Death, taxes, and cold and flu season — those are the “inevitables,” right?

My friends, you may find this hard to believe, but I don’t fear cold and flu season. If I feel a respiratory condition coming on (especially if it comes on hard and fast), I turn to the Banerji Protocol of Aconitum napellus 200 mixed with Bryonia alba 30. That usually stops the illness in its tracks. (I’ve written about this previously in The Alphabet Soup of Viruses. Now, It’s RSV.)

If it becomes apparent that the malady is a developing flu, many people have achieved a shorter downtime by utilizing Oscillococcinum® from Boiron.

When a respiratory condition becomes more serious

However, if a respiratory condition moves past mere congestion and into a respiratory infection, such as pneumonia or bronchitis, then there are other homeopathic medicines to consider.

When I rebooted my podcasts back in March of this year with Podcast 117 — Let’s Catch Up and Learn About Quebracho, my first discussion was on one such medicine. Since then, I’ve received notes from my Mighty Members requesting that I teach other medicines that may fit the bill.

Today, I have two more homeopathic medicines to add to your cold and flu arsenal, along with Aconite/Bryonia, Oscillo and Quebracho.

Lachesis mutus

My first go-to would be Lachesis mutus 30, as often as every four hours on the first day and tapering off of that frequency to about twice a day until improvement is observed.

Let’s look Lachesis up in a materia medica (a reference book containing all of the homeopathic medicines along with their keynotes and the symptoms they have historically addressed). We find that it is one of the premier remedies for dyspnea (shortness of breath), asthma (especially when worse during sleep or upon awakening), bronchitis, pneumonia, and emphysema.

The individual who may benefit from Lachesis feels a sense of suffocation … like they can’t breathe.

It’s also particularly useful for women in menopause or who have been hormonally burdened by birth control or have difficult menses. However, that does not mean it can’t be used for men and children. It’s a viable choice for them as well.

Lachesis is also associated with folks who may have strong, intense emotions. They may lash out, be mean-spirited or loquacious.

Another keynote of Lachesis is being worse on the left side … perhaps worse from lying on the left side or feeling more discomfort in the left lung. There can also be angina or palpitations.

Naja tripudians

But as you know, with homeopathy, there is often more than one way to knit a sweater. Let’s look at a second consideration: Naja tripudians 30. This medicine would also generally be employed every four hours on the first day, tapering off to about twice a day until improvement is observed.

Naja is similar to Lachesis in that it shares many of the same keynotes and conditions. One difference is that individuals who might benefit from Naja are not overly emotional. However, as with Lachesis, they may experience that same sense of suffocation.
 

So, how does one choose?

Perhaps these two medicines have such similarities because they are both homeopathically manufactured from different snakes (Lachesis from the bushmaster pit viper and Naja from the cobra). But not to worry! I wrote about this extensively in Ooooh, I Love Toxic Substances! (When They’re So Diluted They Become Medicines).

These two medicines seem to be utilized cyclically. In my practice, I have used Lachesis for years with excellent, reproducible results. Yet, during the global health issue of 2020 (you know what I mean), Naja performed much better. Some years, it’s Lachesis, and some years, it’s Naja.

Generally — and this is a big generalization — I often start with the remedy that is more commonly utilized (in this case, Lachesis). If I observe no shift within a day or so, then I consider pivoting. I might turn to Naja, or I might pivot to something that is indicated by fresh symptoms that have come to the surface since beginning the medicine.

When no protocol exists, there is no substitute for reading up on each medicine in your materia medica. Keep in mind, however, that not ALL symptoms or keynotes listed must appear in one sufferer before choosing the medicine.

For example, even though both of these medicines are considered “left-sided,” that does not mean that if the right side is affected, these medicines should not be considered. A left-sided involvement would simply serve as a confirmatory symptom but not an exclusionary one.

Another example: An asthmatic individual may not present with intense emotions, yet Lachesis could still be their remedy.

This distinction is a real teaching moment. So, I will elaborate more fully on this important concept in my next Memo to Mighty Members.

Meanwhile, arm your well-curated homeopathy kit with both of these medicines for the upcoming cold and flu season. It’s better to have them and not need them than to desperately need them and have to wait for an order to arrive in the mail.

Preparation is key!

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No one wants to be on the naughty list (especially this close to Christmas).

However, not all childhood behavioral problems necessarily require homeopathic mediation. Some bad behavior will transform after a tincture of discipline.

Conversely, some behavioral problems are actual pathologies, and it’s imperative to understand the difference.

Normal Childhood Misbehavior

When my husband and I raised our boys, we didn’t want them to be disliked. We wanted others to enjoy their company, so we taught them certain behaviors considered acceptable by polite society, such as not interrupting when someone else is speaking, standing when an adult enters the room, saying hello and looking the person in the eye when being introduced … just to name a few.

If they forgot and slipped up, it was not pathological. It was simply an inevitable reversion to typical childlike behavior — a teaching moment.

Homeopathy for Common Behavioral Problems

Yet, I have known other children whose extreme behavior might have warranted homeopathic intervention. Perhaps they are disruptive or can’t sit still. Perhaps they have no interest in daily tasks such as bathing or eating. Maybe they even go so far as to strike others.

I’ve previously covered some of those behavioral problems in these free resources:

• Podcast 94 – Stramonium and The Swiss Family Robinson
• The Angry Child
• Is It ODD or Ordinary?
• Attention Deficit Disorder and Homeopathy
• From Fractious to Felicitous with Homeopathic Chamomilla

Today, I want to teach you how homeopathy can address more extreme behavior. It’s a unique dichotomy in which a child may be an angel in one setting but a complete devil in another.

People generally either love or hate them. Because their personalities are so extreme, there is no in-between.

A Tale of Extremes

In a child like this, they often excel in one area and fail miserably in another. It’s almost like dealing with two different people bouncing between extreme greatness and extreme failure, either intellectually or behaviorally.

For example, maybe the child is uncannily adept at math — two years ahead of his class, studying third-year trigonometry when the rest of his peers are only beginning algebra. Yet, he is failing other classes because he can’t read.

Perhaps another child is completely disruptive in school and on the brink of expulsion, but she is compliant and helpful in church.

I grew up in close proximity to one such child who exhibited this type of extreme behavior. We’ll call him Eddie. Eddie was forever getting into fights. He would come home after school sweaty, beat up, with torn clothing — a mess.

His mother would say, “What? Again?”

“Yeah, I just beat up that guy who was staring at me in class.”

He was the poster child for intense behavior.

Yet, on the other extreme, he would then be so loving and kind toward his mother and to my mother and me (as we visited often). He would be so polite, soft and gentle that it was hard to believe it was the same person who just furiously initiated a ferocious fight!

He was on the naughty list — perpetually on the naughty list.

Knowing what I know now as an adult, I often wonder if homeopathy might have assisted him in becoming comfortable somewhere midway between the two radical extremes of his behavior.

I certainly can’t be sure as I can’t travel back in time. Perhaps this was just an idiosyncrasy of his personality. However, the swing between extremes happened often enough that this may have been a pathology worth addressing with homeopathic medicine.

Homeopathy for Extreme Behavioral Swings

In cases of extreme behavior Anacardium orientale 200, generally utilized every three days for two weeks or so, has historically shown transformative results. As always, halt the medicine when very much better.

Remember, we’re talking about extremes here. Not just a garden-variety naughty child who needs slightly more discipline or a good night’s sleep. This is only for pathology for which discipline does no good.

Again, careful observation is key. If no softening or balancing of the extreme behavior is noted after a few doses — even a slight improvement — then this may not be the correct remedy. It would be time to return to the repertory and pivot to a different homeopathic medicine.

Behavior is relative.

As an aside, I admit that I have a behavioral disorder — I often question what I am told. I’m suspicious of authorities’ motives and whether their authority is rightfully placed. I don’t fall in line.

Does that put me on the naughty list? I think not.

While we want our children to behave, I must admit that I encourage adults to go against the grain. Don’t behave as you’re told. Be an unapologetic questioner in both your life and especially your and your family’s health care.

Remember: Guts. Spunk. Moxie.

Self-reliance is one of the fruits of education. Whether you refer to it as grit or mettle, resourcefulness or independence, it is the character trait that helps us become lifelong learners, accomplished doers and brave thinkers.

The beauty of becoming an adult is you learn when rules are made to be broken. Don’t give your autonomy away. It’s a precious gift.

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:00   Introduction: A Medic Firefighter

04:21   A Childhood Chock-Full of Health Conditions and Stymied Doctors

08:38   Searching for an Alternative to Conventional Medication

10:19   Side Effects From Conventional Meds Were a Call to Switch to Homeopathy

12:04   Proof of Efficacy: Without Homeopathy, the Symptoms Returned

15:44   It All Started With The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Gateway to Homeopathy II

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

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

18:44   Success Story: Avascular Necrosis

19:47   Success Story: Concussion

22:26   Success Story: Dental Surgery

25:15   Planning for the Future

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            JoetteCalabrese.com

27:14   Closing Advice

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Joette’s Learning Center

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Joette Calabrese on YouTube

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 132.

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 re-taken 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 MEDIC FIREFIGHTER

Kate: (01:00)

Hi, I am Kate, and I’m so glad that you joined us today.

If you are new here, I want to welcome you and let you know that you are in for a treat. I have an inspiring guest with me today, and I can’t wait for you to meet him.

If you’ve been with us for a while, I want to commend you for continuing to study homeopathy and helping those around you. You are inspiring in what you do.

So, on today’s podcast, I want to ask you a question. Have you ever wondered if homeopathy really can uproot chronic illness? If so, this podcast is for you.

I’d like to introduce you to a sharp young man who has done not only just that but is now studying homeopathy to help others. In fact, he just graduated from The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and will be starting the Mastery™ program soon. So, I’m very excited for you all to meet Nigel.

Welcome, Nigel, to the podcast.

Nigel:

Hey Kate, thanks for having me.

Kate:

We would love to get to know you a little bit. So, tell us about your life.

Nigel:

Alrighty then. Well, I’m a mid-20-year-old medic firefighter. I’ve been a medic firefighter now for about seven years. Got into it when my dad passed away. My brother convinced me to go through EMT, and then I ended up using that EMT to get my first job with a transport company.

Some other things that I’ve really enjoyed doing is the hobby farm that I’ve grown up on. Done a lot of outdoor stuff: shooting, construction and hiking. Those are some of my favorite activities. A lot of high activity, outdoors, lots of risk. I tend to end up injured.

Kate:

Oh, no!

Nigel:

Particularly with farm work. Lots of interesting injuries or just exposures to woods and stuff like that. So, that’s really been useful to be a medic firefighter, put a lot of that into use.

So, yeah, that’s basically where I’m at, what I do right now and the things that I’m interested in.

Kate:

Nigel, you’re supposed to help other people in your profession, not have to use it with yourself!

Nigel:

Yeah, that’s what most people think, and I’ve only had to use it on myself a few times, thankfully. But my siblings/friends had a lot of very interesting experiences, where out in the wild, people were getting bug bites, poison ivy, cuts — had some very, very unique stuff just in my close-knit group as we go through life together.

Kate:

Yeah. Oh, well, I wish you lived near me because it would be nice to have someone I knew in that profession, for sure. My family always tells me I tend to be accident-prone, but I don’t think so.

Anyway, let’s find out more about your upbringing and some of the chronic health conditions that you had that led you on this journey to healing and now to homeopathy.

A CHILDHOOD CHOCK-FULL OF HEALTH CONDITIONS AND STYMIED DOCTORS

Nigel: (04:21)

Yeah, so I’ve had a lot of health issues my entire life.

Besides the accident-prone self that I am, I have had chronic headaches since like 10 years old … food allergies out the window. I think the highest I ever got up to was 52 allergies. Ended up also becoming allergic to the cold — breaking out in hives and welts and stuff.

Kate:

The cold?

Nigel:

Yep. The cold … didn’t know it was a thing.

Went for a cold plunge with some friends, and I came out glowing like a light bulb, looking probably pretty well welted, all of ’em from head to toe, just welts. So, yeah, no, I found that out. That was a very interesting experience, but I’ve done a lot of natural care for that.

Growing up, I went to my primary care doctor, and, basically, he said he didn’t have anything for me because of my headaches and the allergies that I had. He said he could prescribe pain meds but nothing else.

So, with that, my mom — because I was so young — took me to a naturopath/chiropractor. I spent the next — I want to say — 10 years working with them, trying to address my health issues and trying to get my headaches under control, get my allergies where I could actually eat food. (‘Cause I had a super restricted diet.)

Ended up, once I got my EMT, I really wanted to join the military, and so, I’d been pushing myself, try and get myself physically ready, get some health issues addressed. And I took a year with my chiropractor/naturopath to really try to work on everything I could.

I basically said, “Sky’s the limit for money. I want to get this addressed. I want to get where I feel better — good enough where I could join the military and go serve in a combat zone.”

So, she laid out a very detailed plan. I was meeting with her every month. We did a whole lot of physical training, dietary changes, just trying to nail it down. What was my cause, right? That’s the biggest question that we all ask.

And in nine months, I had gotten worse. And that’s uncommon when you’re an 18-year-old, and you’ve cleaned up your diet. You’re working out, and you’re getting sleep, and you’re doing all the things that you’re supposed to be doing. It’s just very uncommon to have that experience where you get worse.

Kate:

Right. Absolutely.

Nigel:

Yeah. So, the doctor looked at me and said, “Look, I think you have a bigger problem than a dietary issue or an environment issue or a physical fitness issue. I think you might have POTS, but I don’t have the testing capability to do that. We got to send you to a cardiologist.”

And at this point I was trying to get out of the job that I was doing. I’d been working transport for a year at this point, seeing all these sick, injured people all the time, not being able to do anything for ’em.

And basically, I was explained that I probably would not be able to pursue any of the things that I wanted to do — military, fire department, or even construction at that point — because I was getting lightheaded, dizzy, all of that.

So, I ended up going to a cardiologist. Spent a lot of money at the cardiologist running tests and got a confirmation that I had POTS, which is, for everyone out there, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.

That’s basically where you become hypotensive just by standing, and your body runs in a chronic state of dehydration. So, a lot of interesting things that come with that: the dizziness, the blurred vision, gut issues.

So, yeah, it was like the key. You know what? I finally found the issue that was causing all my health problems — what most people hope to have, hope to hunt down. And the cardiologist did a great job. He was a specialist for POTS. He ended up getting me on a medication.

SEARCHING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO CONVENTIONAL MEDICATION

Nigel: (08:38)

But in that time period of me spending all this time and money, my mom started looking for an alternative to the medication that my doctor prescribed for a lifelong issue … trying to reduce the exposure to medication because medications have side effects. And I’d been working in EMS at this point for a year and seeing all the laundry list of medical issues and how people just keep going up in medication. They start with one, and they get more as their issues just snowball out of control.

So, my mom was concerned. She was trying to find something that would address this POTS issue that I had. So, she came across homeopathy.

We had known a little bit about it just because of dealing with our chiropractic/naturopathic, but we had just kind of used it for acutes. Arnica was our main go-to. But outside of that, no real experience.

Came across a protocols for heart issues by the Banerjis. And after reading up on stuff, my mom suggested that I actually just start with some cell salts.

And this is about the time that the doctor gave me the green light for me to go through Fire Academy and pursue that … because I’ve been able to address my issue with the midodrine that he had prescribed me for the low blood pressure.

So, my mom started me on cell salts, and I made it through academy. I really didn’t know anything about any cell salts or homeopathy — what I was doing — but I really appreciated my mom’s support of me trying to make it through this process. I just kind of followed along.

SIDE EFFECTS OF CONVENTIONAL MEDS WERE A CALL TO SWITCH TO HOMEOPATHY

Nigel: (10:19)

But as I was going through academy and graduated from Fire Academy, which was about a nine-month process for me, I developed some side effects to the medication. They weren’t there at first. They weren’t originally a problem that I had, but they just started getting really bad.

One of them was leg cramps — very common side effect with midodrine — but they were getting bad — really bad for me. And I started working with my doctor — the cardiologist — trying to adjust what we could do, change some stuff.

Nothing was really working. If I dropped the medication lower, I got my headaches more frequently. And worse, if I took it back up to what it was, I got these other side effects.

So, my mom found the Banerji Protocols at this point. And once again made a recommendation that … try out some of these other homeopathics, more than just the cell salt that you’re taking.

So, I started on Crataegus, Hamamelis, Arnica and Lachesis — all very good homeopathic medications for cardiac issues and blood pressure issues and vaso-vascular.

So, I started on that. And then, my insurance changed, so I had to stop with my doctor. My doctor was no longer covered, as my employer transferred over to a different group. So, I ran out of medication.

I ran out of the midodrine that I was on and realized I really didn’t have another option. And all symptoms that I was looking for to come back when I stopped my midodrine, came back with far less. And I was taking the homeopathic medications, and I was like, ah, coincidence … maybe?

PROOF OF EFFICACY: WITHOUT HOMEOPATHY, THE SYMPTOMS RETURNED

Nigel: (12:04)

But I ended up just forgetting to order — reorder — the homeopathics, and some of those symptoms came back. So, I was like, I’m actually experiencing a difference with these homeopathics that I wasn’t experiencing with the medication.

Not only did my symptoms go away of the POTS, but also I wasn’t getting the side effects that were coming along with the midodrine. So, I was at this point, sold that what I was taking was actually doing me some good.

And I did that for about a year and a half, and then almost all my symptoms are gone — completely gone.

I don’t take any of them on a regular basis anymore, which is unheard of for POTS. “You have it and you’re going to be with it for life,” is what I was told, and it just kind of gets worse if you don’t manage it.

I have been ecstatic since then. So yeah, that’s basically how I got with homeopathy and seeing what I was doing in the paramedic field and the fire EMS. I wanted to hopefully one day bring what helped me to the people I was caring for.

And that started me into looking into learning about homeopathy — trying to figure out what place to go to school, or even just find a homeopathic provider that could help me with other issues or help my family with other issues.

So yeah, that’s the summation of my health issues and my journey to the start of homeopathy.

Kate:

So, what came next? How did you get connected with Joette and start going to school at The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®?

PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY® WAS THE ANSWER

Nigel: (13:44)

Yeah, so the starting of the investigation of our school with my medical experience as a paramedic, I was really looking for a college or some sort of licensing agency that I could go to, get some experience with homeopathy, and get someone to teach me how to use it.

So, I started reading up a whole bunch about it, trying to find a school that got me where I wanted to go.

I was already paramedicine. I already wanted to be — or hoped to be — a doctor one day. I was becoming very interested in this other medicine that I really just didn’t know a whole lot about. And I was not finding a lot of expedient, clear way to education for homeopathy.

And back to my mom, she had found the Banerji Protocols in her search for caring for me, and I was really intrigued. And the Banerji Protocols look like and act like the protocols that I use in the back of an ambulance — where a doctor’s done all the research; they’ve done all the studies; they know, “Hey, these symptoms — nine times out of 10 or eight times out of 10 —  this is the medication that you’re going to give, and this is what we want you to do.”

And the Banerji Protocols was like an exact mimic of that. This is your symptoms; this is your issue; this is what you need to start with.

Kate:

Because the Banerji are doctors, and they’re doctors and homeopaths. So, in India, you have to become a doctor — an MD — before you can become a homeopath.

Nigel:

Yeah. And just their clinical experience as a doctor, reading the X-rays, reading the test results, doing the cardiac exams, all of that information that I was used to seeing as a paramedic, and they had the information and science to back up why they were saying what they were saying. And that was really impressive.

IT ALL STARTED WITH THE GATEWAY TO PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY®

Nigel: (15:44)

So, Joette was the only place that I could find that was giving any information and teaching more about the Banerji Protocols and how they used them. And I got a Gateway book, and I sat on that book for about a year just sitting there. I had flipped through it. I hadn’t really started in on this journey yet. It’s all just still been kind of self-study, but I was really looking for a degree or some way that I can move forward in helping people.

As I just continued in my paramedic journey during COVID, seeing people not have any other information out there and me not being able to give them other information … me not being able to give them any hope that there was an actual solution to their health issues. I really started honing down on I need to go someplace.

Right about this time, I came across a study group for the Gateway class, jumped into that, and I loved it. I loved the group of people that I got to hang out with and the broad spectrum of experience.

The guy leading it was a pharmacist for years — retired pharmacist. So, he had a lot of experience, a lot of medical experience. He had seen everything that I had seen in the medical field, of the medications and the complications that I was having. So, it was really cool to just have his leadership as I went to the Gateway class.

Then I did Gateway II, and then I did a self-study with a couple of the other guys on the Allergic?! class. Really love that. Really got to put that into practice just with myself and my family with some allergies that we were dealing with.

Nigel: (17:29)

And because I had taken those little classes, I found out about The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. And that was amazing! Like, hearing about it. And I was right there. And it was a nice, neat package of all the Banerji Protocols and the experience that they had translated to the U.S., put into a year format.

And, you know, it’s The Academy. It’s a lot of schoolwork; it’s a lot of money. But at this point I’ve spent well over probably a couple — a couple — college degrees and medical expenses at this point, trying to fix my issues. And I had gotten my issues fixed with 50 bucks of homeopathic medication.

And I was like, well, if this could have prevented me from spending the thousands and thousands of dollars — if I can help someone else prevent them from spending thousands of dollars — I wanted it.

So, I jumped in, and I got accepted and that was really exciting. And then I just graduated about what, two months ago? Something like that? And I’m really looking forward to putting it into practice. I’ve got some great stories already of times that I’ve been able to help people, and it’s just making me want to go farther.

Kate:

So, tell us some of those stories. Give us a couple examples of what you’ve done.

SUCCESS STORY: AVASCULAR NECROSIS

Nigel: (18:44)

Ooooh, yeah, so I got a few good ones.

The most recent one was actually just a friend of mine or friend. They’re having avascular necrosis, causing extreme pain. And avascular necrosis is where you’re no longer getting blood flow to the bone, and it causes bone death — bone deterioration.

And he was just in a lot of extreme pain. And back during The Academy, I told him, “Hey, look, here’s some homeopathic medications that might help.”

And he took it and kind of sat on it. He sat on it for about nine months, and then he reached back out to me and was like, “Hey, what are those medications again?”

I was like, “Hey, yeah, this is what they were.”

And he started them, and he is — like within 24 hours — his pain was gone. Gone.

He’s like, “I’m still not a hundred percent — not back to full function — but the extreme pain that I’ve been dealing with for months is gone. And that’s awesome.

SUCCESS STORY: CONCUSSION

Nigel: (19:47)

Then I had another friend, he reached out to me. He had been dealing with a concussion to the point where he couldn’t work anymore for two months. And he’d been doing all sorts of stuff — doing what the doctor recommended: bed rest, avoiding lights. He couldn’t look at his phone; he couldn’t drive. His life had been just utterly shut down by this.

And I ended up making some recommendations. And the first recommendations — as we waited for the second recommendation to arrive in the mail — they gave some relief. They weren’t magically, everything gone.

But then, when the second one arrived, he started on that one. And 24 hours, he could function again. He was able to go back to work. And then he’d been out of work basically for two months at that point.

So, those are just some of them.

Kate:

That’s incredible. Right? Two very powerful, dramatic examples of how homeopathy really changed these people’s lives. That’s incredible.

Nigel:

Yeah. The medications cost $40 … $60 in total.

Kate:

Yeah, the homeopathy.

Nigel:

Yeah, for the homeopathy. For the couple of different homeopathic medications, and that was it.

SUCCESS STORY: SEPSIS

Nigel: (21:02)

Or I had a septic case. We were out doing some volunteer work. We were going to be there for eight days or so, when they got a septic infection on their leg. And it was really preventing them from working and doing what we came to do. And we were looking at going to the hospital.

And I had brought my homeopathic kit. And I was like, “Well, we can start with this.”

And it’s sepsis. It doesn’t turn around fast. But within a couple hours, we were able to address the main pressing issues, prevented going to the hospital, ambulance bills … $600 to $800, an ER visit’s a couple thousand. And we were able to prevent all of that and loss of time from our work that we were doing with the homeopathic kit that I had … that I had brought with me.

And there’s just relief! No expenses! So, just another really cool experience to be able to see and be a part of.

Kate:

Wow. I know I never leave home without homeopathy. I’m sure you’re the same because you never know what you’re going to encounter. And these medicines are so powerful.

Nigel:

Yes.

Kate:

It’s incredible. Before we move on, I know you’ve covered a lot, but I do want to hear about … there was a dental surgery that you had talked to me about earlier. Can you share that?

SUCCESS STORY: DENTAL SURGERY

Nigel: (22:26)

Yeah, so it was actually me. So, there’s a dental emergency. I developed a cavity, and it was causing me some extreme pain. They had to go in, drill it out, and in doing so, they really came close to the nerve … if not hit the nerve.

Typically, when you’re dealing with dental stuff, they prescribe you some medication — Advil or Tylenol, something like that, if not some other narcotics. But I started with some homeopathics beforehand.

Kate:

What did you use before? I’m curious to know.

Nigel:

I started with Hypericum and Arnica. And the reason why is because I was already in pain. Hypericum is great for pain. And Arnica … I knew that they were going to be …

Kate:

There’s trauma …

Nigel:

… trauma going on. They’re going to be doing the lidocaine. They’re going to be drilling, holding my mouth open to be able to do the work. That’s just kind of what I went with. And then, coming out of that, they gave the lidocaine so they can do this. So, it’s numbed up.

And so, I immediately — as soon as I got out there — started taking some homeopathics, but I wasn’t really focused down, or I just took some Hypericum, the Arnica again.

And about the two-hour mark past my dental care, I developed excruciating pain, and I really had to jump on it with something.

And I was like, well, I got to do something for this. Started rapidly taking some Hypericum, ended up also taking Symphytum and Ruta because the biggest part was the fact that I’d had my mouth open for four hours. It had locked up my jaw and everything like that.

And within an hour or so, the pain was down to a manageable level. And I was able to go through the following week with just homeopathy taking care of it. No ibuprofen, no Tylenol, no hydrocodone or any other narcotic for the pain.

In my experience with the 911 stuff, is all these medications — particularly the narcotics — cause addiction. They cause other issues. You have to take other medications like Zofran to go along to prevent you from getting nauseous or vomiting with them. And it was just really cool not to be able to have to do that.

Or the alternative was that it was causing pain and do the root canal. That was going to be, potentially, if I could not get ahold of the pain with something else (because of them hitting the nerve, because they thought they had hurt the nerve). And I didn’t want a root canal — cause lots of pain — potential for a lot of stuff to go wrong. So, I was really, really excited that I was able to take care of it with homeopathy and avoid a root canal.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Kate: (25:15)

Homeopathy has really impacted not only your life, but people that you know. And I’m excited for you to continue your studies in Mastery™ and see where you go from here.

Can you just briefly tell us what are your plans going forward?

Nigel:

Jumping into Mastery™ with Joette again to try and get a head start on me putting what I learned in The Academy into practice.

And I’m really hoping to be able to start reaching out and possibly help teach some of these Gateway classes to my friends and family and other people who are interested — coworkers — to try to give them some alternatives.

So, I just really want to be able to help people be able to help themselves.

Kate:

Nice.

Nigel:

And that’s my goal. Mastery™ is right there with that and making it more proficient for me to do that.

Kate:

So, for those of you listening who have never heard of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® or the Mastery™ Program or Gateway to Homeopathy, we’re going to provide some links for you with this podcast on the notes … so on JoetteCalabrese.com, her website where the podcast will be located.

So, don’t worry if you’re in the car driving and you want to find out more, but you don’t have anything to take some notes that those will all be there on the podcast notes on JoetteCalabrese.com.

So, The Academy, like Nigel was saying, is a year-long program. And then there’s Mastery™, which is 11 months, which takes you from your foundational learning of homeopathy to now — like Nigel says — you’re learning, going deep into repetorizing and case-taking.

So, I’m excited for where this is going to take you, and I look forward to hearing about your adventures in another podcast. Let’s meet again. Let’s get together.

As we end today. Nigel, give us some words of wisdom. What would you like to share with people or leave people with today?

CLOSING ADVICE

Nigel: (27:14)

I would say take courage. There’s a quote that I really enjoy and let me see if I can get it real quick. It’s by C.S. Lewis — big C.S. Lewis fan — and it’s this, it says, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of the highest reality.”

And medicine health issues, they get scary; they get intense; they will test your metal and your desire to do good and your will to continue your life freely. And you’re going to need courage to get through it to search out the right answer for you and your health journey.

So, those are my words of advice.

Kate:

I can tell you’re a deep thinker, Nigel,

Nigel:

Thank you.

Kate:

Yeah, it’s been great. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us, and I look forward to meeting with you again.

Nigel:

Alright, I look forward to meeting with you again, Kate.

Joette:

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Kate:

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Let’s continue our discussion on cysts. If you missed it, I taught about two homeopathic medicines clinically shown to address pilar cysts last week. This week, I will move on to sebaceous cysts.

What Are Sebaceous Cysts?

The term “sebaceous” can be a bit of a misnomer, but it is commonly used. More accurately called epidermal inclusion cysts, these lumps typically occur on the face, neck, torso or groin. While this type of cyst may be cosmetically annoying, they are often harmless. They generally grow fairly slowly as they fill with keratin, fat and skin particles.

A true sebaceous cyst (filled with sebum that results from a dysfunctional sebaceous gland or duct) is much less common.

Sometimes, sebaceous or epidermal inclusion cysts can remain stable for years. However, they can eventually burst and become infected.

If you’re unfamiliar with sebaceous cysts, here are a couple of photos to help you identify them. Of course — as always with Practical Homeopathy® — when in doubt, get a medical diagnosis before choosing a homeopathic medicine. We choose our medicines by symptoms and the name of the condition. Choosing the medicine with the tightest fit to the sufferer’s need is an integral step in successfully employing homeopathy.

The Homeopathic Answer to Sebaceous Cysts: Conium

My clinical experience has shown that Conium maculatum 6, twice daily has successfully acted. Keep in mind that this is not a protocol, so either a 6X or 6C may be employed.

Generally, sufferers have utilized this medicine until the cyst is pretty much gone. Now, it may not be 100% gone. It might just go down, go down, go down until one is left with something relatively small. If it stays like that, then I would just leave it.

These Medicines Are Often Organ-Specific and Location-Specific

As we’ve discussed cysts these last two weeks, please note that we are talking about cysts occurring on the skin (not in an internal organ). Location often matters as we repertorize conditions. Correctly choosing a tightly fitting homeopathic medicine is generally organ-specific (in this case, the skin) and sometimes location-specific as well (such as cysts on the scalp as opposed to cysts on the wrist).

Teaching organ-specific remedies is a big part of how I train my students in The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. I also use the same organizational method in most of my protocol courses.

For instance, if a cyst occurred in a female organ (such as an ovarian cyst), the sufferer’s organ-specific education would be contained in my Feminopathy course.

Additional organ-specific information on cysts occurring on the skin — the largest organ in the body — can be found in my course, Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy. In fact, I just counted 13 references to various skin cyst symptoms in the timestamps for that course. It’s a wealth of information for skin conditions of all types, from acne to shingles to vitiligo and everything in between.

Ganglion Cysts

For now, to conclude my series on cysts, I will discuss ganglion cysts in my next Memo to Mighty Members. (Those are the cysts on the wrist or the back of the hand. Remember, location matters.)

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If you are an Oranda goldfish, that big lump on your head is natural and normal. You look adorable. You can stop reading now.

However, if you’re human and have a lump on your scalp from a pilar cyst, this blog post is for you.

What Exactly Is a Pilar Cyst?  

While pilar cysts (also called trichilemmal cysts or wens) are most often found on the scalp, they can grow anywhere on the body where there is hair (legs, arms, face, etc.). Why? Well, pilar cysts originate in and around the follicle of a hair, resulting from encapsulated old skin cells and keratin from the hair.

They are almost always noncancerous and generally not painful. Unfortunately, though, they can grow fairly large — as big as an orange — which would undoubtedly be physically undesirable.

Homeopathic Medicines to Consider for Pilar Cysts

I have no protocol for pilar cysts. However, in my clinical experience, pilar cysts can be met with a number of different homeopathic medicines, depending on the precise symptoms. Here I’ll cover two of the most commonly used:

1. Graphites 30C would be a good consideration if the cyst presents with a sticky exudation. Of course, one would want to study in a materia medica to determine if Graphites is a good fit. This homeopathic is most often used twice daily, until very much better.
2. If there is a slight pricking or burning sensation in the cyst, a better match might be Hepar sulphuris calcareum 30C, also employed twice daily, until very much better.

In fact, I have a client currently engaged in this schedule for their pilar cyst. It’s too early for me to present before and after photos from the case. Remember, when dealing with a chronic condition, we must always add a “tincture of time.”

So, instead, this stock photo will help you recognize what a pilar cyst looks like.

What Are Boils?

Again, pilar cysts are generally not fearsome. However, in rare instances, they can become infected and cause pain, redness and inflammation. With enough manual tinkering, the cyst can even rupture, releasing pus. At this point, one might consider the cyst as more of a boil (a bacterial infection within a hair follicle).

I’ve written on boils before, so I suggest reading my blog post, Double, Double, Boil and Trouble: Treat Boils and Cystic Abscesses with Homeopathy, as an out-and-out infection is dealt with slightly differently than a simple benign cyst.

These Aren’t the Only Homeopathic Medicines to Consider

Next week, we’ll take a closer look at sebaceous cysts, which are addressed with yet a different remedy. In my course, Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy, I teach quite a few additional medicines that could also be considered, depending on the type of cyst and the overall picture of the sufferer’s condition.

Now, don’t let the wealth of choices confuse you or leave you with the wrong impression that homeopathy is inconsistent. As always, there’s more than one way to knit a sweater in this efficacious medical paradigm. In the absence of a proven protocol, we have hundreds and hundreds (literally thousands) of remedies we can draw from to meet specific symptoms head-on.

That’s why I find homeopathy so intellectually compelling. It’s a heady experience to determine the tightest fitting remedy and observe it in action.

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:00   Introduction: A Homeopathic Veterinarian

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:23   A Small Animal, Holistic Vet

            On a Roll Housecalls

03:33   Veterinary House Calls (and Homeopathy)

06:50   Organizing Homeopathic Medicines

08:59   Isn’t It Harder to Treat an Animal?

11:49   Success Story: Bee Sting

13:01   It All Starts With the Food

18:48   Success Story: Oral Tumors

20:55   Homeopathy Provides Better Quality of Life

22:03   Freedom of Choice for Clients

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

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

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Joette Calabrese on YouTube

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 131.

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 re-taken 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, PRACTICALHomeopathy®.

INTRODUCTION: A HOMEOPATHIC VETERINARIAN

Joette: (01:00)

Hi, Janie.

Janie:

Hi Joette.

Joette:

Is that your trailer that you’re in? Is it a trailer or an RV?

Janie:

It’s a truck. It’s a Ford E-450. It’s 26-foot long. I have a DOT number.

If you’d have told me 30 years ago, I was going to be a truck-driving, practice-owning, holistic vet, I’d have told you, you were nuts!

Joette:

Yes.

Janie:

You can see the remedies in the background hanging.

Joette:

I see that. So, you have them hanging.

Oh, so much to talk about here, Janie. I’ve got so much I want you to tell us about. Please pronounce your last name because I don’t want to ruin it.

Janie:

Well, I go by Dr. Janie, and it’s Wilson. But I’m married to a Schreibeis.

Joette:

Schreibeis.

Janie:

But I’m Dr. Wilson.

Joette:

Okay. That makes it super easy

Janie:

Easy to pronounce. Yeah.

Joette:

Yes. Hi, Dr. Wilson. It is such a pleasure to get to know you better. You’ve been in The Academy for one year, right?

Janie:

Well, when it started this summer, yes. We’re on Week 13, something like that.

Joette:

You’re moving along into it now. You haven’t gone a full year. You’ve gone … yes … you’re into Week 13. It’s very exciting to have you.

So, I wish that I could describe to people — and I’m going to try to do that with your help — what I’m looking at here. But tell us what you do.

A SMALL ANIMAL, HOLISTIC VET

Janie: (02:23)

Well, I mean, I do a lot of things. But, so, I’m a small animal, holistic vet. I graduated from Purdue 30 years ago. They just had their 30-year reunion — I couldn’t go. And I, just a few weeks ago, celebrated 10 years of my practice. It’s called On a Roll Housecalls.

Joette:

“On a Roll.” ROLL because you’re on wheels.

Janie:

I am! I thought that was clever. And I’m on a “role” … doing what I’m supposed to be doing.

So, I have a 26-foot truck that is my vet office. I have … in the background, you can see I got digital X-ray. I have an ultrasound — point-of-care ultrasound. I have it back in the back room.

I can do blood work, like a 12-panel in 12 minutes.

I have two different lasers.

I have homeopathy. You can see in the back there. That’s my favorite … favorite modality to use.

But I’ve done some Chinese herbs, western herbs and nutritional food supplementation. Not synthetic …

Joette:

Different than, yes, than synthetic. Big difference.

VETERINARY HOUSE CALLS (AND HOMEOPATHY)

Janie: (03:33)

Yes. And so, I can do house calls — obviously in the truck. But I’ve gotten so busy with my holistic practice that if I’m driving, I’m not seeing patients. So, a lot of times, I stay parked, and they come to me where I am in my office. That way, I can get a lot more patients seen.

I live in southeast Indiana. They’re coming from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and I even had one come from Tennessee. So …

Joette:

When they come in, Dr. Wilson, do you have a waiting room?

Janie:

No.

Joette:

So, in other words, you’re seeing one at a time, and they need to maybe stay in their car and wait a while? Or they can sit there, perhaps, and sit off to the side a little bit. Is that how you work it out?

Janie:

Well, outside the truck … the truck is parked inside a storage unit.

Joette:

Okay.

Janie:

So that way it’s protected. And there’s kind of an office. I call it the kitchen. There’s a little table and chairs, and people can wait there. But the way I schedule it, there’s not tons of people coming in.

Joette:

Yes, yes. You know how long it takes to see each patient.

Janie:

Yeah. Which is a lot longer than what I call “fast food medicine.” So, you know, a new patient …

Joette:

By the time you palpate, and you do a couple of tests, and you ask the questions, et cetera, then yes. Then it can be a lot longer. Certainly. Certainly.

Janie:

Yeah. It’s at least an hour visit for a new patient.

Joette:

Yes.

What are your follow-ups like? How often do you follow up and for how long are each of them? Generally.

Janie:

My clients can text me. So, a lot of it’s that way through texting. We’ll check on them; see how they’re doing. We will plan a recheck if needed, if things aren’t going the right direction. It just kind of depends, but …

Joette:

But on an average, that’s about how it works. And how many patients are you seeing in a day?

Janie:

That also will depend on if these are well-checks, puppies or if it’s a chronic. Again, people are finding me because I’m doing my best to get to the root of the problem. And they’re coming to me with seizures or skin problems or thyroid issues or whatever it is. That takes a lot more time.

Joette:

Yes.

Janie:

It could be five or six to 10 in a day.

Joette:

Yes. Yes. And so, when you say small animals, will you take goats?

Janie:

I’m more of a …

Joette:

Cat/dog?

Janie:

Yeah, cat/dog. Cat/dog, yeah.

Joette:

Okay. So how about smaller? How about a bird?

Janie:

I have seen about every kind of species in the past when I worked for other people, and the last bird I saw bit my finger. Right before I had to play. I’m a guitar player, and I had to play at a concert somewhere. And I’m like … I X-rayed my own finger because I was afraid it was broken! So, that was about the last time I saw a bird.

ORGANIZING HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES

Joette: (6:50)

What a great story.

So, Janie, I have to say, I’m looking at your door that’s open, and you’ve got a hanging … kind of a vinyl, almost like a — not quite shoe holder — but maybe a shoe holder. And you’ve got the remedies in there. So, you must have them in alphabetical order.

Janie:

Want to go see?

Joette:

Let’s go visit. I would love to be able …

Janie:

We’re going to a little, so this is the back room. My technician, Erin, is amazing, and she keeps me organized.

So, they’re in alphabetized. These are like her jewelry or hair ties, things like that.

Joette:

Yes. It’s an excellent method. Yes.

Janie:

So, we’ve got them in order by potency and alphabetical order.

We have one in the bathroom, too. So, that’s more the 30 potencies.

Joette:

Yes. Yes. So, you use a lot of 200s?

Janie:

Yeah, I would say.

Joette:

And you’re using Banerji protocols. And probably before you even came to our Academy, you were using some Banerji Protocols too. Is that right, Janie?

Janie:

I was. I bought the Banerji book because I’ve listened to you for years — probably seven or eight years. I found you on Facebook, and just … I was like, “Oh my gosh! You’re my people!” Your teachings, your philosophies, everything just resonated.

So, I’m building a practice, but I’m trying to soak in everything. All your Lives I could watch. Or I’d look things up on the blog, and then I’d apply it to my practice. And I tried Banerji Protocols before I probably really even knew what I was doing. But it had success.

And so just to be able to be a part of your Academy this year is just a dream come true. And I’ve learned so, so much, just in …

Joette:

I love it. Janie, I love … it’s people like you with great curiosity. And I mean, you don’t go to sleep at night, right?

Janie:

There’s no time for that.

Joette:

No, I know.

ISN’T IT HARDER TO TREAT AN ANIMAL?

Joette: (08:59)

So, people always ask me this question: Isn’t it harder to treat an animal because they don’t tell you how they feel?

I have my answer for that, but I’d like your answer because you are the expert in this on a day-to-day basis. Tell the listeners how they can expect to get the right remedy if they’re not having answers being given to them verbally.

Janie:

Well, it’s the symptoms. And I can ask a good history of the owner. Well, that’s being a vet, period. The dog’s not telling me anything, so I have to go off of history, symptoms, blood tests, things like that. That’s what I have.

Joette:

Observation.

Janie:

Observation.

Joette:

It’s a keen sense of observation.

Yes. And the longer you do it, I’m sure your observational skills become even more keen.

Janie:

Yep.

Joette:

Yeah. Because you may have missed it five years ago, but this time, you’re not going to miss that again.

Janie:

Right!

Joette:

Yeah. It’s fascinating.

Janie:

Well, I’ve learned what to look for.

Joette:

Yes. When you know what to look for as a vet — even as a conventionally trained vet — and you know what to look for as a trained homeopath, when you mesh those two together, that really is a recipe for better success than one would expect without being able to ask a question that’s answered verbally.

Janie:

Yeah. I feel like having this additional knowledge just gives me such a leg up on everything for treating my patients. And I’m just so thankful to have this medicine. I believe it is God’s medicine, and I’ve used it in my family so much, especially here lately.

And as a vet, I want to empower my clients. I don’t want them to need me all the time for this drug or that drug, or an antibiotic, or this or that. I want to teach and empower them.

So, when I get a new young mom with a puppy that comes in, I tell her about you. And I make her write it down in her phone or whatever, because we use homeopathy right away with certain things.

And so, if they haven’t heard of it — which a lot of my people have because again, we’re kind of run in the same circles, so they seek me out because I do these things — but I recommend they get a homeopathic kit to just have on hand.

And some of my new puppies, my clients can just text me. And then it has saved emergency room visits because I’m like, “Get your kit out. This is what you need.”

They’re panicking in the moment. So …

Joette:

Yes.

SUCCESS STORY: BEE STING

Janie: (11:49)

Like a bee sting. I had a little puppy got stung by a bee. She’s panicking. I’m like, “Now you’ve got your kit. Get your kit out.” And we did Apis, and she’s like, “Within five minutes, it was like it never even happened.”

Joette:

Yeah. There’s no other medicine quite like that.

Janie:

Exactly. And knowing that I’m maybe stirring the curiosity of these moms to not just for their dogs, but for their families. That’s what I’m excited about.

Joette:

Yeah, you want them to have the power over their lives that they thought they didn’t have.

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

I wish people could see what I see right now in your background. It looks like an ER.

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

I mean, it’s perfection. It looks like a medical room. Not only does it look fresh and clean and shiny and organized, but it looks like you’ve got every piece of equipment, any vet or doc would ever want.

Janie:

I do. And more. I do laser therapy, and we can do dental cleanings in here as well.

Joette

Really?

Janie:

Yeah.

IT ALL STARTS WITH THE FOOD!

Joette: (13:01)

So, what are the most common — I’m sure you were figuring I would ask you this question — what are the most common conditions that you treat? I mean, generally speaking, top five or 10. (Maybe let’s go with five.)

Janie:

Skin, gut. Same as people.

Joette:

Yeah, just the same as people.

Janie:

They’re eating the same junk food that we are. So, they’re getting the same diseases, the same gut issues, the same leak — whether it’s leaky gut, whatever …

Joette:

Irritable bowel.

Janie:

All the same stuff. We’re seeing the same cancers. We’re seeing diabetes. They get heart …

Joette:

Anxiety.

Janie:

Oh, anxiety’s huge. Huge!

Joette:

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, it’s generational. When you think about the generations of dogs before — especially if they’re bred — how many generations they’ve had before them that have been injected and treated, injected … foods, et cetera, et cetera. Canned food. Yes.

Janie:

Yeah, exactly.

Joette:

So, what do you recommend as a general diet? I’m sure that you adjust it somewhat accordingly, but …

Janie:

Well, I feed raw.

Joette:

You’re talking my language, Janie. Yes.

Janie:

Okay. I have one dog. He’s a little Chiweenie; his name is Rudy. He was our child replacement when our daughter went off to college. We needed, needed a new dog.

So, he’s 10 pounds; so he’s not very big. So, I know, especially these days, affording these kinds of foods are harder because just even our food at the grocery store is difficult. But he gets raw that comes already balanced and everything.

Joette:

So, it’s got some organs in it.

Janie:

Yeah, organ meat.

Joette:

It comes frozen.

Janie:

Yes. Organ meat is huge. It’s so important.

Joette:

For animals … dogs. Yep.

Janie:

Yes. My heart patients: I recommend they feed hearts.

Joette:

So, you must be a Weston A. Pricer.

Janie:

I have become that way. Yes. And my daughter, daughter-in-law, son and new grandbaby are that way as well. And I’ve got them using homeopathy for the baby.

Joette:

Doesn’t it make your life easier that it’s just … everyone gets it?

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

Everyone gets it. Yes. Yes.

So, do you have a local pet store that carries this raw meat that’s mixed for animals?

Janie:

No, it’s all online. They ship it on dry ice, that kind of thing.

Joette:

Yep. Yep, it’s an excellent idea. And then you stock up; keep it in the freezer; defrost it the morning of; then, that night they get it probably. Right? Or defrost it the night before, and there it is.

Janie:

Yep. He looooves it.

Joette:

He loves it! Well, that’s fabulous because I had a dog — and you’ve probably heard me talk about Buster — who was raised … it was a home birth. I mean, we had his mother with us.

Janie:

Oh, my.

Joette:

He was born. That litter was at home. So, he was not tinkered with. And they were raised on raw milk, raw eggs from our own chickens. The milk was from down the road. I gave them raw meat and organ meats.

And then a switch flipped in him. He did not want that when he got much older. It was very hard for him. He would not eat it. And so, I would still mix in the raw egg yolks. I would still mix in some raw milk. I would put in a little bit of meat with the organ meat and flesh. But he was really fussy, and he would only eat this — I’ve forgotten what kind of kibble it was.

It killed me to give him kibble. I did not want to do that. But he wasn’t eating, so I just ended up doing it.

My guess is you have a better solution than what I came up with

Janie:

Gently cooked. Sometimes when they’re older, they just can’t handle the raw.

Joette:

Well, that is what I did. I would gently cook it. You’re absolutely right. I would put it in a little bone stock and just — yes — and simmer it a little bit

Janie:

In Chinese medicine — and I’m no … by no means a specialist in Traditional Chinese Medicine — but “old and cold.” That’s what happens. They get old and cold, and so …

Joette:

They need warmth. They need the warmth.

Janie:

They need the warm food. So, a lot of my senior dogs, I recommended more gently cooked.

Joette:

Okay. Well, then I don’t feel too bad about it. I put very little of that kibble in, and we thought it was pretty decent. But it was still kibble. Really did not want to put that in there. But it encouraged him to eat the rest so that it didn’t … and I did gently cook it. I’d forgotten that that’s exactly what I had done.

So, well, I feel a little bit better about that. He did live to 18 and a half for …

Janie:

That’s amazing.          

Joette:

Yeah. Poodle and Bichon. So yeah, it is good. It’s good. Yes.

So, this has been fascinating, Janie. I don’t want to take too much more of your time. I wanted people just to get a feel for how you work. Can people contact you and work with you online through Zoom or other medium?

Janie:

So, I will say I’m pretty busy already just with my local practice. And currently, even if I were — and I was doing telemedicine consults even before COVID (I think post-COVID, that became more of a thing) — but it’s harder for me to schedule because I’m already booked out several weeks in advance. But it’s something I’m considering. But timing is hard. I am busy.

So, I guess if you’re in this area and are willing to drive to Southeast Indiana where I’m at, I’m happy to …

Joette:

Well, I hope you inspire other vets by them listening to this story and that other vets can be inspired so that we can get more and more vets on this path. This is important work.

SUCCESS STORY: ORAL TUMORS

Janie: (18:48)

Yeah, and I had sent you the before and after pictures of those two patients of mine that had oral tumors.

Joette:

Yes, thank you. Again. Yes.

Janie:

Oral tumors. That was the Banerji Protocol for oral tumor that I used.

Joette:

Yes, ma’am.

Janie:

And again, I know homeopathy works. I know it does. I know it’s amazing. But when it does, I’m like giddy. “Oh my gosh!”

Joette:

I know. I know. I know when it’s something that dramatic.

I’ll tell you, Janie, after all these years — I’ve been doing this for 36 years — and I have to say that when I see a case such as that shift, it still gets me excited and happy. I should just take it in my stride. But you can’tbecause when you see someone turn from such a paltry state to robust health, it’s a heady experience.

Janie:

It was a 12-year-old black lab who … he basically just wanted palliative care. And I had, I guess, just learned and got from the OHM pharmacy, the remedy for the oral tumor. And I had it in a liquid on the truck.

I asked him, I said, you know … He was willing to try it. And in like six weeks, it totally shrank. And I had to find out from his wife at the bank! He didn’t tell me! But she’s like …

Joette:

Sometimes people, they believe in it, and we don’t. [laughter]

Janie:

We bought that dog better quality time. And even just looking at the dog, you can see the before and the after, just a return to better health and not in pain — as much pain — and quality of life.

And then in the second one, it was another dog. Completely shrank in six weeks. This oral tumor that was deforming the nose and the eye … it was starting to affect the eye, and it completely shrank. And that was on Maggie.

The first one was Fancy, was her name. But Maggie lived another year and a half ‘til almost 15.

HOMEOPATHY PROVIDES BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

Joette: (20:55)

And that’s what we’re looking for is quality of life. Do we want them to live eternally? Not on this earth. We want everybody to go at their right time, but we don’t want them to suffer on the way there.

Yeah. It’s quality of life. Yes.

Janie:

They can live with it.

And we didn’t need the diagnosis. We didn’t need the biopsy. We didn’t need this and that, and spend thousands and thousands of dollars on the tests.

I mean, that can be done. We can refer you if you want to do that. But it acted, and it was just incredible. So …

Joette:

Then suddenly those kinds of things begin to look — not in every case. Certainly, there are times when we do need tests — but sometimes we can start looking at it as these tests being superfluous.

How much do we really need this test? Let’s give this a go. See how this protocol acts.

If we don’t see a shift and we need to still need to know more, okay, now we can potentially look at another possibility.

But to be able to have a first-line protocol and be able to move right ahead into it right away is really very freeing.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR CLIENTS

Janie: (22:03)

I always give clients their options. I can always refer to a specialist, or we can do these things.

And I always give informed consent about things because that seems to be lacking somewhat these days.

And then a lot of them don’t or can’t spend the money on things like that. And they’re willing to give it a try. And now they’re just, they’re believers.

Joette:

They’re hooked.

Janie:

Yep.

Joette:

They’re hooked. And they’ll soon have a bag contained in their closet, a hanging on the door with all of their remedies, all organized.

Well, Janie, it’s been a privilege, really. I’ve so enjoyed this and thank you for agreeing to this.

And I’m hoping that it inspires not only other vets, but just people in general to see that someone professional, such as you, is counting on this to such a degree. So, thank you again for meeting with me today.

Janie:

Well, thank you, Joette. It’s my pleasure to meet you.

Like I said, I’ve just admired you for so long, and just to be a part of your Academy is amazing. I’m learning so much.

Joette:

I love it. I love it. Take care of yourself and all of your dogs and cats and small animals, and I’ll see you in class.

Janie:

Okay, thank you.

Joette:

Alright, bye now.

Janie:

Bye-Bye.

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 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 PracticalHomeopathy.com.

From the moment we get out of bed in the morning, we are on our feet. Poor things. They’re stuck receiving very little attention from the rest of our bodies while mercilessly residing at the business end of the punishment from our daily movements.

Enter peripheral neuropathy: the equivalent of our feet screaming in protest.

Neuropathy of the feet can cause pain, tingling, numbness, loss of motor skills and imbalance.

One of my Mighty Members recently wrote to my team inquiring about this condition. (That’s just one benefit of being a member, my friends. My Mighties have a direct line of communication with my team for sharing success stories and personal anecdotes or requesting more education on specific conditions or homeopathic medicines.) 

Regarding peripheral neuropathy, I must warn: There is such a broad range of differing ways the condition presents that I really can’t educate on any sufferer’s specific set of symptoms without taking the full case. However, I’m happy to begin your education on the condition with some general knowledge I’ve derived through my clinical experience.

Cocculus for Peripheral Neuropathy in the Soles of the Feet

For instance, if the symptoms are more felt in the soles of the feet, historically, the use of Cocculus indicus 6C — twice daily, until very much better — has resulted in improvement.

Now, keep in mind this is not a protocol. So, by all means, this is not hard and fast information. However, upon repertorizing the symptom, this is one of the most prominent homeopathic medicines that would make the most sense for the greatest number of people.

Plus, clinical experience is often gold!

Graphites for Peripheral Neuropathy in the Toes (or for Numbness when Walking)

Another common symptom of foot neuropathy is tingling or pain in the toes. For that presentation of neuropathy, I would most likely consider a different homeopathic medicine. This time, my repertorizing would lead me to Graphites 6C — twice daily, until very much better. Again, this is not a protocol, but it would be at the top of my list to consider.

Another common symptom of peripheral neuropathy — and a specific rubric found in the repertory — is numbness of the feet when walking. Once again, Graphites 6C, employed twice daily, until very much better, is a strong consideration.

By matching specific symptoms to the appropriate homeopathic medicine, I’ve observed enough foot pain melt away, allowing the sufferer’s feet to transform from angry to content!

Repertorizing a Condition When There Is No Protocol

However, if you are not well-versed in utilizing a repertory, I refer you to my previous blog post, You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover. That post is by no means all the information you would need to become proficient in harnessing the wealth of information in a homeopathic  repertory, but it’s a start.

To thoroughly educate my students on how to wield the repertory expertly, we spend a great deal of time learning and practicing. If homeopathy is your passion, join us. Your newfound homeopathic competence and confidence will benefit you, your family, your community, and even future generations.

Meanwhile, continue to enjoy my free blog, where I will educate you on a new topic each week to whet your appetite for this intellectually delicious topic — Practical Homeopathy®.

My Mighty Members can look forward to continuing the topic of foot pain in my next weekly Memo to Mighty Members. This coming Thursday, I’ll tackle yet another suggestion from one of my Mighties: Morton’s Neuroma, a tumorous growth of nerve tissue in the foot.

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

P.S. If you’re new to homeopathy, why not enter this gentle, efficacious healing paradigm through the gateway … the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum. This self-contained study group curriculum allows you to learn with others (whether online or in person) in the same way I initially learned homeopathy. Learning together will skyrocket your education much higher than learning alone.

Plus, ask any of my former Gatewayers; you’ll make lifelong friends who will support you in your homeopathic endeavors for decades to come. Take control of your family’s health with a study group curriculum that costs less than a nice dinner out. What better investment can you make than that of your family’s health-care autonomy?

Drug tests.
Remember when early radio and television shows closed by saying, “Keep those cards and letters rolling in?”

Well, believe me. Cards, letters, emails and phone calls roll into my office every day. In fact, my team receives scores of correspondence from readers and students alike — most of them containing questions.

Now, many questions are too specific to an individual’s unique experience for me to answer without taking the entire case.

Additional questions, unfortunately, involve relatively obscure topics that wouldn’t interest a broad section of my readers. It’s not that they’re not good questions. It’s just that I endeavor to serve as many folks as possible with each post.

Often, requests for information are just too detailed to get into a short format, such as my blog or my Memos to Mighty Members. But I do carefully consider each question and request for information that comes my way.

Does Homeopathy Show Up on Drug Tests?

Recently, one of you wrote in asking whether anything in homeopathic remedies could potentially show up on a workplace random drug test.

I can tell you right now that I know people who use homeopathy and have drug tests for their employment on a regular basis, and nothing improper has ever shown up on the tests.

I even had a client some time ago who was utilizing homeopathic Cannabis sativa 30C for inability to concentrate and passed his employer’s drug test with no concern!

Now, I’m not going to say homeopathy absolutely won’t ever show up on a drug test someday. An extraordinarily sensitive test to identify nanoparticles of a gross substance may be invented making this answer outdated.

But as of right now, I don’t care if a person is taking one of our more commonly utilized medicines, like Arnica 200C or homeopathic Nux vomica 200C. It doesn’t matter.

Our medicines are so diluted that very little of the original gross substance remains in each homeopathically prepared remedy.

In fact, that’s one of the points that naysayers make against homeopathy. They say there’s nothing in it.

That’s, of course, not true. It’s just that they can’t readily identify the molecules — at least not with the usual ways of testing — because each medicine is so highly diluted.

The whole point of homeopathy is that the substance is no longer in its gross form. For instance, when we employ homeopathic Belladonna, we are not utilizing it in its natural state—deadly nightshade. My goodness, no.

Instead, homeopathic Belladonna has been highly diluted by the manufacturing pharmacies to precise specifications (see Answering Questions: X or C). There’s nothing in our homeopathic medicine that would resemble a relationship to the toxic downside of the gross substance from which they are derived.

Homeopathic medicines are that dilute.

Homeopathy may be used with confidence. Our medicines are on such a higher plane — a completely different level. With homeopathic medicines, there are no side effects. They’re not narcotic. They’re not synthetic pharmaceuticals. They’re not addictive.

Although, I may have to amend that last statement. Indeed, homeopathy can be addictive. Because it’s a heady experience to help someone, many of my students can’t stop amassing knowledge and collecting remedies. So, I suppose the successful use of a polite, natural, gentle, efficacious medicine can be very addictive.

But good news: The ardent desire to keep healing one’s family autonomously won’t appear on a drug test either.

My friends, pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

P.S. My friends, if you are new to homeopathy — even if you’ve used homeopathy before with mixed success — the Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum was developed to provide a much-needed foundation as you develop your knowledge and hone your skills.

I promise this endeavor will not fatigue you. This kind of thinking — the thinking behind my Practical Homeopathy® — won’t mire you in complex, over-intellectualized methods or esoteric thinking. 

Instead, its simple and clean approach will likely amaze and energize you. It will empower you beyond your wildest imagination. It will invigorate you and nourish you for the rest of your life. It will galvanize you into knowing something you’ve suspected all along — that you can treat your family yourself. 

I urge you to step through the Gateway and begin a journey to healthcare autonomy that no other paradigm can provide. All it takes is one click.

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:00   Introduction: Now I Feel Ready as a Mom

04:21   Finding Friends and Learning Practical Homeopathy® Through the Gateway

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

05:32   The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:45   Meet the Other Half of Our Courageous Couple

07:10   The Biggest Benefit of Homeopathy in His Mind Is …

09:54   Success Story: Dog and Cat Allergies

10:50   Success Story: Food Allergies

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

11:32   Success Story: Cataract, Acne and Brain Fog

            Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy

            Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

13:47   Success Story: DVTs, Blood Clots, Varicose Veins

14:58   Success Story: Wasp Stings

            The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

16:41   Success Story: Fear of Loud Sounds

18:33   Success Story: PTSD

20:28   Success Story: Colds and Flu

22:05   Closing Advice

            Free Blogs

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Joette’s Mighty Members

            Joette’s Learning Center

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
Joette Calabrese on YouTube

 

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 130.

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 re-taken 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

Kate: (01:00)

Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you to the podcast. We’re so glad that you’re here. I want to thank you also for taking the time to learn about homeopathy. It’s such an important medicine. It’s going to have a huge impact on your life. So, if you’re new here, we want to welcome you.

On today’s podcast, I have a lovely, precious woman. Her name is Franicia, and I know that you’re going to love her. It’s just amazing stories that she has to share with us today. So, I want to dive right in because there’s a lot to cover. So, I want to welcome Franicia to the podcast.

Hi Franicia!

Franicia:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

It’s so great to be here with you. I would love for the listeners to get to know you. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Franicia:

Thank you. Well, I am a mom of 10 beautiful children and my husband Tim. I look forward to joining us briefly later on. And we live in Florida. We used to be a military family, retired now, and I’m originally from the tropical island of Saipan, the U.S. territory.

Kate:

Wow, that’s so interesting. Where is Saipan? You have to tell us.

Franicia:

Saipan is a 30-minute flight from the island of Guam in the Pacific.

Kate:

Oh, okay. And you lived there until you were how old?

Franicia:

I lived there until I was 17, and then I went to the Naval Academy Preparatory School, and then the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland where I met my husband.

Kate:

That’s very interesting. And for those of you listening, you can’t see Franicia, but she’s this very petite woman, and she’s also very strong. So, were telling us the other night when we were studying together that you have some degrees in … was it you’re a black belt?

Franicia:

Yes, I’m a black belt in karate (aikijutsu).

Kate:

Wow. So anyway, it’s just so ironic because you’re so petite and tiny and cute. So, watch out for Franicia.

Thank you for sharing that. And I’d like to also hear a little bit about your story and, how you were introduced to homeopathy and your journey.

Franicia:

Well, as most of us were introduced to homeopathy through health issues, I had been studying herbalism, and I had significant health issues. And I tried Arnica — like most of us have — about a decade ago. Didn’t know what I was doing.

Then somebody gave me a Hyland’s kit, tried to help me with mastitis. Again, I didn’t know what I was doing. And then a church friend heard about Joette and wanted to start a study group. I wasn’t able to join. It wasn’t on Zoom, though I had asked at the time — that was around 2019.

And then, about a year or so later, a friend really wanted to help us with some significant health issues, and she thought the best way that we could learn how to use the remedies — because we didn’t understand — was by studying Gateway.

So, she became my first Gateway leader. And I only had a bandwidth of about an hour cumulatively in a day for my brain to understand anything, let alone homeopathy.

FINDING FRIENDS AND LEARNING PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY® THROUGH THE GATEWAY

Kate: (04:21)

Again, those of you who don’t know Franicia, she had some serious health issues and really struggled for quite a while. And so, learning this was a huge undertaking for her.

And so, what she’s referring to when she said “Gateway” is the Joette’s Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide, and that’s usually done with a group of people. It’s pretty neat because you study with a group of people — though you can do it on your own — but these people usually end up staying together and become a wonderful resource going forward in your life. Some of my best friends are people that I met through this study, and I’m sure that’s the same for you.

Franicia:

Yeah, very much. That was so wonderful because it is a very dear friend, who you know. Noreen was my first Gateway study group leader. And then I wanted to learn more, and I looked online and found you, Kate … you and Michelle …

Kate:

Yes!

Franicia:

… and been hooked ever since. I took the Gateway courses many times from the two of you and then took all the protocol courses and then now — so thankful to the Lord for the opportunity to be part of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

THE ACADEMY OF PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY®

Kate: (05:32)

So, The Academy is the yearlong school, which provides students with a whole, complete foundational education in homeopathy from the unique perspective, actually, of Practical Homeopathy®.

So, you’ve been starting that, and it’s been a couple of months. And I would actually love to know what you’re finding the most interesting or something surprising from The Academy.

Franicia:

Oh, wow. Interesting or surprising? I love the way that Joette answers all our questions in APH in a very intimate setting. I had heard about it, but just to actually see how it’s being handled … I think it’s really awesome. It’s just learning from somebody who’s a master at Practical Homeopathy®. It’s so wonderful. You hear about how great it is, but you don’t realize until you’re actually a part of The Academy. It’s more than just studying the protocol courses. It’s so much more.

Kate:

Awesome. Well, thank you for that.

I know you have a lot of stories to share, but before we dive into those stories, I wondered if Tim could join us for just a minute, and I would love to pick his brain on a few things.

MEET THE OTHER HALF OF OUR COURAGEOUS COUPLE

Franicia: (06:45)

Yeah, sounds great.

Tim:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Hi. Thank you for being here.

I wanted to speak to you and have you speak to those men who are listening to this. Because we don’t often hear from men, and we are seeing more and more men studying homeopathy now, which is really great. I wanted to ask you a few questions and get your perspective, if that’s okay?

Tim:

Yeah, absolutely.

THE BIGGEST BENEFIT OF HOMEOPATHY IN HIS MIND IS …

Kate: (07:10)

So, I wanted to start by asking you what is the biggest benefit that you’ve seen from you and Franicia learning homeopathy together?,

Tim:

Well, one of them is the ability to get away from some of the pharmaceuticals that can be toxic and also expensive. We’ve been able to treat a lot of ailments with homeopathic remedies, even for me personally. And I’ve been able to get off of a medication that was affecting me in some pretty significant ways.

And then for Franicia, she’s had some pretty significant health challenges, and I feel like I’ve gotten my wife back in the past three years largely because of the effects of homeopathy. So, very thankful for that.

Kate:

Yeah. What made you decide to learn homeopathy?

Tim:

I think seeing those benefits and wanting to be able to support Franicia, and also understand how to use homeopathy for myself, and how we’re using it … how Franicia was recommending that use for me. And also to be able to help my children and to be able to help Franicia if she’s feeling poorly.

There’ve been some times where I’ve been able to repertorize things for her and help her. And I see my responsibility as husband and father to provide for my family and to protect them as a provider and protector. And a lot of times that seems like I need to do that financially. I want to do that spiritually. I want to do that medically as well. And so, wherever I’m able to, I try to learn more and be that provider and protector as much as in my power.

And so, I really encourage men if they have that opportunity to learn to just at least get that baseline, that Gateway I and II can provide. But also, if they don’t have that bandwidth to do what they can to support their wives if their wives are interested in learning. Because homeopathy, it can be very empowering for kind of independence and kind of confidence and peace of mind for the family.

Kate:

Well said. Thank you so much. I know you have to get back to what you were doing, so I’ll let you go, and I want to pick Franicia’s brain some more about some of the success stories that you guys have seen, so thank you.

Tim:

Okay, sounds good. Thank you.

Kate:

Okay, Franicia, you have a lot to share. You have given me a list of all the ways that homeopathy has helped you and your family and those you know, and it was a long list! And you said that’s just a small portion of the list that you have, so I can’t wait to dive in.

So, go ahead. Start. Tell us how homeopathy has helped you and your family.

SUCCESS STORY: DOG AND CAT ALLERGIES

Franicia: (09:54)

One of the great ways that homeopathy has helped our family is that one of my daughters is allergic to or was allergic to a number of things, and specifically dogs and cats. And she was using a remedy at one point. It was helping her dog allergy, among other things.

And then I studied the Allergic?! course and heard about the cat allergy protocol. And within two doses … she took it, and her cat allergy was gone.

This was really significant because we were exposed to cats, where you can get adjusted by a chiropractor at either her office or her home, where she has her cat or cats. And I used to have to change my clothes when I came home, and she used to have to take a shower every single time because she was getting allergic reactions with her eyes, with her lungs, and now we no longer have to do any of that.

So that’s just been very helpful for her with that specifically.

SUCCESS STORY: FOOD ALLERGIES

Franicia: (10:50)

Another way in which she has gotten benefit from the remedies with her allergies is that she used to have certain food allergies. A bunch of us actually have. We’ve a number of our family members used to be very allergic to wheat or specifically gluten, and some had dairy intolerance.

And now my daughter can eat dairy when she was very allergic before. She’s able to have gluten. A number of us are able to have gluten without having a significant muscular issues or a reaction with their tongue, certain gut issues. Some of us have to still calm it down and not take it too much, just like Joette has mentioned.

SUCCESS STORY: CATARACT, ACNE AND BRAIN FOG

Franicia: (11:32)

And while my daughter, who had removed a bunch of her allergies through the use of some of these remedies, we started noticing in the very beginning that she has a congenital cataract. And her vision went from 5% to 80% vision. And she was seeing black and white in that eye, and then she was able to see in color. So, now she’s using glasses to kind of help her with her eye, but she never got to use that eye before.

Kate:

Wow, that is incredible. I didn’t know that. How did you find what remedies to use for that?

Franicia:

So, it all started out with Gateway. We took the Gateway course. And actually, she was trying to find an acne remedy, and she found a bunch of remedies that matched her. And so somewhere in Gateway, and eventually we learned that some of the remedies she wanted to use were in Allergic?! and Skin as well. And she was able to take the teenage acne protocol, which was awesome for her skin.

And that very evening after her taking the teenage acne protocol, the redness in her skin went down, and then the burning sensation went down, and then eventually, her face started to clear. And so, she’s been on and off that protocol for the last two or more years — maybe two and a half or three years. And so, it’s just been so phenomenal.

Kate:

And your daughter and some of your other children have started learning homeopathy as well, which is so exciting. I know, oftentimes, you’ll tell me that one of your daughters looks up what you need or one of the kids needs, and she finds it, and that’s very exciting.

Franicia:

Yeah, very much. That’s very exciting as a mom because they not only learn how to use the remedies where they can help out and be able to help me out with a bunch of things.

My other daughter was able to use a different remedy for her acne, too, and that helped her with her studying because it fit. It’s in the Mindful course of the college student remedy or when you have exhaustion, the intellectual fatigue. And so that was able to help her with the brain fog, the fatigue, and also a bit with the acne. It took a bit longer with her, but the brain fog was helped first, more so than the acne.

SUCCESS STORY: DVTs, BLOOD CLOTS, VARICOSE VEINS

Kate: (13:47)

I would like to hear next about the person who you helped with DVTs, blood clots, varicose veins, et cetera. Can you tell us about that?

Franicia:

Yeah, so there was a person who I helped who had had multiple DVTs in their calf and ankle, so blood clot issues and also had varicose veins. I mentioned the fact that there was also varicose veins because the protocol for that is the same thing. And it was just so amazing because this person had been hospitalized many times due to their DVTs.

They were getting side effects from the medication. They were getting fatigue and weakness, digestive issues, and they were able to be able to wean off of and get off their medication and doing really well and no blood clots. And it doesn’t even appear as if the person has varicose veins in their legs anymore. It was very prominent when you would see it before.

Kate:

And from what you said, this person was really struggling. I mean, this was very serious. And so to have this of a recovery from this is amazing.

Franicia:

Yeah, very much. Life-changing.

SUCCESS STORY: WASP STINGS

Franicia: (14:58)

Another thing I love about homeopathy is that now I feel ready as a mom. And my son, or one of my boys, came to me and said he got stung by a wasp. This time, a lot more. He said they were actually biting him, and then stinging him. And there were about five of them.

And he was in so much pain. I think his pain scale was between an 8 or a 9. And his eye started to swell a little bit. But there was so much pain. And I was able to find a good frequency from the Allergic?! course.

I even opened up my Survivalist binder. And you can find different remedies, which was awesome.

It was so amazing to see how his pain around his eye reduced down to zero in less than an hour, just giving him Apis according to the frequency that’s mentioned in the course. And then the pain was gone.

He felt fine, but as he slept in the night … the next day, he woke up, and he looked like Rocky. It looked like someone punched him in both eyes, and his eyes were swollen shut. And so those pictures, as you see, as I wanted to know, “Oh my, how should I give him these remedies?”

Sticking to the protocol with the frequency, and it was helping, even if there wasn’t pain, there was swelling. And to see that swelling just reduce so much before lunch and then, especially, by the evening times, it’s amazing.

Kate:

Those wasp stings are super painful, super painful and scary. So yeah, I don’t know what I would do without homeopathy. I just got attacked recently by a swarm of wasps, and it was not fun.

Okay. What else would you like to share with us?

SUCCESS STORY: FEAR OF LOUD SOUNDS

Franicia: (16:41)

Let’s see. I have a young boy — one of my little boys — who was very affected by loud sounds, thunder, lightning. Joette writes about in her blog how you could use the Phosphorus remedy and with fireworks. And I had that remedy ready, but I didn’t get to use it quite yet. I had it.

And he covered his ears one birthday of his. We were singing Happy Birthday. And having 10 children, I’ve never seen this before — where a kid will cover their ears as you sing Happy Birthday. It’s a very happy moment.

And when he would see the Blue Angels fly above with the jets; he was so scared with fireworks. He wanted to stay inside. Everybody else was fine with it.

Well, this past July 4th, we were over at a friend’s house, and they had a big gathering. And he was in the pool, and he was sticking his fingers in his ears. I didn’t know that one of the neighbors was going to have a fancy display, and it was so loud. It was beautiful. But he was just trying to play around. But he was bothered by the fireworks, so he was covering his ears. And I decided to give him Ignatia.

And it was amazing because in less than a minute, he started taking out his fingers from his ears. He was splashing around and playing. And then he said something I never thought I’d ever hear him say because he was only a few years old at the time. And he said, “Mommy, I want to go to the fireworks.”

So, he got out the pool, and he ran out. And I have a picture where he’s staring, and he’s loving it, and he’s watching the fireworks go off. And later that evening, the fireworks went off again. There was a new set, and he was telling me how much he loved the fireworks. And he didn’t need another remedy. He was like, “I love it now.”

Kate:

Oh, wow. I love hearing these stories.

Do you have anything else? I think … oh, speaking of someone that’s afraid (but it’s a shock more so), do you want to tell us about the PTSD?

SUCCESS STORY: PTSD

Franicia: (18:33)

Yes. That was just so phenomenal for me.

So, my husband was almost killed by a terrorist during a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, July 16th, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And though it had been many years since a terrorist was outside of his building and tried to kill him and, unfortunately, killed a number of men there, that greatly affected our whole family.

And I was very much frightened by the event, and I was very concerned about safety and security. We were living in Texas at the time that I learned Gateway. And we were living near cartels, and I just had fear about safety and security. So, we were going to a new church, and I saw that they were near the border, and it wasn’t in the best area. This was El Paso. And I started getting very nervous.

And after learning Gateway, Joette teaches to carry Aconite 200 because you never know when you’re going to need it, if you feel that fright or shock even after so many years. And I’m so glad I had that, too, because I was getting almost like a panic attack. I was very concerned, and I was wondering if we were going to have lots of guards at this new church because I didn’t know. I was just coming up all these thoughts.

I was very concerned, but I took a dose. And I had this great calm I had never experienced in all those years. And then it started to come back to a little bit. I took a second time, and I was fine for that Bible study.

I was fine after that. And I was never concerned when we went to church. And I could care less if there weren’t any guards at every door like I was hoping — which doesn’t happen at churches — but that really gave me my life back after all those years of having that kind of PTSD.

Kate:

That is life-changing, isn’t it? I know that you have so many more stories, but maybe let’s just end with, let’s talk about how you and your family respond to colds and flu.

SUCCESS STORY: COLDS AND FLU

Franicia: (20:28)

I spoke to my children, and I said, “What’s one of the greatest things that you’re so thankful for from homeopathy?”

And they mentioned their own key stories. But almost all of them said the same thing that I felt — and my husband, too — is how we can manage colds and flus. Because sometimes you have body aches or you don’t feel well. You have headaches; however you might feel.

It’s so awesome because we have it in Gateway. In Joette’s blog, she teaches about that awesome combo from the Banerjis, Aconite and Bryonia. And then, of course, Boiron has come up with their Oscillococcinum.

Those are some of our top remedies, and that has replaced our use of a bunch of herbs that we used to use. And even when a time when some herbalists weren’t sure if you should use elderberry a few years ago for certain illnesses that came up. They’re like, they’re not sure if you should have certain types of herbs.

It’s just so wonderful that this has been a main staple. It’s been phenomenal. On top of adding other remedies for cold and flus that we’ve been able to tackle so many things that we could hear in the lungs. Or when my voice was hoarse, and I was losing it. I took the Aconite and Bryonia combo, and my voice came back. I mean, just so many things. It’s just wonderful.

Kate:

These are really great examples of how homeopathy can be so powerful. And you have so many more, so we’ll have to have you back some other time to share more.

So, I imagine with 10 children, you have a lot of opportunities to use homeopathy.

Franicia:

Yeah, I think so.

CLOSING ADVICE

Kate: (22:05)

So, as we finish up the podcast today, would you just share a couple of tips — things that you’ve learned and maybe would be helpful for those who are listening?

Franicia:

Yes, I would love to. I definitely want to encourage anybody who’s listening: Learn from Joette as much as you can. There’s a lot of free information: her blogs. Do the Gateway courses — many times. Once, is not enough.

And join Mighty Members, if you can — especially, Mighty Members Plus, where there’s a special Q&A.

I encourage you to also purchase the protocol courses and take them just the way Joette says. She says to take them at least four times. It sounds impossible. It’s doable. It can happen because it’s not enough to just get a protocol. But within the protocol courses, Joette explains how to differentiate between sometimes two protocols for the same condition. Or the need to be able to take certain remedies that you don’t want to take it just for anything. And so, she fleshes it out. She really teaches you really well.

And lastly, if you can, join The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and beyond. I know beyond that’s Mastery™ and then Mastermind. Because you learn so much about these remedies and it’s just life-changing for yourself, your family, and the people that God puts in your path.

Kate:

Yeah. And you had something else.

Franicia:

Oh, I do. I wanted to add that Joette has a lot of golden nuggets of wisdom. And if she says something more than once, definitely do it.

And so, she mentions all the ways you can learn from her. I encourage you to learn from good study groups. But Joette likes to mention that we should buy remedies and start with kits.

And especially focus on your family’s needs because you never know when you might need them. And that’s happened for us. Plan for emergencies because you won’t be able to use remedies if you don’t have them on hand.

And lastly, I know if I encourage a lot of people, not just Joette, but Joette says to take good notes. And I want to add onto that is if you can, try to take any electronic notes that are searchable and printable if you can, because you can print those notes. But also, if you’re looking up something you’ve studied or a need or a symptom — whatever it be — you could type it down, and you’ll be able to find it through your notes and be able to use it.

Kate:

Oh, this has been so fun. I look forward to talking with you some more. And I know those who are listening will really enjoy hearing your stories. So, thanks for being with us, Franicia.

Franicia:

Thank you, Kate. This was an honor. I’m very thankful to the Lord for this opportunity.

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 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:

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After a month of skeletons poised on neighbors’ lawns, I was “spurred” on to write about bone spurs.

Most often, bone spurs show up on shin bones and knees. However, an exostosis can also show up in the mouth on the maxillary or mandible (upper or lower jaw bones), and a calcaneal spur can occur on the heel bone. If you’ve never had one, they’re often painful and unsightly.

Homeopathy offers a few medicines for consideration, but in my clinical experience, two remedies are most commonly utilized.

Bone Spurs

Generally, a common homeopathic choice for exostoses occurring anywhere on the body is Calcarea fluorica 12X or C (also known as Calcarea fluorata). Either X or C will work; since it’s not a protocol, it doesn’t matter. Calc fluor has been historically shown to dissolve bone spurs over time.

Heather, a young girl with a prominent bone spur on her shin, once came to me in my practice. The bump was embarrassing in her daily life but also affected Heather’s athleticism. Because the spur was quite tender to the touch, her athletic pursuits held excruciating potential. The fear of that pain caused her not to play as aggressively as she could.

The homeopathic solution took some time — about six months — but her healing was complete. Heather utilized Calc fluor 12X, twice daily, until she was very much better. In fact, the bony prominence completely disappeared. Indeed, once again, Calc fluor was clinically proven right before our eyes.

Calcaneal Spurs (Heel Spurs)

Bone spurs in the feet, such as calcaneal spurs, may feel especially painful on the first movement in the morning. The pain may improve slightly as the movement continues. However, it can possibly regress if the foot is overutilized. For instance, walking or standing too long may cause the pain to increase.

For this type of bone spur, I generally elect Symphytum officinale 200C (or CK) mixed with Rhus toxicodendron 30C. (These two separate medicines can be taken at the same time by mixing them together in the mouth. Alternatively, the remedies may be purchased already mixed together during the manufacturing process if one has access to OHM Pharma.)

This Banerji Protocol, generally utilized twice daily until very much better, pulls double duty. Symphytum is our go-to medicine for bone conditions, while Rhus tox addresses the function of the ligaments and muscles around the heel spur.

Win-win!

When to Stop

As with all homeopathics, knowing when to stop utilizing the medicines is crucial. You often hear me say, “Until very much better.” But what does that mean?

When the condition is so much better that it’s no longer obvious or at the forefront of your mind, it’s time to stop. The condition is very much better.

It’s the same principle adhered to by folks who use conventional pharmaceuticals. They wouldn’t take an Advil if they didn’t have a headache. They wouldn’t take cough medicine if they didn’t have a cough. They wouldn’t take Tagamet if they didn’t have indigestion.

Remember: Homeopathy is also medicine. It is only taken when necessary to address a condition. Homeopathy is not a vitamin or a supplement. We don’t take medicines ad infinitum. If the condition reappears later, one can always restart the homeopathic schedule that was previously successful or pivot to another medicine more tightly fitting the current symptoms.

I address this subject more thoroughly in my blog post, When to Stop. I urge you to make that post required reading. It will help improve your ability to make these judgment calls as you observe the homeopathic medicine act.

Remedy Cards

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Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

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