01:00   Introduction: Sinus Infections and Other Stuffy Situations

02:00   What is Practical Homeopathy®?

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

            SinusCalm®

08:18   Using a homeopathic repertory

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

11:30   Closing Advice

            JoetteCalabrese.com

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Joette’s Learning Center

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (02:00)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

Joette: (3:33)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (08:18)

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Joette:

First of all, what is a repertory?

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (11:30)

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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

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

01:58   Three mothers; one conclusion

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

05:41   A mom helping her son through hip surgery

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

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

13:17   Homeopathy for the caregiver

15:15   Closing Advice: Everybody wins

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

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

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

Joette: (01:58)

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

Nathalie:

Exactly.

Kate:

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

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

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

Nathalie:

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

Joette:

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

Nathalie:

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

Joette: (03:02)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

Joette: (05:41)

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

Nathalie:

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

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

Joette:

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

Nathalie:

It did.

Joette:

Oh, that’s great.

Nathalie:

It helped him a lot.

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

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

Joette:

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

Nathalie:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

Nathalie:

Vulnerable and weakened.

Joette:

Vulnerable.

Nathalie:

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

Joette:

Yes. That’s just precious.

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

Kate: (08:28)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Nathalie:

They’re captive.

Joette:

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

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

Kate: (11:20)

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

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

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

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

Nathalie:

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

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

Joette:

Isn’t that a great feeling?

Nathalie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Nathalie:

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

Joette:

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

Nathalie:

Yeah.

Kate: (13:17)

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

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

Because nowadays, we text so much that if you actually get a phone call, you wonder, “Okay, is everything okay?” So, there’s that heart, maybe, rate increase for just a moment.

So, what did you do for yourself during that time?

Nathalie:

So, in the beginning, what I did is took Aconite. Because I felt like to me this was a great big thing.

Yes, it built up to the surgery, but it didn’t feel like I was prepared. I did feel shocked afterwards. So, I did that.

And then I did also take Ignatia for about a week, but you know what? Then, it was fine because I think the emotional side of us being close together and me being with him all the time actually calmed me down because I could see what was happening. I could respond to what was happening. I didn’t feel lost and not in-the-know.

So, after that first week, I didn’t need to take anything anymore. And I felt like, I don’t know, I was really happy with how we got through it.

Kate:

That reminds me of that text message I got from my daughter when I was out of town, and she said, “Mom, I’m not feeling well. I have really bad lung congestion and wheezing, and I’m having trouble breathing.”

Nathalie:

I remember that.

Kate:

Yeah, full stop. And then, she did not text me back.

I’m texting her frantically, and she didn’t text me back for many hours. I had to take something at that point because you start worrying about your son or daughter, and you’re wondering what is happening.

So, I took Ignatia, and I think maybe Aconite at the time because it was a fright to get that text message and knowing good remedies.

Joette: (15:15)

Well, what I love about all this, too — and kind of circling back around again — is the continuity.

It feeds them, then it feeds you, then it feeds them, then it feeds the younger kids, et cetera, et cetera.

I love that natural flow of being able to do this. And a lot of this could be done just by being there, even if you knew nothing about homeopathy, just being there by their side.

But there’s something about having something that actually works, and works to counteract ill effects of the anesthetic, or ill effects of the lung infection or whatever. We have an extra measure of ability that, unfortunately, a lot of mothers and grandmothers don’t have.

That’s our mission is to get it out there because this is very, very important information for people to get.

Kate:

Well, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening in on this conversation and appreciate Nathalie, your willingness to share so openly.

Joette:

Thank you both for doing this because it did seem kind of private when we first started talking about this earlier. But we thought, you know, this is the kind of thing that women like to share. So, let’s do that.

So, I hope we’ve shared enough information with you today so that you can feel confident in passing this on even to others who could be benefited by this kind of thought.

And also, you want to pass it on to someone who you already have a relationship with. Perhaps it’s your daughter; perhaps it’s your son; maybe it’s your sister. So, get this information out, friends. We need to share this. It’s really important stuff for the family.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

01:00   Introduction: From Frustration and Overwhelm to Empowerment and Healing

04:17   Going Back to School … Again

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:20   Spent My Twenties Chasing Health

08:40   Success Story: Migraines

            Podcast 169 — Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good

13:31   Success Story: Parasites

            Intestinal Parasites, 6 Homeopathic Remedies to Consider

16:24   Success Story: Thyroid issues

            Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

            Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy

21:01   Success Story: Plantar warts

            Not Just Any Warts; Molluscum Contagiosum

22:36   Success Story: Trigeminal neuralgia

            Facial Neuralgia: A Torturous Pain

            Podcast 139: — Cavitations Healed! What Dentists Think Prevention Is: Fluoride, Pastes, Rinses, Flossers, Brushes, Scrapers and Sealants

27:11   Closing Advice

            FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

            Joette’s Mighty Members

            Mighty Members Plus

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 173.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today we’re diving into a story that I believe many of you will resonate with. It’s the journey from frustration and overwhelm to empowerment and genuine healing through Practical Homeopathy®.

I’m joined by Nicole here today. She’s a homeschooling mom of seven, a registered nurse and one of Joette’s Mastermind students. Nicole has walked through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® program, Mastery and now serves as one of Joette’s Ambassadors and is in the Mastermind program.

But more importantly, she’s someone who came to homeopathy the way so many of us do. Not skipping but crawling … searching for answers. Nicole’s story is raw, relatable, and incredibly encouraging: from debilitating migraines and autoimmune diagnoses to parasites, hormone issues and more. She has lived it, and she has uprooted so much of it using Practical Homeopathy®. You’ll hear more about that in just a minute.

So, on today’s podcast, she’s going to share how she went from her chronic illness and conventional limitations and years of searching to raising a family that relies solely on homeopathy. She now has a busy, thriving practice teaching homeopathy and helping her clients regain their health.

Nicole is here today to share what she’s learned, what she teaches, and why she believes there is hope for those who feel like they’ve tried everything. And this is going to be good.

Welcome, Nicole.

Nicole:

Thank you so much, Kate, for that beautiful introduction. Thank you for having me. I’m super-excited to be on with you today, and I cannot wait to dive into all of this.

Kate:

Yes, I am excited, too, because you mentioned just a minute ago, while we were talking before the recording, how you said that this has changed your life. Can you just elaborate on that just a bit?

Nicole:

Yeah. I mean, just a bit is so hard because it’s been so profound. This has just touched my life in so many different ways, not just from a business perspective and a shift, but it’s also affected my family greatly.

And then, as you mentioned in the beginning, just on a personal health struggle, I’ve conquered so many different ailments through Practical Homeopathy®. So, I’m ever grateful for all of the education that I’ve learned with Joette.

Kate:

And you went from learning about how to help yourself to now helping so many others through your teaching and seeing clients in your busy practice. And I think that’s exciting too, and how now you’re using what has been given to you, to now give to others.

Nicole:

Exactly. I started out as a conventional registered nurse. And for me, it was always my passion to help people. And when I quickly found in the health care system that we were essentially putting a Band-Aid on things, I knew there had to be a better way.

And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I knew that that was going to be my contribution to help give back and to help people see true health can exist and give them back hope.

Kate: (04:17)

I think it’s funny because you said when you told your husband that you were going back to school yet again …

Nicole:

Yes.

Kate:

What was his reaction?

Nicole:

Oh, my goodness.

So, like I said, I started out as a conventional nurse, so that took some years to complete that schooling.

Went through conventional nursing; realized it wasn’t what I thought it was. So, I went back to school for my holistic bachelor’s degree.

My husband’s like, “Okay.”

Then I went back to school for nurse coaching — holistic nurse coaching. I dabbled in all these different modalities and all these things.

And then, when I learned Practical Homeopathy® was the missing link, and Joette started her Academy program. I turned around to my husband, and I was like, “Babe, I’m sorry, but I have to go back to school yet again.”

And he laughed, but he encouraged me to do so.

And then after I went through APH, Joette had, at that point, created the Mastery program. So, I was like, “Okay, Hon, I know I said, ‘yet again,’ like last year, but now I have to do this another year.”

So, I love education. I love learning, and I feel like this is kind of an area where we can learn forever. We can continue learning forever.

So, my husband, I think at this point, knows that I’m just going to keep on going. I’m just going to keep learning and adding.

Kate:

Right, because now you’re in Mastermind, and that could go on for years.

Nicole:

Exactly, exactly. You guys are kind of stuck with me at this point.

Kate:

No, we’re not stuck with you. We’re blessed to have you.

So, let’s just go through some of the things that you’ve personally addressed in your life with homeopathy, and then we’ll break it down — maybe several of those. And those who are listening to this podcast can hear how you helped with all of these conditions, and they can get some information and pass this on to others who might be needing it as well.

So, can you go through some of the things that you’ve addressed?

Nicole:

Yeah, absolutely. So, I have a long list, unfortunately.

Kate:

You’ve been pretty sick. Yeah.

Nicole: (06:20)

Yeah. Yeah. I spent a lot of my life very sick. I do look at it as a blessing now, though, because it’s led me to be able to, like you said, be able to help other people and really come from it from an empathetic place of understanding and my own healing to kind of inspire other people with that. So, again, that’s what I like to do.

But my story kind of starts back in my 20s, when I kind of knew something was wrong. And I spent all of my 20s basically chasing my health, as so many people do. I was so sick that I looked at my husband one day, and I was like, “Wow, if this is what I feel like in my 20s, what am I going to actually feel like when I’m older?”

My husband used to look at me and say that “You are the oldest young person that I know.” Because I would get up and my knees would crack, or I would have aches and pains and all those things.

So, I spent all my 20s chasing my health. Being told by practitioners that I just needed to eat better; I needed to sleep better; I needed to exercise.

I, Kate, kid you not, that I even went to the ER once because I felt like something was stuck in my throat. And I was told by the doctor that I needed to chew my food better, that I probably just scratched my throat.

Well, it turns out, years later, that I was actually diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and that thing that was in my throat turned out to be a thyroid nodule. So, I know how to chew my food apparently.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

Yeah. So that’s kind of where my journey began with my laundry list of diagnoses. After that, I had almost every diagnosis under the sun, every letter of the alphabet: my EDS and my MCIS and all those different diagnoses that we accumulate over the years. But I’ve been able to turn a lot of that around.

I found great help in the holistic world, but there was still a missing piece. And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I was able to reverse a lot of that. So, I don’t know, did you want me to go into a little bit of each of those?

Kate:

Yes, I think that would be helpful. Do you want to start with the migraines?

Nicole: (08:40)

Yeah, absolutely. So, the migraines that I had were debilitating.

I first started suffering with those when I was probably about 14 years old. They definitely affected me greatly in my teenage years.

I remember I would be out with friends, and I would know that they were coming. I would sense that they were coming on, and I knew that if I didn’t go home quickly that the next thing would be vomiting.

And the only thing that really helped me at that point was going home and laying down and trying to sleep them off. So, that was earlier on.

As the years got older and I started working and became a mom, you can’t always go home and go to sleep. So, I ended up starting to use Excedrin. And so, Excedrin was basically the only thing that would take my migraines away, but I even got to the point where sometimes the Excedrin wasn’t working.

A lot of times, I would end up in the ER.

Sometimes, these migraines lasted days and even weeks. They were really debilitating. I would say that I got them very often, at least a couple times a week. So, they were very disruptive of my daily life.

As a nurse, I remember when you count your medication cart, you’re not supposed to stop. And I remember getting so bad that I would have to stop counting my med cart so that I could go into the bathroom and vomit because the migraines were so bad.

I remember driving home from my shifts and pulling over and vomiting.

So, it was brutal. It was really disrupting my life.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

And to say that I have not had a migraine in years, that is one of the most profound things to me.

A couple of months ago, I looked back at my husband, and I said, “Do you realize that I have not had a migraine in years?” Not even had to take a pharmaceutical for it or even a homeopathic remedy for it. I don’t get them at all anymore, Kate. They’ve been completely uprooted.

So, something that affected my life so significantly … to not have it at all and not even have to use homeopathic remedies for it anymore, there’s no better medicine than this.

Kate:

Yes. Wow. And tell us what was one of the medicines that you used? I think, was it Bryonia that you …

Nicole:

Yeah. Yeah.

So, a funny story: When I first started with homeopathy, I was basically like most people, where I was like, “Okay, this stuff is great. I have a laundry list. Where do I start? I need 35 remedies for all the things.”

And obviously that’s not the way we do homeopathy. But in the beginning, I was like, “Where do I start?”

And so, I tried to tackle my headaches first. And headaches are one of the hardest things to … You’re like shaking your head, right?

Kate:

Yes. Yes.

Nicole:

I know because Joette did a podcast, I think, on this recently about how headaches are so hard to cover. And that was one of the things that I wanted to tackle first.

And believe it or not, at first, I didn’t know what the right remedy was. And it wasn’t working because I wasn’t choosing the right remedy. And I almost gave up on homeopathy because I was like, “Oh, this stuff isn’t working.”

And then I found the right remedy.

I found Bryonia, and that was what worked for me. I found that actually by taking the Gateway classes, some of the keynotes of Bryonia is worse from movement, better lying down, you know, that kind of thing. And it’s a really great headache remedy in general, and that fit my picture so well. And that’s something, like I said, I learned in the Gateway classes.

So, when I started taking Bryonia, I was just taking it as an SOS for acute headaches, and I started noticing over the years that I was getting them less and less often, to the point where I wasn’t getting them at all anymore. So, it was kind of unintentional, but that’s how it worked. So, that was Bryonia.

Kate:

Yeah. There are many homeopathic medicines that address headaches, and it depends on the type of headache that you have. But yes, Bryonia can be one of the ones. And I’m so glad that that worked for you because I just can’t imagine having to deal with that, those debilitating headaches like that.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, one of the other things that I wanted to mention about headaches is that when I took the pain (Make It Stop!) In the Protocol Course, I found multiple remedies, including a Banerji Protocol, that can help with headaches and migraines. So, that might be helpful for your listeners to check that course out.

Kate:

Right. That’s a great course.

Kate: (13:31)

Let’s talk now about parasites. I feel like parasites are a hot topic these days. So, tell us your story with dealing with parasites.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, my story with parasites happened just before they were a hot topic. I know that they’re a hot topic right now, but when I was actually going through The Academy, I was dealing with all kinds of health issues.

My health was moving along pretty well. I was pretty stable at that point with my thyroid conditions and all the things. And something hit me out of nowhere, and my health tanked. My thyroid numbers tanked, my nutrient levels tanked. I had yellow around my mouth. I had facial swelling; my lupus was flaring; I was having recurrent pink eye; skin things were popping up. I had elevated liver enzymes — enlarged liver.

I mean, all of this hit me out of nowhere. And I was doing a little bit of research on parasites at that time, and I was completely convinced that this was a parasitic infection that triggered all my autoimmune things.

And I actually went in to my holistic doctor thinking that she was going to run the labs and help me out that way, and she essentially blamed all my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

So, then I went in to a conventional medical doctor with a textbook parasite story, and that doctor also blamed all of my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

And my husband looked at me, and he said, “Nick, you know the parasite protocol with homeopathy.” He said, “So what have you got to lose? Why don’t you just give it a try?”

And all of us want validation, right? We want someone to agree with you and say, “This is it. This is what your problem is.” But I wasn’t getting that. And so, my husband was like, “Just do the protocol.”

Kate, when I did that protocol — within a week of being on the parasite protocol — I actually started detoxing parasites and within three days after the first parasite that I had detoxed, a skin condition that I had for years that nothing was touching ended up resolving and has not come back since.

And that was probably about three years ago at this point. Everything that I had going on then, all resolved after that.

Kate:

There is a blog that Joette wrote called “Intestinal Parasites, 6 Homeopathic Remedies to Consider.” So, for those of you who want to know more about that, you can go to that blog.

Nicole:

Yes. And that blog actually includes Cina, too, and that is one of the remedies that I had used that was mentioned in that blog. And that’s where my health really turned around using that remedy.

Kate: (16:24)

Nice.

So, you also mentioned just a bit ago your thyroid and problems that you’ve had with that.

Nicole:

Yes. Thyroid’s another hot topic, unfortunately. Unfortunately, hypothyroidism specifically is usually very either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. I mentioned earlier that I had been chasing my health earlier in my 20s, and when I finally hit 30, I was so incredibly sick at that point, Kate, I thought I was dying. I thought I had cancer.

I crawled into the doctor, basically like Joette says. I crawled in, and I was like, “You missed something. I’m dying. I have cancer.”

My body systems were completely shutting down. And this is after a decade of going to various doctors and being told again that I just need to eat better, sleep better, exercise, all those things.

And so, they finally had diagnosed me. Nobody had thought to check my thyroid in all of those 10 years. And that happened, I think, because I wasn’t overweight for the norm, but I was overweight for me. And so, nobody thought to look even though I had every other textbook symptom.

Once I was finally diagnosed, I was thrown on a synthetic drug. Did not do well with that synthetic drug.

Then I went to a holistic doctor. She put me on the natural thyroid hormone. I had great success with it. However, the one thing that really hit me once I learned Practical Homeopathy® was that by being on a natural desiccated thyroid hormone that I was on, we’re essentially tricking our body into thinking that we healed, right? Because we’re putting something into our body and we’re telling our thyroid, “Okay, you don’t have to do the work anymore. We got this.” Right?

And so, we’re really not getting to the root of the problem. My body is depending on me to get lab work done and put this medication in my body. And I went the holistic route because I wanted to heal. I wanted to get better. And when I found out that there was Practical Homeopathy® for hypothyroidism, it became my goal to heal my thyroid so that I no longer needed these medications, even though they were considered natural.

So, that’s what I did. It took me a long time; I’m not going to lie. It definitely took me a long time, but I am now at the point in my life where, after using various thyroid protocols …  which again, they can be found in several of Joette’s courses. She covers hypothyroidism in Good Gut, Bad Gut and Feminopathy and all those things. She does a lot on hypothyroidism in her courses.

But I found that I was able to not only get off of being on medication. For at that point, I had 20 years of my thyroid not functioning. At that point, my thyroid was severely atrophied. And I was able to come off of my thyroid medications, which I was told by natural doctors and holistic doctors that I would be on for the rest of my life — that my thyroid was so damaged that I would never come off of those medications, and Practical Homeopathy® changed that for me.

The protocols changed that for me. So, I am at a point now where not only have I been off of those medications, but I don’t even need the protocols, for the most part.

Kate:

Wow. That’s really incredible because, like you said, when you have a condition for so long, it sometimes can be difficult to heal from that. And so, I think that’s pretty incredible.

Nicole:

It’s been life changing. And again, it’s one of those debilitating disorders that can cause you to not participate in life because there’s so many umbrella symptoms with hypothyroidism, including crushing fatigue.

So, just to be able to free yourself from that and not have to worry about even taking a daily medication and seeing a doctor and getting labs done and getting the prescriptions filled and all those things … to alleviate all that stress off of you and to be able to function like a normal person again, it’s profound. It’s amazing.

Kate:

That’s a really good point. It’s not just having the right homeopathic medicine, it’s that you don’t have to do all those extra things and pay all that money. Really good points.

Kate: (21:01)

Okay. Well, let’s go into something not quite as serious: plantar warts.

Nicole:

Yeah, definitely not as serious as some of the other things that I’ve experienced. However, they were not fun either.

So, I had this plantar wart at the bottom of my foot. It was embedded into my foot, so it was flat. But it was causing me so much pain that I found myself that I was kind of walking on the side of my foot a lot to avoid stepping on it all the time.

As a nurse, I was on my feet a lot. That pain was getting to a point where it was really difficult.

And again, at that time I was working with a holistic doctor, and even she said, she’s like, “Even holistic things don’t really work for this. Usually, people have to have them cut off or frozen off, lasered, all these things.”

And I was like, “I don’t want to do that. I want to do it the natural way.” Right?

So, I found in Joette’s blog … it’s for warts. That blog is …

Kate:

“Not Just Any Warts; Molluscum Contagiosum.”

Nicole:

Yes, that one. I refer so many people to that blog because it’s so beneficial. She has a couple variations on that blog. There’s a couple of different remedies on that blog that were suggested, and just within about a week of using Antimonium crud (suggested on that blog), my wart resolved and has not come back. And that was probably about six years ago.

Kate:

I love it.

Nicole:

So, even the holistic doctor said I couldn’t get rid of that thing, and homeopathy did it.

Kate: (22:36)

Yeah.

Okay. There are a few more things that I would really like to fit in if we can, because we could probably go on for a long time — many hours — but maybe we’ll have to do another podcast.

But today we’re just focusing on some of the things that you have experienced and one of those — and this is again, a painful condition — trigeminal neuralgia. So, talk about that.

Nicole:

Yeah, Kate, this is one of the most excruciating pains I have ever dealt with in my life, and I’ve dealt with some things. I’ve had kidney stones and migraines and all of these things, but this one came about. I had a dental cavitation, which, incidentally, I had learned through Joette that that was a thing.

Once I realized that I had a cavitation issue, I went to my holistic biological dentist, and I said to him, “I don’t know how I don’t have a cavitation, so we need to look at that. ” And he did the proper testing and found that I had several dental cavitations.

While I did use Practical Homeopathy® to help support my body through that healing, I also chose to go ahead and do a surgical protocol where they go in, and they basically clean out the jawbone and the infections. It’s a pretty extensive surgery.

It’s very taxing on your body, and I actually had three of those done within less than a year. And I probably, in retrospect, should have waited and should have spaced that out. But that third one was like opening up a Pandora’s box of I-don’t-even-know-what in my body, and with that came the trigeminal neuralgia.

I also have burning mouth syndrome, all of these things happening, but the trigeminal neuralgia is known as the suicide disease. And they call it that because the pain is so excruciating that people literally don’t know what to do with themselves.

And I attest to that pain. Hey, it’s a nerve pain in your face, and it goes in different areas. So, this pain was shooting into my ear. It was shooting up my eye. It was going down into my chin. It was excruciating pain. And luckily, Joette had a blog on trigeminal neuralgia.

So, of course, I went to her blog for that, and I was able to within less than a day find alleviation from those symptoms. And it was really sad for me because I’ve seen — now that I recognize it, and I’ve experienced it myself — I’ve seen other people experiencing it. And this is a condition that goes on for people for years, and I cannot imagine living with that type of pain.

And it’s no wonder they call it suicide disease because if you had to live with that kind of pain for that long, that’s horrible. If only people knew that there was a homeopathic solution and they didn’t have to suffer with that pain, that would just be profound for people to be able to deal with that.

Kate:

Oh, yeah. How long had you suffered with the pain before you found the remedy?

Nicole:

I right away went on the Joette’s blog and was looking for answers. So, I dealt with it maybe for a day or two. It was immediate relief. It was only a few doses, and it was immediate relief, and it did not come back.

Kate:

I was going to say that’s incredible, but I say that, it seems like, every day with homeopathy. I say, “That is incredible!”

Nicole:

I’m telling you, Kate, I cannot tell you how many times a day that I say that with even my own healing testimonials. We hear from students, from colleagues, from clients. It’s just you can say it forever.

Homeopathy does so much healing that it never gets old.

My dad used to say it, “You never cease to amaze me.” Well, Practical Homeopathy® never ceases to amaze me.

Kate:

So, in case people are wondering, that blog is called “Facial Neuralgia: A Torturous Pain.” So, you can look that up.

She also has Podcast 139, where Joette talks about cavitation. So, that would be another resource.

Nicole, I know these are just a few of the conditions that you’ve dealt with over the years, and I would love to hear more of your story at some time, and maybe the people that you’ve helped because you really have built a thriving practice now. And I know you have these kinds of stories. You hear them every day, which is so exciting. But can you give us some of your final thoughts as we wrap up this podcast?

Nicole: (27:11)

Absolutely, Kate. And again, thank you so much for having me on and just allowing me to share all the suffering that I’ve dealt with. I would love to be back on at some future date and share the so-many success stories that we’ve had with our family and clients as well.

But just from a personal note, again, like you said in the beginning, something that Joette has always said is that we don’t come skipping in; we come crawling in. And that is certainly the way that I came into homeopathy.

And so, some of your listeners might be in the same place of suffering, or I find a lot of people start to feel hopeless. They start to think that there are no solutions for them. Maybe they’ve been let down like I was by conventional medicine or even holistic medicine. I just want to let everybody know that with Practical Homeopathy®, there is hope. There is healing.

We can uproot the chronic conditions, and the things that we’ve been told that we can’t heal from is possible. So, I think, as Joette says, this is the medicine that we all thought that we were getting.

And so, I think that our listeners should jump in and get started on their healing journey so they could take back their health and allow their body to do what it was meant to do, which is to heal.

Kate:

Well put, Nicole, if you’re listening to this podcast and you’re wondering about maybe finding a Practical Homeopath™ like Nicole, you can go to FindAPracticalHomeopath.com, and there you’ll find Nicole and many other Practical Homeopaths who can help you on your journey.

And so, I hope that Nicole’s story has brought you encouragement, clarity and maybe even a spark of hope that you didn’t expect. Her journey is really a testament to what can happen when you refuse to give up and finally find a system of medicine, Practical Homeopathy®, that aligns with how the body was designed to heal.

So, if you are ready to begin your journey, there’s a place for you. It’s here.

Whether you’re brand new or you’re already deep into your studies, you’re welcome here. And we’d love to see you in Mighties, Mighties Plus, Joette’s study groups (The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy Study Groups), and The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, which, actually, we’re starting a new class soon.

So, if you’re hearing this podcast, you might want to check that out as well, and we’ll put a link in this podcast so that you can join our Founders’ list and get more information on The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

But for now, share this podcast with someone you know who could use the encouragement and information that Nicole shared here today. And I want to thank you for spending this time with us. We’ll see you in the next episode.

Joette:

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

01:00   Introduction: Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

01:23   Be prepared in case of emergency

02:03   What is homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy®?

06:35   What homeopathic medicines might we use over the next few days?

10:25   After the bone has been set and it’s healing

12:02   Addressing the emotional component of physical injury

13:33   If surgery is required

17:35   Case management

19:46   Closing Advice

            PracticalHomeopathy.com

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 172, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the podcast, everyone. Today we have another jaw-dropping, bone-shattering episode with Joette.

We’re going to hear from Joette about her decades of experience with broken bones — how she’s handled those situations and the details — broken all the way down for you, even case management.

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Where do we start with this topic?

Joette: (01:23)

Yeah, no one wants a broken bone, right? And it’s always so shocking and scary when it happens, especially at that moment. You’re wondering if that bone will ever be the same.

It’s a very scary thing, and it can be for any age. But especially as people age, it’s even more important.

So, we need to know what to do and own the medicines and have them on hand. That’s important.

It’s one thing to know what to use and not have them on hand. In the end, it becomes very frustrating.

Kate:

I know we take our remedies — our homeopathic medicines for emergencies — with us when we’re on the go because that’s the definition of an emergency. You just don’t know when it’s going to happen.

Joette:

That’s right.

Joette: (02:03)

So, I want to take a step back first and start at the very beginning. Since you’re listening to this podcast, you might already know what homeopathy is, but for those who are new to homeopathy and listening for the first time, I want to explain what it is.

It’s often confused with the general term natural medicine or naturopathy, et cetera, referring to kind of a broad category: modalities such as herbs, essential oils, supplements, vitamins, et cetera.

Kate:

Yeah. We hear that all the time, don’t we?

“Oh yes, I know what homeopathy is.”

And come to find out they think it’s other things.

Joette:

They think it’s vitamins or nutrients or something.

Kate:

Yeah.

Joette:

But that’s not the case.

So, homeopathy — let’s give you a definition — is a system, a very specific system of medicine that is fundamentally different from allopathic medicine, which is the conventional method and also other natural healing modalities.

So, let’s start with allopathic medicine, which is conventional. It tends to focus heavily on suppressing symptoms — just getting rid of the pain at the cost of something else, perhaps.

But in contrast, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the body’s own healing mechanism because it’s always looking to correct the problem (that’s what fever’s about; that’s what pain and swelling is about) and correct that underlying imbalance that causes the symptoms in the first place.

So, symptoms are not worthy of being removed. They’re worthy of the underlying problem being corrected, so the symptoms are no longer needed.

And now Practical Homeopathy®, which is what I teach, is the method of using homeopathy in a more straightforward, protocol-driven — so formulaic — way for families (especially mothers and grandmothers because they take that so seriously) to confidently heal their families at home, even in conjunction with modern medicine.

Kate:

It’s pretty exciting because you’ve trained actually hundreds of homeopaths through your Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, and they’re helping people all over the world with this method.

Joette:

Yes.

But if you’re a mom and you want to treat your own family —or grandmother — this is your place.

So, let’s get back to broken bones, shall we? Right.

Joette: (04:17)

What do we use after the accident happens? Right after it’s happened. You discover there’s a broken bone, or you don’t even know if it’s broken yet. You just think, “Uh-oh.” You might feel disoriented. You don’t know where to go from here.

What do you do next?

So, let’s start with some homeopathic medicines that help with the severe pain and even the initial shock. And you want to have these on hand, friends. I can’t reiterate it enough.

There are three medicines: Aconitum (Aconitum napellus), Arnica (Arnica montana) and Hypericum (Hypericum perforatum).

So, I like to use these generally. I like to have them in a 200 potency. Or sometimes we own higher potencies, too. Arnica or Hypericum can easily be used in a 1M. So, you might want to have that on hand for when the trauma is pretty noteworthy.

So, what do we do with those three medicines?

Well, I like to call it “toggling.”

We toggle these medicines back and forth when the accident first happens for the first, say, hour or two, or even after that.

And we begin to space them out, as the use of the medicines become less and less needy.

So, at first, you might perhaps alternate them every five to 10 minutes. Aconite, Arnica, Hypericum. Then, the next one.

Now you’re not using them all simultaneously in the mouth all at once. You’re toggling them so that there’s time in between them — maybe five, 10 minutes or so.

And you use that over the first hour or two, and then you would take them less and less frequently as the symptoms determine.

Now we’re not treating symptoms, remember. We’re using the symptoms to determine how often these medicines should be used.

And what are the symptoms? The shockiness, the shakiness, the anxiety, the pain, the disorientation.

We’re using these medicines to see how these things move along … how these symptoms move along.

Kate:

Now, you’re not saying don’t go to the hospital if you know you have a broken bone.

Joette:

No. I’m not saying that. No, you’re on the way to the hospital.

In fact, if you’ve got someone in your family who knows how to use this (because perhaps you’ve trained your children how to do this), they’re driving, and maybe someone else is in the car administering the medicines to you (if it’s you who has the broken bone or potential broken bone).

Kate: (06:35)

Okay. So that’s the first few hours. Now what about the rest of the day and the following day, once you’ve received the proper medical attention that is needed, what would you do next?

Joette:

Well, we might continue using Aconitum a few times every day, especially if it’s that shocky feeling. Again, Aconitum is for that sense of being overtaken by something big like this. And you can use that in the next few days.

But usually, we stop that medicine because that shocky, that shaky feeling, that core feeling like something big has happened starts to go away. And what replaces it — or is in conjunction with it — is the pain.

The pain of a broken bone can be really noteworthy. So, then we would continue perhaps with Arnica montana and Hypericum — toggling them.

And, as we use these medicines, I want you to take note. “Wow, every time I take that Hypericum, I do feel a little bit of relief. Arnica sort of helps, but Hypericum is really the one that …” Okay. Now we’re going to concentrate more on Hypericum and maybe back off of Arnica.

Or it might be the other way around. It might be that Hypericum is not acting as well as Arnica is. So, then we pull away from using Hypericum as frequently, and we drop any that we don’t need.

But always, my friends, we’re keeping in mind that you may not need it now, but in six hours, 12 hours, a day later, “Oh my gosh! I think I need that Arnica again.”

Or “I think that Hypericum really was helping.”

Reinstate it back in again. Don’t assume that what’s happening is that that medicine is no longer correct. No, we’re going to adjust accordingly.

Kate:

Talk about how we can maybe go down in potency as well. Maybe we’re using it in the 1M potency at first, but we could start to see as the pain gets less and less that maybe, now, we don’t need it in the 1M potency anymore, and we go down to 200.

Joette:

Yes. And that could be … maybe.

It’s too complex at this point in time if you’re not experienced with doing this. But yes, we adjust. We adjust accordingly.

If we start with Hypericum in a very high potency, like a 1M because the pain is extraordinary, and we’re finding that it’s acting, then we might go down a little bit. We might go to a 200, but I don’t know that it’s as necessary as you might think. We might just stay with Hypericum 1M and just use it less frequently.

You’ll get the hang of it after a while, and the more accidents that you treat broken bones, et cetera, the more likely.

Or maybe it’s not even a broken … maybe it’s a bruised bone. We don’t know that until you get into the hospital and get those X-rays.

Once we’ve got that extraordinary first few minutes, that first day under our belt, then we can start thinking about another medicine, and that medicine is Bryonia (Bryonia alba).

It’s for that pain that is worse from movement, especially if it’s significantly worse from movement. It’s kind of a dull and aching and bruised pain. Sometimes it might have something more stabbing (pain), but it is generally known for its bruised and aching pain.

And so, people who end up needing to use Bryonia usually want to be completely still — at least in that bone, that area of the body — and rest. Or they want to apply a little bit of pressure to it to help hold it in place and give it a little more comfort just to have that gentle pressure applied.

There’s your indication that Bryonia alba is the medicine you want to start using.

Kate:

Okay, great.

So, to recap, the first-line medicines that we might think of are Aconite, Arnica and Hypericum. And then we transition to Bryonia if the pain continues and we feel like something else is needed to help with that.

Joette:

Especially if there’s elements from movement. Yes.

Kate: (10:25)

Okay. So, what about after the bone has been set? We know what to do for the pain. It’s getting better. What is next?

Joette:

The next place to go is you can still employ some of these pain medicines should they be needed, but they may not at some point. Depends on the person and the location, et cetera.

Then we start thinking about a combination medicine of Symphytum officinale — Symphytum 200 and taken with Calc phos 3. (Now, sometimes people don’t have Calc phos 3. They only have 6. I would call them both very valuable.)

Sometimes they’re mixed together: you can mix them together in the mouth and put them in simultaneously. Sometimes, they’re toggled also: Symphytum 200 and then a few minutes later, Calc phos 3 or 6.

These two medicines are specific for bone injuries and especially for knitting the bone. And the reason that I emphasize the word “knitting” is because before we start knitting, we have to make sure that the bone is in its proper place.

So, if there’s a chance that this bone could get out of place, and it has to be … and the doctor is assuming that it’s going to be many, many weeks before they’re going to even look at placement again. No, no. You want to make sure that you’re using this medicine ONLY if the bone is absolutely in its place, because no one expects this medicine to work as quickly as it does — except for homeopaths.

So, the doctor will not know this. It’s important that you do not use this medicine until the bone is absolutely in its proper place.

Kate: (12:02)

Along with these physical injuries, there can be excessive worry. The ongoing stress of this accident happening, maybe even infection, the “what-if” questions: “What if this doesn’t heal correctly?”

What would you use for those kinds of thoughts?

Joette:

Well, the biggest one that I always think of is Ignatia (Ignatia amara) 200C.

See, fixing the bone is great, but sometimes the trauma of the accident happening or the body going through surgery (which could happen … could result in surgery) in a kind of unsteady mind.

That is completely normal and real, but don’t use Ignatia if it’s not necessary … if the person doesn’t have these feelings. But if they do and they’re plagued, by all means, Ignatia 200, twice daily, is a great medicine for this.

So, you’ve most likely seen this through a lot: emotional pain because of the trauma of an accident happening or a physical pain or trauma of a bone being broken. All that goes with this: the bruising, the blood loss, having the bone reset, et cetera. And not to mention if the person needs surgery, the body is then subjected to a bunch of drugs and anesthesia.

Now, all of this can be hard on the body and the mind. So, in a case where, after we’ve experienced all of this, this whole cacophony of your life after such a condition or a situation, things are then left constantly worrying. I would definitely choose Ignatia 200, say, twice daily.

Kate: (13:33)

That’s great, Joette.

Now, what about surgery? Because sometimes we have to go in and have that surgery to correct that fracture.

Joette:

Surgery: We’re going to be looking at the use of Arnica montana, which you might’ve already been using. We might use Arnica montana just before the surgery, which helps protect against bleeding and infection, et cetera.

But what might even precede that is the angst of surgery. Now, not everyone feels angst over surgery. Many people feel nothing about it. Don’t give it a second thought. They’ve never had surgery. They don’t realize what a big deal it can be. It’s not always … what it can be.

And that’s when we use a medicine named Gelsemium. So, we don’t ever want to overlook this because Gelsemium is the medicine for courage, and it really does act. It’s amazing how often we might want to use that for the angst that precedes or starts boiling to the surface when we know that surgery is forthcoming.

So, before they wheel their loved ones into the operating room, Gelsemium is a quiet hero for those facing that ordeal: the dread, the trembling or that heavy anxious feeling — feeling like the knees go weak and the mind gets foggy with anticipation.

So, it’s especially useful for someone who feels overwhelmed by the thought of the anesthesia, the incisions, or all of those little details that keep piling up on their thought process.

And sometimes those people who get to this point and have such angst that they even can get chills or even diarrhea from that nerve-wracking thought of forthcoming surgery.

So, then I suggest Gelsemium 30 taken every, maybe, two or three times the day leading up to the surgery and maybe the morning of if needed.

And I find time and again — I’ve used it myself — it calms the nervous system. I’ve actually used it before I go into a dentist’s office. It doesn’t dull the mind like psychotropic drugs do, like synthetic drugs do in the allopathic world. But instead, just helps the body go into the procedure in a more relaxed state.

And it doesn’t force relaxation; it simply puts you back to yourself. And then, I think it helps lead to a smoother recovery afterward.

Kate:

Okay. So, before we talk about case management, what if the person has had things like screws or plates put in the body during surgery? Is there anything else that we might need to know about maybe an infection or possibility?

Joette:

Yeah, let’s talk about one more medicine, shall we? And that’s Staphysagria.

Staphysagria, usually in a 30 or a 200 potency, my friends, is especially important when surgery is involved. And it is specific for the incision at the site of the screws, the plates, the pins holding that bone together. Staphysagria is the go-to medicine for when there is a clean surgical wound.

And that’s not before. Generally, we’re going to use it afterward.

It’s remarkable for that sharp, stinging, cutting pain that lingers after the surgeon’s knife, and it helps the tissues heal smoothly around foreign objects like hardware, metal hardware.

So, we give it once or twice a day. This is after the surgery, shortly after, within a day or so, and then tapering as the incision calms and the pain eases.

So, we watch for that typical Staphysagria picture: The person may be oversensitive to pain or feel as though the wound is still fresh even many days after.

You might not realize that this should be used until many days after. Because when it’s used, it prevents excessive scar tissue, reduces the deep soreness around the screws and those incisions, and it keeps the body from building into an infection and allowing the body to accept the hardware without ongoing inflammation.

Kate: (17:35)

Great. Now we’re going to talk a little bit about case management.

Once you’ve gone through these things, and you’re on your way to healing, can you tell us how to know which medicines are working and how to know when to stop using the medicines or maybe start another one again?

Joette:

This is one of the most common questions, and it’s a good one.

Let’s talk a moment about proper case management. This is huge, friends, because this is where so many people miss the real power of Practical Homeopathy®.

Once you’ve chosen your medicine, whether it’s Arnica, Calc phos, Symphytum, Gelsemium or a combination, your job now is really to focus on the case like a hawk.

You want to look for shifts in pain — I mentioned that earlier. A reduction in swelling, changes in bruising, color, and probably most importantly, the improvements in the person’s overall energy, their appetite and sleep, because those are satellite aspects of being human are all the other conditions that seem irrelevant, but they are quite relevant.

Now, in the first few days, you may need to repeat the remedy more frequently — or the remedies — sometimes three to four times a day, but as soon as clear improvement sets in, and you’ll know this because your skills, your observational skills will have been honed by then, you back off perhaps to say twice a day, then even once as needed.

So, we don’t want to overtreat a condition that’s improving. If something stalls or a new symptom picture emerges, you might layer in a complementary remedy or switch to repeating the remedy more frequently, or even, as you become more nimble at doing this, switch the potency.

And this is a responsive approach. It requires thoughtfulness and is what turns a simple bone break into a more swift and better, stronger recovery instead of a long painful ordeal. This is where the art of Practical Homeopathy® is at its finest, my friends.

Kate: (19:46)

Joette, this has been a lot of great information. I’m sure everyone has been taking notes during this. But also, you can go to JoetteCalabrese.com or PracticalHomeopathy.com and look up the transcript from this podcast, and all of it will be right there for you.

Can you kind of wrap this up and give us some additional wisdom as we finish this podcast?

Joette:

Well, let me just say this, because if you happen to look at the X-ray of the broken bone, it looks really dramatic. But that X-ray is no match for what I consider the intelligent, orderly action of well-chosen homeopathic medicines.

So, from shock to pre- or post-surgery, nourishing the bones, or simply pain management, Practical Homeopathy® has been quietly and reliably doing this work for over 200 years.

But remember, it’s not just about grabbing a remedy and hoping for the best. That’s where proper case management makes all the difference in the world.

So, watch. Watch the case. Note the changes in pain, the swelling, the bruising, and especially the person’s energy, their sleep and their overall well-being or lack of it.

Sometimes we repeat the frequency in the early days and then space it out as improvement sets in.

Other times we may need to layer in a second medicine if something lingers on.

Kate:

This has been so great, Joette. I think everyone will benefit from hearing your words of wisdom on broken bones. Is there anything you want to leave us with today?

Joette:

Well, I’ve seen it time and time again in my practice, with my students, in their families, and even in my own family: The child who was back on the soccer field within weeks … earlier than expected. The grandmother whose hip fracture healed with far less pain and dependency. Even the, say, athlete who regained full strength without that lingering weakness so many suffer.

This is the real medicine, my friends. This is God’s medicine. It’s gentle, it’s deep acting and without the side effects that often come with conventional approaches.

So, keep your kits stocked, your powder dry, your notebooks handy, and your confidence intact. You don’t have to live in fear of every fall or every accident. You, my friends, now have tools that work with the body’s own wisdom instead of against it.

So, I say, if you want to go deeper into bone healing, trauma protocols or any methods I teach, head over to my website or join us in one of our ongoing courses.

And so, I guess I’d say until next time, stay close to Practical Homeopathy®, trust the process and remember you were made to heal.

So, we’ll see you next episode. Thanks, Kate.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58   Introduction: Finding Your True North

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

            “MetaRepertory, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

            “Nature’s Materia Medica, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

03:40   After searching, coming back home to Practical Homeopathy®

            “Organon of Medicine” by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

            “The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann” by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford

06:26   Why Practical Homeopathy®?

08:40   Success Story: A large, scary boil

            Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy

            Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

10:57   Success Story: Staph infection

            Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning

12:21   Success Story: Insomnia

            Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia

12:57   Joette brings homeopathy into the home

14:23   Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 171.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today I’m joined by my friend, Kelsey.

Kelsey has come up with a theme for this podcast, and it’s called “Finding Your True North.” And I can’t wait for her to tell you why she’s chosen that title for today’s theme of the podcast, but I want to tell you a little bit about Kelsey.

So, as a mother whose greatest charge is caring for her family, Kelsey has seen Practical Homeopathy® work powerfully in her own life, from healing stubborn boils and gut issues to resolving a serious staph infection in hours, as well as insomnia with a single well-chosen remedy.

So, like Sherlock Holmes, she knows it’s not just what we know but what we can prove. And today, Kelsey will share how, after exploring far and wide, she’s arrived back where she started, only now with a deeper appreciation and understanding.

So, Kelsey, I can’t wait to hear your stories, and I want to welcome you to the podcast.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s so good to see you today.

Kate:

So, Kelsey, tell us a little bit about your background.

Kelsey:

Well, Kate, as you know, I was privileged to take the Gateway I and II with you and Michele many years ago, and I was hooked. I actually ended up taking Gateway I and II for a solid year. I just kept coming back again and again.

Kate:

We’ve known each other for quite a while.

Kelsey:

Truly. And it was the community that I enjoyed so much and the camaraderie and just kind of finding a place to ask my questions about homeopathy. It was such a wonderful opportunity. So, that was my first real entry into homeopathy.

Kate:

Right.

Kelsey:

In kind of the natural progression, I took Joette’s larger courses. And so those blew my mind because it was just unraveling the onion of learning.

I did all of her larger courses, and then after taking Joette’s larger courses — around that time — The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® was opening up. And so, I naturally dove right in and was a part of the pioneer class, graduating in 2022.

And I just loved that. It offered a solid foundation for students studying homeopathy in history and in the materia medica.

But I think what I loved most was the interviews. Joette actually interviewed the late Robin Murphy, and it was such a great opportunity to learn from one of the masters.

Kate:

Right. That was such a good interview. I loved that, and it’s too bad that he’s no longer with us. But we use his repertory and materia medica all the time, don’t we, Kelsey?

Kelsey:

We do. It’s a foundation of everything Joette teaches. I mean, it’s one of my favorite books to have around me.

Kate:

Then tell us what happened next.

Kelsey: (03:40)

Okay. So, after I graduated with Joette and APH, I decided that I would try classical school. So, I went for one year. And for a variety of reasons, it just wasn’t the right fit for me.

So, I decided to step back and reassess my priorities. And as I stepped back, I came to realize that really it was the strict teaching in classical homeopathy that wasn’t really sitting right with me — that there’s only one way to use it. I was having a bit of a tough time with that, especially considering all that I had learned in The Academy.

And so, really, I started to do more research and look back on what I had learned in The Academy.

If you look at the “Organon” and its various editions written by Hahnemann himself, as well as the great book by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford called “The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann,” it actually shows the progression of Hahnemann’s understanding of homeopathic methodology over time.

And if you look at it, the third edition is really different from the sixth edition. It’s obvious that there were changes and updates as Hahnemann unearthed and understood more about his craft.

And so that really stood out to me as a reality that there are more ways to use this modality than just one.

So, I think all of us would agree that scientists and practitioners need to be open to change and growth in their fields. The laws of the universe stay the same — like the Law of Similars, of course — because the Creator doesn’t change, and He put these laws in place. But our understanding of them and how they work is subject to change.

And so, I think no matter what field we’re in, human beings are constantly uncovering and learning more about God’s world. The Drs. Banerji and Practical Homeopathy® both humbly acknowledge this fact by blending a variety of methods together for a truly effective modality.

Kate:

So, what led you to this, what you’re calling “a coming home”?

Kelsey:

Yeah. Well, it’s interesting. In the midst of my searching, I was given a very sobering diagnosis, and it made me just stop everything completely and reassess what I knew about homeopathy.

The rubber met the road for me.

With this diagnosis, I had to ask myself, “What method of homeopathy would I employ during such a time?” And I turned to what I knew — and what I knew worked.

And that’s when I came home again to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

Oh, I love the way you put that because we missed you when we didn’t see you, and we’re glad to have you back. And it’s very exciting what you’re doing, and I can’t wait to see what your future using this medicine and helping others leads to.

So, I want to ask you now to talk more about that coming home for you and what that felt like and what that means to you now.

Kelsey: (06:26)

The thing I love about Joette’s method and Practical Homeopathy® and what the Banerjis have put out is that these methods are accessible, and they’re reproducible.

So, even when I was in school, I would constantly refer people to Joette’s blog because she provides so much information, and she makes homeopathy so easy, anyone can use it.

And what I love is that this method is not out of touch. It’s really logical. And I think the best part — honestly for me because I love research — is that it’s backed up by over 200 years of clinical data and success enjoyed by the Drs. Banerji.

I truly believe that Practical Homeopathy® moves us forward. I’m reading a book right now about George Washington. And he was a farmer, and he was a master gardener. He came up with more effective ways to plant his crops, and in the book it talks about this invention that he made.

He developed a barrel with holes in it that could be rolled around in a field to drop seeds more efficiently. This was a fantastic invention at the time, but we would not use something like this today, right?

Kate:

Right. Yeah, that’s true.

Kelsey:

Right. Most large-scale farmers have developed greater technology to get the job done.

To me, this is not unlike what led to the development of Practical Homeopathy®. The method that Joette teaches has its roots in the genius findings of Hahnemann, while also making room for the discoveries and advancements that took place over time.

I mean, we would expect this kind of progression with any other form of science or technology, right?

Kate:

Right. Yes.

Kelsey:

So, like, the Banerjis and Practical Homeopathy® does not stay stuck in one place. They move us forward and allow us to expand our knowledge of just how this gorgeous modality works in daily life. I love that.

Kate:

You’ve really put a lot of thought into this, Kelsey, about the differences and the different methodologies and why you’ve come back to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kelsey:

Yeah. I mean, I think it helps to have both sides and to see sort of why people do what they do, and then to look at reality and see how science actually works and how things change over time. It really has helped me to have a foundation that is solid.

Kate: (08:40)

Okay, Kelsey, let’s get to the meat of the podcast, which is your successes. I know you have a lot to share, but if you can boil it down to maybe three or four things that you think could be helpful to those who are listening today.

Kelsey:

Oh, that’s tough because there’s a lot of good things that have happened, but I’ll try.

Kate:

Okay.

Kelsey:

I will start with a neat story that was about me because that’s where I really learned how to use homeopathy was with myself first.

But essentially out of the blue, I got this boil, and it was super large and scary and developed really quickly. And so, at the time I didn’t have a lot of experience with homeopathy. And, of course, I did what most people would do, and I just went and got an antibiotic.

Well, we didn’t know that I was allergic to this antibiotic. And so, after one dose, I had a really bad reaction. It was anaphylactic. It was scary, and it really just made me think like, “I can never take this again.”

And so that, for me, was when the rubber met the road. I went searching, I found Joette’s blog. The blog name is “Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy,” and I just thought, “Well, let me go ahead and try these remedies. I’ll see if they work.”

And within just a few days, the boil that was angry, red, infected was completely better, and it just blew my mind.

Unfortunately, in that same story, I endured the most horrendous gut dysbiosis following this antibiotic, which can happen sometimes. I was at my wits’ end, Kate. I didn’t know what I was going to do.

I was very limited on what I could eat. It was like overnight my world changed. And if you do any research about gut dysbiosis, you know that this can happen for folk.

And so, I went crawling to Joette — as she says people often do — to homeopathy. And I had seen functional medical doctors; I had seen allopathic physicians. And truly Joette and Practical Homeopathy® was what got me up the mountaintop and down again.

From there, I was absolutely hooked. So, I became a client of Joette, and she recommended a protocol specific to gut dysbiosis.

Those are in the Good Gut, Bad Gut course for those of you that have it or are looking to learn more. And it actually changed my life. It made me so much better.

In about six months, I was back to my normal self.

Kelsey: (10:57)

Okay. The next story I have is about a family member who got a staph infection on her lip.

Now, this family member was getting a makeover done and was using borrowed lipstick. And unfortunately, she had already had a little bit of a canker sore on her lip, and within just a few hours of getting the makeover, her lip got really big. I mean, it happened quickly.

And so, she reached out to me. Went to bed that night (didn’t seem like that big of a deal), but by morning her lip had doubled in size. She could barely close her mouth, and it was severely infected.

She had a staph infection.

And so, we worked together, and she basically gave herself eight hours before she was going to take an antibiotic. She ordered the antibiotics in the morning; she took the remedies recommended in the morning as well. And by that evening, her lip was completely down. And by the next day, the infection was gone. She was amazed.

We found a protocol for such an instance on Joette’s blog called “Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning.” And so, if you want to look there for that information, it’s all there.

But it was truly one of those moments where we thought, “Is this going to work?” And it did, and both of us became even bigger believers.

Kate:

Oh, good. So, she didn’t ever end up taking the antibiotic for her.

Kelsey:

She didn’t. They were ready to go — available for her if she needed them — but she did not need them.

Kate:

That’s awesome.

Okay, and I think you have one more story that you’re going to share with us.

Kelsey: (12:21)

Yes. This one is just a sweet one.

I spend a lot of time with my mom. And she just turned 70, and she has been experiencing insomnia, and it’s really gotten her down. And so, we looked on Joette’s blog. And on it you’ll find one called “Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia.”

And so, my mom employed Ignatia 200C, and it has completely resolved her insomnia. She sleeps like a baby every night, and it’s glorious.

Kate:

Oh, I love that remedy. I think so many people could use that.

Kelsey:

Oh, it’s true.

Kate:

What a great thing. It’s tough when you can’t sleep for sure.

Kelsey:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Kate: (12:57)

So, Kelsey, you have something funny that we had talked about earlier regarding lipstick and Joette.

Kelsey:

How ironic that we would talk about lipstick after that staph story, Kate.

Kate:

Right? Exactly.

So, tell me how you’re comparing Joette to Chanel and lipstick and homeopathy, and how you’re incorporating that all together.

Kelsey:

Okay. So, what I love about learning from Joette is that she literally puts red lipstick and Chanel on homeopathy. And what I mean by that is she has a way of making it stick. It’s beautiful. It’s elegant with her stories and her charisma.

And I also was thinking about it further. Another analogy I like to say is that I believe Joette is to homeopathy what Julia Child was to French cooking.

Okay. So, most of you know that Julia brought the beauties of French cuisine into the homes of the average American housewife. She made something that was very unreachable into an accessible pleasure for the ordinary home cook. And in the same vein, I believe Joette has brought an otherwise ethereal and quite out-of-reach modality into the home, in order to aid the family in caring for itself.

I mean, I believe French cooking should regularly grace our tables because it’s so good. And along those same lines, I think that homeopathy deserves its rightful place in the home first.

Both Julia and Joette have made that a possibility.

Kate: (14:23)

So, as we wrap up the podcast, do you have any final thoughts or wisdom that you want to share with the listeners?

Kelsey:

I do, Kate. I have two quotes I’d love to share with you if you’d let me.

Joette:

Sure.

Kelsey

The first one is from the great classic “The Hounds of Baskerville.” And in this book, Sherlock Holmes says, “It is not what we know but what we can prove.”

And as you know, the materia medica is made up of provings — both accidental and intentional. And so, with Holmes, we can confidently say that homeopathic medicine is not just about what we know in theory, but about what we can actually prove. And I just love that.

And the final quote I’d like to share is from T.S. Elliot, and it goes like this: “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.”

And why this quote rings true for me especially is because I went searching, when really, I had everything right in front of me.

I had these beautiful methods of Practical Homeopathy® and a stellar guide in Joette. And it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t explore or extend our learning, but when we do, we might just find out — like I did — that we come home with a deeper appreciation and understanding of what we had all along.

And so, with Holmes, I can confidently say that I don’t just know this to be true now. I can prove it.

Kate:

Oh, I love that.

Kelsey, it’s been a pleasure having you here, and I know the listeners have enjoyed the podcast, just like I have enjoyed talking to you. So, thank you so much for your time.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s been a pleasure.

Joette:

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

00:59   Introduction: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Homeopath

02:03   Why look for alternatives to conventional medicine?

05:27   “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?”

06:21   Tip #1: Don’t wait to start

            JoetteCalabrese.com

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

08:42   Tip #2: A tincture of time

10:01   Tip # 3: Fear not

12:01   Success Stories

13:30   Closing advice: Give Practical Homeopathy® a chance

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 170.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:59)

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so glad that you’re here with us today.

I can’t wait to introduce you to our special guest. If you’ve ever felt stuck between conventional medicine and natural options or if you’ve wondered whether homeopathy could really work for serious everyday family health challenges, today’s episode is going to speak straight to your heart.

Joining us today is Erin. She’s a registered nurse with decades of experience. She’s also a mom, a breast cancer survivor, and now a successful homeopath.

Erin went from being deeply skeptical of the little white sugar pills to using Practical Homeopathy® confidently for everything from insomnia and vertigo to abscesses, injuries and chronic conditions in her family.

So, Erin, I want to welcome you to the podcast. It’s so great to have you here, finally. We’ve been waiting for the listeners to hear your story.

Erin:

Thank you, Kate. I am so happy to be here.

Kate: (02:03)

Oh, I’m happy you’re here.

So, let’s start at the beginning. You are a registered nurse — have been for many years — and you followed the conventional medicine paradigm with your family. What finally made you start looking for alternatives?

Erin:

It actually started with our oldest child, when he entered kindergarten. After about two weeks, the school called us and told us that he needed to be medicated because he couldn’t sit still, and he was too disruptive.

My husband and I weren’t willing to jump to medication as a first step. That led us down the common path many people take. We tried herbalism, essential oils, naturopathy, functional medicine, but everything felt so complicated and time-consuming or just managing symptoms without really giving any lasting improvement.

We stayed in those approaches for a while simply because we didn’t know there was anything better.

Kate:

Right. And then you faced a health crisis. Tell us about what that was and what happened afterward that led you to homeopathy, if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

Erin:

Oh, sure. So again, I was completely in the Western medicine paradigm with my routine checkups. And I went to just a regularly scheduled appointment, and they found something that led to more tests. Eventually I ended up with a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Again, I followed every recommendation they had. I did the surgery and the treatments — the whole protocol. But when it was over, I was left with all the side effects that I wasn’t expecting: the months of insomnia with the crushing exhaustion and the brain fog and the anxiety. And then the constant vertigo started day and night, and I just really had no quality of life at that point.

My mom kept telling me about this lady on the internet named Joette, who had something that could help. She kept offering me these little white sugar pills. And at first, I completely brushed it off.

I thought my mom was falling for some internet charlatan, and I was genuinely concerned for her because now that became an extra worry that I didn’t feel that I had, I guess, the brain power to deal with.

Kate:

That’s funny. So, I think a lot of listeners can relate to that skepticism.

So, what finally made you try these little white pills?

Erin:

Honestly, it was desperation. The insomnia was unbearable, and my thought was, “If I can just sleep, maybe I can function again.”

So, I agreed to try the remedy that my mom had learned from Joette’s blog. It was Coffea cruda. And within three days, I was sleeping again. I could not believe it.

My mom never once said, “I told you so.” She was very gracious in that regard.

But a few days later, I mentioned how terrible my vertigo was. And, of course, my mom said Joette had a protocol for that, too.

Even though I was still on the prescription medicine that was causing the vertigo, I decided to try it. It took about 10 days before I began noticing a real difference. And over many months, the vertigo finally improved significantly — I would say, 90 to 95%. And I was amazed all over again.

Kate:

Yeah. Vertigo can be debilitating. So, I can imagine you were very relieved.

What came next for you was you wanting to go deeper and really study this. Tell me about that.

Erin: (05:27)

Sure. I just kept thinking, “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?” I knew that I needed to learn more. And that’s when I heard that Joette was opening her Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

My mom encouraged me to apply. Even though I felt brand new to homeopathy, I decided to go ahead and try it. And I was part of the Pioneer class of 2022.

Then I went on to complete the Mastery program, and now I’m in my third year of the Mastermind program.

It truly changed my life. I’m now living my dream of helping others, and I owe it all to Joette and my persistent mom and Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

What a long way you’ve come, Erin. I mean, think about it. You didn’t even know what homeopathy was, and now this is a big part of your life, and you actually see clients. So, it’s very exciting.

Erin:

Yes.

Kate: (06:21)

So, Erin, you’ve put together some top tips for listeners of this podcast who may be just starting out or a little hesitant. So, I’d love it if you could go through them.

And your first tip is: Don’t wait to start. Can you explain what you mean by that?

Erin:

Absolutely. Yes. Don’t wait to start learning or using homeopathy. I think so many people feel like they need to learn everything first or they need to clean up their diet or change all their habits before they can begin using homeopathy. But Practical Homeopathy® meets you exactly where you are on your wellness journey.

You don’t have to be perfect or fully prepared. Just begin.

Joette has wonderful resources on her website. You can just go to JoetteCalabrese.com and click on the “New to Homeopathy” link.

You can also click on the link for her blogs or podcasts and just start listening and reading. I send these links out to people all the time because they are just so informative.

I also think it’s really important to find a community of like-minded people — your tribe, right? That’s what we call it. And now we talk about finding our tribe.

A really great way to do that is to take the Gateway class that Joette has written.

Kate:

It’s called Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®, and it’s a study guide that you can use to guide you through a study of homeopathy.

Erin:

Yes. I teach that class, and so do many others. It’s a great way to meet other people who are wanting to learn homeopathy also.

Kate:

And if you’re looking for a community of people to do that with, once you purchase the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide, there is a list of study group leaders on the website that you’ll see.

And also, Joette has a Facebook page called Joette’s Study Group, Find Your Study Group Friends. So, that’s where people who are leading study groups post, “I’m leading a study group starting next Thursday.” And they give all the information, so you could find a group of people there to go through your study guide with.

That’s great advice, Erin. I love that.

Okay. Let’s move on to your second tip, Erin, which is about being patient with the homeopathic medicines. Talk to us about that.

Erin: (08:42)

I think this is probably the hardest part for most of us (it certainly was for me): the waiting for the homeopathic medicines to work. Because homeopathy is not like taking Tylenol or Benadryl or something that forces our body to do something immediately.

It’s more like giving the body a set of instructions that it reads and follows at its own pace to bring itself back into balance.

So, for chronic issues especially, patience is key.

Sometimes you experience a quick resolution with the homeopathics. But it can also take time, as I said, especially when you’re healing chronic conditions you’ve had for many years.

Healing also isn’t always linear. Sometimes it’s two steps forward and one step back. There are good days and not-so-good days, but overall, from start to finish, we see that we’re headed towards healing.

Kate:

Kind of like when you had the vertigo, I imagine, Erin, is what you’re talking about: when it didn’t happen overnight that your vertigo was completely gone, but you mentioned it was days that it gradually kept getting better.

Erin:

Yes, exactly.

Kate:

Great advice, Erin, to be patient with the medicines and consistent. I think that’s the other thing. Yeah.

Erin:

Right.

Kate:

You have to take them.

Kate: (10:01)

And your third tip gets to the heart of why so many of us are drawn to homeopathy. Tell us about that.

Erin:

Yes. Take control and conquer your fear.

Practical Homeopathy® has removed so much of the fear surrounding illness in our family and replaced it with real hope. Since I took the first dose of Coffea cruda, we’ve faced all sorts of challenges.

My dad has suffered with tremors for many years. I was in the first year of The Academy studies, and Joette spent a great deal of time teaching us about our homeopathic medicines, and she does it alphabetically.

So, fortunately for me, Cuprum metallicum was a C. It’s at the beginning of the alphabet, and I learned about it pretty shortly in. I wanted to help my dad with the Cuprum for his tremors, and it did! Over the course of several weeks, we saw an improvement in his tremors for about 50%, but then it stopped. It plateaued right there.

So, I was concerned, and I wanted to talk to Joette about what do we do now.

But while I was having my consultation with Joette, my dad and my mom got together and decided, “Well, if a 6C worked, we’ll try it in a 200C.” And they switched that to a 200C.

And he had had a head injury several years ago that had taken away all of his sense of smell and taste, and a few weeks on the 200C, suddenly he was able to smell and taste again. Not everything, but about 50%.

So, it was truly amazing that head injury was old. It wasn’t what I thought we were working on. I was just simply looking at the tremors, and we were able to help both with the same medicine.

Kate:

That’s so funny that they just went ahead and made that change. What a great thing. And we know that Cuprum is one of the top remedies — Cuprum metallicum, that is — is one of the top remedies for head injuries. So that’s great.

Erin: (12:01)

Yes. Then I’ve used the first year of The Academy — A, the beginning of the alphabet. Arnica, at that point, was the only remedy I had learned in The Academy.

And I burnt my thumb on the hot burner of a stove, and it immediately turned white and kind of crispy. And I didn’t know about other remedies other than Arnica. So, I just started taking Arnica. I took like three doses, and the pain went away, and it never even blistered. So, I was truly amazed by that as well.

Kate:

Arnica never ceases to amaze me.

Erin:

I know.

Kate:

It’s useful for so many things. Yeah.

Erin:

Yeah. I have people ask me, “Well, can I use Arnica for that? ” And I’m thinking, “Probably.”

Kate:

What else do you have, Erin?

Erin:

So we’ve used, again, homeopathy for so many different things within our own family with internal abscesses and pleurisy, pneumonia, UTIs, migraines, chronic back pain, sciatica, poison ivy, allergies, eczema, road rash, essential tremors, the irregular heartbeat, frozen shoulder, low thyroid, high blood pressure, ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety. I mean, the list goes on.

The Practical Homeopathy® has risen to every single one of those challenges for us.

Kate:

Well, that’s amazing. And what an inspiring list, and I’m sure you have so much more that you could talk about.

Kate: (13:30)

Before we wrap up today, is there anything else that you would like to share with our listeners?

Erin:

Just that if you’re feeling overwhelmed or skeptical like I once was, give it a chance. Start small, be patient and watch what happens. The results can truly be life-changing.

Kate:

Oh, Erin, thank you so much. That was beautiful. I appreciate you sharing your personal story that took you from a skeptical nurse and cancer survivor to a confident homeopath, and you’re truly helping families every day. I love hearing what you’re doing. Your journey is an encouragement to me and all of us.

So, friends, if you’re listening to this podcast and Erin’s story resonated with you, I want to encourage you to share this with someone else that you know might be suffering as well, and want to share homeopathy with.

Consider, as Erin said, going to Joette’s website and just starting … reading her blogs and listening to the podcasts. And consider possibly, even like Erin, joining The Academy at some point the next time a class opens up.

As you said, Erin — so well — Practical Homeopathy® helps us to be fearless, and it truly puts us back in the driver’s seat of our health and the health of our families.

So, I want to thank you for listening today. Thank you, Erin, for being here. And until next time, stay curious, be empowered and use Practical Homeopathy® to take charge of your health with confidence.

Joette:

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

01:00   Introduction: Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

01:41   Different kinds of headaches

04:12   Two personal examples: barometric pressure and dehydration headaches

06:12   Success Story: Barometric headache

09:31   Different homeopathic medicines for different headaches

            JoetteCalabrese.com

            Don’t Forget Sepia for Headaches

            April Showers Bring Sinus Headaches

            Make It Stop! Escape from the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain

11:05   The beautiful truth of our bodies and homeopathy

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 169, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the podcast. If this is your first time here, you’re in for a treat today. Or maybe a better way to say it is, you’re about to get out of a real pickle.

We’re diving into headaches with Joette — from the extremely painful ones that knock you flat to that dull ache after a long day in the sun. But even more importantly, we’ll hear exactly what Joette did to finally relieve her headaches for good.

Now, I know most of us listening have dealt with a headache at some point, even if it was just a mild one. But Joette, earlier, you were sharing how we can approach different types of headaches in a smarter way. So, can you start by explaining what you mean by different kinds of headaches?

Joette: (01:41)

Oh, absolutely, Kate. Headaches come in all shapes and sizes: dull, throbbing, sharp, stabbing, tight-band-like pressure around the head, pain behind the eyes, or sometimes a heavy squeezing sensation. And then there are migraines, which are in a league of their own.

So, let me clarify the difference between a regular headache — even a really painful sinus one — and a true migraine.

Now, migraine is far more than just a bad headache. It often brings debilitating, throbbing pain, sometimes on one side, sometimes both sides, that can leave you in bed for days. Lights, sounds, movement, or certain triggers can worsen it, along with nausea, vision changes, even fatigue or irritability.

So, whether it’s a headache or a migraine, the key is to investigate before reaching for the homeopathic medicine. We want to try to find the cause, if possible. If we can’t pinpoint it exactly, at least narrow it down to the specific symptoms, because sometimes the cause can give us very good information.

Kate:

So, you are saying that headaches don’t usually just appear out of nowhere.

Joette:

Well, sometimes it feels like that. But if you look a little closer, there’s often a trigger — not always — but often there can be. It can be a long day in the sun, sudden weather, pressure changes, too much screen time, dehydration, or even stress, or, let me also add, food intolerances that you hadn’t considered in the past.

So, if the cause isn’t obvious, then, okay … then, focus on the symptoms instead.

Where exactly is the pain? What does it feel like? Is it only at night or in the temples or dull pressure behind the eyes?

We often slap the broad label headache on everything and stop there because most people are accustomed to just simply taking a drug for just pain regardless of where it is and how it presents. But these details that I’m listing really matter in homeopathy.

Kate:

So, I’m wondering if the cause and symptoms are the real clues to how we look at this. I think that’s really smart.

Joette, why does the type of headache even matter? Isn’t it all just the same thing in the end?

Joette:

Not really. Once you understand the difference between migraines, certain common headaches, their causes, their unique symptoms, everything changes.

Joette: (04:12)

So, let me share two personal stories that show the cause made all the difference in the pain I experienced.

The first one was years of barometric pressure headaches back in Buffalo, New York, that I suffered over a long period of time — as I said, for years. Every time the barometric pressure changed — the weather shifted — I’d get these intense sinus headaches.

The pain would start above my eyes and spread, feeling like — I don’t know — a vice grip, squeezing my sinuses in my whole face. It was miserable and predictable with the forecast, but only once I recognized that. I never realized that.

And living on the Great Lakes, there was always a barometric pressure change. One was rolling in, or one was rolling out. But once they started up, once the headache started, it was practically unstoppable until the pressure changed in the weather.

I’d be foggy, irritable, in lots of pain just trying to function.

The second time, some 40 years later, was after I moved to Florida. The intense sun and heat led to dehydration headaches that became my new normal.

Now, why would I be in the sun? Well, because I made a point of walking on the beach every day. And I also made a point of sitting in the sun every day, in addition to that walking, for, I don’t know, 15 minutes, an hour. But you can’t sit much longer at certain times of the year.

And I would sit in the sun without sunscreen, I might add, my friends. I’d end up with that dull, however, exhausting ache, a heavy draining, and often hitting in the late afternoon or evening after having been outside in that draining sun. It felt like my whole head was worn out, and it kept coming back no matter what I did.

Kate:

Oh, that sounds miserable, Joette. I actually can’t imagine dealing with nagging headaches like that all the time. I don’t get headaches, which I’m thankful for.

So, tell me, how did you make it through those periods, and what changed? You don’t still suffer from headaches today, right?

Joette:

No, I don’t. So, the first headache was before I knew enough about homeopathy. I thought the answer was over-the-counter pain relievers or even prescriptions.

And now, I never got a prescription. I’d only lived on … I believe the medicine that I used on a regular basis was a cover-up. It was a band-aid. And it was “222s,” is what they were called. And I used to go to Canada to buy them because you couldn’t buy them over the counter in New York State. And they had codeine in them.

So, I would take a codeine drug every time the barometric pressure came in. Now this, again, this was a good 40-some years — something like that. And it would dull the pain, and I would relieve the pain, actually, for hours or even a day if I was lucky. But the headaches always came roaring back once the next barometric pressure change came back in again.

So, it was a haphazard cycle, not a real solution.

But once I started to learn a little bit about homeopathy, I realized that there are specific medicines that matched the headaches perfectly, something that I hadn’t noticed up until that time. The first one — and I’ve talked about this so many times, perhaps this is old news to some of you — is the medicine Kali bichromicum. Sometimes people call it Kali bic, and that’s for those extreme sinus headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes.

So, the second medicine that I used specifically for those dull, exhausting headaches caused by dehydration was China — C-H-I-N-A — which is also sometimes called Cinchona. (Both of those names are used for the same medicine.)

So, China … and I used it specifically for when I got those headaches right as they happened. And it was often because I was dehydrated. I had not been drinking enough water and had not been adding anything to my water, such as salt.

Kate:

So, that was when you were out in heat and just ….

Joette:

Perspiring.

Kate:

Yeah. Right.

Joette:

And it didn’t take me long to figure this out once I realized, and Perry and I kind of watch each other about this because if we find that we’re exhausted throughout the day, we’re thinking: “Oh yeah, of course. We’re not rehydrating. We’re not drinking enough water with electrolytes or with salt in it after having walked on the beach in that hot weather or after having sat out in the sun for 15-20 minutes in the afternoon.”

So, these beautiful medicines were the real game changers for me. They didn’t just mask the pain. They spurred my body to address the underlying issue, and then just relieved it once and for all.

Now, as far as the Kali bichromicum is concerned and those extreme headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes, I simply have not had them again in many, many decades.

But the China medicine and that medicine specific for dehydration and headaches that address that need for salt and water … I still have to remind myself every once in a while because I still insist on walking in the hot sun and sitting in the sun later in the afternoon. So, those can be brought on time and time again if I’m not careful.

Kate:

Yeah. I love how homeopathy helps to truly address those conditions and heal our bodies, and it doesn’t just cover up symptoms.

Kate: (09:31)

But I want to ask you, what if someone’s headache cause or symptoms aren’t exactly like the ones you mentioned today? Because, as you mentioned earlier, there are a lot of different causes of headaches. So what if someone’s headache isn’t like the ones that you just mentioned, and they’re different?

Joette:

Well, there are different homeopathic medicines for different headaches. It all depends on matching the unique cause and symptoms and sometimes the name of the condition, too — exactly the name: that it is a migraine.

So, I would say that if someone is already familiar with homeopathy, they can explore the repertory, the material medica.

But if you’re newer to this, a great starting point is at my website at JoetteCalabrese.com. And you just type in “headache” in the search bar in the top right corner, and you’ll find helpful blogs. Like Don’t Forget Sepia for Headaches, is one title. Another one is April Showers Bring Sinus Headaches … is another title.

And so, these are all available for your use at, of course, no cost.

And so, I also cover headaches in greater depth should this information not be of use to you because as I said, there are a myriad of different types of headaches. So, there’s also [Make It Stop!] Escape from the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain, which is an in-depth course, which covers headaches as well as many other kinds of pain that people suffer.

So, if you want to learn how to use more of these medicines and how they’re specific to certain kinds of headaches and certain symptoms related to these headaches, this might be where you need to go next.

Kate: (11:05)

Homeopathy is so empowering, and it shifts our mindset from feeling helpless to feeling hopeful. As we hear from so many of your students, Joette, that their fear just melts away.

Joette:

Yes. And here’s the beautiful truth: Our body is designed to heal. It’s always looking for homeostasis. So, headaches — even the stubborn, recurring ones that have plagued one for years — does not mean that it’s a lifelong sentence.

When we learn to listen closely to the symptoms — pay attention to them and match them with the right homeopathic medicine — it gives the body that gentle nudge that it needs to do what it was made to do, and that is to shift outside of that suffering.

So, I guess the upshot is if someone is suffering, I urge them to take heart. Relief doesn’t have to be complicated nor even expensive. It can be simple, natural and restorative. So, start paying attention to the patterns. Trust the process and remember freedom from pain is possible … one well-chosen homeopathic medicine at a time.

So, you’ve got this. Your body is stronger and wiser than you may realize right now.

So, I guess I’ll end by saying, thanks for joining us today. Don’t forget to send this podcast to someone you know who suffers from headaches, at least to get them started.

And until next time, stay curious, friends, stay observant and stay Mighty.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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®.

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01:00   Introduction: Don’t Worry

02:00   Women are expert worriers

03:18   When worry becomes a pathology, think homeopathy

            “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy

05:26   Ailments from worry

07:59   When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 168, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, and our subject today is worry.

Now, we all talk about anxiety. I think that’s very common in society today, but what about worry? Maybe you’re not plagued with the deep anxiety day and night, but you are a mom, like me, that worries.

Or maybe you’re not a mom, but you worry about your pets, your family, your friends, your career, your finances. What about if you’re a teenager and you worry about being bullied, or a grandparent who worries about their new grandbabies and how much time they’ll get to spend with them?

Well, regardless of who you are, worry shouldn’t be on the forefront of your mind, especially if you can’t let it go. Long-term stresses on the body can lead to many other issues, but in this podcast, Joette is going to cover some important homeopathic medicines that can help when worry becomes an everyday occurrence and when worry turns into something greater.

So, let’s get started, Joette.

Joette: (02:00)

Yeah, let’s get started, Kate.

First, I want to say that some of the best worriers on earth are women. We’re experts at it. Once we become a mother, then, I would say worry is our middle name.

Kate:

Right.

Joette:

So, yeah, it can be mild. It can go on and on, but it can also be within the range of normal. So, we don’t want to treat just every little thing that comes along because, as we know, everyone worries now and then.

But when it starts to affect our daily life, then we consider trying a homeopathic medicine to calm that thinking pattern. And we don’t use it every day. We would use it maybe for a day or two and see how it affects us — and use it only as needed. That would be our goal.

So, I know there can be moments of fleeting worry when your child learns how to ride a bike, or when you’re going to take a test, or about your family going on a trip overseas, or if you’ll make it someplace on time. That’s within the range of normal.

But if you find yourself in a constant state of worry, or it becomes something that you find affects your day-to-day living because you’re spending your time checking up on your adult kids constantly (or even your younger children), or not going to places because of worry (like not getting on a plane or not being comfortable enough to take the thruway) … you get the picture.

When worry becomes a pathology, think Arsenicum album or Calc carb

Joette: (03:18)

Homeopathy can often help. So, I want to talk about a few top remedies that we could consider when we repertorize them in our “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy. And we look up on page, for example, 277. (For those of you who have a repertory, it’s kind of fun to do this. But if you don’t, you can just follow along.)

There’s “worries, tendency to,” (tendency to worry). And the top medicines are Arsenicum album and Calc carb (or Calcarea carbonica). There are other medicines, too, but I want to just touch on these two main medicines.

Let’s go with Arsenicum first. It’s a person who is full of worries about trifles. They’re nervous; they’re anxious; they can be indecisive. They have anxiety, especially about health, about fear of germs, viruses, being poisoned. They’re restless, and basically, they turn into a hypochondriac.

If it’s a child that worries, they don’t want to be alone, and they can cling to their parents.

And I have to say that this is the kind of medicine that we want to take. You know when they say put the mask on your face before you put it on your child’s — the plane is going down?

Well, mothers often worry because they don’t trust that the medicine that they’re going to be using is going to act, whether it’s conventional drugs or homeopathic, and they’re worried about taking this job on themselves. And so, this is one of those medicines that can be very useful to a mother that’s always freaking about her child’s illnesses or conditions.

So, let’s go to Calc carb, too, because Calc carb is an interesting one. Calc carb covers rumination, where it’s that constant, low-level thinking and overthinking, overworking it, and then they become overworked and exhausted.

And the person might sit and think about little affairs that really amount to nothing, worries about all their responsibilities, especially, and their duties. And this person who might need Calc carb is apprehensive, and they might have anxiety, even with palpitations. And they can be forgetful.

Joette: (05:26)

But let’s drill down a little farther. There can be different kinds of worry, such as domestic affairs, or during a fever, or with nervous trembling, or someone who’s overly careful, or sleeplessness that turns into insomnia, or even waking in the night.

Those all can be considered when we’re trying to choose a homeopathic medicine, besides, let’s say, Arsenicum album or Calc carb.

So, if you’ve heard the phrase, “I’m worried sick,” think about worry can actually cause physical ailments. And the most obvious conditions are considerations like high blood pressure, emotional eating. Someone is nervous or worried? They might find their way to the refrigerator. There can be, of course, insomnia or fatigue or irritability. Of course, there’s much more, but those are some common conditions that we see associated with worry.

So, worry is under the category of stress, and we all know that stress can be an underlying cause of these diseases. So, of course, it makes sense that we want to eliminate this chronic or even extreme worry as soon as we can, because that could potentially cause long-term stress, hence other diseases.

Kate:

Joette, I know there’s what we call a rubric in the repertory under worry, and it’s called “ailments from worry.”

So maybe you find yourself not being able to sleep from worry, or maybe you find yourself sick all the time, and you’re just worried all the time, and one cold after another.

What remedies might be found in that rubric?

Joette:

Well, Argentum nitricum is certainly very valuable for this.

And I always think of Ignatia, too. I’ve written and talked about Ignatia a number of times.

Lycopodium is another one, especially if there’s gut issues, bloating, et cetera.

And then Phosphorus. And Phosphorus can be someone who has kind of a spaciness to them in that they are so worried that they come up with these elongated, elaborate scenarios of what could go wrong. They have a huge imagination.

So, these are other medicines we could consider. And there are many others, but those are some of the main … plus, of course, Cal carb, that I mentioned earlier, and Arsenicum.

Kate:

So, this is a good exercise. If you have been studying homeopathy, go online and look up, just Google “materia medica,” and then the names of these remedies. And you’ll be able to read more about them and find out if this might be a fit for something that you or someone that you know is struggling with.

Kate: (7:59)

So, Joette, but what if our worries turn into something more? How do we know when we’ve crossed that line now, and it’s turning into a paranoia or anxiety or a panic? How would we know the difference?

Joette:

Well, let’s address some of the key differences between worry, anxiety and paranoia.

Generally, worry can be rational. It focuses on possibilities. Maybe it overfocuses, but it focuses on possibilities, slight anxiety about future uncertainties, and usually solely resides in the mind.

So, what that means is that it hasn’t gone into the body on any level. And some people just see life as a glass that’s half empty. It’s just who they are in many ways, and they expect the worst.

It may not be in all situations, maybe just certain situations. They have no fear of poverty, but they have a fear of their child getting sick, or they won’t get on a plane for fear it might come down.

Again, we aren’t talking about taking a homeopathic remedy for every little concern or worry, but if your family might describe you as the family chronic worrier, it could be useful to address this with a homeopathic medicine because it’s kind of a chronic state of mind.

Well, now let’s talk about paranoia. And this involves irrational, fixed and delusional beliefs that others are specifically acting to cause harm. And this is when your family says, “Mom, Mom, we don’t have to worry about Martians. That’s not something to be concerned about. There are not Martians hiding behind the bushes in the backyard.”

Paranoia is characterized by a lack of evidence and an extreme distrust.

Now, let’s talk about anxiety, which usually affects both the body and the mind. It can cause symptoms like racing heart, or perspiration, or insomnia, or, more often than not, intense restlessness. Anxiety, in a way, is a broader physical and persistent state — an emotional state — that can feel uncontrollable and impair daily functioning pretty consistently.

Kate:

So, what I’m hearing, Joette, is that worry can be anytime, and it’s mainly just thoughts. Whereas anxiety can have those physical symptoms along with it and usually is more persistent and goes further than worry. And paranoia is more of an irrational fear based off of distrust.

Joette:

Yeah. Distrust that is irrational, certainly.

So, for this podcast, we’re just focusing on worry, but I may touch on these other emotional and psychological conditions sometime in the future.

Kate: (10:40)

Yes. I want to also point out that you have much more information on these and other mind conditions in a course called Mindful Homeopathy.

So, if you want to learn more, I highly recommend that you go to JoetteCalabrese.com [Editor’s note: JoettesLearningCenter.com contains all of Joette’s courses] and check out the Mindful Homeopathy course. This course has many protocols that are associated with conditions of the mind.

And of course, you have a lot of free blogs and podcasts and your free Facebook Live [Editor’s note: Monday Night Lives]. So, you can search on JoetteCalabrese.com at the top right-hand corner under the search bar if you want to learn more about these remedies or conditions that Joette has talked about in this podcast.

Joette:

Yeah, and I would like to add just one more thought here. And that is our students tell us on a regular basis — and it’s also, I’ve noted it myself, and so have you, Kate — that once you learn how to treat your family’s conditions — the ear infections that pop up time and again, or the eczema that is maddening, or the injuries that occur in a family —because it’s constant, the more children you have, the more of these conditions show up in your life.

Once you learn how to treat these homeopathically, a lot of the worry about your children’s health, your husband’s health, your parents’ health, even your pets’ pretty much melts away. It may not melt away completely, but that alone — without homeopathic medicine — can do a lot of good because you’ve learned how to take care of your family yourself.

So, I want to get this information into as many hands as possible to help you, the mother, grandmother, become the confident and competent healer in your home so that you can worry less.

So, don’t forget to share this with someone you know who might benefit from this information, and we’ll see you next time.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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.

01:00   Introduction: Aconite for shock, fear, anxiety and panic

02:21  Meet Elizabeth, who utilized Aconitum napellus for her husband’s shock after bad news and with other conditions

04:59   Meet Jennifer, who used Aconite for her child’s delayed panic after a close call in a swimming pool

06:39   Different kinds of shock

07:47   Meet Laurie, who employed Aconite for stage fright and her young son’s fear of storms

10:05   Meet Nealy, whose dog-clients use Aconite for anxiety and fear of car rides

12:59   Other uses of Aconitum napellus: the Arnica of the eye, fear of death, labor

18:45   Closing Advice

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 167, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

Have you ever had a shocking experience, after which you felt sudden surges of adrenaline through the body? Now, you might’ve been shaky and felt fearful and panicked. How about an anxiety attack or panic attack? Well, you’re not alone.

A national health statistic I saw states that during 2022, about one in five adults, age 18 and older, experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks.

But we don’t have to fear because on this podcast, I’m going to share about one of my favorite homeopathic medicines, which has the ability to address these conditions and much more.

I’ll bet you can guess which medicine it is. If you guessed Aconitum napellus — Aconite — you were right.

Some of you may already know that Aconite has been known to address conditions such as colds or flu (especially if they come on quickly), coughs, croup, fever, cardiac events, otitis media, sleeplessness and much more.

But in this podcast, we’re going to focus on its ability to address anxiety, shock and fear. So, I’ve invited some of my students to join us on this podcast because they have their own stories about Aconite.

Joette: (2:21)

So, I’d like to welcome Elizabeth. She is a Mastermind member, an Ambassador, has finished the two years — The Academy and Mastery — and has her own business.

Go ahead, Elizabeth. We’d love to hear your story.

Elizabeth:

Hi, Joette. Thanks for having me.

One moment that really stands out to me was during my husband’s serious chronic illness. He had just received some very discouraging news, and it triggered a full-blown panic attack. His heart was racing; he felt helpless. You could just tell his body didn’t know how to process the news he had just received.

And I remember thinking, “This isn’t just everyday worry and anxiety. He’s in shock.”

So, without making a big deal about it, I gave him a dose of Aconite, which is a remedy we use a lot in homeopathy for sudden fear and panic. And within minutes — and I mean minutes — I watched the panic melt away.

And he looked at me, and he said, “What did you just give me? I feel so much better.”

And that was one of those moments where I realized how powerful the right homeopathic remedy can be because his body was finally able to just calm down and reset.

And that’s just one of countless stories where I have had horrific nightmares and had panic and anxiety and shock, and Aconite worked every time.

My daughter has also had the same. I’ve had a friend who was in hospice, and I was able to see her benefit from Aconite as well.

Client: pregnancy — horrific pregnancy — labor and delivery, ultimately PTSD. And that was one of the really big things that we worked on was preparing her mind and her body to prepare for the upcoming new baby with the labor and delivery, hypertension, lots of different things.

But even just everyday things, like being exposed to cold winds. Like at one of my children’s soccer games or something: the onset of a cold or a cough. Aconite is just so beautiful. So, I take it everywhere with me because I have seen it be so powerfully effective with a number of health issues.

Joette:

Well, what’s great about it is that it’s not a vitamin or a supplement or a mineral. It’s a homeopathic medicine, so we use it only as needed. So, in each of those events that you were just discussing, that’s exactly when we would use Aconitum.

Thank you so much, Elizabeth. Those are lovely stories, especially the first one with your husband. Bad news, yes.

Joette: (04:59)

All right, let’s go to Jennifer. Jennifer’s in our Mastery program now, and she’s also an Ambassador.

And I’d love to hear your story, Jennifer.

Jennifer:

Thank you for having me, Joette. The story I remember the most for Aconite is when I was at a backyard pool party, and several of the children were playing in the pool. One of my sons slipped under the water for a moment. His brother pulled him back up so quickly, there wasn’t any commotion at the time. And you would’ve thought it would be forgotten because it was such a non-issue.

But later that day, he started to whimper and cry.

Because it wasn’t immediately after the fact, I was like, “What’s going on? What’s wrong with you? “

And finally, I deduced that he was panicking from having slipped under the water, and he was sort of reliving the incident in his mind. You could sort of see in his face that his mind was elsewhere. He was going through that fear again.

So, once I realized that, I gave him a dose of Aconite, and it helped to calm him down, and he was able to go off and play.

I did have to give it again a couple more times as that panic started to resurface. Each time was a little bit further apart, and he was a little less panicky. The last time, he actually just came up to me and asked me for a dose because he started to feel it come back. And then he walked away and played, and that was that.

Joette:

That is so observant of you, Jennifer, because that is something that only the watchful eye of a mother would notice … something like that. That it must be related, and it’s a little bit delayed.

It’s a great medicine, and it’s useful for … even if it were a week later and you saw that reaction, you might not even put the two together and associate it with the flipping underwater, but you know how they’re reacting. It’s that panic. Yeah. Great story. Wow. Especially, even for going underwater for a little one. Thank you, Jennifer.

Joette: (06:39)

I’d like to take a moment and point out that there are several kinds of shock. There’s often medically diagnosed shock where the blood pressure drops, and there’s maybe a rapid or weak pulse, and there can be disorientation.

And then there’s the other, when you feel shocked from a seemingly shocking event.

And the first is more extreme, of course, but both types can be addressed with Aconitum.

So, I had a client once. She would grasp her chest and put the palm of her hand hard against her chest, and she would say — no matter what happened, anything that was happening in her life that was a little interesting or heavy — she would say, “Oh, my gosh, it was the shock of my life. I’m shocked by this! It’s the shock!”

And she would always use that word, “shock.”

And when I think back about this woman, this is someone who, when I was first starting out in homeopathy, the event that started all of this is that she had suffered a good amount of mental shock when she was a young woman. And from that time forward, I think she was still experiencing that shock, even though it was not the shock of her life each time, but there was an event that was the shock of her life, and it brought it all back.

Joette: (07:47)

So, let’s go to you, Laurie. Laurie is a graduate of The Academy, and she’s a Mastery grad, study group advisor. She’s an Ambassador, and she also sees clients.

So, Laurie, please let’s hear your story. I’m always looking forward to the stories that you give us.

Laurie:

Oh, thank you, Joette. Thank you for inviting me here. I love that I get to talk about Aconite because it’s one of my favorite remedies. In fact, one of the reasons it’s my favorite remedy is because I wouldn’t be here today if I hadn’t taken Aconite.

I had such a fear of stage fright and just talking to people. Even if I was in a group of people that I knew, I would still struggle with it. And I know most people use Gelsemium, and I love Gelsemium, but I never felt the panic ease up like I did when I used Aconite.

And now I’m talking to hundreds of people on a regular basis. Aconite totally transformed my life. I love that it’s the remedy that not only helps with serious conditions, but it’s also the remedy for living in everyday life.

What do I mean by that? I want to give you an example.

So, we moved to Tornado Alley when my son was just eight. He has Down syndrome and had never experienced any intense weather before. But that first month after we moved, we had three major storms. Two had tornadoes that touched down just outside of where we lived. Wind was so violent that we had two large, hundred-year-old oaks get knocked down.

After that, my son couldn’t even tolerate having clouds in the sky. He would melt down. He would have panic attacks. He would run around with his little headphones if there was thunder or lightning.

And so, I decided that I was going to give Aconite a try. So, knowing that Aconite is so great for fear and anxiety, this was a no-brainer for me.

And that next storm, it was a lightning storm, and it was terrible. It scared even me.

But he was there content, playing on the bed like nothing was going on and nothing was happening. And I have to say that was just a miracle in itself.

After that, no matter what, we knew that we could use that to help him get through it, but over time, he has become less fearful of the storms. So now, I almost never need to employ it at all.

Joette:

Yeah, that’s the beauty of this kind of medicine and especially Aconite. Yeah. Have it on hand just in case. Thank you, Laurie. Two really good stories. Excellent.

Joette: (10:05)

All right, let’s go to Nealy. Nealy is in our Mastermind group, and she’s an Ambassador.

So, hi, Nealy.

Nealy:

For anyone that doesn’t know, most of my clients are dogs, and a lot of times that translates into their people as well.

So, dogs tend to take on our stuff, and we tend to project onto our dogs. You learn that after you talk to several people and see what’s going on. So, if you have both of those things going on at the same time, you can end up with quite the storm.

So, I had one client that she was insisting that her dog had serious anxiety, and he wouldn’t eat, and he paced, and he panted, and he was having all kinds of issues. But you could hear in her voice the whole thing going on with her.

And I was like (normally, I wouldn’t suggest doing this as an ongoing thing), but along with the full schedule, I had her add Aconite twice a day for her and the dog.

The next time I talked to her, I was like, “How are things going? “

And she’s like, “Well, he’s doing really good, and he’ll eat anything I put in front of him.”

You could hear it in her voice. She was all calm and relaxed. It was great.

So, that was one of those times where you just had this, just like Laurie was talking about, a tornado going on in the house between the dog and the person.

So, that was a little unusual bit of use, as using it concurrent like that. Normally, like everyone else has talked about, it would kind of be just an as-needed thing. But that particular instance, I thought it required it. So, it worked out great.

Another thing it’s really, really effective with dogs is you’ll have young dogs that get carsick or don’t like riding in the car, afraid of the car. Works quite often very well in those situations as well.

So, great thing to keep on hand.

Joette:

That is so common, Nealy. The dog-in-the-car business, you use a 200 before they get into the car (when they see that they’re about to get in), yes. And then they administer it frequently throughout the ride, or sometimes you don’t even have to repeat it, perhaps.

Nealy:

Yeah. My boss, when I was working at the boarding kennel, he got a new puppy, and he was terrified at riding in the car. So, I had him do that, and he only had to do it for like a week. And ever since then, puppy’s been fine. So, it helped him work through it, and he’s got past it. So, that was a great success.

Joette:

Wow. Great story. Remember that, friends, because I know a lot of dogs, especially the smaller ones, don’t like being in cars. True.

Well, thank you, Nealy and Jennifer and Elizabeth and Laurie. These are really great stories. I hope that everyone else can get as much out of it as I have, too. And I’ve heard these stories a million times, but it never becomes boring. This is so interesting to hear each story, and it helps you remember them better. Remember the remedies and how to use them when you have a story that’s associated. So, thanks again, students.

Joette: (12:59)

So, let’s talk a little bit more about Aconitum, shall we? I know our subject today is Aconitum: “A for anxiety.” It’s easy to remember, but it’s also for fear and shock.

I can’t help but mentioning that one should remember Aconite as Arnica of the eye. So, if you know how Arnica is used in injuries, remember Aconitum for eye injuries.

It can be used for inflammation of the eye of the eyelid, straining eyes. You may have weakness or tiring of the eyes accompanied by pain or headache or blurry vision and sensitivity in the eye. And sometimes, because of all of this, there’s an inability to keep the eyes open.

So, Aconite is also useful when there’s an embedded metal body in the eye. Can you imagine how awful that is? Dr. Herring from a century ago spoke about it this way, he said: “Inflammatory conditions,” he’s talking about Aconitum resulting from “irritant action of foreign bodies, as chips of steel or stone or coal in the cornea, which produced dry rubbing of lid over the ball with injected vessels, irritation caused by ingrowing lashes.” So, that was written in 1879.

So, I also want to recall a story of a friend of mine whose husband was trimming the branches around their house, and one poked him in the eye. And on the way to the hospital, she gave him Aconitum 200.

Now, you can imagine he was disturbed. He was anxious about what had happened, couldn’t see, there was a great pain. And on the way to the hospital, by giving him Aconite 200, it calmed him down. And she continued giving it to him even until once they were in the hospital and carried on with it for that day and even into the next day.

All they had to do once they got to the hospital was to put a patch on the eye so that he wasn’t using it and to keep it covered for a period of time. And as I said, she continued to give it to him several more doses after the injury for a few days.

So, remember, Aconite — Aconitum — is the Arnica of the eye.

I also have to say that one of the main threads in the Aconitum picture is around the subject of death: fear of death, certainty of death, near-death experience, worry about death, prediction of death, et cetera. So. let me share some other indications for the use of Aconite around the topic of anxiety, fear, shock and associated with death.

There’s panic and anxiety, not unlike what was mentioned here by my students. The person can be inconsolable. There may be a fright that’s followed by panic and shock, can be palpitations of the heart, fear of death, and sometimes they say, “believes that he will die soon and predicts the day or the time of his death.”

Now, he’s not actually predicting it, but he’s thinking that by tonight at midnight, I’m going to be gone. So, they fear that they’re going to die.

And I want you to remember Arsenicum album also has this, but Aconitum has it even bigger than that. They feel that they’re dying right now.

Also, one of the best ways to use Aconitum is during labor.

When a mother’s giving birth in labor, she might be thinking of, “What if the baby dies?” If she can’t stop thinking about that, “Something’s wrong! Something’s wrong! I think the baby could die. We’ve got to get the baby out.” Or, “Something’s wrong with me. I could die, and then we’ll both go.”

That fear is so common during labor, and that is exactly what you want to have on hand is that Aconitum. A couple doses, right there during the labor, and it can put everything to rest.

Or for someone who thinks about death a lot, “I’m afraid it’s going to happen. I don’t know if I should go outside. I can’t go over bridges. I can’t go on planes because I’m afraid I’m going to die.” It becomes a daily or nearly daily plaguing thought.

And then in that case, it’s different than what we’ve talked about pretty much so far. It becomes a chronic anxiety, a specific anxiety, a fear of death, of something really bad happening, and especially around the heart.

So, it’s not only fear of a heart attack, but a fear that comes about or panic that comes about regarding the heart that at the moment of a heart or cardiac episode.

So, remember, for panic attacks, with shaking, trembling — there may not be shaking or trembling — but if you see that, I want you to be thinking of Aconitum first. Sudden surges of adrenaline through the body leading to trembling, and of course, panic. There can also be panic attacks with numbness and tingling of the fingers down the arms and into the feet even, all the way through the extremities.

Agoraphobia, afraid to go out of the house, fear of crowds, fear of busy streets, fear of narrow streets, fear of going to doctors and dentists. How common is that, my friends? Fear of total disasters. “I’m sure something bad’s about to happen.”

Fear of the dark and fear of ghosts. Now, I know that might sound strange, but when people start thinking about that — or children — or there even can be dreams about them.

And so, one more thing about Aconitum, violent reactions to a fright or weather conditions, not unlike what Laurie mentioned that can indicate the use of Aconitum.

Today, we live in very comfortable, controlled temperatures. We have heat and air conditioning, and we don’t realize how potent, how influential, how commanding weather can be, even if we’re inside. So, we keep thinking about how “Weather can’t bother me. I’m inside and protected.” But even that weather, that storm outside, even if we’re not in the storm or in our safe home, it can still affect someone who might need Aconitum, not unlike what Laurie mentioned.

Joette: (18:45)

So my friends, I hope today’s conversation has shown you that you don’t have to live at the mercy of sudden fear or of panic or long-term fear or that overwhelming surge of adrenaline that can knock you off your feet, whether it’s the shock of a frightening moment or a lingering long-term anxiety after a loss or the daily grip of worry that makes your heart race and your hands shake, or the dog that shakes on the way to the car because he knows what’s forthcoming.

Aconitum napellus is ready as one of homeopathy’s most powerful first — and even second, third, and last — responders.

So, we’ve heard beautiful real-life stories today from Elizabeth, Jennifer, Laurie, and Nealy, and these are the kinds of stories about homeopathy that aren’t rare. I hear them every day, and so do they because they’re in the world of homeopathy. They’re the everyday victories that become possible when we understand how to use this remarkable medicine well.

So, the next time you feel that sudden wave of fear, that racing heart or that “I’m sure I can’t handle this feeling,” remember Aconitum.

And so, until next time, stay Mighty, my friends. Stay prepared and remember fear may come knocking, but with Aconite in your toolkit, you never have to let it move in. See you soon.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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01:00   Introduction: If this were my last podcast, what would my message to you be?

02:11   What happened?

03:40   Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

04:14   Do the opposite.

07:22   Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

09:20   Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

11:11   If this were my last message to you:

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 166, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

Hi friends, Joette here. I had some ideas the other day that I wanted to pass on to you.

I asked myself, what is the one message I really want to leave with you, something that’s poignant for me in my life and perhaps might be for you. I was thinking, if this were my last podcast, what would I say?

What’s at the heart of everything I teach?

These are my thoughts. If you’re new here — new to my podcasts, my blog, my courses — you might think it’s just about fixing, you know, eczema or chronic fatigue or whatever acute mess your families might be suffering in now.

And yes, we deliver those Practical Protocols. I teach them because they work. Eczema? Well, here’s the protocol that helped time after time. Postpartum exhaustion? We know the medicines. We’ve got them all ready for you. They’re in my blogs; they’re in my courses.

Those will uproot the condition, and they’re the upfront answers. They’re what give you the interest and the excitement about being able to help yourself and your family because they get — pretty often — fast results.

(02:11)

But once everything clears — the skin clears, the energy returns — something bigger often dawns on moms and grandmothers and men, too.

They look back and say, “Oh, my gosh. All these years, I’ve been slathering steroids on my children’s arms and legs, and it’s only gotten worse in the long run. Now there’s asthma. Now there are behavioral issues. Now there are food intolerances, dairy, wheat. Everything’s off the table. What has happened?”

Well, my friends, you’re not alone. I’ve been there too. What happened is we lost our freedom — our medical freedom. We handed it over to industries, pharmaceuticals, food giants, even governments, who told us, “This is the way. Take the pill. Smear the cream. Trust the experts.”

And we did.

That’s a collective “we” because I was there too. We believed that the quick fix was the fix. So, I started right where so many of you did.

Except for me, my health was wrecked in my 20s and 30s before I had children. I had eczema as an infant all the way into high school. I had allergies, chemical sensitivities — so many sensitivities — that by the time my kids came along, I had already been questioning and digging and trying to find answers. I learned.

(03:40)

And the big “ahas” were that conventional drugs don’t heal. They suppress, and they kick the can down the road, and that suppression shows up later without us realizing what the connection is. And I guarantee that the doctor who prescribed it will not make that connection as well.

The suppression shows up in gut issues, more allergies — more deepened allergies, more things to be allergic to, chronic fatigue. It’s the same story in tens of thousands of cases I’ve taken over the years. Nothing new under the sun.

(04:14)

Here’s what I’ve come up with. Here’s the easy rule I taught my kids, and it’s a little oversimplified, but you’ll get the idea, I think.

I taught my children from an early age that whatever everybody else is doing to do the opposite. That’s the shortcut to clarity. So, at least if nothing else, they’re questioning.

I can hand you the protocol for eczema. I can give you the protocols for fatigue, and it often works beautifully. But I hope what follows is an awakening, a little fire in the belly, a feeling of being duped, a feeling of being gaslit, thinking, “Why didn’t anyone tell me that suppressing the skin condition would drive the problem deeper into asthma, behavioral struggles, or gut dysbiosis?”

Now, this is not just moms and kids here, in this part of the world. It’s global. And too many doctors — good ones included — have been trained by Big Pharma. It makes them the retail arm of Big Pharma.

No, they’re taught, diet doesn’t matter. What you eat doesn’t count. Herbs? No, don’t be silly. Change your lifestyle? Nah.

Now, I have to say these doctors generally mean well, but they’ve been gaslit too. They’ve been gaslit through their education because their education is promulgated by an industry, an industry that teaches them to use drugs and only drugs.

So, the last few years have made it crystal clear. We’ve seen the forces at play, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

You know, it’s like buying a red Volkswagen. Suddenly, Volkswagens that are red are everywhere. It’s an old story. I don’t even know if people buy and sell red Volkswagens any longer, but that’s the idea.

You hear the same story from neighbors, from church friends, from homeschool co-ops, fellow moms. “We went to the doctor, got the drugs, and it got better for a short while. Now things are worse. Not right away, but months, years later, everything’s worse.”

And we need to sing the same song in unison. Bring control back to the family. And of course, who does that usually? Moms and grandmothers. Because we notice the little nuances, the niggly truths that we’d rather ignore. We’re thinking, “Oh, it’s just a mild antibiotic for ear infection.”

That’s often what pediatricians will call it. It’s no longer an antibiotic. It’s a “mild” antibiotic to assuage the mother’s fears.

No, my friends, an antibiotic is an antibiotic. It’s like dropping a napalm bomb on the gut. It kills the bad bugs, sure. But it wipes out the good ones, too. And I’m sorry, even though I do believe that food can make a difference, no amount of yogurt, kombucha or probiotics can fully repopulate what’s been bulldozed, unless there’s true intentional work using homeopathy and even more intense diet.

(07:22)

So, the first step: I urge people to stop running to a professional for every little thing.

Now, I’ve tried many paradigms over my 70-plus years since I was a child watching my mother question things as well. Back in the 50s, my mother was questioning. There just wasn’t an awful lot of information.

The only way that’s truly powerful, reproducible and empowering is learning a handful — at least start with a handful — of homeopathic medicines and using them comfortably for your children, your husband, your elderly parents, your pets.

Now, are there other pieces? Absolutely.

Prayer goes a long way without saying, I suppose. Good nutrition, real nutrition. We put clean fuel in our cars. Why not in our bodies and in our children’s bodies?

But my friends, I see Practical Homeopathy® as the game changer because it gently stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal itself. I’ve seen it over and over.

A woman crippled with rheumatoid arthritis — even wheelchair-bound women — walking, living, a near-normal life with homeopathy and a few diet tweaks. Not cured to tennis-pro level, but free from pain and dependence.

Now, it’s not as complex as we’re told. It’s actually simple living. Getting back to nature. Save the synthetic drugs for a true emergency. Not a relative emergency, a true emergency, like when you’re hit by a Zamboni, and you’ve been flattened on the ice rink, and you need surgery, or you face life-threatening infections.

Not for a sniffle, not for cosmetic fixes, not for ear infections, not for convenience, birth control, not for managing cholesterol numbers. These are all things that we can do ourselves without the synthetic drugs.

(09:20)

I want you to start, my friends, by considering avoiding unnecessary drugs. And you might be surprised at how many drugs that you or your family members might be taking that are indeed superfluous.

Then we can talk about uprooting the iatrogenic conditions they’ve created. Iatrogenic: great word, very powerful word. And it’s used in modern medicine. It’s used to describe a disease or a condition that has been caused by a drug or a health professional … that the condition was caused by that.

Now, most people think they haven’t overused meds until they construct a timeline. And so, I urge you, get a long sheet of paper and a pencil with a good eraser because you’ll change a lot as you go along the way, and you’ll be filling it in … the blanks. And you’ll be going back maybe a couple days later, and another, “Oh my gosh, I forgot about this or that.”

And then list every antibiotic all through the years from the beginning of your life. Every antibiotic, steroid, reaction, painkiller, injections. And look at it with a good eraser because you’ll forget half of them.

I did this myself, and I was stunned. Now, I haven’t taken a pharmaceutical drug since the age of 32 — well, except for a local anesthetic for a tooth extraction and one unavoidable surgery years ago.

So, I’m now 74. My old conditions, eczema from infancy, allergies should be worse because these diseases are progressive. But they’ve reversed because I learned something, and then I focused on it.

I skilled up.

I used homeopathy, and I tightened up my diet. So, it isn’t luck or good genes, my friends, it’s possible for you too. 

(11:01)

So, what is the message? My message to you — from an older woman to everyone else — is reclaim your freedom.

Question. Period. Defy. Period.

Take back control with Practical Homeopathy® and good diet. Do this, my friends, and you’ll be unstoppable. Why? Because the body wants to heal. It’s in the mode of homeostasis. It just needs the right stimulus.

Homeopathy provides it gently, powerfully, and without side effects.

So, that’s the heart of it. That’s what I’d say if this were my last message.

You’ve got this. Your family’s health freedom is in your hands. It’s just a matter of learning.

So, my friends, thanks for listening. Share this with a mom who needs to hear it, and I’ll see you next time.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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