01:00   Introduction: Absolutely anyone can lead a study group

            Joette’s Learning Center

02:35   A website complementing The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide

02:59   Joette’s creative vision for the Gateway study group program

            Podcast 17 — Homeopathy Can Help Mothers Care for Their Children – New (and Not So New) to Homeopathy Part l

09:59   A virtual tour of The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide

11:52   Lesson One: Basic principles and a few medicines

12:52   Lesson Two: The top homeopathic medicines and case-taking

            “How to Raise a Healthy Child… In Spite of Your Doctor”

15:04   Lesson Three: First aid situations

17:22   Aconitum napellus

19:41   Own the homeopathic medicines; better yet, own a kit

20:55  Joette’s time with the Banerjis

            Arnica montana 200C

            Ignatia 200C

30:04   Lesson Four: Protocols, diagnoses and acute conditions

31:28   Lesson Five: Chronic conditions (and a bit more on diagnoses) and case management.

            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

36:37   Closing Thoughts

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 146, 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)

Hi, I am Kate. Welcome to the podcast. Hi, Joette and Michelle.

Joette:

Hi Kate, Michele.

Michele:

Hi Kate. Hi Joette.

Kate:

It’s good to be here together with you guys.

Today we’re doing something a little bit different. Today, we are going to share a sneak peek into the contents of Joette’s Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I. And Joette’s going to share some of her insights along the way.

So, you may have listened to podcast number 142, where Michelle and I talked about leading a Gateway study group. And we asked the question, “Can anyone lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group?”

And Michelle, what was your answer? What did we determine by the end of that?

Michele:

Absolutely anyone can lead a study group.

Kate:

Yes, yes.

So today, we’re going to go deeper into what exactly is in the Gateway study group. So, if you’ve participated in or led a Gateway study group, you’ll want to share this with other people, who you might know, who might be interested.

And you’ll still want to listen in because we’re going to share some insights — well, actually, Joette is. So, this might be some new information to you.

And if you’re new, this is a great place for you to start.

So, with that, I wanted to explain just a little bit about what the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® entails … and it’s a physical book. You can purchase that book on Joette’s Learning Center. It’s JoettesLearningCenter.com.

And there’s also special access online to some additional information, and we’ll get into that a bit later.

But Michelle, do you want to explain a little bit more about what they can find on the website that goes along with the book?

Michele: (02:35)

Sure. In the Learning Center, you’re going to find that there are great resources in there to go along with your study guide.

You’re going to have videos to study, and also, as you go through each lesson, you’ll find the homework in there that you need for each lesson there as well.

You’ll also find valuable additional, supplemental blogs and information for each of the lessons for those of you who’d like to study further.

Kate: (02:59)

Okay, great. As we get started, Joette, I would love to hear your vision. Well, I’ve heard it, but so many people haven’t. What was your vision for the Gateway study guide?

Joette:

Okay, well, first of all, hi friends! It’s great to know that there are people interested in this because there was a time when I would be talking about this subject, and no one was listening.

So, now it’s happening. It’s happening in a very exciting way. Many, many, many people — tens of thousands of people — are now following this information, this Practical Homeopathy® that we’re teaching.

So, my vision was based on what I had done when I was first learning homeopathy. And at the time, I had one small child. He’s now 37. And then, I had two subsequent children after that. But that first child … I knew that I didn’t want to depend on a pediatrician. I didn’t want to depend on antibiotics, should he get otitis media or strep throat or conjunctivitis or something.

And so, I looked around and asked a few friends to see if there was anyone else who was interested in learning an alternative way to treat these kinds of conditions.

And at the time, I had just been introduced to homeopathy. That’s a whole ‘nother story. I won’t go into that story now because it was as a result of taking my son to a well-baby checkup. And I learned my lesson thoroughly. I already knew what the lesson was, but I learned it more thoroughly by him having gotten something that I didn’t want him to get, having taken him into the pediatrician’s office. So, my focus was on — at that moment in time — my baby.

And so, I gathered my friends, I said, “Let’s study together.”

And so, we got a book, and we started to study. We met in my living room and other people’s living rooms here and there as well. But we studied together every Thursday night for four years. It was an absolute, we would never miss it.

If someone had a sick child, they just left the child home with their husband. Or if I had a conflict, it simply wasn’t going to happen. My focus was on meeting with these friends because we studied, and we studied rigorously. We really challenged ourselves in this study.

And so, what occurred from that — even though we were all mothers of young children and even babies at the time — what we learned … what I learned was that this was much bigger than just treating colds and flus and ear infections and strep throats.

We realized that there was more to be had here, that homeopathy had an ability to deal with even chronic conditions and conditions of our parents, our husbands, our pets, our dog, our cat, livestock, even wildlife. We had no idea the depth and breadth of the medicine until we started to learn more.

And so, not only did we have that realization together, but we also were then able to treat those everyday conditions that children have without depending on synthetic drugs of commerce or a pediatrician, who seemed almost always in the ready to push some kind of product.

But we also learned that we could deal with chronic conditions, too, occasionally. We were not very poised to do that, and that’s how this came about.

But the other aspect of this that was absolutely huge was that that was 36 years ago, and I’m still in touch with those friends. They became lifelong friends. And that camaraderie, that sense of mother-to-mother … Later on, a couple of other people joined in, and they were grandmothers. Mother-to-grandmother, grandmother-to-grandmother was something that was unexpected.

We helped each other in all of our situations. When one person had problems, the other two were there when the third person had a condition that she didn’t know how to handle, we were always in the ready.

Now, at those days, there was no internet; there were no cell phones. So, we would just pick up the phone and dial and help each other.

And we also happened to live in a somewhat proximitous neighborhood, but those friends were really my pediatrician. Those friends were my go-tos. Those friends were my father’s cardiologist. I mean, that’s how it happened. That’s how I learned much of what I learned.

And so, the thought of that just dying away and not sharing that with other like-minded people seemed like a travesty. So, I said, “I’ve got to get a book out and encourage folks to join a study group or start a study group and see if they can get going in the same fashion that I did.”

And what I’ve found is that not only could they, but they are. Tens of thousands of students using this book that I have authored and meeting with each other have come together. Not all in one 10,000 group of people, but each group. Sometimes, the group has five people, sometimes it has 15, some groups have had as many as 50 or even 80 in a study group.

And what we’ve learned from this is that once these folks get to know each other — and it’s usually done on Zoom, if it’s not in your own living room or your church basement or the school cafeteria or wherever you decide to do it in a brick-and-mortar setting — what we’ve learned is that it takes a little while to get to know each other and to start trusting each other and then being open with each other.

And then after a while, the bonds are very powerful. It’s probably not only because we’re sharing — you are sharing; everyone is sharing their sufferings, their family’s sufferings, asking for help from each other — but it’s also you’ve shared yours; you’re now vulnerable. They share theirs; they’re now vulnerable. And that vulnerability really creates an incredible bond.

But also, we count on each other. This mom who’s in this group, who has four daughters, knows all about menarchy and young female issues. And this mom has seven boys, and she knows all about injuries. And this woman has goats and chickens. So, she knows all about livestock.

And so, that coming together of those “meeting of the minds” of people of often similar situations, but sometimes just enough variety that it really makes it fascinating and interesting.

So, if you ask why, that’s the reason why,

Kate:

Oh, that’s a good story. I love it that it’s happening, Joette. We see so many of these groups, and these connections made through these study groups … that it’s spreading out into the world as you envisioned it. So that’s very exciting.

Kate: (09:59)

So, I think what we should do now is let’s walk through the study guide together. So, we’re going to give you a verbal tour of the Gateway study guide.

The first chapter is the introduction. And in the introduction, there are instructions on setting up your study group and action points to take before your first study group meeting. So, the introduction covers everything that you need to know to set up your study group, including even an example of an email that you can send out to study group members explaining what they need to know to prepare for their first meeting.

Michele:

And there’s also, Kate, an addendum at the back of the book, specifically for study group leaders with all the information you need to lead your study group. And just so you know, even if you aren’t currently leading a study group, you’re going to want to take a look at this information in this section. Who knows? It may inspire you to get out there and lead a group.

Kate:

People ask me all the time about leading a study group, and I say, “You don’t have to have experience. You can just do it. The book has everything that you need.”

So, Joette, I think you’ve tried to think of everything that someone who’s new to homeopathy might need to lead this study group. Right? What would you say about facilitating a group?

Joette:

Well, I have experience as a homeschooling mom, and so do you, Michelle and Kate. And so, if we have learned anything, we learned that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

And so, all you need is a little information just before the meeting. That’s all laid out for you. And that’s exactly what we’ve done. You’re not pretending to be an expert. You’re simply being a friend who says, “Look, I’m going to read this, and I’m going to see where we need to go with this.”

And then everything is laid out so that there’s no room for, “I wonder if I can do this?” It’s all laid out word by word by word, just like in a homeschool study guide for the parent (that I so rarely really used after a while).

Kate: (11:52)

Right.

Okay. So, let’s talk about Lesson One. Lesson One is a bit about the history of homeopathy and some basic homeopathic principles. It includes how homeopathic medicines are made, classical versus Practical Homeopathy®.

Each of these lessons, by the way, in this study guide includes remedies or protocols that you can use for various conditions. And we’ll go through those as we go along. But Lesson One focuses on three medicines: Aconitum napellus, Belladonna and Chamomilla.

And at the end of that lesson, there is a “Discuss, Ask, and Share” section to guide you and your study group into certain questions and even some answers. And it directs you where to go to look for those answers if you don’t know them, and everything that you need for a successful study group. And that’s at the end of every lesson in this book … there’s a section that you can use as a guide for your discussion with your study group.

Michele: (12:52)

In Lesson Two: You are going to learn about the top 41 homeopathic medicines to have on hand. This is so valuable for you to have; just a great tool.

Also, you’re going to learn about instructions on the care and handling of the medicines, how to administer them, how often to repeat the medicines, the difference between acute and chronic conditions, along with some examples.

You’re going to learn how to keep records on the medicines you’ve used, how to choose a homeopathic medicine.

And there’s valuable information on fevers and some of the top remedies to use for fevers.

Kate:

Yeah, that’s a very interesting section.

Michele:

It is.

Kate:

And Joette, you have some great resources to go along with that. In fact, you talk about a book that is a reference for this study guide. And do you remember the name of the book?

Joette:

Do I remember the name? It’s on my desk at all times! I refer to it because I think this doctor was brilliant. He was a pediatrician. His name was Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, just like the composer. (I don’t think they were connected.)

He passed away some time ago, and he had no knowledge as far as I could see — because I’ve read all of his books and followed all of his works for some time — of homeopathy. But what he did know is common sense.

He was a pediatrician who understood that pediatrics is a discipline in medicine that has often scared the wits out of mothers and leads mothers to fall into line and do what the pharmaceutical industry would prefer that they do, rather than what he believes they ought to do.

And that is to use common sense and to calm down and take it easy. And that — here’s the bottom line — that childhood illnesses are not to be afraid of. They’re just common childhood illnesses. And today’s world has led moms to believe that they’re very dangerous, and he gives a completely different take on it.

So, “How to Raise a Healthy Child… In Spite of Your Doctor,” by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, a wonderful pediatrician. You can also find him on YouTube should you be interested. He used to be on the Phil Donahue Show and many other programs. So, you’ll find little bits and pieces of him online.

Kate:

Yes, great information in that chapter on fevers, especially for new moms.

Kate: (15:04)

Alright, going on to Lesson Three. Lesson Three is all about how to use homeopathy for first aid situations for people and animals, too. It includes a brief materia medica for first aid.

So, I thought we could take just a minute, Joette, and explain what is a materia medica for those who may not be familiar with the term.

Joette:

Well, homeopathy depends on Latin. So, the names of our medicines are in Latin. We don’t have made-up names like “Lunesta.” We don’t have fake names; we don’t have marketing names. So, not only are the medicines named in their original, real botanical and medical names, actually, the books are named in that same fashion.

So, “materia medica” means the materials of the medicines.

So, what that really means on a day-to-day, practical sense is that it is an anthology in alphabetical order of homeopathic medicines, and what a description is of each of the medicines, and how they act — what we’re looking for to match the medicine with the condition.

You’ll lose yourself in these books. There are many of the many different authors, but we have a materia medica in this, as well, in this guide. But there are many different authors of materia medicas, and they have slightly different takes on how the medicine can be interpreted.

But I try to give you the easiest and the simplest, best way to get started so that when you look up Arnica montana, for example, in your materia medica, it will make sense to you because you know it’s for injuries, soft tissue injuries, head injuries, bleeding, pain, et cetera. And that’s what the materia medica is going to describe … all of those keynotes related to each of the medicines.

Kate:

And can you give us an example of using one of the medicines in the Gateway, one in a first aid situation? I could just read off the medicines, and maybe you can pick one and tell us about a great use for that medicine and first aid.

There’s Aconitum, Arnica, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calendula, Cantharis, Hypericum, Ignatia, Ledum, Mag phos, Ocillococcinum, Nux vomica and Rhus tox.

Joette:

That’s a mouthful if ou don’t know homeopathy …  

Kate:

Oh, I know! How can you pick just one to talk about? Right?

Joette: (17:22)

But I can choose one; I can choose my favorite.

My favorite used to be Arnica montana. And I used to keep it in my purse at all times because my children were young, and they were often falling or tripping or injuring themselves. And so, I kept Arnica montana in my purse at all times.

But now, my favorite is Aconitum. So don’t tell Arnica I said this, but … Just don’t tell her.

So now Aconite is my favorite, and I’ll tell you why: because I don’t have children who are falling and tripping, and I don’t fall and trip. But Aconitum is an excellent medicine for an anxiety attack, for when someone has gone through an automobile accident.

So, I keep it in my purse if I should get into an accident, or I see an accident, that shock that hits us immediately after being exposed to something shocking, something unexpected.

There’s Aconitum.

It’s also great for the onset of a cold. You’re in the car; you’re driving. You’ve got another 30 minutes before you get home, and you say to yourself, “Uh-oh! I know this feeling. I can feel this in my chest. I feel as though I’m going to be sick.”

And I can feel as though … sometimes you say, “It’s going to be a real doozy.” Rummage in my purse; get the Aconitum out and take a dose of it. And it often will abort the whole condition right then and there. Other times, it tamps it down and makes it more comfortable.

And then if you take the next dose and the next dose, you can see you’re going to shorten the version of this onset of a cold.

So, Aconite is one of my favorites. It’s also … I used it for cardiac conditions in my father and vascular conditions in my mother. They’re no longer with me, but that’s when I really started to carry Aconite in my purse.

And so, it’s an excellent medicine for anytime something comes on with a rapid onset.

Automobile accident, you’re driving along and everything’s fine, and then BAM! Accident.

You’re driving along and all of a sudden, BAM! You feel a chest cold coming on. Aconitum.

A child is in the backseat of the car, and they’re fine. They’re playing, but all of a sudden, BAM! They’ve got a sore throat. Aconitum.

Anytime you see a fast-approaching condition — really fast — always think Aconitum first. I keep it in a 200C in my purse, but 30 would work just as well.

Kate: (19:41)

Good. And with that, we’re talking about emergency first aid situations. In the book, you discuss owning a kit. And so that’s really important. Right, Joette? Because if you don’t have the remedies, how can you use them?

And by the way, Michelle, we are sworn to secrecy and not telling Arnica about Joette’s story about Aconite. So, we …

Michele:

For sure. My lips are sealed!

Kate:

So, okay. It’s important to own your remedies. Whether it’s a kit or the medicines individually, definitely have those on hand.

And you’ll know which remedies because you can just go through the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide and write down all of the remedies in there.

And then those are the ones you purchase to get you started.

Joette:

Or simply, Kate, let me just say that’s why people buy a kit. Because when you buy the top “X” number — 29 remedies, the top 30, the top 50 — these pharmacies — these homeopathic pharmacies that we give a list of in The Gateway — these pharmacies already know in advance what you need — what most families need — because they know exactly the common conditions that most families suffer.

So, you don’t have to buy each one individually, and it does make it much less expensive to buy them en masse.

Kate: (20:55)

All right. Let’s go on to Lesson Four. Michelle, will you tell us a little bit about the fourth lesson?

Michele:

Sure. The fourth lesson, Joette, is about the Banerjis and the Banerji clinic. And I would actually love for you to share about how the Banerjis shaped your practice, and how they came up with the protocols.

How much time did you spend in the clinic in India? I know a lot of people want to know that.

Joette:

Well, we were there seven years and eight times over those seven years. So, one year we went twice.

And so, the first time I was there, it was 13 weeks, and I was there every day at the clinic side-by-side. In the first year, I sat next to Dr. Prasanta Banerji and observed and recorded everything. I saw 13 weeks of that.

And when I got home, I collated, organized it, and decided I’d better teach some of this because none of this was being taught in the U.S. or in Europe.

So, then the next time I went, we went back again, and this time I went 11 weeks.

This time, I spent time with Dr. Prasanta Banerji, the father, the elder, but I spent more time with Dr. Pratip Banerji, and I sat by his side and observed and recorded everything I saw. I worked every day.

Now a second year, also, I worked with them partially on Sundays, as well. Because by that time, I got to know them well enough, and my husband, Perry and I were invited into their home on Sundays. And we had Sunday dinner with them, or we went out to restaurants with them, and homeopathy was discussed consistently.

We didn’t take cases, we didn’t observe patients, but we did talk about homeopathy. So that was the 11 weeks.

The following year, we went back again and went for nine weeks. And from that time forward is about nine weeks, except for that last year. And so, what I did is I observed and recorded — handwritten recording.

I didn’t record on a tape recorder or on my phone. I hand-recorded 7,560 cases. I think I’ve got that number right. I have not recalled it in quite some time, but it was close to 8,000 cases, all told.

And each time I got back home in Buffalo, New York, I collated, organized and put it — and categorized — because when I was seeing and witnessing these cases, they didn’t come in all nice and tidy: These are all gastrointestinal cases; these are all kidney cases; these are all OB-GYN cases.

No, they were all random cases, one after another, one after another. And so, I had to organize it and put it together so that I could then teach it according to each condition or each category — medical category.

And so, it was a lot of work, but it was joyful work. I loved every minute of doing it. So, once I put them all together, it really made sense that I organize it and try to teach it in as many venues as I possibly could.

So that’s why I do it on the blog. We record it in podcasts; we discuss these medicines, these Banerji protocols, in many different venues so that the information can get out.

Now, I want to say one other thing that many people are fascinated by. When I sat with Dr. Prasanta Banerji the first year and Dr. Pratip Banerji the second year, and then Dr. Pratip year after year after year, what we did in one day was we observed and recorded 100 patients per day.

And there were 12 doctors in the clinic at that time. And each doctor could not leave until they had each seen and prescribed to 100 patients per day. So that meant there were 12 doctors (actually, in many cases, were 13).

Let’s say it was 12 doctors each seeing a hundred patients per day. That’s 1,200 patients per day, total … 7,200 patients at the end of a week. And the Banerjis have been doing this through their family. So, it’s the grandfather, the great-grandfather, the great-uncle, the great-great-uncle, et cetera, for over 120 years.

This is their paradigm.

So, what does that leave us with? It leaves us with patterns. When you see that you use Arnica, montana, for example, for a hematoma on the thigh. And you use that in a 200C, and you recommend to the patient that they take it every six hours and then come back in a few days and report. And then they come back a week later, and it’s gone. The hematoma is gone. The pain was gone after the second day. They’ve reported it’s much, much improved.

So, then the next patient that comes in that has a hematoma. This one might be on the tibia, and now there’s a hematoma there. And so, what do you do? You don’t foolishly think of another medicine. The first medicine you think of, of course, is Arnica: Arnica montana 200C, every six hours or whatever, depending on the severity of the pain.

And then you find out from that patient.

And so, over the last 120 years, it has been established — not just by the Banerjis, but by many doctors throughout the world who’ve been using homeopathy efficaciously — that Arnica montana is an excellent medicine for hematomas.

Now, we can do that with many conditions — all conditions for that matter and homeopathic medicines. Hence, what the Banerjis shared with me were their protocols.

And a protocol means that this is the name of the condition; this is the medicine that’s used; this is the potency that we use the medicine in; and this is the frequency with which we use it. That’s a protocol, and it’s all put together in a formula of sorts.

And so, I had never seen anything quite like this in homeopathy. So that’s why I went to India because I knew that I was going to be learning these Banerji Protocols because they are gold, my friends. Gold.

And the reason I say that is if you get involved in homeopathy or in those of you who may have already been involved in homeopathy through the years and have been frustrated by it, it’s because there were no protocols.

So, these protocols have made this like a recipe. Here’s the condition; here’s the medicine that’s used in 80% of the time. Here’s the potency, and here’s the frequency.

And now, we can go on to the next case. It can be often that simple. So, that’s what I bring back from the largess of the Banerjis, spending those years with them to share with you.

Kate:

So, one of the examples in the book that you use is an example of a Banerji protocol for anxiety, grief or insomnia. And you saw the Banerjis use it all the time. And that’s Ignatia 200C, twice daily for those conditions. So, that’s just one of the examples.

But I love that quote that you have in the book, that a protocol is not a layman’s guess, right? It’s founded in many years of study and records that the Banerjis have collected over that 120 years.

So, Joette, I thought of a question that I would love for you to answer. When you were at the Banerji clinic, were there lots of other people coming in to study from the U.S. or other countries under the Banerjis? Was it just you, or how did that work?

Joette:

Well, I was actually pretty surprised that there weren’t. I’m not saying that there were none at all. I met a wonderful medical doctor, who I’ve actually interviewed in our Academy, Dr. Claudina from Spain. And so, I met her the first year, and then there … she was there with me the second year. And then I think she came the fourth year I was there again. So, she was pretty much a regular, just as I was.

Then there was another doctor, Andre from Portugal. I met him the third year. And then I saw him there again; I think it was the fourth or fifth year.

So, people did come to the clinic and observe and record — not for any length of time. They were there during their few weeks that they were able to get away. They both had practices.

I had a practice, too. But to be honest, my focus at that time in my life was I really wanted to learn every single one of these protocols that I could possibly gather up so that I could teach them.

Once in a while, I’d meet a doctor there who would spend a couple days. Met one from Switzerland. He was interested, but he was there for three days. I don’t know how you could get enough information after observing for three days.

There was another doctor from South Africa. He came for a short period of time, too.

All very respectful, very interested, but they didn’t stay. Even, there were some doctors from India who came, and they would take photographs and watch a little bit of what was going on in the clinic, but they didn’t stay and observe and do what I did.

And so, this is a world-class clinic. These were world-class doctors. They had traveled the world. They’d taught their protocols at Anderson Cancer Institute in the U.S., and they taught at the NIH. They taught at world-class cancer institute, Roswell Cancer Institute. They presented in Switzerland and Portugal and Spain and Italy and Germany every year.

And those doctors were very interested there. But again, I was surprised that they didn’t come to the clinic and sit and watch and observe … record.

Kate:

Okay. Well, that gives us good insight into the Banerjis and their clinic and your time spent with them.

Kate: (30:04)

Let’s talk now about Lesson Four. We have a couple more lessons to go through very quickly. Lesson Four. Michelle, do you want to go through Lesson Four?

Michele:

Sure. In Lesson Four, we talk about what constitutes a diagnosis. We talk about practical protocols for some acute conditions such as sinus infections, hay fever, sore throats, strep throat, measles.

I remember one time, we actually had someone in our study group, Kate, her child had the measles in the beginning of the group. Do you remember that? She actually came every week, and she used the protocol, and that child got better by the end of the study group lessons. It was so exciting to see that hard journey for them, but it was really great to see a protocol in action.

So, we also cover onset of cold with achy and chilly symptoms, gastrointestinal bugs, ear infections, influenza and conjunctivitis. That’s all in Lesson Four. It is really packed.

Kate: (31:28)

It is.

And then Lesson Five is just addressing chronic conditions with Practical Homeopathy®. So, now we talked about acute in Lesson Four, and Lesson Five is about chronic.

So, one of the things I wanted to have you bring up, Joette, is just that chronic conditions are a little bit different than acute … because you talk about how a diagnosis is important and that the protocols are based on specific conditions. Do you want to elaborate on that at all?

Joette:

Yes. Let me say that one of the times when a diagnosis can be very important is when someone says, “I have a sensation in my throat, and I’m really feeling as though maybe I have — I dunno — a nodule in my throat, a thyroid nodule.”

And so, because they’ve read about thyroid or maybe their sister has hypothyroidism, they’re assuming that that’s probably a thyroid condition, never considering that it could be something esophageal.

So, if she takes — and I’ve had this happen a number of times — if she decides that that’s probably what it is, she takes the homeopathic medicine for nodules in the throat that are thyroid nodules, and it’s not right. They’re not right.

The problem with that thinking is that people misunderstand what homeopathy is. It’s not a supplement; it’s not a vitamin; it’s not a “Oh, gee, maybe I should just take some vitamin C and some vitamin D because, oh, just in case.”

No. Homeopathy is actual medicine.

These are specific medicines. And when they’re very specific in their protocols, we must know what it is we’re treating in order to carry on for now.

In that case, it would behoove her to have a diagnosis and know that that’s what it was. That it was not a nodule on the thyroid, but perhaps it was an esophageal nodule or something like that.

On the other hand, if the baby is pulling at her ear and she starts to cry because there’s pain, and mom takes the baby to the pediatrician, and the pediatrician declares — with the otoscope to diagnose it — that indeed there is otitis media and ear infection, then the mom knows, “Okay, I know what to use.” And then she uses homeopathic medicine for it.

Let’s say two months later, the baby gets another sensation in the ear, and the baby starts pulling again and starts to cry and has a fever.

Does the mom have to take the baby to the pediatrician for the otoscope to expose that indeed is an ear infection? No, we don’t have to know that that’s what it is!

Common sense tells us same conditions, same response, same tugging at the ear, same kind of fever. It most likely is going to be an ear infection.

So, whether it’s a chronic or an acute, there is some common sense involved in this. So, in that case, the mom simply uses the medicine that’s specific for the ear pain, and she’s probably correct.

It’s a measuring It’s a weighing out of how far we need to go as to what the exact diagnosis is.

Kate:

Alright.

And in Lesson Five, it also talks about selecting an appropriate remedy, the improvement time, what to expect, what to do once there’s improvement, and if there’s no improvement.

And protocols for chronic conditions like teenage acne, cystic acne, acid reflux, chronic gastrointestinal bloating, a protocol for before and after surgery, and some common symptoms that may present after surgery, chronic diarrhea, yeast infection, morning sickness, allergic rashes, chronic stuffy nose, gum infection, itching, neck and back muscles, TMG pain. (Oh, I said “TMG.” Too Much Goodness.) TMJ pain, a fractious child crying or screaming, baby gingivitis, anemia, and much more.

But we wanted to give you an idea of everything that’s in this Gateway study guide.

Michele:

Yeah, and Kate, remember, there’s also information in that section on how to obtain discounts on Joette’s courses by coordinating or participating in a group purchase for more courses.

Kate:

Oh, yeah. That’s a great benefit.

Michele:

That’s the protocol … yeah, the protocol-based courses.

Kate:

Yeah, like Good Gut, Bad Gut, Feminopathy … those kinds of things.

Michele:

Right.

Kate: (35:48)

And then, we finish up with Lesson Six. And Michelle, do you want to just talk a little bit about that?

Michele:

Sure! Lesson Six is a Q&A with Joette. So, there is a video of a live Q&A in this session of the Learning Center, along with some podcasts about some study groups.

But the exciting thing is that you’ll have the opportunity to join Joette in a live Q&A with your study group leader. These special Q&As are coordinated by your leader with Joette, along with several other study groups. So, you learn, I mean, they’re just packed with information, aren’t they, Joette?

Joette:

Well, I love the groups when they’re large because that means they are a lot more questions and a more variety of questions. We have people from Europe and Australia, Canada, and the U.S. That really makes it very interesting.

Kate: (36:37)

Well, let’s finish up, Joette. And you had a couple of things that you wanted to be sure to share with people.

Now that we’ve gone through what is in The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide I, you wanted to talk a little bit about how easy this is for students to do, and the good place to start your journey on homeopathy.

Joette:

Well, let me start with this … that when you are on the path of learning something that is separate from what the rest of the world knows or is learning, you want someone that you can travel with on this pathway. And I can’t think of a better choice of people than your best friend, your mother, your daughter-in-law, your sister-in-law, your neighbor, your churchmate, your friend who’s also homeschooling her children. These are the people that your circle is made up of.

And if you have a conversation about homeopathy with them and they seem interested, what a great way to solidify the relationship even further. What a great way to have something that is a bonding between you. It’s a very powerful thing. I said that earlier.

It’s a very powerful bond when you have something new and exciting to share with someone, and they are equally as excited. Or maybe not yet … maybe you’re going to give them the excitement, but then it turns into excitement for them. It’s something that is very special between you.

Then, you add another friend to that circle and another friend to that circle, and now you have helpmeets throughout the rest of your life. And when I say the rest of your life, I’m not overstating this. Oftentimes, folks who meet in these study groups become lifelong friends. I know it because I hear about it all the time.

As a matter of fact, I think it happened between Kate and Michelle.

Kate:

Yes, we met in a study group, and we’ve been together ever since as far as doing life together, really. We talk on the phone a lot, and now we work together. And yeah, we’ve supported each other for many years.

And we hear that over and over again from the people that we’ve gone through study groups with. So, it’s very exciting.

I am so thankful that you shared all this information with us today, Joette, and I hope it’s helped some of you to know a little bit more about the Gateway to Homeopathy study group, but a little bit more also about what is in it for you as someone who is learning more about homeopathy.

Whether you are new or you’ve studied homeopathy for a while, this really benefits you. Michelle and I learn something every time we go through this study, so I just encourage you to take a look at it and consider starting or joining a study group of your own.

Michele:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Joette:

Thanks, Kate. Thanks, Michelle. Really fun.

Michele:

Thank you, Joette.

Kate:

Bye.

Michele:

Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: “How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor”

01:51   Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            “How to Raise a Healthy Child… in Spite of Your Doctor”

            “Confessions of a Medical Heretic”

            “Male Practice”

04:30   Childhood illnesses: We just have to take them with a grain of salt and not worry.

06:01   It’s just common sense.

12:40   Fevers

            Get Your Kids High: Fever Is Good

18:21   The takeaway? Relax.

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 145, 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)

Hi, this is Kate and Joette here today. Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

Hi. It’s always great to be with you. And when we were talking just a minute ago about the topic that you’re going to cover in today’s podcast, I was kind of giggling to myself because every time we meet, you have so many ideas and topics that you want to share with everyone. And so, it’s just great. We’re overflowing with information to share!

Joette:

Oh, it never ends because this topic of taking control of your family’s health — yourself — and homeopathy and even foods and meals and philosophy about family, as never ending. Those are some pretty heavy-duty topics that we could go on for decades with. Yeah.

Kate:

Yeah. But also, you are a very avid reader. You continually go through books and have new ideas.

So, you have one of those here. But it’s not necessarily new, is it, Joette?

Joette: (01:51)

No, it’s not. It’s actually an old book, but it’s one of my favorites, and I encourage everyone to own this book. The last printing … last copyright was in 1984. And so, the title of the book is “How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor.”

Now, this was authored by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, who was a pediatrician. And I actually remember when he was on television back in the eighties — the early eighties, before I even had my children. I remember him going on Phil Donahue and some other programs like that, those talk shows. Yes, he was on talk shows.

So, if you look him up, if you go to YouTube, you’ll find him. You’ll find snippets of him — maybe the entire … Actually, I think one of the entire interviews of him is still up there with Phil Donahue. And he did more than one.

He was celebrated partly because of this book and because he was questioning the status quo. And you know how we feel about questioning the status quo.

Kate:

Now, for those people who have done Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I, you’re familiar already with this book. You might have read it. That’s part of the curriculum, at least a section of the book. So …

Joette:

Yeah, so this book, “How to Raise a Healthy Child… in Spite of Your Doctor” is on Amazon, and I’ve bought it for as little as $2, and then it goes up, and then it goes since $8.

And I must have, I don’t know, five copies? I’ve given them to my daughter-in-law, and I have a copy in the car and one in the office because this man was an eloquent writer … and prolific, also. He’s written some other great books, too.

I have to say that “Confessions of a Medical Heretic” and “Male Practice,” MAL-E Practice … It’s the practice of OBGYN practices, and how they have gone too far — even back in the seventies and eighties —with how women are treated in these specific practices.

So, I like everything he’s written. But this one particularly because it’s so useful for mothers. A

And what I love about him is that he’s very practical; he’s easily read. He’s got a bit of a caustic edge, which I love. He’s sarcastic, and he’s fun. And if you watch him on YouTube, you’ll see what I’m talking about. He’s got a great personality — or had, he’s no longer with us.

Joette: (04:30)

So, what’s particularly interesting about this book, there’s not even a whisper of the word homeopathy. Never does he say anything about it. And it’s fascinating because here’s a man who’s teaching mothers and encouraging grandmothers for their daughters and daughter-in-laws to follow this way of thinking.

And his line of thinking is that you can do this without a doctor. You can do 90% — I think that’s the number he chose of the conditions that afflict children — on your own, without a doctor involved, without a pediatrician involved.

Such as childhood illnesses: We just have to take them with a grain of salt and not worry. We don’t have to see the doctor every time. And that’s basically his message.

And he goes through the book by telling us what do you do for eczema? What do you do for sleeplessness? What do you do for food intolerance? As he’s covered the main conditions, chicken pox, measles — and now, of course, we’re living in a world that has frightened the bloomers off of moms about measles.

And I will tell you, I’m here in my seventies, and I’m a measles epidemic survivor. As was my brother. So were all my cousins. So were all my classmates. So were all my churchmates. Everybody in the neighborhood survived measles, and it was not a big deal. No one even gave it any thought at all.

Kate:

I just saw a posting recently where they compared on a TV show and the Brady Bunch. Do you remember the Brady Bunch?

Joette:

Yes, I do. And I remember that that came up a while ago. Yes.

Kate:

Yeah. So, the Brady Bunch … the kids came home, and they had measles, and they celebrate like a party. “Oh, we’re having a fun day off of school,” and it was no big deal. And then they compared it with today and media, social media about today, and how it’s just very deep and scary …

Joette:

Dark. It’s a dark disease. It’s a very dark disease.

Kate:

Right? It was funny.

Joette: (06:01)

So, back to the idea that Dr. Robert Mendelssohn had no understanding of homeopathy — or at least it doesn’t show up in any of his books. But I’m going to read to you the back cover of this book because it’s so fascinating. And so, my point that I’m making here by reading this and presenting these ideas today is that he had nothing but common sense.

We have common sense PLUS homeopathy. So, we actually have a medicine that he didn’t even have access to. Yet, he still felt as though mothers could handle 90% of the conditions that befall their children on their own with just simple common sense and the release of the angst that is promulgated on parents these days.

So, this is what he says:

“Mothers, grandmothers and Mother Nature are the best doctors around.” That’s the title of the back cover.

And then it says, “Dr. Robert Mendelsohn has dedicated his life to demystifying the medical profession …” [“Demystifying “is a very kind word. That’s a real euphemism. He does more than demystify it.]“ … both as a renowned pediatrician for nearly 30 years and as the widely read author of ‘Confessions of a Medical Heretic’ and other books.”

“In this practical and informative guide, he turns his expertise to his own specialty, maintaining that parents tend to rely too heavily on their pediatricians and that they can take a more active role in determining which ailments require an office visit and which can be dealt with at home.”

Now, I have to say, since the eighties, this has ramped up because of social media. And even before that, with all of the television commercials when people were watching television — what is it, 15 years ago? 20 years ago? They have scared people into running to the doctor because then they insist on “Doctor, give this child — my child — an antibiotic.” Then the antibiotic sales increase dramatically so we all know where it’s all coming from.

Now he says — still on the back cover — “Learn how to treat and diagnose at home.” [That’s italicized: “at home.”] “Everyday colds and flus, childhood illnesses, strep throat …”

Yes, my friends, strep throat. But what if it’s “type B” strep throat? My friends, it is still strep throat. And when I was growing up, it wasn’t called strep throat, it was called “sore throat.” As soon as you attach a Latin-sounding name to it, it all of a sudden sounds more threatening.

“Vision and hearing problems.”

Vision! Are you listening? “Vision and hearing problems.” Must we run to the doctor if there’s a vision or hearing problem? Let’s think this through, my friends.

“Allergies.” Yes, allergies, yes. Should we run to the allergist? Hmmm. He says no, and he doesn’t even have homeopathy.

“Emotional problems, skin ailments and everything else you’ll need to know about major symptoms and illnesses.”

So, then it says “Plus” — plus/bullet point — “A complete section on picking the right doctor for your child.”

And that’s paramount. You want someone, if you’re even going to use a doctor — and I will say, parenthetically, my friends, I didn’t. I went to a pediatrician one time when my oldest child, my first child, was six weeks old, and I learned my lesson. Now, you may not feel as gutsy as I did or confident, but I didn’t have … I knew nothing about homeopathy. I employed it after that first visit.

If you happen to know my story, I employed it, but it was the first medicine I’d ever used — homeopathic medicine — and I did not know what I was doing. But I knew I was not going to go back to the doctor that caused the condition that my child was suffering. I was certain of it.

So, a complete section on picking the right doctor for your child.

The second bullet is “Comprehensive guidelines for using time-honored, age-old remedies.” And he doesn’t mean homeopathic. He means age-old remedies like putting the child to bed, making them chicken soup, like letting a fever rise on its own and leaving it alone. Just make sure the child is hydrated.

The next one is “All the facts about immunization.” Well, you can imagine what he’s saying about that.

The next bullet point is “Step-by-step instructions for knowing when you should call a doctor.”

That’s key. You’ll find that as you become more confident by reading a book such as this or at least referring to it. You may not have to read it from cover to cover, although I urge you to do so. Once you get the confidence, then, you gain competence.

And so, with that, you learn not only to relax — because that’s really where much of the over-doctoring comes from, is the anxiety of the mothers and the fathers or both or the grandparents — and then knowing, in our case, how to apply homeopathic medicines that are so readily available today.

The next bullet point is “Detailed information for coping with accidental injuries.”

My friends, the real danger to a child is not childhood illnesses. Is not a cold, a flu, a fever, a strep throat, an ear infection, conjunctivitis. No, that’s not where the real danger is.

The danger lies in one area: accidents. Drowning, getting burned, falling from high places, getting cut. Those are the areas that are of the greatest danger to children, and that, my friends, if it’s a small enough injury, you can handle yourself with homeopathy.

If it’s a dire enough concern and you need emergent help, of course, you go to the emergency room if there’s a deep laceration, if there’s a deep puncture wound, et cetera. That’s when you do go to the doctor — when there is truly a need, not a perceived fear.

And at the very end “With Dr. Mendelsohn’s help, you can [italicized word] trust your instincts.”

And so, my concern is that today’s world’s instincts have been pounded out of mothers. We’re left with very little common sense because the common sense that we think is of good sense is the stuff we hear on a regular basis. And those ideas that we hear on a regular basis are paid for by an industry that wants you just enough afraid to ask for drugs and to get treatment that is often — more often than not — superfluous.

Kate: (12:40)

Yes. I think that also the idea of the family unit staying together. And the grandmother teaching the grandchildren or the mother, and it’s being passed down. That’s not there as much anymore.

I recently saw a post about someone asking a question about their child. They were saying that their child had a fever of, I think it was right around a hundred or 101, and they said, “Should I take my child?” (It was only for a day.) “Should I take my child to the emergency room?” is what they were asking.

And I was thinking, “The emergency room for a fever of 101?”

But these people aren’t taught about that fevers … they occur with illnesses, and it’s helping the body. It talks about that in the book, doesn’t it, Joette, how …

Joette:

Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

Kate:

Tell us about that a little bit.

Joette:

Even the American Academy of Pediatrics, who for years — because I watched them. I followed them even before they were online. I would get their information because I wanted to see what they were teaching mothers.

Even they, who said, “If your child has a fever, get your child to the doctor.” Even they now admit — in the last, I’m going to say, maybe it was five years ago, online — they admit that fever is a curative action of the body, and we need the child to get a fever in order to cook it all off. It’s a very positive thing for a child to get a fever.

And when a child’s fever is suppressed by, well, used to be aspirin, then Tylenol and antibiotics, steroids, and even, my friends, tepid baths … we should not be suppressing a fever. A fever needs to get good and high. A hundred is nothing.

When I learned about all of this, my first child, the one that I took to the pediatrician for a well-baby checkup — there’s a real euphemism if I ever heard one — was given a vaccine. And he went to a fever the following day, maybe a day and a half later of 105.5. Still, that is not dangerous.

And so, parents need to know how high a fever is dangerous. And there is, as far as I can read in all the literature that I’ve read — and I’ve not read it all, but I’ve been doing this for a long time — there is no fever that is too high.

And those of you who know anything about this, look it up and start reading and don’t believe what you were taught in nursing school or medical school. Look at the studies, look at the research that shows that if there’s a head injury, if there’s a concomitant condition, a disease, that’s not the fever, that’s the problem. It’s the condition that’s driving the fever. That’s the problem that needs to be treated.

So, we don’t treat the symptom that fever is a symptom, and it’s a beautiful symptom, and it’s a symptom that we want our children to experience.

Now, having said that, you see, I’m focusing on children. When adults get fevers, it’s a whole ‘nother arena, and we’re not going to even talk about that today.

But for children, a high fever is within the range of normal. The only fear that we should have is that the child becomes dehydrated.

And so, I have talked about this before. We coat the bottoms of the feet and the palms of the hands with olive oil, and we make sure that child is drinking, or you’re giving them ice chips. Or you get some fresh lemons and make some lemon ice chips and let them suck on those.

Do whatever. Make your own lemonade, bone stock, whatever you can do to keep the child hydrated because they’re perspiring heavily. And that’s the danger, especially in very young children.

But other than that, we love fever.

I’ve actually written about it. I have an article out there. It’s been published in a number of places. I think “Wise Traditions” for the Weston A. Price Foundation … I’m pretty sure they’ve published it. It’s called, “Get Your Kids High.” And so, it’s been out there for many years. I’m going to say a good 12, 13 years ago I wrote that. And it’s all about the importance of allowing a fever to spike and resolve over days, not hours. Even if it goes for days; is that a problem?

No, it’s not a problem.

Kate:

Getting back to what you were alluding to before about there may be times when a fever can be a symptom that is as a result of something …

Joette:

… that needs to be tended to. Yes.

Kate:

And that could be overexposure to sun, or I think there were a few other things. But yeah, I just wanted to point that out that there are a few things that fever might …

Joette:

Might, but it’s not the fever that’s the problem. It’s the condition that’s the problem.

The fever is just a symptom of that condition. So, it is important that we understand the difference.

Now, are there exceptions? There are exceptions to every rule because we’re all a little different. We’re mostly alike, but we’re still all slightly different. And so, you need to know what those exceptions might be.

But most parents, because they have anxiety (especially this generation and even the grandparents who are around have been trained to be frightened by conditions such as fever), are eager to believe that their child is the exception.

Or maybe it’s not an “eager to believe,” but fall into (during those anxious moments) thinking, “Well, what if my child is the exception?”

If you understand what they are, and you have this book, “How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor,” by Dr. Robert Mendelssohn, then you’ll know how to handle it.

So, that’s why I urge parents, when mom is pregnant, this is when the book should be read and then looked into every few months and checked again. And I have a pink tab in mine, and mine is all marked up. I have writing along the sides in the margins.

And that’s when you’ve personalized the book so that you know how to get to it quickly when you’re in need. And that need is usually when the parent is very frightened.

Kate: (18:21)

So, Joette, summarizing what you said today, can you give us an overall upshot of that book and your message?

Joette:

Yeah, my message is relax. Parenting is fabulous. It doesn’t mean it’s not a lot of work. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to be up at night, or that you’re not going to be dealing with a child who’s ornery or difficult or uncomfortable or et cetera.

But what we’re doing by parenting in this fashion — using Mother Nature, as he says — is we are setting the stage for a lifetime of not only keeping the child away from drugs and treatments, but also setting the stage for you as the child grows.

And, the third stage we’re setting is that the child understands that, “Yeah, it’s perfectly normal to be sick.” Yes, let’s just make this child comfortably sick. It’s okay to be sick for a few days, a week, 10 days.

Yes, my friends, even 10 days. Even two weeks is not abnormal. That’s within the range of normal.

So, we’re setting a stage, and we’re getting control of our own worries by doing one thing: reading. Just read, my friends. Don’t let someone tell you what the answer is. Don’t outsource the most important job you’ll ever have in your life, and that is raising your children. Don’t outsource

You go to the best sources, read up on it, and then, make your decisions and then, choose your lifestyle based on your research.

That’s my message.

Kate:

Great message, Joette. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and tips with the listeners today.

Joette:

Yes, thanks, Kate. Talk to 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.

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

01:00   Introduction: Podcast 144 — Moms with Moxie: Success Stories from Horses to Humans

04:28   Homeopathy and the Amish Community

07:15   Success Stories: Farm Animals

09:26   Success Story: A Pulsatilla Child

11:02   Success Stories: Emotional Conditions

14:21   Success Story: Umbilical Hernia

15:17   The Pathway to Learning Practical Homeopathy®
            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum
             Gateway to Homeopathy II           
             Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy 
           The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 144.

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)

Hi, my name is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the podcast. Whether you’re new here or have been using homeopathy for a long time, we are so glad that you’re here, and I can’t wait for you to meet our guest today. Her name is Jane.

Hi, Jane.

Jane:

Hi, Kate. Thank you for having me.

Kate:

Yeah, welcome.

Jane:

I’m very humbled.

Kate:

As am I. I look forward to hearing your stories. Well, actually, I’ve heard it, but those who are listening have not heard your story yet. And so, let’s just dive right in.

Tell us where you’re from and a little bit about yourself.

Jane:

Well, I’m almost 60 years old. I’ve been a physical therapist for over 30 years. I’ve been married for 30 years, born and raised on a farm in the Midwest, and after high school, I left during the farm crisis.

I went to California as a nanny, went to college to be a physical therapist, stayed in California and traveled for 10 years.

Then I came back home to help my dad and my mom when my dad was ill, started dating my childhood family friend, and we got married.

He had bought his family farm that he was raised on, and it’s an organic farm. So, we’ve been organically farming for many years.

We raised nine children. We have one child still at home, and we homeschooled them all through high school, and we have 12 grandchildren.

And gradually through those years, we transitioned from what the mainstream medical was to using more alternative medical, natural health, and now, homeopathy, which has been great.

We feel that we love the homeopathy because it helps empower us to take care of ourselves and our families. Doesn’t mean we don’t use mainstream medical when we need it.

My intro to homeopathy, since I lived in California, I heard of homeopathy, dabbled in it over the years, using Arnica mainly. That was the main thing that seemed to always come back to, like using it topically or with the pellets.

Probably 15 or 20 years ago, there was a mom’s homeschool meeting which featured two homeschool moms, and it was about 40 minutes away from me. And they were speaking about homeopathy, but it was classical homeopathy. I loved it. I thought it was so interesting, but I just could not wrap my head around classical homeopathy.

So, I abandoned, basically, my journey with homeopathy at that time.

Fast forward about two or over two years ago, I belonged to a homeschool email group. And a homeopath, Wendy, on her journey, she introduced us to homeopathy. And she invited us to a Gateway I class in homeopathy — one of Joette’s classes, the first class, I guess.

And I took that with my sister and two of my daughters. And basically, I was hooked.

Right away took Gateway II. Started using it right away. I still practice some physical therapy, and now I’ve integrated using homeopathy. And it’s really helped my practice quite a bit as far as making suggestions to people: what they can use for homeopathy to help them with their own healing while they’re healing from injuries that I helped them with, also with manual therapy and exercise.

Kate: (04:28)

So, Jane, you have a very interesting story about the clients that you work with, and who you see, and how you integrate homeopathy with physical therapy. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

Jane:

Yes. We live in a very rural area, and I largely serve the Amish communities in and around our state. And there’s one very close to us, about 10 miles away. So that’s the one I mainly serve.

There’s 200 families in that community, and then there’s three other communities outlying about 40 minutes away in different directions. So, they are very familiar and always interested in alternative medical. And they’ve been introduced to homeopathy in the past, especially their parents and the older ones, but they were unable to obtain it at some point from the companies they used to order from.

So, now they’re so happy to have homeopathy back. In fact, Wendy hosted a on-site, in-person Gateway I in one day at the Amish community for about 30 different women that attended.

That’s kind of catapulted my practicing and knowledge of homeopathy so quickly because of being able to use it so often and the experience.

Kate:

So, you’ve told me that when you go, and you have an appointment, that you talk about therapy, but you also educate about homeopathy as well, and you get sometimes lots of calls. Give us an idea about how many people you help and how busy you are helping others.

Jane:

Well, I’m definitely as busy as I want to be, but I work about 20 hours a week. So, I see about 20, depending on how long it takes for one session of physical therapy and massage. But I often get many calls.

So, in the Amish community, of course, they have several children … many of them do. So, I see a lot of prenatal visits for physical therapy and massage. And with that being said, the pregnancy protocols, I give them information on that.

Several use the Calc carbonica, the protocol that they have for the eight months, and the Pulsatilla at the last month.

I have two daughters that had breach pregnancies toward the end. So even my own daughters, I mean, they use it all of the time.

But one of ’em, I consulted with the homeopath. She said she could start taking it at 33 weeks — the Pulsatilla — and each time it’s been a hundred percent turning those babies, which might have in the past been a C-section.

Kate:

That’s very exciting.

Jane:

Yes.

Kate: (07:15)

So, you are very busy, and you told me earlier, every kind of animal that you can think of on your farm. We were talking earlier about horses and your children training horses, and how many horses did you say that you have?

Jane:

We have 12 here, and then we bring in horses that we train for 30 days at a time.

Kate:

And five babies on the way, huh?

Jane:

Yes, five babies on the way in May.

Kate:

Very fun. I bet you have some stories using homeopathy with horses or some of your other animals.

Jane:

One, this year in particular. We have about 60 ewes. We raise hair sheep, so they’ve been lambing. And in February, we had a little lamb that was kind of cold, and it was laying in front of the stove in a box. And it was very tiny; it was a twin. And it wasn’t getting up and laying there.

And my 15-year-old son, for sure, thought it had died. Well, I went and got Carbo veg, and I popped it in its mouth, underneath its lip. And my son turned his back and turned around, and the lamb popped up and was then standing.

Kate:

Oh my gosh.

Jane:

Carbo veg is the corpse reviver.

Kate:

Yes.

Jane:

It really works.

Kate:

Yeah, I’ve heard that from so many people who have a lot of animals that the Carbo veg can turn an animal around from being deathly ill to just like you said …

Jane:

In literally seconds. He always kind of giggles when I get out my pellets, but that time he was just so impressed.

Kate:

So, are your kids learning how to use homeopathy as well?

Jane:

Oh, definitely. Yes. Yeah. Two of my daughters took Gateway I with me, and one of them is a massage therapist, so she actually uses it a lot. She makes some suggestions, and she is often calling me.

Kate:

So exciting to see our kids learn and then use the medicine. Yeah.

Any other animal stories?

Jane:

We had a horse with a cut leg, and we were using Calendula on that, and I think it was Hyper/Ars.

Kate:

For an infection?

Jane:

Yes.

Kate:

And that’s a combination of Hypericum and Arsenicum. That’s a protocol for infection.

And then the Calendula, were you using topically or …

Jane:

Topical. Yes. And Symphytum, I think we were using.

Kate: (09:26)

Okay. So, I know you have a lot of stories, and it’s hard to narrow down which ones to share. But give us a few more.

Jane:

One is Pulsatilla again. So, the Pulsatilla child that Joette has talked about — you know, the emotional up and down.

I have a three-year-old grandson. My daughter-in-law and son live about three hours away. My daughter-in-law wasn’t ever sold on homeopathy, but didn’t ever really say anything. Right? I was always offering it, and when they’d get hurt, I’d use Aconitum and Arnica and things like that.

Well, one day, I mean, he was having meltdown after meltdown, and I offered Pulsatilla. They took it and gave it to him.

Boom. He calmed down in less than three minutes. That had never happened before.

Then, later that week, they texted me and asked me what the “P word” was that I gave him. And that is what converted my daughter-in-law. And I’m telling you, she was a hard nut to crack. And I gave them the book; they ordered kits. And she has been using it ever since.

She had a baby in January, had a breast infection. She used Belladonna every one to four minutes and then Hepar sulph and using that to heal two times a day.

And she said it — boom — it brought her right out of it. The last baby she had, she ended up going into the hospital a bit.

Kate:

You mean before she had homeopathy? Yeah.

Jane:

Yes, before she had homeopathy and her last child — the child before that. So, they could not believe it. So, they use it now all the time.

Kate: (11:02)

You have some situations where some emotional things have happened.

Jane:

Okay, so, I have friends that about a year and a half ago, our friend’s husband committed suicide. He has 10 children himself, and he came from a large family. And they asked for help.

I went over … right over to their house the day it happened and took them Aurum metallicum 200. That really helped his siblings and his parents and his wife and his children. I actually had to water dose the Aurum metallicum right away and then, ordered it as soon as I could get it.

And then later, they started using the Ignatia 200, two times a day. We keep in very close contact with them, and they still use the Ignatia to tend, you know, manage their feelings of sadness and as things come up.

Kate:

So, when you talk about water dosing, I just want to make it clear, what I heard you say is that you maybe didn’t have that much of it. And so, you put some of the pellets in water, and that way, several people could take sips of that, and that would be considered a dose of that medicine.

Jane:

Exactly.

Kate:

Yeah. What a difficult situation. How amazing was it, though, that you could go there and help them in this way? And I can’t even imagine. So, I hope they’re doing okay, and I’m sure they …

Jane:

They are. They still have their ups and downs, but they are really managing the best they can.

Kate:

Jane, I know you have another story about a niece and what you’ve been helping her with.

Jane:

Actually, and I referred her on to Wendy because it was more complicated case that I definitely know my limitations as far as complicated cases go or things like that.

So, she had been working with Wendy coming off of all of her seizure and her anxiety meds. She’s 25, has been on them for at least eight years. And it did take quite a while, but she’s off of everything — and has been off of everything — for four months now, and only taking homeopathic remedies and checking in with the homeopath every month, I think.

Kate:

Wow. And I would imagine she’s also keeping in touch with her doctor and just making sure that as she went off those meds that …

Jane:

Oh, definitely

Kate:

… in conjunction. Yeah.

Jane:

Yeah, they weaned her off those meds. She got their permission, and she goes in for her regular doctor visits as well.

Kate:

Yeah. Well, what a gift. Yeah, Wendy’s a special person. That’s great that she could work with her.

Jane:

I use homeopathy for myself as well, just because of my busy life and the way things go and things that have happened over the last couple of years, and my age.

I use my Sepia regularly, Ignatia when I need it for help sleeping, or Coffea cruda. And I use the combo remedy, SleepCalm®, sometimes.

So, those are all great tools that help me stay balanced in my own life.

Kate:

Yeah, those are good medicines. I love that. Sleeping can sometimes be such a problem, and what a gift it is to have something that you can use to help with that. We all know that if you’re sleep deprived, it’s just much harder to get through your day. So … yeah.

Jane: (14:21)

I have one more story that I should really tell about my husband. He had an umbilical hernia — very large, the size of a baseball, and we were able to reduce that. And he takes Lyco/Plumb combo. He completely healed it. And if he does lift too much or exerts himself too much, and it starts to come back, he just starts on the Lyco/Plumb again.

Kate:

Okay. And that’s a combination remedy protocol, that’s Lycopodium and Plumbum, mixed together.

If you want to learn more about using homeopathy for hernias, it’s called “[Get Back in the Game:] Hernias and Homeopathy.” So, that will be posted with the transcript from this audio as well.

[Editor’s note: Also see “Update: Hernias and Homeopathy.”]

Jane:

And that works with all hernias. I’ve used it for babies’ hernias and hiatal hernias that were definitively diagnosed.

Kate:

I’ve heard many stories about this protocol working for hernias. Yeah, good job.

Kate: (15:17)

So, Jane, it sounds like you’ve been very busy using homeopathy all the time with animals and friends and family. And what are your plans to continue studying, or what recommendations do you have for those who are listening who want to be able to help their animals or friends … just like you’re doing?

Jane:

Well, my journey has been taking the Gateway I and getting hooked. And I’ve taken that three times! I’ve just had the ability to do that with Wendy, repeating it.

Kate:

Yeah.

Jane:

Gateway II, two times, and I’ve taken the Feminopathy class because that’s a lot of the people that I see — the women and young women and even older women. So, that’s been very, very helpful.

I would love to go to The Academy. And I don’t know if that’s God’s will, and He is going to open those doors for me to take that this year or next year. We’re praying about that. And yes, so The Academy would be the next step for me.

Kate:

So, for those who don’t know, Joette has a Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. And that is a one-year school, online, and it starts in July each year.

So, if you’re interested in finding out more about that, we will provide a link that you can sign up to get some emails and find out more information about The Academy.

It’s a school where you can come in and learn more about Practical Homeopathy®. It has all the basics about homeopathy and going into case taking, and just really a full one-year education in what you need to know to help your family.

And for those who are interested in going on and helping others like Jane is doing — helping other people and seeing clients — that information will be provided with the transcript on Joette’s website.

So yeah, that’s a really good goal. And I would imagine until that time, you’re going to keep taking, whether it’s courses or sticking with Wendy and repeating those Gateway to Homeopathy classes.

Jane, it’s been so fun talking to you. I know that you have many more stories that you could share. As we wrap up today, do you have anything that you want to share with the listeners?

Jane:

I just want to say I’m humbled to be here with you, Kate. And since I was introduced to Practical Homeopathy® and Joette and her website, I love homeopathy!

It has empowered me as a mother, and to bring health — not only healing back to me and our home — safely — and care for ourselves and our family and all the other people that we’ve been able to help.

Kate:

That’s so exciting. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time and look forward to hearing many more stories about your successes with homeopathy. Thank you, Jane.

Jane:

Thank you, Kate.

Joette:

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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: Health Fears: The Power of Assessing Symptoms (Without Unnecessary Tests)

01:19   When Should I Use a Remedy?

02:10   What Could Be Extrinsic?

10:30   Routine Tests Fuel Fear.

12:29   Using Symptoms to Determine Illness (Not Tests)

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 143, 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)

Hi, it’s Kate! Joette and I are back for another podcast.

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

We’re going to record this because we were just having a conversation, and we thought it was so good that you wanted the listeners to hear this. So, let’s get into it. This is just off the top of our heads, and we’re just going to have a conversation about what to do.

Joette: (01:19)

Should I use a remedy for this? Should I not use a remedy? Should I ignore it? Should I live with it? Should I allow it to pass naturally, et cetera. I think that’s kind of what the upshot of this conversation was. Wouldn’t you say, Kate?

Kate:

Yes. And that’s something that you talk about in your Mastery™ program because we have a whole lesson on “Is It Normal?” I think that is something that most people wonder and have fear about.

“Is this normal?” “I’m experiencing this thing, is it normal?” “Is it something I should be concerned about?” “Is it something I should take a homeopathic medicine for?”

Joette:

“Be tested for this?” “Should I be checked for this?” “Should I be worried about this?” “Can I assume that if it’s (on a scale of 1 to 10), a 4, now that it’s going to go to an 8, it’ll progress that it could get worse.” “I could die from this?” (Whatever “this” is.)

Joette: (2:10)

Alright, so let’s go back to Kate, because you had mentioned to me that you had this sensation in your chest. And my first thought always is, what could be extrinsic? What could be from the outside coming in?

And, of course, diet matters, food matters, but that’s not what I was thinking.

I was thinking that I know, Kate, that you were taking a medicine (a homeopathic) for appetite, right? To curb your appetite?

Kate:

I was, but I actually stopped taking that a while ago.

Joette:

Oh, okay. Okay. So, my first thought is in looking at that medicine — at any homeopathic medicine — if we have new symptoms, then my first thought is it’s likely the medicine — the homeopathic medicine.

Kate:

That’s a good point because I actually did stop taking that medicine because I had a new symptom. Now, I don’t know for sure if it was from that medicine or not.

Joette:

We don’t know. We don’t know. All we can do is, yes, check it out. That’s right.

Kate:

Yes. But I did stop taking it, and I haven’t had that symptom since. So again, it could be, or it could not. But it wasn’t a medicine that I absolutely needed to take.

Joette:

No, you were kind of testing it out. “Let’s have some fun with this. Let’s see if this will work for me and see if it reduces my appetite, et cetera.”

So, that’s always my first thought, is what’s coming in. And if there is, whether it’s a conventional drug, whether it’s a vitamin, a supplement (which are, by the way, often synthetic) or a homeopathic medicine, we do have to consider that. Because what we’re doing is … we are — even if it’s for good — to a certain degree  we’re manipulating our bodies. And so, it would behoove us to consider that the manipulation is working. Perhaps in other ways we might get some good from it, but if we get other symptoms, even if they’re mild …

This description that you were giving me today, the sensation you were having in your chest, it’s rather mild, but it’s new, and it’s something you say, “Hmmm. I don’t know. I’ve never had this before.” That’s my first clue that it could be something that you’ve been taking.

Now, even if you stopped taking that homeopathic — say, even four days ago — it doesn’t mean that it’s done. It also doesn’t mean that it’s still in your bloodstream, but it stimulates the body to make shifts.

As my mother used to say when we were doing something that she thought we should rethink and rearrange the way we’re approaching a subject, she would say, “arrangiare te,” which means arrange yourself. And so, in a way, well, she meant that we need to rethink things and to approach a concern, a problem, a condition differently. Rearrange it and rethink it and come to a conclusion.

In a way it’s the same message, but what we’ve done is we’ve already arranged or rearranged, and perhaps that re-arrangement (by taking a homeopathic medicine, a supplement, a vitamin a drug, whatever else it might be) is now showing itself in a, perhaps, not so savory fashion.

Now, here’s the upshot. If you had said to me, Kate, “I’m having this little sensation in my chest. It’s not horrible, and it doesn’t feel as though it’s of imminent danger. But there it is, and I wonder what it is.”

But meanwhile, you’ve been taking a homeopathic medicine that’s helping you reduce your craving or your appetite, and it’s working, then we have to weigh it out.

One of the best ways to weigh it out is to open up the materia medica and read up on the medicine that you’re presently taking,which I assume you did. I know you already did that. But I would encourage people that anytime take something, you really should know what you’re doing. You should know what the medicine represents. Read up on it and see if any of the symptoms that you’re experiencing are noted in the description of this medicine in the materia medica.

Now, we’re being intelligent, and we are arranging ourselves properly. So, I’m not slapping you on the back of the hand, Kate, because I’ve done the same thing myself … so many times that that’s how I’ve been able to come to this conclusion — not only in treating myself and my family, but certainly clients and thousands of students.

And that’s how I can come to a more comfortable conclusion and teach people that if on the other side of this, you’re finding that the sensation in your chest outweighs the benefit (or perhaps no benefit quite yet), in taking the homeopathic for the cravings and appetite — it’s outweighing in such a way that it makes you uncomfortable — it’s time to rethink. It’s time to reassess and decide, “I think I’m just going to stop this homeopathic medicine and see what comes of that.”

Or if it’s something you’re insistent upon, okay, instead of taking it twice daily, you might take it only twice a week and see what comes of it that way.

So, as I always tell my students, knowing how to use Practical Homeopathy® — in other words, knowing which homeopathic medicines to choose, their potency and their frequency — is the easy part because I give it to you. I just give it out!

The hard part is knowing what to do once you’ve taken it (or once you’ve observed someone else taking it) and knowing how to assess what’s next.

In other words, in a way, it’s really case management. You’re managing what’s coming down the pike, and this is what gives us greater freedom and liberty in understanding how to treat, using homeopathy — using Practical Homeopathy®.

It gives us more wisdom; it gives us a greater depth of knowledge. And it puts us in a place where we can be a little more confident instead of just, “I don’t know what’s happening. I have no idea.”

Now, having said all of this, I’m not going to tell you, we absolutely know. These are indicators. This is a way to assess.

I’m not telling you that we absolutely know. Because what if randomly out of nowhere, you have a sensation in your chest that’s new, that has nothing to do with taking vitamin supplements or new homeopathic medicine or a drug. Now, what if it has nothing to do with that?

To be honest, we will not know. We actually may never know, but we’ll have a better knowledge — a better understanding of it — from 30,000 feet above. Meaning, it’s only in time will you recognize that this potentially triggered that.

Because you may try it again, and the same incidence occurs, and then, you halt the use of the medicine again. And then six months later, you try it again. And it’s pretty clear that this medicine — this homeopathic medicine — causes this sensation in my chest. And is it worth it or is it not worth it?

And that’s how we can truly judge whether or not we’ve chosen the correct medicine and the correct potency and frequency.

Kate:

Yes. One of the things that occurred to me was it could be a new food that I’m eating, and maybe it’s something that I’m allergic to, and it’s causing a sensation in my airways or my chest.

So yeah, you’re right. We have to look at all of the things that we’re doing, and I think one of the things that we see often is that people start to have this fear, right?

“Oh my gosh, it’s this new thing. It must be something terrible.” Right? Our minds go to that.

But what you’re saying is really step back, have that bird’s eye view — that view from above.

What are all these extrinsic factors? Am I doing something new? What might I try to eliminate, whether it’s a new homeopathic or a new food that I’m eating? And see if that makes the difference.

And instead of having that fear, and oftentimes, Joette, if we talk to someone about this, it brings us down. And that’s why we love our study groups and our homeopathy buddies, and they can help us think logically when we have this fear of something.

Joette: (10:30)

And what really fuels the fear is things like regular testing and checkups.

I met with a client yesterday, and she is actually improving greatly. Mentally, he feels really good. She’s had a little setback in one area. But mentally, which was one of the greatest concerns that I had, she was improving in great leaps and bounds.

But she went to the doctor and got blood labs and said, “You’ve got to look at these. I sent them to your assistant so you can look at them. Have you studied them?”

And I did look at them, and to me, her blood labs looked within the range of normal, but because the labs are written the way they are, they show a red highlight for any number that’s outside of the normal numbers. And so, she was alarmed because it was red, so her LDL was high. However, her ratio was perfect.

Her A1C was high by a half point — not grandly — a half point. So, it was in red. There was another … what was the other marker? Creatinine, maybe. Everything that was off. And there were only three items that were off … were off by a fraction, nothing that I would ever consider dangerous in the least.

So, she was panicked. She thought, “Oh my gosh, am I eating too much butter? Am I having too much meat? My cholesterol is really … this is really serious stuff.”

And these tests … first of all, these tests are not conclusive. They’re a snippet in time. That whole vitamin D thing, I question it dramatically. And I also find that if you happen to eat a lot of butter and bacon and full cream and eggs before you have the cholesterol test, it is going to show that your LDL is on the high side, but that is meaningless.

Joette: (12:29)

What really matters is tell me how you feel because we’re using symptoms.

Now, here’s the problem. Homeopathy has been teaching we use symptoms to determine whether or not someone is ill.

Whereas, conventional medicine has taught people that there are a lot of blind illnesses … that you could die without ever knowing that there was anything wrong. So, you’d better be tested on a regular basis.

And I think that that is — excuse my skepticism — but I think it is a way to get people to get tested on a regular basis. Because every time you get tested and every time you purchase a medication, they can bill your insurance a couple thousand dollars, minimum.

And if you don’t come in to be tested and you just live your life, and if you find something that needs to be rearranged, that you maybe make some lifestyle changes, they will not make a decent living.

And that’s such a shame, isn’t it? Don’t we all want everybody to make a $2,000 “ka-ching” because they took your blood tests and now have alarmed you?

Excuse me again for my skepticism and my sarcasm, but I think a lot of tests — not all, but a lot of tests — are useless at best. They’re superfluous. And what they cause is more harm than good. Because had she not listened to me … she may still not follow my directive. I told her I thought everything was fine. I think that she should stay with the food she’s eating.

But if she goes back, if they call her in, she’ll probably be on Lipitor. She’ll probably be on the drug that’s used for diabetes. They’ll have her on drugs in no time. And all the headway that we made so far with her staying away from these drugs could easily be lost.

Kate:

So, you’re not saying Joette that we should never go to a doctor or never get a test. But you are saying use reason, right? So, if there is an emergency situation, of course, we want to go to the …

Joette:

Well, what I’m saying is why would you go to a doctor to find out what’s wrong when there’s nothing wrong? That just blows my mind!

You already know you have this condition. You’ve had some depression for some time. You’re off of the psychotropic drugs. You’re using homeopathy once in a while for that depression. You already know that you have a skin condition that is being dealt with homeopathically. And naturally. Your energy is quite good. Your outlook is good.

Why test?

Let’s put it this way … and I’m not telling you, dear followers, that you need to do this, but I’ll give you my approach. I simply don’t go to be tested. Because if I were to be tested, they would want to do a mammogram and a pap smear and lots of blood tests. They would try to prove to me that I needed this, or I needed that.

I’m looking for markers and cancer markers. And do I want to know if I have cancer markers? Do I really need to know that?

Why don’t I just eat properly, live properly, get outside in the sunshine without sunscreen, eat the highest-quality food that I can obtain, live a decent life, and just go on with my life instead of spending time in waiting rooms and being panicked by the red letters and the red numbers on a blood lab report.

So, that’s my philosophy. Not everyone would be comfortable with that.

Now, if I had something wrong and I was very concerned about it, and I had already made a lifestyle change that perhaps I’m not following through enough on, and I’ve already used a homeopathic medicine, and yet still I feel as though I absolutely must know what this is because it’s sobering enough, then I might get something tested.

But my gosh, I’m going to be 73 in a few weeks. And I have to say, that should be happening to me now. Right? By this age, shouldn’t this be happening to me?

This is not luck that I’ve gotten this far with this quality of health. It’s not luck, my friends. It’s I’ve educated myself. I was a very sickly young teenager. I was a very sickly 32, 34, 36-year-old woman. And all of that has completely turned around with what I have studied and learned, and that’s what I want to share with everyone, should they be interested.

Kate:

That’s great. Thank you for sharing, Joette. As always, really good information. And it, hopefully, will help to bring down the level of fear in some of your listeners.

Joette:

Yeah, nice conversation, Kate. Take care.

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: Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?

02:55   Are You Ready to Lead?

04:21   Staying Connected With Your Group

05:31   Planning: Tips and Tools
            Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

11:14   Anybody Can Lead a Study Group With the Gateway Guide in Hand
            Joette’s Learning Center
             Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
             The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

14:52   Again, the Top Tips for Successful Study Groups

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
PracticalHomeopathy.com
Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum
Find a Practical Homeopath® (for consultations or for educational study groups led by my Discovery Ambassadors)
Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 142.

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)

Hi everyone. Welcome to the podcast. We are back, and we’re so glad that you’ve joined us today. I’m Kate, and today I’m here with Michele.

Hi, Michele.

Michele:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Hi. It’s fun to do a podcast together. We’ve known each other for quite a long time. And for those people who don’t know you, I would love for you to just give a little introduction about yourself.

Michele:

Sure. I live in Chico, California. My name’s Michele Kumangai, and I have raised five boys, homeschooled all the way through. Now they’re out on their own being independent. Well, some of them are.

And I am so excited to be here today to share about Gateway study groups, and it’s actually how Kate and I met. So, thank you for having me, Kate.

Kate:

Yes, yes. I’m excited to share with the listeners who may not know much about the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups, a little bit more information about them. And our title today is “Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?” So, we’re going to get into that, but first, I thought we should tell people how we met and how the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups have really affected our lives.

So, we are dear friends now, and we met in a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group that I started leading, oh gosh, I think it was about 12 years ago or so. So, you joined, and then you kept coming to the study groups that I led and …

Michele:

Yeah, you couldn’t get rid of me.

Kate:

Yeah. Well, I didn’t want to get rid of you. And we became good friends in there. And then eventually we joined forces and decided to lead the study groups together, which was really fun. And so, we’ve been really good friends ever since that time, and now we even work together every day. So, I guess you’re probably going to get sick of me at some point.

Michele:

Never.

Kate: (02:55)

So, talk to us, Michele, about how you felt initially when I presented the idea to you about joining me to lead the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups.

Michele:

Well, I was actually really anxious about that. Even though I’d been in so many of your groups, Kate, I was just so nervous. I was afraid I would say something wrong. I was afraid I would, you know … we worked on spreadsheets, so I was afraid I would enter something wrong. I’d never even seen a Google doc before, and that’s what we were using to keep track of things.

So, I know I never shared that with you before, but I was really hesitant of leading study groups, and now, it’s what I love to do. I’m just really passionate about sharing this with anyone who wants to listen.

Kate:

Yeah, we did that for many years together, and it just grew and grew. And I would love for us to just talk a little bit about how we’ve developed such great friendships through these study groups. And because we each had our strengths when we came together to lead these study groups, and we each took on certain roles in putting together the study groups. And you were really the people person, Michele, and you still are! Study groups is your thing. You love connecting with people.

And so, you started some Signal groups for the study groups. And talk a little bit about that and how important it is and how we’ve stayed connected with our people.

Michele: (04:21)

Actually, when we started those groups, it was during that year when people weren’t leaving their homes. And so, we all wanted to stay connected. So, we found a medium that was safe and protected — end-to-end encryption. And we started chatting in our Signal group that was just with one of our Gateway groups.

And then, from then, we took that, and we do that with all of our Gateway groups now.

So, we have a whole bunch of Signal groups. We’ve even branched out, and we have other groups with our study group members. We have an animals group, we have …

Kate:

Groups for each of the states. So, yeah, I don’t think we have all the states, but a Wisconsin study group …

Michele:

The Wisconsin group gets together regularly, like a whole group of them meet up at one of someone that lives near Kate’s house, and they meet on Zoom, too. So, it’s pretty exciting to see how homeopathy has brought us together. And we all actually met on Zoom, so …

Kate:

Right. Yeah, it’s been so fulfilling. These people have become dear friends to us, right, Michele? Yeah.

Michele:

Yeah.

Kate: (05:31)

So, that’s really fun. Okay, so let’s talk now more about the study groups themselves and what we found to be useful as we planned the study groups and led them — because we have led a lot of study groups. So, we want to give all of the listeners the tools — some of the tips and tools — that we used to do our study groups. So, Michele, why don’t you talk about a few of those things?

Michele:

Well, I think one of the things that you actually started, Kate (when you started leading the study groups) was being consistent with the day and time. You were consistently holding them on a certain day and time every week.

And when people would go to Joette’s Find Your Study Group Friends Facebook page, they always knew when you were going to hold your groups, and it was able for them to connect with you and to schedule with you. And that was great for me, too, when I decided to join your group. So, that was one of the things.

Kate:

And I know we really tried to plan the study groups on days and times that we thought were good for both coasts. We have the East coast and the West coast, and that can be tricky.

And then we also thought about days of the week. We tried to avoid Wednesdays because of a lot of people do church things on Wednesdays. We didn’t do them on Sundays because it’s like family day. So, we really put a lot of thought into the day and the time that we planned our groups.

And that’s something that if you are leading study groups, I’d really recommend that you do is think about all the coasts … and we even had people from overseas join us. The evenings tend to be best for most time zones.

Michele:

Yeah, I think the farthest away we had was someone from Switzerland once. And it was very, very late at night, if I remember correctly, that she would meet with us. And she’d be in her sweats and in the dark and [inaudible]. And yeah, that was pretty neat.

And then another thing we did, too, Kate, was we had consistent study group meetings. So, we would have a Gateway I group, and then we would do a Gateway II group right after that, and then we would do a Gateway I after that. We just kept them rolling. And so that was something that helped build our Gatewayers, or our Gateway groups, in our community.

Kate:

Because I think people knew if they were going to invite their friends, that we would have another one, and they would just keep going, like you said, Gateway I, Gateway II.

Now, some people do a Gateway I and a Gateway II, and then, when they’re doing the Gateway II, at the same time, they’ll start another Gateway I. So, you can double up like that. And then you’re always leading both a Gateway I and a Gateway II.

But I think also, Michele, something that was helpful is going into Gateway II because you had more time with these people, so you developed even better relationships with them.

Michele:

Right.

Kate:

And I love Gateway II. I’m surprised that more people don’t do that.

But Gateway II, I even use it as a resource when my family has a cold or a flu. It’s a quick reference for me to look up the remedy. So …

Michele:

Yeah, it’s like Gateway I is a great starter guide when you’re just first learning about homeopathy, and you don’t really know what it is.

And then Gateway II … you really do dive into the medicines more like the entire section on cell salts and emergency first aid.

And both of them together … I still use them as references even all these years later. And they are full of notes from our study group members. We’re amazed — right, Kate — that every time we hold a Gateway group — even all these years later — there’s somebody that comes in with a little tidbit of information that is valuable.

Kate:

And we talk about how it helps us, too. Because as we’re going through it — even though we might have done it 50 times — we go through it again, and you and I are reminded of something. “Oh yeah, I remember now. Okay, that cell salt is great for this.” And it brings it back to our memory, and we’re able to further our knowledge and just storing all those uses for the remedies in our minds. Because we learn it, and then we tend to forget things. So, it brings it back to our minds and keeps it fresh. I love that. I learn every time we lead a study group.

What else? Can you think of any other tips, Michele?

Michele:

I was thinking about with the community you have, too, through the Signal groups and even emailing with your people, there’s always somebody there to help you when you need help — when you have that brain mush because your kids are really sick, and you can’t even think of what remedy to use. And you could reach out to your friends from your study group that are in the Signal group. It’s really powerful.

Kate:

Oh, I thought of something else that when we started another study group (like, say, another Gateway I) we would send it out — that information: “Hey, we’re starting another study group.”

We would send it out to our whole email list. Everyone that’s attended our study groups in the past, because inevitably they would want to come back. (And we offered that for free if they’ve already joined.) But they would have friends or family members that wanted to join in this next time that we went through it.

So, we kept a list of everyone and sent them an email and let them know what we were up to and when we would be doing new groups. So, really, we got a lot of new people that way into our study groups and more and more friends.

Michele:

I remember once we had one person bring their four sisters to our group. And I said, “Why don’t you do … you have your own study group right there?”

And she’s like, “Yeah, but we want to learn in the larger community with more people.”

So, she brought her sisters to our group, And I think that now, a couple of them are even leading study groups, which is really exciting. And it’s so exciting to see people …

Michele: (11:14)

Kate and I, part of our goal is to let people know that anybody can lead a study group. And so, we really stress that in our groups. We follow that study guide. It’s got everything you need in it. You don’t need to rewrite the book, I always say, because it’s right there. And Joette’s doing the teaching through the guide, right?

Kate:

Right.

Michele:

And we have videos on the Learning Center and homework and extra blogs and things that you can go to.

So, leading study groups, that’s what I want to really stress with this is that anyone can do it. And I hope that you guys will get out there and give it a go.

Kate:

So, Michele, let’s talk about what happens when maybe you’re newer to homeopathy, and you purchase a Gateway to Homeopathy study guide, and you get the book. How would you go about setting up a study group and what information is included in that book to help you do that?

Michele:

Well, if you read the introduction of the book, it talks about leading study groups and then at the back, there’s a whole section just for leaders. So, that’s where I would start.

And then going through the book … In fact, the first time I led a study group by myself, it was just me actually. It wasn’t a group. It was me and one of my friends because I couldn’t get anyone else to join me, and I really wanted to learn. And so, we just opened up the study guide and went through it.

It’s all right there for you and watch the videos together. And so, it’s all there for you. So yeah, that’s where I would start is get that study guide, open it up, get acquainted with the Learning Center online and what’s available there for you. There’s tools in there to share with your group and start that way.

Kate:

Yeah, there’s even a sample of an email that you can send out to people who want to join you for the study group, so you don’t have to recreate the wheel.

We have all the tools that you need to lead a study group, including the questions that you are going to ask during your study group time. And many of the answers are right there, or it points you to where to find the answer.

So, everything is laid out from beginning to end, and then you get a Certificate of Completion — all those who participated at the end. And there’s lots of perks for that as well, but we won’t get into that right now.

But I think many people are hesitant because they think, “Well, I won’t know what to do.” But when you get the book, like you said, it lays it all out for you.

Now, if you are someone who … maybe you’re interested in learning about homeopathy, but you don’t know anyone else who is, and you want to be part of a study group, once you purchase the book and you get onto the Learning Center, as Michele alluded to earlier, there will be a list of different study group leaders with days and times that they’re holding study groups, and you can join one of those.

There’s also a Facebook page — right, Michele — that leaders have posted information about study groups that they’re leading,

Michele:

Right? I believe it’s Joette’s Find Your Friends Facebook … Study Group Friends. Is that right, Kate?

Kate:

Yeah. That’s funny. Something like that. Yeah, Joette’s Find Your Study Group Friends page. So, look that up. It’ll come up for you when you’re looking in Facebook.

[Editor’s Note: Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends]

Michele:

Kate, one more thing. In the Learning Center — when you do go in there — it’s when you click on the Welcome button in opening your Gateway portal. And you click on the Welcome button, it opens up, and that’s where your list of leaders are. And all of them have graduated from The Academy or are in Joette’s current Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

Okay, good. So, you know that again, the study group is being led by people who really do know quite a bit about homeopathy because these people are all, like you said, in The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

Michele:

They’re passionate.

Kate: (14:52)

Yeah, they are. They’re great leaders.

So, we want to give some tips for a successful study group: a few things that we haven’t talked about and maybe reiterate some of the things that we have.

And so, let’s just kind of talk about the points that we discussed. And one of those was transitioning from a Gateway I directly into a Gateway II … always. So, you continuously are doing Gateway I, Gateway II. That consistency, right?

The second one, Michele, would be stay on task.

Michele:

Yeah, stay on task with the study guide and the talking points that are in the “Discuss, Ask and Share” section of the study guide.

Kate:

Yeah, don’t get off track. Just stay, go through those points, and then, if your group wants to chat at the end, you can do that. You can just say, “Those who have to leave, you guys can go. We’ve covered the information. And those who want to talk,” we often say, “If you want to share a success story, then we do that.”

And that’s always really exciting to hear how people have used homeopathy successfully.

The next thing is to, like we mentioned earlier, create a Signal group or some other way — maybe it’s a Facebook group or some way — to stay connected, for your study group to stay together and to help each other ongoing.

That is one of the biggest benefits of joining a study group is that continued support and encouragement, and someone who’s going to be there when you’re scared, and someone is sick, and you don’t know what to do, that you can write or contact one of your fellow study group members and they can walk you through that. Right.

Michele:

And letting people know, keeping connected with them, fostering that community so they know that they can come back and bring their friends and family. Come back; bring a friend. Don’t we all want to go places with our friends?

So, yeah, fostering that family — that community of like-minded people.

Kate:

Yeah.

All right. So, let’s wrap this up, and I want to ask you, the listeners, what do you think? Can anyone lead a study group?

Michele:

Can they?

Kate:

Michele, what do you think?

Michele:

I dunno. Can they?

YES! By now, I would say absolutely yes. Anyone can lead a study group.

It’s all laid out there for you. In the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide. All you have to do is get that in your hands, read through the instructions and go for it.

Kate:

Great. Well, it’s been fun doing this with you today, Michele. And I look forward to hearing from the listeners who start study groups and what they’re accomplishing and how it goes for them.

So, to those of you listening to the podcast that have expressed the desire to take really responsibility for the health freedom of your family, let’s leave you with this: We all know that time is of the essence, and there’s no perfect time. But now is always the right time for you to take a next step or a next leap, maybe even, for yourself and your family.

More importantly, that Make America Healthy movement. It’s sweeping the nation, and I believe, Michele, that the tides are turning in our favor.

So, watch your email for a special announcement. We have something fun coming, and you want to pay special attention to this email. If you’re ready to take Joette’s torch, step up to the plate, rise to the occasion, and make health freedom through Practical Homeopathy® your commitment to yourself and your family.

We know the rewards and benefits both financially and personally for your family and your family’s health legacy are worthy. And like Joette says, “gobsmacking,” right?

So, Michele, thanks for joining me today. And for those listeners, thanks for being with us. We hope this was helpful to you, and we’ll see you again soon. Bye-Bye.

Michele:

Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: Practical Professionals: The Gospel of Medicine — Homeopathy Is the Purpose That God Has Given Me

02:52   Surgery Led to Discovering Homeopathy and Finding Relief From Dry Eyes

05:04   Tackling Arthritis

05:56   The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: From a Student to a Teacher

07:36   Bringing Homeopathy to the Medical Community

10:49   Bringing the Gateway Classes to a Local Learning Center

11:54   Leading by Example: Homeopathy Works, and It’s Life Changing

13:04   Homeopathy Is the Purpose That God Has Given Me

15:56   Homeopathy Offers Hope for the Hopeless

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
Joette’s Learning Center
The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®
PracticalHomeopathy.com
Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 141, 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)

On today’s podcast, join Joette as she sits down with Johnelle to uncover the incredible ways that homeopathy has transformed her life, helping her to overcome dry eyes, arthritis, and more. Discover how Johnelle is now inspiring her community by sharing her journey with homeopathy and even sparking interest among physicians. Don’t miss this empowering conversation. Let’s listen in.

Joette:

Hi, Johnelle.

Johnelle:

Hi. Good to talk to you.

Joette:

Good to talk to you, too. Nice to see you again.

So, the reason I wanted us to meet today, as I just mentioned a moment ago, is because I want folks to see what can happen, what comes of learning just a little homeopathy, and then learning a little more, and then taking it to the next level and the next level and the next.

So, just give us a little background about yourself, if you don’t mind.

Johnelle:

Well, I guess I come from a family of foodies and health nuts, and I really took good health for granted until my health fell apart in 1997, when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

I became a student of my body. I began to really take responsibility for learning more and not just trusting other people — especially doctors — to know what’s best for me. So, for two years, I pretty much just checked out of anything and studied fibromyalgia, studied my body, went to all different types of treating modalities, and just learned how to deal with fibromyalgia without drugs. Because I first started out with doctors, and all they offered me was just prescriptions, and my body sees those as toxins.

Joette:

Your body’s a pretty smart entity.

Johnelle: (02:52)

That’s true. Yes. And so that put me on the right path, but I didn’t know how much more I had to do until my health fell apart again in 2020 when I had a horrible lung injury and  landed in the hospital.

Had to have surgery because the fluid on my lungs was causing a lot of pressure on my heart, and my heart was going into AFib. And so, they had to do surgery, and they did every test imaginable and turned me loose with a lot of prescription drugs, and I did not thrive.

And within six months, I had lost 25 pounds, and I could not sleep at night because of steroids. I could not eat because of the distorted sense of taste. I was exhausted, and I was losing ground every day, and I knew it. And I didn’t know what to do about it.

And that’s when I discovered homeopathy because a friend came through town and just said that her daughter had healed her of her dry eyes with homeopathy. So, I pursued that with her daughter, and she cured my dry eyes with a remedy that was $7.99 at Target.

Joette:

Isn’t it amazing? These medicines are so inexpensive.

Johnelle:

Yes. Yeah. And after that, I, gosh, I was so taken by the fact that she had rescued me from years and years of a very expensive prescription drug that was not even doing any good for my dry eyes anymore. But I was so brainwashed into believing that I had to have it, that I was still paying over $600 per prescription for the dry eye ….

Joette:

How often did you have to repurchase that prescription? So, what was that for? Three months?

Johnelle:

Yeah, it was probably two to three months. Yes, I would string it out because I would make one vial last more than the day that it was supposed to be tossed. But I was losing ground there, too.

But I didn’t realize that I could stop that until homeopathy came into the picture. So, I contacted this young girl again. In fact, she was a homeschool mother of six kids.

Joette:

That’s usually the way it is, Johnelle, those who are very busy, who come up with the answers. Yes.

Johnelle: (05:04)

And she had only used homeopathy on her children. And so that got my attention.

I texted her again — we were doing all of this just through email and texts — and I said, “Do you have anything for arthritis?”

So, she gave me some suggestions, and after a few weeks, I told her, I said, “Well, it’s helping, but it’s not really dealing with it.” So, she tweaked it a little bit, and sure enough, the arthritis left me.

Joette:

Do you remember what the remedy was, Johnelle?

Johnelle:

Well, she started out with the combination of Rhus tox and Symphytum.

Joette:

Yeah, which is a Banerji Protocol that I teach. Exactly. Yes. Yes.

Johnelle:

And it just really didn’t totally close the deal. And so, she said, “Well, try dropping the Symphytum.” That’s what worked.

Joette:

And just go with just the Rhus tox. Yeah, that can often do it.

So, was she a student? Was she one of my students? And she had taken Gateway or something like that?

Johnelle: (05:56)

I don’t know that she had taken Gateway, but she eventually contacted me and said that she had heard that there was a girl named Sheena Rice — was a very good teacher and was a student of yours. And she was going to be offering a Gateway class, and she was going to take it, and I might be interested. And so, I did that, and that’s where things began to really change for me.

Joette:

Yeah.

Johnelle:

And I realized that there’s a way for me to get this message — this good news about homeopathy — to everyone around me. And so, I started teaching the classes myself. And that’s what …

Joette:

Okay, so that’s a whole ‘nother chapter then, Johnelle. Tell me about that.

Johnelle:

Yes. So, I had so many people that had watched me literally look like I was dying in front of them. And then, all of a sudden, it turned, and I was thriving.

And so, I had a lot of people’s interest in homeopathy whenever I had earned that platform to talk about it.

So, when I was about to offer my first Gateway class, the day before we started the class, I just on a whim stopped in at the Neighborhood Nutrition Center and asked the owner there if she would consider handling the higher potencies of Boiron remedies. I knew she had the 30C, but I was having to order a whole lot of ’em from other sources, and I hated to take the business out of town.

So, she said, “I would consider that, and I want to take your class, too.” So, that was another way that the community became more aware of what I was doing.

Joette:

Yes.

Johnelle: (07:36)

My own GP, who is open to things like homeopathy, recognized that what he didn’t have to offer, homeopathy did. And so, he even sends me some of his patients who get to the point that they say, “I want to try something else now.”

And so, he sends ’em to me. And, of course, most of the time, I don’t know what to do with them because I’m not far enough along, but I’m learning. And the reason I’m learning is so that I can help people like that.

Joette:

Yes, ma’am. So where are you from, Johnelle? Tell people about your hometown. I know you come from a very tight community, church community and otherwise.

Johnelle:

Yes. I live in North Central Texas, Wichita Falls. We have about a hundred thousand people, and our community is just very — I sense — very open to homeopathy for the most part. One doctor made an appointment with me after he found out I was in homeopathy (and he had treated me before).

And he said, after two hours of visiting, he said, “Johnelle, what is your goal?”

And so, I told him, “Well, my first goal was to cure myself. And then, my second goal was to teach other people how they could get healing. And my third goal is just to get the word out.”

Joette:

Yes ma’am, yes. That’s it. That’s it. The humanity needs to know about this.

Now, we do have men who are in our Academy and in our classes and run Gateway study groups, but it’s generally … 99% of my followers and those who are learning this are women. Probably because women have been tinkered with for a lot longer than men have.

The moment a young girl gets menarche, if she has any problems, off she goes to the OBGYN. And so, she starts very early — often with birth control pills and so much tinkering and tomfoolery — that by the time she’s a young woman, she’s accustomed to just doing what the doctor says, taking all the drugs, et cetera.

Men don’t generally go to a doctor unless they have an injury. And so generally … and then later on and much later on in life.

So, women already have a bad taste in their mouth for what’s happened to them in their lives. Plus, women really are the caretakers. We hold the families together; we take care of the children, the grandchildren, the elderly parents, the aunts and the uncles, et cetera. It is uniquely female in many ways.

Johnelle:

Right.

Joette:

Was he taken aback, Johnelle, by your answer? Did he like your answer? Was he …

Johnelle:

Well, he was a friend anyway.

Joette:

Oh, okay.

Johnelle:

I asked him, I said, “What is your goal? Why did you come over here?” I thought maybe I was in trouble.

Joette:

Good question, yeah.

Johnelle:

He just kind of dropped his shoulders, and he said, “I have patients that I don’t know what to do to help them.”

Joette:

And he is a GP, Johnelle?

Johnelle:

No, he isn’t. He’s a gastroenterologist.

Joette:

Oh, okay. Okay.

Johnelle:

And he said, “I want to know if there’s something out there.”

Joette:

Yes. Well, we do have doctors who join our programs, too, for exactly … they say exactly the same reason. Exactly the same.

Johnelle:

I’ve had doctors take my classes too. I’ve done the Gateway classes six times.

Joette: (10:49)

Yes. Tell me about that. I love to hear about that: the Gateway classes.

Johnelle:

Well, every time I would do the class, that would generate more interest because everybody that took the classes would tell their friends, “You’ve got to do this!”

Joette:

Right.

Johnelle:

And so, before I knew it, I was teaching them twice a year. And there is a museum here that is under the umbrella of our university, and so I’ve been able to teach there.

Joette:

Oh, okay. You’re not doing it online, you’re doing it locally. Right? In person, which is really the best way. Right?

Johnelle:

Yeah. It’s called the Lifelong Learning Center.

Joette:

Oh, perfect.

Johnelle:

And it’s for people that want to continue to learn for the rest of their lives. And I’m almost 75 years old and signed up for a four-year course in homeopathy.

Joette:

You bet. You bet. Yes. Yes. It’s so good.

And so, you take them through Gateway I, and you use our curriculum. And then you take ’em through Gateway II. You’ve inspired a lot of people.

Johnelle:

Well, I enjoy doing it because I believe in it, and I think they detect my passion.

Joette:

Yes.

Johnelle: (11:54)

Exhibit A for the success of homeopathy. So, I’m down to only one prescription drug, and that’s just a low-dose blood pressure medication.

Joette:

Oh, yeah. And you could probably work with that, too.

Johnelle:

I’m trying. Yes, yes, yes, ma’am.

Joette:

We’ve had people who run the Gateway programs, the classes who have had a couple of students who come in for the first class, and they say, “You’re selling too much. It feels like you’re trying to sell us something.”

And I’ve actually had one of our Gateway leaders say, “No, I’m not really selling.”

And then I said, “No, no, no. Let me explain to you what you’re doing. You really are selling, and this is the best kind of sales they’ll ever be exposed to. Yes, we are selling. We are selling something that could be absolutely life changing. In fact, for most people, it is life changing. It gives us such liberty, such freedom. There’s nothing else …Tupperware jewelry, parties, cake-making parties? All fun.

This is fun, and it elevates us. It brings us to the next level as humans into what we really should be doing on this earth. And that is taking care of those around us as best we can.

Johnelle: (13:04)

And I’m very clear in my mind that this is the purpose that God has given me.

Joette:

Oh, wow. Yes.

Johnelle:

Years and years ago, I started praying that I didn’t know if God still gave the gift of healing to people, but I said, “God, if you do still give that gift, give it to me so I can help people.”

Joette:

Yes ma’am.

Johnelle:

And I wouldn’t say that I am a healer, but I’m showing people where they can have healing.

Joette:

Well, you’re directing them to the right information.

Johnelle:

Right.

Joette:

Yeah. You’re directing them.

And it’s very comforting, I’m sure, to many people that you’re not a young whipper snapper who doesn’t know. You’ve been through it; you’ve been through the mill. You’ve lived on this earth for a number of years. You’ve met with many people. You have lots of contacts. And so, your reach and your ability and your integrity is clear.

Johnelle:

Well, it’s an adventure that I thank God for every day, because how many women or how many people at my age find a new passion and feel driven to develop it? That’s a blessing.

Joette:

It is a blessing. And it keeps us as we age — we’re very close in age — as we age, it keeps us relevant. It keeps us so important in life. And so, as we age, we become better instead of “less than.” And that’s what we need to reverse in society anyway.

So, this is the perfect combination of the youth appreciating the elderly and those who are in need, appreciating those who have answers. Yeah. It’s so good.

Johnelle:

And when I offer my Gateway classes — or when I did — it occurred to me that I was losing a lot of people after Gateway I because they had so much content that they had to organize in their mind and relearn and review. So, I just made a decision that I was only going to offer my classes if you signed up for both of them.

Joette:

Oh, smart idea, Johnelle, because there’s so much great information in Gateway II.

Johnelle:

Yeah. I only was getting maybe half of the people for the second Gateway class. So, the last group, I just decided, “Well, you got to sign up for the whole works. And you got to order the bundle from Joette’s website, and we’ll go straight through. No breaks.”

And that has helped with the quality of students that I have.

Joette:

Yeah. Because they’re more committed.

Johnelle:

Yes, and they know what they’re doing. So, it’s a better advertisement for homeopathy.

Joette:

Yes, absolutely. Yes. Because we do have to uphold the name homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy® using the protocols and all. Yes, yes, yes.

Johnelle:

And one of the perks that I have for those who actually graduate from both Gateways is that once a month, I host just what I call the North Texas Homeopathic Community meeting. So, on the second Wednesday of the month, we are at my home. And anybody who’s graduated is welcome to attend. We usually have 15–18 people.

Joette:

Nice.

Johnelle: (15:56)

All enthusiastic people start out with success stories. Everybody has something to write on because we all learn from each other. And then, typically, we’ll have a presentation.

One of our recent presentations was from a girl who I used to do jail ministry, and this young lady took both of my classes. She’s a great success story herself, but she had suffered from chronic depression for most of her life. And she volunteered to do a presentation.

And what she said was that homeopathy had delivered her from her lifelong depression through the Banerji Protocol. And everybody was taking notes, and people that weren’t even there that day heard about it and contacted her and contacted me about what they could do for their depression.

And it was just wonderful to see how this just continues to bless more and more people.

Joette:

People who seem as though there’s no hope for can be very much helped.

Johnelle:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah.

Johnelle:

I didn’t think there was any hope for me.

Joette:

That is often the way we feel. I mean, most of us who have come to homeopathy, we’ve not skipped into the homeopathic realm. We’ve crawled into it. We’ve tried every single paradigm out there. We’ve done it all. We’ve lost faith in this method and that method and other methods have hold some value. But I really believe that homeopathy is the cadence. That’s where we can go, “Ahhhh, I found home.”

Johnelle:

Yes. And you know, it’s very depressing to get old and to accumulate all of these different chronic diseases, chronic conditions, and to think that you’re going to have to deal with that through pharmaceuticals with all of their side effects. That’s really depressing.

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Johnelle:

… new hope to recognize that you can turn that around through homeopathy. That’s like the gospel of medicine.

Joette:

I know that’s your phrase. I love that phrase, Johnelle.

Johnelle:

Well, it just occurred to me that that’s what homeopathy is. Homeopathy is to medicine what Jesus Christ is for the world.

Joette:

Oh, how beautiful. Well, I often say that it’s God’s medicine, but I think I like the gospel of medicine even better. It kind of really tightens it up further.

Johnelle:

I’ve often called it God’s medicine, too, or the medicine of the people.

Joette:

Well, there’s no doubt about that. And for a long time, it was kept away from people of the general public. And what I mean by that is the method that has been taught throughout the U.S. and some places in Europe has kept the general public from learning how to deal with chronic conditions.

And that’s why when I spent those years in India with the Banerjis, that I felt I was onto something so important because I would be able to teach a mom, a grandmother, how to treat rheumatoid arthritis, how to get rid of chronic eczema, how to get rid of depression, et cetera, instead of only looking at homeopathy (if you’re just going to study a little bit) as an acute medicine. So, you could use it for a broken bone, or if you have an ear infection or something.

No, no, no. There’s so much more to this medicine. And I love being able to bring that out. And having you do this really on my behalf, on Hahnemann’s behalf, on the Banerjis’ behalf is really super-exciting for me. Really encouraging to me.

Johnelle:

Well, it’s just like we are making disciples, aren’t we?

Joette:

Yes, we are. Yes.

So, Johnelle, I can’t thank you enough for meeting with me. I appreciate your time. I know that you have a very busy schedule. You are on a mission, not just with homeopathy, but through your church, you’re doing a lot of great work.

And so, God bless you and the work that you do and thank you again for meeting with me. And if there’s anything we can do or I can do personally to support you, I would hope that you’d get ahold of me.

Johnelle:

I will keep that in mind, and I appreciate you doing this interview today.

Joette:

Yes, it’s my pleasure. Take care of yourself, Johnelle, and Happy Easter.

Johnelle:

Thank you. God bless.

Joette:

God bless you, too. Bye now.

Johnelle:

Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: Joette Interviewed on ‘Trending With Timmerie’
            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

05:17   What Is Homeopathy?

13:06   Purchasing Homeopathic Remedies

15:51   Homeopathy Gives Moms Health Care Autonomy

18:34   How to Learn About Homeopathy
            Joette’s Learning Center
            Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

21:17   Recovery After Childbirth
            Blogs: JoetteCalabrese.com

24:30   How Homeopathy Treats Day-To-Day and Chronic Ailments

26:17   Excessive Worry
             Ignatia amara 30C or 200C

08:38   Navigating Cold Symptoms
            ColdCalm®
            Aconitum 200 mixed with Bryonia 30

30:51   Morning Sickness
            Tabacum 30C

33:05   Childhood (and Adult) Injuries
            SINECCH™
            Arnica montana 30C or 200C

36:21   Ailments from Restaurant Food
            Pulsatilla 30C

40:43   Homeopathy and Catholicism

45:28   Allergies and the Three Magic Markers
          Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, Food Intolerances, and More with Homeopathy: Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 140 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.

We’re doing something a bit different on today’s podcast. We’re sharing Joette’s interview from the Trending with Timmerie podcast. So, let’s listen in as Joette talks about homeopathy and answers listeners’ questions.

Timmerie:

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Timmerie:

We are taking a deep dive into the world of homeopathic medicine today, along with combating loneliness — how this is key for us as Catholics.

I grew up with homeopathic medicine. If you don’t know what that is, I will be sharing with you in just a moment with my guest. But I grew up with it. Some people call it the “Witch Doctor book.”

Whether it’s any remedy that is used at home or administered by yourself in your own family. I’m always a little enamored by that. But I grew up with this, and I was always amazed at how effective it was. I think a lot of people today, it’s pretty trendy to use homeopathic teething remedies, especially a lot of people love the Hyland’s Teething tablets. I know that’s a big one. but even when I was a kid, my mom would use this and always look back on her book for helping to treat various ailments.

So, it would help to keep us, sometimes, out of the doctor’s office, away from having to navigate some of those urgent care-type situations.

And as an adult and a parent now, I have used it as well. Everywhere from helping friends to overcome shingles — that can be so painful if you’ve experienced that as well. I have — to navigating for myself severe allergic reactions at times or morning sickness while pregnant.

Or I remember I was traveling to … I was in Washington State, and I ended up getting a bit by a bug, and I was having this severe allergic reaction. And I’m sitting here going, “I don’t have time for this!” We’re on a big family vacation with all of our extended family — with all of the first grandkids at the time.

And I thought, “Okay, I’m running to Sprouts, and I’m finding a homeopathic remedy. And after hours of pain and not being able to walk, it kicked it, and I was able to keep going.

Even my husband has jumped into or onto the homeopathic medicine train with his experience of using it to help with sleep. So, my guest today …   to dive into what on earth is homeopathic medicine, we’ll also dive into ways to use it and just treating day-to-day ailments and even chronic illness as well.

And then, we’ll dive into kind of just some neat little facts about homeopathy and take your questions. So, if you’d like to join the conversation, we will be taking questions in a little bit. Our toll-free line is 888-914-9149, and it’s sponsored by Catholic Order of Foresters Life Insurance.

My guest today is Joette Calabrese. She has over 38 years as a practicing homeopath. She’s treated tens of thousands of cases. She’s actually the founder and director of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery™, and she taught and worked with Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in Calcutta, India. In addition, she’s served as an honorary board … on the honorary board for the Weston A. Price Foundation.

So, especially for those parents and moms out there who are trying to really take care of their kids — navigate that — it gives you a little taste of her background. And so, without further ado, Joette, I’ve been looking forward to speaking to you for some time. I’ve known a lot of people who’ve gone through your courses to help just treat and care for and nourish their families.

Just for a crash course, let’s start with what is homeopathy?

Joette: (05:17)

It’s great to be here. So, you can hear me right?

Timmerie:

Yes.

Joette:

Okay, great.

What is homeopathy? Well, it is … the meaning of the word is actually in the word itself, “homeo” meaning homonym or similar and “path” meaning pathology or illness. So, it means similar pathology or similar illness.

And I’ll get to that in a moment, but first I want to say this is the medicine we all thought we were getting. What I mean by that is that all the years that I used to go to doctors as a child …  and all the people who’ve told me they’ve gone to the doctor expecting that when they get the drug, the antibiotic or the steroid or the birth control pills, they thought they were going to be cured. They thought that was it. It was done. Thank you. We’re all set!

When instead, it’s like kicking the can down the road., and pretty much we have trouble forthcoming that we never expected.

Homeopathy is not like that.

Homeopathy, especially when it’s … let’s talking about an acute, for example. Let’s say a fever in a child. It does not kick the can down the road so that the child gets another fever two months later, and you have to treat it again with an antibiotic or Tylenol. And then again, six months later. And then again, and now there’s tonsillitis. And then again, and now there’s otitis media.

And it keeps going, and we automatically blame ourselves thinking, “Oh, it must be our genes that are causing this child to be so sick.” When really it’s often — not always — but it’s often the use of these synthetic, market square, patented drugs that do nothing more than hide the symptoms only for them to come back and bloom in a large way.

Homeopathy is the opposite.

The goal of homeopathy and these medicines … excuse me, for being so bold, I call them God’s medicine. They’re not patented; they’re not synthetic. They’re made from a natural substance that just is highly diluted and then succussed … homeopathy’s goal is to gently stimulate the body’s ability to make the correction.

And the beauty of that is that our body is always trying to make the correction. The body’s always looking for homeostasis. That’s why when we eat bad chicken at a restaurant or something, and we start vomiting or there’s diarrhea two days later … or when a child gets swimmer’s ear, and they get an otitis media or conjunctivitis or something like that — that what we see is a reaction that the body naturally knows how to do it.

It knows to vomit the bad chicken … release it from the bowels a few days later; cause a high fever to cook off the condition in which otitis media or conjunctivitis, et cetera, might be thriving in.

And so, homeopathy uses that information and gently stimulates the body’s natural ability to correct.

So, you probably want an example.

Timmerie:

Sure, yeah, that would be great.

Joette:

Okay. Especially when we say homeopathy means similar illness, homeo-pathy.

So, let’s use this as an example. Let’s say we get an onion. And when we chop up an onion, most people will have a reaction — a raw onion. Their eyes might water; their nose might run; their upper lip might excoriate. That’s a reaction to a gross substance.

And in homeopathy, we don’t use cutesy names, market names. We don’t use names like “Lunesta.” Instead, we use the actual Latin word for onion: Allium cepa.

And why do we use the Latin word? (I’m parenthetically explaining this a little bit further.) But because this is medicine, and it’s been used all over the world for over 200 years. So, we use the Latin word Allium cepa.

And so, if a homeopathic pharmacy gets — and of course, they do this. (And by the way, homeopathic pharmacies in the U.S. are regulated by the FDA.) They get a drop of onion, the Allium cepa, and they dilute it many times.

And between the dilution process, it’s also succussed. So, it’s shaken in a specific way. It’s succussed, meaning that it’s like a concussion of sorts so that it really moves it. And it’s diluted many, many times.

And at the end of that dilution process … it’s a very specific pharmacological mathematical method. At the end of the dilution process, let’s say it goes 30 times to the hundredth power, it would be called Allium cepa 30C.

And if someone has a cold, and their eyes run, and their nose runs, and their upper lip excoriates, they can use Allium cepa 30C because that’s exactly what is caused by being exposed to an onion in gross form.

Now, this can be used for a cold, or it might be someone who has runny eyes, runny nose, upper lip excoriating from allergies. And then we still use Allium cepa 30C because we’re using the symptoms to determine what medicine will likely uproot it.

Timmerie:

I remember, I think I was in college, and I went to see a homeopathic doctor. I had a bunch of food allergies, and I had autoimmune diseases that weren’t diagnosed yet. And part of my reaction was that I would get all these horrible rashes on my thighs. And I had since I was a young girl.

And I saw this homeopathic doctor, and they said, “Okay, well let’s work on that.” You know, working on one thing after other. And they said, “Okay, I’m just warning you, though, sometimes the reaction is that you almost have super-symptoms before it gets better.” And I remember I did, but then it got better.

And here was the thing that just floored me: It never came back. And I had grown up with homeopathy for treating everything from teething to pain with Arnica. I think people are probably the most familiar sometimes with homeopathy through Arnica, even if it’s just the gel. That’s different, but that’s where they’re familiar with Arnica.

And I couldn’t believe it. Those rashes to this day have never come back, and I have had them my entire life.

And so, it’s just one little example of where people see a lot of success with homeopathy.

And so I know you have a whole program of training, Joette, and I actually want to take a question because the questions are already starting to flow in. And so, as we’re diving into “what is homeopathy,” here’s a question from Pamela in Temple City, California. She said, do you have a remedy for osteoporosis instead of the injection they’re pushing me to take?

Now, I’ll also add a caveat. We’re not sitting here completely giving medical advice. These are things that you can help and aid, but we do have to give that caveat when we’re talking on radio as well. So, I do want to throw that in your direction, a remedy for osteoporosis that might be out there.

Joette: (13:06)

Yes. Yes. There is a remedy for osteoporosis, and I have been authoring a blog for 13 years. I put it out every Sunday night, and it’s just JoetteCalabrese.com. You can go to … you can just use my name, and you’ll find my blog and a lot of my teachings, and I’ve written about the medicines — the two medicines that are often mixed together for osteoporosis, and then what the potencies are and the frequencies, et cetera.

Now, I also direct people as to where they can purchase them, but I don’t have an affiliate program with any of those companies. I don’t believe in that. I feel very strongly that if I’m going to suggest a specific medicine for a specific condition, that if I get paid for that, that will perhaps push me in the wrong direction. And I believe it’s lacking in integrity.

So, I will tell you that instead, anytime someone buys from a couple of the companies that I direct people to go to — including Amazon. I mean, I have no particular allegiance necessarily, but if they go to them and they … for example, Boiron, B-O-I-R-O-N, is a pharmacy that is in France and is also in the U.S.

And if you go to that company and purchase the medicine, then one can at the end when the person goes to check out, if they put in the little box my name — my first name — they’ll get a discount. And it’s just “Joette” — J-O-E-T-T-E.

Timmerie:

So, what company is that?

Joette:

I like to be able to transfer … instead of my getting a kickback, I like to give it those who are using the medicines.

Timmerie:

That’s great. So, you’re recommending your discount code — Joette — and what was the brand that you were recommending?

Joette:

Boiron. B-O-I-R-O-N.

Timmerie:

Yeah, Boiron.

Joette:

It’s the little blue tubes that you often see at Walmart and Wegmans and Whole Foods, and et cetera. They’re everywhere.

Timmerie:

And Sprouts, some of the others …

Joette:

Sprouts. That’s right, yes.

Timmerie:

And here’s the thing that’s always struck me. It can be so expensive … whether you’re looking at a medication, or maybe you’re looking at a supplement. To buy homeopathic remedies are so inexpensive.

And no matter what’s going on, it’s maybe $8 to $10 a bottle lasts quite a while, often through whatever symptom it is that you’re experiencing. And it kicks it. And that was often it.

I mean, even if you have to take it longer, it’s not that expensive. And I love that side of it.

Can you talk, Joette, about how it is used and safe to use for kids? This is part of what I love as a parent today is that when things are needing to be navigated within our home, this is something that can be used with children.

Joette: (15:51)

Well, the best part, in my estimation, of learning how to use a few of the homeopathic medicines is that the mom has self-control, or excuse me, FULL control. And that puts the mom suddenly in a whole different category.

Instead of freaking every time the child has a fever or even an injury … now we’re not talking about an ER-type injury, but an injury that she might think, “I wonder if I should go somewhere? Should I go to the ER?” Et cetera.

If she administers the homeopathic medicines perhaps on the way to the ER, or she can perhaps even eliminate the need to go to the ER, it puts her in a category that is very different.

And what I mean by that is that when I was raising my children, my children are … you know, I’m in my seventies. My children were … I depended wholly on homeopathy, whole foods that I made myself, some botanicals that I also made from the wayside plants around my house out in the country. And that is how … those were the medicines that I used.

And so, I started using homeopathy during my pregnancies. They are, I’m going to say, relatively safe, although everyone says they are safe. You will find that on the pharmacies who manufacture them, they call them safe.

And I say relatively safe because we can make a mess of anything if we do something completely incorrectly. But I used them confidently in my pregnancies and for my newborn. I use them at my births, after the birth … to move the birth along in labor and afterwards, et cetera.

And my newborns, and well into … now, my children are well into their thirties. We’ve been using them that many years.

So, I have the confidence that they can be used for any age. And not just any human age, but we raised goats. And we had chickens at one time when I was raising our children. And we used them for the chicks and the baby goats, and we even used them for bees that we were raising back some 20 years or so ago.

Timmerie:

Did you say for bees?

Joette:

So, it matters not what species it is, what age it is, what sex it is. It works across the board.

Timmerie: (18:34)

So, if you were to first introduce someone to homeopathy. They know next to nothing about it. You explained a little bit about what it is, but how would someone get started in learning about homeopathy?

Joette:

Well, as I said, if you are interested in just checking out my site, you can go to Joette’s Learning Center, J-O-E-T-T-E-S — no apostrophe — but Joette’s Learning Center, and scroll down and take a look at my study groups.

We have a Gateway to Homeopathy study group where people join in and meet with like-minded people. Mostly, it’s mothers, grandmothers. We do have a lot of farmers because this is so great for livestock, a lot of pet owners, and those people who perhaps don’t have children but are taking care of their elderly parents or their neighbors or want to help those in their church community, et cetera.

That’s a great place to start because it’s a study guide in which you actually meet online through Zoom once a week or once every two weeks, depending on the person who’s running that particular group. Very inexpensive.

But another way to do it’s just go to my blog and spend time there. And the way to do that is if someone has, let’s say, shin splints. You key in right on your search bar, Google: Joette Calabrese shin splints. Somebody has a laceration? Joette Calabrese lacerations.

No matter what it is, give it a try. I’ve been, as I said, I’ve been authoring that blog for 14 years, and for 52 weeks every … for 14 years, there are a lot of subjects up there that I give away information on.

Timmerie:

That’s Joette Calabrese. You can find her website, http://joetteslearningcenter.com/. That’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com.

I know a lot of people who have actually been through your program, and they have done everything from navigating childhood injuries that were scary to treating eczema, allergies, you name it.

And again, I grew up with homeopathy. My mom used it. She had her book. Something was going on? She used book. And everyone in our family, from kids to my dad, we loved having that ability … and even a little bit of that empowerment of like, “Okay, something’s wrong. Let’s look at the book. Let’s work on this.” And it helped. It was effective.

I know we’ve had a lot of questions coming in, and we will take a couple now. And then, we’ll move some of those for later because I do want to dive into some of your homeopathic treatments for day-to-day and chronic ailments. But Donna’s on the line from Menifee, California.

Donna, welcome to “Trending.” What’s your question today for Joette?

Donna: (21:17)

Hi. Hi. My question is if she has any tips for what to take to help with recovery after a pregnancy, like a vaginal delivery, to help with strength and decrease fatigue and to help with, like, get the bleeding out faster? Yeah, anything.

Timmerie:

Congratulations on your baby!

Joette:

That sounds like a newborn. We’re talking about postpartum directly right after birth?

Donna:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah. It’s interesting that, Timmerie, that you should bring up the remedy, Arnica montana.

Timmerie:

Yes.

Joette:

It is exactly what I used for my births.

Timmerie:

Me too.

Joette:

I had home births, and I took Arnica during the labor, which was really helpful.

But even if I hadn’t, I took it after the labor for that beat up feeling. Not only locally, but even generally. Sometimes there’s such tension during labor that the whole body tenses up so heavily that it just feels like the muscles are achy and exhausted and that fatigue.

But let me also say that if, Donna, if you were to look up Joette Calabrese and then go to postpartum, you will find not only Arnica, but also other homeopathic medicines that I’ve used, and I’ve taught in many of my courses.

Timmerie:

Now, your blog, is that at Joette’s Learning Center? Is that at JoetteCalabrese.com?

Joette:

No, it’s separate. The Learning Center is all the courses and the study groups.

But the blog is separate. It’s just JoetteCalabrese.com. And you can or just look up the name of the condition that you’re looking for. What to use for eczema? “Joette Calabrese, eczema.” “Joette Calabrese headaches,” et cetera. “Joette Calabrese postpartum.”

Right in Google.

Timmerie:

Yes, I’m linking there to the blog as well. And then also http://joetteslearningcenter.com/.

We’re going to come back discussing how to treat and navigate day-to-day and chronic ailments with Joette Calabrese. She’s been practicing homeopathy for over 38 years, a pretty incredible resume. And we’ll even touch on some of the neat Catholic elements where she’s worked with the Catholic Church.

And did you know that St. Mother Teresa actually used homeopathy and had all of her nuns trained? And this was their first aid response as they were helping to treat and care for the ill who came into their care. It’s used very often in our convents among our nuns and sisters, so it’s kind of neat. I don’t know. I feel like it’s a little bit of our hidden Catholic tradition behind the scenes.

You’re listening to Trending with Timmerie, with Joette Calabrese here. We’ll be right back diving into treating day-to-day and chronic ailments and also taking your questions. Our phone number is 888-914-9149.

Timmerie: (24:30)

Happy Advent. Thank you for being with me today during the Advent season.

We are joined today by Joette Calabrese. She is a homeopathic medicine practitioner. She’s been practicing for over 38 years, seeing thousands of cases. She’s a founder and director of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery™. She’s taught and worked with the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in Calcutta, India, and has served on the honorary board of the Weston A. Price Foundation. You can learn more about her work, check out some of her programs if you’re interested in learning more about homeopathy at JoettesLearningCenter.com, that’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com.

We explained a little bit about what homeopathic medicine is, and I want to dive into how homeopathy treats a day-to-day and chronic ailments. I shared before that I grew up with homeopathy. My mom had that book that would help us page through what was going on.

I used that — I never would’ve thought — during labor and postpartum. It was a huge help. I didn’t do any pain medication or anything, and it was huge. And recovery was great with both of my children.

And so, I know we have lots of questions coming. If you have a question, you can get in line. The number’s 888-914-9149.

Joette, in your courses, you teach people how to treat those day-to-day things that come up to try and avoid having to pick up and go to the doctor’s office, to urgent care. And it’s so surprising all that can be addressed. So, talk to me a little bit about treating the day-to-day with homeopathy.

Joette: (26:17)

Well, let’s talk about what many moms and grandmothers often suffer from, and that is anxiety or worry — too much worry, feeling overwhelmed, perhaps even insomnia, wringing their hands, feeling like there are too many concerns. This child or that child or “my father’s not doing well.” That worry. It can be such a burden.

Now, I don’t use homeopathy unless there is a reason to do so. But this medicine I’m going to tell you about is so, gobsmacking. It is so gentle, and you can use it — and then stop using it, of course, as soon as it starts acting — and sometimes it only takes a dose or two for it to relieve the person of the suffering.

And the medicine is called Ignatia, Ignatia amara, I-G-N-A-T-I-A, amara A-M-A-R-A. And I like to use it in either a 30C or a 200C. And it’s named after Saint Ignatius, by the way.

So, it’s a medicine that is readily found. We don’t use it forever. That’s the whole idea of homeopathy. The goal of homeopathy is to make the correction and allow the person to move on.

But if the symptoms return — the wringing of the hands, or the worry, or feeling just too overwhelmed by life. What the world has gone through in the last several years — that. Those four years were Ignatia years if I ever saw ’em.

And so, you use them for twice a day for a few days, and see how it goes. And if there’s improvement — much improvement — then we simply stop. Halt the use of it.

If it comes back again a week later, two weeks later, three months later, we reinstate it. And then eventually — or maybe not so eventual — we’ll find that it’s really not used — not needed — that often anymore.

It’s one of my favorite homeopathic medicines.

Timmerie:

I love that. So, if you try it and it works, you have to call us. I’d love to hear some of those testimonies. I know you’ve been working with thousands and thousands of clients for years.

Timmerie: (28:44)

What about, for example, something such as navigating cold; onset of cold symptoms? Come on, people get sick. It seems to me that ever since COVID, immune systems are more hit than ever before. No matter how hard we try to boost up our immune systems, the exposure is so severe. And unless you’re hiding from everyone in the world, it’s hard not to be exposed today.

What do you recommend, if anything, other than just riding out the colds that we all have to suffer?

Joette:

Well, we can ride out the cold, and I don’t think it’s necessary to take a homeopathic medicine for everything. But let me turn you on to a medicine that’s a combination medicine, and that happens to be made by Boiron.

I just mentioned them earlier, B-O-I-R-O-N, and it’s called ColdCalm®, C-O-L-D, calm, C-A-L-M, ColdCalm®. And you can buy it on Amazon, or as I said in grocery stores, et cetera.

But let’s say someone’s listening to this, and they’re in another country, and they don’t have ColdCalm® available. And that’s happened many times. I urge folks to use the medicine, Aconitum, A-C-O-N-I-T-U-M: Aconitum 200 and mix it, believe it or not, in the mouth at the same time as Bryonia, B-R-Y-O-N-I-A 30.

That’s Aconitum 200 mixed with Bryonia 30 at the first sensation as though, “Uh-oh, something’s happening here.”

And so, I actually, at certain times of the year, keep both ColdCalm® and Aconitum and Bryonia — I used to; I don’t do it so much anymore. I just don’t find I get these things any longer.

But when I did, I would keep them in my purse because “Mom, I don’t feel so well,” in the backseat. And then you administer it, and oftentimes you can pretty much … you know, and then Bob’s your uncle. It’s done.

But other times you may need to use it more frequently, say every couple of hours or so.

Timmerie: (30:51)

So, with my last pregnancy, I had severe morning sickness. Why they call it morning sickness? I don’t know. It was all day, all night. I mean, I was having pain in my stomach all day and night. I could go on. It was some of the worst symptoms.

And I was put onto a couple of homeopathic remedies that were jaw-dropping. It started treating it within a couple days. It was Nux vomica. And then I think the other one was — oh, it starts with an I. I know you’re going to know what it is.

Joette:

Ipecac.

Timmerie:

Ipecac. Yeah! I could not believe just the turnaround. And I took it for a couple days and that was it. And it significantly helped.

Joette:

You know another one. Those are very good ones for nausea during pregnancy. But I know another really great one, and this falls right back into homeo-pathy — similar pathology — is the remedy called Tabacum, which is homeopathic tobacco that’s been diluted 30 times to the hundredth power.

And then, it will uproot the condition that tobacco would cause. If you think back, if any of you smoked, I smoked back in the sixties. I remember feeling pretty green myself after having had a cigarette. Tobacco was the cause.

Timmerie:

A little bit of reverse psychology; I dunno if this would work. But for all the women who are going, “Hey, I wish my husband would stop smoking,” would that be a remedy to help?

Joette:

No, but I do have … funny that you should say that “Joette Calabrese cigarette cessation” or “cigarette smoking” or “quit smoking,” something like that. Just use synonyms when you’re looking this up on my blog — and I do talk about that — there are some …

Well, I’m not going to say that homeopathy is going to abort the whole situation. But because whoever is smoking must have some commitment to a certain degree because it really does require that as well. I think that’s so of all conditions that require a real thought process and a commitment. And that’s happens to be one, just like alcoholism and other addictions.

Timmerie: (33:05)

We had a really horrific injury in our house a couple of weeks ago with my one-year-old. She fell, and it was just bad. You knew she was in pain, and she was. And there’s so much controversy and discomfort today over the use of things such as ibuprofen and Tylenol for children. I think the more you look at the research, the more disheartening it is. And I would love to kind of hear: What are your thoughts on helping to navigate whether it’s pain or overcoming injuries in the day-to-day that just happen, especially with children?

Joette:

I’m so glad you brought that up, Timmerie, because especially first moms may not realize this — and maybe sometimes even seasoned moms — that really, the danger in children’s lives is not around an ear infection or a sore throat or an eye infection or an upset stomach, fevers.

Those are — as long as they’re within the childhood diseases category — that’s not where the danger lies. The danger more lies in injuries: falling, getting burned, getting into deep water, et cetera.

So, let’s, indeed, talk about that because that’s where homeopathy certainly can shine. And you said it earlier, again, Arnica montana.

And I have to mention that Arnica montana is a medicine that’s used in a product, SINECCH™, meaning “sin,” meaning not, and “ecch” meaning ecchymosis. It’s a fascinating product.

It’s only Arnica, and it’s used by many plastic surgeons throughout the U.S. and Canada. Because they know that after plastic surgery — especially facial — one of the biggest problems is ecchymosis, which is black and blue essentially. And that and the swelling can take a long time, and there’s a lot of pain, and SINECCH™ made of Arnica montana — it’s only Arnica montana, that’s all it is; it just has another name — will not only treat the condition but abort the problem in about half the time. And so, then, the surgeon looks like a hero.

Timmerie:

And they don’t know that it’s homeopathy and it’s Arnica, and you’re treating the pain, the swelling, the bruising, all of it.

Joette:

Yes, ma’am!

Timmerie:

That’s why you mentioned using it for everything from birth to postpartum to injuries for adults and children. Arnica, if there’s one thing we have, if we run out of Arnica, I’m going, “No!!!”

Joette:

Yeah, it’s a very important remedy to have on hand, and it’s good to have in a 30th potency. That’s 30C. Arnica montana 30C or Arnica montana 200C. Very important remedy to own in the home.

Timmerie:

That’s Joette Calabrese again, I’ll push her website. She has a learning center, if you want to learn more about homeopathy, it’s JoettesLearningCenter.com. Joettes is spelled J-O-E-T-T-E-S, JoettesLearningCenter.com. And great programs.

We’re linking to her blog as well where she often speaks of addressing various ailments.

Could you mention maybe one other common day-to-day ailment that people have that you see they’re needing to address and be capable of addressing themselves within their home?

Joette: (36:21)

Yes. How about when someone eats normally at home — good food that the mom is preparing — and then they go out to a restaurant, which is a little unusual for them. They eat foods that are not common to their diet, or they have too much ice cream, or they have too many desserts.

And so, the food is not common to their — generally, not common to their — gut, and then they feel sick. They can either have a stomachache or nausea. It can even cause constipation, et cetera.

And the medicine is called Pulsatilla, P-U-L-S-A-T-I-L-L-A. And this one is best — if we’re going to use it in this form for this particular condition is best — in a 30C. Pulsatilla 30C for restaurant food: ailments from restaurant food.

Timmerie:

Fascinating. How often do you hear that today? It’s so true, and I understand that from the food allergy perspective. But if people feel so sick after they go out to eat often, which is a whole ‘nother topic in and of itself. But you’re saying this helps to ease that discomfort and outright pain, among other things, that people experience when they eat out.

Joette:

So that also, Timmerie, the other idea is that not only does it ease the pain or the discomfort or the nausea or whatever, the bloating that might be associated at that moment in time, but the next time there’s an indiscretion — a dietary indiscretion — it may not bother them quite as severely because the goal here is to uproot, not to be dependent.

Timmerie:

And that’s what’s different about homeopathy. You’re actually treating what’s going on rather than a Band-Aid.

I want to come back; we’ll take some questions, everything from allergies, also some fun facts about your work and how homeopathy has been used in the past by Catholics. So, we’ll be right back with Joette Calabrese. If you have a question, our line is 888-914-9149.

Timmerie: 

Loving me some Advent music over here. In fact, my daughter was sitting here going, “Please, please,” can we listen to her current favorite?

I don’t know who showed my child “Frozen,” but someone did. And we are listening to “Frozen” all day/every day for weeks now, which, it’s really cute. They sing and really sing as a one-year-old and a three-year-old belting it out is pretty cute.

But we were in the car, and I think we were listening to “Come Divine Messiah.” And my daughter goes, “They’re singing about Jesus. They’re singing about Jesus.”

I said, “Yes, they are.”

It was just neat to see. She was really paying attention. She goes, “Okay, I like this song. We can keep listening.”

I went, “Oh, okay, good.” Because I really wasn’t planning on changing it from my Advent music.

You’re listening to “Trending with Timmerie” here on Relevant Radio.

My guest today is homeopathic practitioner Joette Calabrese. She’s been practicing for over 38 years, treated thousands, tens of thousands of cases. She’s a founder and director of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery™. Has a great program at her website, JoettesLearningCenter.com. That’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com. She’s taught and worked with the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in Calcutta, India, and has served on the honorary board of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Joette, I would love to just hear some of the little touch points kind of touching on our Catholic faith, in that I had no idea until today that St. Mother Teresa used homeopathy in much of her work. Can you share a little bit about that?

Joette: (40:43)

Well, I was at her convent and her home when I was in India. I spent years in India studying with the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, as you mentioned earlier. And Prasanta Banerji — Dr. Prasanta Banerji — was a medical doctor and a … but used only homeopathy.

And he actually knew Mother Teresa and I loved that he could report to me that, indeed, it is true. She had tables set up, and they didn’t just treat the acutes. They treated long-term infections and many other conditions that the poorest of the poor were suffering in Calcutta.

I love having that first-step connection. But I’ve taught in convents, and I’ve taught in (Buffalo, New York) a convent there for years.

But I also have to say it would be good for people to know that the Grand Cross was bestowed upon a homeopathic physician, and that is the highest honor a pope can give to a layperson.

And it was to honor him because of the cholera epidemic that occurred in, especially, Italy — in the Vatican, of course — in the 1800s. And so, he won that award and many other awards were given to homeopathic physicians in Italy by popes because of their great work in infectious diseases. So that’s a very special part of our faith.

And another one I want to talk about is Antonio Negro … was a medical doctor of Naples. And he was a leading Italian homeopathic physician in the last part of the last century, I should say. He was the homeopathic doctor to Pope Paul the Sixth. And he was granted the order of St. Gregory for his work in homeopathy, as well as his son who also treated Pope John Paul II.

So, we have a history. We homeopaths, we Catholics, have a lovely tapestry of a history that’s been intertwined for a long time.

Timmerie:

And I love that.

Joette:

I also believe — I just have to say — whether someone is of our faith or not, what really pulls this all together for me — what has really pulled it together for me as a mother, because first I’m a mother; second, I’m a homeopath — is that it fits in such a tidy fashion in my lifestyle.

I homeschooled, I home birthed. I made my own foods (home cooking). I homeschooled. I wanted to have a medicine that I could use, that I had the ability to utilize without resorting to synthetic, patented drugs of commerce.

These medicines — these homeopathic medicines — are not synthetic. They’re not patented. That’s why they’re so inexpensive because there is no patent. They’re simply made by this dilution process. That’s all it is.

It’s a very specific process, but it is — it’s all it is — is dilution. And so, I wanted that autonomy and that’s exactly it gave me.

Timmerie:

And it’s phenomenal to see that when you have this tool, it’s widely used in Europe and other places in the world. And even, I remember learning that the Vatican had a homeopathic doctor in residence for decades up until recently. It’s neat to learn about how this was so part of our culture, but yet you have Big Pharma. You have the conversations.

Western medicine can be wonderful but often overused in our modern day to day. And if we can be empowered to care and treat our families, to have a greater confidence in navigating our health, it’s a huge … it’s a game changer.

And I know that this is something that my mom had when she was raising myself and my siblings. Now, I have in my arsenal when treating and caring for my children. Joette, I want to take a few more questions. I know some have come in.

We’ve had multiple questions come in about allergies. Let’s see. Let’s take Claire from St. Louis.

First, Claire, welcome to “Trending.” What’s your question for Joette?

Claire: (45:28)

Hi, yes. So as mentioned, allergies. So, I seem to have an allergy for every season, a lovely gift from my mother, who I love very much. But pollen in the spring, summer and fall: plants, trees and ragweed and all the fun stuff. And then the winter, just the dry air and all the dust that seems to collect. Because let’s face it, we all get lazy and busy with the holidays, so, we might forget to do the dusting.

So, I was just curious what you would recommend for someone who suffers from allergies, all different kinds throughout the year. What would you recommend homeopathy-wise for someone with allergies?

Joette:

Well, I have an entire course called Allergic?! And the reason it’s an entire course is because allergies are so broad.

Some people have allergies to foods. Sometimes it’s called food intolerances. Others have allergies to chemicals. So, it’s chemical sensitivities.

Others are, like you say, seasonal allergies.

Others have allergies to perfumes and to wool and feathers and dogs, et cetera, et cetera. Keeps … the list is very, very long.

Now, we don’t necessarily use a homeopathic medicine for each of those conditions because, generally speaking, if a person has an allergy to one substance, it often carries over into other substances as well. And so, if you want to really delve deeply into this, then I would urge you to go to JoettesLearningCenter.com and go down to the course titled “Allergies.”

But let’s say you don’t want to go that far. You want to just dip your toe into this.

Then again, I would urge you to go to my blog, Joette Calabrese and put the word, “allergies,” “hay fever,” “spring allergies.”

And there it is. All the information — not the all — but a good amount of information that will help people with seasonal allergies. I’ve suffered them myself. I used to have extreme chemical sensitivities. I had extreme food intolerances, and I no longer have any of those conditions. And it only gets better.

Now I’m going to tell you, though, and warn everybody who’s doing this: Certain conditions in homeopathy can be addressed within sometimes minutes, just like what Timmerie described earlier with the rash that she got and the insect bite. That can work very quickly because it’s an acute.

But when it comes to a chronic, more often, it can take a good deal longer. And so, allergies can take many months, sometimes even up to a year.

Now what I mean by that is not that it takes a year before you see a shift. No, no. We usually see a shift within a month or so. Very small, just a little leap, just a little hop.

And then a couple months later, we notice, “Wow, this is not bothering me as much.”

And I always say, we have three magic markers to determine whether or not the medicine that we’re using — the homeopathic medicine — is acting.

And the first marker is there’s less intensity to the symptoms.

The second magic marker is that it lasts for a shorter period of time. (In other words, instead of having the sniffling and sneezing and perhaps fatigue, instead of it lasting all day, it lasts only a few hours.)

And the third is — third magic marker — is that it’s a larger space between each episode of its occurrence.

And having that information at hand when you go to my blog and read up on it, I believe you’ll be able to find something that’s going to be quite useful for you.

Timmerie:

Excellent. So that’s on seasonal allergies.

We’re running out of time. I know we had so many more questions that people had on the topic of homeopathy, getting your feet wet. I do recommend … I’ve not taken Joette’s courses, but I know a lot of people who have and felt like that were really equipped to start navigating and have a network to dive deeper into navigating health with homeopathy.

You can learn more at JoettesLearningCenter.com. That’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com.

Thank you so much for your time, Joette, and we’ll have to have you back on again soon.

Coming up tomorrow. Lots! Have everything from walking through the Advent wreath, what each of those candles symbolize, along with combating loneliness.

This is a space as Catholics, whether it’s ourselves or others, there’s a lot that can be done and easily and well to be transformative.

Kate:

Thanks for listening to today’s podcast. If you liked that interview and want to hear more, we have more to come in the future. So, stay tuned.

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

01:45   Joette’s Dental “Adventure”

05:30   What Is a Biological Dentist?

06:45   I Unknowingly Traded My Wisdom Teeth for Cavitations

            The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs

09:54   Surgery or Homeopathy for the Infections

14:02   The Connection Between Dental Necrosis and Chronic Conditions

16:22   Homeopathy for Dental Conditions

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

Find a Practical Homeopath® (for consultations or for educational study groups led by my Discovery Ambassadors)

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 139, 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)

This is Kate. I want to welcome you back to the podcast.

I’m here today with Joette. Hi, Joette!

Joette:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

And we love doing these podcasts because we have a lot to share. You have so much wisdom that you have really gained over your many, many years in practice and teaching.

And so today, we want to welcome those of you who maybe are listening to the podcast for the first time. You are in the right place, and you’re going to love what is shared today. It’s information that you are going to be able to use right away.

And for those listeners who’ve been with us for a while, we want to welcome you back. Thanks for being here.

So, Joette, you have an adventure that you went on recently. I called an “adventure,” but you may not. Tell us what you’ve been up to.

Joette: (01:45)

Well, I just got back from the dentist.

Kate:

Ewww. Most people are thinking right now, ugh!

Joette:

Ugh. I know. So, I don’t go to a local dentist. I actually travel five and a half hours to get to this dentist in Ohio, and it’s worth it to me.

My husband drives. I sit in the car. I often work, and I see the dentist, and then we turn around and drive another five and a half hours to get back home again.

Kate:

Okay, so why travel five and a half hours?

Joette:

The reason I travel that far is because I don’t find someone locally that I have the same kind of regard for. I find that a dentist is worth spending the time traveling to get to because I want good quality care, and I want someone who thinks like I do.

And this dentist is a Weston A. Price Foundation contributor. He believes in the Weston A. Price Foundation methods, and he’s seasoned. He’s got a nice amount of gray hair. So, he has a lot of experience, and I’ve been going to him for a few years. I don’t go very often. I only go once a year now.

But he’s a unique man. Interestingly, his father was a dentist. But his father was a conventional dentist, and I would call this particular dentist “biological.” And that’s the only kind that I would ever consider going to.

So, his father was a conventionally trained dentist and remained so. But his grandfather associated with Dr. Weston Price, and they knew each other! And that influenced what this dentist is doing.

So let me also say parenthetically, if you think you’re only influencing your children with your ideas, with your use of homeopathy, with your nutritional information, you are wrong. You’re actually influencing the next generation after them because it’s not uncommon for children to question or even deny what their parents have been teaching them. But the grandchildren often listen to their grandparents instead of their own parents. And this is a case in fact.

Kate:

I think it’s true. Grandparents have a large influence on grandchildren, for those grandchildren who spend time with them. I remember spending a lot of time with my grandparents and how the traditional cooking methods that they used … the farming. And I got a lot of those skills and the desire to do things that way from my grandparents.

So, it’s very interesting, isn’t it, Joette?

How does that relate to you with your grandmother?

Joette:

It works that way for me, too. Now, my grandmother died when I was a teenager, but my mother gave birth to me and my brother in a hospital, and she was given drugs. And she nursed us, but not for very long because she was pressured away from it.

On the other hand, my grandmothers — both sides — gave birth to their children in their own bedrooms. And they nursed their children for long periods of time. And they also eschewed drugs and medicine of commerce. They felt it was their duty to figure it out on their own. And when their child was sick, they gave them chicken soup. And they went into the backyard and pulled up mint or basil or garlic or cardoons.

And so, I learned a lot from them — actually through my mother, because my mother did start taking on her mother’s ways as she aged. She reverted back. And so, it was taught to me a little bit by my grandmother and even more from my mother.

Kate: (05:30)

So, Joette, what is a biological dentist?

Joette:

Well, the term biological dentist means that the dentist is looking at the whole person, and they recognize that what’s going on in the mouth is keenly connected to the rest of the body.

Now, some dentists call themselves biological because they’ve been to some courses. But others don’t even call themselves biological, and yet they do carry on that tradition of looking at the person as a whole person.

What that means is that we can make the association between sinus concerns and chronic dental conditions. That makes rather good sense, right? It’s only millimeters away — the separation between the sinuses and the teeth.

But how about looking at chronic fatigue as part of, say, a long-term infection? Many times, dental infections go unnoted because X-rays show them, but unless the dentist is trained — such as most biological dentists — they don’t see an infection that is below the gum, well into the bone and is barely noticeable at all unless someone is trained specifically.

Joette: (06:45)

So, the reason I go to this biological dentist is because he was trained that way. He can see a necrosis of the bone — another way of saying it is cavitation; another way of saying is osteomyelitis — that other dentists in my life never saw, but he did see it.

What he saw in my mandible was actually three infections. Two of them that were as a result of having my wisdom teeth extracted back in 1979. Those two sites of the wisdom teeth became infected. I knew it at the time they were extracted. I might say parenthetically, superfluously.

There was nothing wrong with my wisdom teeth. I didn’t even know I had them. I was being what I thought was “smart” in applying preventative medicine and just having them out because that’s what you did when you were in your twenties.

And so, I had all four of them extracted, and two of them got infected. I was followed up with antibiotics, and I thought that was it. Bob’s your uncle. I’m done.

However, what happened was they festered, and they stayed infected and grew to a larger infection. And one of them then led to the next adjacent area of the jaw. And I ended up with three infections.

So, I had one in number 32 and 31, as well as number 17.

Kate:

Did you feel the pain or anything? Did you know you had this?

Joette:

I had no idea. I never felt any pain. I never noticed anything.

Now, if I really thought about it, I might’ve noticed that sometimes my jaw clicked on one side occasionally, but that was about it. And it wasn’t until the adjacent tooth got infected because it was cracked, and I actually had a fracture … that when that was extracted (that was number 31) I had seen another dentist who said, “This is a pretty deep infection you’ve got here.”

So, he extracted the tooth. I asked him to please scrape the bone and remove the ligament to make sure that there was no infection remaining. And yet, it festered and stayed down into that bone long after.

And that’s what this dentist (that I travel so far to get to) found on an X-ray.

But what I also like about the dentist that I see is that he also saw it on a sonogram. The sonogram is sometimes called a CAVITAT™, and it shows on the screen the density of the bone. And it was quite alarming what I saw on that. Not only the X-ray that he pointed out to me (and showed me how to read this X-ray), but also on the sonogram.

It really looked like I probably didn’t have much bone left at all on my right side. Quite alarming.

Kate:

And there are pictures, actually, of your sonogram in the Antibiotic Alternative course for those people who do want to know more about Joette’s story and what she did. You can find that information in Antibiotic Alternative.

Joette: (09:54)

Yeah, I’m not going to go into exactly how I approached it because it takes a little bit more information than we’ve got time for on this podcast. But I will tell you that most dentists want to debride.

Of course, there’s an infection. Debriding means that the area is surgically opened, and the “necrosis-ed” bone is removed. But I have to say, my friends, it’s not a bone after 30-some years of infection. It’s really necrosis.

And so that is what this dentist, who I hold in high regard, wanted to do. But he was also willing — because he knew that I used homeopathy — he was willing to go along with what I wanted to do. And that was I wanted to treat it homeopathically only.

Homeopathy — no surgery — using only homeopathic medicines that I had learned by observing the Banerjis in Calcutta when they treated osteomyelitis time and again. And let me say what I saw in the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, I never saw them use this method for someone who had their wisdom teeth extracted. It is a distinctly American thing to do … to have your wisdom teeth extracted for no reason other than they exist.

What I saw, instead, there was laborers who had an injury to a bone — the tibia, for example. And not long after — maybe six months, eight, 10 months later — there was an infection. Perhaps there was a swelling; perhaps, there was a fever. The person was fatigued, and they knew that ever since that bone injury that they haven’t been well. And it was pretty clear that, indeed, there was an infection in their bones. They would come with the X-rays.

So, I saw what Dr. Pratip Banerji used for those kinds of infections and then applied that same information for the infections in my mandible.

It took time. I had to use the medicines for a couple of years. But over that period of time, things changed for me.

I used to get a little stiff neck, which I associated more with sleeping incorrectly, but actually, I believe was associated with the infection on that side. I was returned to more energy. My thinking became clearer. I was able to get more done during the day, and in general, I felt improved.

That’s the best way to put it. I just felt improved.

Now, what I was experiencing before was — and I’ll go back to that — I had fatigue, and I often found that it felt like I kept saying to myself, “It feels like I’m getting an infection.”

Every time I said that, I would rub the back of my neck on the right side because that’s where the two were located. I would rub the back of my neck, and it felt like I was catching something. And then it would go away for a while, and then it would come back a few months later, and then it would go away.

And I now know that that was the infection in my jaw that was probably working very hard to be resolved. But your body can only do so much with a bone infection.

And had I gone back to another dentist, I would’ve been given exactly what I was given originally in 1979 — an antibiotic. And antibiotics, my friends, rarely work for bone infections because they have to go into the bloodstream, and the bloodstream then has to take it through the veins into the area.

And the jaw — the mandible and the maxillary — have very little to do with the vascular system. The veins simply can’t carry into the bone. And it’s not just for mandible and maxillary in the mouth. It’s also for the tibia and any other bones in the body. Which is why when we see someone has a bone infection — whether it’s from diabetes in the toes or it’s an injury in the tibia, for example, or again in the mouth, we see that antibiotics don’t act. And then more of the bone has to be removed because, again, it turns to gangrene.

Joette: (14:02)

That’s what necrosis is. It’s gangrenous.

So, over the years, I would go see this dentist. He would take an X-ray — and sometimes, we didn’t even use the X-ray; we just used the sonogram — and it would show that there was improvement. The bone was growing back, the infection was not as noteworthy.

The sonogram showed that there was density building in again. And I would stay with the homeopathic medicines, and I’d go back again 6, 8, 10 months later. And indeed, it was growing back even further.

And so, although I don’t like going to dentists in general, I really enjoy going to this dentist because I just got back, and it showed that my bone is completely grown! It’s been like that now for about three years. It has filled in. The infection is gone.

Three infections are gone. That is remarkable. As I said, I won’t go into exactly how I did it. I’m sorry. You’ll have to go to the course that I teach more about it because it is rather extensive, but it’s worth knowing about.

And ever since this occurred years ago, when I’ve taken any new cases on with clients, I always ask them for their dental history. Because a lot of times, if we use a homeopathic medicine — for, let’s say, for chronic fatigue or joint pain or stiff neck or even many other conditions — we use the medicines that are appropriate, yet they’re not acting as they should. My thought then is, “So tell me about how many teeth you’ve had extracted.”

And more often than not, they tell me, “Oh, yeah, well, I had seven teeth extracted when I was a teenager because my jaw was too narrow, and I had to have orthodontal work, et cetera. And ever since then, I’ve never been quite the same.”

So, I am now a suspicious homeopath. I’m suspicious anytime someone has had a tooth extracted, and they have chronic illness … and again, that’s what a biological dentist is looking for. What is the chronic illness that could be associated with an old cavitation that is still bubbling over many, many years, even decades later?

Mine was over 33 years old before I found it, and it made a huge difference in my overall well-being.

Kate: (16:22)

I think we can leave listeners, Joette, with a tip about going to the dentist, and how you might use homeopathic medicine. If they’re going to the dentist and they need to get X-rays, what would you suggest?

Joette:

Let’s pull back from this a little. I kind of gave you a pretty heavy story that … By the way, I have to say, that this story about old cavitations causing chronic illness … I’ve seen it over and over and over again in my practice. And since I started to teach it in our Academy and elsewhere, people report to me regularly that by using the specific protocols for cavitations, that they have seen a big shift on many levels.

Okay, now let’s say you’re going to the dentist, and you’re nervous. One of the best ways to treat that anxiety before going to a dentist is to use Gelsemium 30 the night before — maybe and the morning of. That will calm down the angst that often accompanies having to approach an anxious event that’s forthcoming.

But let’s say the person is past that. It’s not just anxiety; it’s downright panic.

Then, instead of Gelsemium, we would use Aconitum 200, say, the morning of and perhaps, if it’s needed, another dose just before they get into the dentist’s chair if they’re super anxious and panicking.

So, now let’s also talk about, like you said, an X-ray. When I get X-rays — and I don’t get them very often … once a year, and even that, I think, is a little bit over the top. (And I have not had it done for many years now because we know that everything is in order now.)

Then, I would use the medicine X-ray 30. And that can be used just before the X-ray, and then just after the X-ray and then maybe once or twice a day for the next several days up to about a week. And that can approach the fact that X-rays have been used.

Kate:

Well, that’s really helpful. And what an amazing story about healing something that I don’t think most dentists would say could be healed without medicine or a surgical procedure.

Thank you for sharing. That was really incredible. And I bet you were beyond thrilled to get that news.

Joette:

Oh, I was. My husband usually sits in the car and waits for me there while I go in to see this dentist. And he sits there with his computer on his lap, and he’s working. And I often come back practically skipping out of the office because I’m always so delighted with every time — the last three years — the sonogram shows, indeed, bone has grown back, and the infection is long gone.

Kate:

Just another win for homeopathy!

Joette:

Again and again.

Kate:

Never gets old …

Joette:

Right? It doesn’t. It’s fresh every time. Good information.

I hope you folks can learn from this and that you pass it on to your children. Not unlike my dentist, it’s not just about teaching your children, it’s about teaching your grandchildren, too.

Kate:

Yes. Thank you, Joette.

Joette:

Thank you, 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.

01:00   Introduction: Peek Inside Joette’s Passionate Mastermind Group: 7 Women, 7 Homeopathic Success Stories

01:32   Meet Some of My Mastermind Students

03:20   Success Story: Blood Clots, Infection, Heart Failure, Pain From a Possible Brown Recluse Bite

09:00   Success Stories: Pneumonia and a Nonverbal, Autistic Child

            About Sheena

18:15   From Student to Teacher

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            About Noreen

23:30   Success Story: Depression

            About Ingrid

26:11   Success Story: Avoiding Hip Replacement Surgery

29:30   Canine Success Story: Dog With Conjunctivitis, Body Odor and Back Cyst

34:00   Success Story: Diverticulitis and Orthopedic Pain

            About Kirsten

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Joette’s Learning Center

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 138, 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)

Hi, this is Kate, and I’m so glad that you’re here with us again today. We love it that you are learning about homeopathy — that you are excited and want to know more. And today, we have a very special treat for you. Joette, we’re here together!

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Yes, in person.

Joette:

I know. It’s usually not in person.

Kate:

I know!

Joette:

We meet often, but it’s on Zoom.

Kate:

It’s great!

Joette:

Yeah, it’s really great.

Kate:

So. Exciting thing, that we’re just finishing up a big weekend for us. We have some amazing students gathered together. Can you tell us a little bit about what we’ve done this weekend and what the listeners are going to hear?

Joette: (01:32)

Well, what we’ve finished — and I’m pretty excited about it because it’s been such a spectacular weekend — we have 12 people, and it’s called Mastermind. And it’s our second year of doing this. And in order to be in Mastermind, you have to go through The Academy (which is a year long) and then Mastery (which is 11 months long). And then this just happens to be the second year of working together in Mastermind with a really tight group of ladies.

And it’s always exciting because we get to know each other really well, and we help each other. That’s a big part of this. And the goal is to move people along in their lives as quickly as we possibly can so they can achieve their goals: whether they’re for teaching, whether the goals are to help their family, or the goals are to become a better practitioner, or wherever they are in their lives. We want to move it along faster.

So, today, you’re going to be listening to a number of the students who are willing to share some ideas and some information about how homeopathy — especially Practical Homeopathy® — has touched their lives.

Kate:

And I think one of the things that’s exciting, Joette, is that this isn’t someone who is a doctor or a nurse or a professional, necessarily. These are people from all different walks of life, from all over the country, really. And some of them are stay-at-home moms, as you’ll hear. Some are professionals working in the medical field, some are …

Joette:

… physical therapists, nurses. That’s right. Educators. Yes.

Kate:

Real estate. Yeah.

So, you’re going to hear from a number of different people, and I want this to be encouraging to you because you don’t have to fit into a certain mold in order to learn homeopathy or even, for that matter, go through these steps and into the Mastermind program. You, too, can do it.

Joette:

That’s true. That’s true. Yes.

Kate:

Let’s get started. Let’s take a minute and hear from some of the students who are in Mastermind.

Joette:

Let’s go.

Joette: (03:20)

I’m Joette Calabrese, and we’ve just had our first meeting of our second year of Mastermind. And I’m here with one of my students who I’ve gotten to know quite well through the years because she’s been through The Academy and Mastery and Mastermind last year, and now we’re starting Mastermind this year. And her name is Lorraine.

Hi, Lorraine.

Lorraine:

Hi, Joette. It’s really a pleasure to have been able to study with you all these years, and what you’ve taught me has been, I would say, invaluable.

Joette:

I want to hear your story.

Lorraine:

My husband became really critically ill the middle of last year, and he had to be hospitalized for two weeks. There was some heart failure involved.

Joette:

He’s not an elderly man.

Lorraine:

No.

Joette:

He’s in his forties.

Lorraine:

Yep. Late forties. And he had blood clots, and he had had a serious infection. And we believe that led to all these events.

Well, throughout the hospital stay, we were able to minimize a lot of the medications. He emerged from the hospital on three drugs. Over the course of the next six months. We were able to get him off of all the drugs.

Joette:

Slowly, carefully with the guidance of the doctors, but you were really leading the charge on many levels.

Lorraine:

Yes. We saw that they were creating negative side effects. We also saw that he seemed to be recovering beautifully, and that was born out with some of the diagnostic testing that we did at the end of the sixth-month period.

He is basically restored to full health at this point. He does not need the drugs. He doesn’t need a lot of homeopathy, either, at this point.

Joette:

And the prognosis was that he was going to have to stay on these drugs for the rest of his life.

Lorraine:

Yes, that is definitely what the cardiologist believed.

Joette:

Now, may I say what you believe the cause was? There’s the potential that this was a brown recluse spider bite.

Lorraine:

That’s what we think. We never saw the spider. We …

Joette:

That’s why they’re called “recluses.”

Lorraine:

But it was some kind of — it appeared to be some kind of — bite. And our best guess was it was a brown recluse.

Joette:

And that turned into an infection, which then created clotting and cardiac …

Lorraine:

He was actually in heart failure.

Joette:

Oh, in heart failure.

Lorraine:

And he did have a rapid heartbeat, but more seriously than the rapid heartbeat, he was in heart failure.

Joette:

Yes. Do you mind telling folks just a few of the medicines that you ended up using from the beginning and then the pain remedies, et cetera?

I want to recall … I think it’s important for folks to understand that your husband, Lorraine, was under the care of a doctor at all time — a cardiologist, an infectious disease. He was in critical care for a short period of time in the hospital. You never left the care of a doctor.

And then you also hired another doctor who was a student in our class with you, who also supported you a great deal. And it was her work as well that helped you get through all of this. And so much of this was under her tutelage, as well as your studying.

Lorraine:

So, for the heart failure, in his particular case — well, really, in any heart failure case, I would think, you would always want hawthorne tincture (mother tincture), Crataegus as a baseline.

We also used Lachesis.

Lachesis was additionally useful because we had some severe wounds. We had the infection, and we had some issues with the lungs. So, it was a very good choice.

Obviously, his heart rate was very elevated, and with the heart failure, Digitalis was very logical as well.

Joette:

And then he had pain.

Lorraine:

Yes.

Joette:

A lot of pain at the site that was shooting down and up and down that leg.

Lorraine:

So, because of the clots, we had the development of venous ulcers. (As far as we can tell, that was the cause of them.)

We surprisingly found he was already taking Calendula 200 internally to aid with the healing and to help with the pain. And even for infection, Calendula internally was indicated in the materia medica.

When the pain was not managed by some of the other remedies (Hypericum, and I used Chamomilla.

Joette:

Coffea? Did you use Coffea?

Lorraine:

I used Coffea.

Anyway, we were having some trouble managing it, and we found that Staphysagria was helpful, even though this was not a surgical, clean-cut wound. It was actually very helpful. We used that, and it was incredibly helpful.

Joette:

So, now after all these months, you were the bedside prescriber, essentially with the help of the doctor who was also a homeopath and part of our group, and also the doctors in the hospital.

And so now he’s doing pretty well. He’s working. There’s still a little residual problem at the site of the ulcer, but now the pain is more than managed. It’s gone.

And he’s no longer on any conventional drugs and with, actually, the blessings of the doctors because he doesn’t need them. In spite of what the original prognosis was, he doesn’t need them.

And you’ve also backed off of many of the homeopathics.

Lorraine:

Yes.

Joette:

All I can say, Lorraine, is nice job.

Lorraine:

Well, thank you, Joette. And really and truly, your system of education and the protocols you’ve given us and just the general understanding of homeopathy and how it works from a high level as well as a very baseline level — just covering the whole gamut. I think that has been incredibly helpful to being able to wrestle a case like this to the ground, so to speak.

Joette:

And it’s been done.

Lorraine:

Yes.

Joette:

Thank you for sharing it, Lorraine.

Joette: (09:00)

I’m with one of my students who I love, and her name is Sheena. Some of you may already know her. She’s gone through The Academy (year one), and Mastery™ (that’s the second year), and Mastermind first year, and now, Mastermind second year.

So, welcome, Sheena.

Sheena:

Thank you. It’s great to be back in Mastermind again.

Joette:

Well, we’re here because people like to hear stories of success, even if it’s only partial success. We don’t expect perfection in homeopathy. We expect some shift.

And so, tell us a story that … perhaps, a case that you’ve been working with or someone that you’ve helped.

Sheena:

So recently, a lot of people are getting pneumonia, and it’s really sticking in there. It’s lasting a long time, and they’re trying different remedies. But I’ve had some really good success with that recently with a couple of clients.

Joette:

Now, pneumonia is one of those things that can last for weeks, even months. So, what are you seeing?

Do you see that homeopathy … you give the first medicine, and bam, it’s gone? Or do you see that you have to move it along, and you are pivoting at certain points? And then you get to another point, and now the person’s a little better, et cetera, et cetera.

Tell us what the process is.

Sheena:

Yeah, it definitely takes some time, especially because they have been generally struggling with this for a while before they come get homeopathy.

Joette:

Before they come to you, they’ve already been suffering.

Sheena:

They’ve maybe had antibiotics, maybe even steroids, and none of those things seem to be working for the pneumonia that I’m seeing.

And so, I have to kind of hit it at a couple levels. And I do keep in contact with these clients pretty closely. Their rib cage is generally tight and tense.

Joette:

Painful.

Sheena:

Painful.

Joette:

Sometimes, even a fracture.

Sheena:

Maybe cracked a rib. Yep. That’s pretty much everyone so far has had a cracked rib by the time they get to me. So, we have to do remedies for that and loosen that up.

And then, oftentimes, it’s coming from the sinuses. And we forget about that because the lungs are so scary, and they can’t breathe. But we have to address the mucus that’s …

Joette:

Draining.

Sheena:

… draining down the back of the sinuses. So, I generally will give them remedies for that.

And then, of course, hit the cough straight on, based on how it’s presenting for that person.

Joette:

Particularly when the cough is racking or painful or causes breathlessness that’s frightening, that’s when we really have to hit hard with the remedies for tha.

Sheena:

And give them an emotional remedy because they’ve been sick for a long time. They’re desperate. They’re afraid they’re not going to get better. They’re afraid they’re not going to breathe. So, there’s a lot of fear involved, especially when it’s been going on for months.

Joette:

Well, breathlessness can be a very frightening experience … and especially, when you’re coughing, and you need to get that breath in, and you can’t get it in enough to be able to push out again and clear the chest. So yeah, it’s a big deal.

What are you seeing with these? You’re getting the case after it’s already commenced for say, a couple of weeks?

Sheena:

A couple months.

Joette:

A couple months, first? Okay. Then you get the case.

Sheena:

Then I get the case.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

It would be easier …

Joette:

Wouldn’t it be nice in the very beginning? But I think most people don’t seek help necessarily right away because they feel as though they can handle it. And that’s what we all want to be able to do. “It’s just a little cough. I’ll take some Aconite and Bryonia, maybe ColdCalm® or something like that.

But sometimes, it does progress, and that’s when people need help. They need help from a professional such as you.

Sheena:

And sometimes it wax and wanes, so they’re like, “Oh, I am getting better. Oh, wait. Nope, I’m not. Oh wait, I am getting better.” And then finally, they’re like, “Yeah, I’m definitely not getting better.”

Joette:

And then at the end, usually you find people who are left with a certain set of symptoms after pretty much the pneumonia has cleared. What do you see is left in the end?

Sheena:

The rib pain.

Joette:

Yep.

Sheena:

That takes a while because you’re healing bone at that point. If they’ve got a cracked rib and the congestion seems to linger, so it takes a while to fully get that congestion out … especially because they no longer can cough very well because it hurts because they have a cracked rib.

So, we have to sort of process each thing and keep going back with the pain, with the pneumonia, with the emotions.

Joette:

And then there’s that fatigue.

Sheena:

And the fatigue. Yes. The extraordinary fatigue.

Joette:

Yes. And that other level that you mentioned, and that is the anxiety that remains. The fear of, “Oh my gosh. What if this happens again?” Or “What if I’m not done? What if this goes on forever?” What we all think as humans, we automatically go there.

Sheena:

The fear of never getting better is big. And then, it may trigger an exacerbation of an underlying condition because they’ve been sick for so long. As soon as pneumonia or whatever starts to dissipate, I think it’s aphorism 35. Right? Then, the conditions that they had before come back, full strength may be even worse.

Joette:

Sheena’s referring to aphorism 35 is referring to Samuel Hahnemann’s “Organon.” He is the founder — or the discoverer and developer — of homeopathy back in the 1700s. So, he has these aphorisms.

I think you’re right … I think it’s aphorism 35. I’m impressed. You studied well in The Academy, Sheena.

Sheena:

I studied. Well, I found that aphorism so interesting because it says if there’s two — and I’m paraphrasing — two distinct diseases, the stronger one will be the only one really presenting symptoms. Doesn’t mean the other one’s gone. As soon as the stronger one is gone, the other one just comes back.

And that really tells us that these things are symptoms. And then it’s the body communicating with us — and it’s not the illness — because otherwise, one wouldn’t go away and then come back.

So, it’s the body’s like, “Pay attention to this for right now; I’m going to set this aside.” As soon as that’s taken care of, then the body’s like, “Hey, now, you need to get back to this.”

Joette:

Well, what I love about these acutes — which could also, by the way, represent a chronic condition, which is what you’re saying — is that on the other side of it, we often see a shift that is an emotional or even a developmental shift that leads the person to feel, “Okay, I have just gotten through this. Now I’m done. I’m really done.”

It can take weeks, months, perhaps, depending on the person, but “I’m really finished with this.” And now they see things differently in their lives. I have it reported to me all the time, “Oh my gosh. I feel like a different person. Not in my fears but rather in my leap forward.

And we see this in children when they have fevers. And just before they mount a fever, they can’t accomplish something. For example, they say, “I can’t tie my shoe” (and that’s not a good one because no one has tie-shoes anymore.)

“I can’t Velcro my shoe.” (It’s not quite the same.)

So, I guess we have to go to “I can’t ride a bike like all the other children in the neighborhood. I can’t do it. I can’t get on it. I keep falling.”

Then, they get sick, and they get a fever. And on the other side of the fever — if it is not suppressed by antibiotics, steroids, et cetera — what we often find is once that fever has mounted and completed itself with the use of homeopathy — or perhaps not even homeopathy … just letting it be and letting the child sleep and get well on his own — on the other side of it, now the child, when they get outside and they’re back into their normal lives again, they can get on the bike and start riding the bike. So, there’s that developmental leap. And I believe, and I’ve seen it happen in adults as well.

Sheena:

I’ve seen it all the time with adults. They may make a really huge shift in their relationships or something that is not right emotionally. For some reason, after these illnesses, it’s like a wake-up call, and they move into a much better place. Generally.

Joette:

Maybe they can make a decision differently. Something that’s been plaguing them for a while now, they can actually lean into it and make the decision. Yeah.

Sheena:

Yeah. It seems to be.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sheena:

So, I had another case that’s pretty cool. I was working with — or still I’m working with — a young boy who’s four and a half nonverbal autistic and worked with him. On the third month, I get on Zoom, and he says, “Hi, Sheena.” And honestly, for a minute …

Joette:

Goose bumps!

Sheena:

Well, I was like, “Wait, I’m pretty sure he is nonverbal!” So, I’m trying to play it cool. Looking at my notes …

Joette:

“Wait a minute. Did I get it right last time? Is he nonverbal?”

Sheena:

I was like, “Wait. Am I confused? What’s happening?”

But he had just started talking a week before the appointment, and of course, parents were thrilled. He has continued. He’s talking; he’s reading; he’s writing; he’s spelling.

A hundred percent to the homeopathy.

Joette:

And the parents would agree with that.

Sheena:

Oh, a hundred percent. No doubt.

Joette:

Yes, yes, yes. Well, when you see a case like that, and you’ve just changed the trajectory of a little boy into manhood someday, you know this medicine can’t be beat.

Sheena:

It was incredible. I mean, I was surprised. I almost fell off my chair, but I was trying to keep it cool.

Joette:

I know. Great story. Well, thank you, Sheena.

Sheena:

You’re welcome.

Joette:

They just got aphorism 35 and a whole lesson.

Sheena:

That’s right.

Joette:

Thank you.

Sheena:

And thank you. This has been the most amazing decade of learning homeopathy, and it’s literally changed my trajectory in my life. Thank you.

Joette:

I love it. I’m glad that you’re with us.

Joette: (18:15)

Okay, back again, folks. Now I’m with Noreen. And Noreen has been with me through The Academy, Mastery™, Mastermind last year, Mastermind this year … and we just keep going on together. Don’t we, Noreen?

Noreen:

You’re right, Joette. I just thank you for having this conversation, and I just want you to know how much I appreciate you.

Joette:

Well, and I appreciate you too, Noreen. We could just stand here and talk about that all day.

So, let’s talk about maybe a story, something, a testimonial on something that’s worked nicely in your life. Or how you’ve used homeopathy, what you’ve learned, and how it’s affected someone that you care about.

Noreen:

Well, I didn’t know anything about homeopathy until about 2019 when my son got stung by wasps, and his hand inflated like a balloon, and I didn’t know what to do about it. And somebody said, “Oh, well, just get this stuff. It’s called Ledum and use that.”

And so, when I got it, I looked at these silly little white pills, and I thought, “This is supposed to do something?”

But I gave him two doses, and in the morning, his hand looked almost normal! Where the evening before, it had been swollen, red, a streak going up his arm. It was hot; it was nasty, and I was very concerned.

So, when that happened, I went, “I really need to learn more about these funny little pills.”

Joette:

Well, that’s interesting because 2019, I was … 2025, just the beginning of 2025 … so it was only six years ago. Right? Some people have been doing this for 30, 50 years. But you’re six years in, and you’re committed. You’re all the way in because you teach Gateway groups, don’t you?

Noreen:

Right. So, that was my first thing. I took a Gateway class. And then I took another Gateway class with different people. And from that, I was just hooked.

And then, when you started The Academy, I decided to dive in and do The Academy … and only for my family. I had no intention of becoming a practitioner. I only wanted to learn it to help my family.

At some point, going through The Academy and Mastery™, I decided that teaching was the thing that I wanted to do. So, right now, what I’m doing is I’m teaching Gateway Is, Gateway IIs, and teaching through the protocol courses.

That’s my goal this year is to get through all the rest of the protocol courses.

Joette:

And you’re teaching groups of people in your home, in their home, online? How do you normally do that, Noreen?

Noreen:

Well, mostly online. But I did it at a church, so, I did do it in person for the particular group. They wanted their church group to have it in person. They were very adamant about doing it in person. So, I did theirs in person, but mostly, I do it online.

And that works out good because people can be in different time zones. I can do it in the evening or in the morning. They can come in their pajamas or whatever.

Joette:

So, who are these people? These are mothers, grandmothers? What kind of people are they? Who wants to learn homeopathy from you?

Noreen:

A lot of different people. Usually, I really have a heart for young moms because I want young moms to be able to avoid the antibiotic merry-go-round … when you go in for an ear infection and the next thing you know, you’re taking something for your stomach because the antibiotic gives you a stomach ailment. All that kind of stuff.

I want them to be able to avoid that kind of merry-go-round. So, I like to do young moms, but I seem to end up with a lot of grandmoms. I’ve done it for teenage girls because they’re going to be, hopefully, moms and get them trained up early.

Joette:

These are people who are often independent thinkers who step outside of the box and say, “You know what? I think I have a duty that’s greater than just taking my family constantly to the doctor’s office and waiting in waiting rooms. I think I’ll learn how to do this myself. Only, I’ll do it with a homeopathic medicine instead of whatever.”

Noreen:

And in the beginning, I was trying to convince my family and friends to do it. But you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink.

Joette:

Not always.

Noreen:

So, sometimes, you have to wait for them to come around. And sometimes you just have to look for the “lookers.” There’s people out there that want this. And if someone says, “No, thank you,” I say, “Oh, okay. Next!”

Joette:

Well, I know you’re doing a lot of these groups, and hopefully, we’ll have it linked down below so that people know where to go to find out more. And thank you so much, Noreen. It’s always great to have you in our group. You add a level of, shall I say, wisdom, as it was said earlier, and knowledge. So, thank you for joining us.

Noreen:

Well, thank you very much, Joette.

I’m super-happy to be here, and I can’t even express how you’ve changed my life. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have this aspect of teaching in my life. It’s very fulfilling.

Joette:

Yeah. Thank you.

Noreen:

Thank you.

Joette: (23:30)

Hi, Ingrid.

Ingrid:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, Ingrid, you’ve been with me first year, Academy, right? Twelve months. Then, second year, Mastery™. That’s 11 months now. Mastermind last year, which was a year, and now Mastermind, the second year. And so, you’ve been for some time …

Ingrid:

I have. And even longer before then, when I found you through Weston A Price.

Joette:

Oh, that’s right. Because you were practicing as a GAPS practitioner, right?

Ingrid:

Yes.

Joette:

Okay. So, you have some …

Ingrid:

And nutritional therapy.

Joette:

Yes. And you also have a good experience in being in practice and working with other modalities.

Ingrid:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah, yeah.

So, Ingrid, tell us your story. I like to hear this story. I know this now. So, go ahead and share it with us.

Ingrid:

Okay, great.

There are so many, but one that really stands out because it not only impacted the person themselves, but it impacted the entire family … and then that person’s entire department at work.

So, I was working with a young mom whose husband was having some depression and maybe some suicidal ideation. And in his line of work — a first responder — there are so many instances of people taking their own lives because they’re just so depressed from everything they’re seeing, the PTSD, the number of hours that they work in a row. So, they’re sleep deprived …

Joette:

The responsibility.

Ingrid:

The responsibility, for sure.

So, I was working with her, and first, we — since it was depression — put him on Aurum metallicum. But it really didn’t budge it.

So, we decided to pivot after maybe two months and moved to Ignatia because there was such a strong element of PTSD. And it really worked quite quickly, even in a matter of a week or two.

Joette:

That’s what I was going to ask you, how quickly did it?

Ingrid:

Very quickly.

Joette:

Beautiful.

Ingrid:

And within a month, it was pretty much a hundred percent improvement. So, not only did he improve, but the life was improved in the family.

Joette:

Of course, it trickles throughout the entire family.

Ingrid:

And then he became an advocate for homeopathy, telling his department and different people about this and then some other maybe digestive things that we were working on.

So, it not only worked with that family — which I’m so pleased about — but it also … You know, once people find out about homeopathy, they want to tell everybody.

Joette:

Yeah. And you can’t stop! Not only can she not stop — his wife — but his excitement and, of course, yours. Because once you’ve touched a life like this so deeply, there’s no stopping us. We really want to learn more and do more and experience more and share it even further.

Ingrid:

So true.

Joette:

Yeah. Thank you so much.

Ingrid:

Thank you so much. And thank you so much for just everything you’ve done. Just knowing you has been such a pleasure in my life.

Joette:

Oh, you’re very sweet.

Ingrid:

And changed my life.

Joette:

Well, I love that you’re with us.

Ingrid:

Thank you.

Joette: (26:11)

We’re now with Laurie, who’s been through The Academy, Mastery, Mastermind last year and now Mastermind this year. And so, thanks for joining me, Laurie. You’ve got a story to share, haven’t you?

Laurie:

Yes. Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi.

Laurie:

This is about my husband. So, about a year ago, I saw him putting on his shoes to go somewhere. I’m like, “Where are you going?”

He goes, “I’m going to the ER.”

I’m like, “What? I’m going with you. What’s wrong?”

Basically, he was in a lot of pain with his hip.

Joette:

Was this a previous injury or something?

Laurie:

Nope.

Joette:

Just out of the blue, pain in his hip?

Laurie:

Yes.

Joette:

Okay.

Laurie:

So, we get to the ER, and basically, long story short, the doctor tells him it’s arthritis …

Joette:

Arthritis.

Laurie:

And that he needs to see an orthopedic doctor. She got him into a very well-known doctor the very next day, which was great.

Joette:

Now, orthopedic doctor is usually a surgeon.

Laurie:

This was a surgeon.

Joette:

Right.

Laurie:

So, we go to the appointment together, and basically, my husband is demanding a hip replacement. He just thought that would fix everything for him.

Joette:

Just get rid of that and get a new one.

Laurie:

Yeah. And the doctor looks at me, he goes, “Is he serious?”

I’m like, “Yeah, he’s serious.”

So, he grabs his pamphlet — and well, he talked to my husband — but he grabs a pamphlet, and he says, “I want you to take this home. I want you to read it. And if you still want this surgery, come back, and we’ll talk.”

And my husband read the pamphlet. He goes, “Yeah, I don’t want a surgery.”

Joette:

Yeah, do a little homework, and you might see a little differently.

Laurie:

So, I put him on the arthritis protocol. And this is now a year later, and he basically tells me often he’s got zero pain now. It’s gone.

Joette:

That’s fabulous. But what does that mean by “often”? So, in other words, he still has pain from time to time.

Laurie:

Occasionally. But lately, he’s been saying, “Yeah, I have no pain.”

He’s amazed. He’s pretty thrilled and pretty amazed by it. So …

Joette:

When you can turn someone around — who was really excited about the idea of a hip replacement — to taking the little pills that actually taste good, and turn them into someone who’s now a believer and says, “Yeah, I don’t have pain very often at all,” that’s when you know you’ve done your job.

Laurie:

And he’s learned how to use them as SOS when he needs them. So instead of …

Joette:

Okay. How often might that be, Laurie?

Laurie:

It kind of depends on what’s going on. If there’s something that triggers or aggravates that he ends up having to go in tight spaces sometimes with his job. And so, if there’s something that aggravates that hip, sometimes it could be daily for a few days.

Joette:

What kind of work does he do?

Laurie:

He’s an electrician.

Joette:

Okay. So, he …

Laurie:

He goes up into attics and …

Joette:

Okay. Crawl spaces. Yes. Right. Okay.

Laurie:

Yeah.

Joette:

He’s carrying those big, heavy cables on his shoulders. Does he have to do that kind?

Laurie:

Yeah. Yeah, he does.

Joette:

Yeah. It’s a rigorous job.

Laurie:

Yeah. Sometimes, he’s digging ditches to run a line.

Joette:

Yeah.

Laurie: 

Yeah.

Joette:

Wow. So, if he takes the homeopathics occasionally, we’re pretty happy about this.

Laurie:

He’s thrilled. Yes.

Joette:

Yeah, we’re thrilled, too.

Nice job, Laurie.

Laurie:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thanks for sharing.

Laurie:

Thank you.

Joette: (29:30)

Okay. Now I’m with Charis. Hi, Charis.

Charis:

Hi.

Joette:

I’ve known Charis a long time, not only because you’ve been in The Academy and Mastery™ Mastermind and Mastermind, et cetera, but you’ve been a client and have become a friend.

So, it’s a joy to have you here, and I’d love to be able to ask you questions. So, share something with us, Charis, about what you do and how homeopathy has been instrumental, perhaps, in your life.

Charis:

Well, I am a stay-at-home mom. I am a real estate investor. I have honeybees. I have a lot of people in my life that I’m always doing stuff with. So, yes.

Joette:

You help a lot of people. You’re not in real, actual practice.

Charis:

No.

Joette:

Right? But you help your neighbors and your friends and your family … have an extended family. There’s always somebody you’re treating.

Charis:

Absolutely.

Joette:

Yes, very … you don’t think so, but you’ve a very organized setup for your medicines, right?

Charis:

That’s true.

Joette:

Yes.

Charis:

But you know, it’s never enough to a mother, but yes.

Joette:

No, I know. We can never have enough.

Joette:

So, now you have a story about Blake. Now who’s …

Charis:

That’s my dog.

Joette:

What does he look like?

Charis:

So, Blake is a mini-Australian shepherd mixed with a poodle. He’s a little black dog.

Joette:

Yes, yes. He’s very cute. I’ve seen him on Zoom. Yes.

Joette:

Okay. So, tell us about Blake.

Charis:

So, Blake … I’ve used homeopathy a lot with Blake, and so I’ve used it for various reasons.

So, he’s a young dog. He’s a male dog. Occasionally, male dogs can get a bit frisky. So, I’ve used Stramonium with him. When he stinks, I use a little bit of Sulphur with him.

Joette:

You mean his skin has a bad smell?

Charis:

Yeah, like when his fur and his skin … and there’s sort of an odor coming off of him — emanating from him — I’ll use Sulphur with him. And then he gets back to that sweet, cute little puppy smell.

Joette:

Yes.

Charis:

And then I’ve used Mercurius with him when he’s had bad doggy breath.

Joette:

Okay.

Charis:

And then one time he actually had an infection in his eye, so he started getting a conjunctivitis infection. And I used the protocol for conjunctivitis, and it went away.

But at the same time, he also had a cystic little growth in his back. And that actually went away at the exact same time.

Joette:

So, what protocol did you use for his eye and …

Charis:

It was Pulsatilla.

Joette:

Was it Silica? Did you use Silica?

Charis:

Yeah, but it was also Hepar sulph. I did use Hepar sulph.

Joette:

Okay. That’s the back.

Charis:

And I use Belladonna with him, too.

Joette:

Okay. Belladonna, for the pain and the redness, perhaps the heat.

Hepar sulph was specific for the fact that it was an infection in the eye — conjunctivitis. Do you think it was the Hepar sulph that actually did the work on his back?

Charis:

Honestly, I think it was the Belladonna — adding the Belladonna in — because I’d used Hepar sulph before on the spot, and it wasn’t moving it.

It was getting a little bit less. But then, when I used the Pulsatilla with the Belladonna and the Hepar sulph, then, it went away.

Joette:

Beautiful. Sometimes, one medicine doesn’t do it.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

Sometimes, we need to use two — alternating. Sometimes, even three.

Now, I would not go into 20, but I would certainly say that as we use the medicines, we pivot and move on to the next. Or we might even use two somewhat simultaneously. Yeah.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

Nice job. So, is he less frisky now?

Charis:

Yes, he actually is. And the funniest thing was that I had a little bottle of Chamomilla on the counter. He grabbed it, took it down, ate the bottle, and then, he was relaxed — sleeping, just chilling out on his dog bed.

Joette:

Ate the plastic bottle? I hope it was a plastic bottle.

Charis:

No, he ate it enough that the pills came out, and then he ate all the pills. And then he was just totally chill for the next two days. And I was like, “I guess he needed it.”

Joette:

Well, he just said, “That’s my medicine. There’s my remedy. That’s what I want.”

Charis:

Yes.

Joette

That’s really sweet. Was he by any chance teething at the time?

Charis:

He could have been. It’s funny. I bet he was. Because he was just … that could have, yeah.

Joette:

Yeah. Well, and Chamomilla fixes teething and also the friskiness and maybe being a little bit too — what was he, irritable? Was he touchy?

Charis:

He was just like running around, kind of … he growls. He’s getting grumpy.

Joette:

Oh, grumpy. Okay. Grumpy poodle.

Charis:

Yeah. Not an angry growl. Like a …

Joette:

Yes. Irritated.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

Yeah. Good. Chamomilla put him right down.

Charis:

So he knows what he needs.

Joette:

Yeah.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

We all kind of do when we really do our work.

Charis:

Yes. Yes.

Joette:

Thank you. Charis. This is great. Thank you.

Joette: (34:00)

Hi, Kirsten.

Kirsten:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Nice to see you here.

Kirsten:

Thank you.

Joette:

Love having you here. Yeah, it’s really great.

And so, what you were just saying was that you got a case of diverticulitis that you would like to share. And I love what you just said. This protocol that you’ve used — and I know because I’ve used it for years myself — never fails you. And it is true. This is not as complicated as people would make it out to be.

So please, Kirsten, share this with folks.

Kirsten:

Okay, sure. So, I’ve had several different cases of diverticulitis.

I’ve had one that actually had a microperforation, and this person decided not to do the bowel resection. That is all that was offered to them. And so, I’ve worked with them with homeopathy, and they actually went for years without another occurrence. But as soon as they started to exhibit the symptoms, we administered the medicines, and within two days, the symptoms were gone. There was no lingering symptoms.

I’ve had other clients that were actually running a fever. So, we did the baseline diverticulitis protocol. It is Staphysagria and also Lyco/Plumb. And then, they were also running a fever. So, we added Pyrogenium. Again, in days, those symptoms resolved.

So, I have never had that protocol not work for someone.

Joette:

Well, and the reason you can say that is because you’re a practitioner, and you’re working with folks daily. And you’re so funny because you said you’re not working full time, and then you told us it was 60 hours.

Kirsten:

Well, that’s not every week. But my husband … he was watching. And then, he made me clock my hours. So, I had resisted that, but yes. But I’m getting tidier, so I’m working on that.

Yes. I love seeing clients. I love teaching. I love that we can teach other people how to do this. They don’t always need to rely on me. We can do Gateway classes, can do protocol classes, and then they learn how to do it themselves. And then they learn how to teach others and to help their families and their community.

Joette:

You bet. You bet. You have another case?

Kirsten:

Oh gosh, there’s so many.

Joette:

That’s the problem. When there are so many, it’s hard to remember something that stands out because they all stand out, really, when you think about it.

Kirsten:

They do!

I think orthopedic pain is a wonderful thing. I just had somebody that had a total knee replacement, and they used nothing but homeopathy. They didn’t need the painkillers. They came home; they recovered quicker; they had less swelling.

And when they returned to the doctor, the physician wanted to know what they did and actually said, “Can you give me more information?”

So, I think we’re making inroads into the allopathic community … being able to share these medicines. And then even the doctors are seeing the benefits with their own patients.

Joette:

You bet. You bet. They should all … all orthopods should have this information.

Kirsten:

Absolutely.

Joette:

It would be really great. Yes, yes.

Thank you, Kirsten.

Kirsten:

Oh, you’re welcome.

Joette:

It’s really great. I loved, loved having you.

Kirsten:

It’s great. It’s great being here. It’s great being with these women. They are the cream of the crop. I learned so much, and we, of course, have learned so much from you. And thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Joette:

Well, you’re a blessing, too.

Kirsten:

Thank you.

Joette:

I’m so glad that I could get this group willing to share with you some of their stories. Now, you know what it’s like to be around people of excellence, people who have really put a lot of effort into learning and putting this into place in their lives.

What I love about this group is that this is our second year. We plan on meeting every year. And so, I just wanted to share those stories with you.

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 137, 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)

Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the podcast. We are so glad that you’re here.

And if you are new to this podcast, this is the perfect podcast for you because we’re going to be giving you some direction about how to learn homeopathy if you’re new.

But if you’ve been studying homeopathy for a while — or even many years — this is also for you.

So, Joette, let’s get started.

Joette:

Yeah, let’s, Kate. We have a subject, right?

Kate: (01:24)

Yes. We’re going to talk about “Where do I go from here?” And so that might be someone who is new or has been using homeopathy for a while or even many years.

So. let’s start off, Joette, with someone who is brand new to homeopathy. Maybe they just found homeopathy or just found you and learned about it. Where does that person get started? How do they learn more?

Joette:

Let me start half a step back. Why is it that they’re here in the first place?

Usually 90 — probably 90% … I don’t have numbers, but I can take a pretty wild guess — is that the reason that they’re here looking at what we have to offer is because they’ve already suffered under the hands of another method.

They’re tired of the old way. It’s like having a wound, and instead of it healing, it gets rubbed with salt. And it’s being rubbed and abrased. And so that the person is constantly suffering or frequently suffering, or they’re observing their family suffering from something. And gee, darn it, those drugs just don’t seem to pull it all the way to the end.

Instead, drugs cover up. They make somebody a little more comfortable for a short period of time, and then in the long run, they suffer even grander.

So, they’re looking for the same thing that you’ve looked for, that I looked for, that all of us who have found homeopathy were looking for. And some people come to it sooner and some people come to it later.

And so, I welcome all of you who are new to this. Welcome! The water is just fine. It’s really comfortable on this side of the discussion.

So, what people are looking for is, “What do I use? What can I give my child, who has frequent ear infections?”

Or, “What can I do about these aches and pains that I have all the time? Isn’t there another way other than just taking acetaminophen?”

Or, “Is there not another way to deal with these allergies that are driving me crazy so I can never leave the house — and I can’t eat this, and I can’t go here, and I can’t go there, et cetera, et cetera — because I am so sensitive to the world around me. There’s got to be another way other than these insufferable shots that I get every month that I’ve been taking for the last 15 years of my life. There’s got to be another way.”

And so, there is another way, and that’s homeopathy. Now, many times, people get homeopathy. The word … unfortunately, it’s a word that includes the word “home” in it, and people think it means home remedies or holistic.

Kate:

Yeah, that’s so common.

Joette:

It does not. It does not mean holistic. Could it be under the holistic umbrella? Perhaps. Does it mean home remedies? No. But then there’s a little aspect of it in a way. It kind of lends itself to that thinking, but it’s not home remedies.

It is a specific medicine. And you can find out more about what homeopathy is on my website, and it will give you a lovely direction.

Kate:

Yes. So, there is a bar at the top of your website with different areas like Home, New to Homeopathy, Shop, Free Resources, et cetera. So, you just click on that “New to Homeopathy” tab at the top. It’ll get you started. It’ll take you through all the information about what homeopathy is and what it is not.

Joette:

So, one of the things that I’ve noticed in not only in myself but in others through the years is that we’d think, “Well, why can’t we just use a little homeopathy and a little drug therapy and a little bit of essential oils and a little chiropractic, et cetera?”

And in some situations, we can do all of that. But as the person travels down this pathway, they will discover something that they never expected. And that is that homeopathy covers just about every condition known to mankind.

And so, it becomes, as you move along in this, you’ll find that, “Oh my gosh, I was able to take care of my child’s otitis media in three doses. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it.”

Or “That arthritis that I have in my knees is gone. I’ve been dealing with this for five years and taking all kinds of drugs that are affecting my liver,” et cetera.

So, as you’ve traveled down this path, you may find yourself more and more excited about this because you’ll see, “It helped my husband’s shin splints, and it helped my daughter’s eczema and my mother’s insomnia and my father’s anxiety,” et cetera, et cetera.

And so, what happens is that you get so wrapped up in it, and you see how many things — so many sufferings — that you can remove in your family’s life that it starts to become a lifestyle, and those other paradigms often fall to the wayside.

Now, I’m not saying that that’s necessary. I’m just kind of warning you that that’s probably forthcoming in your life. You’re going to see such remarkable results as long as you follow the directions properly — and you do have to follow the directions properly! But you’re going to see such remarkable results that you’re going to question why you ever used anything else.

Then you’ll also have some failures as well. But you’ll be spurred on by your successes enough times, is my guess — which is an educated guess because I’ve been observing this in others and myself for close to 40 years — that you’ll find yourself looking to homeopathy first instead of second or third.

So, where do we begin? That’s the question, right, Kate?

Kate: (06:30)

Yes. Where does someone begin? How do they learn more about homeopathy if they’re new?

Joette:

Let me start with this: We have so many avenues from which to choose. There isn’t one specific avenue. It depends on how fast you want to move along.

If you have a condition or someone who has a condition and you’re trying to figure out what homeopathic medicine to use for that, it’s very easy just to key into your browser, “Joette Calabrese”, and then the name of the condition. Because I have an article on so many conditions because we’ve been producing — and I’ve been authoring this blog — for, I think we’re at 14 years now. Every single Sunday for 14 years, and it’s a different subject every week. So, it’s likely you’ll find a good answer in that blog.

That’s free! And I don’t have any affiliate program with the companies that I direct people to purchase their medicines from. So, it is pure information, and that’s it. I get no kickbacks.

So, that’s one place to use. Not just first but even simultaneously as you go through the other ways of learning this.

So, another way is to go to Joette’s Learning Center and scroll down to Gateway to Homeopathy. And there you’ll find a way to learn homeopathy — some simple measures that affect most families — and you’ll study that with other people online or maybe even locally.

And that’s a great way to learn it because you’re learning with someone. There’s someone who guides the group. And it makes it so much easier when you see that other people have had success, and then you get to know them.

And those people, if you stay with these groups long enough, become your friends. It doesn’t matter that you live in Alaska, and this new friend lives in Manhattan. It doesn’t matter that the person who you’ve just been meeting with within this study group lives in Liverpool, and you live in Chicago. Doesn’t matter … because now you’ve made friends with people of like-mind and people are coming into this for the same reason you are. They’re looking for a solution to their own or their family’s health problem.

Kate:

I want to add, Joette that on your website, JoetteCalabrese.com, there’s a tab at the top that says “Shop” and under “Shop,” there’re the Gateway study group books that you can purchase, and, then, get connected with other groups through that. [Editor’s note: You may also find Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guides on JoettesLearningCenter.com.]

So yeah, there are many ways to get connected, but this is a great way to start. Like Joette said, you are going to love the support that you get from these relationships that you build doing these study groups.

Joette:

Can you imagine a world in which those people around you think similarly about health? That they’ve had the same kind of problems that you have, and you can discuss it with them and not feel alone and feel shamed for questioning?

That’s this world.

That’s the world I’m describing right now, and it really is girding to anyone’s life who’s questioning whether or not they should be moving in this direction and away from the old chemical-burdened drug method.

Kate: (09:37)

Can we take a step back again for just a minute?

And you might be wondering, “Okay, I’m learning by reading the blogs or in a study group how these medicines work, and I really want to get started.”

So, if you’re looking where to purchase these medicines, you have a blog, Joette, and it’s titled “Where to Buy Homeopathic Medicines.” That’s on your website.

So, if you’re wondering how to know what the best place is to purchase your medicines, you can go there.

But also, homeopathic medicines are, I would say, becoming more and more prevalent in the stores like your mainstream stores and your, of course, health food stores. So, you can often get homeopathic medicines there as well.

Joette:

Yes, and I also direct in the blog — when you use my name and then the name of the condition, and it opens up the article — I almost always include a link that will direct the reader to a place where it can be purchased.

Kate:

So, let’s go back to those who are new. You had said you can utilize the free resources, the Facebook Lives [Editor’s note: also archived on other sites as Monday Night Lives], the blogs, the podcasts, and also get connected with a group of people studying homeopathy. And you can do that through your Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups.

Kate: (11:06)

Now, let’s talk about those who’ve learned some about homeopathy, and they want to go the next step and learn more. What do you suggest?

Joette:

Well, there’s Gateway I. And then, of course, there’s Gateway II, so you can go on to that.

But then the next step — and I don’t even know if it’s a next step. It could be, as I said, a simultaneous step — to go to Joette’s Mighty Members, where you get information from me on a monthly [even weekly] basis.

And then there’s Joette’s Mighty Members Plus, and you get even more information and information that I’m not comfortable readily putting out to the general public.

Kate:

And even get to meet with you live once a month [Exclusively in Mighty Members Plus].

So, that’s exciting! Students can ask you their questions and connect with you that way. And plus, there’s so much more for Mighty Members and Mighty Members Plus. So, check out those resources as well if you’re interested in going further.

What else?

Joette:

Well, there are, of course, these podcasts where you can learn. I mean, we’ve been doing these for many years, and so there’s lots of information on the podcasts for you to learn and build your knowledge day by day.

I know some people who tell me they listen to these podcasts and any of the other (even) videos. They listen to them on a day-to-day basis so that they can increase their knowledge without putting an awful lot of effort into it.

Instead of … while you’re baking your bread, while you’re raking the leaves, while … whatever … you’re making the beds, then you can be learning on a regular basis.

Well, then the next place might be going to Joette’s Learning Center and scrolling down and looking at the courses that I offer that are protocol-specific courses. Actually, what I should say is that they are condition-specific courses that teach protocols that are useful in these particular conditions.

So, for female conditions, we have a course titled “Feminopathy.” For gastrointestinal conditions, we have, “Good Gut, Bad Gut.” Et cetera.

You’ll get lost in those. There are a lot of them, and so there are enough that could keep you busy for quite some time. So, once you delve that far, now I would go not just to one course, but consider maybe even two.

So, for people who have allergies and food intolerances, which are so closely related, they might want to take the “Allergic?!” course as well as the “Good Gut, Bad Gut” course.

So, that’s how you build the knowledge: one brick at a time.

Kate:

Joette, I want to jump in, and I want to tell people also how to find those courses.

If you go to your website, you can click on the “Shop” button again at the top of the website, and then the top listing there is called “Courses,” and that is where The Learning Center is. And all of those courses are explained, and you can find out more about them there.

But Joette, I want to mention that some of your students don’t go this route. They go directly from the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups to your Academy.

So, whether or not you go from the Gateway to The Academy, or take some courses and then go into The Academy, I would like you to explain a little bit about what The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® is and what kind of person might be interested in that.

Joette: (14:20)

Well, The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® is an intense 12 months of rigorous study. Some of it is recorded, some of it is live, where we actually meet — as a student body with me — every week. And it is an in-depth study of homeopathy for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to learn how to be able to use it, whether it’s use for your family as a practitioner.

We’ve had a lot of doctors and nurse practitioners and pharmacists graduate from our Academy. Also, we’ve had farmers. We’ve had folks who have no interest in ever practicing homeopathy. They just want to know more because they’ve been bitten by the bug. And that’s often what happens.

The Academy curriculum is, as I said, it’s rigorous. We teach history in depth. We teach the “Organon,” which is the essence of where homeopathy began, by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. We teach it aphorism by aphorism.

We teach how to navigate the repertory, which is important for people who are looking to really understand how far to go with a case. We teach case management. So, what do you do when you don’t know what to do?

We teach more protocols. So, to make it easy — at least to take that first step.

I teach materia medica so that you understand the medicines thoroughly.

And we require that every member of the student body join a study group that’s within The Academy so that they’re learning with others. And we actually have assignments for each of the study groups to complete by the end of, usually, a couple of weeks.

So, it’s intense, and it’s glorious. It’s intellectually delicious, as I say. So, if you have a hunger for learning more, or you want to incorporate this into your already existing medical practice, or you want to begin a practice, or you simply want to be able to take care of your family with more aplomb … this is the place to go.

Now, you would think that would be the end of it, right? It’s 12 months of intensive work. After that, we have a second year called Mastery™. And that is an 11-month program in which we take what you learned — the academic that you learned in the first year — and take it to the next level and put it into application even more in-depth.

So, it’s study of cases, case management, what to do even further when you don’t know what to do. We navigate the repertory even more in-depth. We study even more in-depth materia medica.

There are interviews. I’ve interviewed important people in homeopathy in today’s world … some of whom have passed on, and so we’re lucky to have them as part of our curriculum. And the amount of information that is brought to the student’s awareness is more than most students would have expected to learn.

Many people come in thinking, “Oh, this is going to be a simple little few months or a year or so.” No, this is very in-depth.

I take this seriously, and I hope that the student does as well, but it’s complete joy of learning. This is for the person who enjoys learning.

Kate:

So, if this sounds interesting to you and you want to know more about The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, we’re going to put a link on the page where this podcast is found on Joette’s website, and it will be to what we’re calling the Founders’ list. And that will put you on the list that you will get emails with information about The Academy.

Once we are starting our enrollment period. We start every year in July, and so, up until that point, we are taking applications. You submit an application, and then we go from there. And we always have an amazing class of students, so it’s very exciting.

Kate: (18:30)

All right, we’ve covered, you’re a new person to homeopathy and you’ve known about homeopathy for a while, want to go deeper. And then for those who really want to learn more, then it’s The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, or just taking all of your courses as well would be another thing.

But I want to mention that all of Joette’s courses, like Allergic?! and Mindful, they’re all in The Academy. So, if you want to go through all those courses as well as learn more, then The Academy is a great place to do that.

Anything else that you want to add as far as tips about learning homeopathy for those who want to go deeper?

Joette:

Well, one of the things that I find happens commonly is that people can have unrealistic expectations of what is going to happen after they’ve used a homeopathic medicine. And part of the problem is that, more often than not, homeopathy is taught to the general public using an acute condition as an example.

So, for an acute condition — let’s say it’s a child with a fever of 104, 105 — and you use the homeopathic medicine, you’re going to see a shift within an hour, sometimes even minutes. Maybe only two or three doses of the medicine. Sometimes only one.

And so, it’s so remarkable that that expectation then becomes transferred to what the person can count on for chronic conditions. And chronic conditions can be much different, and even some acute conditions can be much different. So, the expectations are based on … I wish I could give you absolute 100% parameters, but I can’t always do that. I’ll give you some generalized ones.

If it’s an acute condition, such as a fever or relentless vomiting or an earache or a panic attack, we might see (giving them homeopathic medicine) … we might see a shift within very short amount of time. And then, we don’t continue with the medicine. We just make note of what helped: what the medicine was that was used that brought about that resolution of the condition so that it can be used again at a later date should it need to be used again.

But when it comes to a chronic condition, it can take some time. So, for example, psoriasis, my friends, can take a year — sometimes longer than a year. Even eczema can take many months. We often see a shift in short order. We see a little bit of a difference.

But expectations are huge. Because too often people expect that just a couple of doses of a remedy for something that they’re suffering … if they don’t see a change within those three or four doses, that means it’s not going to work.

But that usually is related to something acute, meaning a very short-lived condition. Not a chronic condition that’s been going on — perhaps on and off — for many years.

So, expectations matter. So, we have to know what it is we’re looking for so that we can observe the improvement or the lack of improvement after using a homeopathic medicine.

Kate:

Really good point. And I know it’s interesting because you always say that, “Give me a good UTI, and it’s easy. And a cold or a flu, though, can be complicated.” So, I think it’s important to keep that in mind that sometimes we think what’s simple isn’t simple.

And I want to also mention that if you have a very complex case, and you’re just needing some help or want to know how to get started with a certain condition or someone in your family is very sick and you need help, there’s a website, and it’s FindAPracticalHomeopath.com. And that’s where there’s a listing of the students who have gone through and graduated from The Academy or The Academy and Mastery™ programs. And those who are taking clients have their information. And so, you can connect with someone there, a homeopath — or I should say a Practical Homeopath® —who can help you and take your case.

Joette: (22:17)

Thank you for saying that, Kate. That’s good information.

And I want to appeal to those who believe in autodidactic lifestyle, which means self-learning. Finding that the best way to grow as a human being is to constantly be learning. And it is a joyous way of living to be constantly curious and finding solutions for those problems that are the most noteworthy in our lives at this moment in time.

So, I believe that homeopathy offers that — not only the fact that it often gives us solutions.

It’s not a hundred percent. Let me just remind everyone that this is not magic; it’s medicine. And because of that, it takes care of a lot of conditions but not all conditions. And so, I want you to approach this as something that will help your family as well as quench that thirst for learning and growing and becoming a more capable human being.

Kate:

What’s that saying, Joette, that you said that I think it was Dr. Prasanta used to say that homeopathy has been known to …

Joette:

So, I believe it was Dr. Prasanta Banerji who told me once that homeopathy has been known to cure all of human suffering, but not every person who has that condition will be cured with homeopathy.

So, some people who have psoriasis will be cured using homeopathy, while others who have psoriasis may not. So, we have to keep that in mind as well.

However, having said that, the beauty of homeopathy is that it doesn’t cause side effects. You can overuse it; you can use it incorrectly. But it does not cause side effects because it’s not synthetic; it’s not patented. It’s natural, and it’s also something that in the home can wield great results.

Kate:

So, no matter where you’re at, we welcome you to this community. And if you get plugged in, you won’t regret it. There’s so many opportunities to learn and to grow and to connect. So, thanks for joining us today.

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.