friends, because this is where so many people miss the real power of Practical Homeopathy®.

Once you’ve chosen your medicine, whether it’s Arnica, Calc phos, Symphytum, Gelsemium or a combination, your job now is really to focus on the case like a hawk.

You want to look for shifts in pain — I mentioned that earlier. A reduction in swelling, changes in bruising, color, and probably most importantly, the improvements in the person’s overall energy, their appetite and sleep, because those are satellite aspects of being human are all the other conditions that seem irrelevant, but they are quite relevant.

Now, in the first few days, you may need to repeat the remedy more frequently — or the remedies — sometimes three to four times a day, but as soon as clear improvement sets in, and you’ll know this because your skills, your observational skills will have been honed by then, you back off perhaps to say twice a day, then even once as needed.

So, we don’t want to overtreat a condition that’s improving. If something stalls or a new symptom picture emerges, you might layer in a complementary remedy or switch to repeating the remedy more frequently, or even, as you become more nimble at doing this, switch the potency.

And this is a responsive approach. It requires thoughtfulness and is what turns a simple bone break into a more swift and better, stronger recovery instead of a long painful ordeal. This is where the art of Practical Homeopathy® is at its finest, my friends.

Closing advice

Kate: (19:46)

Joette, this has been a lot of great information. I’m sure everyone has been taking notes during this. But also, you can go to https://joettecalabrese.com/ or https://practicalhomeopathy.com/ and look up the transcript from this podcast, and all of it will be right there for you.

Can you kind of wrap this up and give us some additional wisdom as we finish this podcast?

Joette:

Well, let me just say this, because if you happen to look at the X-ray of the broken bone, it looks really dramatic. But that X-ray is no match for what I consider the intelligent, orderly action of well-chosen homeopathic medicines.

So, from shock to pre- or post-surgery, nourishing the bones, or simply pain management, Practical Homeopathy® has been quietly and reliably doing this work for over 200 years.

But remember, it’s not just about grabbing a remedy and hoping for the best. That’s where proper case management makes all the difference in the world.

So, watch. Watch the case. Note the changes in pain, the swelling, the bruising, and especially the person’s energy, their sleep and their overall well-being or lack of it.

Sometimes we repeat the frequency in the early days and then space it out as improvement sets in.

Other times we may need to layer in a second medicine if something lingers on.

Kate:

This has been so great, Joette. I think everyone will benefit from hearing your words of wisdom on broken bones. Is there anything you want to leave us with today?

Joette:

Well, I’ve seen it time and time again in my practice, with my students, in their families, and even in my own family: The child who was back on the soccer field within weeks … earlier than expected. The grandmother whose hip fracture healed with far less pain and dependency. Even the, say, athlete who regained full strength without that lingering weakness so many suffer.

This is the real medicine, my friends. This is God’s medicine. It’s gentle, it’s deep acting and without the side effects that often come with conventional approaches.

So, keep your kits stocked, your powder dry, your notebooks handy, and your confidence intact. You don’t have to live in fear of every fall or every accident. You, my friends, now have tools that work with the body’s own wisdom instead of against it.

So, I say, if you want to go deeper into bone healing, trauma protocols or any methods I teach, head over to my website or join us in one of our ongoing courses.

And so, I guess I’d say until next time, stay close to Practical Homeopathy®, trust the process and remember you were made to heal.

So, we’ll see you next episode. Thanks, Kate.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/171-finding-your-true-north/

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58 Introduction: Finding Your True North

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

“MetaRepertory, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

“Nature’s Materia Medica, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

03:40 After searching, coming back home to Practical Homeopathy®

“Organon of Medicine” by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

“The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann” by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford

06:26 Why Practical Homeopathy®?

08:40 Success Story: A large, scary boil

Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy

Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

10:57 Success Story: Staph infection

Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning

12:21 Success Story: Insomnia

Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia

12:57 Joette brings homeopathy into the home

14:23 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 171.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Finding Your True North

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today I’m joined by my friend, Kelsey.

Kelsey has come up with a theme for this podcast, and it’s called “Finding Your True North.” And I can’t wait for her to tell you why she’s chosen that title for today’s theme of the podcast, but I want to tell you a little bit about Kelsey.

So, as a mother whose greatest charge is caring for her family, Kelsey has seen Practical Homeopathy® work powerfully in her own life, from healing stubborn boils and gut issues to resolving a serious staph infection in hours, as well as insomnia with a single well-chosen remedy.

So, like Sherlock Holmes, she knows it’s not just what we know but what we can prove. And today, Kelsey will share how, after exploring far and wide, she’s arrived back where she started, only now with a deeper appreciation and understanding.

So, Kelsey, I can’t wait to hear your stories, and I want to welcome you to the podcast.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s so good to see you today.

Kate:

So, Kelsey, tell us a little bit about your background.

Kelsey:

Well, Kate, as you know, I was privileged to take the Gateway I and II with you and Michele many years ago, and I was hooked. I actually ended up taking Gateway I and II for a solid year. I just kept coming back again and again.

Kate:

We’ve known each other for quite a while.

Kelsey:

Truly. And it was the community that I enjoyed so much and the camaraderie and just kind of finding a place to ask my questions about homeopathy. It was such a wonderful opportunity. So, that was my first real entry into homeopathy.

Kate:

Right.

Kelsey:

In kind of the natural progression, I took Joette’s larger courses. And so those blew my mind because it was just unraveling the onion of learning.

I did all of her larger courses, and then after taking Joette’s larger courses — around that time — The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® was opening up. And so, I naturally dove right in and was a part of the pioneer class, graduating in 2022.

And I just loved that. It offered a solid foundation for students studying homeopathy in history and in the materia medica.

But I think what I loved most was the interviews. Joette actually interviewed the late Robin Murphy, and it was such a great opportunity to learn from one of the masters.

Kate:

Right. That was such a good interview. I loved that, and it’s too bad that he’s no longer with us. But we use his repertory and materia medica all the time, don’t we, Kelsey?

Kelsey:

We do. It’s a foundation of everything Joette teaches. I mean, it’s one of my favorite books to have around me.

Kate:

Then tell us what happened next.

After searching, coming back home to Practical Homeopathy®

Kelsey: (03:40)

Okay. So, after I graduated with Joette and APH, I decided that I would try classical school. So, I went for one year. And for a variety of reasons, it just wasn’t the right fit for me.

So, I decided to step back and reassess my priorities. And as I stepped back, I came to realize that really it was the strict teaching in classical homeopathy that wasn’t really sitting right with me — that there’s only one way to use it. I was having a bit of a tough time with that, especially considering all that I had learned in The Academy.

And so, really, I started to do more research and look back on what I had learned in The Academy.

If you look at the “Organon” and its various editions written by Hahnemann himself, as well as the great book by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford called “The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann,” it actually shows the progression of Hahnemann’s understanding of homeopathic methodology over time.

And if you look at it, the third edition is really different from the sixth edition. It’s obvious that there were changes and updates as Hahnemann unearthed and understood more about his craft.

And so that really stood out to me as a reality that there are more ways to use this modality than just one.

So, I think all of us would agree that scientists and practitioners need to be open to change and growth in their fields. The laws of the universe stay the same — like the Law of Similars, of course — because the Creator doesn’t change, and He put these laws in place. But our understanding of them and how they work is subject to change.

And so, I think no matter what field we’re in, human beings are constantly uncovering and learning more about God’s world. The Drs. Banerji and Practical Homeopathy® both humbly acknowledge this fact by blending a variety of methods together for a truly effective modality.

Kate:

So, what led you to this, what you’re calling “a coming home”?

Kelsey:

Yeah. Well, it’s interesting. In the midst of my searching, I was given a very sobering diagnosis, and it made me just stop everything completely and reassess what I knew about homeopathy.

The rubber met the road for me.

With this diagnosis, I had to ask myself, “What method of homeopathy would I employ during such a time?” And I turned to what I knew — and what I knew worked.

And that’s when I came home again to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

Oh, I love the way you put that because we missed you when we didn’t see you, and we’re glad to have you back. And it’s very exciting what you’re doing, and I can’t wait to see what your future using this medicine and helping others leads to.

So, I want to ask you now to talk more about that coming home for you and what that felt like and what that means to you now.

Why Practical Homeopathy®?

Kelsey: (06:26)

The thing I love about Joette’s method and Practical Homeopathy® and what the Banerjis have put out is that these methods are accessible, and they’re reproducible.

So, even when I was in school, I would constantly refer people to Joette’s blog because she provides so much information, and she makes homeopathy so easy, anyone can use it.

And what I love is that this method is not out of touch. It’s really logical. And I think the best part — honestly for me because I love research — is that it’s backed up by over 200 years of clinical data and success enjoyed by the Drs. Banerji.

I truly believe that Practical Homeopathy® moves us forward. I’m reading a book right now about George Washington. And he was a farmer, and he was a master gardener. He came up with more effective ways to plant his crops, and in the book it talks about this invention that he made.

He developed a barrel with holes in it that could be rolled around in a field to drop seeds more efficiently. This was a fantastic invention at the time, but we would not use something like this today, right?

Kate:

Right. Yeah, that’s true.

Kelsey:

Right. Most large-scale farmers have developed greater technology to get the job done.

To me, this is not unlike what led to the development of Practical Homeopathy®. The method that Joette teaches has its roots in the genius findings of Hahnemann, while also making room for the discoveries and advancements that took place over time.

I mean, we would expect this kind of progression with any other form of science or technology, right?

Kate:

Right. Yes.

Kelsey:

So, like, the Banerjis and Practical Homeopathy® does not stay stuck in one place. They move us forward and allow us to expand our knowledge of just how this gorgeous modality works in daily life. I love that.

Kate:

You’ve really put a lot of thought into this, Kelsey, about the differences and the different methodologies and why you’ve come back to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kelsey:

Yeah. I mean, I think it helps to have both sides and to see sort of why people do what they do, and then to look at reality and see how science actually works and how things change over time. It really has helped me to have a foundation that is solid.

Success Story: A large, scary boil

Kate: (08:40)

Okay, Kelsey, let’s get to the meat of the podcast, which is your successes. I know you have a lot to share, but if you can boil it down to maybe three or four things that you think could be helpful to those who are listening today.

Kelsey:

Oh, that’s tough because there’s a lot of good things that have happened, but I’ll try.

Kate:

Okay.

Kelsey:

I will start with a neat story that was about me because that’s where I really learned how to use homeopathy was with myself first.

But essentially out of the blue, I got this boil, and it was super large and scary and developed really quickly. And so, at the time I didn’t have a lot of experience with homeopathy. And, of course, I did what most people would do, and I just went and got an antibiotic.

Well, we didn’t know that I was allergic to this antibiotic. And so, after one dose, I had a really bad reaction. It was anaphylactic. It was scary, and it really just made me think like, “I can never take this again.”

And so that, for me, was when the rubber met the road. I went searching, I found Joette’s blog. The blog name is “Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy,” and I just thought, “Well, let me go ahead and try these remedies. I’ll see if they work.”

And within just a few days, the boil that was angry, red, infected was completely better, and it just blew my mind.

Unfortunately, in that same story, I endured the most horrendous gut dysbiosis following this antibiotic, which can happen sometimes. I was at my wits’ end, Kate. I didn’t know what I was going to do.

I was very limited on what I could eat. It was like overnight my world changed. And if you do any research about gut dysbiosis, you know that this can happen for folk.

And so, I went crawling to Joette — as she says people often do — to homeopathy. And I had seen functional medical doctors; I had seen allopathic physicians. And truly Joette and Practical Homeopathy® was what got me up the mountaintop and down again.

From there, I was absolutely hooked. So, I became a client of Joette, and she recommended a protocol specific to gut dysbiosis.

Those are in the Good Gut, Bad Gut course for those of you that have it or are looking to learn more. And it actually changed my life. It made me so much better.

In about six months, I was back to my normal self.

Success Story: Staph infection

Kelsey: (10:57)

Okay. The next story I have is about a family member who got a staph infection on her lip.

Now, this family member was getting a makeover done and was using borrowed lipstick. And unfortunately, she had already had a little bit of a canker sore on her lip, and within just a few hours of getting the makeover, her lip got really big. I mean, it happened quickly.

And so, she reached out to me. Went to bed that night (didn’t seem like that big of a deal), but by morning her lip had doubled in size. She could barely close her mouth, and it was severely infected.

She had a staph infection.

And so, we worked together, and she basically gave herself eight hours before she was going to take an antibiotic. She ordered the antibiotics in the morning; she took the remedies recommended in the morning as well. And by that evening, her lip was completely down. And by the next day, the infection was gone. She was amazed.

We found a protocol for such an instance on Joette’s blog called “Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning.” And so, if you want to look there for that information, it’s all there.

But it was truly one of those moments where we thought, “Is this going to work?” And it did, and both of us became even bigger believers.

Kate:

Oh, good. So, she didn’t ever end up taking the antibiotic for her.

Kelsey:

She didn’t. They were ready to go — available for her if she needed them — but she did not need them.

Kate:

That’s awesome.

Okay, and I think you have one more story that you’re going to share with us.

Success Story: Insomnia

Kelsey: (12:21)

Yes. This one is just a sweet one.

I spend a lot of time with my mom. And she just turned 70, and she has been experiencing insomnia, and it’s really gotten her down. And so, we looked on Joette’s blog. And on it you’ll find one called “Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia.”

And so, my mom employed Ignatia 200C, and it has completely resolved her insomnia. She sleeps like a baby every night, and it’s glorious.

Kate:

Oh, I love that remedy. I think so many people could use that.

Kelsey:

Oh, it’s true.

Kate:

What a great thing. It’s tough when you can’t sleep for sure.

Kelsey:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Joette brings homeopathy into the home

Kate: (12:57)

So, Kelsey, you have something funny that we had talked about earlier regarding lipstick and Joette.

Kelsey:

How ironic that we would talk about lipstick after that staph story, Kate.

Kate:

Right? Exactly.

So, tell me how you’re comparing Joette to Chanel and lipstick and homeopathy, and how you’re incorporating that all together.

Kelsey:

Okay. So, what I love about learning from Joette is that she literally puts red lipstick and Chanel on homeopathy. And what I mean by that is she has a way of making it stick. It’s beautiful. It’s elegant with her stories and her charisma.

And I also was thinking about it further. Another analogy I like to say is that I believe Joette is to homeopathy what Julia Child was to French cooking.

Okay. So, most of you know that Julia brought the beauties of French cuisine into the homes of the average American housewife. She made something that was very unreachable into an accessible pleasure for the ordinary home cook. And in the same vein, I believe Joette has brought an otherwise ethereal and quite out-of-reach modality into the home, in order to aid the family in caring for itself.

I mean, I believe French cooking should regularly grace our tables because it’s so good. And along those same lines, I think that homeopathy deserves its rightful place in the home first.

Both Julia and Joette have made that a possibility.

Closing advice

Kate: (14:23)

So, as we wrap up the podcast, do you have any final thoughts or wisdom that you want to share with the listeners?

Kelsey:

I do, Kate. I have two quotes I’d love to share with you if you’d let me.

Joette:

Sure.

Kelsey

The first one is from the great classic “The Hounds of Baskerville.” And in this book, Sherlock Holmes says, “It is not what we know but what we can prove.”

And as you know, the materia medica is made up of provings — both accidental and intentional. And so, with Holmes, we can confidently say that homeopathic medicine is not just about what we know in theory, but about what we can actually prove. And I just love that.

And the final quote I’d like to share is from T.S. Elliot, and it goes like this: “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.”

And why this quote rings true for me especially is because I went searching, when really, I had everything right in front of me.

I had these beautiful methods of Practical Homeopathy® and a stellar guide in Joette. And it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t explore or extend our learning, but when we do, we might just find out — like I did — that we come home with a deeper appreciation and understanding of what we had all along.

And so, with Holmes, I can confidently say that I don’t just know this to be true now. I can prove it.

Kate:

Oh, I love that.

Kelsey, it’s been a pleasure having you here, and I know the listeners have enjoyed the podcast, just like I have enjoyed talking to you. So, thank you so much for your time.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s been a pleasure.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/170-skeptical-nurse-confident-homeopath/

In this podcast, we cover:

00:59 Introduction: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Homeopath

02:03 Why look for alternatives to conventional medicine?

05:27 “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?”

06:21 Tip #1: Don’t wait to start

https://joettecalabrese.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

08:42 Tip #2: A tincture of time

10:01 Tip # 3: Fear not

12:01 Success Stories

13:30 Closing advice: Give Practical Homeopathy® a chance

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 170.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Homeopath

Kate: (00:59)

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so glad that you’re here with us today.

I can’t wait to introduce you to our special guest. If you’ve ever felt stuck between conventional medicine and natural options or if you’ve wondered whether homeopathy could really work for serious everyday family health challenges, today’s episode is going to speak straight to your heart.

Joining us today is Erin. She’s a registered nurse with decades of experience. She’s also a mom, a breast cancer survivor, and now a successful homeopath.

Erin went from being deeply skeptical of the little white sugar pills to using Practical Homeopathy® confidently for everything from insomnia and vertigo to abscesses, injuries and chronic conditions in her family.

So, Erin, I want to welcome you to the podcast. It’s so great to have you here, finally. We’ve been waiting for the listeners to hear your story.

Erin:

Thank you, Kate. I am so happy to be here.

Why look for alternatives to conventional medicine?

Kate: (02:03)

Oh, I’m happy you’re here.

So, let’s start at the beginning. You are a registered nurse — have been for many years — and you followed the conventional medicine paradigm with your family. What finally made you start looking for alternatives?

Erin:

It actually started with our oldest child, when he entered kindergarten. After about two weeks, the school called us and told us that he needed to be medicated because he couldn’t sit still, and he was too disruptive.

My husband and I weren’t willing to jump to medication as a first step. That led us down the common path many people take. We tried herbalism, essential oils, naturopathy, functional medicine, but everything felt so complicated and time-consuming or just managing symptoms without really giving any lasting improvement.

We stayed in those approaches for a while simply because we didn’t know there was anything better.

Kate:

Right. And then you faced a health crisis. Tell us about what that was and what happened afterward that led you to homeopathy, if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

Erin:

Oh, sure. So again, I was completely in the Western medicine paradigm with my routine checkups. And I went to just a regularly scheduled appointment, and they found something that led to more tests. Eventually I ended up with a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Again, I followed every recommendation they had. I did the surgery and the treatments — the whole protocol. But when it was over, I was left with all the side effects that I wasn’t expecting: the months of insomnia with the crushing exhaustion and the brain fog and the anxiety. And then the constant vertigo started day and night, and I just really had no quality of life at that point.

My mom kept telling me about this lady on the internet named Joette, who had something that could help. She kept offering me these little white sugar pills. And at first, I completely brushed it off.

I thought my mom was falling for some internet charlatan, and I was genuinely concerned for her because now that became an extra worry that I didn’t feel that I had, I guess, the brain power to deal with.

Kate:

That’s funny. So, I think a lot of listeners can relate to that skepticism.

So, what finally made you try these little white pills?

Erin:

Honestly, it was desperation. The insomnia was unbearable, and my thought was, “If I can just sleep, maybe I can function again.”

So, I agreed to try the remedy that my mom had learned from Joette’s blog. It was Coffea cruda. And within three days, I was sleeping again. I could not believe it.

My mom never once said, “I told you so.” She was very gracious in that regard.

But a few days later, I mentioned how terrible my vertigo was. And, of course, my mom said Joette had a protocol for that, too.

Even though I was still on the prescription medicine that was causing the vertigo, I decided to try it. It took about 10 days before I began noticing a real difference. And over many months, the vertigo finally improved significantly — I would say, 90 to 95%. And I was amazed all over again.

Kate:

Yeah. Vertigo can be debilitating. So, I can imagine you were very relieved.

What came next for you was you wanting to go deeper and really study this. Tell me about that.

“Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?”

Erin: (05:27)

Sure. I just kept thinking, “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?” I knew that I needed to learn more. And that’s when I heard that Joette was opening her Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

My mom encouraged me to apply. Even though I felt brand new to homeopathy, I decided to go ahead and try it. And I was part of the Pioneer class of 2022.

Then I went on to complete the Mastery program, and now I’m in my third year of the Mastermind program.

It truly changed my life. I’m now living my dream of helping others, and I owe it all to Joette and my persistent mom and Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

What a long way you’ve come, Erin. I mean, think about it. You didn’t even know what homeopathy was, and now this is a big part of your life, and you actually see clients. So, it’s very exciting.

Erin:

Yes.

Tip #1: Don’t wait to start. Practical Homeopathy® meets you wherever you are.

Kate: (06:21)

So, Erin, you’ve put together some top tips for listeners of this podcast who may be just starting out or a little hesitant. So, I’d love it if you could go through them.

And your first tip is: Don’t wait to start. Can you explain what you mean by that?

Erin:

Absolutely. Yes. Don’t wait to start learning or using homeopathy. I think so many people feel like they need to learn everything first or they need to clean up their diet or change all their habits before they can begin using homeopathy. But Practical Homeopathy® meets you exactly where you are on your wellness journey.

You don’t have to be perfect or fully prepared. Just begin.

Joette has wonderful resources on her website. You can just go to https://joettecalabrese.com/ and click on the “New to Homeopathy” link.

You can also click on the link for her blogs or podcasts and just start listening and reading. I send these links out to people all the time because they are just so informative.

I also think it’s really important to find a community of like-minded people — your tribe, right? That’s what we call it. And now we talk about finding our tribe.

A really great way to do that is to take the Gateway class that Joette has written.

Kate:

It’s called Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®, and it’s a study guide that you can use to guide you through a study of homeopathy.

Erin:

Yes. I teach that class, and so do many others. It’s a great way to meet other people who are wanting to learn homeopathy also.

Kate:

And if you’re looking for a community of people to do that with, once you purchase the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide, there is a list of study group leaders on the website that you’ll see.

And also, Joette has a Facebook page called Joette’s Study Group, Find Your Study Group Friends. So, that’s where people who are leading study groups post, “I’m leading a study group starting next Thursday.” And they give all the information, so you could find a group of people there to go through your study guide with.

That’s great advice, Erin. I love that.

Okay. Let’s move on to your second tip, Erin, which is about being patient with the homeopathic medicines. Talk to us about that.

Tip #2: A tincture of time

Erin: (08:42)

I think this is probably the hardest part for most of us (it certainly was for me): the waiting for the homeopathic medicines to work. Because homeopathy is not like taking Tylenol or Benadryl or something that forces our body to do something immediately.

It’s more like giving the body a set of instructions that it reads and follows at its own pace to bring itself back into balance.

So, for chronic issues especially, patience is key.

Sometimes you experience a quick resolution with the homeopathics. But it can also take time, as I said, especially when you’re healing chronic conditions you’ve had for many years.

Healing also isn’t always linear. Sometimes it’s two steps forward and one step back. There are good days and not-so-good days, but overall, from start to finish, we see that we’re headed towards healing.

Kate:

Kind of like when you had the vertigo, I imagine, Erin, is what you’re talking about: when it didn’t happen overnight that your vertigo was completely gone, but you mentioned it was days that it gradually kept getting better.

Erin:

Yes, exactly.

Kate:

Great advice, Erin, to be patient with the medicines and consistent. I think that’s the other thing. Yeah.

Erin:

Right.

Kate:

You have to take them.

Tip # 3: Fear not

Kate: (10:01)

And your third tip gets to the heart of why so many of us are drawn to homeopathy. Tell us about that.

Erin:

Yes. Take control and conquer your fear.

Practical Homeopathy® has removed so much of the fear surrounding illness in our family and replaced it with real hope. Since I took the first dose of Coffea cruda, we’ve faced all sorts of challenges.

My dad has suffered with tremors for many years. I was in the first year of The Academy studies, and Joette spent a great deal of time teaching us about our homeopathic medicines, and she does it alphabetically.

So, fortunately for me, Cuprum metallicum was a C. It’s at the beginning of the alphabet, and I learned about it pretty shortly in. I wanted to help my dad with the Cuprum for his tremors, and it did! Over the course of several weeks, we saw an improvement in his tremors for about 50%, but then it stopped. It plateaued right there.

So, I was concerned, and I wanted to talk to Joette about what do we do now.

But while I was having my consultation with Joette, my dad and my mom got together and decided, “Well, if a 6C worked, we’ll try it in a 200C.” And they switched that to a 200C.

And he had had a head injury several years ago that had taken away all of his sense of smell and taste, and a few weeks on the 200C, suddenly he was able to smell and taste again. Not everything, but about 50%.

So, it was truly amazing that head injury was old. It wasn’t what I thought we were working on. I was just simply looking at the tremors, and we were able to help both with the same medicine.

Kate:

That’s so funny that they just went ahead and made that change. What a great thing. And we know that Cuprum is one of the top remedies — Cuprum metallicum, that is — is one of the top remedies for head injuries. So that’s great.

Success Stories

Erin: (12:01)

Yes. Then I’ve used the first year of The Academy — A, the beginning of the alphabet. Arnica, at that point, was the only remedy I had learned in The Academy.

And I burnt my thumb on the hot burner of a stove, and it immediately turned white and kind of crispy. And I didn’t know about other remedies other than Arnica. So, I just started taking Arnica. I took like three doses, and the pain went away, and it never even blistered. So, I was truly amazed by that as well.

Kate:

Arnica never ceases to amaze me.

Erin:

I know.

Kate:

It’s useful for so many things. Yeah.

Erin:

Yeah. I have people ask me, “Well, can I use Arnica for that? ” And I’m thinking, “Probably.”

Kate:

What else do you have, Erin?

Erin:

So we’ve used, again, homeopathy for so many different things within our own family with internal abscesses and pleurisy, pneumonia, UTIs, migraines, chronic back pain, sciatica, poison ivy, allergies, eczema, road rash, essential tremors, the irregular heartbeat, frozen shoulder, low thyroid, high blood pressure, ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety. I mean, the list goes on.

The Practical Homeopathy® has risen to every single one of those challenges for us.

Kate:

Well, that’s amazing. And what an inspiring list, and I’m sure you have so much more that you could talk about.

Closing advice: Give Practical Homeopathy® a chance

Kate: (13:30)

Before we wrap up today, is there anything else that you would like to share with our listeners?

Erin:

Just that if you’re feeling overwhelmed or skeptical like I once was, give it a chance. Start small, be patient and watch what happens. The results can truly be life-changing.

Kate:

Oh, Erin, thank you so much. That was beautiful. I appreciate you sharing your personal story that took you from a skeptical nurse and cancer survivor to a confident homeopath, and you’re truly helping families every day. I love hearing what you’re doing. Your journey is an encouragement to me and all of us.

So, friends, if you’re listening to this podcast and Erin’s story resonated with you, I want to encourage you to share this with someone else that you know might be suffering as well, and want to share homeopathy with.

Consider, as Erin said, going to Joette’s website and just starting … reading her blogs and listening to the podcasts. And consider possibly, even like Erin, joining The Academy at some point the next time a class opens up.

As you said, Erin — so well — Practical Homeopathy® helps us to be fearless, and it truly puts us back in the driver’s seat of our health and the health of our families.

So, I want to thank you for listening today. Thank you, Erin, for being here. And until next time, stay curious, be empowered and use Practical Homeopathy® to take charge of your health with confidence.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

01:41 Different kinds of headaches

04:12 Two personal examples: barometric pressure and dehydration headaches

06:12 Success Story: Barometric headache

09:31 Different homeopathic medicines for different headaches

https://joettecalabrese.com/

Don’t Forget Sepia for Headaches

April Showers Bring Sinus Headaches

Make It Stop! Escape from the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain

11:05 The beautiful truth of our bodies and homeopathy

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 169, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the podcast. If this is your first time here, you’re in for a treat today. Or maybe a better way to say it is, you’re about to get out of a real pickle.

We’re diving into headaches with Joette — from the extremely painful ones that knock you flat to that dull ache after a long day in the sun. But even more importantly, we’ll hear exactly what Joette did to finally relieve her headaches for good.

Now, I know most of us listening have dealt with a headache at some point, even if it was just a mild one. But Joette, earlier, you were sharing how we can approach different types of headaches in a smarter way. So, can you start by explaining what you mean by different kinds of headaches?

Different types of headaches

Joette: (01:41)

Oh, absolutely, Kate. Headaches come in all shapes and sizes: dull, throbbing, sharp, stabbing, tight-band-like pressure around the head, pain behind the eyes, or sometimes a heavy squeezing sensation. And then there are migraines, which are in a league of their own.

So, let me clarify the difference between a regular headache — even a really painful sinus one — and a true migraine.

Now, migraine is far more than just a bad headache. It often brings debilitating, throbbing pain, sometimes on one side, sometimes both sides, that can leave you in bed for days. Lights, sounds, movement, or certain triggers can worsen it, along with nausea, vision changes, even fatigue or irritability.

So, whether it’s a headache or a migraine, the key is to investigate before reaching for the homeopathic medicine. We want to try to find the cause, if possible. If we can’t pinpoint it exactly, at least narrow it down to the specific symptoms, because sometimes the cause can give us very good information.

Kate:

So, you are saying that headaches don’t usually just appear out of nowhere.

Joette:

Well, sometimes it feels like that. But if you look a little closer, there’s often a trigger — not always — but often there can be. It can be a long day in the sun, sudden weather, pressure changes, too much screen time, dehydration, or even stress, or, let me also add, food intolerances that you hadn’t considered in the past.

So, if the cause isn’t obvious, then, okay … then, focus on the symptoms instead.

Where exactly is the pain? What does it feel like? Is it only at night or in the temples or dull pressure behind the eyes?

We often slap the broad label headache on everything and stop there because most people are accustomed to just simply taking a drug for just pain regardless of where it is and how it presents. But these details that I’m listing really matter in homeopathy.

Kate:

So, I’m wondering if the cause and symptoms are the real clues to how we look at this. I think that’s really smart.

Joette, why does the type of headache even matter? Isn’t it all just the same thing in the end?

Joette:

Not really. Once you understand the difference between migraines, certain common headaches, their causes, their unique symptoms, everything changes.

Two personal examples: barometric pressure and dehydration headaches

Joette: (04:12)

So, let me share two personal stories that show the cause made all the difference in the pain I experienced.

The first one was years of barometric pressure headaches back in Buffalo, New York, that I suffered over a long period of time — as I said, for years. Every time the barometric pressure changed — the weather shifted — I’d get these intense sinus headaches.

The pain would start above my eyes and spread, feeling like — I don’t know — a vice grip, squeezing my sinuses in my whole face. It was miserable and predictable with the forecast, but only once I recognized that. I never realized that.

And living on the Great Lakes, there was always a barometric pressure change. One was rolling in, or one was rolling out. But once they started up, once the headache started, it was practically unstoppable until the pressure changed in the weather.

I’d be foggy, irritable, in lots of pain just trying to function.

The second time, some 40 years later, was after I moved to Florida. The intense sun and heat led to dehydration headaches that became my new normal.

Now, why would I be in the sun? Well, because I made a point of walking on the beach every day. And I also made a point of sitting in the sun every day, in addition to that walking, for, I don’t know, 15 minutes, an hour. But you can’t sit much longer at certain times of the year.

And I would sit in the sun without sunscreen, I might add, my friends. I’d end up with that dull, however, exhausting ache, a heavy draining, and often hitting in the late afternoon or evening after having been outside in that draining sun. It felt like my whole head was worn out, and it kept coming back no matter what I did.

Kate:

Oh, that sounds miserable, Joette. I actually can’t imagine dealing with nagging headaches like that all the time. I don’t get headaches, which I’m thankful for.

So, tell me, how did you make it through those periods, and what changed? You don’t still suffer from headaches today, right?

Joette:

No, I don’t. So, the first headache was before I knew enough about homeopathy. I thought the answer was over-the-counter pain relievers or even prescriptions.

And now, I never got a prescription. I’d only lived on … I believe the medicine that I used on a regular basis was a cover-up. It was a band-aid. And it was “222s,” is what they were called. And I used to go to Canada to buy them because you couldn’t buy them over the counter in New York State. And they had codeine in them.

So, I would take a codeine drug every time the barometric pressure came in. Now this, again, this was a good 40-some years — something like that. And it would dull the pain, and I would relieve the pain, actually, for hours or even a day if I was lucky. But the headaches always came roaring back once the next barometric pressure change came back in again.

So, it was a haphazard cycle, not a real solution.

But once I started to learn a little bit about homeopathy, I realized that there are specific medicines that matched the headaches perfectly, something that I hadn’t noticed up until that time. The first one — and I’ve talked about this so many times, perhaps this is old news to some of you — is the medicine Kali bichromicum. Sometimes people call it Kali bic, and that’s for those extreme sinus headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes.

So, the second medicine that I used specifically for those dull, exhausting headaches caused by dehydration was China — C-H-I-N-A — which is also sometimes called Cinchona. (Both of those names are used for the same medicine.)

So, China … and I used it specifically for when I got those headaches right as they happened. And it was often because I was dehydrated. I had not been drinking enough water and had not been adding anything to my water, such as salt.

Kate:

So, that was when you were out in heat and just ….

Joette:

Perspiring.

Kate:

Yeah. Right.

Joette:

And it didn’t take me long to figure this out once I realized, and Perry and I kind of watch each other about this because if we find that we’re exhausted throughout the day, we’re thinking: “Oh yeah, of course. We’re not rehydrating. We’re not drinking enough water with electrolytes or with salt in it after having walked on the beach in that hot weather or after having sat out in the sun for 15-20 minutes in the afternoon.”

So, these beautiful medicines were the real game changers for me. They didn’t just mask the pain. They spurred my body to address the underlying issue, and then just relieved it once and for all.

Now, as far as the Kali bichromicum is concerned and those extreme headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes, I simply have not had them again in many, many decades.

But the China medicine and that medicine specific for dehydration and headaches that address that need for salt and water … I still have to remind myself every once in a while because I still insist on walking in the hot sun and sitting in the sun later in the afternoon. So, those can be brought on time and time again if I’m not careful.

Kate:

Yeah. I love how homeopathy helps to truly address those conditions and heal our bodies, and it doesn’t just cover up symptoms.

Different homeopathic medicines for different headaches

Kate: (09:31)

But I want to ask you, what if someone’s headache cause or symptoms aren’t exactly like the ones you mentioned today? Because, as you mentioned earlier, there are a lot of different causes of headaches. So what if someone’s headache isn’t like the ones that you just mentioned, and they’re different?

Joette:

Well, there are different homeopathic medicines for different headaches. It all depends on matching the unique cause and symptoms and sometimes the name of the condition, too — exactly the name: that it is a migraine.

So, I would say that if someone is already familiar with homeopathy, they can explore the repertory, the material medica.

But if you’re newer to this, a great starting point is at my website at https://joettecalabrese.com/. And you just type in “headache” in the search bar in the top right corner, and you’ll find helpful blogs. Like Don’t Forget Sepia for Headaches, is one title. Another one is April Showers Bring Sinus Headaches … is another title.

And so, these are all available for your use at, of course, no cost.

And so, I also cover headaches in greater depth should this information not be of use to you because as I said, there are a myriad of different types of headaches. So, there’s also [Make It Stop!] Escape from the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain, which is an in-depth course, which covers headaches as well as many other kinds of pain that people suffer.

So, if you want to learn how to use more of these medicines and how they’re specific to certain kinds of headaches and certain symptoms related to these headaches, this might be where you need to go next.

The beautiful truth of our bodies and homeopathy

Kate: (11:05)

Homeopathy is so empowering, and it shifts our mindset from feeling helpless to feeling hopeful. As we hear from so many of your students, Joette, that their fear just melts away.

Joette:

Yes. And here’s the beautiful truth: Our body is designed to heal. It’s always looking for homeostasis. So, headaches — even the stubborn, recurring ones that have plagued one for years — does not mean that it’s a lifelong sentence.

When we learn to listen closely to the symptoms — pay attention to them and match them with the right homeopathic medicine — it gives the body that gentle nudge that it needs to do what it was made to do, and that is to shift outside of that suffering.

So, I guess the upshot is if someone is suffering, I urge them to take heart. Relief doesn’t have to be complicated nor even expensive. It can be simple, natural and restorative. So, start paying attention to the patterns. Trust the process and remember freedom from pain is possible … one well-chosen homeopathic medicine at a time.

So, you’ve got this. Your body is stronger and wiser than you may realize right now.

So, I guess I’ll end by saying, thanks for joining us today. Don’t forget to send this podcast to someone you know who suffers from headaches, at least to get them started.

And until next time, stay curious, friends, stay observant and stay Mighty.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/168-dont-worry/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Don’t Worry

02:00 Women are expert worriers

03:18 When worry becomes a pathology, think homeopathy

“Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy

05:26 Ailments from worry

07:59 When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety

10:40 Closing advice

Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

https://joetteslearningcenter.com/

Free blogs

Podcasts

Monday Night Lives

https://joettecalabrese.com/

Additional resources:

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 168, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Don’t Worry

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, and our subject today is worry.

Now, we all talk about anxiety. I think that’s very common in society today, but what about worry? Maybe you’re not plagued with the deep anxiety day and night, but you are a mom, like me, that worries.

Or maybe you’re not a mom, but you worry about your pets, your family, your friends, your career, your finances. What about if you’re a teenager and you worry about being bullied, or a grandparent who worries about their new grandbabies and how much time they’ll get to spend with them?

Well, regardless of who you are, worry shouldn’t be on the forefront of your mind, especially if you can’t let it go. Long-term stresses on the body can lead to many other issues, but in this podcast, Joette is going to cover some important homeopathic medicines that can help when worry becomes an everyday occurrence and when worry turns into something greater.

So, let’s get started, Joette.

Women are expert worriers

Joette: (02:00)

Yeah, let’s get started, Kate.

First, I want to say that some of the best worriers on earth are women. We’re experts at it. Once we become a mother, then, I would say worry is our middle name.

Kate:

Right.

Joette:

So, yeah, it can be mild. It can go on and on, but it can also be within the range of normal. So, we don’t want to treat just every little thing that comes along because, as we know, everyone worries now and then.

But when it starts to affect our daily life, then we consider trying a homeopathic medicine to calm that thinking pattern. And we don’t use it every day. We would use it maybe for a day or two and see how it affects us — and use it only as needed. That would be our goal.

So, I know there can be moments of fleeting worry when your child learns how to ride a bike, or when you’re going to take a test, or about your family going on a trip overseas, or if you’ll make it someplace on time. That’s within the range of normal.

But if you find yourself in a constant state of worry, or it becomes something that you find affects your day-to-day living because you’re spending your time checking up on your adult kids constantly (or even your younger children), or not going to places because of worry (like not getting on a plane or not being comfortable enough to take the thruway) … you get the picture.

When worry becomes a pathology, think Arsenicum album or Calc carb

Joette: (03:18)

Homeopathy can often help. So, I want to talk about a few top remedies that we could consider when we repertorize them in our “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy. And we look up on page, for example, 277. (For those of you who have a repertory, it’s kind of fun to do this. But if you don’t, you can just follow along.)

There’s “worries, tendency to,” (tendency to worry). And the top medicines are Arsenicum album and Calc carb (or Calcarea carbonica). There are other medicines, too, but I want to just touch on these two main medicines.

Let’s go with Arsenicum first. It’s a person who is full of worries about trifles. They’re nervous; they’re anxious; they can be indecisive. They have anxiety, especially about health, about fear of germs, viruses, being poisoned. They’re restless, and basically, they turn into a hypochondriac.

If it’s a child that worries, they don’t want to be alone, and they can cling to their parents.

And I have to say that this is the kind of medicine that we want to take. You know when they say put the mask on your face before you put it on your child’s — the plane is going down?

Well, mothers often worry because they don’t trust that the medicine that they’re going to be using is going to act, whether it’s conventional drugs or homeopathic, and they’re worried about taking this job on themselves. And so, this is one of those medicines that can be very useful to a mother that’s always freaking about her child’s illnesses or conditions.

So, let’s go to Calc carb, too, because Calc carb is an interesting one. Calc carb covers rumination, where it’s that constant, low-level thinking and overthinking, overworking it, and then they become overworked and exhausted.

And the person might sit and think about little affairs that really amount to nothing, worries about all their responsibilities, especially, and their duties. And this person who might need Calc carb is apprehensive, and they might have anxiety, even with palpitations. And they can be forgetful.

Ailments from worry

Joette: (05:26)

But let’s drill down a little farther. There can be different kinds of worry, such as domestic affairs, or during a fever, or with nervous trembling, or someone who’s overly careful, or sleeplessness that turns into insomnia, or even waking in the night.

Those all can be considered when we’re trying to choose a homeopathic medicine, besides, let’s say, Arsenicum album or Calc carb.

So, if you’ve heard the phrase, “I’m worried sick,” think about worry can actually cause physical ailments. And the most obvious conditions are considerations like high blood pressure, emotional eating. Someone is nervous or worried? They might find their way to the refrigerator. There can be, of course, insomnia or fatigue or irritability. Of course, there’s much more, but those are some common conditions that we see associated with worry.

So, worry is under the category of stress, and we all know that stress can be an underlying cause of these diseases. So, of course, it makes sense that we want to eliminate this chronic or even extreme worry as soon as we can, because that could potentially cause long-term stress, hence other diseases.

Kate:

Joette, I know there’s what we call a rubric in the repertory under worry, and it’s called “ailments from worry.”

So maybe you find yourself not being able to sleep from worry, or maybe you find yourself sick all the time, and you’re just worried all the time, and one cold after another.

What remedies might be found in that rubric?

Joette:

Well, Argentum nitricum is certainly very valuable for this.

And I always think of Ignatia, too. I’ve written and talked about Ignatia a number of times.

Lycopodium is another one, especially if there’s gut issues, bloating, et cetera.

And then Phosphorus. And Phosphorus can be someone who has kind of a spaciness to them in that they are so worried that they come up with these elongated, elaborate scenarios of what could go wrong. They have a huge imagination.

So, these are other medicines we could consider. And there are many others, but those are some of the main … plus, of course, Cal carb, that I mentioned earlier, and Arsenicum.

Kate:

So, this is a good exercise. If you have been studying homeopathy, go online and look up, just Google “materia medica,” and then the names of these remedies. And you’ll be able to read more about them and find out if this might be a fit for something that you or someone that you know is struggling with.

When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety

Kate: (7:59)

So, Joette, but what if our worries turn into something more? How do we know when we’ve crossed that line now, and it’s turning into a paranoia or anxiety or a panic? How would we know the difference?

Joette:

Well, let’s address some of the key differences between worry, anxiety and paranoia.

Generally, worry can be rational. It focuses on possibilities. Maybe it overfocuses, but it focuses on possibilities, slight anxiety about future uncertainties, and usually solely resides in the mind.

So, what that means is that it hasn’t gone into the body on any level. And some people just see life as a glass that’s half empty. It’s just who they are in many ways, and they expect the worst.

It may not be in all situations, maybe just certain situations. They have no fear of poverty, but they have a fear of their child getting sick, or they won’t get on a plane for fear it might come down.

Again, we aren’t talking about taking a homeopathic remedy for every little concern or worry, but if your family might describe you as the family chronic worrier, it could be useful to address this with a homeopathic medicine because it’s kind of a chronic state of mind.

Well, now let’s talk about paranoia. And this involves irrational, fixed and delusional beliefs that others are specifically acting to cause harm. And this is when your family says, “Mom, Mom, we don’t have to worry about Martians. That’s not something to be concerned about. There are not Martians hiding behind the bushes in the backyard.”

Paranoia is characterized by a lack of evidence and an extreme distrust.

Now, let’s talk about anxiety, which usually affects both the body and the mind. It can cause symptoms like racing heart, or perspiration, or insomnia, or, more often than not, intense restlessness. Anxiety, in a way, is a broader physical and persistent state — an emotional state — that can feel uncontrollable and impair daily functioning pretty consistently.

Kate:

So, what I’m hearing, Joette, is that worry can be anytime, and it’s mainly just thoughts. Whereas anxiety can have those physical symptoms along with it and usually is more persistent and goes further than worry. And paranoia is more of an irrational fear based off of distrust.

Joette:

Yeah. Distrust that is irrational, certainly.

So, for this podcast, we’re just focusing on worry, but I may touch on these other emotional and psychological conditions sometime in the future.

Closing advice

Kate: (10:40)

Yes. I want to also point out that you have much more information on these and other mind conditions in a course called Mindful Homeopathy.

So, if you want to learn more, I highly recommend that you go to JoetteCalabrese.com [Editor’s note: https://joetteslearningcenter.com/ contains all of Joette’s courses] and check out the Mindful Homeopathy course. This course has many protocols that are associated with conditions of the mind.

And of course, you have a lot of free blogs and podcasts and your free Facebook Live [Editor’s note: Monday Night Lives]. So, you can search onhttps://joettecalabrese.com/ at the top right-hand corner under the search bar if you want to learn more about these remedies or conditions that Joette has talked about in this podcast.

Joette:

Yeah, and I would like to add just one more thought here. And that is our students tell us on a regular basis — and it’s also, I’ve noted it myself, and so have you, Kate — that once you learn how to treat your family’s conditions — the ear infections that pop up time and again, or the eczema that is maddening, or the injuries that occur in a family —because it’s constant, the more children you have, the more of these conditions show up in your life.

Once you learn how to treat these homeopathically, a lot of the worry about your children’s health, your husband’s health, your parents’ health, even your pets’ pretty much melts away. It may not melt away completely, but that alone — without homeopathic medicine — can do a lot of good because you’ve learned how to take care of your family yourself.

So, I want to get this information into as many hands as possible to help you, the mother, grandmother, become the confident and competent healer in your home so that you can worry less.

So, don’t forget to share this with someone you know who might benefit from this information, and we’ll see you next time.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/167-aconite-shock-fear-anxiety-panic/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Aconite for shock, fear, anxiety and panic

02:21 Meet Elizabeth, who utilized Aconitum napellus for her husband’s shock after bad news and with other conditions

04:59 Meet Jennifer, who used Aconite for her child’s delayed panic after a close call in a swimming pool

06:39 Different kinds of shock

07:47 Meet Laurie, who employed Aconite for stage fright and her young son’s fear of storms

10:05 Meet Nealy, whose dog-clients use Aconite for anxiety and fear of car rides

12:59 Other uses of Aconitum napellus: the Arnica of the eye, fear of death, labor

18:45 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 167, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Aconite for shock, fear, anxiety and panic

Joette: (01:00)

Have you ever had a shocking experience, after which you felt sudden surges of adrenaline through the body? Now, you might’ve been shaky and felt fearful and panicked. How about an anxiety attack or panic attack? Well, you’re not alone.

A national health statistic I saw states that during 2022, about one in five adults, age 18 and older, experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks.

But we don’t have to fear because on this podcast, I’m going to share about one of my favorite homeopathic medicines, which has the ability to address these conditions and much more.

I’ll bet you can guess which medicine it is. If you guessed Aconitum napellus — Aconite — you were right.

Some of you may already know that Aconite has been known to address conditions such as colds or flu (especially if they come on quickly), coughs, croup, fever, cardiac events, otitis media, sleeplessness and much more.

But in this podcast, we’re going to focus on its ability to address anxiety, shock and fear. So, I’ve invited some of my students to join us on this podcast because they have their own stories about Aconite.

Meet Elizabeth, who utilized Aconitum napellus for her husband’s shock after bad news and with other conditions

Joette: (2:21)

So, I’d like to welcome Elizabeth. She is a Mastermind member, an Ambassador, has finished the two years — The Academyand Mastery — and has her own business.

Go ahead, Elizabeth. We’d love to hear your story.

Elizabeth:

Hi, Joette. Thanks for having me.

One moment that really stands out to me was during my husband’s serious chronic illness. He had just received some very discouraging news, and it triggered a full-blown panic attack. His heart was racing; he felt helpless. You could just tell his body didn’t know how to process the news he had just received.

And I remember thinking, “This isn’t just everyday worry and anxiety. He’s in shock.”

So, without making a big deal about it, I gave him a dose of Aconite, which is a remedy we use a lot in homeopathy for sudden fear and panic. And within minutes — and I mean minutes — I watched the panic melt away.

And he looked at me, and he said, “What did you just give me? I feel so much better.”

And that was one of those moments where I realized how powerful the right homeopathic remedy can be because his body was finally able to just calm down and reset.

And that’s just one of countless stories where I have had horrific nightmares and had panic and anxiety and shock, and Aconite worked every time.

My daughter has also had the same. I’ve had a friend who was in hospice, and I was able to see her benefit from Aconite as well.

Client: pregnancy — horrific pregnancy — labor and delivery, ultimately PTSD. And that was one of the really big things that we worked on was preparing her mind and her body to prepare for the upcoming new baby with the labor and delivery, hypertension, lots of different things.

But even just everyday things, like being exposed to cold winds. Like at one of my children’s soccer games or something: the onset of a cold or a cough. Aconite is just so beautiful. So, I take it everywhere with me because I have seen it be so powerfully effective with a number of health issues.

Joette:

Well, what’s great about it is that it’s not a vitamin or a supplement or a mineral. It’s a homeopathic medicine, so we use it only as needed. So, in each of those events that you were just discussing, that’s exactly when we would use Aconitum.

Thank you so much, Elizabeth. Those are lovely stories, especially the first one with your husband. Bad news, yes.

Meet Jennifer, who used Aconite for her child’s delayed panic after a close call in a swimming pool

Joette: (04:59)

All right, let’s go to Jennifer. Jennifer’s in our Mastery program now, and she’s also an Ambassador.

And I’d love to hear your story, Jennifer.

Jennifer:

Thank you for having me, Joette. The story I remember the most for Aconite is when I was at a backyard pool party, and several of the children were playing in the pool. One of my sons slipped under the water for a moment. His brother pulled him back up so quickly, there wasn’t any commotion at the time. And you would’ve thought it would be forgotten because it was such a non-issue.

But later that day, he started to whimper and cry.

Because it wasn’t immediately after the fact, I was like, “What’s going on? What’s wrong with you? “

And finally, I deduced that he was panicking from having slipped under the water, and he was sort of reliving the incident in his mind. You could sort of see in his face that his mind was elsewhere. He was going through that fear again.

So, once I realized that, I gave him a dose of Aconite, and it helped to calm him down, and he was able to go off and play.

I did have to give it again a couple more times as that panic started to resurface. Each time was a little bit further apart, and he was a little less panicky. The last time, he actually just came up to me and asked me for a dose because he started to feel it come back. And then he walked away and played, and that was that.

Joette:

That is so observant of you, Jennifer, because that is something that only the watchful eye of a mother would notice … something like that. That it must be related, and it’s a little bit delayed.

It’s a great medicine, and it’s useful for … even if it were a week later and you saw that reaction, you might not even put the two together and associate it with the flipping underwater, but you know how they’re reacting. It’s that panic. Yeah. Great story. Wow. Especially, even for going underwater for a little one. Thank you, Jennifer.

Different kinds of shock

Joette: (06:39)

I’d like to take a moment and point out that there are several kinds of shock. There’s often medically diagnosed shock where the blood pressure drops, and there’s maybe a rapid or weak pulse, and there can be disorientation.

And then there’s the other, when you feel shocked from a seemingly shocking event.

And the first is more extreme, of course, but both types can be addressed with Aconitum.

So, I had a client once. She would grasp her chest and put the palm of her hand hard against her chest, and she would say — no matter what happened, anything that was happening in her life that was a little interesting or heavy — she would say, “Oh, my gosh, it was the shock of my life. I’m shocked by this! It’s the shock!”

And she would always use that word, “shock.”

And when I think back about this woman, this is someone who, when I was first starting out in homeopathy, the event that started all of this is that she had suffered a good amount of mental shock when she was a young woman. And from that time forward, I think she was still experiencing that shock, even though it was not the shock of her life each time, but there was an event that was the shock of her life, and it brought it all back.

Meet Laurie, who employed Aconite for stage fright and her young son’s fear of storms

Joette: (07:47)

So, let’s go to you, Laurie. Laurie is a graduate of The Academy, and she’s a Mastery grad, study group advisor. She’s an Ambassador, and she also sees clients.

So, Laurie, please let’s hear your story. I’m always looking forward to the stories that you give us.

Laurie:

Oh, thank you, Joette. Thank you for inviting me here. I love that I get to talk about Aconite because it’s one of my favorite remedies. In fact, one of the reasons it’s my favorite remedy is because I wouldn’t be here today if I hadn’t taken Aconite.

I had such a fear of stage fright and just talking to people. Even if I was in a group of people that I knew, I would still struggle with it. And I know most people use Gelsemium, and I love Gelsemium, but I never felt the panic ease up like I did when I used Aconite.

And now I’m talking to hundreds of people on a regular basis. Aconite totally transformed my life. I love that it’s the remedy that not only helps with serious conditions, but it’s also the remedy for living in everyday life.

What do I mean by that? I want to give you an example.

So, we moved to Tornado Alley when my son was just eight. He has Down syndrome and had never experienced any intense weather before. But that first month after we moved, we had three major storms. Two had tornadoes that touched down just outside of where we lived. Wind was so violent that we had two large, hundred-year-old oaks get knocked down.

After that, my son couldn’t even tolerate having clouds in the sky. He would melt down. He would have panic attacks. He would run around with his little headphones if there was thunder or lightning.

And so, I decided that I was going to give Aconite a try. So, knowing that Aconite is so great for fear and anxiety, this was a no-brainer for me.

And that next storm, it was a lightning storm, and it was terrible. It scared even me.

But he was there content, playing on the bed like nothing was going on and nothing was happening. And I have to say that was just a miracle in itself.

After that, no matter what, we knew that we could use that to help him get through it, but over time, he has become less fearful of the storms. So now, I almost never need to employ it at all.

Joette:

Yeah, that’s the beauty of this kind of medicine and especially Aconite. Yeah. Have it on hand just in case. Thank you, Laurie. Two really good stories. Excellent.

Meet Nealy, whose dog-clients use Aconite for anxiety and fear of car rides

Joette: (10:05)

All right, let’s go to Nealy. Nealy is in our Mastermind group, and she’s an Ambassador.

So, hi, Nealy.

Nealy:

For anyone that doesn’t know, most of my clients are dogs, and a lot of times that translates into their people as well.

So, dogs tend to take on our stuff, and we tend to project onto our dogs. You learn that after you talk to several people and see what’s going on. So, if you have both of those things going on at the same time, you can end up with quite the storm.

So, I had one client that she was insisting that her dog had serious anxiety, and he wouldn’t eat, and he paced, and he panted, and he was having all kinds of issues. But you could hear in her voice the whole thing going on with her.

And I was like (normally, I wouldn’t suggest doing this as an ongoing thing), but along with the full schedule, I had her add Aconite twice a day for her and the dog.

The next time I talked to her, I was like, “How are things going? “

And she’s like, “Well, he’s doing really good, and he’ll eat anything I put in front of him.”

You could hear it in her voice. She was all calm and relaxed. It was great.

So, that was one of those times where you just had this, just like Laurie was talking about, a tornado going on in the house between the dog and the person.

So, that was a little unusual bit of use, as using it concurrent like that. Normally, like everyone else has talked about, it would kind of be just an as-needed thing. But that particular instance, I thought it required it. So, it worked out great.

Another thing it’s really, really effective with dogs is you’ll have young dogs that get carsick or don’t like riding in the car, afraid of the car. Works quite often very well in those situations as well.

So, great thing to keep on hand.

Joette:

That is so common, Nealy. The dog-in-the-car business, you use a 200 before they get into the car (when they see that they’re about to get in), yes. And then they administer it frequently throughout the ride, or sometimes you don’t even have to repeat it, perhaps.

Nealy:

Yeah. My boss, when I was working at the boarding kennel, he got a new puppy, and he was terrified at riding in the car. So, I had him do that, and he only had to do it for like a week. And ever since then, puppy’s been fine. So, it helped him work through it, and he’s got past it. So, that was a great success.

Joette:

Wow. Great story. Remember that, friends, because I know a lot of dogs, especially the smaller ones, don’t like being in cars. True.

Well, thank you, Nealy and Jennifer and Elizabeth and Laurie. These are really great stories. I hope that everyone else can get as much out of it as I have, too. And I’ve heard these stories a million times, but it never becomes boring. This is so interesting to hear each story, and it helps you remember them better. Remember the remedies and how to use them when you have a story that’s associated. So, thanks again, students.

Other uses of Aconitum napellus: the Arnica of the eye, fear of death, labor

Joette: (12:59)

So, let’s talk a little bit more about Aconitum, shall we? I know our subject today is Aconitum: “A for anxiety.” It’s easy to remember, but it’s also for fear and shock.

I can’t help but mentioning that one should remember Aconite as Arnica of the eye. So, if you know how Arnica is used in injuries, remember Aconitum for eye injuries.

It can be used for inflammation of the eye of the eyelid, straining eyes. You may have weakness or tiring of the eyes accompanied by pain or headache or blurry vision and sensitivity in the eye. And sometimes, because of all of this, there’s an inability to keep the eyes open.

So, Aconite is also useful when there’s an embedded metal body in the eye. Can you imagine how awful that is? Dr. Herring from a century ago spoke about it this way, he said: “Inflammatory conditions,” he’s talking about Aconitum resulting from “irritant action of foreign bodies, as chips of steel or stone or coal in the cornea, which produced dry rubbing of lid over the ball with injected vessels, irritation caused by ingrowing lashes.” So, that was written in 1879.

So, I also want to recall a story of a friend of mine whose husband was trimming the branches around their house, and one poked him in the eye. And on the way to the hospital, she gave him Aconitum 200.

Now, you can imagine he was disturbed. He was anxious about what had happened, couldn’t see, there was a great pain. And on the way to the hospital, by giving him Aconite 200, it calmed him down. And she continued giving it to him even until once they were in the hospital and carried on with it for that day and even into the next day.

All they had to do once they got to the hospital was to put a patch on the eye so that he wasn’t using it and to keep it covered for a period of time. And as I said, she continued to give it to him several more doses after the injury for a few days.

So, remember, Aconite — Aconitum — is the Arnica of the eye.

I also have to say that one of the main threads in the Aconitum picture is around the subject of death: fear of death, certainty of death, near-death experience, worry about death, prediction of death, et cetera. So. let me share some other indications for the use of Aconite around the topic of anxiety, fear, shock and associated with death.

There’s panic and anxiety, not unlike what was mentioned here by my students. The person can be inconsolable. There may be a fright that’s followed by panic and shock, can be palpitations of the heart, fear of death, and sometimes they say, “believes that he will die soon and predicts the day or the time of his death.”

Now, he’s not actually predicting it, but he’s thinking that by tonight at midnight, I’m going to be gone. So, they fear that they’re going to die.

And I want you to remember Arsenicum album also has this, but Aconitum has it even bigger than that. They feel that they’re dying right now.

Also, one of the best ways to use Aconitum is during labor.

When a mother’s giving birth in labor, she might be thinking of, “What if the baby dies?” If she can’t stop thinking about that, “Something’s wrong! Something’s wrong! I think the baby could die. We’ve got to get the baby out.” Or, “Something’s wrong with me. I could die, and then we’ll both go.”

That fear is so common during labor, and that is exactly what you want to have on hand is that Aconitum. A couple doses, right there during the labor, and it can put everything to rest.

Or for someone who thinks about death a lot, “I’m afraid it’s going to happen. I don’t know if I should go outside. I can’t go over bridges. I can’t go on planes because I’m afraid I’m going to die.” It becomes a daily or nearly daily plaguing thought.

And then in that case, it’s different than what we’ve talked about pretty much so far. It becomes a chronic anxiety, a specific anxiety, a fear of death, of something really bad happening, and especially around the heart.

So, it’s not only fear of a heart attack, but a fear that comes about or panic that comes about regarding the heart that at the moment of a heart or cardiac episode.

So, remember, for panic attacks, with shaking, trembling — there may not be shaking or trembling — but if you see that, I want you to be thinking of Aconitum first. Sudden surges of adrenaline through the body leading to trembling, and of course, panic. There can also be panic attacks with numbness and tingling of the fingers down the arms and into the feet even, all the way through the extremities.

Agoraphobia, afraid to go out of the house, fear of crowds, fear of busy streets, fear of narrow streets, fear of going to doctors and dentists. How common is that, my friends? Fear of total disasters. “I’m sure something bad’s about to happen.”

Fear of the dark and fear of ghosts. Now, I know that might sound strange, but when people start thinking about that — or children — or there even can be dreams about them.

And so, one more thing about Aconitum, violent reactions to a fright or weather conditions, not unlike what Laurie mentioned that can indicate the use of Aconitum.

Today, we live in very comfortable, controlled temperatures. We have heat and air conditioning, and we don’t realize how potent, how influential, how commanding weather can be, even if we’re inside. So, we keep thinking about how “Weather can’t bother me. I’m inside and protected.” But even that weather, that storm outside, even if we’re not in the storm or in our safe home, it can still affect someone who might need Aconitum, not unlike what Laurie mentioned.

Closing advice

Joette: (18:45)

So my friends, I hope today’s conversation has shown you that you don’t have to live at the mercy of sudden fear or of panic or long-term fear or that overwhelming surge of adrenaline that can knock you off your feet, whether it’s the shock of a frightening moment or a lingering long-term anxiety after a loss or the daily grip of worry that makes your heart race and your hands shake, or the dog that shakes on the way to the car because he knows what’s forthcoming.

Aconitum napellus is ready as one of homeopathy’s most powerful first — and even second, third, and last — responders.

So, we’ve heard beautiful real-life stories today from Elizabeth, Jennifer, Laurie, and Nealy, and these are the kinds of stories about homeopathy that aren’t rare. I hear them every day, and so do they because they’re in the world of homeopathy. They’re the everyday victories that become possible when we understand how to use this remarkable medicine well.

So, the next time you feel that sudden wave of fear, that racing heart or that “I’m sure I can’t handle this feeling,” remember Aconitum.

And so, until next time, stay Mighty, my friends. Stay prepared and remember fear may come knocking, but with Aconite in your toolkit, you never have to let it move in. See you soon.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/166-my-last-podcast-message/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: If this were my last podcast, what would my message to you be?

02:11 What happened?

03:40 Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

04:14 Do the opposite.

07:22 Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

09:20 Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

11:11 If this were my last message to you:

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 166, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: If this were my last podcast, what would I say?

Joette: (01:00)

Hi friends, Joette here. I had some ideas the other day that I wanted to pass on to you.

I asked myself, what is the one message I really want to leave with you, something that’s poignant for me in my life and perhaps might be for you. I was thinking, if this were my last podcast, what would I say?

What’s at the heart of everything I teach?

These are my thoughts. If you’re new here — new to my podcasts, my blog, my courses — you might think it’s just about fixing, you know, eczema or chronic fatigue or whatever acute mess your families might be suffering in now.

And yes, we deliver those Practical Protocols. I teach them because they work. Eczema? Well, here’s the protocol that helped time after time. Postpartum exhaustion? We know the medicines. We’ve got them all ready for you. They’re in my blogs; they’re in my courses.

Those will uproot the condition, and they’re the upfront answers. They’re what give you the interest and the excitement about being able to help yourself and your family because they get — pretty often — fast results.

What happened?

(02:11)

But once everything clears — the skin clears, the energy returns — something bigger often dawns on moms and grandmothers and men, too.

They look back and say, “Oh, my gosh. All these years, I’ve been slathering steroids on my children’s arms and legs, and it’s only gotten worse in the long run. Now there’s asthma. Now there are behavioral issues. Now there are food intolerances, dairy, wheat. Everything’s off the table. What has happened?”

Well, my friends, you’re not alone. I’ve been there too. What happened is we lost our freedom — our medical freedom. We handed it over to industries, pharmaceuticals, food giants, even governments, who told us, “This is the way. Take the pill. Smear the cream. Trust the experts.”

And we did.

That’s a collective “we” because I was there too. We believed that the quick fix was the fix. So, I started right where so many of you did.

Except for me, my health was wrecked in my 20s and 30s before I had children. I had eczema as an infant all the way into high school. I had allergies, chemical sensitivities — so many sensitivities — that by the time my kids came along, I had already been questioning and digging and trying to find answers. I learned.

Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

(03:40)

And the big “ahas” were that conventional drugs don’t heal. They suppress, and they kick the can down the road, and that suppression shows up later without us realizing what the connection is. And I guarantee that the doctor who prescribed it will not make that connection as well.

The suppression shows up in gut issues, more allergies — more deepened allergies, more things to be allergic to, chronic fatigue. It’s the same story in tens of thousands of cases I’ve taken over the years. Nothing new under the sun.

Do the opposite.

(04:14)

Here’s what I’ve come up with. Here’s the easy rule I taught my kids, and it’s a little oversimplified, but you’ll get the idea, I think.

I taught my children from an early age that whatever everybody else is doing to do the opposite. That’s the shortcut to clarity. So, at least if nothing else, they’re questioning.

I can hand you the protocol for eczema. I can give you the protocols for fatigue, and it often works beautifully. But I hope what follows is an awakening, a little fire in the belly, a feeling of being duped, a feeling of being gaslit, thinking, “Why didn’t anyone tell me that suppressing the skin condition would drive the problem deeper into asthma, behavioral struggles, or gut dysbiosis?”

Now, this is not just moms and kids here, in this part of the world. It’s global. And too many doctors — good ones included — have been trained by Big Pharma. It makes them the retail arm of Big Pharma.

No, they’re taught, diet doesn’t matter. What you eat doesn’t count. Herbs? No, don’t be silly. Change your lifestyle? Nah.

Now, I have to say these doctors generally mean well, but they’ve been gaslit too. They’ve been gaslit through their education because their education is promulgated by an industry, an industry that teaches them to use drugs and only drugs.

So, the last few years have made it crystal clear. We’ve seen the forces at play, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

You know, it’s like buying a red Volkswagen. Suddenly, Volkswagens that are red are everywhere. It’s an old story. I don’t even know if people buy and sell red Volkswagens any longer, but that’s the idea.

You hear the same story from neighbors, from church friends, from homeschool co-ops, fellow moms. “We went to the doctor, got the drugs, and it got better for a short while. Now things are worse. Not right away, but months, years later, everything’s worse.”

And we need to sing the same song in unison. Bring control back to the family. And of course, who does that usually? Moms and grandmothers. Because we notice the little nuances, the niggly truths that we’d rather ignore. We’re thinking, “Oh, it’s just a mild antibiotic for ear infection.”

That’s often what pediatricians will call it. It’s no longer an antibiotic. It’s a “mild” antibiotic to assuage the mother’s fears.

No, my friends, an antibiotic is an antibiotic. It’s like dropping a napalm bomb on the gut. It kills the bad bugs, sure. But it wipes out the good ones, too. And I’m sorry, even though I do believe that food can make a difference, no amount of yogurt, kombucha or probiotics can fully repopulate what’s been bulldozed, unless there’s true intentional work using homeopathy and even more intense diet.

Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

(07:22)

So, the first step: I urge people to stop running to a professional for every little thing.

Now, I’ve tried many paradigms over my 70-plus years since I was a child watching my mother question things as well. Back in the 50s, my mother was questioning. There just wasn’t an awful lot of information.

The only way that’s truly powerful, reproducible and empowering is learning a handful — at least start with a handful — of homeopathic medicines and using them comfortably for your children, your husband, your elderly parents, your pets.

Now, are there other pieces? Absolutely.

Prayer goes a long way without saying, I suppose. Good nutrition, real nutrition. We put clean fuel in our cars. Why not in our bodies and in our children’s bodies?

But my friends, I see Practical Homeopathy® as the game changer because it gently stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal itself. I’ve seen it over and over.

A woman crippled with rheumatoid arthritis — even wheelchair-bound women — walking, living, a near-normal life with homeopathy and a few diet tweaks. Not cured to tennis-pro level, but free from pain and dependence.

Now, it’s not as complex as we’re told. It’s actually simple living. Getting back to nature. Save the synthetic drugs for a true emergency. Not a relative emergency, a true emergency, like when you’re hit by a Zamboni, and you’ve been flattened on the ice rink, and you need surgery, or you face life-threatening infections.

Not for a sniffle, not for cosmetic fixes, not for ear infections, not for convenience, birth control, not for managing cholesterol numbers. These are all things that we can do ourselves without the synthetic drugs.

Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

(09:20)

I want you to start, my friends, by considering avoiding unnecessary drugs. And you might be surprised at how many drugs that you or your family members might be taking that are indeed superfluous.

Then we can talk about uprooting the iatrogenic conditions they’ve created. Iatrogenic: great word, very powerful word. And it’s used in modern medicine. It’s used to describe a disease or a condition that has been caused by a drug or a health professional … that the condition was caused by that.

Now, most people think they haven’t overused meds until they construct a timeline. And so, I urge you, get a long sheet of paper and a pencil with a good eraser because you’ll change a lot as you go along the way, and you’ll be filling it in … the blanks. And you’ll be going back maybe a couple days later, and another, “Oh my gosh, I forgot about this or that.”

And then list every antibiotic all through the years from the beginning of your life. Every antibiotic, steroid, reaction, painkiller, injections. And look at it with a good eraser because you’ll forget half of them.

I did this myself, and I was stunned. Now, I haven’t taken a pharmaceutical drug since the age of 32 — well, except for a local anesthetic for a tooth extraction and one unavoidable surgery years ago.

So, I’m now 74. My old conditions, eczema from infancy, allergies should be worse because these diseases are progressive. But they’ve reversed because I learned something, and then I focused on it.

I skilled up.

I used homeopathy, and I tightened up my diet. So, it isn’t luck or good genes, my friends, it’s possible for you too.

Reclaim your freedom

(11:01)

So, what is the message? My message to you — from an older woman to everyone else — is reclaim your freedom.

Question. Period. Defy. Period.

Take back control with Practical Homeopathy® and good diet. Do this, my friends, and you’ll be unstoppable. Why? Because the body wants to heal. It’s in the mode of homeostasis. It just needs the right stimulus.

Homeopathy provides it gently, powerfully, and without side effects.

So, that’s the heart of it. That’s what I’d say if this were my last message.

You’ve got this. Your family’s health freedom is in your hands. It’s just a matter of learning.

So, my friends, thanks for listening. Share this with a mom who needs to hear it, and I’ll see you next time.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/165-inspirational-homeopathic-success-stories/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This: Inspirational Homeopathic Success Stories From My Mastermind Group

03:00 Prerequisites for Practical Homeopathy’s Mastermind

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

04:03 Meet Sandy: A teaching moment featuring Aconite the Chicken

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

08:22 Meet Charis: Carrying a bunch of peers in her pocket paid off

13:44 Meet Breta: A CATastrophic pet illness remedied with homeopathy

17:57 Meet Noreen: Astonished the doctors by healing her husband’s kidney dysfunction

21:23 Meet Sheena: Amazes the veterinarian and neurologist by healing a seriously ill pup without conventional medicine

29:24 Meet Kirsten: A homeopath and teacher whose husband is now joining her practice

Podcast 126: Moms with Moxie: From a Mom Just Like You to a Successful Practical Homeopath®!

34:23 Meet Ingrid: Sharing a Banerji Protocol that has helped so many

36:25 Meet Christy: Creating generational health with her son

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 165, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This: Inspirational Homeopathic Success

Joette: (01:00)

Hi!

Kate:

Hi, Joette. It is very exciting to be with you this week because we are actually in person, which doesn’t happen too often — a couple times a year — but tell us where we are and what’s happening.

Joette:

Well, we’re in Florida, and a number of our Mastermind members joined us here for a great weekend.

This is fashioned after Masterminds that were started back in the turn of the last century when Napoleon Hill was charged with the job of gathering up the heads of industry, getting them together and having them meet and share information on what made them successful, asking each other to help. And it was basically a secret group.

So now, we’re not industrialists, but we’re going to learn from them. And instead, we’ve gathered together … we’ve been doing this, now, we’re going on our third year, where we gather together.

There are 12 of us in one unit, and we have gotten to know each other because we’re all asking each other for help with whatever it is we’re looking to accomplish in our lives. That help could be from “How to build my practice,” “How to teach Gateways more frequently,” “How to incorporate my family into my work,” “How to study better.”

Some of the members in the group have no interest in ever practicing or even teaching. What they want to do is to just keep in touch with those people that they have a great deal of regard for and get feedback.

And that’s really what it is. It’s melding of the minds. It’s concinnity at its best because it’s bringing all the minds together, and everyone is parlaying off of each other.

It sounds a little bit like a cacophony, but it isn’t. It really is very organized. Each person has their specific time at which they present, and then those around the round table (of the other 11) offer their suggestions, ideas and plans to help them build their year.

We’re meeting now, and then we’re going to meet every other week for an entire year. It’s really a spectacular opportunity for all of us.

Prerequisites for Practical Homeopathy’s Mastermind

Kate: (03:00)

So, in order to be in your Mastermind group, what do students need to have accomplished in order to join the group?

And I know there’s a wait list. Actually, right now we have a number of people who wanted to join, but weren’t able to necessarily get in this year, but we’re hoping in the coming years.

But tell me, what do these students have to have done to get in group?

Joette:

They have to have gone through The Academy, which is one full year, and the Mastery, which is 11 months. So, it’s quite a commitment. And they have to be interested in growing; growing themselves intellectually, emotionally, spiritual. Whatever it is that they’re looking to accomplish, that’s what they bring to the table and ask for help and then offer their help to others.

Kate:

So today, your listeners are going to get a rare look into your Mastermind group. And we’ve asked them to share some of their stories, right? It could be a story about their experience with homeopathy, a success story with homeopathy. It could be about how they’ve grown.

So, we’re going to take a peek now into what some of the conversations are in the Mastermind group.

Meet Sandy: A teaching moment featuring Aconite the Chicken

Joette: (04:03)

Let’s do that. Let’s go.

Hi, Sandy.

Sandy:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, Sandy, we’ve been together now a number of years through The Academy and then Mastery, now Mastermind. I’ve gotten to know you and appreciate your involvement in our Mastermind groups. So, I want to hear about your chicken story. I understand it’s got some humor to it.

Sandy:

It does. It was really an interesting experience. I was teaching Gateway,here in my office at this very desk, and heard a commotion from the garage, which is just down the hall. And ran down the hall. I excused myself from my Gatewayers because this was quite an alarming turn of events. There was a lot of yelling going on.

So, I ran in the garage, and I have had chickens, little chicks growing in there. They can’t be outside at that age. So, they’re about half grown until they get bigger, and they can go outside to the coop.

So, they’re in there doing their little thing, but my husband is in there with a shovel yelling uncontrollably. I ran over to him, “What is wrong?”

He said, “Look in the coop.”

And one of the chickens was completely wrapped up with a garden snake. Now the snake was about six feet long and about, probably, I don’t know, six inches in circumference — a big, mighty snake. And had my poor chicken wrapped up to the point where it couldn’t breathe.

So, we were just frantic. I was yelling … I’m sure my Gatewayers were back here, hearing all this going on. He’s trying to chop at the snake without hurting the chicken. And I’m like, “He’s going to kill it. He’s going to kill it.”

And finally, he separated them. My chicken was just like limp. I mean, I thought it had been asphyxiated. It was about on its way out.

So, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, my Gatewayers are waiting.” So, I ran in with my limp chicken, in this very desk, and they’re all like bug-eyed looking at me with this appeared-to-be a dead chicken.

And I laid it on my desk, and I’m like, “Oh, I’m so sorry, you guys.” I told them what happened. Then I thought to myself, “What a great teaching moment.”

So, I got my Aconite, put a little tiny bit in the chicken’s beak (just cracked it open).

And it wasn’t, I don’t know, 10 seconds before the chicken went “bwuck, bwuck.” It started walking all over the desk, landed on my shoulder. It was just like back to normal. And I thought, “Man, this is just the greatest teaching moment.”

They were all aghast.

And I told them, I said, “I know homeopathy seems a little esoteric and hard to grasp, but when you see it in action, what it can do …” It’s just so encouraging to them.

So luckily, the chicken’s okay to this day and laying eggs and doing fine.

Joette:

They’ll never forget it, Sandy. They’ll never forget that story.

They must be telling their friends and their neighbors and their relatives, “She saved the chicken. It was dead. She saved the chicken right before our very eyes!”

Oh, what a great story.

Sandy:

It was really fun. And some of them have gone on to be in my Gateway II. The new ones that have come in, they’ll say, “You won’t believe it. She brought a chicken back to life.”

Joette:

“Right in front of us. Right before our eyes!”

Now, does this chicken have a name?

Sandy:

Yes, it is now called Aconite.

Joette:

Of course! I knew it had to be something like that. Aconite the Chicken.

Oh, Sandy, what a great story. So, tell us, what else are you doing?

Sandy:

Oh, I’m just trying to learn more about homeopathy every day because it’s such an important medicine that people don’t know about. It’s kind of made it my life’s mission to kind of explain homeopathy to as many people as I can and get them on board and teach them about it. And then I do a lot of reading; I do a lot of gardening and listen to you … listen to you every week on Monday.

Joette:

I heard your goals today, and you said 10 books per month you plan to read. You’ve been an avid reader, and now you’re going to carry on with that and read 10 books a month. That is spectacular.

Sandy:

Yeah. I’m really enjoying that process and kind of making that competition with myself and wanting to exceed my goal this year. So, we’ll see. And I’ll report back to the group when we meet in a couple of weeks.

Joette:

And you can see why, friends, this is so inspirational because I’m surrounded by women who excel, who really find a way — regardless of what else they’re doing in their lives — to carry on and keep their intellect sharp and rapid.

So, thank you so much, Sandy. What a great little story. I love the story about Aconite the Chicken.

Sandy:

Thank you. I’m so happy to share it. I think it’s a funny story.

Joette:

It’s great. It’s great.

Meet Charis: Carrying “a bunch of peers in her pocket” paid off

Joette: (08:22)

Hi, Charis.

Charis:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

It’s so nice to see you. Let’s do this. Tell us your story.

Charis:

Well, so my story was that my husband came home from a business trip. He had been flying, and he was saying, “I have this tickle in my throat.” And then that tickle moved down to something was gurgling around in his chest, and he was complaining about it.

But he was also starting to stress because his job means he’s traveling every single week, but he’s also talking all the time. Like he’s always doing Zooms; he’s always talking. So, he was getting concerned because as the tickle was moving into his chest, it was making him so he couldn’t cough. And the way he was describing it, it made me think that it was sounding like pneumonia or something in that category.

So, I started thinking, “Okay, I have to treat him for pneumonia.” So, I got Kali carb, Antimonium tart. I also got Ipecac 30 because it was getting to be a nagging cough.

I started pulling out the things that I know to give him when it starts going that way. Then …

Joette:

Why? Has he had this experience before, Charis? Is this something that happens to him?

Charis:

He’s had a nagging cough. He always has had chest issues. He’s always had bronchial issues. He has asthma, and he’s always stressed that it’s immediately going to go into his chest. Like, it’s going to become a huge chest ordeal.

Then he’s always like, “I have to go to the doctor to get it figured out,” — that whole thing. But at the same time, he didn’t have time to go to the doctor because he had a huge meeting the following week.

So, essentially, I got it so the tickle moved out of his chest, and then it went to his head, and then his head exploded. So, then he started having all of this congestion in his nose, and his head felt like he could barely function or think, and it was clouded. And this was over the weekend.

So then, I was like, I have to treat him for a sinus infection, like the beginning of a sinus issue.

So, then I started treating him for a sinus issue. So, then it was Sanguinaria, Belladonna, Kali bichromicum. I’m sorry, I’m talking really fast, but you start going into the next round of stuff.

Then it moved all the way down to his chest again.

Joette:

And that’s that ability to pivot and know where you are: what the case is presenting, what to do next, not give the medicine and consider it done. You have to keep moving with it. It’s up to you to do that little pas de deux.

Charis:

I felt like I was chasing it down, like whatever was the next thing.

But then it started, the mucus did start changing to a yellower mucus, just to be precise. And so, I was in that panicking moment of, “I’m on a timeline, I have to figure out exactly what remedy to give.”

And I immediately started sending a message of my Signal — my bat signal — the Signal group.

Joette:

Which is this group: the Mastermind group. We’re all friends, and everybody is very tight and always willing to help each other. Yeah.

Charis:

Well, I feel like it’s carrying a bunch of peers in my pocket. I always have them available, which is awesome.

Joette:

Yes. Yes.

Charis:

Somebody said, “Have you thought of Mercurius solubilis,” which I actually hadn’t considered.

I thought of other ones, but I was like, “Oh, let me try that one.”

And I did some research. I looked up in my materia medica, and I was like, “Oh, this perfectly fits. It actually fits many elements of him. “

So, I started adding that into the protocol that I was giving him. I did up his potency on Ipecac as well. And so, I essentially got him from a tickle in his throat on Friday to pretty much better by Monday, but still tired. So, then I added in Gelsemium.

And then by Tuesday, he was at his board meeting, able to talk the entire day and not having any coughing, anything going on.

Joette:

You bet. That’s fast.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

That’s fast. Most people don’t realize that if you’re using conventional medicine, it goes on weeks, not four days.

Charis:

Well, he had somebody who was supposed to be meeting with him who had been sick for three weeks.

Joette:

Yes. He knew what was going on around him. Yes.

So, I just have to ask you, did he say, “Thank you, Charis?”

Yes, of course he did. Because he understands. He knows. You’ve been using homeopathy with him for a long time.

Charis:

The other thing was, he was supposed to get his blood pressure read because he was doing a health test type thing for insurance. And he was panicking a bit because he always panics whenever he has those readings done.

So, I just gave him Aconite because I was like, “He’s in panic mode. He’s stressed about a bunch of things. I’m giving him Aconite.”

And he came in, and he was like, “That was the best reading I’ve had in three years.”

Joette:

Blood pressure. Blood pressure reading.

Charis:

Blood pressure reading. Yes. He said it was actually normal. He said it’s the first time somebody said to him, “It’s normal,” because usually he’s always in this anxiety/panic. So, it worked perfect.

Joette:

Nice job, Charis. So, now, we have a chicken named Aconitum, and we have a husband who loves Aconitum because it helped him with his test for insurance. That’s great.

Oh, my gosh. See, these are the kind of stories that give us the kind of comfort that we all need to have these medicines at our fingertips because who needs them more than anyone else is our families.

This is where we all start is with our families. There’s no doubt about it.

Thank you, Charis. Great story. Love it. Another Aconitum story. Thanks a lot.

Meet Breta: A CATastrophic pet illness remedied with homeopathy

Joette: (13:44)

Hi, Breta.

Breta:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, you’re one of our members of the Mastermind group. We’re going into our third year, just like the three of you, Sandy, Charis and you. And we love to hear your stories. Are you going to talk about your cat maybe?

Breta:

Yes, I am.

Joette:

Oh, good. Okay. An animal. It’s fun when we hear about animals. Go ahead. I’d love to hear your share.

Breta:

So, my cat … we’re not entirely sure, but she’s probably about 13 years old or so. And she was starting to have frequent and very copious urination. So, probably about every few hours, it was a substantial amount of urine. There was no way a cat should have been producing that much urine every couple hours.

And she wanted to eat a lot of the time.

The thing that was also noteworthy is that she wanted to be held and comforted a lot. And it was kind of a huge time sink on my part because she would pester me if I did not comfort her.

So, I started the kidney failure protocol on Good Friday actually of 2025. And she immediately improved. She basically fell asleep, a very deep sleep, but she was a little reticent to be roused. Let’s leave it at that. She would wake to eat, and then she’d go back to this deep sleep.

And she did that for probably the better part of a week.

Joette:

Wow.

Breta:

She just slept and slept and slept. Before this time, she had always had a little bit of a tendency to have urinary troubles. And I fed her wet food and raw food and things to make sure that she didn’t have a urinary issue. But like I said, it got to the point where even with these measures — with feeding her food that was not kibble, that was not dry food — she was still having these urinary troubles.

So, this was a longstanding issue; that’s maybe why she slept so long.

Joette:

Well, cats are prone to these urinary tract and kidney issues. That’s often what comes up for them. Yeah, especially older ones.

Breta:

Yeah. But when she was younger, she had issues as well. So, I think this was a slowly developing kidney issue, probably her whole life.

But anyway, that was probably why the medicine acted so profoundly because it hit on an issue that she had had for a very long time, and the medicine was desperately needed. As we know, a lot of times when the medicines desperately needed, it acts very quickly.

Joette:

And very deeply.

Breta:

Yes. So, basically, she’s doing very well. At this point, she’s using the cat box probably three to four times daily. If she uses it on the more frequent side of things, the amounts are less of urine. If she uses it less frequently, then obviously she does more urine, but that’s within the range of normal.

She wants to eat maybe three to four times a day now. And she basically spends a lot of time alone and contented. Although, obviously, she still loves to be held. She still loves for us to spend time with her, but she’s a totally different cat.

Joette:

Really? So, in that period of time, she was sick, and you started to administer the medicine and over a week … it took about a week to complete this, is what you’re saying, right?

Breta:

Not to complete the healing, but to radically change things.

And then we often talk about how you might get, I don’t know, maybe 50% of the cure accomplished in a rapid space of time. Well, now the next 50% took a lot longer, if that makes sense.

Joette:

Yes, it does. So, what would you say … all told?

Breta:

So, I took her off of most of the medicines, but I’m still giving her Medorrhinum.

When I attempted to withdraw Bryonia and Lycopodium, she seemed like she still needed them. So, I’ve actually left her on them, and I will probably test again at some point and see if she needs them soon.

But she keeps improving. So, I’m like, “Well, okay. We’re not done yet.” But …

Joette:

That’s the way we know we’re not done yet. As long as there’s still improvement remaining, then we’re likely not done yet.

Beautiful story. Thank you. But I love to hear about animals because they don’t know what homeopathy is. They just get sick, and they just need us, and there we are.

Thank you, Breta. Great story. Appreciate it very much. Thanks. And I’ll see you in a couple weeks at our next meeting.

Breta:

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of Mastermind.

Joette:

It’s our joy to have you.

Meet Noreen: Astonished the doctors by healing her husband’s kidney dysfunction

Joette: (17:57)

Hi, Noreen.

Noreen:

Hi, Joette. It’s good to see you.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s good to see you too. We’ve spent a whole weekend together, haven’t we? It’s been really nice.

So, you’ve got a great story because you come to Mastermind, not necessarily looking to go into practice. You like teaching; you teach the Gateways. But really, you came into it probably more than anything to help your family. And boy, did you really need it recently!

So, tell us your story.

Noreen:

So, in early October, my husband, Mike … what we knew was he had a blood sugar problem, and he was dehydrated. So we went to the ER, but what we found out was … he got admitted to the hospital, and they were telling us he had kidney failure.

And in very short order, they put him on dialysis. It was very serious, and they wanted to put him on insulin, medications, all kinds of stuff, plus the dialysis.

Joette:

Blood pressure drugs. Yes.

Noreen:

Yeah. They were trying to convince him that he had high blood pressure.

So, what happened, make a long story short, he did have to go on dialysis from October to December.

Joette:

Not bad.

Noreen:

End of December.

So, like a three-month period, approximately 30-33 dialysis sessions in total. And by the end of December — because we used homeopathy, we changed his diet completely …

Joette:

Yes, ma’am. Yes, ma’am.

Noreen:

We were able to get off all medications, so he’s no longer on any diabetes medications or anything. No medications.

Joette:

Wow.

Noreen:

Plus, he is off dialysis.

Joette:

You’re not just taking him off willy-nilly. You’re not breaking the rules. There’s no need to have him on is what you’re saying.

The doctors are saying, “You’re clear. Go home. You’re clear. You don’t need that med. You’re clear you don’t need to take this or that.”

Noreen:

Yeah. So, the conventional doctors, I mean, from my point of view, they don’t understand homeopathy. We didn’t really tell them about what we were doing, but their point of view was, “Oh, let’s get you on this medication. Let’s get you on this treatment. Oh, let’s do this surgery.” That’s their …

Joette:

Paradigm.

Noreen:

Yeah, that’s their paradigm. And then when someone gets off dialysis, when their numbers start improving, they’re kind of scratching their heads and going, “Um …”

Joette:

Huh?

Noreen:

Yeah, but they’re not asking any questions. They’re just puzzled that somehow somebody improved.

They don’t see people getting off dialysis. They see people getting on the meds for that, and they’re talking … that’s the way they talk … “for the rest of your life.” “You’re going to need dialysis for the rest of your life. Oh, you might even need a kidney transplant.” You know? So that’s their …

Joette:

Well, the best part is not only that Mike no longer needs this. It’s not based on your assessment necessarily. It’s based on their assessment. They’ve agreed to this. They think, “Yeah, you’re doing fine. We don’t know why. We don’t understand. But somehow, he’s doing well, and he doesn’t need our care anymore.”

And they always throw in, “Well, we think he can get off dialysis right now, but it might come back.”

Noreen:

Right. So, he’s still going back. He’s still going back to his doctors to be tested, and checked, and making sure that everything is still moving in the right direction. We’re not going to eliminate it altogether.

Noreen:

But at some point, we’re hoping the doctors will say, “You know what? It’s been a year, and your numbers are normal. Maybe you don’t need to come back and see us.”

Joette:

Yeah, that’s what we look for. We’ll see. Nice job. Great job, Noreen.

Noreen:

Thank you, Joette, for everything you do for us.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Thank you for being here with us, too, Noreen. Your involvement has been really valuable. It always is.

Meet Sheena: Amazes the veterinarian and neurologist by healing a seriously ill pup without conventional medicine

Joette: (21:23)

Hi, Sheena.

Sheena:

Hi.

Joette:

I’m so glad to have you with me. This is year three now that you’ve been with us with Mastermind. You’ve been through The Academy, Mastery, and now it’s the third year in Mastermind, and you always give us such great information. And you’re very busy. You’re in practice. So, tell us what you want to share with us today.

Sheena:

I want to share a story about my dog, which is kind of the reason I started learning homeopathy because …

Joette:

How far back? When was that?

Sheena:

Just a couple months ago.

Joette:

Oh, okay. No, no, no.

Sheena:

When I started originally?

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

About a decade ago. Started learning with you and did The Academy and everything.

And I learned homeopathy so I could take care of my family primarily. And then it just kind of snowballed into something I was spending all my time doing. So, I opened …

Joette:

Why not?

Sheena:

… my practice, and now, I have about 100 clients, and it’s amazing.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s blossomed for you.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, a couple months ago, my little six-and-a-half-pound dog …

Joette:

Is this Moki?

Sheena:

This is Katie.

Joette:

Oh, Katie. Okay.

Sheena:

Who, I thought, everything was great with Katie. And then suddenly she started slipping.

So, she’d be eating her food at her bowl, and her legs would slip out from under her. And then she started not wanting to eat, and then her tail wasn’t wagging. It was just drooped. And that kind of was like on a Tuesday, and then Wednesday, it was a bit worse.

I called the vet and they said, “Well, we can get her in next week.” And I said, “This is pretty serious.” They said, “Well, call 7:30 tomorrow morning.”

Joette:

You need a diagnosis. You wanted to know what was going on.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, I’ve been giving her Arnica and different remedies, too. See, I thought maybe she hurt herself, maybe she jumped off the couch or something, but it was happening fast. It was definitely out of my comfort zone to know what was going on.

So, I took her into the vet who I trust very much. He knows I do homeopathy. He normally will give me a diagnosis and the information I need to help my dogs. This time was different.

I went in, he said, “This is serious. This is a neurological issue. She needs to go to get an MRI and go to the dog neurologist,” which I didn’t know was a thing, but it’s a thing.

So, a couple hours later, we’re at the dog neurologist. They said, “Yes, this is either a disc issue in her cervical spine and her lumbar spine, or it’s a serious inflammation issue. Either way, we need to do an MRI and a spinal tap.”

Joette:

Now, how old is she?

Sheena:

She’s four.

Joette:

Oh, she’s young,

Sheena:

Right? She’s young. She’s young.

So, they did those things. I said, “Okay.”

And they said, “We need to do it now because it’s pretty serious.”

So, I went home, and then they called me, and they said she has — and I’m going to just read the diagnosis — she has myelitis along with suspected meningitis, and they call it meningomyelitis.

Joette:

Meningitis!

Sheena:

Of unknown etiology. Meaning they don’t know what it is. They don’t think it’s contagious.

In addition, they said, unrelated: They scanned her brain. She has a Chiari-like malformation, hydrocephalus and spinal fluid.

Joette:

Does she have a big head?

Sheena:

So, the problem is her head is actually too small, and the brain, which was inflamed, was putting pressure on it.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And then the inflammation in her spinal cord was so severe that the messages weren’t getting to her legs.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And that’s why she couldn’t make them do what she wanted to do — them to do, including her tail — because the messages couldn’t get …

Joette:

… that far in the back of her body.

Joette:

… get way back.

Sheena:

Yeah. And so, the neurologist said, “We need to start her right away on steroids and this chemotherapy immunosuppressant.” And with that treatment, a third of the dogs generally do okay after about a year. Another third have to stay on the medicine pretty much their whole life. And a third don’t respond and have to be put down.

Joette:

Oh, boy.

Sheena:

So, this was pretty intense. I said, “Okay, I’m going to come pick up my dog, and I’m going to try to use homeopathy. I will take the medicine with me. I don’t want her to suffer, but I’m going to …

Joette:

Give it a try.

Sheena:

“I’m going to give homeopathy a try, and then, let’s see.”

So, I went home. I had a friend who’s a homeopath come over, and we worked out a plan for her, and I started treating her immediately.

I was very regimented. We made a list of the conditions. We made a list of the remedies. I set a timer for every 30 minutes, and I dosed her remedies …

Joette:

To get started

Sheena:

To get her going — because this was very severe.

Joette:

Serious.

Sheena:

So, I matched the frequency with the severity.

Joette:

Severity. Uh-huh.

Sheena:

And by the next day, she was a little better. By the next evening, a little better, and she continued to get better and better.

The vets kept calling. I said, “Yep, think she’s getting better and better.”

Joette:

Her tail started to pick up a little?

Sheena:

Tail started to pick up; she started to eat. She was more able to walk on the carpets, staying away from the wood floors. I thought she was, I would say 60% better.

Took her in one week later to the neurologist. They took her back. The nurse came back and said, “So, you didn’t give her the medications?”

I said, “No, I didn’t.”

And then the neurologist came back, and she said, “She’s fine. She’s 100% fine.”

Joette:

Oh, my! Turned it completely.

Sheena:

She said the slipping she’s doing now is because she’s probably strained her back leg, and it’s not quite stable. And they said she’s completely fine.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh!

Sheena:

And she’s like, “What did you do?

Joette:

What did you do? “

Sheena:

And I said, “Homeopathy.”

She’s like, “But what exactly did you do? “

And I said, “Do you want me to tell you the remedies?”

And she’s like, “Okay, well, never mind.”

Joette:

You mean I have to learn something brand new and big?

Sheena:

And I’m so thankful for her for the correct diagnosis because I needed that. But I knew inflammation; I knew I could handle that.

Joette:

Yes, neurological weakness.

Sheena:

And I’ve continued to treat her. I feel like, then, a week later, I took her back to the veterinarian — her normal veterinarian who sees her regularly — he was just amazed. He again said, “Yep, she’s totally fine.”

Joette:

So now at this point — or even at that point — you’re not using it every few minutes, of course. You’re opening it up and using it much less frequently.

Sheena:

Yes. I backed it way off. And by two weeks out, I would say, even though they said that she was completely fine, I would say she was probably 80% better.

I would say, now, she’s pretty much 95% better. I am still giving her the remedies about once a day.

Joette:

Oh, good. So, you’re opening it up.

Sheena:

And then I’m working chronically on her malformations because she does have the …

Joette:

Her little brain.

Sheena:

… the congenital …

Joette:

Her little head.

Sheena:

Her defect.

Joette:

And she’s a little dog.

Sheena:

And she’s a tiny dog.

Joette:

What is she? What’s her breed?

Sheena:

She’s a Shih Pom.

Joette:

So, that’s a Pomeranian and a Shih Tzu. Okay.

Sheena:

Yeah, she’s tiny.

Joette:

Yeah. So, everything was tiny.

Sheena:

Everything is tiny.

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

Yeah. And I was sitting there when the doctor was giving me all this diagnosis, and I thought, “Oh, my gosh, what if I didn’t know homeopathy?”

Joette:

What would you do? You would have to just go on steroids?

Sheena:

I knew what they were going to tell me to do. And those options were terrible.

Joette:

Right.

Sheena:

So, I was just really thankful.

Joette:

Such a good story, Sheena. That’s a good one, especially because we know this little dog. I’ve actually met her. Yeah. And she doesn’t splay any longer. She can stand up for me.

Sheena:

She runs …

Joette:

She runs, oh, with her tail …

Sheena:

Oh yeah. She chases the other dog around now with a bit of a bully.

The interesting thing is I’ve moved houses. In my house, she still wouldn’t go on the floors because I think she thought it was the floors and not her.

But as soon as I moved into a different house that also had the same flooring, she’s zipping around, chasing everybody.

Joette:

Back to normal.

Sheena:

It’s like, “Okay, these are fine floors.”

Joette:

“It was the floors, Mom. It was the floors!”

That’s such a great story. Thank you, Sheena.

Sheena:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much.

Meet Kirsten: A homeopath and teacher whose husband is now joining her practice

Joette: (29:24)

Hi, Kirsten.

Kirsten:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So glad you’re with me.

Kirsten:

It’s good to be here.

Joette:

But it’s not only good for us to talk now. It’s good because we’ve gone through The Academy. You’ve gone through Mastery, now Mastermind … three years ago. Two years ago. And then now this year again, we’re starting our brand new 2026.

Kirsten:

Well, who can stop? You can’t stop.

Joette:

I know you can’t stop. It’s really deliciously intellectual.

Kirsten:

It’s wonderful.

Joette:

Yeah, it is a beautiful thing. So, you’ve got stories. I love to hear about them. You’re in practice, but I also want to hear about whatever story you want to share with folks.

Kirsten:

Oh, there’s so many. But I would say lately, one of the things that I really love is working with men. And that all came out of working with my female clients. But they would come, and we would take their case, and they would have whatever issue. But then they would go, at the end, “Do you have something for my husband?”

And I would say, “Well, tell me a little bit more.”

And so, it seemed like many of these men had very similar issues. They’re on similar drugs. They have similar experiences because of where they’re at in life, their age, their responsibilities, that type of thing.

So, I kind of started working more with these male clients who were these women’s husbands. And we worked on things like frequent urination, prostatitis, anxiety, depression, lack of motivation, other men’s issues.

Joette:

Super common, especially middle-aged men.

Kirsten:

Yes. Yes. And it was so great because I think it’s hard for men to open up a lot of times. But once we got in there and started working on these issues, they were so grateful when they would come back for their follow-up and say, “Hey, I wasn’t sleeping, but it really wasn’t that I wasn’t sleeping. I was getting up …

Joette:

… to go to the bathroom

Kirsten:

Three or four times a night to urinate. Now I’m only getting up one to two times a night, and I’m being able to get so much more sleep.”

And just that was affecting their lives in a positive way.

And then there were some medications that were adversely affecting them, and we could help them maybe look at things differently. And they were eating better, eliminating seed oils, getting more exercise. So, we just saw a lot of progress in that area.

And my husband is currently in The Academy.

Joette:

In The Academy, which is amazing! It’s a family affair now.

Kirsten:

It is! And so, I’m hoping that sometime, we can team up on those issues. He’s retired Air Force, was in special operations, and that creates its own unique pathologies with those men who have gone through those type of situations, been away from their homes, been in war.

There’s a lot of mental health issues, PTSD, as well as all the things they’re exposed to down range, all of the chemicals they’re given throughout their military career. So, we’ve talked about, maybe at some point, really being able to work with the veteran community …

Joette:

Oh, you bet!

Kirsten:

… to offer those types of services because they really, really need it.

Joette:

Absolutely.

We’ve interviewed you before. You’re on one other podcast — on Podcast 126 — right? So, for those of you who are interested in hearing more of these great stories, go to Podcast 126 and listen to Kirsten’s other stories.

So, I just have to say, for those who are listening, we see that when, usually, the mother or the wife starts into The Academy and gets such great knowledge and such useful information for her family, that we often see either the husband is interested or the son or the daughter. And we’ve seen that a number of times, but actually, I have to say, I think this is the first time it’s been a wife and her husband following in her footsteps.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

It is really great.

Kirsten:

We work really well together, and I’m so excited about what the future will hold for us.

Joette:

Well, you have a whole new subject. Your pillow talk is now different.

Kirsten:

Right! Yeah. We’re talking about the repertory and the materia medica over dinner.

Joette:

“Yeah. What page was that on, honey? In the clinical section?”

Kirsten:

“What protocol is that?” It’s great. We love it.

Joette:

It is great. Yeah. It adds a whole ‘nother dimension to a marriage.

Kirsten:

It does. And then to be able to get that knowledge and then teach others, hopefully, we’ll be able to do couples Gateways and Protocol Courses, so that we can draw not only the wife (who’s typical) but also bring the husband when there’s that male presence. So, we’re really excited to see what …

Joette:

Well, it’s even more than that. It becomes a family affair, not just husband and wife, but you have five children.

Kirsten:

We have six children.

Joette:

Oh, excuse me. You have six children.

Kirsten:

Right, right.

Joette:

Yes. And so now these children, even though they’re older — some are older, some are younger — this becomes a family affair. Now it becomes a part of the legacy of the family. And now, instead of automatically running to get a drug for this or that …

Kirsten:

That’s right …

Joette:

… they can at least start with this kind of thinking. If needed … if conventional medicine is needed, okay, we understand. But we can start with this possibility first. It’s a beautiful legacy.

Kirsten:

Yeah.

And I get texts all the time from my kids, “Mom, is it Nux?” “Do I give him Belladonna?” “What do I give him? Is it this?”

So, yeah, it’s great.

In fact, my eight-year-old, when he doesn’t feel well, he’d go, “Mom, where’s the Nux?”

Joette:

I know.

Kirsten:

And now he has his own little stash. He’s got his own.

Joette:

I understand. I know. My sons did the same thing. I know.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

Yeah, Kirsten, thank you so much.

Kirsten:

Thank you. And thank you for all that you’ve done to just build this community. It’s so great.

So, if you’re out there listening, come join us, take a Gateway class, take a Protocol Course, and maybe even join The Academy, and then one day you’ll be doing this.

Joette:

Well, and that’s what you do too. You teach these classes as well.

Kirsten:

I do. I love to teach. Love to teach.

Joette:

Yeah. One of the best teachers we’ve got.

Kirsten:

Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Joette:

Yes. Thank you, sweetie.

Kirsten:

Thank you.

Meet Ingrid: Sharing a Banerji Protocol that has helped so many

Joette: (34:23)

Hi, Ingrid.

Ingrid:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re here with me.

Ingrid:

I’m so glad to be with you.

Joette:

Well, and I also love that you’ve been with me through The Academy. That’s one year. And then Mastery, which was 11 months; Mastermind two years ago and now this year, 2026. So, we’ve really gotten to know each other, and it’s a privilege to get to know you.

Ingrid:

It’s a privilege to know you. It’s been an amazing ride.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah, for me too.

So, let’s talk. Tell me what you want to share with folks.

Ingrid:

There’s so many amazing things that Practical Homeopathy® does, but something that comes across so often and is so quick — relatively — for many people, and it’s just so far-reaching and can really nip things in the bud when people might move on to something that’s just so much more advanced and invasive.

It’s Symphytum and Calc phos.

Joette:

Oh, combination! That’s that Banerji combination. I love it.

Ingrid:

It’s so good. It works for so many things when people have bad backs, when they have bursitis, when they hurt their knee.

Joette:

Arthritis.

Ingrid:

Everything. Their back, it’s like they have a bulging disc.

Joette:

Yes.

Ingrid:

I’ve worked with students and clients, my dad, my dogs, I mean, my friends, just everyone has benefited.

Joette:

Osteomyelitis, osteoporosis, osteopenia. Yeah, it’s a wonder.

Ingrid:

The list goes on.

Joette:

I know.

Ingrid:

I wanted to just mention the huge success that that has provided so many people and animals and myself. Even if somebody just has … they hurt their back and they can’t do work, they want to get back into life. Or if they’ve torn their meniscus, it’s just something that can help them get back in action without …

When I see people going in for surgery …

Joette:

It’s heartbreaking because you know there’s another opportunity to get this done with so much more ease.

Ingrid:

Exactly. And cost. Emotional and …

Joette:

Emotional and financial. That’s absolutely so. Thank you, sweetie. Thank you so much. It’s wonderful.

Meet Christy: Creating generational health with her son

Joette: (36:25)

Hey, Christy.

Christy:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

So nice to have you with me here.

Christy:

Thank you.

Joette:

But it’s nice because this is a continuation. We’re just doing a little interview here, right? So, that’s for you to tell some stories about yourself. And you’ve been in Mastermind, now, this is the third year.

It’s the first year was two years, three years ago; then, last year, two years ago; and now it’s this year, 2026. And we’re going to be together for the next year, every other week, with our little 12-numbered group. So, thank you for doing this.

So, what do you have to share with us today?

Christy:

Well, I would like to share just a story about one of my kids.

Joette:

Oh, love it.

Christy:

Because everything that I’m learning, when it all comes down to it, is for my family.

Joette:

You bet.

Christy:

And so, I want to share something that blessed us so much. So last spring, it was my son’s senior year. He’s an athlete. Two days before track season, he sprained his ankle in a soccer game really badly.

Joette:

Sprains can take a long time, too.

Christy:

Yes, absolutely. He got an X-ray, went to urgent care. When nothing was broken, but they said he sprained everything. So, he was pretty crushed because his goal was to make it to States.

So, we figured out together what remedies he needed to take. It was his second sprain. We had one previously, so we learned from the first one. And homeopathy was able to heal his sprain in less than three weeks.

Joette:

Oh, my!

Christy:

He not only went back to track, but the first day back, he ran six miles.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness.

Christy:

And he ended up making it to Districts, qualifying for four races. He medaled in three.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness!

Christy:

So, he did not make it to States, but he conquered that sprain. It blessed him. That was the best graduation gift that he could have gotten.

And we worked together doing it. And just being able to have that knowledge to care for my son in that way is priceless.

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Christy:

This medicine is amazing. And it’s such a gift …

Joette:

I know.

Christy:

… to us, especially as mothers to be able to care for our family.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Yeah. It gives us such faith in why we’re even here that we can carry on our duties, our responsibilities to our families. This is the son that … tell that story, Christy. It’s such an adorable story.

Christy:

I mean, he’s had to use homeopathy so much, and he’s so impressed by it that he signed up for The Academy. He didn’t even tell us!

Previously, he had mentioned that he was interested, and then we just kind of let it go because you don’t know what your 18-year-old son is going to do.

And one day, he was like, “Mom, I got accepted.”

Joette:

“I didn’t even know you applied, honey.”

Christy:

It’s amazing. Yeah. So, that was so cool. And now he’s loving it. He works with adaptive sports and things up in Vermont, and he just has a heart for that. And this medicine is going to be of such value to him.

Joette:

He’s going to fly with it. He’s going to fly.

What’s so interesting is that the students in The Academy are not 18-year-old men.

Christy:

Yeah, he’s a brave soul.

Joette:

I know he is a brave soul because there are men here and there, but that’s a little unusual, especially for 18. We’ve had a few of them, but this is …

For him to just do it, and his mom has already graduated.

What a testament to your mothering, your ability to mother and bring this into your family. It’s a beautiful thing, Christy.

Christy:

Thank you. Yeah, it’s beautiful.

Joette:

Thank you.

Okay, folks, there you have it. Now you’ve gotten a taste of the caliber of people who are working with this Practical Homeopathy®, going through The Academy, Mastery, Mastermind, and the kind of commitment that they’ve had in their gaining knowledge and learning how to apply this information for their family members and to bringing it out into the public.

So, I hope you enjoyed listening to these wonderful people.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/164-meet-7-women-mastermind/

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Meet 7 Unique, Accomplished, Inspiring Women from the Practical Homeopathy® Mastermind Group

01:52 What’s a Mastermind group?

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:33 Meet Heather, a health coach

06:39 Meet Cindi, from treating her own allergies to opening a homeopathy business

09:46 Meet Sandra, adoptive mom of two who wants to help other adoptive parents

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

20:05 Meet Stephanie, who wants to know everything she can about homeopathy

Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, Food Intolerances, and More with Homeopathy: Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

22:38 Meet Elizabeth, from hopeless and helpless to an abundant life helping others

28:23 Meet Michelle, a nurse who brought homeopathy into her husband’s medical practice

Podcast 160 — Practical Professionals: Real-World Integration of Practical Homeopathy® and Conventional Care

33:11 Meet Aarika, an ophthalmologist turned homesteader using homeopathy

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 164, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Meet 7 Unique, Accomplished, Inspiring Women from the Practical Homeopathy® Mastermind Group

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m thrilled you’re joining us today.

Homeopathy isn’t just a gentle, time-tested system of medicine. It’s a powerful tool that empowers families to take charge of their health naturally, safely and effectively. Joette has spent decades teaching others how to employ Practical Homeopathy® with their family, friends and beyond.

So, on this podcast, you’re going to hear from some passionate students of Practical Homeopathy®, who are now helping others experience what’s truly possible with Practical Homeopathy®.

Joette, we’ve just spent three wonderfully intense days together with your Mastermind students. Some of them are joining in on this podcast today. So, I’d love it if you could start by explaining to those listening what your Mastermind group is all about.

What’s a Mastermind group?

Joette: (01:52)

Okay. So, a Mastermind group is a dedicated group of graduates of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery — so, that’s been two full years — who have taken their knowledge to the next level.

These women — brilliant women, I have to say — have seen remarkable results in their own lives and families. And now they’ve moved beyond that, and they want to join with a small group of other like-minded students who all want to push each other to fulfill their goals, and their clients experience the life-changing power of homeopathy.

So, let’s get started.

Meet Heather, a health coach

Joette: (02:33)

Hi, Heather.

Heather:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re with me today … well, also that you’ve been with me this weekend, too.

Heather:

Yes, it’s been amazing.

Joette:

It’s amazing to be amongst these women, hasn’t it?

Heather:

Absolutely, yes.

Joette:

Tell us a little bit about your story. What is a little bit of your background; what brought you here?

Heather:

I have been a health coach for about 10 years and have been working with clients for that long, helping people recover their health and just to support them in any way that I could.

But I always felt a little bit of a limitation. I couldn’t always quite get to the end of that process.

And so, when I found homeopathy, one of the first things that I did for myself was to work on getting rid of my chronic headaches that were debilitating and took up way too many days of the month that I couldn’t really function or do things. And so, when I was able to do that with homeopathy, I knew that I had found that missing piece.

And the fact that I can now help clients and family members alike with not just acute things that pop up in everyone’s life, but to be able to help them with some very serious chronic illnesses, chronic conditions, things like that, has been not only so life-changing for me, but for them, of course.

I’m so thankful for the group that you have put together, for all of the people here this weekend and really all of the students that we have been able to impact with this — like you said — life-changing medicine.

Joette:

So, you’ve released yourself of those headaches …

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

… by using the homeopathic medicine?

Heather:

Yeah, I have a date in my phone.

Joette:

Have you?

Heather:

It says “headache,” and that was last February. It was February of 2024 … was the last headache that I had.

Joette:

Wow. Oh, that’s excellent, after having suffered them for years.

Heather:

I was also a Great Lakes headacher. Those Great Lakes — the shifts in the atmosphere, pressure and stuff — and I would get. But they weren’t a classic migraine, but they basically should have been.

Joette:

Because the pain was so grand.

Heather:

Yes, very bad.

Joette:

Right, exactly.

Heather:

Just in bed.

Joette:

You were a health coach.

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

You did that for years. You have a practice, and then you learned about homeopathy in order to help your own situation. And then you said, “Okay, this is the missing piece. Let’s go further.” And then you decided to join The Academy?

Heather:

Yes, I did The Academy, and then this past year, we just finished up Mastery (that second year), and now so blessed to be in this Mastermind with all of these excellent, excellent women.

Joette:

Yeah, and that’s a big part of this because The Academy is a large number of students, and the Mastery is a little bit smaller, but this is only 13 people. And that makes it really tight. And we actually meet in person, and that’s what we’re doing right now. Everybody’s about to say goodbye after a really great weekend, and we’ve gotten to know each other very well.

Yeah, it’s a tight group of people and that’s wonderful. We ask everyone in these Mastermind groups to give us their “ask:” what they want help from these other 12 other women. (It could be men, but it’s always been women so far.) Then, we ask them to give something back to the group.

So, you can imagine with the caliber of people who’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery. Many of them are in practice. Some of them are doctors; some of them are homesteaders; some of them are grandmas. It’s the whole gamut of all different kinds of people that you’re going to get answers to the questions that you have regarding your life, your goals, your …

Heather:

Yeah, just to have access to the diversity that we have in all of us and all of our life experiences. We’re all at different places. Some still have little, some — our grandmas like you said — but just everyone has so much to offer, and it’s all a little bit different. There’s overlap, but there’s also so much that everyone just brings to the table.

And to have all of … the name “Mastermind” is such a fitting name because it is like a meeting of the minds. We’re all putting our brains together to help build each other up to solve any issues or problems or struggles that people are dealing with. It’s beautiful.

Joette:

And then we get to meet for the next year.

Heather:

Yes. This is just the beginning.

Joette:

This is just the kickoff that we’ve actually met in person in Florida, but now we’re going to be meeting every couple of weeks, which is really great. We really get to know each other well.

I so enjoyed having you in the group.

Heather:

I love being here, and I can’t wait for the rest of this year.

Joette:

Yeah, me too, Heather. Thanks a lot. Thank, thanks for sharing.

Heather:

Absolutely.

Joette:

Alright, bye now.

Meet Cindi, from treating her own allergies to opening a homeopathy business

Joette: (06:39)

So, I am here with Cindi, and Cindi’s part of our group this weekend in Mastermind. And I love to be able to talk to people who have come a long way in homeopathy.

So, Cindi, tell me your story. What was going on in your life that brought you to homeopathy?

Cindi:

My health.

Joette:

That’s a good place to start.

Cindi:

Yes. I had severe allergies, and I went looking for a homeopath, and I found you. So, I started with you, and I began to heal. You encouraged me — very lovingly — to start teaching and start going into APH [The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®].

And so, I decided to go ahead and join APH and then onto Mastery. And now I teach, and I have a few clients, and now, I’m starting my own homeopathy business so that I can help people the way in which you helped me and how homeopathy helped me. Because there are a lot of other people out there who are going through what I’ve gone through.

Joette:

Which is … just tell us a little bit about … You had allergies, but can you just describe a little bit about that?

Cindi:

As I’ve always been sick as a child and a young adult. So, as I went into menopause, things got worse. I got to the point where all I could eat was meat, two kinds of vegetables and drink water. That was it.

And I knew I couldn’t keep that up. I knew that I was losing weight fast, and so I knew I needed help, and the doctors couldn’t help me. I went to see some specialists, and they couldn’t help me, or whatever they gave me wasn’t helping.

So, I knew that because I had used homeopathy in the past with my son …

Joette:

Oh, there you go.

Cindi:

I knew that that was the answer for me. So, that’s when I went and searched for you.

Joette:

So, it was all about food intolerances.

Cindi:

Definitely, yes.

And I also had allergies, seasonal allergies. I had asthma. I was getting colds about twice a month or every …

Joette:

It was a lot. I remember.

Constant. And asthma, bronchitis. You name it, I was getting it, and I had lived with it for a long time. And also, I was menopausal.

Joette:

Oh boy. Right on top. The cherry on top.

Cindi:

Yeah, exactly. So, as we worked on the food allergies, other illnesses, conditions started to melt away.

Joette:

Those little satellite conditions that you didn’t even think were associated but eventually really are.

Cindi:

I can go into a house now with five cats … not even a sniffle.

Joette:

Yeah.

Cindi:

That’s amazing!

Joette:

Yeah. That’s the medicine that we know now. And so, this is the way it works. You get fixed, you fix your family, you fix yourself, you work with … now you want to learn so that you can do the same for others.

Cindi:

Exactly.

Joette:

Keeps snowballing. And that’s the way this should be: the good news.

Cindi:

Exactly. There are a lot of people out there who, like me, are suffering from allergies, skin conditions, asthma, seasonal allergies, and it can all be helped with homeopathy.

Joette:

Yes. And you know, Cindi, what’s really fascinating is this is exactly where I started: allergies and food intolerances. So, it felt very natural for me to work with you.

So, thank you so much.

Cindi:

I’m so grateful.

Joette:

Oh, I’m grateful for you, too. Thank you.

Meet Sandra, adoptive mom of two who wants to help other adoptive parents

Joette: (09:46)

Hi, Sandra.

Sandra:

Hi, how are you?

Joette:

I’m doing well. How about you?

Sandra:

I’m wonderful. I’m here with you.

Joette:

Yeah, and I’m here with you. You have an interesting story, and I would love for others to hear your story. Give us a little background.

Sandra:

All right. We had secondary infertility, and so we adopted two older children from foster care. When I say older, I mean like five and six.

In the interview, they told us that they would be institutionalized by the time they were 13.

Joette:

Oh.

Sandra:

They came to us with some labels like reactive attachment disorder, ODD — lots of letters behind their name — and they were on a lot of psychotropic drugs.

Joette:

Oh, my.

Sandra:

And so, they were only five and six. They were already on Abilify and clonidine. Between the two of them, they had about 10 violent tantrums every day. And I was a homeschooling mom, and it was really difficult.

We ended up helping them with a lot of natural approaches, like supplementation and food that heals.

But when I learned about homeopathy, when they had already overcome — we’d already helped them overcome a lot of that stuff — I just realized how much faster our progress would’ve been had I known about this modality.

Joette:

Isn’t that the truth for all of us? If only we had known long ago.

Sandra:

Exactly. And so, the stuff that we used was fine. It was great. It was natural, and it did help them, but it took us a really long time to get there.

I was pretty much isolated from the world for almost three years. I didn’t do anything. I think if we’d had homeopathy, we would’ve shaved at least a year off of that just because it actually can help with the really big things. It’s not just a bumps-and-bruises sort of thing. So much more.

Joette:

Behavior, psychological issues.

Sandra:

Yes. So, it is something that I have a passion about to bring that message to parents. It’s not easy to deal with any of this, regardless of homeopathy, but I want to take a little bit of the exhaustion away from moms.

You’re in survival mode when you’re in that position, and I want to help those kinds of families. That was a huge motivator for me jumping in.

Joette:

So, are you saying that your children are no longer on these psychotropic drugs?

Sandra:

Oh, no. They haven’t been on them for years. They’re 24 and 25, and they have completely overcome everything that anyone ever said.

Joette:

And they’re not institutionalized.

Sandra:

They were never institutionalized.

They never were even on drugs or alcohol or anything like that. That’s a huge problem with kids coming out of foster care. I mean, life isn’t perfect. They’ve got their issues like everybody else, but they’re, you know, normal people. So, that was the goal. Create some functioning members of society.

Joette:

Listen, I couldn’t wrap this up right now, but I have to ask you, why did you choose children who were that age to foster? Tell me what your thinking was. It is different than most moms and dads would do.

Sandra:

Well, we had two babies, two different times, lined up to adopt. And I actually had kind of floated the idea of doing older kids with my husband, and we prayed about it and decided that we were open to that.

We went to an interview for a 2-year-old little girl whose parents had died in a car accident.

Joette:

Oh my.

Sandra:

She had never had any trauma.

But prior to that, about six months before, I had been on the special needs adoption website, and there were these two kids that caught my eye that were four and five at the time. And I don’t know. I said, “Could we put our home study in for these kids?”

And he said, “Yes.” But it was kind of like, “I don’t know.”

And so, we put them on my bulletin board, and we decided that we were going to pray for them. And the next day, we went back to the site. They were gone, and we assumed that they had been adopted.

And so fast forward six months, we went to this appointment. I walked into the room, and for reasons I won’t go into, I realized that we would probably not be the people that would be chosen for this child.

And when I went into … we went into the adoption interview, the lady started asking us questions like, “How do you feel about children who’ve been exposed to meth? How do you feel about children who may not ever love you? How do you feel about children …?” Like, all these questions that didn’t pertain to this little girl.

And that night, we got a call, and she said, I’m sorry you were not chosen for the 2-year-old that didn’t have trauma except for what had happened to her with her parents. But there’s another couple of kids that we would really love to interview you for. And she told us their names, and it was the kids on my bulletin board.

Joette:

Wow.

Sandra:

We were like, “Okay.”

And so, they had gotten lost in the system. There had been a failed adoption with them, and they had just kind of been languishing in the foster care system, as often happens. We just felt like there were a lot of things that happened that brought them to us that were unusual, and we have a very strong faith. And so, we had always prayed that God would lead us to the right children that needed us the most.

And I don’t know, I guess we don’t do easy things very often, the two of us. And so, we felt like that was what we were supposed to do. And we felt like even though we actually knew we weren’t equipped, we knew that …

Joette:

You could equip.

Sandra:

… we could be equipped, and that God would be with us and walk through that with us.

Joette:

So, you raised these children using homeopathy?

Sandra:

No, I did not.

Joette:

Oh, interesting.

Sandra:

No, I didn’t. Well, kind of. I did in some areas without knowing it, the things that actually helped the most were combo remedies that I didn’t know were homeopathy.

Joette:

Ok.

Sandra:

In fact, we got my son off of clonidine using a homeopathic combo remedy.

Joette:

Get out!

Sandra:

And we didn’t realize it. But he had horrible night terrors that would last for two or three hours every night. In fact, it was so intense that for 10 months, we slept outside his room on an air mattress because we were afraid he would fall down our stairway.

He had no idea who we were, what we were doing. You know how it is.

Joette:

Yeah, night terror, they’re in a different world.

Sandra:

And it was very, very scary, and he … It was awful.

And he was also having so many tantrums every day. He got kicked out of first grade in public school. And so, he was struggling majorly.

And the sleep was one of the biggest issues we had. And I found this combo remedy that I didn’t know was homeopathy. I tried it. And within three weeks, not only was he not having night terrors, he was going to sleep without us laying next to him for an hour and a half. And he was off the clonidine within 60 days.

Joette:

My goodness.

Sandra:

Yeah. And so those kinds of things, later, came back to me as we were realizing, I was realizing, oh my goodness. The things that helped us more than anything during that time, were homeopathic, and I didn’t even know it! Because I didn’t know what Hyland’s was selling. I didn’t know what Boiron was selling. I just knew it was in the health food section.

Joette:

And it had a word on it.

Sandra:

It was neat, and he would take it. He was so sick of taking pills. He’d been pushed pills his whole life.

And so, those were the things that did actually help. But I didn’t know I was using something.

Joette:

That’s fascinating. But when you did realize, that’s when you decided, “Okay, I’m going to learn this stuff.”

Sandra:

Actually, it was a completely different situation at that point. It was my husband’s stroke at 46 that brought me to homeopathy.

But once I learned it, I started using it with my youngest, who’s my daughter, because she has struggled with hormonal stuff since she was a teenager. And holy cow, has that made a huge difference.

We’ve been tackling things like PCOS with her. Her pain levels … she would faint every time she would have her cycle.

Joette:

The pain was so extreme.

Sandra:

The pain was so extreme, she’d just go pale, and then she’d go down.

We found that Veratrum album was amazing for that, and that was early on. I wasn’t even an APH yet. I had just taken a couple of your protocol classes.

Every single thing in our life, it seemed like, that we had ever struggled with or were struggling with, somehow could be touched in a positive way and supported by homeopathy. It was one of those things that once I found it, you could not have stopped me from learning it. I would’ve learned it if you wanted to arrest me. There is nothing that would’ve kept from it.

Joette:

Compelled. That’s what happens.

Sandra:

It was so compelling.

And I had been praying for answers because of my husband’s stroke and getting all these meds, and it was really causing a lot of side effects for him. And it was just … somebody just shared your website with me, that I hardly ever see. She had gone through a Gateway class.

It was just like game on. I bought my first protocol class a couple of days later. I watched it three times in two weeks.

Joette:

Go on. That’s not you, is it?

Sandra:

No, not at all. I’m not determined like that.

Joette:

Focused.

Sandra:

I was so focused, and it happened to be the Mindful one. That was what I started with.

I never had taken a Gateway. I knew nothing about homeopathy, and I started with Mindful, but that’s what I needed. That was the class I needed at the time.

Really, it’s helped every single member of my family since then. I still listen to it.

Joette:

It’s helped with your hands delivering, with your mind figuring out exactly what your family members need. So yes, there are those tools, but they’re of no use unless you have the gumption, the desire, the guts, spunk and moxie, and then the total dedication to learn how to use this.

Sandra:

And I know adoptive families that are dealing with kids like this, they have that kind of spunk and moxie. Because you don’t live in that situation for more than about a week without realizing that you need support … that you’ve got to learn how to help these kids.

And those are the families that I want to help because I know already. I know who they are. I was them.

Joette:

Yes. Yes. Oh, Sandra, what a great mission. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

Sandra:

Yeah! You’re welcome. This is great. Thank you.

Joette:

Yes, thank you. So, if you’re looking for a homeopath such as Sandra and these others who we’re interviewing today, the best place to find them — because you’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery, right, Sandra?

Sandra:

Yes.

Joette:

And now Mastermind — is to go directly to FindA PracticalHomeopath.com, and then you’ll see Sandra’s profile and others.

Meet Stephanie, who wants to know everything she can about homeopathy

Joette: (20:05)

So, now I’m with Stephanie. And I want to talk to you, Stephanie, because you’re with us this weekend for the Mastermind program that we put together. You’ve come from, where did you come from?

Stephanie:

Dixon, Tennessee.

Joette:

Dixon, Tennessee. And we’re in Florida now.

So, you’ve been through my Academy and the Mastery program and now Mastermind. I know you as a very good student. I see the questions that you ask and the nods that you give in the classes.

So, I want to hear your story, not just because I like to hear it again, but for others to understand what your story is, and what brought you to homeopathy in the first place.

Stephanie:

Thank you, Joette. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you.

So, my firstborn, he was born with allergies, and I did several different modalities, and nothing was uprooting the condition. So, I found your Allergic?! course online, and I took it. And I was like, “I can do this. I can do this myself and help my son.”

Joette:

That’s the best part. I love to hear that. And you’ve said that before: “I can do this.” Yes.

Stephanie:

So, it happened actually just a couple of months before The Academy was opening for that year. And so, I took the course, and then I took Good Gut, Bad Gut, and then The Academy became available.

And I was like, “You know what? I want to know all of it. I want to learn all of it.”

So, that is what really jump-started me into The Academy. And it was such a mind-blowing amount of information — in a good way — that I continued to help other people, family members, friends, plants, my farm animals.

It was so uplifting and empowering that as soon as I knew about Mastery, I was like, “I have to do it. I have to continue. I have to fine-tune my skills and move on.”

And then Mastermind was available. It was a little out of my comfort zone. It’s a smaller group of people, but I’m blown away by this weekend. I really am. Because you come with one idea, and then you’re in this group of amazing people, and you change your ideas. And you change your priorities, and you change the way you want to do things. And it’s really a beautiful thing. And I can’t thank you enough for putting this together.

Joette:

Well, thank you for trusting in this. I also have to say, but someone like you has a voracious appetite for knowledge. And that’s so clear with you. Every time you’ve spoken this weekend, that’s the biggest message. You are hungry for information, and then you go ahead, and you just do it. So, I love having you here with us. So, thank you for joining us this weekend, Stephanie.

Stephanie:

Thank you so much. It’s a pleasure.

Joette:

The influence of these great people. It’s amazing.

Meet Elizabeth, from hopeless and helpless to an abundant life helping others

Joette: (22:38)

Hi, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth:

Hi Joette.

Joette:

So glad to be here with you.

Elizabeth:

It’s always a blessing to be with you.

Joette:

That’s the way I feel, too.

So, here we are, and I know your story. But every time you speak, I hear a little bit more stuff that really adds a little more information that builds my knowledge of who you really are.

But no one else on the other side of this microphone knows about you. So, please tell us your story — and just in a little nutshell — that could be of use to others.

Elizabeth:

Yeah. I have been chronically ill for decades, really started when I was 11 weeks old and just all through childhood.

Then, in college, after I got married, we struggled with infertility for a number of years and all that comes with that. And then just really blessed to have four children. But with that, your health tanks again.

And so then, was diagnosed with two more autoimmune diseases, illnesses, genetic mutation. I just really struggled as a mom, right, because I wanted to be there for my kids. I wanted to be there for my husband, but I didn’t feel like I was living the abundant life that Christ had called me to because I was so sick. But the saddest part was when everybody looked at me, they said, “But you look so healthy.”

Joette:

You do.

Elizabeth:

But on the inside, there was just so much going on. And I searched and searched, high and low, and was constantly disappointed because everything that I was promised failed to deliver. And so, in that, I really got to a place where I was just helpless. I didn’t think that there was anything out there. And I thought, “Okay, this is my thorn. This is my cross to bear. Right? And I’m just going to do the best I can.”

And then there were some sweet friends, who were in a study group and said, “You need to know about homeopathy.”

“Home-what? I don’t even know what that word is, and I’m a former English teacher!”

And so anyway, just the biggest skeptic in me was like, “Okay, whatever. Another modality that’s going to fail me.” But the researcher in me caused me to start leaning in and to listening to some podcasts and reading some blogs.

And the Lord just provided an amazing opportunity: a very first aid, acute emergency situation for my husband. And I simply just said, “Do you trust me?”

And he said, “Yes.”

And I ran to the store, and I grabbed some Latin words.

Joette:

Yeah, Latin words! Yes.

Elizabeth:

I didn’t even know how to pronounce. And I came back, and I was like, “I don’t even know how to open these, but I believe that it’s going to work.”

And it did!

And my husband never had to go to the emergency room.

Joette:

What was it? What was …

Elizabeth:

He was actually fixing a toy for one of our children and had stabbed himself in the fleshy part of his hand …

Joette:

I remember the story. You’ve told me this before.

Elizabeth:

Yes.

Joette:

So, what happened to your husband was that he was fixing a toy …

Elizabeth:

Yes! For one of my children, and the screwdriver slipped and stabbed deeply into the fleshy part of his hand. And there was a gaping hole …

Joette:

Oh my.

Elizabeth:

… in his hand. So, I didn’t even know how to open the homeopathy vials. And so, I had read a blog that you’d written about puncture wounds, went to the store, got the remedies, and lo and behold, he never had to see a medical professional.

He never lost nerve damage, muscle, tendon, ligament, nothing. It was beautiful. And that was my first experience with homeopathy. And it was transformational in such a way that I was like, “Wow, there probably is something to this. I want to dig deeper into it.”

Joette:

Hard to believe. Really? These little pills? Come on, really?

Elizabeth:

Absolutely!

Joette:

That can’t be. But it is.

Elizabeth:

But it was beautiful.

Then the Lord, the next month provided another opportunity with one of our children — acute first aid emergency — where we did not have to go to the hospital.

Wait, what? Two in a month? This is crazy. What is this stuff?

And so, I started studying, and lo and behold, started working with the homeopath where I started to uproot my own chronic illness that I had had for decades. Right?

And then, lo and behold, the Lord provided an opportunity for me to join The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. Graduated from that. Then, yeah, Mastery. All with my husband’s support.

But he, too, was suffering with chronic illness. And he said, “I need you to go to school. I need you to do this for me. I need your help.”

And he really was the impetus for why I wanted to study more and more.

And so here I am today and I’m in Mastermind surrounded by an amazing community of small, trusted people who are my colleagues and my friends, and just my support network — not just for myself and my children and my family and my friends, but also for my clients, for my students, and even my pets … which is so fun to use homeopathy with your dogs, right?

Joette:

Yes, I’ve done it. I’ve done it.

Elizabeth:

It’s so beautiful. Because they don’t know what to do.

Joette:

They don’t know; they don’t know.

Elizabeth:

They don’t.

Joette:

But then they do.

Elizabeth:

They do. They want it!

Joette:

And they come around. “Hey, Mom!”

Elizabeth:

“Yes, thank you.” It’s so sweet.

And so, I think my story is one where I felt truly hopeless and helpless, that everything that had been promised to me had fallen short. I felt like there was nothing out there. And homeopathy has restored my faith, has given me back my joy, has restored my body back to homeostasis, and uprooted these things that have been suppressed for decades in my body.

And I am now living a more abundant, fruitful life that the Lord has called me to for my children, for my future. And I’m so grateful. So grateful for all that God has done and leading me to you.

Joette:

Elizabeth, it’s a blessing. Thank you. You’re a blessing to us, too. We’re going to be together for a whole year now.

I know. It’s good. It’s good. Thank you.

Elizabeth:

You’re welcome.

Meet Michelle, a nurse who brought homeopathy into her husband’s medical practice and started her own

Joette: (28:23)

Alright, folks, I have Michelle with me. And you may have heard her on our podcast, number 160. And I’m so glad to have you with me this time. Last time you were talking with Kate, now it’s just you and me.

So, let’s talk Michelle. Tell me a little bit about yourself because you have a very interesting background.

Michelle:

So, I’ve been a nurse for over 30 years.

Joette:

Practicing?

Michelle:

Practicing, yep. Practicing with my husband, who’s an internal medicine physician in private practice. Over the years of seeing so many patients have a hard time with regular allopathic medicine and a lot of the side effects, had never really explored homeopathy at all.

Joette:

Had you heard of it?

Michelle:

I really hadn’t. I mean a little bit. In nursing school and medical school, they teach a little bit that it’s kind of “woo-woo.”

Joette:

Oh, of course, yes. Right.

Michelle:

And “It doesn’t really work, those little sugar pills.”

So, we were always taught to fear that. And as our eyes began to open up over the course of the years, and patients weren’t necessarily getting healed by medicines that we were giving them that thought they were healing them, they would be on them for life.

So, rather than curing them, they just became dependent upon …

Joette:

Blood pressure meds and …

Michelle:

Yes. My husband actually kind of nudged me into looking for … I fell into an original Gateway class from a student who was in APH. And I took the class through a Catholic homeschool group that I belong to.

I took the first class; I didn’t have a book yet. Then about three weeks into it, I got the book, and I have not looked back since.

So, I taught my children to be lifelong learners. And my husband and I are both lifelong learners. And that’s where we’ve tried to teach our children that.

From that, I did APH. My husband supported me along the whole way. He loves history. So, of course, he was right there listening to all of Kim Elia’s history courses with me. I would fill him in, and slowly, we started incorporating homeopathy into our practice.

So thankful that we found an option in order to heal our patients, rather than place a band-aid on their sufferings.

So, from that, my husband was like, “Well, you’re not going to stop now.”

So, I went from this, as you call it, “a flood of information — fire hose information” in APH and then on into Mastery, where, for me, it was like APH was nursing school and Mastery was clinicals.

Like, it was just case after case after case where we got to learn from each other. I mean, I brought my own cases, but everybody else’s cases was like we were getting more and more clients.

At that point, I had started practicing on the side. So, I do sort of two practices: one in our office alongside my husband, and then I also have my own consulting practice.

And then, I was sad to see Mastery end, so I decided to join Mastermind.

Joette:

After a year; it was a great year.

Michelle:

Yes, along after the influence of many friends that I made. I didn’t know anyone going into APH. And we’ve had such beautiful study groups, who we still meet together. And it’s just such a great community because I now have people I can go to at the touch of my phone and ask them for either help on a case, help on a personal situation, just for some support. And there’s nothing that can match the community that you’ve built, honestly.

Joette:

Well, and what’s particularly useful in this community is that homeopathy is not very well known in North America. It’s used in South America and Europe and India, but not so much in North America. And so, when you’re studying this and using it, you often can feel isolated.

So, this fleshes that out so that you’ve got friends regardless of where they’re from. We have people from all over the world, but most often it’s North America and you can contact them.

That’s really one of the great benefits, isn’t it?

Michelle:

Yep. And I think with Mastermind — it’s very interesting — I had no idea what to expect delving into each of our personal situations in order to develop our own self better.

So, it’s such a beautiful three-year layout, really. You know, getting all the information in the beginning and then practicing it in Mastery, and then really kind of honing in on yourself and where you want to take it. And hopefully, we’ll all branch out and take it to our communities.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah. That’s my hope. I know that’s what you’re doing, too. It’s really great.

Thank you so much for being with us today, Michelle.

Michelle:

Of course.

Joette:

Remember, Podcast 160. You’ll learn even more about Michelle.

Michelle:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you.

Meet Aarika, an ophthalmologist turned homesteader using homeopathy

Joette: (33:11)

I’m so glad you’re with me here right now, Aarika, because I really didn’t know you that well.

You’ve been through The Academy and Mastery, and there you are, nodding. I see your face nodding. I see you smiling, and it’s lovely.

And now you’re … here you are with us in Mastermind, and now I get your story.

But your story is spectacular, and I love to hear about what you’re doing on your homestead, et cetera, and a little bit about your background. So, would you mind sharing that with our listeners today?

Aarika:

Yes, Joette, I’d love to share with you. I came into homeopathy through a friend. I have past medical training and my

Joette:

Means you’re a medical doctor.

Aarika:

Yes. And so, I hadn’t heard anything about homeopathy. And she just showed me one of the little sugar pills and said, “If you need anything for your children, just take this name, ‘Joette Calabrese,’ and type it into Google. And you’ll have whatever you need to help take care of your children and to help them get healthy and to help them just move forward in life.”

And so, I did that. I Googled your name, and my son, who has a history of cognitive delays. through following your online presence, I was able to help him overcome those. And now he’s ahead.

Joette:

Oh my. That’s beautiful.

You are an ophthalmologist. You were performing cataract surgery on a regular basis. So that’s a big shift in paradigms, isn’t it?

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

And we talked about that for a few minutes the other day, that cataract surgery is really something that can be quite useful for many people, especially at a certain age.

But that still is a huge shift. You’re thinking much differently now.

So now, you have your children, you’re homeschooling. You’re homesteading, right? How many acres do you have?

Aarika:

Over 80 acres, we take care of. And lots of animals that have all benefited from the homeopathy.

Joette:

So, you have chickens …

Aarika:

Chickens, ducks,

Joette:

Ducks.

Aarika:

Guineas, horses, donkeys.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh. I didn’t know you had large mammals, too. Oh, for goodness sakes.

Why — I have to ask you — would an ophthalmologist, who has turned to homeopathy and is raising a family, would you ever buy a donkey? I’ve never understood the donkey picture.

Aarika:

They’re to protect the horses from the predators that come into the field. They’re the guardians of the …

Joette:

Oh!. So, it’s not a dog that does it? It’s the donkey. And it kicks, and it makes sounds. Oh, for goodness’ sake,

Aarika:

It’ll stamp anything that comes into the field.

Joette:

Learn something new every day. That’s great. And so, you’ve treated the animals.

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah.

Aarika:

Saved many, many lives.

Joette:

Yes.

Aarika:

Just through simple homeopathics.

Joette:

Like what? Give us an example if you don’t mind.

Aarika:

For example, my daughter’s pony was colicking, and there was no one. It was the middle of the night. So, to try to get ahold of a vet, there’s no one that can help you.

But through the use of the remedies, that pony that would’ve otherwise passed that night was there when she woke up.

Joette:

Is that called bloat?

Aarika:

There’s bloat; they call it colic. They just kind of get a whole bunch of gas in their abdomen, essentially. They just have to relieve that. We just didn’t know what had caused it. And he had all of his gastric contents actually, by the end, coming out of his nose.

And so, we thought that he was completely blocked by the end of it.

Joette:

Oh my.

Aarika:

He was there ready to play with my daughter the next morning, thanks to homeopathy.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness. And now your children are learning this.

Aarika:

Yes. My children, the first thing they go to whenever they need anything is they look for their little — we call them the sugar pills …

Joette:

Of course.

Aarika:

… because they’re “candies” for the kids, since they don’t get candies. So, they’re very excited to get their …

Joette:

It’s so great. You’re raising them in precisely the right way. It’s so good.

Thank you, Aarika. This is a beautiful story, and I know others will really appreciate it.

Aarika:

Thank you, Joette, for your time.

Joette:

Yeah. Thank you. Yes.

Okay, folks. So, now you’ve just heard from a few of my Mastermind students, and now you know why I stay so excited about staying in this field and working with people like this. Because, are they not special?

So, these are the folks that take homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy® not only to the next level, but they take it to such a high level that it’s being brought out into the world — their world and our world at large.

And so, thanks for listening today and see you next time.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/163-health-fears-fade/

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58 Introduction: When Health Fears Fade: Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary Results

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:34 It all started with tooth pain

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Gateway to Homeopathy II

04:39 Piqued curiosity: What else can homeopathy do?

Joette’s blogs

07:22 Success Story: Hives

11:02 Success Story: Food allergies

Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

12:33 Success Story: Exhaustion

14:57 Success Story: A dog swallowed a bee

16:48 Success Story: A dog with tummy troubles

17:48 Success Story: Ducky, the chicken, was sick

18:45 Success Story: Plants

20:15 Success Story: Mom’s stroke

22:36 Success Story: Sepsis from an infected toe

Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning!

https://joettecalabrese.com/

25:10 Success Stories: Chronic food intolerances and allergies, seasonal allergies, skin conditions, migraines, menopause backaches, sciatica

Blogs

Podcasts

Courses

28:51 Closing advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 163.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: When health fears fade: Ordinary mom, extraordinary results

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so excited today because we’re diving into the heart of why so many of us love homeopathic medicine.

We’re going to hear real stories from real people living busy, full lives, who have seen homeopathy work wonders.

So, today our guest is Tina. She’s a wife, a homeschooling mom of three, a student of Practical Homeopathy®. Actually, she’s going through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

And she’s a leader of the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups and also the protocol study courses.

So, Tina, thank you so much for joining us. I’m excited to hear your stories.

Tina:

Oh, I’m so thankful to be here, Kate. It’s an honor.

I’m just a mom, an observer. I’ve seen this medicine change things, and in the most ordinary, everyday moments

Kate:

And extraordinary from what you’ve told me, too. Very exciting. So, that’s why we love hearing these stories, Tina, and especially what you’re going to bring to the podcast today. You have such a rich background, and I think people would want to know because it’s so interesting.

Microbiology, business, homeschooling, church music ministry, volleyball coaching, graphic design, short-term rentals and more, as we talked earlier. Yet, homeopathy has woven into all of it.

So, I want to ask you, Tina, what first drew you to Practical Homeopathy®, and how did those early experiences hook you into using homeopathy as your medicine?

It all started with tooth pain

Tina: (02:34)

I am so thankful to live a varied life and, within all of those moments, get to use homeopathy and see homeopathy shine.

But it all started with my youngest daughter during the time when we were all sitting at home, and we weren’t able to get into many practices or dental practices or doctors. And her tooth started turning pretty decayed, in which we were told before that it was just a little stain on her tooth.

So, I had a sister-in-law who had just taken Gateway I and Gateway II, and she had tried to convince me to get in the class. And I kick myself now because that was when I could have started. But it was in the middle of a move, and we just didn’t have time.

And so, I remember getting on the phone, calling her up and saying, “Is there anything homeopathy could do? Because we need help.”

At that point, my poor little youngest was in pain and waking up in the middle of the night. And we were doing all we could allopathically, and it just was not good enough. And your mom-heart just breaks to see them in pain and crying.

And so, I was introduced to a protocol for infection. And it was my first real introduction, and it was a beautiful start because not only did things change within the hour, but homeopathy just gently and ever so intelligently came and not only took the pain away — my daughter was able to sleep — but when we were able to get into a dentist, the abscess was gone that they had seen before. And we were able to do what we needed to do — pull the tooth.

Everyone was healthy and happy, and we were able to go forward.

Kate:

And from there, things just kept unfolding as far as you helping more things with your family and friends and animals and even plants.

Piqued curiosity: What else can homeopathy do?

Tina: (04:39)

And so, when something shows itself that dramatic in your life, when it shines the way homeopathy did for us, it was just a matter of “Hmmm, I wonder what homeopathy could do for this?” and “I wonder how it could help this?”

And I still didn’t, at that point, take a course, but I delved into Joette’s blogs. I delved into just voraciously feeding on all of the free information that she put out. And so, for every moment that came up, whether it be friends that would ask, “What are you doing?” and “What can I do for this?” and I would send blog posts.

Or my children, who suffered from whatever it was daily, or my husband, snoring or whatever it was, we would pull the blog post and just see what homeopathy could do.

It began to pique people’s interest around us, you know? And homeopathy just in every moment showed itself so gracious and intelligent, and the amount of healing that I began seeing around me just kind of blew me away.

Kate:

So, tell me what happened next? When did you really start studying homeopathy?

Tina:

Around me, as I started to really practice homeopathy, apply it — not just to my family, but like I said, friends that started asking, “What are you doing?” I was approached by one friend, and she said, “Tina, you know enough. Could you just lead the group, and then you can study with us?”

I accepted, and my first Gateway that I led ended up with nine people sitting in my living room. And not only did we enjoy the course, but we enjoyed the stories, and we enjoyed the camaraderie that came with it.

Kate:

That’s one of the things I love most about the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups is hearing, week-to-week, study group members share their stories of how homeopathy has helped them and their families and those around them. I think it is so powerful.

And that’s why I love these podcasts, because I love that the listeners get to hear from so many people, and how you’ve used it. And it gives them ideas about how homeopathy can help them. Many things they didn’t even realize that homeopathy could touch.

So, let’s dig into some of the many success stories that you’ve had using homeopathy. So, let’s start with your children’s acute issues and bumps and bruises and flus and all of that. Tell us some things that you’ve used homeopathy for.

Success Story: Hives

Tina: (07:22)

I joke around often with my study group students — that when I say I have a story for this, I joke with them — because I say, “I’m pretty sure that God allows all this stuff to happen to me just for the stories.”

We have used homeopathy in many acutes. And we recently moved about five years ago from the desert of Arizona to the marshlands — and I’m sure they’re not marshlands, but whatever they are —- in Michigan.

With that came lots of bugs, lots of bites, lots of playing outside, lots of just new health issues, allergies and different things that we had never really been presented with.

So, homeopathy … I was so grateful to be introduced to it about the time of that move because not only were we able to take care of bug bites with Apis, after we got hives, or Ledum, but we were also able to heal to the point where now these issues don’t affect us.

My daughter: I remember we went to the fair, which was such a new and great thing for us moving out here. She had been walking down by the animal stalls and picking up straw and just throwing it everywhere. It wasn’t probably about 10 or 15 minutes later, her entire body was covered in hives.

And so, it was frightening, and it was frustrating. But by then, I was so grateful to have been using homeopathy.

And there’s something beautiful that happened at some point. I can’t tell you exactly when, but a lot of the fear of dreadful occurrences in our life — health issues that come — that fear is kind of taken away because I knew what to do when hives came. And I knew what to do when bites came. Or I knew what to do when my daughter comes in the room crying at two in the morning with a stomachache.

So, that fear was removed, and I was so grateful to just use the correct remedies for the hives: Urtica urens and Nat mur (or Natrum muriaticum) and all of these things in Joette’s blog that I could just go into and find the potency, find the frequency, and just administer to my children and watch it work … watch the hives go from all over the body to within five minutes the redness going down.

And then within an hour, disappearing from the trunk of the body. And then within two hours, disappearing from the arms and legs, and just a little bit resting on the neck. And then eventually, within four, everything gone.

But the best is, within 10 minutes, the itching’s gone, and my daughter’s happy running around. Even though the body has to complete the healing, she was happy and fine to go on about her life.

So, these little stories really stirred the continual use of homeopathy and then, also, the spreading to many others around.

Kate:

I love what you said about homeopathy calming our fear of whether it’s accidents or acute illnesses because we have tools at our disposal that we can use. They’re easily accessible, and they’re gentle, and I love that.

I hear that over and over again from students and those who listen to the podcast, that it really does help calm your fears because you have a solution.

Success Story: Food allergies

Kate: (11:02)

So, let’s jump into, now, some specific health challenges. Tell us more of the specific things that you’ve dealt with and used homeopathy to find relief.

Tina:

Well, we’ve been able to target many issues. I have two daughters, and with that comes female issues. And so, we’ve able to get rid of a lot of chronic menses pain with the blog and with the medicines that are given in there.

My son had struggled for many years after antibiotics with a tooth. He struggled with whey allergies and just really nasty reactions in his stomach. And from when I began to take courses — the Good Gut, Bad Gut course was one of the first ones I took after the Gateways — I employed the medicines that were given and protocols that were given.

And to this day, he can have a whey protein shake or enjoy ice cream or yogurt or whatever it is that has that kind of a dairy in it.

But it was so great to kind of ride that journey with him to watch the body slowly heal and to watch him be able to reintroduce foods that he loved but couldn’t eat, to just experience and to see over and over what homeopathy can do.

These are things that happen in my everyday life that I know happen to so many of your listeners and so many people that have started using homeopathy.

Success Story: Exhaustion

Tina: (12:33)

But I can think of another one early on that this one hits home because as a mother, you’re so intense on being there for your children and — or intent on being there for your children — and your husband and to do the motherly duties. And so often, we forget about ourselves. And much of the time, I didn’t even treat myself because I was so busy treating everybody else.

But I remember having hosted … and we do that often … we host, and we enjoy people, and we love just life. I had just finished hosting, and I was just emotionally, physically spent.

And my daughter, who at that time was about 16 … your children become a shadow of you. They watch what you do, they listen to what you say. And so, I was so grateful that she was able to go get the book off of my bookcase and repertorized for me.

Here I am, laid out on the bed. I laughed because it reminds me of that movie, The Princess Bride, where the main character’s been captured, and he’s down in the enemy’s lair, and they’re sucking the life out of him, and he’s just laying on this table like in agony, barely having any strength left.

And I laugh because I tell people that was me. I was just done … like, just done for.

And my daughter came home. She said, “Here, Mom” — I am pretty sure she said this — “Here, Mom, open your mouth.”

And she gave me Lachesis 200. And what happened after is my story and her story. It’s our testimony because people can say, “Well, homeopathy doesn’t work.” But they can’t say that to me because I’ve seen it work!

And so, in 10 minutes, I was sitting up talking to her completely coherent. And within 20 minutes, I was out in the garden, and I was gardening, and I was enjoying the sun, and I completely forgot that 30 minutes before, life was very bleak.

So, these type of just really dramatic turnarounds I have seen over and over with homeopathy.

Kate:

Yes, me too. And how great that your children are learning this along with you. You think that they’re not necessarily learning as much as they are. But then when they step up like that, it’s just beautiful. How great. What a gift to your family.

Let’s turn now to animals and plants. What have you seen homeopathy do with that?

Success Story: A dog swallowed a bee

Tina: (14:57)

Well, I think it’s the normal transition for many people that begin with homeopathy, that they see it working in humans, and then you soon hear, “Oh, it works on animals, and it works in plants.”

Well, here I am, just moved to Michigan, and I’m surrounded by lots of plants. And we moved out to the country from living in the city, and so here I’ve got my own chickens, and our dogs are getting to run free in the yard. The parakeets are happy in the house, and so we’re surrounded by opportunities (is what I see them as).

And so, with these different gifts — blessings given around us — there’s always moments for chaos and for healthful things that call on us.

So, we had just recently got a puppy. Her name was Ahava, and she’s a little Rat Terrier mixed with a Mountain Feist — and she is feisty. She’s more of a hunting dog, a treeing dog.

She loves to chase bees. She loved to chase bees as a puppy, and she still loves to chase bees.

One day, she had an allergic reaction after she ate one, naturally. Her poor little body got little hives on it. And she started what sounded like kind of coughing, and it was probably having some type of an anaphylactic response.

So, we took the opportunity to grab the remedies and give her what we knew would help: an Apis for anaphylaxis and also, an Aconite for that shock that was happening to all of us around.

I laugh, because anytime we have these scenarios, it seems like everybody around me gets Aconite, including myself. And then you can think … to be able to treat.

Within just five minutes, Ahava was normal. The hives eventually faded and went away, and so we were able to see homeopathy work for us.

Success Story: A dog with tummy troubles

Tina (16:48)

Along with that, we have a beagle, Beau. Beau the Beagle. He likes to sit around. He’s not your normal beagle. He loves … this guy loves food. He’s very, very much drawn to do anything if he’s given food.

So, I’m not sure if he ate something or what exactly happened, but one day we noticed that Beau was kind of sitting around a little more than he normally does. And he seemed a little overheated, and he just wasn’t himself.

After being able to observe him and see that what he was doing wasn’t normal, we were able to give remedies like Aconite and Bovista for his food allergy.

But my favorite is always Bioplasma®, especially for an overheated moment. It was summer during that time. So, Bioplasma has always turned a lot of scenarios around, and we saw Beau change within a matter of a couple hours, and he was back to himself by the next day.

Success Story: Ducky, the chicken, was sick

Tina: (17:48)

So, seen it in our dogs. We saw it in our chickens. Bioplasma and Aconite brought …

Well, my daughter has affectionately named all of our chickens names, and one of them was Ducky (which she just has this affinity to do this).

And so Ducky was very sick, and she was laying around in the yard exhausted, not doing what the rest of the flock was doing. And we were able to put some Bioplasma and Aconite in a little spray bottle with some water. Shook it up and just went outside and sprayed Ducky in the parts that we knew that the homeopathy would take.

She turned around very quickly. Within maybe an hour, we looked outside, and we actually couldn’t find her because she had just acclimated right back into the flock. She was well. Completely revived her.

We’ve seen that happen a number of times with our chickens.

Success Story: Plants

Tina: (18:45)

You mentioned plants.

Kate:

Yes.

Tina:

So naturally, here I am coming from the desert to not growing plants. And so, everything around me is a plant.

I took the opportunity to start growing my own herbs for loose-leaf teas and just enjoying the plants and flowers around me. Being a desert dweller, my green thumb needed to grow a bit, so I was able to use homeopathy for any transplanting.

I’ve had a number of near-death experiences with plants and Carbo veg. Carbo vegetabilis is my go-to for when one of my plants is just about to give on me.

Heat stress? I use Bioplasma. When I garden, when I transplant, I do a lot of Aconite in the beginning. I like to use Cina and Sulphur for any pests.

I just kind of like to watch the plants around me really thrive because homeopathy does exactly what they need, and it’s really for all creation.

Kate:

Some people may not know that there are actually books — homeopathic books — that just talk about using homeopathy with plants and for gardening. So, there is a lot of information out there on that. If you’re curious, you can just do a Google search.

Alright, let’s shift to some pretty serious situations where you’ve had some emergencies or pretty dire acute situations. Can you tell us about those?

Success Story: Mom’s stroke

Tina: (20:15)

My parents visit often. I enjoy having them annually come out. And during one of their visits, my mom began to mimic what looked like a stroke, and this would’ve been her third stroke. So, there was a history of this in her life.

My father came upstairs. (They were staying in our basement. We’ve got an apartment down there.) And so, when they come to visit, I love to treat them with remedies. I love to take any diagnosis they have and treat with protocols.

But specifically, on one visit, they came. And my dad came upstairs, and he looked very worried. He said, “Tina, I need you to come downstairs.”

And so, when I went down, what I saw was my mother sitting on the couch. The position and mindset that she was in was very familiar to me because I had happened upon her another time when she was having a stroke, when I was back in Arizona. So, I was very familiar with what it looked like and knew the emergent situation that we were facing.

My mother was in need of emergent care. We did what we could do to make the right calls. But while we were waiting, I went ahead and did what I knew homeopathy could help with. Gave Aconite for that situation.

Within four hours of remedies — looking at a few other symptoms that she was showing and administering what we could — within four hours, she was normal.

She was confirmed by the emergency technicians — the emergency care — that all of her vitals were stable. She was confirmed that she was well.

And so, within four hours, she was napping, and she was completely whole. And within six hours, she was upstairs doing dishes and playing with my children.

So, we were able to see again in another very dramatic situation. Where before it seemed hopeless, homeopathy just really came in and took care of a situation where something was completely normal, to completely not normal. And it was able to take it right back to balance.

Kate:

That is an incredible story. What a gift. Let’s shift to a case of possibly early sepsis with an infected toe. Can you tell me more about that?

Success Story: Sepsis from an infected toe

Tina: (22:36)

As we began to see homeopathy do more and more things — not just in our home, but within the students that would take Gateway courses — everybody starts treating their families and starts treating those that they love around them.

So, I had a friend that took the course come to the house in desperate need. And her husband did not want to go to the emergency room while she was trying to get him to go. She said, “Tina, here’s pictures. It looks sepsis: the redness, the red streak line going up from his toe up the leg.”

And it was a desperate situation. He wasn’t really convinced that he wanted to go to the emergency room because, for him, it was just an infected toe. But for her, she could see that it was something a lot more serious.

So, we were able to look at it together, and she went away knowing what she needed to do, applied some of the information from the blogs for the toe.

Within about four hours, she sent me a message that said, “Everything’s turned around. The redness is going down.”

And she kept a really nice picture log of as it went on throughout the next day. And by about hour 10, she said, “The line is fading.”

By about hour … I believe it was about 12, she said, “He’s comfortable. There’s no pain.”

And by about, I feel like it was hour 18, she’s like, “Tina, all of the redness is gone, and everything is looking really good.”

So, within 24 hours, she said it didn’t even look like it was there. The toe was really healing well. And within three days, he was back walking around, and everything was normal.

Kate:

I bet that made her a believer in homeopathy if she hadn’t been before, right?

Tina:

Yeah. You know, it’s like when you get to experience what homeopathy can do in these kind of crazy situations, it really solidifies to you that this is a medicine that works.

Kate:

And I just want to mention, there’s the blog that you most likely looked at was called Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning!

So, if you’re interested in that information, you can look at the top on https://joettecalabrese.com/. In the right-hand corner, there’s a search bar, and you can just put in “blood poisoning” or “holy cow blood poisoning,” and that blog will come up.

Success Stories: Chronic food intolerances and allergies, seasonal allergies, skin conditions, migraines, menopause, backaches, sciatica

Kate: (25:10)

So, I want to ask you now about your personal journey. I know there have been things that you have needed help with, and I would like to hear your personal story and how homeopathy has helped you.

Tina:

I am so grateful for homeopathy. I am so grateful for how it gently comes in and does a job that I’ve seen no allopathic medicine do for me.

I have dealt for many years with chronic food intolerances, allergies (not just food allergies, seasonal allergies), skin conditions, migraines. And as each season in life presents itself, you are given new gifts — new gifts of symptoms.

Kate: New gifts!

Tina:

Yes, we’ll call them blessings. Yes.

So, I’ve been able to — with the education that I have gained from not just using remedies and watching cases, but the blogs, the podcasts, the courses that Joette has — I’ve been able to treat myself for all of these conditions.

Now I’m able to go to Chicago with my family and enjoy a nice Chicago piece of pizza — we did that a couple of weeks ago — without any reactions, without any intolerant actions from it that I would normally get.

I’ve been able to hives not just go away, but cured, to not return.

I’ve dealt with migraines and seen, within a few doses, migraines not just go away, but the frequency lessen, and to the point where I don’t have migraines anymore.

And with these seasons, come menopause and perimenopause, these different things. And I’ve just seen homeopathy shine in every moment of my life the last five years now that I’ve been a student of homeopathy.

When I was younger, I was in a few car accidents, and that kind of left the impression on your body. Whereas you get older, you have different issues in your back and joints. So, I really struggled with a lot of backache and sciatic issues.

Eventually got on protocols to where I just went in about a month ago to my chiropractor and naturopath, and they took X-rays. Bulging disc, degenerative disc, scoliosis (the start of it)? It’s all gone.

And it is incredible that I am living without pain. There’s no back pain; there’s no joint aches. And should they return, I employ the remedies that I’ve been given within the courses that I’ve studied.

Kate:

That is life-changing because it can be so debilitating.

So, what a gift that you’ve been given — and we all have — with this medicine.

There is so much more we could talk about. I know that you’ve mentioned to me personally, infertility, COPD, high blood pressure, glaucoma, gout, hypothyroid, diabetes, IBS, eczema. I mean so much more. So, we could go on and on. We’ll have to have you back for another podcast.

But I want to ask you now to share something with our listeners who may be just starting homeopathy or feeling overwhelmed. What would you say to those who are listening?

Closing advice

Tina: (28:51)

Experience matters, and confidence comes with time.

As you begin to use the remedies, as you begin to experience these different gifts, these stories that come into your life — we might call them chaos; we might call them trials — but my new outlook is they’re really gifts. Symptoms are gifts. And as you continue to learn and study, then you begin to grow.

You observe more, and you apply what you’ve learned. I’ve learned now, we don’t need to defend homeopathy. It has stood the test of time, but we carry a responsibility to care for it and to keep it alive. This is about preserving a gift rooted in creation, passing it on with clarity, integrity and courage. Not just to our inheritants, not just to our children, but to those around us.

I’m not an expert. I’m just a mother. I’m a wife, a friend, a daughter. I’ve seen it work with my own eyes in family and people around me, in animals. And I am so in love, and I am so deeply grateful.

If you’re beginning, stay curious, stay humble, pay attention to your stories. Let experience teach you.

Homeopathy works, and it’s worth stewarding well.

Kate:

Wow. Beautifully said, Tina.

I want to thank you for sharing your heart and these inspirational stories. What a gift it has been to us.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.

https://joettecalabrese.com/podcast1/162-never-forget-remedies/%20

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica

01:55 The way most people remember their remedies

02:55 The story of the injured bird

04:46 Arnica for longevity, vascular issues and trauma

Joe De Livera (Joepathy)

05:52 More applications for Arnica

09:17 Remembering the homeopathic medicines through impactful stories

11:30 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

https://practicalhomeopathy.com/

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

https://findapracticalhomeopath.com/

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 162, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette Calabrese. I’m your co-host, Kate.

If you are looking for ways to remember which homeopathic medicines address specific conditions, today’s podcast is for you. Joette, our Practical Homeopathy® founder and trusted expert, will share her insights to do just that.

But before we jump in, I want to welcome you. You, our listeners. You’re in the right place today if your goal is to become a confident, capable healer in your own family. Or maybe you’re just learning about homeopathy, and you wonder if this could help you or maybe someone that you know. This is the place for you, too.

And this podcast is just one of the many resources Joette offers to help you — wherever you are on your journey.

But let’s get started with today’s podcast. Joette, give us an overview of the topic of our discussion today. It’s a good one.

The way most people remember their remedies

Joette: (01:55)

Okay. So, let’s start with homeopathy being an academic pursuit, but it’s much more than that. And I’m going to give you some insight into that today.

The way most people remember remedies — learning the materia medica — is by taking cases and observing their successes by using homeopathy.

I guarantee — pretty much — you’ll likely never forget when you helped that little girl down the street with hives by using, say, Urtica urens and seeing a big shift.

You’ll never forget the remedy you used when it helped your husband with that horrible pain after that fall.

You might forget the medicine that helped you with your cough. But when it’s touching you on an emotional level — like when you’re helping a family member or a friend or a pet or even an animal from the wild — it’s more likely you’ll not forget it.

So, let me give you an example.

The story of the injured bird

Joette: (02:55)

Let’s say a bird flew into your window. And this has happened to me a couple of times, and I’ll never forget the combination of the medicines that I used.

The first one I thought of, of course, was Arnica because the bird — being that it flew into the window — hit its head. Arnica is one of our best medicines for a head injury.

Now, I did not know whether or not the bird was in pain, and you might not know this either, but we do know that there was a head injury.

And one time, when we had a bird that flew into our window, I gave it Symphytum with Calc phos as a combination. And I did that because the bird’s head was cocked to one side. And I assumed that there may have been an injury to the spine or to the neck or et cetera.

So, I made that connection. Not sure of it, of course, but certainly, we knew Arnica, and then I added Symphytum plus Calc phos.

Arnica: a sweeping medicine

But did you know that Arnica has so many other uses? It is one of our most sweeping homeopathic medicines. And there are many medicines like this in our materia medica, but Arnica, because it is such a well-known medicine, ought to strongly be considered for many other conditions as well.

For example, Arnica’s a great remedy for insomnia, for sleeplessness. I learned that from my own mother, who started to use it. She knew only the name of the medicine, Arnica, when I first started learning homeopathy myself. And she just remembered the name, and a couple of nights she had some insomnia and took Arnica, and it worked! And that was news to me. (This was back in the 80s.)

But it can also be used for jet lag.

Kate:

Joette, that’s very interesting. I know that you have talked about some of the surprising uses of Arnica. It is a very sweeping homeopathic medicine. But give us some examples of those surprising uses that people may not think about.

Arnica for longevity, vascular issues and trauma

Joette: (04:46)

Yeah. Arnica’s been used for Joepathy’s case (Joe De Livera). He believed it brought him longevity. Well into his 90s, he lived, and he took Arnica daily.

Now, he has a specific way of doing it. He put it in water, et cetera, et cetera. And there’s a whole method in the way that he used it. And he took a dose of it daily. He believed it was the longevity remedy.

But it’s also used for vascular issues, which perhaps could be what contributed to his longevity. Because that is an issue — vascular issues and cardiological issues. But it is one of our best medicines for vascular issues, such as spider veins and even varicose veins that are more prominent.

And of course, do I need to go into trauma? We already did that. That is very important, not only just head injuries, but also soft tissue injuries, such as an injury to the thigh or to the arms or a broken bone. It’s one of our best medicines for that, either recent or remote.

And it can also be useful including tumors formed in an area after trauma.

Kate:

I find that so fascinating, isn’t it?

More applications for Arnica

Joette: (05:52)

Isn’t it? Yes.

So, in Robin Murphy’s “Nature’s Materia Medica” and his tome on the use of homeopathic medicines for so many conditions, this is a quote. He says, “Tumors in many parts following injury have been cured by Arnica, including serous tumors of the breast.”

So, it can be used as a medicine, for example, after a mammogram that caused an injury to the breast.

So, how do we know there’s an injury to the breast? Because there’s pain, or there’s swelling, or something like that that leads us to believe that there’s been injury to the breast.

Arnica’s also a great remedy for hemorrhoids.

It’s also a great remedy during labor and postpartum, and before and after an athletic event.

I know skiers — professional skiers — who have used Arnica montana. And when I’ve worked with professional hockey players, we’ve used Arnica montana after their injuries from their athletic pursuits.

And we’ve used it for football players, and those who are injured, even if it’s only a minor injury. And instead, all that remains is — after a rigorous game — is just the feeling of being beaten up because essentially that’s what athletic events often include.

But how about for just someone who’s overusing their muscles or joints? Someone maybe who is elderly and has overused their muscles by going to the gym with too much zeal their first week. And they’re feeling achy and overuse of their muscles and joints and bones, et cetera, and feeling that sense of being beat up.

How about for gout? It’s one of our great remedies for gout.

But let’s not forget Arnica montana for bed sores or even whooping cough.

This keeps going.

I’m going to name some more because this is so extensive. This medicine is so valuable on so many different levels, that’s also used for blood sugar issues. Joe De Livera, Joepathy, often used Arnica montana in his very special Joepathy way (in water) for diabetes.

And then, we’ve also considered it for ailments from stroke or during a stroke.

And then there are also taste disorders.

And these are some more interesting, unusual issues that could come up that could verify the use of — or shore up the argument for the use of — Arnica.

And also, Joe De Livera, Joepathy, used Arnica for hair growth. Ussher, who by the way, was a referenced homeopathic practitioner of the 19th and early 20th century. He actually contributed to the clinical information on certain homeopathic remedies in his practice.

He noted that “the local use of Arnica [meaning local directly on the skin, on the scalp, produced an extraordinary growth of hair on the area that’s in question] produced an extraordinary growth of hair on a limb.”

And this suggested the use of perhaps “an oil mixed with Arnica 1X in a case of baldness, which was followed with marked success.”

Rather interesting.

And so, let’s also consider Joepathy’s method of using Arnica locally on the scalp in liquid form.

Now, I’m not giving the exact formula, but I want to give you these ideas of how Arnica can be used in so many different ways.

Remembering the homeopathic medicines through impactful stories

Kate: (09:17)

Great. Those are very interesting and things that you wouldn’t normally think of, but maybe it’s something you want to look into as you have time.

I want to get back, Joette, to learning how to use homeopathic medicines and how we can remember what conditions might be addressed by what medicines.

Joette:

Yeah. Learning about homeopathic medicines is great. But this is more than just studying them and committing them to memory, such as the symptoms for this particular, that particular condition.

It’s different.

It’s making this a part of every fiber of your life. By doing so, then, you can save someone’s life, or you can soften the suffering that someone is experiencing.

So, I will never forget how quickly my mother responded when she was having a stroke, and we used Aconitum. (And I also used Arnica at that moment as well.) And I will never forget the look on her face.

I’ll never forget also how Stramonium helped relieve night terrors for my young son.

And think about it right now. Think about the stories that you may have that are in your arsenal. And the reason that you remember the medicine is because you have a story associated with it.

That’s how we learn our medicines, my friends. It doesn’t mean that we don’t study, but this is what concretizes our knowledge of the medicines. This is what really holds it into our memory.

But ask me what remedy my husband gave me when I was very sick with relentless vomiting, and I don’t remember, to be honest. I know what the medicine is that I would use for someone else, but I don’t remember what he gave me because I was too sick to remember it.

So, when you are giving of yourself and helping someone else — the little bird that flew into the glass, the mother who was having a vascular event, the husband who had an injury and had extreme pain — that act is bigger than you. And now you will remember that because it’s not only emotionally attached to the suffering of someone that you’re caring for, but your memory will remain most likely very much intact.

Closing advice

Kate: (11:30)

So, Joette, some of us may have those stories already, and some of us may not. Give us the upshot in how we can use this information to help us remember our medicines.

Joette:

Well, the upshot is: Take care of your family and take care of those around you, those you love. Take cases, take care of your family, and you’ll get good at this. That’s what’s missing for people who don’t take homeopathy seriously. It hasn’t stirred them deeply enough yet.

Kate:

Yeah. Once you see the life-changing power of homeopathy, like I have with my daughter in anaphylaxis, right? That will never leave my mind. That use of Apis in that situation … I will never forget that.

So, after that, then you begin to incorporate that into your lifestyle. You see someone else that has anaphylaxis? Now, I know what to do.

Joette:

Yep. Anything in life that’s unfavorable or traumatic is an opportunity to grow. In fact, those who live lives that don’t have suffering don’t have the chance to climb the mountain — because it’s in the climbing of the mountain that all the good comes.

I argue that that’s how you become a good homeopath. It’s about climbing one mountain after another.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse http://joetteslearningcenter.com/ to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit http://practicalhomeopathy.com/.