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

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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.

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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®.

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

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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.

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: Learning Practical Homeopathy®: ‘Where Do I Go From Here?’

01:24   I’m New to Homeopathy. Why Am I Here?

06:30   I’m New to Homeopathy. Where Do I Go From Here?

            Free Weekly Blogs

            Joette’s Learning Center

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

09:37   Where to Buy Homeopathic Medicines

            Monday Night Lives on Facebook

            Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

            Free Podcasts

11:06   I Know a Bit About Homeopathy. Where Do I Go From Here?

            Joette’s Mighty Members

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

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

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

14:20   I’m Ready to Dive In: The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

18:30   Expectations

            Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

            FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

22:17   Embrace an Autodidactic Lifestyle

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

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.

00:59 Introduction: There’s Nothing Special About Me; You Can Do Amazing Things!

         Wendy Dickens

03:08 Is It Ever Too Late To Learn Homeopathy

03:57 In Search of an Answer to Lyme Disease

         Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

07:23 Joining The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

08:59 From Learning to Teaching to Hanging Out a Shingle and Working With the Amish

11:54 Success Story: Panic Attacks

         Podcast 129: Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks with Practical Homeopathy®

15:03 Success Story: Ganglion Cyst

15:51 Success Story: Fibromyalgia

         “How I Cured My Fibromyalgia With One Simple Medicine”

17:02 Success Story: Anger Issues

         “The Angry Child”

19:26 Success Story: Incontinence

12:04 Closing Advice

         Joette’s Mighty Members

         Joette’s Learning Center

         The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 136.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:59)

Hi, I want to welcome you to today’s podcast. I am Kate, and we are so glad that you’re here.

I’m here today with Wendy. She’s going to share some very interesting stories. I can’t wait for you to meet her and hear about how she’s using homeopathy.

But first, I want to thank you for taking the initiative to learn about homeopathy. It will no doubt have an impact on your life and those around you — as you will hear it has in Wendy’s life in just a minute. If you’re new here, we want to welcome you to the podcast.

So, as I said, let’s meet Wendy and get started.

Hi, Wendy.

Wendy:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

It’s great to have you here. I can’t wait for everyone to hear your story.

So, as always, we like to get to know the people that are joining us on the podcast. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your family?

Wendy:

Sure. My husband and I have been married for 30 years. We live in eastern Iowa. We moved back here a couple of years ago to be closer to our parents and young adult children.

We have five kids; three, I still homeschool. They’re 25, 21, 13, 12 and 11. We call ’em our “bigs and our littles” — although the littles aren’t so little anymore.

Our youngest two are adopted from foster care, and I only share that because with that — for anyone who is familiar with adoption — there’s lots of unique things that come out of that, both beautiful and difficult. And so, I have a lot of opportunity to use what I’ve learned. I’ll just say that.

And then we also have kids with different challenges with learning and just different ways of learning — different ways of looking at life that I’ve had lots of practice in that regard as well. So, yeah, I think that covers pretty much mostly about me.

Kate:

Alright, that’s great. Let’s dive into your homeopathy story, as we like to call it, and hear about your journey from not knowing anything about homeopathy until now where you have a business actually helping people with homeopathy.

Wendy: (03:08)

It’s interesting; I feel I’m a little late — compared to some people — to the natural healing modality.

Kate:

You’re not late, let me tell you. We have people who go through The Academy who are in their seventies and even eighties! So, I hear that all the time from people.

So, you are not that old — and not that that’s old. And isn’t it funny what we consider old now?

Wendy:

Yes, absolutely.

Kate:

Yes.  You’re young, and so you’re not late. But I understand what you’re saying … that those who learn it at a younger age or maybe as they’re first starting their families, they have a lot more time.

Wendy:

I think as we get older — if we discover this older — we lament what could have been, maybe, had we known. But that’s okay. We just start fresh from where we are and plow forward.

Wendy: (03:57)

But yeah, my story actually began about five years ago. Well, a little bit prior to that, actually. I took my first Gateway class about five years ago, Gateway I. But a few months before that, our daughter had — just within a period of three days — gotten very ill.

It began with tingling symptoms down her spine, and within three days, she could no longer — without just being in agonizing pain — crawl. It was literally a crawl from the basement of our home where her room was, upstairs.

That was quite alarming, as you can imagine, and we sought help from doctors. That was largely disappointing. We had difficulties getting a diagnosis, finding out what was wrong.

At the back of my mind, thought maybe this is Lyme disease based on her symptoms. A few months later, she was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease by a doctor. That was based solely on symptoms, which the majority of were joint pain that moved around (wasn’t always consistent in the same joints), fatigue, brain fog, and then that spiraled later into a lot more anxiety and depression. So, that happened.

Her symptoms began in June of 2019. I took my first Gateway class. It was really an answer to prayer that I didn’t know I was looking for. I’d never heard the word homeopathy before, but I dived into that first class, thinking, “Maybe there’ll be something here that would help our daughter.”

Took the class. I was intrigued, kind of excited, but nervous. Began trying it a little bit here and there on just acute things that would come up in our family, and little by little, I began gaining confidence in its effectiveness.

Then, fast forward several months. Meanwhile, I should say, our daughter … we were meeting with a team of doctors. What’s called a “Lyme-literate” medical doctor, a naturopath and then also consulting with a functional medicine doctor.

So, she was on, I think, about seven antibiotics at one time — which makes me cringe now — and lots of supplements. So, she was taking, I bet, 19 or 20 pills of some kind every day. And they weren’t helping, and so we were pretty discouraged.

She was depressed, as I mentioned. And several months later, as I gained confidence in homeopathy, I realized maybe this is really our answer.

And so, she actually decided, “You know what? I’m just tired of this mom. I feel sick all the time. I have to choke down these pills. It’s miserable.”

And so, I just encourage her. I said, “We’ve got a few options. One of them is homeopathy and just going all in on that. What do you think?”

She agreed.

We decided to just go off all the meds. One of them we had to wean off of, but she went off all the meds. And her symptoms, just by doing that, improved about 20%. And so that was a pretty big eye-opener right there.

In the meantime, I had contacted Joette’s office and set up a consultation with her. And we were on the waitlist, and so I was sort of trying a few things homeopathically for her while we waited.

We got in with Joette a few months later, and within probably, I think, four months of consulting with Joette, her symptoms had improved another, at least, 50% … probably more.

And so, at that point, I was like, “This is it! Get rid of everything else.” I was clearing all the other stuff out of our cabinets, and it was just all homeopathy.

Wendy: (07:23)

Because of my excitement, I began teaching Gateway classes here and there a little bit, inviting my friends to learn what I was excited about.

And then maybe a year or so after that — I’m trying to remember the timeline — I had been thinking about going into The Academy that first, what was called the Founder’s Year. But I was sort of nervous. I wasn’t sure if I could manage it with homeschooling and all the things we had going on. And so, I didn’t join.

But then, the second year, it came around again, and I think in a consultation, Joette said, “Wendy, you should really think about The Academy.”

And I said, “Well, it’s funny that you say that because I have been.”

And so, I decided, “You know what? Now’s the time. I’m just going to do it. If I don’t do it now, I’m not sure when I will.”

And so, I did join the second year of The Academy, and I’m so glad.

My hopes in joining The Academy were to just know everything I could so I could take care of my family and my friends. I’m sort of a “Don’t tell me you can’t do this” person — as much as possible, especially after our experience with our daughter.

And then all the things that happened in 2020, I thought, “I’m going to do it myself. I don’t know who I can trust, and so I’m going to just do it myself.” That was sort of my thought process.

So, in The Academy, I was learning a ton, enjoying every minute of it. I really, really encourage anyone thinking about The Academy at all to strongly consider it. We need more people who are trained in Practical Homeopathy® and helping the people in their circles. Whether you go on to take clients or not, it is so valuable, and it’s so needed.

Wendy: (08:59)

After The Academy, then, my plan was to just keep teaching classes and keep teaching others. My thought was that old saying, “If you give a man a fish …” If you teach a man to fish, then he eats for a lifetime. If you give it to him, he eats for a day. And so, I wanted to teach other people to fish and learn — like I had — to take care of their families. That was my plan.

And then people began contacting me, asking if I could help them with their different chronic conditions or ailments that they just felt were too overwhelming or, for whatever reason, they weren’t comfortable taking care of themselves.

And so, I can’t tell people “no” when they ask. And so, that launched my consultation business as well. It’s been so fun teaching classes that actually led to an opportunity then. So, I had just graduated, was just starting to launch my business. Had taught, I think, maybe my first round of Gateway classes (so, Gateway I and Gateway II).

And then, one of my students approached me, who works with a large Amish community that’s about an hour north of where we live and said, “Would you consider teaching classes to some Amish ladies up here who are interested?”

And so, I thought about it and thought, “Yeah, I would love to do that!”

And so, I went up there. It was one Saturday “fire hose” experience. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would’ve picked two days in which to do that. But I ordered all the books we needed. People signed up ahead of time. I ordered all the books that we needed (because, of course, they’re not ordering things online) and worked with Joette’s office. They were great to help me navigate that process.

And we did a one-day class where we opened our books, and we just went through the material together and with the idea that we would hopefully be able to help teach some of these ladies how to fish and help their own families.

This friend that I mentioned that lives up north near this community has been working with them quite a bit and feeling a little bit overwhelmed at times. And so, I think she was hoping that “Oh, maybe we could get them some education and some knowledge so that they could at least treat some of the acute things that come up in their family.”

So, that was a really neat experience.

Kate:

That sounds really exciting to get connected with a whole other group of people, and, like you said, teach them how they can help their families.

Also, I wanted to point out that I hear often from students who have gone through The Academy and then even Mastery™ or Mastermind, how they started out just thinking they want to go through The Academy and learn more about Practical Homeopathy® and help their family. And then that turns into the next thing, which turns into the next thing. And next thing you know, they’re seeing clients and having a whole business around Practical Homeopathy®.

So, it’s exciting. And now I want to hear some of the stories about the things that you’ve seen and how homeopathy has helped those conditions. So, will you share a few of those things with us?

Wendy: (11:54)

Yeah, I would love to. Before I do that, though, I wanted to just add I realized I didn’t say that our daughter — so that was several years ago — and we still consult with Joette twice a year, mostly because I don’t want to give up that time with her, probably. But our daughter is doing very well. And you would not know today. She, once in a while, might have a faint inkling of one of those past symptoms. Almost never. She’s doing amazing. She’s now married and expecting their first child. So, we’re super excited.

Kate:

Yeah, that’s great.

Wendy:

So, success stories. Back to that.

I’ve got several that are really fun. And it was kind of hard to pick, to be honest, what I wanted to share. But some of them are — or one of them is, I should say:

I have a client that I’ve worked with for a time, but she came to me with panic attacks and anxiety. And she’d been struggling with this for two or three years, I think, at the time that we began meeting, and had tried several things: changing her diet, adding exercise, even counseling, supplements.

And she found some things that helped a little bit, but she still was struggling with panic attacks that would show up sort of out of the blue at least once a week. It made it pretty challenging to just live life as normal. And so, we began consulting, and I suggested that she begin with Aconitum 200.

I think Joette has a blog or maybe some Lives about that. And it was pretty amazing to watch. Within two months, she went from weekly panic attacks to none.

She commented that first follow-up that we had. She said there was one time that she could kind of feel the beginning of symptoms start, and then they just melted away. So, she, of course, was thrilled.

We’ve now moved on to working on other things, but that really resolved. She’d suffered with that for two, three, four years maybe, and that really resolved in a pretty short period of time.

So, she had in her back pocket the remedy she needed in case something would happen, but she really hasn’t needed to use it. We’ve been able to move on to other things that are of concern to her.

Kate:

So, she just took that as she felt like a panic attack was coming on. Is that how she used the Aconitum?

Wendy:

So, she also had anxiety. She described it as “There’s just sort of this hum in the background all the time,” but then a panic attack would come on. And that was, of course, the most debilitating.

She felt like she could sort of manage that anxiety, even though it wasn’t fun. It was the panic attack that just made it impossible. And so, she was taking Aconitum 200, twice a day. And then if she felt an attack coming on … yes, then she would take another dose, and that would take care of it right away.

Kate:

Okay, great.

And you had alluded to Joette having more information on that. I know that there’s a podcast, I think it’s 129, called “Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks with Practical Homeopathy®.” So, that’s another good resource for those who want to learn more about dealing with that.

So, what else?

Wendy: (15:03)

Okay, so I have another client who had a ganglion cyst on his wrist. He’d had this before and had been surgically removed, but it had grown back. And so, I began having him take Ruta graveolens.

And within a few months’ time … I should say, as we followed up, I had him take measurements of how wide and long and deep it was. And so, we take measurements each time and note any changes. And it gradually was getting smaller and smaller until finally then, I think it was nine months — yes, nine months — the cyst was gone.

The cyst has not returned, and he’s thrilled to have it gone and not have to worry about thinking about surgery or some other means of treating it

Kate:

Wonderful.

Wendy: (15:51)

I have another client who has struggled for some time with fibromyalgia and a few other things. But the fibromyalgia … she would get flares a couple times a month. And those flares would last two or three days and just were very painful and difficult.

We began working on that. She commented that she noticed right away if she felt a flare coming, that if she took Rhus tox, that it would just sort of melt away, and it wouldn’t continue to grow.

This particular client was a little skeptical at the beginning, and that was a pretty big eyeopener for her in realizing, “Oh, this medicine may actually be able to help me, whereas other things have not been helpful.” And so that was really fun.

After about six months, the intense flares stopped altogether, and she reported that only a few minor flares continued. And that at our eight-month check-in, she had not had any flares at all! And so that was really exciting.

Kate:

That is exciting.

And then I think you have someone that had a little boy with some anxiety and rage, I think was the word that you used.

Wendy: (17:02)

Yes. So, this is a little boy that our family has some pretty regular interaction with. And when we met them, I noticed pretty quickly that he definitely had some issues with anger. He would get upset very quickly if the other kids were doing something that he felt was not right … and just what could be characterized as a rage.

He would go into a rage and sometimes hurt other children in the process. But then his mom reported that he would be very apologetic and woeful afterward. “Mom, I don’t want to do this. I can’t stop myself. I don’t know why I do this.”

It’s just kind of heartbreaking. So, I didn’t have a close relationship with his mom, but I just sort of hedged the idea: “I’ve been learning about homeopathy. It’s helped my daughter and our family. Is that something you would be interested in trying? I think I know a remedy that might be helpful for him.” And she was all over that.

She was really at her wit’s end because she felt like nothing was really helping him. And she was being pressured to increase medications he was taking, and she didn’t want to do that.

And so, I recommended Stramonium, and she began giving him that. And she told me that she noticed if she saw him beginning to get angry — of course, you don’t catch it all the time — but if she saw him beginning to get angry, she would have him take a dose.

And similar to the fibromyalgia story, she watched it just sort of melt away. He never fully exploded or got fully angry as he used to. And within, I think, it was just two or three weeks’ time, she told me he was doing much better, very few incidents and nowhere near as bad as they were.

So, that was pretty exciting, too, that it could have such a great impact on this little guy’s life because people don’t always understand those behaviors. And so, it’s great to help the behavior melt away. But also … how much more is it also helpful for the way he now can interact with other people that won’t be fearful of him or not want to be around him because of his prior behavior?

Kate:

Right, absolutely.

And there’s also a blog called “The Angry Child” if you want to learn more, and we’ll put a link for that on the podcast notes.

Wow. Yeah. That really — I’m assuming — changed the trajectory of that boy’s life for sure.

Wendy:

Yes. Absolutely.

Wendy: (19:26)

So, my last story that I have is when I was first learning about homeopathy. Our sweet springer spaniel that we had at the time was having a lot of trouble with incontinence. And that had actually began years prior.

Early on, I had found that just a little supplement for dogs was helpful in curtailing that issue for her. But over time, it began not working anymore. Again, at the time, didn’t know what our options were, and the vet put her on a medication for that issue.

Knowing that it would potentially cause some long-term issues for her, I really didn’t want to put her on it, but we didn’t know what other options we had. And so that’s what we did.

But as I began learning about homeopathy, I thought, “You know what? Maybe I’ll look in to see what I could do for her.”

And so, like I said, I was very new. I wasn’t sure what to do, but I did have a book that I had purchased that was specifically for using homeopathy with animals. And that book was “Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs” by Don Hamilton.

After scouring through that book and making some determinations, I chose Pulsatilla in a 30C for her.

And I should add, this was before I got very adept at scouring Joette’s blog for her different resources, otherwise I might’ve chosen something different.

So, I was giving her the Pulsatilla as well as the medication for a while, and then I removed the medication and continued with the Pulsatilla for a couple of months after that. No issues.

And so, then I gradually began backing off the Pulsatilla, and she’s not had another problem with incontinence since that time. So, that was pretty exciting, too, because we don’t have to worry about side effects with homeopathy like we do with other things.

Kate:

Right. I would just like to mention really quickly that there is a blog titled “How I Cured My Fibromyalgia With One Simple Medicine.” And so I know you talked about fibromyalgia just a bit ago, and I wanted to mention that in case people wanted to find out more. You can just go to JoetteCalabrese.com, and you can find all of those blogs that we mentioned.

So, I loved hearing your stories. It’s always so inspiring and encouraging because when we were talking earlier, you said, “There’s nothing special about me.”

Well, of course, I think there’s a lot special about you! But I think you were alluding to the fact that if you can do this — if you can have these successes, if you can go through The Academy — so can others.

So, would you just give those people who are wanting to experience these kinds of success stories or maybe go on to learn more about homeopathy … if you could just give them some of your advice as to how they could go about that, I would appreciate it.

Wendy: (22:13)

Well, the first thing is I would say use the tools that are available. And I know there’s lots of podcasts or places that this has talked about, but Joette gives so much away for free that’s so valuable.

And so, just jump in and begin learning at the level that you are at and what you are able to do, whether that’s her blogs and podcasts that are free.

Take good notes. Be a student of those, whether it’s joining Mighty Members and hanging out there and learning from other people there, whether it’s continuing on with her protocol courses or other more in-depth classes, or whether that’s The Academy.

And regarding The Academy, I would just say I had lots of reasons why it didn’t make sense for me to join The Academy in terms of our family dynamics or things we had going on, or you name it. But I just knew this was going to be important for our family, and it has been transformative for our family.

And then there’s that ripple effect of all the students that I’ve now had the privilege to teach and the clients that I’ve worked with and seen amazing things happen. And so, there’s no perfect time.

Back to what you were referencing, there’s nothing special about me. I’m not this major intellectual. I have no background in medical areas. I have no leg up that I could even point to in terms of joining The Academy.

All you have to have is a drive and a willingness to learn, and you can do amazing things and help people in amazing ways.

Kate:

That says it all. Thanks so much, Wendy. I appreciate your time and your willingness to share with everyone.

Wendy:

Thank you, Kate. It’s been my pleasure.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:00   Introduction: Homeopathic Medicines for Winter and Freezing Cold

02:29   When the Heat Goes On, Petroleum

05:03   What We Put on Our Skin Is Absorbed

07:57   Catching a Cold?

            ColdCalm®

            Aconitum napellus and Bryonia alba: A Banerji Protocol

09:47   Brrrrr. Frostbite.

            Hamamelis virginiana

            Agaricus muscarius

13:08   Depression and Vitamin D Deficiency

            Aurum metallicum

            Ignatia amara

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 135, 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, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. We’re so glad that you could join us today. We want to thank you for taking the initiative to learn more about homeopathy. We know that it’s going to have a huge impact on your life, and so we’re excited for you and glad that you’re here.

If you’re new here today, we want to welcome you. Today’s podcast is going to be about winter remedies. And Joette’s here to tell us about the remedies that are commonly used — or could be needed — in the wintertime.

Joette:

Hi, Kate. So, I’m looking out my window, and there are squirrels running all over the place. It’s beginning of December, and they are fat, fat little squirrels. They’re the chubbiest. They almost look as large as a small raccoon. They are huge where I am, and they look really healthy and robust.

So, it got me thinking about how different it is in the winter — of course, it is because I’m up north — and how they’re preparing. Their cheeks are just loaded with acorns and all kinds of things, and I see them scampering about and planning for the winter.

And so, I thought, why don’t we plan for the winter, too, regardless of where we live … even in the South. Now, certain tropical areas, this may not be a problem, but even where it gets just a little cold — say, even Tennessee and those states do have little cold times. And people complain all the time, and it’s understandable that they don’t feel the same. Well, they always say “when the heat goes on.” So, I thought we’d talk about that.

Joette: (02:29)

And so, one of my favorite medicines in the winter when the heat goes on — and I don’t believe it’s from the heat necessarily, it’s because it’s just winter — and that is the remedy Petroleum. It’s so good for people whose skin gets dry in the winter — even just a little bit. It doesn’t have to crack, doesn’t have to flake. Doesn’t have to erupt.

Kate:

That’s what I was going to ask you, actually. You know how the cuticles of your fingernails, they get dry, and they start peeling and your skin gets really dry, like the elbows and everything. So, you’re suggesting Petroleum could help with even that?

Joette:

Yes. Petroleum 6 is the potency I would like. I’ve used it in a 30; I’ve also used it in a 200. But what I like about using Petroleum 6 is that you could use it twice, maybe three times, in a day.

So, dry lips … if there’s cracking and flaking, we can still use Petroleum. I would start with Petroleum. In a way, it makes a lot of sense because if we’ve been using Petroleum on our skin in the past, it often can cause this problem.

So, I remember years ago — I’m old enough to have been influenced by someone like Doris Day. And for those of you who are my vintage, you might remember that she put out in general to the public — I don’t know why it was that everybody seemed to know this about Doris Day — that she would smear petroleum jelly all over her body in the winter and then wrap herself up in cellophane.

And everybody thought, “Well, if Doris Day does that, and she’s so attractive, maybe that’s what we all should be doing.”

So, I actually remember sometime in the early sixties or so that that’s a lot of what women did, using a lot of petroleum jelly. But the problem with petroleum in its gross form is that it can suppress the condition and drive it to a later date — which is probably why some people who did that, many years later are in need of the homeopathic medicine, Petroleum 6 or 30.

It can be taken twice a day, if the skin is very dry. And then as the skin improves and the skin is not as dry … Or that feeling that my face is tight. And I don’t use soap. (I’ll be honest with you, I don’t use soap on my face. I simply use a washcloth and hot water and then dry off because soap really will make my face feel even more dry.)

Kate:

I do that, too. That’s so interesting. And you have very young-looking skin, so it must be working.

Joette: (05:03)

Maybe. But that’s something that I would urge people to consider using.

Now having said that, let me just go off on a side note, and it has nothing to do with homeopathy, but I suppose in a way there’s some connection. And that is, that I believe that anything we put on our skin is absorbed … readily. And it can cause trouble, or it can be of use to us.

And the way that I learned this was that, years ago, before I knew enough about homeopathy to be able to treat my young son — I only had one child at the time — I used to use garlic. And I would mash it up and mix it in olive oil, and I’d have it sit there and steep for a fortnight or so. And then, when he got sick with a fever or something, I would rub the bottoms of his feet with this olive oil/garlic mixture.

So, one time, he was not feeling well, and I did that. I said, “Okay, now lay still.” He was on his bed, and I put an old rag under his feet, and I rubbed the bottom of his feet loaded up with garlic and olive oil.

And I said, “Okay, now don’t move,” because I didn’t want the mixture to go all over the bed. “Don’t move. I’ll be right back.”

And I ran to the bathroom, washed my hands and came back with a pair of old socks. Put the socks on his feet, arranged his covers and got him all ready for bed. And about two minutes later, I went to kiss him, and his breath smelled strongly — not a little bit, but very strongly of garlic.

And that was when it occurred to me that indeed what we put on our skin is utilized throughout the entire body. And now it was coming out. It wasn’t from his feet. I mean, originally, it was, of course, but now it was in his entire system so that I could actually smell it on his breath.

So, that’s what really made it clear to me that anything we put on our skin should be worthy of our entire body. So, I don’t buy lotions; I don’t buy creams. I rarely use any makeup at all. I do wear lipstick. I’m very careful about that — about what kind I use, and I use it only occasionally. And so, I’m very careful about that.

And instead on my skin — whether it’s dry or not, I just automatically do it — I use tallow. And often, I mix it with olive oil or something, and I use that on my hands. Or after I’ve washed my face, if it seems to be a little dry, I’ll put some on my hands and rub them together and put a little bit of it on my face.

Now, upon first applying it, it feels oily. And it seems like, “Oh my gosh, this is terrible. I can’t walk around being this oily. If somebody kisses my face or my hair touches my cheek, it’s going to stick.” But that’s not so. It seems to absorb quite readily.

Between Petroleum 6 and my homemade lard/olive oil mixture, I find that that really gets me through the winter without having to consider anything that’s storebought with synthetic fragrances and petroleum base and ingredients that are unpronounceable.

So, that’s my skin routine.

Joette: (07:57)

Now, let’s go to something else in the winter, and I can’t imagine doing without these two remedies. So, I keep them — well, I used to keep them, I should say — in my purse. I don’t any longer because I simply don’t get sick very often. I think it’s been, I don’t know, five years since I’ve had a cold or something like that or a flu.

But there was a time when I and my children would get a cold once, maybe twice in the winter. And the first one that I used to keep in my purse was ColdCalm®, C-O-L-D, and then calm, C-A-L-M. That’s made by Boiron.

It’s an excellent remedy to have on hand. It comes in a little box, and then there are tabs that are pushed through the little card. And so sometimes, I just take it out of the box, and I slip the little card of pills in my wallet or in my purse. Takes up almost no room at all.

And at the first sign of a cold, that’s what I used to use, and that’s what I encourage folks to use … at the very first sign of it. And the sooner it’s taken more often, the better it acts. So that’s the one medicine for colds that come on in the winter.

The other that I like is Aconitum, A-C-O-N-I-T-U-M. There’s a second word, “napellus.” But if you know just Aconitum, that’s good enough.

Aconitum 200, and I like to mix it simultaneously in the mouth with Bryonia (B-R-Y-O-N-I-A) 30. And that happens to be a Banerji Protocol.

And that, too, can abort a cold or a flu or something that’s going to the throat or the chest. And so, either one of those two to have on hand during the winter is really right as rain for most families. It really puts us in order.

Kate: (09:47)

Okay, so what about when you’re outside in the winter? And for those of us that live up north, it can tend to get very cold. I’ve had before where you’re outside for an extended time, and you’re not properly clothed, and your fingers get really, really cold — maybe frostbitten. Or I think there’s a word that you had for that.

Joette:

Chilblains. I love that word.

Kate:

So, what does that mean exactly?

Joette:

Frostbite is when it’s pretty severe. Chilblains is the step just before frostbite. And there’s a step just before that as well.

Some people just have cold fingers in general. Sometimes, they turn a little white, and they often have cold hands and feet. And then, in that case, I’m going to suggest a remedy such as Hamamelis. (We’re going to spell it in the notes instead of my doing it off the top of my head.) Hamamelis … and often it’s used a 200C, twice daily, for someone who has regular cold fingers and toes because it has to do with …

Kate:

Circulation.

Joette:

Circulation. Exactly.

Now let’s say the person goes further and they have not taken Hamamelis or regardless of the Hamamelis, they’ve now subjected their bodies to cold that is unrelenting. Then you might go to the next medicine for chilblains and/or frostbite, and that is A-G-A-R-I-C-U-S, Agaricus.

And that’s not necessarily a preventative. I would consider that more a medicine that’s used when you’re already in a fix. You know, “Uh-oh, I have done it. I’ve overdone it. I’ve skied too long. I’ve shoveled the snow for too long a period of time. I should have worn gloves, and I didn’t, and now I’m paying for it.”

That’s when we use Agaricus, and that would be used as an SOS, kind of, as needed. And in that situation, we might use it in a 30th potency every few hours — excellent for chilblains and frostbite. And as long as it’s used regularly, every few hours and depending on the severity, often the person will feel a great deal of relief.

Frostbite can actually be quite dangerous. We don’t want to go too far with that. So, we want to have that medicine on hand in the ready for the winter months forthcoming.

Kate: (12:05)

Okay. I can see people asking about which Agaricus is it, Joette, because there are many of them in the materia medica and available for purchase. But often, you suggest to students that if you’re uncertain, find the remedy that has the most written about it. In this case, that would be Agaricus muscarius …

Joette:

That’s it!

Kate:

… and that’s usually the one.

Joette:

Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

So, it’s the same thing with a lot of these homeopathic medicines: first word that is common.

And we say, for example, Arsenicum. Someone just says plain old, Arsenicum, and they’re not being specific. They usually mean Arsenicum album, but there’s also Arsenicum iodatum and many other types of Arsenicum. So, you’re going to use Arsenicum that is most commonly used when you look it up in the materia medica. It’s pretty clear that this is the one that is most often used because there’s the most literature associated with it.

Kate:

In general, but it could be something other. But in general, if you’re wondering. Yes, good point.

What else in the wintertime do people suffer from?

Joette: (13:08)

Depression? How about that? How about lack of sunlight? Yes. Yeah, that lack of sunlight is a big deal.

And so, some people think, well, I’ll just take vitamin D, but I’m not a fan of vitamin D. It’s synthetic. It’s manufactured by an industry.

If you’re looking for vitamin D than you would want to eat foods that are high in vitamin D. And the foods that are high in vitamin D just happen to be winter foods such as meat pies.

And so, we make a flaky crust with lard or tallow, which has plenty of vitamin D naturally in it. And if you’ve ever read the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder on the subject of “Little House on the Prairie,” that’s what they used to use in the winter. They would use lard and tallow to make their pie crusts, and they made many, many pies every week.

That was a great way to not only get the natural vitamin D but also was a tidy way to make a meal. It made the house nice and warm. It fits very neatly.

So, if you’re not going to eat lard or tallow — although I would urge you to do so — and instead, you put your tallow on your skin, now you’re using something that adds vitamin D to your skin automatically.

And you’ve decided no, none of that appeals to me. Then we can often use the medicine Aurum metallicum, A-U-R-U-M, metallicum, M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-U-M. This is for frank depression — not just a little blue, but depression.

Someone who loses interest. They’ve lost their get up and go. They see everything as though the glass is half-empty, and it’s pretty clear that it has something to do with the weather. It can have something to do with circumstances as well. But then we use Aurum metallicum 200C. And it’s usually used every third day — one dose every three days.

And as always, with any of these homeopathic medicines, remembering they’re not supplements. They’re not vitamins. They’re medicine. So, as improvement ensues, we back off. We taper away. We halt the use of the medicine, and if it’s needed again in the future, we just take it up again.

But this is not to be repeated for long periods of time. Once we see improvement, that’s when we halt the use of the medicine.

Kate:

I have a friend that in the wintertime — almost like clockwork, every year in January — she takes Ignatia. That’s the remedy that helps her, so to speak, the winter blues or depression that she gets in the wintertime. Is that another medicine that could be helpful in the winter?

Joette:

Yes. Ignatia could also be useful. Certainly, Ignatia, generally, is a little more for the female side of the world, and Aurum metallicum is a little bit more for the male side of the world. It doesn’t mean you can’t give a man Ignatia, nor does it mean you can’t give a woman Aurum metallicum. But there’s a little more weight on the sadness of a woman towards Ignatia and a little more weight on the sadness of a man towards Aurum metallicum.

Kate:

Okay. Well thanks, Joette, for some great ideas for remedies that we might want to have on hand for the winter in case those situations arise.

Joette:

Good. Love it. I hope this helps lots of folks.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

00:58   Introduction 

            Podcast 116 — Moms with Moxie: A Close-Knit Study Group

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

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

03:23   What Has Beth Tackled With Homeopathy?

05:23   The Evolution of Beth’s Gateway Study Group

             A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families

             Joette Calabrese’s Monday Night Lives on Facebook

             Joette Calabrese’s Monday Night Lives on YouTube

             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

07:20   Homeschooling With The Ultimate Cool Kids Guide to Homeopathy

08:44   Success Story: Allergies (Seasonal, Dairy, Cat Dander, Anaphylaxis)

            Boiron AllergyCalm®

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

            The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

12:58   Success Story: Hernias

            Update: Hernias and Homeopathy

            Get Back in the Game, Hernias and Homeopathy

14:43   Success Story: Heat Stroke

15:56   Curate Your Own Homeopathy Kit

18:14   Learn More in The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

19:16   Closing Advice

Joette’s Learning Center

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 134.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:58)

Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you to the podcast. We’re so glad that you’re here today. I want to thank you for taking the initiative to learn about homeopathy because it’s going to have a big impact on your life if you learn about it and you use it.

So, if you’re new here, just jump right in. We want to welcome you, and we’re going to get started.

Today, I have a special guest. Her name is Beth. She’s joining me. And I met Beth through studying homeopathy. Believe it or not, that’s where I met all my closest friends, honestly, that I have now.

Beth and I are dear friends, and I’m so thankful for her, and I can’t wait for you to get to know her a little more. You may have listened and heard her on Podcast 116 called, Moms with Moxie: A Close-Knit Study Group. And she’ll explain a little bit more about that study group as we talk.

But for now, I want to welcome Beth to the podcast.

Beth:

Hey Kate, how are you?

Kate:

Good. It’s so fun to be with you here today. I want our listeners to get to know you a little bit. I know if they’ve listened to Podcast 116, they may have heard from you. But for those who didn’t listen to that podcast, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself?

Beth:

Sure, Kate. So, basically, I have been studying homeopathy for about 10 years. I started off as my daughter was a client of Joette’s … and then my whole family. And then, I started studying it and teaching it. And I have a group that’s just awesome, as you mentioned. And then I worked with you guys for a little while, and now I’m in The Academy. So, it’s just awesome.

Kate:

We probably started using homeopathy about the same time. I think you were in the Gateway II study group that I was leading, and that’s how we first met.

Beth:

Yes.

Kate:

And we’ve been talking ever since then.

Beth:

Exactly.

Kate:

So, you live in Florida, and I get to see you, and I come down there a couple times a year at least, which is super-fun. I love your family and your dogs. They’re great. I’ve adopted them, or maybe they’ve adopted me.

Beth:

Yeah.

Kate:

So, I know you have a lot to talk about today. You have many things that you’ve used homeopathy for in those last 10 years. Just kind of give us a rundown about all the different things that you’ve used homeopathy for with your family, your friends, clients and so forth.

Beth: (03:23)

Okay, so how long do we have?

Okay, so I kind of broke it down a little, like some of the acutes and then some of the more chronic things.

So, with friends and family, we’ve done everything from allergies, colds, flu, bites, injuries, stress, burns, stress from studying and things, loss.

And then more on the chronic side, we’ve addressed things from UC, which is ulcerative colitis to diverticulitis to allergies (like food allergies as well as animal allergies), back issues, torn ligaments, diabetes … I mean, it goes on and on.

Kate:

Yeah, I think when we were talking earlier, you mentioned other things, too: hernias and blood clots and anaphylaxis.

Beth:

Yes, that’s right. We did. I’ve done anaphylaxis. That’s been amazing. And then friends even more like asthma, vertigo, UTI. I’ve dealt with Alzheimer’s with some family and aging. And then, I also had a practice for a little while and everything from miscarriages to pregnancies to gout, eczema, teeth issues. Yeah, it’s been amazing.

Kate:

Yeah, and I’m sure there’s many more you haven’t written down because on a day-to-day basis, we encounter many things in our families and our friends’ lives. And I know whenever we get together, Beth, we always just talk about homeopathy and all the different remedies and books and what we’re learning, and it’s very fun to have others that you can talk to about this.

So, tell us a little bit more about your study group for those who didn’t listen to the other podcast and what you’ve been doing over the years.

Beth: (05:23)

It’s an amazing group. It’s just, we’ve been together … it started maybe about seven years ago, and then, it’s kind of organically changed as needed. But we’re online; we do Zoom. And we started off every Tuesday, and now we’re every other Tuesday — kind of just changes depending on what we’re doing.

Started off with me just teaching everyone Gateway and getting us kind of all on the same page. And then we’ve gone into other classes. We did Joette’s materia medica through her Live. So, we’ve gone through the Facebook Lives [Editor’s note: Archived Lives may also be found on YouTube here].

And especially during the “C” time, we did all the materia medica. So, we all bought her materia medica — Joette’s. And then we went through the Lives, and it was great to connect the dots between what was in the book and then her expanding on them. So, we did that.

We’ve done Good Gut, Bad Gut. We’re about to do Feminopathy. We’re going to start that in January.

Kate:

And right now, you’re going through some more Facebook Lives together. And I think that’s an interesting way to study together because there’s so much free information that you can go through together in addition to the courses. So, that’s a great idea that you guys are listening to Joette’s Facebook Lives and then talking about those in your study groups. That’s great.

Beth:

Yeah, it works really well. We’re behind, so we pick two or three. And then, the group is just amazing now even, or I don’t have to teach everything. I haven’t had to the last couple years. Everybody takes turns. So they listen, and then they talk about it, and we all give input, and it’s just amazing. It works really, really well.

So yeah, it’s just an amazing group of women. And it started off just some of my friends from homeschooling, and then their friends and then maybe some of my friends. And so that’s a really nice group of people.

Kate: (07:20)

And I know that you’ve gone through what we’re calling the “Kids’ course,” but the full name is The Ultimate Cool Kids Guide to Homeopathy. Tell us a little bit about that and why you went through it and how you did it.

Beth:

So, right when that first came out, I was so excited. I was like, I love working with kids. I homeschooled my kids. I taught second grade in homeschooling. And I offered a few friends that I would teach it if their kids would be interested. And the kids were just so great, and you know they pick up so quickly on information.

In fact, recently, there was an event, and there was a picture. So, this was … I don’t know, five or six years ago that I did it, right? When did it come out? I don’t remember. Anyway, there was an event, and there was a picture. And there was all these desserts. And one of the young girls — she’s now in high school — that took the class with me was like, “Oh, they’re going to need Nux vomica.”

They remember. It’s amazing.

Kate:

Oh, that’s neat. I was actually looking at some of the videos from the Kids’ course the other day, and I was reminded how interactive that is with the videos and sound effects, and I think it’s very engaging. What are your thoughts? And I think an adult would gain information from that as well.

Beth:

Absolutely. I think it’s a really great class for anyone, and it’s fun. The kids’ class is fun — not that your other classes aren’t fun, but …

Kate: (08:44)

So, let’s get into some specifics on some of the things that you mentioned earlier. Pick out a couple of things and just talk to us about how you handled a couple of those conditions that you mentioned earlier.

Beth:

So maybe a big thing that people will deal with is allergies, and that can be a lot of different things. It can be just like a basic allergy that something’s in the air, and you start sneezing … all the way to having digestive problems or even going to anaphylaxis. Right?

And so, with the acute, I love the Boiron AllergyCalm®. I think that’s what it’s still called. [Editor’s note: AllergyCalm® was formerly called RhinAllergy®.] Anyway, that combination is really great for just those quick acutes when you’re around someone, and they’re sneezing a lot, and you can tell they’re struggling. And people are more likely to take something that’s in a package — unfortunately or fortunately, I don’t know. So, I do use that for acutes.

I also carry around some other remedies like Apis, if I really need it. And I’ve also used the protocols from the Good Gut, Bad Good class on food allergies and food intolerances.

So, I have one son who really had issues with dairy, and I was able to address that. And now, he’s fine. I mean, it’s just amazing. I mean, for years and years, he couldn’t.

And then even myself … I had terrible gluten allergies. And I did a couple of other things trying to get over it before I knew about homeopathy, but homeopathy was what finally got rid of that. I have no symptoms anymore, which is amazing. It does take time, but it’s totally worth it because then, it’s gone.

Also, my husband was allergic to cats, and we were able to treat that. And we had people here that I didn’t know they had cats, and a few years ago, my husband would’ve really struggled with that, but nothing.

Kate:

You mean they came over with their cats?

Beth:

No, just coming over with the dander on their clothes would have set him off.

Kate:

Oh! Okay.

Beth:

I used to ask people, “I’m sorry, do you have cats? If you do, I can’t have you sit on the furniture.”

I would really have to be really careful. And now I didn’t even think about asking because he doesn’t react anymore. So, that was really amazing.

And then, I had an anaphylactic reaction. I was at a restaurant. I was eating a lot of stuff, so I don’t know what it was, but something set me off, so I knew what I needed for … I carried that around because I had had previous anaphylaxis. I was allergic to bees and venomous insects — which I am not anymore, which is just amazing.

So, I treated that with protocols, and then I had this anaphylactic reaction to some sort of food. But thankfully, I had the remedies with me, and I was able to take them. And I did exactly what Joette recommends.

There happened to be a walk-in ER place just around the bend. So, I drove over there, and I sat in the car. And I took the remedies, and I never had to go in. And it was just amazing because I have been in the hospital for that. And it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get over those drugs that they give you.

Kate:

And that information is covered, I know, in Gateway II and also the Allergic?! course, and I’m sure there are other courses that it’s mentioned as well … of course, Survivalist.

So, if you’re interested in — that’s something that your family struggles with — you can learn that information in those places.

So, what else, Beth?

Beth:

Stomach pain, diverticulitis … those kind of things that aren’t necessarily there shorter term, and we wouldn’t do a chronic allergy treatment with, but I’ve had really great success with those, too.

Kate: (12:58)

I know someone in your family dealt with hernias, and that’s a pretty major thing that people usually are recommended to get surgery for. And you’ve had some success with the homeopathic remedies.

Which, by the way, is it something that your family struggles with or someone who does? There’s a blog called Update: Hernias and Homeopathy. There’s one previous to that called Get Back in the Game, Hernias and Homeopathy. So, if you go to JoetteCalabrese.com — that’s J-O-E-T-T-E-C-A-L-A-B-R-E-S-E.com — and you type in the top-right search box, just search “hernia”. Those blogs will pop right up for you.

So, can you tell us about your experience with using the remedies for that?

Beth:

Yeah, we use the remedies, and we did some red light. We like to try to be healthy in general, right? And red light has been shown to be good, too. So, the combination of doing the natural modality of the red light as well as the homeopathy worked amazing. And it was very quick!

And where we were getting the red light, they were like, normally the red light helps, but it doesn’t get you there. You still have to get surgery. So, I believe — obviously — that the homeopathy was the other thing that we did instead of doing a medical procedure.

Kate:

Since we talked about that recently (because I knew someone who had a hernia), and I mentioned it to some other people who’ve also dealt with that, and they’ve actually just used homeopathy alone. And it’s reversed it, which is incredible.

You go to the doctor’s office, and they say it’s not … “You can’t reverse this.” But it has been, and your family is proof of that. So, pretty incredible.

Beth: (14:43)

Yes, definitely. Something else is we live in Florida, and it’s hot. And I’ve dealt with heat stroke with homeopathy, and that’s been amazing.

When we were with groups of kids for homeopa … I mean, for homeschooling, and we would go to the beach, and the kids are running around, and they don’t want to stop, and they don’t want to drink anything. And you have kids that get heat stroke.

And before homeopathy, there were a few times where people had to go to the hospital. But once we knew homeopathy — or I knew homeopathy — I was able to offer it and make suggestions. And it was amazing because it just works so quickly, and they didn’t have to.

And then it’s always funny. Then people question, “Well, maybe it really wasn’t.”

I’m like, “No, definitely was.”

Kate:

Isn’t that funny?

Beth:

Yeah. But it worked really amazing. I have a little bag that has all the remedies that can be used for heat stroke together, and I carry that when I go to the beach.

Kate:

Along with probably the remedies for stings from things that are in the ocean perhaps. Right?

Beth: (15:56)

Yeah, you know, as you get more comfortable with homeopathy, and you understand it more, that’s what I’ve ended up doing is … I kind of make my own kits for things.

So, when my son was going on a mission trip to Hawaii, and I put together a kit, I looked up where he was going: What are the bugs and different things that are there? And thinking about, okay, he’s going to be in a really hot setting. He is going to be working outside. What kind of remedies is he probably going to need?

Traveling remedies, right? Injury remedies. And I put together a whole kit just for him to take with him.

I also do that when they go off to college. Of course, that’s really hard because they could run into a lot of different things. But the first year, I’ve really sent a lot of stuff. The second year I got better at it, but that’s something that I like to do.

You can be more specific. I know what my son is more likely to deal with, and my daughter’s going to deal with, or my husband. He’s going to have more indigestion. My daughter’s going to be more exhausted. My son’s going to maybe have a little stomach thing. So, you can gear your kits towards that, which is fun.

Kate:

Do you send them with any instructions? Or do they just contact you when they’re not feeling well, and you point them in the right direction?

Beth:

It’s kind of a combination. Because I’ve been doing it so long that they all understand (on a basic level) homeopathy, but they usually call me. I create a little spreadsheet, and I print it up that has little suggestions for what to take with what. And so, they can look it up and just take it.

But they do generally contact me just to make sure they’re taking the right thing.

Kate:

Yeah.

Beth:

Because the cold and flu kit that I send them with — that I put together — but they’re not going to take all of that. Right? So, they’ll call and ask or text.

Kate:

Right. As kids do these days, most often text. A phone call is rare. Well, not for you. Your children call you more than most, I think. You get to stay in touch.

Beth:

I do.

Kate: (18:14)

Let’s transition to talking about The Academy because I know some people like to know what is it like and what kinds of things do you learn. And so, you are about a third of the way through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® year. Tell us what it’s like.

Beth:

It’s great. It’s a lot of work. No, it’s really good. I really enjoy it. I worked with you guys when we were first putting it together and the beginning of it. I wasn’t involved in that much of it, but being on the other side is so interesting.

It’s a really good program. It’s really well put together, and it covers a lot of different things that some people might not have thought of as important, but they definitely are. And I can see how it all works together.

I’m not a history person. I am just not, but I am actually enjoying the history. And I sent that to Joette the one time I was like, “Thank you because I really would not have looked into that at all.”

But it really is good, and it really does connect some of the things that we’re also learning. Right?

Kate: (19:16)

Well, good.

What I’d like to finish up with today is: I’d like to get your thoughts on some things that people can do to learn more about homeopathy, or what tips or ideas do you have for people who are learning?

Beth:

Just keep going along. Start wherever you can. If you don’t want to buy classes, that’s okay. Joette has a lot of information online and just keep listening to it and learning about it and reading about it and listening to it, and it’ll be amazing what you pick up.

And then, I think following what she recommends really does work. And that’s where — when I kind of had a practice there for a little while, well, I did — but following what she specifically said:

Get the timeline and understand what’s happening over time with them is good to be able to see. Have them pick out the main things that they want to work on, and you really can see it work backwards on the timeline, and it just encourages you to keep learning more and doing more.

So, watching people get healthy and be able to function in life better is just, it’s priceless. It really is.

Kate:

I liked the idea that you had … where you told me that as you were learning more about the different homeopathic medicines, that you take notes. And I know you do that in a couple of different ways. Maybe you can share a couple of ideas for people who are wanting to study this.

Beth:

Yeah, so, I think anything that you want to learn more about, the first thing is knowing what your learning style is. One of my sons is definitely an auditory learner. If he just listens to it, he learns it. Where for me, I need to take notes, and that’s how I remember it.

But then, also, I want to have good information that I can use later. So, when I do the materia medica class for The Academy, I take notes on what she says. I also check her materia medica — Joette’s — and I write little notes in there. And then I also make the materia medica cards that come with The Academy. So, I’m basically creating my own materia medica written in my own words. And I think that will be really cool for me after we’re done when I’m searching for information to help people.

Kate:

You also make spreadsheets sometimes as well. So, for those of you listening, Beth is amazing with her notes. She’s incredible. So, she knows where to find anything you need to know.

Beth:

Yes. I’m doing a spreadsheet on all of the protocols and more, so that as I’m going through, I’m creating that so I can really easily search.

I had a friend stop by yesterday. She needed some remedies, and we were talking, and I’m like, “Let me just look and see what else we have.” And I can just search on a word, and I can find all kinds of information. So, I like to do that.

I also make little cards with PowerPoint that are the protocols, and then I have the protocols saved as little recipe cards like Joette started with on her website.

Kate:

Oh, my goodness. You do even more than I knew about.

Beth:

Yes.

Kate:

Wow. So, do you do the spreadsheets in Excel?

Beth:

I do. I use Excel, and I do the cards in PowerPoint usually.

Kate:

Beth, thank you so much for sharing all this information. It’s a lot, and I’m sure we’ll be talking again because you always have so much to talk about.

And I know your daughter. We’re going to have a podcast where we talk to her because she has her own story about using homeopathy and actually studying it as well. So, I look forward to hearing from her.

And I want to thank you for sharing this information today.

Beth:

Yeah, thank you. It was fun.

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: The Story of Georgie

            Joette’s Mighty Members

04:35   Which Specific Homeopathic Medicine Might Have Helped?

            Aconitum napellus 200

06:44   Aconitum napellus and Bryonia alba

08:56   Are These Medicines Always Used in Combination?

12:53   Bryonia Is More Valuable Than People Often Realize

            Bryonia alba 30 or 200

15:12   Be Grateful for The Occasional Cold

19:07   Rest Is Important

21:26   Listen to The Masters

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 133, 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 re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you to the podcast. We’re so glad that you’re here with us today. I want to thank you for taking the initiative to learn about homeopathy, which will have a big impact on your life.

So, if you are new here today, we want to welcome you, and we’re so glad that you’ve joined us.

On today’s podcast, I’m joined by Joette. Hi, Joette!

Joette:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

Hi. And you have a story to tell us today, and I’m excited to hear it. So, let’s just dive right in and hear about the story of Georgie.

Joette:

Yes, this is a story about Georgie. This is not my story. This is Dr. James Compton Burnett’s story. He’s the author of a number of books, but one book that I have read chapter by chapter over the past year or so to Joette’s Mighty Members. And that’s something you folks might want to consider joining because you’ll hear me teaching and teaching and teaching there.

So, I read this book chapter by chapter, and one of the first chapters from this book: “Fifty Reasons for Being a Homeopath.” Dr. Compton — James Compton Burnett — authored this book back in the 1800s. And he was a medical doctor — conventionally trained medical doctor — in London and the area around London.

And so, he worked in a large hospital, and he describes how — before he became a homeopathic physician, and he was still conventional — he worked in this large hospital. And there were a lot of people that were dying around that time from — I think it was around … it was in winter. There were some beds that were no longer available.

And so, there was a young man who worked in the hospital. My guess is he was the equivalent of an orderly. His name was Georgie, and he described him as a waif, I think … pretty sure that was the word he used — and that he was just a “fixture” in the hospital. And he actually lived in the hospital because he didn’t have a home. And it was the benevolence, of course, of the administration and Dr. James Compton Burnett, that Georgie was able to live there and work there, and he was fed and taken care of.

Dr. Compton Burnett was in his office when he saw somebody — another orderly — pushing a gurney past his desk and he said, “Oh my goodness. Who is it now? Who just passed away?”

The man who was pushing the gurney along said, “Sir, I’m sorry. It’s Georgie.” And he had a tear in his eye because this man, Georgie, was quite loved by the staff at the hospital.

And it touched Dr. Compton Burnett deeply because of course he knew him and was fond of him.

Years later, after learning homeopathy, he recognized that the reason that — likely — that Georgie passed away — got very sick with pneumonia and passed away — was because he — Dr. Compton Burnett — had told Georgie that he couldn’t stay in this room because they needed the beds. He had to stay in that room.

And this room was warm and cozy in the cold, damp winter of London. And that room, where Georgie had to stay, was drafty.

And he realized later that it was the draft in which he caught cold and ended up with pneumonia in short order.

And he reminisced — is it “reminisced” the word? I guess he suffered from his decision — from not having known that Georgie could have stayed in that drafty room — but once he got sick, he should have been given a specific homeopathic medicine.

Joette: (04:35)

Now, he didn’t talk about this medicine right away — the one I’m going to mention — but he did talk about Bryonia.

Now, the first medicine I would think of is Aconitum 200 because it’s from a draft.

Kate:

Right. Yeah, that’s what you would expect.

Joette:

I would expect it too … that it was a quick onset. It was from a draft: cold, dry air. Cold, even damp air. And I would’ve thought of Aconitum.

Now, he didn’t say that though. He was thinking — Dr. Compton Burnett — was that the medicine was likely Bryonia. And had he given Georgie Bryonia — had he been trained in homeopathy — then he would’ve likely saved young Georgie’s life.

So, here’s the story. This is what I want you to know about Bryonia — and also Aconitum, for that matter.

Aconitum is the first step towards a quick onset of a cold — a chest cold, especially bronchitis or pneumonia, pleurisy, et cetera. Upper respiratory, lower respiratory infections, we think of Aconitum first, and then we can also use Bryonia.

Now, Dr. Compton Burnett didn’t include Aconitum because he was emphasizing the importance of knowing how to use Bryonia. The Banerji’s have a protocol, which is Aconitum 200 mixed with Bryonia 30 for exactly this kind of a situation. And Dr. Compton Burnett was unfamiliar, of course, with the Banerji protocols. So, he would have used simply Bryonia.

So, there are a couple of points that I want to make with his story. One is what the uses of Bryonia and Aconitum are, and two, but there are many ways to skin a cat. We needn’t go with only one way, or that Dr. Burnett’s way was wrong, and the Banerjis were right, or vice versa. But rather, these protocols and these methods of using our medicines are developed by the use of these medicines and developed from the need for the medicine.

Joette: (06:44)

So, for Aconitum, I want you to remember a quick onset — at the moment, the first moment of an illness. By the time Dr. Burnett may have gotten to Georgie, it may have been he’d already developed pneumonia, perhaps Aconitum might’ve been secondary. I still think of it as primary, but he might’ve seen it as secondary. And the primary medicine was Bryonia.

So, here’s a description of Bryonia. It is especially right-sided in the lungs. So, pneumonia on the right side, and the person finds that they must lay very still because any movement can cause coughing if it’s in the lungs.

If Bryonia is needed for a headache, any movement of the head can cause more pain. So, it’s worse from movement. The need for Bryonia informs us that the person is suffering anytime they move. They’re better if they lay on the painful side. And I think that what that does is that perhaps the reason is because it holds the person in place and movement is less likely because they’re firmly placed in that position.

Worse from taking a deep breath. Why? Because it’s movement of sorts. So, the person may breathe in a shallow fashion to avoid inspiring too much air and making the movement too grand. So, it is a medicine that is specific for a cough that is worse from movement. The person moves a little bit in the bed, and that causes coughing.

And I’m focusing mostly on respiratory because I’m hoping that we get this information out during the winter months, and my guess is we’re going to be doing that. So, I want you to remember Bryonia as a wonderful remedy for chest infections.

And often when the cold travels to the chest, and the person actually has a cold travel to the chest, and the person perhaps has a history of that “Every time I get a cold, it goes to my chest.” Often that is a call for Bryonia.

Kate: (08:56)

So, we’re talking about Bryonia. We talked about Aconite and the Banerji Protocol of Aconite and Bryonia.

So, I’m curious, Joette, if a person has a cough or something that’s developed into a cough and something in the lungs, would you employ the Banerji protocol of Aconite and Bryonia, or are there times where you simply use Bryonia alone?

Joette:

I’m glad you asked that because I hinted on it a moment ago, but I didn’t fully explain it.

I think that the reason Dr. Compton Burnett did not consider Aconitum and Bryonia is because it had already developed. Aconitum is for the onset of a cough, at the onset of pneumonia, at the onset of a cold that feels like perhaps it’s going to travel down to the chest.

But Bryonia is when it’s a little more ripened. So, if it was days later that the person got the cold, then turned into the sore throat, then it went into the chest, turned into a cough, hence, developed into bronchitis or pneumonia, then I would lean a little more towards what Dr. Compton Burnett suggested, and that is simply using Bryonia.

Whereas if Georgie had said to Dr. Compton Burnett, “You know what? I got a chill from sleeping last night in that drafty room, I don’t feel so well today.” That would be, my sense, a good time to use Aconitum either alone or in conjunction with Bryonia as the Banerjis would use.

Kate:

Okay, that’s helpful. But I’m still curious because I know there’s been times where you’ve mentioned go back to Aconite and Bryonia together, even when the person has been sick for a while. And I have actually found that useful when you’ve said that. Because like you just mentioned, I think of Aconite and Bryonia for the onset of an illness.

So, then when it’s developed, and it’s maybe four days into something, I tend to abandon the Aconite and Bryonia and go with maybe something else. But you’ve said, “No, go back to the Aconite and Bryonia.”

So, I’m curious, when would you go back to the Aconite and Bryonia?

Joette:

Well, for one thing, Bryonia — let me just say this for a moment —Bryonia can have anxiety, but Aconite has tremendous anxiety. So, if the person is really anxious, fearful of getting pneumonia, fearful of the illness growing bigger, fearful of dying, or thinking that this will be their demise — they’ve been through this before; they know what this is like, and they’re pretty frightened — that would establish a tighter need for Aconitum. That’s one.

The other is if the illness came on with a quick onset, and yet it’s four days into the ripening of the illness, I might still consider using Aconitum mixed with Bryonia.

So, I don’t know that I can give a hard and fast rule, but it’s how the person is experiencing the disease. How the person is emotionally, physically; how long it’s been; how fast it came on.

Quick onset is a very important key in determining homeopathic medicine — whether it’s a slow onset or a quick. If it’s quick onset, then I automatically think of Aconitum, especially if there’s anxiety — a great deal of anxiety.

Belladonna is another great medicine for quick onset, but that usually develops into a fever — those kinds of … hot and high temperature.

But for cold or something like that, I might still revert back to Aconitum. It certainly won’t do any harm, let’s put it that way, by including Aconitum with Bryonia four days into the disease.

Kate:

Well, what’s interesting is I seem to remember from reading about Bryonia, that Bryonia is usually something that comes on slowly.

Joette:

Slower. Right.

Kate:

Isn’t that funny?

Joette:

Yeah, they almost contradict each other sometimes. That’s what works best. Yeah, those combinations can work like that.

Kate: (12:53)

I know when we were talking earlier, you had said that Bryonia is an underutilized medicine. Why did you say that?

Joette:

Because I don’t think that enough people know that it’s such a great medicine for a cold that goes to the chest. I don’t think they realize how valuable it can be for bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, chest infections. That it’s such a great remedy for acutes such as that.

I don’t think people think about it because of its characteristic of worse from movement that they don’t think about it as a medicine specific for a broken bone. I mean, if you break your tibia and you move, that pain can be excruciating. That’s Bryonia. And we would use Bryonia in, perhaps, conjunction with Symphytum for broken bone or Arnica for the injury itself and the pain.

We might add other medicines, but when we see that it’s worse from movement: a headache, that is worse from … what kind of movement? Just moving the head the tiniest bit can be very painful. Or just moving the eyes when someone has a headache can be an indication for the use of Bryonia.

So, I do think it’s underused because people are just not as aware of it. It’s a good medicine to have in your repertoire.

Kate:

Alright. When you’re talking about using Bryonia alone, would you use it in a 30th potency, a 200, a 6?

Joette:

Well, I would use it in a 30, most likely, for a cold or a cough. But I also would use it if it were a broken bone or a headache. If it’s for a broken bone, then I might consider using it in a 200.

So, how often do we use these potencies, these medicines?

Well, it depends, of course. If it’s something that is not very serious or is not plaguing the person at this moment in time, we might use it twice daily.

But at the onset of a cold or, let’s say, that someone is developing pneumonia — they feel it coming on — I might use it more than twice a day. I might use it two, three times a day, maybe even four times in the very beginning. And then, as the next day progresses, if we see a little shift, then we might back off. Instead of three or four times a day, go to twice a day and then stay at that until it’s finished.

Kate: (15:12)

I know you say that colds can often be tricky, and we want them to move along quickly and be finished quickly. But it’s often one of the more difficult things to have come to a full resolution in a short amount of time, especially if we don’t catch it at the beginning. Do you find that to be true?

Joette:

I not only find it to be true, but I’m grateful for it. And this is what I mean.

I think that we have to understand, as humans, that we’re supposed to get these kinds of things. We need to detoxify. And when the body is sneezing, it’s getting rid of something that is unnecessary, or that is necessary to get rid of.

The nose is running, the throat is creating a lot of mucus. There’s coughing to bring up the mucus that’s in the chest.

Yes, there may be aches and pains and fatigue, but that’s a sign that we need to do something different than what we were doing. And that is … we need to pay attention and rest. Just let it go. Let it roll off your back. It’s not a, “Oh no! I’m sick!”

No, no.

“Oh, yeah. Okay. I could use a few days or so a week, maybe, to rid myself of something, to cleanse my body of something and then rejuvenate.”

And I noticed frequently — not only in my own children but in my clients and students who report this to me — that when their children get sick …

Let’s say, it’s a seven-year-old, and everyone in the neighborhood’s able to ride their bike. But this child can’t seem to ride a bike, can’t get the balance right. They can’t ride. If everybody else is riding … can’t ride, can’t ride.

And so, then they get sick — the child gets sick. And shortly after being sick, the child has a developmental leap. Watch for it, mothers and grandmothers, and you will see this happen time and again. After the illness, there’s a shift that seems as though it’s necessary that they got sick in order to get to the next level of development. And now, after being sick, they can get on the bike and ride it.

Or “I can’t read these paragraphs,” says the third-grade child. “I can only read one sentence. I can’t get through a whole paragraph.”

The child gets sick — whatever sick is — ear infection, conjunctivitis, strep throat, lung infection, whatever it might be … a fever. We actually expect and want these developmental shifts to occur as a result of simply leaving that child alone and letting the child get the illness.

And what I mean by that is we don’t want to give them Tylenol and aspirin and steroids and antibiotics and all the other things — all the newfangled, synthetic, patented stuff that comes from industry to suppress the symptoms.

Instead, we can use homeopathy, decent food (if the child or the person is even hungry. They may not even be hungry, and that’s perfectly fine). But we want to keep them hydrated with good bone stock broth that you’ve made at home or some fresh lemonade that you’ve made with fresh lemons, et cetera, or just salted water.

And allow the child to — or the adult to — simply finish the work of being a human ready to jump into the next developmental shift. And after that amount of time — after they’ve been sick — you will find that that child will have an awakening with being able to read. Now, the child can read a whole paragraph comfortably.

So, if this happens to children, might this also be happening to adults?

I think it does. I think we have shifts that occur when we allow ourselves to just take it easy and know that this is intended to happen. We’re cleansing, and we’re moving to the next level.

Kate: (19:07)

I also like what you said about rest, Joette. I hear your voice in the back of my head. Every time someone comes down with something that is affecting their lungs, and you say, “The lungs require rest. In order for the lungs to heal, you really need to rest.”

And I’ve shared that with a lot of people because I think we as humans tend to just go, go, go —  like you were insinuating — even though we’re sick. But our bodies need this slowdown time in order to recover.

Joette:

Well, I’ve found time and again that if somebody has, say, a stomach upset from some bad food or they get an ear infection, and when it’s over, they can pretty much resume their activities. Even though they may not be a hundred percent. They might be a little shaky in the stomach or their ear’s a little bit uncomfortable (remains that way), and there’s still some symptoms that linger on.

But when it comes to a lung infection, my friends, I can’t urge you enough to know that you must stay down. Must stay down. Because just because you’re feeling better within a day of taking the medicines doesn’t mean, “Okay, I’m done. It’s over.” Because that’s when, more often than not, if the person is not really ready to get up and get onto their daily tasks, the condition will recur, and sometimes it gets worse.

I will also say that’s not only the same with lung infections, it’s also the same with breast infections. So, a breast infection is also something we do not ignore. We take it easy and use the homeopathic medicines for it.

So, yeah, there are some commonsense ways to live, and we have to expect that we are going to be down sometimes. Yes.

And it’s an opportunity to sleep, ponder, pray, listen to great music: Mendelssohn, Beethoven. That’s the time to go for the lofty. Sit in the sun. If you’re up north, then you sit in the window, and you just take it easy. Fire in the fireplace. There’s a nice little simmering sound on the stove with the bone stock simmering away. Take it easy and take stock of what is really important in life.

Kate:

Joette, thank you so much for that information. It was very helpful.

Joette: (21:26)

Well, I just want to add one more statement, and that is that when we learn these medicines — especially when we have protocols — it gives us the sense that there’s a certain order to life, a certain order to medicine. That there’s a design that was determined before us. That these protocols — for example, Aconite and Bryonia — is a protocol that has been used clinically for well over a hundred years by the Banerjis. And so, the great minds, the decades of experience can be very calming.

Once you have a number of these protocols that you can press to service, it will give you a sense of confidence that only comes from something that’s well-designed and well-ordered.

Thank you, listeners. It’s great to have you here. I do want you to spread the word. Make sure that you are using this and learning as much as you can and teach others, and I’ll see you next time.

Thanks, Kate.

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Kate:

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01:00   Introduction: A Medic Firefighter

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

08:38   Searching for an Alternative to Conventional Medication

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

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

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

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Gateway to Homeopathy II

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

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

18:44   Success Story: Avascular Necrosis

19:47   Success Story: Concussion

22:26   Success Story: Dental Surgery

25:15   Planning for the Future

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            JoetteCalabrese.com

27:14   Closing Advice

Joette’s Learning Center

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Joette Calabrese on YouTube

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome, Nigel, to the podcast.

Nigel:

Hey Kate, thanks for having me.

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

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

Kate:

Oh, no!

Nigel:

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

Kate:

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

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

Nigel: (04:21)

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

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

Kate:

The cold?

Nigel:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

Right. Absolutely.

Nigel:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (08:38)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (10:19)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (12:04)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel: (13:44)

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

Nigel: (15:44)

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (17:29)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel: (18:44)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (19:47)

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

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

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

So, those are just some of them.

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

Kate:

Yeah, the homeopathy.

Nigel:

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

Nigel: (21:02)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel:

Yes.

Kate:

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

Nigel: (22:26)

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

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

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

Kate:

There’s trauma …

Nigel:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (25:15)

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

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

Nigel:

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

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

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

Kate:

Nice.

Nigel:

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

Nigel: (27:14)

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

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

So, those are my words of advice.

Kate:

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

Nigel:

Thank you.

Kate:

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

Nigel:

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

Joette:

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

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

Kate:

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01:00   Introduction: A Homeopathic Veterinarian

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:23   A Small Animal, Holistic Vet

            On a Roll Housecalls

03:33   Veterinary House Calls (and Homeopathy)

06:50   Organizing Homeopathic Medicines

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

11:49   Success Story: Bee Sting

13:01   It All Starts With the Food

18:48   Success Story: Oral Tumors

20:55   Homeopathy Provides Better Quality of Life

22:03   Freedom of Choice for Clients

Joette’s Learning Center

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Joette Calabrese on YouTube

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

Hi, Janie.

Janie:

Hi Joette.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

Yes.

Janie:

You can see the remedies in the background hanging.

Joette:

I see that. So, you have them hanging.

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

Schreibeis.

Janie:

But I’m Dr. Wilson.

Joette:

Okay. That makes it super easy

Janie:

Easy to pronounce. Yeah.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Janie: (02:23)

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

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

I have two different lasers.

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

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

Joette:

Different than, yes, than synthetic. Big difference.

Janie: (03:33)

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

No.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

Okay.

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

Yes.

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

Yes.

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

I’m more of a …

Joette:

Cat/dog?

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette: (6:50)

What a great story.

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

Janie:

Want to go see?

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

Yes. It’s an excellent method. Yes.

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yeah, I would say.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

There’s no time for that.

Joette:

No, I know.

Joette: (08:59)

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

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

Observation.

Janie:

Observation.

Joette:

It’s a keen sense of observation.

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

Janie:

Yep.

Joette:

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

Janie:

Right!

Joette:

Yeah. It’s fascinating.

Janie:

Well, I’ve learned what to look for.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

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

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

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

They’re panicking in the moment. So …

Joette:

Yes.

Janie: (11:49)

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette

Really?

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette: (13:01)

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

Janie:

Skin, gut. Same as people.

Joette:

Yeah, just the same as people.

Janie:

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

Joette:

Irritable bowel.

Janie:

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

Joette:

Anxiety.

Janie:

Oh, anxiety’s huge. Huge!

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yeah, exactly.

Joette:

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

Janie:

Well, I feed raw.

Joette:

You’re talking my language, Janie. Yes.

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

So, it’s got some organs in it.

Janie:

Yeah, organ meat.

Joette:

It comes frozen.

Janie:

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

Joette:

For animals … dogs. Yep.

Janie:

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

Joette:

So, you must be a Weston A. Pricer.

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yeah.

Joette:

Everyone gets it. Yes. Yes.

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

Yep. He looooves it.

Joette:

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

Janie:

Oh, my.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

Joette:

They need warmth. They need the warmth.

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Janie:

That’s amazing.          

Joette:

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

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

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie: (18:48)

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

Joette:

Yes, thank you. Again. Yes.

Janie:

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

Joette:

Yes, ma’am.

Janie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

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

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

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

Joette: (20:55)

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

Yeah. It’s quality of life. Yes.

Janie:

They can live with it.

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

Janie: (22:03)

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

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

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

Joette:

They’re hooked.

Janie:

Yep.

Joette:

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

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

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

Janie:

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

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

Joette:

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

Janie:

Okay, thank you.

Joette:

Alright, bye now.

Janie:

Bye-Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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Kate:

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

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

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

05:32   The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:45   Meet the Other Half of Our Courageous Couple

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

09:54   Success Story: Dog and Cat Allergies

10:50   Success Story: Food Allergies

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

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

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

            Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

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

14:58   Success Story: Wasp Stings

            The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

16:41   Success Story: Fear of Loud Sounds

18:33   Success Story: PTSD

20:28   Success Story: Colds and Flu

22:05   Closing Advice

            Free Blogs

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Joette’s Mighty Members

            Joette’s Learning Center

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

Hi Franicia!

Franicia:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

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

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

Franicia:

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

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

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

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

Kate: (04:21)

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

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

Yes!

Franicia:

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

Kate: (05:32)

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

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

Franicia:

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

Kate:

Awesome. Well, thank you for that.

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

Franicia: (06:45)

Yeah, sounds great.

Tim:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Hi. Thank you for being here.

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

Tim:

Yeah, absolutely.

Kate: (07:10)

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

Tim:

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

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

Kate:

Yeah. What made you decide to learn homeopathy?

Tim:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Tim:

Okay, sounds good. Thank you.

Kate:

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

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

Franicia: (09:54)

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

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

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

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

Franicia: (10:50)

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

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

Franicia: (11:32)

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

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

Kate: (13:47)

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

Franicia:

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

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

Yeah, very much. Life-changing.

Franicia: (14:58)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Franicia: (16:41)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

Oh, wow. I love hearing these stories.

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

Franicia: (18:33)

Yes. That was just so phenomenal for me.

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Franicia: (20:28)

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Franicia:

Yeah, I think so.

Kate: (22:05)

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

Franicia:

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

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

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

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

Kate:

Yeah. And you had something else.

Franicia:

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Franicia:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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.