Joette Calabrese Podcast

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

01:41   Different kinds of headaches

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

06:12   Success Story: Barometric headache

09:31   Different homeopathic medicines for different headaches

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

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

Joette: (01:41)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

Joette: (04:12)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

Perspiring.

Kate:

Yeah. Right.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (09:31)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (11:05)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Don’t Worry

02:00   Women are expert worriers

03:18   When worry becomes a pathology, think homeopathy

            “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy

05:26   Ailments from worry

07:59   When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety

10:40   Closing advice

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

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

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

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

So, let’s get started, Joette.

Joette: (02:00)

Yeah, let’s get started, Kate.

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

Kate:

Right.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (03:18)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (05:26)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

What remedies might be found in that rubric?

Joette:

Well, Argentum nitricum is certainly very valuable for this.

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (7:59)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

Yeah. Distrust that is irrational, certainly.

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

Kate: (10:40)

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

06:39   Different kinds of shock

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

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

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

18:45   Closing Advice

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (2:21)

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

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

Elizabeth:

Hi, Joette. Thanks for having me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

Joette: (04:59)

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

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

Jennifer:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

Joette: (06:39)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (07:47)

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

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

Laurie:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

Joette: (10:05)

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

So, hi, Nealy.

Nealy:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, great thing to keep on hand.

Joette:

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

Nealy:

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

Joette:

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

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

Joette: (12:59)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, remember, for panic attacks, with shaking, trembling — there may not be shaking or trembling — but if you see that, I want you to be thinking of Aconitum first. Sudden surges of adrenaline through the body leading to trembling, and of course, panic. There can also be panic attacks with numbness and tingling of the fingers down the arms and into the feet even, all the way through the extremities.

Agoraphobia, afraid to go out of the house, fear of crowds, fear of busy streets, fear of narrow streets, fear of going to doctors and dentists. How common is that, my friends? Fear of total disasters. “I’m sure something bad’s about to happen.”

Fear of the dark and fear of ghosts. Now, I know that might sound strange, but when people start thinking about that — or children — or there even can be dreams about them.

And so, one more thing about Aconitum, violent reactions to a fright or weather conditions, not unlike what Laurie mentioned that can indicate the use of Aconitum.

Today, we live in very comfortable, controlled temperatures. We have heat and air conditioning, and we don’t realize how potent, how influential, how commanding weather can be, even if we’re inside. So, we keep thinking about how “Weather can’t bother me. I’m inside and protected.” But even that weather, that storm outside, even if we’re not in the storm or in our safe home, it can still affect someone who might need Aconitum, not unlike what Laurie mentioned.

Joette: (18:45)

So my friends, I hope today’s conversation has shown you that you don’t have to live at the mercy of sudden fear or of panic or long-term fear or that overwhelming surge of adrenaline that can knock you off your feet, whether it’s the shock of a frightening moment or a lingering long-term anxiety after a loss or the daily grip of worry that makes your heart race and your hands shake, or the dog that shakes on the way to the car because he knows what’s forthcoming.

Aconitum napellus is ready as one of homeopathy’s most powerful first — and even second, third, and last — responders.

So, we’ve heard beautiful real-life stories today from Elizabeth, Jennifer, Laurie, and Nealy, and these are the kinds of stories about homeopathy that aren’t rare. I hear them every day, and so do they because they’re in the world of homeopathy. They’re the everyday victories that become possible when we understand how to use this remarkable medicine well.

So, the next time you feel that sudden wave of fear, that racing heart or that “I’m sure I can’t handle this feeling,” remember Aconitum.

And so, until next time, stay Mighty, my friends. Stay prepared and remember fear may come knocking, but with Aconite in your toolkit, you never have to let it move in. See you soon.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: If this were my last podcast, what would my message to you be?

02:11   What happened?

03:40   Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

04:14   Do the opposite.

07:22   Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

09:20   Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

11:11   If this were my last message to you:

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Joette’s Mighty Members

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 166, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

Hi friends, Joette here. I had some ideas the other day that I wanted to pass on to you.

I asked myself, what is the one message I really want to leave with you, something that’s poignant for me in my life and perhaps might be for you. I was thinking, if this were my last podcast, what would I say?

What’s at the heart of everything I teach?

These are my thoughts. If you’re new here — new to my podcasts, my blog, my courses — you might think it’s just about fixing, you know, eczema or chronic fatigue or whatever acute mess your families might be suffering in now.

And yes, we deliver those Practical Protocols. I teach them because they work. Eczema? Well, here’s the protocol that helped time after time. Postpartum exhaustion? We know the medicines. We’ve got them all ready for you. They’re in my blogs; they’re in my courses.

Those will uproot the condition, and they’re the upfront answers. They’re what give you the interest and the excitement about being able to help yourself and your family because they get — pretty often — fast results.

(02:11)

But once everything clears — the skin clears, the energy returns — something bigger often dawns on moms and grandmothers and men, too.

They look back and say, “Oh, my gosh. All these years, I’ve been slathering steroids on my children’s arms and legs, and it’s only gotten worse in the long run. Now there’s asthma. Now there are behavioral issues. Now there are food intolerances, dairy, wheat. Everything’s off the table. What has happened?”

Well, my friends, you’re not alone. I’ve been there too. What happened is we lost our freedom — our medical freedom. We handed it over to industries, pharmaceuticals, food giants, even governments, who told us, “This is the way. Take the pill. Smear the cream. Trust the experts.”

And we did.

That’s a collective “we” because I was there too. We believed that the quick fix was the fix. So, I started right where so many of you did.

Except for me, my health was wrecked in my 20s and 30s before I had children. I had eczema as an infant all the way into high school. I had allergies, chemical sensitivities — so many sensitivities — that by the time my kids came along, I had already been questioning and digging and trying to find answers. I learned.

(03:40)

And the big “ahas” were that conventional drugs don’t heal. They suppress, and they kick the can down the road, and that suppression shows up later without us realizing what the connection is. And I guarantee that the doctor who prescribed it will not make that connection as well.

The suppression shows up in gut issues, more allergies — more deepened allergies, more things to be allergic to, chronic fatigue. It’s the same story in tens of thousands of cases I’ve taken over the years. Nothing new under the sun.

(04:14)

Here’s what I’ve come up with. Here’s the easy rule I taught my kids, and it’s a little oversimplified, but you’ll get the idea, I think.

I taught my children from an early age that whatever everybody else is doing to do the opposite. That’s the shortcut to clarity. So, at least if nothing else, they’re questioning.

I can hand you the protocol for eczema. I can give you the protocols for fatigue, and it often works beautifully. But I hope what follows is an awakening, a little fire in the belly, a feeling of being duped, a feeling of being gaslit, thinking, “Why didn’t anyone tell me that suppressing the skin condition would drive the problem deeper into asthma, behavioral struggles, or gut dysbiosis?”

Now, this is not just moms and kids here, in this part of the world. It’s global. And too many doctors — good ones included — have been trained by Big Pharma. It makes them the retail arm of Big Pharma.

No, they’re taught, diet doesn’t matter. What you eat doesn’t count. Herbs? No, don’t be silly. Change your lifestyle? Nah.

Now, I have to say these doctors generally mean well, but they’ve been gaslit too. They’ve been gaslit through their education because their education is promulgated by an industry, an industry that teaches them to use drugs and only drugs.

So, the last few years have made it crystal clear. We’ve seen the forces at play, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

You know, it’s like buying a red Volkswagen. Suddenly, Volkswagens that are red are everywhere. It’s an old story. I don’t even know if people buy and sell red Volkswagens any longer, but that’s the idea.

You hear the same story from neighbors, from church friends, from homeschool co-ops, fellow moms. “We went to the doctor, got the drugs, and it got better for a short while. Now things are worse. Not right away, but months, years later, everything’s worse.”

And we need to sing the same song in unison. Bring control back to the family. And of course, who does that usually? Moms and grandmothers. Because we notice the little nuances, the niggly truths that we’d rather ignore. We’re thinking, “Oh, it’s just a mild antibiotic for ear infection.”

That’s often what pediatricians will call it. It’s no longer an antibiotic. It’s a “mild” antibiotic to assuage the mother’s fears.

No, my friends, an antibiotic is an antibiotic. It’s like dropping a napalm bomb on the gut. It kills the bad bugs, sure. But it wipes out the good ones, too. And I’m sorry, even though I do believe that food can make a difference, no amount of yogurt, kombucha or probiotics can fully repopulate what’s been bulldozed, unless there’s true intentional work using homeopathy and even more intense diet.

(07:22)

So, the first step: I urge people to stop running to a professional for every little thing.

Now, I’ve tried many paradigms over my 70-plus years since I was a child watching my mother question things as well. Back in the 50s, my mother was questioning. There just wasn’t an awful lot of information.

The only way that’s truly powerful, reproducible and empowering is learning a handful — at least start with a handful — of homeopathic medicines and using them comfortably for your children, your husband, your elderly parents, your pets.

Now, are there other pieces? Absolutely.

Prayer goes a long way without saying, I suppose. Good nutrition, real nutrition. We put clean fuel in our cars. Why not in our bodies and in our children’s bodies?

But my friends, I see Practical Homeopathy® as the game changer because it gently stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal itself. I’ve seen it over and over.

A woman crippled with rheumatoid arthritis — even wheelchair-bound women — walking, living, a near-normal life with homeopathy and a few diet tweaks. Not cured to tennis-pro level, but free from pain and dependence.

Now, it’s not as complex as we’re told. It’s actually simple living. Getting back to nature. Save the synthetic drugs for a true emergency. Not a relative emergency, a true emergency, like when you’re hit by a Zamboni, and you’ve been flattened on the ice rink, and you need surgery, or you face life-threatening infections.

Not for a sniffle, not for cosmetic fixes, not for ear infections, not for convenience, birth control, not for managing cholesterol numbers. These are all things that we can do ourselves without the synthetic drugs.

(09:20)

I want you to start, my friends, by considering avoiding unnecessary drugs. And you might be surprised at how many drugs that you or your family members might be taking that are indeed superfluous.

Then we can talk about uprooting the iatrogenic conditions they’ve created. Iatrogenic: great word, very powerful word. And it’s used in modern medicine. It’s used to describe a disease or a condition that has been caused by a drug or a health professional … that the condition was caused by that.

Now, most people think they haven’t overused meds until they construct a timeline. And so, I urge you, get a long sheet of paper and a pencil with a good eraser because you’ll change a lot as you go along the way, and you’ll be filling it in … the blanks. And you’ll be going back maybe a couple days later, and another, “Oh my gosh, I forgot about this or that.”

And then list every antibiotic all through the years from the beginning of your life. Every antibiotic, steroid, reaction, painkiller, injections. And look at it with a good eraser because you’ll forget half of them.

I did this myself, and I was stunned. Now, I haven’t taken a pharmaceutical drug since the age of 32 — well, except for a local anesthetic for a tooth extraction and one unavoidable surgery years ago.

So, I’m now 74. My old conditions, eczema from infancy, allergies should be worse because these diseases are progressive. But they’ve reversed because I learned something, and then I focused on it.

I skilled up.

I used homeopathy, and I tightened up my diet. So, it isn’t luck or good genes, my friends, it’s possible for you too. 

(11:01)

So, what is the message? My message to you — from an older woman to everyone else — is reclaim your freedom.

Question. Period. Defy. Period.

Take back control with Practical Homeopathy® and good diet. Do this, my friends, and you’ll be unstoppable. Why? Because the body wants to heal. It’s in the mode of homeostasis. It just needs the right stimulus.

Homeopathy provides it gently, powerfully, and without side effects.

So, that’s the heart of it. That’s what I’d say if this were my last message.

You’ve got this. Your family’s health freedom is in your hands. It’s just a matter of learning.

So, my friends, thanks for listening. Share this with a mom who needs to hear it, and I’ll see you next time.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This: Inspirational Homeopathic Success Stories From My Mastermind Group

03:00   Prerequisites for Practical Homeopathy’s Mastermind

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

04:03   Meet Sandy: A teaching moment featuring Aconite the Chicken

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

08:22   Meet Charis: Carrying a bunch of peers in her pocket paid off

13:44   Meet Breta: A CATastrophic pet illness remedied with homeopathy

17:57   Meet Noreen: Astonished the doctors by healing her husband’s kidney dysfunction

21:23   Meet Sheena: Amazes the veterinarian and neurologist by healing a seriously ill pup without conventional medicine

29:24   Meet Kirsten: A homeopath and teacher whose husband is now joining her practice

            Podcast 126: Moms with Moxie: From a Mom Just Like You to a Successful Practical Homeopath®!

34:23   Meet Ingrid: Sharing a Banerji Protocol that has helped so many

36:25   Meet Christy: Creating generational health with her son

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Joette’s Learning Center

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 165, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Joette: (01:00)

Hi!

Kate:

Hi, Joette. It is very exciting to be with you this week because we are actually in person, which doesn’t happen too often — a couple times a year — but tell us where we are and what’s happening.

Joette:

Well, we’re in Florida, and a number of our Mastermind members joined us here for a great weekend.

This is fashioned after Masterminds that were started back in the turn of the last century when Napoleon Hill was charged with the job of gathering up the heads of industry, getting them together and having them meet and share information on what made them successful, asking each other to help. And it was basically a secret group.

So now, we’re not industrialists, but we’re going to learn from them. And instead, we’ve gathered together … we’ve been doing this, now, we’re going on our third year, where we gather together.

There are 12 of us in one unit, and we have gotten to know each other because we’re all asking each other for help with whatever it is we’re looking to accomplish in our lives. That help could be from “How to build my practice,” “How to teach Gateways more frequently,” “How to incorporate my family into my work,” “How to study better.”

Some of the members in the group have no interest in ever practicing or even teaching. What they want to do is to just keep in touch with those people that they have a great deal of regard for and get feedback.

And that’s really what it is. It’s melding of the minds. It’s concinnity at its best because it’s bringing all the minds together, and everyone is parlaying off of each other.

It sounds a little bit like a cacophony, but it isn’t. It really is very organized. Each person has their specific time at which they present, and then those around the round table (of the other 11) offer their suggestions, ideas and plans to help them build their year.

We’re meeting now, and then we’re going to meet every other week for an entire year. It’s really a spectacular opportunity for all of us.

Kate: (03:00)

So, in order to be in your Mastermind group, what do students need to have accomplished in order to join the group?

And I know there’s a wait list. Actually, right now we have a number of people who wanted to join, but weren’t able to necessarily get in this year, but we’re hoping in the coming years.

But tell me, what do these students have to have done to get in group?

Joette:

They have to have gone through The Academy, which is one full year, and the Mastery, which is 11 months. So, it’s quite a commitment. And they have to be interested in growing; growing themselves intellectually, emotionally, spiritual. Whatever it is that they’re looking to accomplish, that’s what they bring to the table and ask for help and then offer their help to others.

Kate:

So today, your listeners are going to get a rare look into your Mastermind group. And we’ve asked them to share some of their stories, right? It could be a story about their experience with homeopathy, a success story with homeopathy. It could be about how they’ve grown.

So, we’re going to take a peek now into what some of the conversations are in the Mastermind group.

Joette: (04:03)

Let’s do that. Let’s go.

Hi, Sandy.

Sandy:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, Sandy, we’ve been together now a number of years through The Academy and then Mastery, now Mastermind. I’ve gotten to know you and appreciate your involvement in our Mastermind groups. So, I want to hear about your chicken story. I understand it’s got some humor to it.

Sandy:

It does. It was really an interesting experience. I was teaching Gateway, here in my office at this very desk, and heard a commotion from the garage, which is just down the hall. And ran down the hall. I excused myself from my Gatewayers because this was quite an alarming turn of events. There was a lot of yelling going on.

So, I ran in the garage, and I have had chickens, little chicks growing in there. They can’t be outside at that age. So, they’re about half grown until they get bigger, and they can go outside to the coop.

So, they’re in there doing their little thing, but my husband is in there with a shovel yelling uncontrollably. I ran over to him, “What is wrong?”

He said, “Look in the coop.”

And one of the chickens was completely wrapped up with a garden snake. Now the snake was about six feet long and about, probably, I don’t know, six inches in circumference — a big, mighty snake. And had my poor chicken wrapped up to the point where it couldn’t breathe.

So, we were just frantic. I was yelling … I’m sure my Gatewayers were back here, hearing all this going on. He’s trying to chop at the snake without hurting the chicken. And I’m like, “He’s going to kill it. He’s going to kill it.”

And finally, he separated them. My chicken was just like limp. I mean, I thought it had been asphyxiated. It was about on its way out.

So, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, my Gatewayers are waiting.” So, I ran in with my limp chicken, in this very desk, and they’re all like bug-eyed looking at me with this appeared-to-be a dead chicken.

And I laid it on my desk, and I’m like, “Oh, I’m so sorry, you guys.” I told them what happened. Then I thought to myself, “What a great teaching moment.”

So, I got my Aconite, put a little tiny bit in the chicken’s beak (just cracked it open).

And it wasn’t, I don’t know, 10 seconds before the chicken went “bwuck, bwuck.” It started walking all over the desk, landed on my shoulder. It was just like back to normal. And I thought, “Man, this is just the greatest teaching moment.”

They were all aghast.

And I told them, I said, “I know homeopathy seems a little esoteric and hard to grasp, but when you see it in action, what it can do …” It’s just so encouraging to them.

So luckily, the chicken’s okay to this day and laying eggs and doing fine.

Joette:

They’ll never forget it, Sandy. They’ll never forget that story.

They must be telling their friends and their neighbors and their relatives, “She saved the chicken. It was dead. She saved the chicken right before our very eyes!”

Oh, what a great story.

Sandy:

It was really fun. And some of them have gone on to be in my Gateway II. The new ones that have come in, they’ll say, “You won’t believe it. She brought a chicken back to life.”

Joette:

“Right in front of us. Right before our eyes!”

Now, does this chicken have a name?

Sandy:

Yes, it is now called Aconite.

Joette:

Of course! I knew it had to be something like that. Aconite the Chicken.

Oh, Sandy, what a great story. So, tell us, what else are you doing?

Sandy:

Oh, I’m just trying to learn more about homeopathy every day because it’s such an important medicine that people don’t know about. It’s kind of made it my life’s mission to kind of explain homeopathy to as many people as I can and get them on board and teach them about it. And then I do a lot of reading; I do a lot of gardening and listen to you … listen to you every week on Monday.

Joette:

I heard your goals today, and you said 10 books per month you plan to read. You’ve been an avid reader, and now you’re going to carry on with that and read 10 books a month. That is spectacular.

Sandy:

Yeah. I’m really enjoying that process and kind of making that competition with myself and wanting to exceed my goal this year. So, we’ll see. And I’ll report back to the group when we meet in a couple of weeks.

Joette:

And you can see why, friends, this is so inspirational because I’m surrounded by women who excel, who really find a way — regardless of what else they’re doing in their lives — to carry on and keep their intellect sharp and rapid.

So, thank you so much, Sandy. What a great little story. I love the story about Aconite the Chicken.

Sandy:

Thank you. I’m so happy to share it. I think it’s a funny story.

Joette:

It’s great. It’s great.

Joette: (08:22)

Hi, Charis.

Charis:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

It’s so nice to see you. Let’s do this. Tell us your story.

Charis:

Well, so my story was that my husband came home from a business trip. He had been flying, and he was saying, “I have this tickle in my throat.” And then that tickle moved down to something was gurgling around in his chest, and he was complaining about it.

But he was also starting to stress because his job means he’s traveling every single week, but he’s also talking all the time. Like he’s always doing Zooms; he’s always talking. So, he was getting concerned because as the tickle was moving into his chest, it was making him so he couldn’t cough. And the way he was describing it, it made me think that it was sounding like pneumonia or something in that category.

So, I started thinking, “Okay, I have to treat him for pneumonia.” So, I got Kali carb, Antimonium tart. I also got Ipecac 30 because it was getting to be a nagging cough.

I started pulling out the things that I know to give him when it starts going that way. Then …

Joette:

Why? Has he had this experience before, Charis? Is this something that happens to him?

Charis:

He’s had a nagging cough. He always has had chest issues. He’s always had bronchial issues. He has asthma, and he’s always stressed that it’s immediately going to go into his chest. Like, it’s going to become a huge chest ordeal.

Then he’s always like, “I have to go to the doctor to get it figured out,” — that whole thing. But at the same time, he didn’t have time to go to the doctor because he had a huge meeting the following week.

So, essentially, I got it so the tickle moved out of his chest, and then it went to his head, and then his head exploded. So, then he started having all of this congestion in his nose, and his head felt like he could barely function or think, and it was clouded. And this was over the weekend.

So then, I was like, I have to treat him for a sinus infection, like the beginning of a sinus issue.

So, then I started treating him for a sinus issue. So, then it was Sanguinaria, Belladonna, Kali bichromicum. I’m sorry, I’m talking really fast, but you start going into the next round of stuff.

Then it moved all the way down to his chest again.

Joette:

And that’s that ability to pivot and know where you are: what the case is presenting, what to do next, not give the medicine and consider it done. You have to keep moving with it. It’s up to you to do that little pas de deux.

Charis:

I felt like I was chasing it down, like whatever was the next thing.

But then it started, the mucus did start changing to a yellower mucus, just to be precise. And so, I was in that panicking moment of, “I’m on a timeline, I have to figure out exactly what remedy to give.”

And I immediately started sending a message of my Signal — my bat signal — the Signal group.

Joette:

Which is this group: the Mastermind group. We’re all friends, and everybody is very tight and always willing to help each other. Yeah.

Charis:

Well, I feel like it’s carrying a bunch of peers in my pocket. I always have them available, which is awesome.

Joette:

Yes. Yes.

Charis:

Somebody said, “Have you thought of Mercurius solubilis,” which I actually hadn’t considered.

I thought of other ones, but I was like, “Oh, let me try that one.”

And I did some research. I looked up in my materia medica, and I was like, “Oh, this perfectly fits. It actually fits many elements of him. “

So, I started adding that into the protocol that I was giving him. I did up his potency on Ipecac as well. And so, I essentially got him from a tickle in his throat on Friday to pretty much better by Monday, but still tired. So, then I added in Gelsemium.

And then by Tuesday, he was at his board meeting, able to talk the entire day and not having any coughing, anything going on.

Joette:

You bet. That’s fast.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

That’s fast. Most people don’t realize that if you’re using conventional medicine, it goes on weeks, not four days.

Charis:

Well, he had somebody who was supposed to be meeting with him who had been sick for three weeks.

Joette:

Yes. He knew what was going on around him. Yes.

So, I just have to ask you, did he say, “Thank you, Charis?”

Yes, of course he did. Because he understands. He knows. You’ve been using homeopathy with him for a long time.

Charis:

The other thing was, he was supposed to get his blood pressure read because he was doing a health test type thing for insurance. And he was panicking a bit because he always panics whenever he has those readings done.

So, I just gave him Aconite because I was like, “He’s in panic mode. He’s stressed about a bunch of things. I’m giving him Aconite.”

And he came in, and he was like, “That was the best reading I’ve had in three years.”

Joette:

Blood pressure. Blood pressure reading.

Charis:

Blood pressure reading. Yes. He said it was actually normal. He said it’s the first time somebody said to him, “It’s normal,” because usually he’s always in this anxiety/panic. So, it worked perfect.

Joette:

Nice job, Charis. So, now, we have a chicken named Aconitum, and we have a husband who loves Aconitum because it helped him with his test for insurance. That’s great.

Oh, my gosh. See, these are the kind of stories that give us the kind of comfort that we all need to have these medicines at our fingertips because who needs them more than anyone else is our families.

This is where we all start is with our families. There’s no doubt about it.

Thank you, Charis. Great story. Love it. Another Aconitum story. Thanks a lot.

Joette: (13:44)

Hi, Breta.

Breta:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, you’re one of our members of the Mastermind group. We’re going into our third year, just like the three of you, Sandy, Charis and you. And we love to hear your stories. Are you going to talk about your cat maybe?

Breta:

Yes, I am.

Joette:

Oh, good. Okay. An animal. It’s fun when we hear about animals. Go ahead. I’d love to hear your share.

Breta:

So, my cat … we’re not entirely sure, but she’s probably about 13 years old or so. And she was starting to have frequent and very copious urination. So, probably about every few hours, it was a substantial amount of urine. There was no way a cat should have been producing that much urine every couple hours.

And she wanted to eat a lot of the time.

The thing that was also noteworthy is that she wanted to be held and comforted a lot. And it was kind of a huge time sink on my part because she would pester me if I did not comfort her.

So, I started the kidney failure protocol on Good Friday actually of 2025. And she immediately improved. She basically fell asleep, a very deep sleep, but she was a little reticent to be roused. Let’s leave it at that. She would wake to eat, and then she’d go back to this deep sleep.

And she did that for probably the better part of a week.

Joette:

Wow.

Breta:

She just slept and slept and slept. Before this time, she had always had a little bit of a tendency to have urinary troubles. And I fed her wet food and raw food and things to make sure that she didn’t have a urinary issue. But like I said, it got to the point where even with these measures —  with feeding her food that was not kibble, that was not dry food — she was still having these urinary troubles.

So, this was a longstanding issue; that’s maybe why she slept so long.

Joette:

Well, cats are prone to these urinary tract and kidney issues. That’s often what comes up for them. Yeah, especially older ones.

Breta:

Yeah. But when she was younger, she had issues as well. So, I think this was a slowly developing kidney issue, probably her whole life.

But anyway, that was probably why the medicine acted so profoundly because it hit on an issue that she had had for a very long time, and the medicine was desperately needed. As we know, a lot of times when the medicines desperately needed, it acts very quickly.

Joette:

And very deeply.

Breta:

Yes. So, basically, she’s doing very well. At this point, she’s using the cat box probably three to four times daily. If she uses it on the more frequent side of things, the amounts are less of urine. If she uses it less frequently, then obviously she does more urine, but that’s within the range of normal.

She wants to eat maybe three to four times a day now. And she basically spends a lot of time alone and contented. Although, obviously, she still loves to be held. She still loves for us to spend time with her, but she’s a totally different cat.

Joette:

Really? So, in that period of time, she was sick, and you started to administer the medicine and over a week … it took about a week to complete this, is what you’re saying, right?

Breta:

Not to complete the healing, but to radically change things.

And then we often talk about how you might get, I don’t know, maybe 50% of the cure accomplished in a rapid space of time. Well, now the next 50% took a lot longer, if that makes sense.

Joette:

Yes, it does. So, what would you say … all told?

Breta:

So, I took her off of most of the medicines, but I’m still giving her Medorrhinum.

When I attempted to withdraw Bryonia and Lycopodium, she seemed like she still needed them. So, I’ve actually left her on them, and I will probably test again at some point and see if she needs them soon.

But she keeps improving. So, I’m like, “Well, okay. We’re not done yet.” But …

Joette:

That’s the way we know we’re not done yet. As long as there’s still improvement remaining, then we’re likely not done yet.

Beautiful story. Thank you. But I love to hear about animals because they don’t know what homeopathy is. They just get sick, and they just need us, and there we are.

Thank you, Breta. Great story. Appreciate it very much. Thanks. And I’ll see you in a couple weeks at our next meeting.

Breta:

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of Mastermind.

Joette:

It’s our joy to have you.

Joette: (17:57)

Hi, Noreen.

Noreen:

Hi, Joette. It’s good to see you.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s good to see you too. We’ve spent a whole weekend together, haven’t we? It’s been really nice.

So, you’ve got a great story because you come to Mastermind, not necessarily looking to go into practice. You like teaching; you teach the Gateways. But really, you came into it probably more than anything to help your family. And boy, did you really need it recently!

So, tell us your story.

Noreen:

So, in early October, my husband, Mike … what we knew was he had a blood sugar problem, and he was dehydrated. So we went to the ER, but what we found out was … he got admitted to the hospital, and they were telling us he had kidney failure.

And in very short order, they put him on dialysis. It was very serious, and they wanted to put him on insulin, medications, all kinds of stuff, plus the dialysis.

Joette:

Blood pressure drugs. Yes.

Noreen:

Yeah. They were trying to convince him that he had high blood pressure.

So, what happened, make a long story short, he did have to go on dialysis from October to December.

Joette:

Not bad.

Noreen:

End of December.

So, like a three-month period, approximately 30-33 dialysis sessions in total. And by the end of December — because we used homeopathy, we changed his diet completely …

Joette:

Yes, ma’am. Yes, ma’am.

Noreen:

We were able to get off all medications, so he’s no longer on any diabetes medications or anything. No medications.

Joette:

Wow.

Noreen:

Plus, he is off dialysis.

Joette:

You’re not just taking him off willy-nilly. You’re not breaking the rules. There’s no need to have him on is what you’re saying.

The doctors are saying, “You’re clear. Go home. You’re clear. You don’t need that med. You’re clear you don’t need to take this or that.”

Noreen:

Yeah. So, the conventional doctors, I mean, from my point of view, they don’t understand homeopathy. We didn’t really tell them about what we were doing, but their point of view was, “Oh, let’s get you on this medication. Let’s get you on this treatment. Oh, let’s do this surgery.” That’s their …

Joette:

Paradigm.

Noreen:

Yeah, that’s their paradigm. And then when someone gets off dialysis, when their numbers start improving, they’re kind of scratching their heads and going, “Um …”

Joette:

Huh?

Noreen:

Yeah, but they’re not asking any questions. They’re just puzzled that somehow somebody improved.

They don’t see people getting off dialysis. They see people getting on the meds for that, and they’re talking … that’s the way they talk … “for the rest of your life.” “You’re going to need dialysis for the rest of your life. Oh, you might even need a kidney transplant.” You know? So that’s their …

Joette:

Well, the best part is not only that Mike no longer needs this. It’s not based on your assessment necessarily. It’s based on their assessment. They’ve agreed to this. They think, “Yeah, you’re doing fine. We don’t know why. We don’t understand. But somehow, he’s doing well, and he doesn’t need our care anymore.”

And they always throw in, “Well, we think he can get off dialysis right now, but it might come back.”

Noreen:

Right. So, he’s still going back. He’s still going back to his doctors to be tested, and checked, and making sure that everything is still moving in the right direction. We’re not going to eliminate it altogether.

Noreen:

But at some point, we’re hoping the doctors will say, “You know what? It’s been a year, and your numbers are normal. Maybe you don’t need to come back and see us.”

Joette:

Yeah, that’s what we look for. We’ll see. Nice job. Great job, Noreen.

Noreen:

Thank you, Joette, for everything you do for us.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Thank you for being here with us, too, Noreen. Your involvement has been really valuable. It always is.

Joette: (21:23)

Hi, Sheena.

Sheena:

Hi.

Joette:

I’m so glad to have you with me. This is year three now that you’ve been with us with Mastermind. You’ve been through The Academy, Mastery, and now it’s the third year in Mastermind, and you always give us such great information. And you’re very busy. You’re in practice. So, tell us what you want to share with us today.

Sheena:

I want to share a story about my dog, which is kind of the reason I started learning homeopathy because …

Joette:

How far back? When was that?

Sheena:

Just a couple months ago.

Joette:

Oh, okay. No, no, no.

Sheena:

When I started originally?

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

About a decade ago. Started learning with you and did The Academy and everything.

And I learned homeopathy so I could take care of my family primarily. And then it just kind of snowballed into something I was spending all my time doing. So, I opened …

Joette:

Why not?

Sheena:

… my practice, and now, I have about 100 clients, and it’s amazing.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s blossomed for you.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, a couple months ago, my little six-and-a-half-pound dog …

Joette:

Is this Moki?

Sheena:

This is Katie.

Joette:

Oh, Katie. Okay.

Sheena:

Who, I thought, everything was great with Katie. And then suddenly she started slipping.

So, she’d be eating her food at her bowl, and her legs would slip out from under her. And then she started not wanting to eat, and then her tail wasn’t wagging. It was just drooped. And that kind of was like on a Tuesday, and then Wednesday, it was a bit worse.

I called the vet and they said, “Well, we can get her in next week.” And I said, “This is pretty serious.” They said, “Well, call 7:30 tomorrow morning.”

Joette:

You need a diagnosis. You wanted to know what was going on.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, I’ve been giving her Arnica and different remedies, too. See, I thought maybe she hurt herself, maybe she jumped off the couch or something, but it was happening fast. It was definitely out of my comfort zone to know what was going on.

So, I took her into the vet who I trust very much. He knows I do homeopathy. He normally will give me a diagnosis and the information I need to help my dogs. This time was different.

I went in, he said, “This is serious. This is a neurological issue. She needs to go to get an MRI and go to the dog neurologist,” which I didn’t know was a thing, but it’s a thing.

So, a couple hours later, we’re at the dog neurologist. They said, “Yes, this is either a disc issue in her cervical spine and her lumbar spine, or it’s a serious inflammation issue. Either way, we need to do an MRI and a spinal tap.”

Joette:

Now, how old is she?

Sheena:

She’s four.

Joette:

Oh, she’s young,

Sheena:

Right? She’s young. She’s young.

So, they did those things. I said, “Okay.”

And they said, “We need to do it now because it’s pretty serious.”

So, I went home, and then they called me, and they said she has — and I’m going to just read the diagnosis — she has myelitis along with suspected meningitis, and they call it meningomyelitis.

Joette:

Meningitis!

Sheena:

Of unknown etiology. Meaning they don’t know what it is. They don’t think it’s contagious.

In addition, they said, unrelated: They scanned her brain. She has a Chiari-like malformation, hydrocephalus and spinal fluid.

Joette:

Does she have a big head?

Sheena:

So, the problem is her head is actually too small, and the brain, which was inflamed, was putting pressure on it.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And then the inflammation in her spinal cord was so severe that the messages weren’t getting to her legs.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And that’s why she couldn’t make them do what she wanted to do — them to do, including her tail — because the messages couldn’t get …

Joette:

… that far in the back of her body.

Joette:

… get way back.

Sheena:

Yeah. And so, the neurologist said, “We need to start her right away on steroids and this chemotherapy immunosuppressant.” And with that treatment, a third of the dogs generally do okay after about a year. Another third have to stay on the medicine pretty much their whole life. And a third don’t respond and have to be put down.

Joette:

Oh, boy.

Sheena:

So, this was pretty intense. I said, “Okay, I’m going to come pick up my dog, and I’m going to try to use homeopathy. I will take the medicine with me. I don’t want her to suffer, but I’m going to …

Joette:

Give it a try.

Sheena:

“I’m going to give homeopathy a try, and then, let’s see.”

So, I went home. I had a friend who’s a homeopath come over, and we worked out a plan for her, and I started treating her immediately.

I was very regimented. We made a list of the conditions. We made a list of the remedies. I set a timer for every 30 minutes, and I dosed her remedies …

Joette:

To get started

Sheena:

To get her going — because this was very severe.

Joette:

Serious.

Sheena:

So, I matched the frequency with the severity.

Joette:

Severity. Uh-huh.

Sheena:

And by the next day, she was a little better. By the next evening, a little better, and she continued to get better and better.

The vets kept calling. I said, “Yep, think she’s getting better and better.”

Joette:

Her tail started to pick up a little?

Sheena:

Tail started to pick up; she started to eat. She was more able to walk on the carpets, staying away from the wood floors. I thought she was, I would say 60% better.

Took her in one week later to the neurologist. They took her back. The nurse came back and said, “So, you didn’t give her the medications?”

I said, “No, I didn’t.”

And then the neurologist came back, and she said, “She’s fine. She’s 100% fine.”

Joette:

Oh, my! Turned it completely.

Sheena:

She said the slipping she’s doing now is because she’s probably strained her back leg, and it’s not quite stable. And they said she’s completely fine.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh!

Sheena:

And she’s like, “What did you do?

Joette:

What did you do? “

Sheena:

And I said, “Homeopathy.”

She’s like, “But what exactly did you do? “

And I said, “Do you want me to tell you the remedies?”

And she’s like, “Okay, well, never mind.”

Joette:

You mean I have to learn something brand new and big?

Sheena:

And I’m so thankful for her for the correct diagnosis because I needed that. But I knew inflammation; I knew I could handle that.

Joette:

Yes, neurological weakness.

Sheena:

And I’ve continued to treat her. I feel like, then, a week later, I took her back to the veterinarian — her normal veterinarian who sees her regularly — he was just amazed. He again said, “Yep, she’s totally fine.”

Joette:

So now at this point — or even at that point — you’re not using it every few minutes, of course. You’re opening it up and using it much less frequently.

Sheena:

Yes. I backed it way off. And by two weeks out, I would say, even though they said that she was completely fine, I would say she was probably 80% better.

I would say, now, she’s pretty much 95% better. I am still giving her the remedies about once a day.

Joette:

Oh, good. So, you’re opening it up.

Sheena:

And then I’m working chronically on her malformations because she does have the …

Joette:

Her little brain.

Sheena:

… the congenital …

Joette:

Her little head.

Sheena:

Her defect.

Joette:

And she’s a little dog.

Sheena:

And she’s a tiny dog.

Joette:

What is she? What’s her breed?

Sheena:

She’s a Shih Pom.

Joette:

So, that’s a Pomeranian and a Shih Tzu. Okay.

Sheena:

Yeah, she’s tiny.

Joette:

Yeah. So, everything was tiny.

Sheena:

Everything is tiny.

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

Yeah. And I was sitting there when the doctor was giving me all this diagnosis, and I thought, “Oh, my gosh, what if I didn’t know homeopathy?”

Joette:

What would you do? You would have to just go on steroids?

Sheena:

I knew what they were going to tell me to do. And those options were terrible.

Joette:

Right.

Sheena:

So, I was just really thankful.

Joette:

Such a good story, Sheena. That’s a good one, especially because we know this little dog. I’ve actually met her. Yeah. And she doesn’t splay any longer. She can stand up for me.

Sheena:

She runs …

Joette:

She runs, oh, with her tail …

Sheena:

Oh yeah. She chases the other dog around now with a bit of a bully.

The interesting thing is I’ve moved houses. In my house, she still wouldn’t go on the floors because I think she thought it was the floors and not her.

But as soon as I moved into a different house that also had the same flooring, she’s zipping around, chasing everybody.

Joette:

Back to normal.

Sheena:

It’s like, “Okay, these are fine floors.”

Joette:

“It was the floors, Mom. It was the floors!”

That’s such a great story. Thank you, Sheena.

Sheena:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much.

Joette: (29:24)

Hi, Kirsten.

Kirsten:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So glad you’re with me.

Kirsten:

It’s good to be here.

Joette:

But it’s not only good for us to talk now. It’s good because we’ve gone through The Academy. You’ve gone through Mastery, now Mastermind … three years ago. Two years ago. And then now this year again, we’re starting our brand new 2026.

Kirsten:

Well, who can stop? You can’t stop.

Joette:

I know you can’t stop. It’s really deliciously intellectual.

Kirsten:

It’s wonderful.

Joette:

Yeah, it is a beautiful thing. So, you’ve got stories. I love to hear about them. You’re in practice, but I also want to hear about whatever story you want to share with folks.

Kirsten:

Oh, there’s so many. But I would say lately, one of the things that I really love is working with men. And that all came out of working with my female clients. But they would come, and we would take their case, and they would have whatever issue. But then they would go, at the end, “Do you have something for my husband?”

And I would say, “Well, tell me a little bit more.”

And so, it seemed like many of these men had very similar issues. They’re on similar drugs. They have similar experiences because of where they’re at in life, their age, their responsibilities, that type of thing.

So, I kind of started working more with these male clients who were these women’s husbands. And we worked on things like frequent urination, prostatitis, anxiety, depression, lack of motivation, other men’s issues.

Joette:

Super common, especially middle-aged men.

Kirsten:

Yes. Yes. And it was so great because I think it’s hard for men to open up a lot of times. But once we got in there and started working on these issues, they were so grateful when they would come back for their follow-up and say, “Hey, I wasn’t sleeping, but it really wasn’t that I wasn’t sleeping. I was getting up …

Joette:

… to go to the bathroom

Kirsten:

Three or four times a night to urinate. Now I’m only getting up one to two times a night, and I’m being able to get so much more sleep.”

And just that was affecting their lives in a positive way.

And then there were some medications that were adversely affecting them, and we could help them maybe look at things differently. And they were eating better, eliminating seed oils, getting more exercise. So, we just saw a lot of progress in that area.

And my husband is currently in The Academy.

Joette:

In The Academy, which is amazing! It’s a family affair now.

Kirsten:

It is! And so, I’m hoping that sometime, we can team up on those issues. He’s retired Air Force, was in special operations, and that creates its own unique pathologies with those men who have gone through those type of situations, been away from their homes, been in war.

There’s a lot of mental health issues, PTSD, as well as all the things they’re exposed to down range, all of the chemicals they’re given throughout their military career. So, we’ve talked about, maybe at some point, really being able to work with the veteran community …

Joette:

Oh, you bet!

Kirsten:

… to offer those types of services because they really, really need it.

Joette:

Absolutely.

We’ve interviewed you before. You’re on one other podcast — on Podcast 126 — right? So, for those of you who are interested in hearing more of these great stories, go to Podcast 126 and listen to Kirsten’s other stories.

So, I just have to say, for those who are listening, we see that when, usually, the mother or the wife starts into The Academy and gets such great knowledge and such useful information for her family, that we often see either the husband is interested or the son or the daughter. And we’ve seen that a number of times, but actually, I have to say, I think this is the first time it’s been a wife and her husband following in her footsteps.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

It is really great.

Kirsten:

We work really well together, and I’m so excited about what the future will hold for us.

Joette:

Well, you have a whole new subject. Your pillow talk is now different.

Kirsten:

Right! Yeah. We’re talking about the repertory and the materia medica over dinner.

Joette:

“Yeah. What page was that on, honey? In the clinical section?”

Kirsten:

“What protocol is that?” It’s great. We love it.

Joette:

It is great. Yeah. It adds a whole ‘nother dimension to a marriage.

Kirsten:

It does. And then to be able to get that knowledge and then teach others, hopefully, we’ll be able to do couples Gateways and Protocol Courses, so that we can draw not only the wife (who’s typical) but also bring the husband when there’s that male presence. So, we’re really excited to see what …

Joette:

Well, it’s even more than that. It becomes a family affair, not just husband and wife, but you have five children.

Kirsten:

We have six children.

Joette:

Oh, excuse me. You have six children.

Kirsten:

Right, right.

Joette:

Yes. And so now these children, even though they’re older — some are older, some are younger — this becomes a family affair. Now it becomes a part of the legacy of the family. And now, instead of automatically running to get a drug for this or that …

Kirsten:

That’s right …

Joette:

… they can at least start with this kind of thinking. If needed … if conventional medicine is needed, okay, we understand. But we can start with this possibility first. It’s a beautiful legacy.

Kirsten:

Yeah.

And I get texts all the time from my kids, “Mom, is it Nux?” “Do I give him Belladonna?” “What do I give him? Is it this?”

So, yeah, it’s great.

In fact, my eight-year-old, when he doesn’t feel well, he’d go, “Mom, where’s the Nux?”

Joette:

I know.

Kirsten:

And now he has his own little stash. He’s got his own.

Joette:

I understand. I know. My sons did the same thing. I know.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

Yeah, Kirsten, thank you so much.

Kirsten:

Thank you. And thank you for all that you’ve done to just build this community. It’s so great.

So, if you’re out there listening, come join us, take a Gateway class, take a Protocol Course, and maybe even join The Academy, and then one day you’ll be doing this.

Joette:

Well, and that’s what you do too. You teach these classes as well.

Kirsten:

I do. I love to teach. Love to teach.

Joette:

Yeah. One of the best teachers we’ve got.

Kirsten:

Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Joette:

Yes. Thank you, sweetie.

Kirsten:

Thank you.

Joette: (34:23)

Hi, Ingrid.

Ingrid:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re here with me.

Ingrid:

I’m so glad to be with you.

Joette:

Well, and I also love that you’ve been with me through The Academy. That’s one year. And then Mastery, which was 11 months; Mastermind two years ago and now this year, 2026. So, we’ve really gotten to know each other, and it’s a privilege to get to know you.

Ingrid:

It’s a privilege to know you. It’s been an amazing ride.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah, for me too.

So, let’s talk. Tell me what you want to share with folks.

Ingrid:

There’s so many amazing things that Practical Homeopathy® does, but something that comes across so often and is so quick — relatively — for many people, and it’s just so far-reaching and can really nip things in the bud when people might move on to something that’s just so much more advanced and invasive.

It’s Symphytum and Calc phos.

Joette:

Oh, combination! That’s that Banerji combination. I love it.

Ingrid:

It’s so good. It works for so many things when people have bad backs, when they have bursitis, when they hurt their knee.

Joette:

Arthritis.

Ingrid:

Everything. Their back, it’s like they have a bulging disc.

Joette:

Yes.

Ingrid:

I’ve worked with students and clients, my dad, my dogs, I mean, my friends, just everyone has benefited.

Joette:

Osteomyelitis, osteoporosis, osteopenia. Yeah, it’s a wonder.

Ingrid:

The list goes on.

Joette:

I know.

Ingrid:

I wanted to just mention the huge success that that has provided so many people and animals and myself. Even if somebody just has … they hurt their back and they can’t do work, they want to get back into life. Or if they’ve torn their meniscus, it’s just something that can help them get back in action without …

When I see people going in for surgery …

Joette:

It’s heartbreaking because you know there’s another opportunity to get this done with so much more ease.

Ingrid:

Exactly. And cost. Emotional and …

Joette:

Emotional and financial. That’s absolutely so. Thank you, sweetie. Thank you so much. It’s wonderful.

Joette: (36:25)

Hey, Christy.

Christy:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

So nice to have you with me here.

Christy:

Thank you.

Joette:

But it’s nice because this is a continuation. We’re just doing a little interview here, right? So, that’s for you to tell some stories about yourself. And you’ve been in Mastermind, now, this is the third year.

It’s the first year was two years, three years ago; then, last year, two years ago; and now it’s this year, 2026. And we’re going to be together for the next year, every other week, with our little 12-numbered group. So, thank you for doing this.

So, what do you have to share with us today?

Christy:

Well, I would like to share just a story about one of my kids.

Joette:

Oh, love it.

Christy:

Because everything that I’m learning, when it all comes down to it, is for my family.

Joette:

You bet.

Christy:

And so, I want to share something that blessed us so much. So last spring, it was my son’s senior year. He’s an athlete. Two days before track season, he sprained his ankle in a soccer game really badly.

Joette:

Sprains can take a long time, too.

Christy:

Yes, absolutely. He got an X-ray, went to urgent care. When nothing was broken, but they said he sprained everything. So, he was pretty crushed because his goal was to make it to States.

So, we figured out together what remedies he needed to take. It was his second sprain. We had one previously, so we learned from the first one. And homeopathy was able to heal his sprain in less than three weeks.

Joette:

Oh, my!

Christy:

He not only went back to track, but the first day back, he ran six miles.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness.

Christy:

And he ended up making it to Districts, qualifying for four races. He medaled in three.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness!

Christy:

So, he did not make it to States, but he conquered that sprain. It blessed him. That was the best graduation gift that he could have gotten.

And we worked together doing it. And just being able to have that knowledge to care for my son in that way is priceless.

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Christy:

This medicine is amazing. And it’s such a gift …

Joette:

I know.

Christy:

… to us, especially as mothers to be able to care for our family.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Yeah. It gives us such faith in why we’re even here that we can carry on our duties, our responsibilities to our families. This is the son that … tell that story, Christy. It’s such an adorable story.

Christy:

I mean, he’s had to use homeopathy so much, and he’s so impressed by it that he signed up for The Academy. He didn’t even tell us!

Previously, he had mentioned that he was interested, and then we just kind of let it go because you don’t know what your 18-year-old son is going to do.

And one day, he was like, “Mom, I got accepted.”

Joette:

“I didn’t even know you applied, honey.”

Christy:

It’s amazing. Yeah. So, that was so cool. And now he’s loving it. He works with adaptive sports and things up in Vermont, and he just has a heart for that. And this medicine is going to be of such value to him.

Joette:

He’s going to fly with it. He’s going to fly.

What’s so interesting is that the students in The Academy are not 18-year-old men.

Christy:

Yeah, he’s a brave soul.

Joette:

I know he is a brave soul because there are men here and there, but that’s a little unusual, especially for 18. We’ve had a few of them, but this is …

For him to just do it, and his mom has already graduated.

What a testament to your mothering, your ability to mother and bring this into your family. It’s a beautiful thing, Christy.

Christy:

Thank you. Yeah, it’s beautiful.

Joette:

Thank you.

Okay, folks, there you have it. Now you’ve gotten a taste of the caliber of people who are working with this Practical Homeopathy®, going through The Academy, Mastery, Mastermind, and the kind of commitment that they’ve had in their gaining knowledge and learning how to apply this information for their family members and to bringing it out into the public.

So, I hope you enjoyed listening to these wonderful people.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 164, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m thrilled you’re joining us today.

Homeopathy isn’t just a gentle, time-tested system of medicine. It’s a powerful tool that empowers families to take charge of their health naturally, safely and effectively. Joette has spent decades teaching others how to employ Practical Homeopathy® with their family, friends and beyond.

So, on this podcast, you’re going to hear from some passionate students of Practical Homeopathy®, who are now helping others experience what’s truly possible with Practical Homeopathy®.

Joette, we’ve just spent three wonderfully intense days together with your Mastermind students. Some of them are joining in on this podcast today. So, I’d love it if you could start by explaining to those listening what your Mastermind group is all about.

Joette: (01:52)

Okay. So, a Mastermind group is a dedicated group of graduates of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery — so, that’s been two full years — who have taken their knowledge to the next level.

These women — brilliant women, I have to say — have seen remarkable results in their own lives and families. And now they’ve moved beyond that, and they want to join with a small group of other like-minded students who all want to push each other to fulfill their goals, and their clients experience the life-changing power of homeopathy.

So, let’s get started.

Joette: (02:33)

Hi, Heather.

Heather:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re with me today … well, also that you’ve been with me this weekend, too.

Heather:

Yes, it’s been amazing.

Joette:

It’s amazing to be amongst these women, hasn’t it?

Heather:

Absolutely, yes.

Joette:

Tell us a little bit about your story. What is a little bit of your background; what brought you here?

Heather:

I have been a health coach for about 10 years and have been working with clients for that long, helping people recover their health and just to support them in any way that I could.

But I always felt a little bit of a limitation. I couldn’t always quite get to the end of that process.

And so, when I found homeopathy, one of the first things that I did for myself was to work on getting rid of my chronic headaches that were debilitating and took up way too many days of the month that I couldn’t really function or do things. And so, when I was able to do that with homeopathy, I knew that I had found that missing piece.

And the fact that I can now help clients and family members alike with not just acute things that pop up in everyone’s life, but to be able to help them with some very serious chronic illnesses, chronic conditions, things like that, has been not only so life-changing for me, but for them, of course.

I’m so thankful for the group that you have put together, for all of the people here this weekend and really all of the students that we have been able to impact with this — like you said — life-changing medicine.

Joette:

So, you’ve released yourself of those headaches …

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

… by using the homeopathic medicine?

Heather:

Yeah, I have a date in my phone.

Joette:

Have you?

Heather:

It says “headache,” and that was last February. It was February of 2024 … was the last headache that I had.

Joette:

Wow. Oh, that’s excellent, after having suffered them for years.

Heather:

I was also a Great Lakes headacher. Those Great Lakes — the shifts in the atmosphere, pressure and stuff — and I would get. But they weren’t a classic migraine, but they basically should have been.

Joette:

Because the pain was so grand.

Heather:

Yes, very bad.

Joette:

Right, exactly.

Heather:

Just in bed.

Joette:

You were a health coach.

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

You did that for years. You have a practice, and then you learned about homeopathy in order to help your own situation. And then you said, “Okay, this is the missing piece. Let’s go further.” And then you decided to join The Academy?

Heather:

Yes, I did The Academy, and then this past year, we just finished up Mastery (that second year), and now so blessed to be in this Mastermind with all of these excellent, excellent women.

Joette:

Yeah, and that’s a big part of this because The Academy is a large number of students, and the Mastery is a little bit smaller, but this is only 13 people. And that makes it really tight. And we actually meet in person, and that’s what we’re doing right now. Everybody’s about to say goodbye after a really great weekend, and we’ve gotten to know each other very well.

Yeah, it’s a tight group of people and that’s wonderful. We ask everyone in these Mastermind groups to give us their “ask:” what they want help from these other 12 other women. (It could be men, but it’s always been women so far.) Then, we ask them to give something back to the group.

So, you can imagine with the caliber of people who’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery. Many of them are in practice. Some of them are doctors; some of them are homesteaders; some of them are grandmas. It’s the whole gamut of all different kinds of people that you’re going to get answers to the questions that you have regarding your life, your goals, your …

Heather:

Yeah, just to have access to the diversity that we have in all of us and all of our life experiences. We’re all at different places. Some still have little, some — our grandmas like you said — but just everyone has so much to offer, and it’s all a little bit different. There’s overlap, but there’s also so much that everyone just brings to the table.

And to have all of … the name “Mastermind” is such a fitting name because it is like a meeting of the minds. We’re all putting our brains together to help build each other up to solve any issues or problems or struggles that people are dealing with. It’s beautiful.

Joette:

And then we get to meet for the next year.

Heather:

Yes. This is just the beginning.

Joette:

This is just the kickoff that we’ve actually met in person in Florida, but now we’re going to be meeting every couple of weeks, which is really great. We really get to know each other well.

I so enjoyed having you in the group.

Heather:

I love being here, and I can’t wait for the rest of this year.

Joette:

Yeah, me too, Heather. Thanks a lot. Thank, thanks for sharing.

Heather:

Absolutely.

Joette:

Alright, bye now.

Joette: (06:39)

So, I am here with Cindi, and Cindi’s part of our group this weekend in Mastermind. And I love to be able to talk to people who have come a long way in homeopathy.

So, Cindi, tell me your story. What was going on in your life that brought you to homeopathy?

Cindi:

My health.

Joette:

That’s a good place to start.

Cindi:

Yes. I had severe allergies, and I went looking for a homeopath, and I found you. So, I started with you, and I began to heal. You encouraged me — very lovingly — to start teaching and start going into APH [The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®].

And so, I decided to go ahead and join APH and then onto Mastery. And now I teach, and I have a few clients, and now, I’m starting my own homeopathy business so that I can help people the way in which you helped me and how homeopathy helped me. Because there are a lot of other people out there who are going through what I’ve gone through.

Joette:

Which is … just tell us a little bit about … You had allergies, but can you just describe a little bit about that?

Cindi:

As I’ve always been sick as a child and a young adult. So, as I went into menopause, things got worse. I got to the point where all I could eat was meat, two kinds of vegetables and drink water. That was it.

And I knew I couldn’t keep that up. I knew that I was losing weight fast, and so I knew I needed help, and the doctors couldn’t help me. I went to see some specialists, and they couldn’t help me, or whatever they gave me wasn’t helping.

So, I knew that because I had used homeopathy in the past with my son …

Joette:

Oh, there you go.

Cindi:

I knew that that was the answer for me. So, that’s when I went and searched for you.

Joette:

So, it was all about food intolerances.

Cindi:

Definitely, yes.

And I also had allergies, seasonal allergies. I had asthma. I was getting colds about twice a month or every …

Joette:

It was a lot. I remember.

Constant. And asthma, bronchitis. You name it, I was getting it, and I had lived with it for a long time. And also, I was menopausal.

Joette:

Oh boy. Right on top. The cherry on top.

Cindi:

Yeah, exactly. So, as we worked on the food allergies, other illnesses, conditions started to melt away.

Joette:

Those little satellite conditions that you didn’t even think were associated but eventually really are.

Cindi:

I can go into a house now with five cats … not even a sniffle.

Joette:

Yeah.

Cindi:

That’s amazing!

Joette:

Yeah. That’s the medicine that we know now. And so, this is the way it works. You get fixed, you fix your family, you fix yourself, you work with … now you want to learn so that you can do the same for others.

Cindi:

Exactly.

Joette:

Keeps snowballing. And that’s the way this should be: the good news.

Cindi:

Exactly. There are a lot of people out there who, like me, are suffering from allergies, skin conditions, asthma, seasonal allergies, and it can all be helped with homeopathy.

Joette:

Yes. And you know, Cindi, what’s really fascinating is this is exactly where I started: allergies and food intolerances. So, it felt very natural for me to work with you.

So, thank you so much.

Cindi:

I’m so grateful.

Joette:

Oh, I’m grateful for you, too. Thank you.

Joette: (09:46)

Hi, Sandra.

Sandra:

Hi, how are you?

Joette:

I’m doing well. How about you?

Sandra:

I’m wonderful. I’m here with you.

Joette:

Yeah, and I’m here with you. You have an interesting story, and I would love for others to hear your story. Give us a little background.

Sandra:

All right. We had secondary infertility, and so we adopted two older children from foster care. When I say older, I mean like five and six.

In the interview, they told us that they would be institutionalized by the time they were 13.

Joette:

Oh.

Sandra:

They came to us with some labels like reactive attachment disorder, ODD — lots of letters behind their name — and they were on a lot of psychotropic drugs.

Joette:

Oh, my.

Sandra:

And so, they were only five and six. They were already on Abilify and clonidine. Between the two of them, they had about 10 violent tantrums every day. And I was a homeschooling mom, and it was really difficult.

We ended up helping them with a lot of natural approaches, like supplementation and food that heals.

But when I learned about homeopathy, when they had already overcome — we’d already helped them overcome a lot of that stuff — I just realized how much faster our progress would’ve been had I known about this modality.

Joette:

Isn’t that the truth for all of us? If only we had known long ago.

Sandra:

Exactly. And so, the stuff that we used was fine. It was great. It was natural, and it did help them, but it took us a really long time to get there.

I was pretty much isolated from the world for almost three years. I didn’t do anything. I think if we’d had homeopathy, we would’ve shaved at least a year off of that just because it actually can help with the really big things. It’s not just a bumps-and-bruises sort of thing. So much more.

Joette:

Behavior, psychological issues.

Sandra:

Yes. So, it is something that I have a passion about to bring that message to parents. It’s not easy to deal with any of this, regardless of homeopathy, but I want to take a little bit of the exhaustion away from moms.

You’re in survival mode when you’re in that position, and I want to help those kinds of families. That was a huge motivator for me jumping in.

Joette:

So, are you saying that your children are no longer on these psychotropic drugs?

Sandra:

Oh, no. They haven’t been on them for years. They’re 24 and 25, and they have completely overcome everything that anyone ever said.

Joette:

And they’re not institutionalized.

Sandra:

They were never institutionalized.

They never were even on drugs or alcohol or anything like that. That’s a huge problem with kids coming out of foster care. I mean, life isn’t perfect. They’ve got their issues like everybody else, but they’re, you know, normal people. So, that was the goal. Create some functioning members of society.

Joette:

Listen, I couldn’t wrap this up right now, but I have to ask you, why did you choose children who were that age to foster? Tell me what your thinking was. It is different than most moms and dads would do.

Sandra:

Well, we had two babies, two different times, lined up to adopt. And I actually had kind of floated the idea of doing older kids with my husband, and we prayed about it and decided that we were open to that.

We went to an interview for a 2-year-old little girl whose parents had died in a car accident.

Joette:

Oh my.

Sandra:

She had never had any trauma.

But prior to that, about six months before, I had been on the special needs adoption website, and there were these two kids that caught my eye that were four and five at the time. And I don’t know. I said, “Could we put our home study in for these kids?”

And he said, “Yes.” But it was kind of like, “I don’t know.”

And so, we put them on my bulletin board, and we decided that we were going to pray for them. And the next day, we went back to the site. They were gone, and we assumed that they had been adopted.

And so fast forward six months, we went to this appointment. I walked into the room, and for reasons I won’t go into, I realized that we would probably not be the people that would be chosen for this child.

And when I went into … we went into the adoption interview, the lady started asking us questions like, “How do you feel about children who’ve been exposed to meth? How do you feel about children who may not ever love you? How do you feel about children …?” Like, all these questions that didn’t pertain to this little girl.

And that night, we got a call, and she said, I’m sorry you were not chosen for the 2-year-old that didn’t have trauma except for what had happened to her with her parents. But there’s another couple of kids that we would really love to interview you for. And she told us their names, and it was the kids on my bulletin board.

Joette:

Wow.

Sandra:

We were like, “Okay.”

And so, they had gotten lost in the system. There had been a failed adoption with them, and they had just kind of been languishing in the foster care system, as often happens. We just felt like there were a lot of things that happened that brought them to us that were unusual, and we have a very strong faith. And so, we had always prayed that God would lead us to the right children that needed us the most.

And I don’t know, I guess we don’t do easy things very often, the two of us. And so, we felt like that was what we were supposed to do. And we felt like even though we actually knew we weren’t equipped, we knew that …

Joette:

You could equip.

Sandra:

… we could be equipped, and that God would be with us and walk through that with us.

Joette:

So, you raised these children using homeopathy?

Sandra:

No, I did not.

Joette:

Oh, interesting.

Sandra:

No, I didn’t. Well, kind of. I did in some areas without knowing it, the things that actually helped the most were combo remedies that I didn’t know were homeopathy.

Joette:

Ok.

Sandra:

In fact, we got my son off of clonidine using a homeopathic combo remedy.

Joette:

Get out!

Sandra:

And we didn’t realize it. But he had horrible night terrors that would last for two or three hours every night. In fact, it was so intense that for 10 months, we slept outside his room on an air mattress because we were afraid he would fall down our stairway.

He had no idea who we were, what we were doing. You know how it is.

Joette:

Yeah, night terror, they’re in a different world.

Sandra:

And it was very, very scary, and he … It was awful.

And he was also having so many tantrums every day. He got kicked out of first grade in public school. And so, he was struggling majorly.

And the sleep was one of the biggest issues we had. And I found this combo remedy that I didn’t know was homeopathy. I tried it. And within three weeks, not only was he not having night terrors, he was going to sleep without us laying next to him for an hour and a half. And he was off the clonidine within 60 days.

Joette:

My goodness.

Sandra:

Yeah. And so those kinds of things, later, came back to me as we were realizing, I was realizing, oh my goodness. The things that helped us more than anything during that time, were homeopathic, and I didn’t even know it! Because I didn’t know what Hyland’s was selling. I didn’t know what Boiron was selling. I just knew it was in the health food section.

Joette:

And it had a word on it.

Sandra:

It was neat, and he would take it. He was so sick of taking pills. He’d been pushed pills his whole life.

And so, those were the things that did actually help. But I didn’t know I was using something.

Joette:

That’s fascinating. But when you did realize, that’s when you decided, “Okay, I’m going to learn this stuff.”

Sandra:

Actually, it was a completely different situation at that point. It was my husband’s stroke at 46 that brought me to homeopathy.

But once I learned it, I started using it with my youngest, who’s my daughter, because she has struggled with hormonal stuff since she was a teenager. And holy cow, has that made a huge difference.

We’ve been tackling things like PCOS with her. Her pain levels … she would faint every time she would have her cycle.

Joette:

The pain was so extreme.

Sandra:

The pain was so extreme, she’d just go pale, and then she’d go down.

We found that Veratrum album was amazing for that, and that was early on. I wasn’t even an APH yet. I had just taken a couple of your protocol classes.

Every single thing in our life, it seemed like, that we had ever struggled with or were struggling with, somehow could be touched in a positive way and supported by homeopathy. It was one of those things that once I found it, you could not have stopped me from learning it. I would’ve learned it if you wanted to arrest me. There is nothing that would’ve kept from it.

Joette:

Compelled. That’s what happens.

Sandra:

It was so compelling.

And I had been praying for answers because of my husband’s stroke and getting all these meds, and it was really causing a lot of side effects for him. And it was just … somebody just shared your website with me, that I hardly ever see. She had gone through a Gateway class.

It was just like game on. I bought my first protocol class a couple of days later. I watched it three times in two weeks.

Joette:

Go on. That’s not you, is it?

Sandra:

No, not at all. I’m not determined like that.

Joette:

Focused.

Sandra:

I was so focused, and it happened to be the Mindful one. That was what I started with.

I never had taken a Gateway. I knew nothing about homeopathy, and I started with Mindful, but that’s what I needed. That was the class I needed at the time.

Really, it’s helped every single member of my family since then. I still listen to it.

Joette:

It’s helped with your hands delivering, with your mind figuring out exactly what your family members need. So yes, there are those tools, but they’re of no use unless you have the gumption, the desire, the guts, spunk and moxie, and then the total dedication to learn how to use this.

Sandra:

And I know adoptive families that are dealing with kids like this, they have that kind of spunk and moxie. Because you don’t live in that situation for more than about a week without realizing that you need support … that you’ve got to learn how to help these kids.

And those are the families that I want to help because I know already. I know who they are. I was them.

Joette:

Yes. Yes. Oh, Sandra, what a great mission. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

Sandra:

Yeah! You’re welcome. This is great. Thank you.

Joette:

Yes, thank you. So, if you’re looking for a homeopath such as Sandra and these others who we’re interviewing today, the best place to find them — because you’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery, right, Sandra?

Sandra:

Yes.

Joette:

And now Mastermind — is to go directly to FindA PracticalHomeopath.com, and then you’ll see Sandra’s profile and others.

Joette: (20:05)

So, now I’m with Stephanie. And I want to talk to you, Stephanie, because you’re with us this weekend for the Mastermind program that we put together. You’ve come from, where did you come from?

Stephanie:

Dixon, Tennessee.

Joette:

Dixon, Tennessee. And we’re in Florida now.

So, you’ve been through my Academy and the Mastery program and now Mastermind. I know you as a very good student. I see the questions that you ask and the nods that you give in the classes.

So, I want to hear your story, not just because I like to hear it again, but for others to understand what your story is, and what brought you to homeopathy in the first place.

Stephanie:

Thank you, Joette. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you.

So, my firstborn, he was born with allergies, and I did several different modalities, and nothing was uprooting the condition. So, I found your Allergic?! course online, and I took it. And I was like, “I can do this. I can do this myself and help my son.”

Joette:

That’s the best part. I love to hear that. And you’ve said that before: “I can do this.” Yes.

Stephanie:

So, it happened actually just a couple of months before The Academy was opening for that year. And so, I took the course, and then I took Good Gut, Bad Gut, and then The Academy became available.

And I was like, “You know what? I want to know all of it. I want to learn all of it.”

So, that is what really jump-started me into The Academy. And it was such a mind-blowing amount of information — in a good way — that I continued to help other people, family members, friends, plants, my farm animals.

It was so uplifting and empowering that as soon as I knew about Mastery, I was like, “I have to do it. I have to continue. I have to fine-tune my skills and move on.”

And then Mastermind was available. It was a little out of my comfort zone. It’s a smaller group of people, but I’m blown away by this weekend. I really am. Because you come with one idea, and then you’re in this group of amazing people, and you change your ideas. And you change your priorities, and you change the way you want to do things. And it’s really a beautiful thing. And I can’t thank you enough for putting this together.

Joette:

Well, thank you for trusting in this. I also have to say, but someone like you has a voracious appetite for knowledge. And that’s so clear with you. Every time you’ve spoken this weekend, that’s the biggest message. You are hungry for information, and then you go ahead, and you just do it. So, I love having you here with us. So, thank you for joining us this weekend, Stephanie.

Stephanie:

Thank you so much. It’s a pleasure.

Joette:

The influence of these great people. It’s amazing.

Joette: (22:38)

Hi, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth:

Hi Joette.

Joette:

So glad to be here with you.

Elizabeth:

It’s always a blessing to be with you.

Joette:

That’s the way I feel, too.

So, here we are, and I know your story. But every time you speak, I hear a little bit more stuff that really adds a little more information that builds my knowledge of who you really are.

But no one else on the other side of this microphone knows about you. So, please tell us your story — and just in a little nutshell — that could be of use to others.

Elizabeth:

Yeah. I have been chronically ill for decades, really started when I was 11 weeks old and just all through childhood.

Then, in college, after I got married, we struggled with infertility for a number of years and all that comes with that. And then just really blessed to have four children. But with that, your health tanks again.

And so then, was diagnosed with two more autoimmune diseases, illnesses, genetic mutation. I just really struggled as a mom, right, because I wanted to be there for my kids. I wanted to be there for my husband, but I didn’t feel like I was living the abundant life that Christ had called me to because I was so sick. But the saddest part was when everybody looked at me, they said, “But you look so healthy.”

Joette:

You do.

Elizabeth:

But on the inside, there was just so much going on. And I searched and searched, high and low, and was constantly disappointed because everything that I was promised failed to deliver. And so, in that, I really got to a place where I was just helpless. I didn’t think that there was anything out there. And I thought, “Okay, this is my thorn. This is my cross to bear. Right? And I’m just going to do the best I can.”

And then there were some sweet friends, who were in a study group and said, “You need to know about homeopathy.”

“Home-what? I don’t even know what that word is, and I’m a former English teacher!”

And so anyway, just the biggest skeptic in me was like, “Okay, whatever. Another modality that’s going to fail me.” But the researcher in me caused me to start leaning in and to listening to some podcasts and reading some blogs.

And the Lord just provided an amazing opportunity: a very first aid, acute emergency situation for my husband. And I simply just said, “Do you trust me?”

And he said, “Yes.”

And I ran to the store, and I grabbed some Latin words.

Joette:

Yeah, Latin words! Yes.

Elizabeth:

I didn’t even know how to pronounce. And I came back, and I was like, “I don’t even know how to open these, but I believe that it’s going to work.”

And it did!

And my husband never had to go to the emergency room.

Joette:

What was it? What was …

Elizabeth:

He was actually fixing a toy for one of our children and had stabbed himself in the fleshy part of his hand …

Joette:

I remember the story. You’ve told me this before.

Elizabeth:

Yes.

Joette:

So, what happened to your husband was that he was fixing a toy …

Elizabeth:

Yes! For one of my children, and the screwdriver slipped and stabbed deeply into the fleshy part of his hand. And there was a gaping hole …

Joette:

Oh my.

Elizabeth:

… in his hand. So, I didn’t even know how to open the homeopathy vials. And so, I had read a blog that you’d written about puncture wounds, went to the store, got the remedies, and lo and behold, he never had to see a medical professional.

He never lost nerve damage, muscle, tendon, ligament, nothing. It was beautiful. And that was my first experience with homeopathy. And it was transformational in such a way that I was like, “Wow, there probably is something to this. I want to dig deeper into it.”

Joette:

Hard to believe. Really? These little pills? Come on, really?

Elizabeth:

Absolutely!

Joette:

That can’t be. But it is.

Elizabeth:

But it was beautiful.

Then the Lord, the next month provided another opportunity with one of our children — acute first aid emergency — where we did not have to go to the hospital.

Wait, what? Two in a month? This is crazy. What is this stuff?

And so, I started studying, and lo and behold, started working with the homeopath where I started to uproot my own chronic illness that I had had for decades. Right?

And then, lo and behold, the Lord provided an opportunity for me to join The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. Graduated from that. Then, yeah, Mastery. All with my husband’s support.

But he, too, was suffering with chronic illness. And he said, “I need you to go to school. I need you to do this for me. I need your help.”

And he really was the impetus for why I wanted to study more and more.

And so here I am today and I’m in Mastermind surrounded by an amazing community of small, trusted people who are my colleagues and my friends, and just my support network — not just for myself and my children and my family and my friends, but also for my clients, for my students, and even my pets … which is so fun to use homeopathy with your dogs, right?

Joette:

Yes, I’ve done it. I’ve done it.

Elizabeth:

It’s so beautiful. Because they don’t know what to do.

Joette:

They don’t know; they don’t know.

Elizabeth:

They don’t.

Joette:

But then they do.

Elizabeth:

They do. They want it!

Joette:

And they come around. “Hey, Mom!”

Elizabeth:

“Yes, thank you.” It’s so sweet.

And so, I think my story is one where I felt truly hopeless and helpless, that everything that had been promised to me had fallen short. I felt like there was nothing out there. And homeopathy has restored my faith, has given me back my joy, has restored my body back to homeostasis, and uprooted these things that have been suppressed for decades in my body.

And I am now living a more abundant, fruitful life that the Lord has called me to for my children, for my future. And I’m so grateful. So grateful for all that God has done and leading me to you.

Joette:

Elizabeth, it’s a blessing. Thank you. You’re a blessing to us, too. We’re going to be together for a whole year now.

I know. It’s good. It’s good. Thank you.

Elizabeth:

You’re welcome.

Meet Michelle, a nurse who brought homeopathy into her husband’s medical practice and started her own

Joette: (28:23)

Alright, folks, I have Michelle with me. And you may have heard her on our podcast, number 160. And I’m so glad to have you with me this time. Last time you were talking with Kate, now it’s just you and me.

So, let’s talk Michelle. Tell me a little bit about yourself because you have a very interesting background.

Michelle:

So, I’ve been a nurse for over 30 years.

Joette:

Practicing?

Michelle:

Practicing, yep. Practicing with my husband, who’s an internal medicine physician in private practice. Over the years of seeing so many patients have a hard time with regular allopathic medicine and a lot of the side effects, had never really explored homeopathy at all.

Joette:

Had you heard of it?

Michelle:

I really hadn’t. I mean a little bit. In nursing school and medical school, they teach a little bit that it’s kind of “woo-woo.”

Joette:

Oh, of course, yes. Right.

Michelle:

And “It doesn’t really work, those little sugar pills.”

So, we were always taught to fear that. And as our eyes began to open up over the course of the years, and patients weren’t necessarily getting healed by medicines that we were giving them that thought they were healing them, they would be on them for life.

So, rather than curing them, they just became dependent upon …

Joette:

Blood pressure meds and …

Michelle:

Yes. My husband actually kind of nudged me into looking for … I fell into an original Gateway class from a student who was in APH. And I took the class through a Catholic homeschool group that I belong to.

I took the first class; I didn’t have a book yet. Then about three weeks into it, I got the book, and I have not looked back since.

So, I taught my children to be lifelong learners. And my husband and I are both lifelong learners. And that’s where we’ve tried to teach our children that.

From that, I did APH. My husband supported me along the whole way. He loves history. So, of course, he was right there listening to all of Kim Elia’s history courses with me. I would fill him in, and slowly, we started incorporating homeopathy into our practice.

So thankful that we found an option in order to heal our patients, rather than place a band-aid on their sufferings.

So, from that, my husband was like, “Well, you’re not going to stop now.”

So, I went from this, as you call it, “a flood of information — fire hose information” in APH and then on into Mastery, where, for me, it was like APH was nursing school and Mastery was clinicals.

Like, it was just case after case after case where we got to learn from each other. I mean, I brought my own cases, but everybody else’s cases was like we were getting more and more clients.

At that point, I had started practicing on the side. So, I do sort of two practices: one in our office alongside my husband, and then I also have my own consulting practice.

And then, I was sad to see Mastery end, so I decided to join Mastermind.

Joette:

After a year; it was a great year.

Michelle:

Yes, along after the influence of many friends that I made. I didn’t know anyone going into APH. And we’ve had such beautiful study groups, who we still meet together. And it’s just such a great community because I now have people I can go to at the touch of my phone and ask them for either help on a case, help on a personal situation, just for some support. And there’s nothing that can match the community that you’ve built, honestly.

Joette:

Well, and what’s particularly useful in this community is that homeopathy is not very well known in North America. It’s used in South America and Europe and India, but not so much in North America. And so, when you’re studying this and using it, you often can feel isolated.

So, this fleshes that out so that you’ve got friends regardless of where they’re from. We have people from all over the world, but most often it’s North America and you can contact them.

That’s really one of the great benefits, isn’t it?

Michelle:

Yep. And I think with Mastermind — it’s very interesting — I had no idea what to expect delving into each of our personal situations in order to develop our own self better.

So, it’s such a beautiful three-year layout, really. You know, getting all the information in the beginning and then practicing it in Mastery, and then really kind of honing in on yourself and where you want to take it. And hopefully, we’ll all branch out and take it to our communities.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah. That’s my hope. I know that’s what you’re doing, too. It’s really great.

Thank you so much for being with us today, Michelle.

Michelle:

Of course.

Joette:

Remember, Podcast 160. You’ll learn even more about Michelle.

Michelle:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you.

Joette: (33:11)

I’m so glad you’re with me here right now, Aarika, because I really didn’t know you that well.

You’ve been through The Academy and Mastery, and there you are, nodding. I see your face nodding. I see you smiling, and it’s lovely.

And now you’re … here you are with us in Mastermind, and now I get your story.

But your story is spectacular, and I love to hear about what you’re doing on your homestead, et cetera, and a little bit about your background. So, would you mind sharing that with our listeners today?

Aarika:

Yes, Joette, I’d love to share with you. I came into homeopathy through a friend. I have past medical training and my

Joette:

Means you’re a medical doctor.

Aarika:

Yes. And so, I hadn’t heard anything about homeopathy. And she just showed me one of the little sugar pills and said, “If you need anything for your children, just take this name, ‘Joette Calabrese,’ and type it into Google. And you’ll have whatever you need to help take care of your children and to help them get healthy and to help them just move forward in life.”

And so, I did that. I Googled your name, and my son, who has a history of cognitive delays. through following your online presence, I was able to help him overcome those. And now he’s ahead.

Joette:

Oh my. That’s beautiful.

You are an ophthalmologist. You were performing cataract surgery on a regular basis. So that’s a big shift in paradigms, isn’t it?

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

And we talked about that for a few minutes the other day, that cataract surgery is really something that can be quite useful for many people, especially at a certain age.

But that still is a huge shift. You’re thinking much differently now.

So now, you have your children, you’re homeschooling. You’re homesteading, right? How many acres do you have?

Aarika:

Over 80 acres, we take care of. And lots of animals that have all benefited from the homeopathy.

Joette:

So, you have chickens …

Aarika:

Chickens, ducks,

Joette:

Ducks.

Aarika:

Guineas, horses, donkeys.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh. I didn’t know you had large mammals, too. Oh, for goodness sakes.

Why — I have to ask you — would an ophthalmologist, who has turned to homeopathy and is raising a family, would you ever buy a donkey? I’ve never understood the donkey picture.

Aarika:

They’re to protect the horses from the predators that come into the field. They’re the guardians of the …

Joette:

Oh!. So, it’s not a dog that does it? It’s the donkey. And it kicks, and it makes sounds. Oh, for goodness’ sake,

Aarika:

It’ll stamp anything that comes into the field.

Joette:

Learn something new every day. That’s great. And so, you’ve treated the animals.

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah.

Aarika:

Saved many, many lives.

Joette:

Yes.

Aarika:

Just through simple homeopathics.

Joette:

Like what? Give us an example if you don’t mind.

Aarika:

For example, my daughter’s pony was colicking, and there was no one. It was the middle of the night. So, to try to get ahold of a vet, there’s no one that can help you.

But through the use of the remedies, that pony that would’ve otherwise passed that night was there when she woke up.

Joette:

Is that called bloat?

Aarika:

There’s bloat; they call it colic. They just kind of get a whole bunch of gas in their abdomen, essentially. They just have to relieve that. We just didn’t know what had caused it. And he had all of his gastric contents actually, by the end, coming out of his nose.

And so, we thought that he was completely blocked by the end of it.

Joette:

Oh my.

Aarika:

He was there ready to play with my daughter the next morning, thanks to homeopathy.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness. And now your children are learning this.

Aarika:

Yes. My children, the first thing they go to whenever they need anything is they look for their little — we call them the sugar pills …

Joette:

Of course.

Aarika:

… because they’re “candies” for the kids, since they don’t get candies. So, they’re very excited to get their …

Joette:

It’s so great. You’re raising them in precisely the right way. It’s so good.

Thank you, Aarika. This is a beautiful story, and I know others will really appreciate it.

Aarika:

Thank you, Joette, for your time.

Joette:

Yeah. Thank you. Yes.

Okay, folks. So, now you’ve just heard from a few of my Mastermind students, and now you know why I stay so excited about staying in this field and working with people like this. Because, are they not special?

So, these are the folks that take homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy® not only to the next level, but they take it to such a high level that it’s being brought out into the world — their world and our world at large.

And so, thanks for listening today and see you next time.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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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00:58   Introduction: When Health Fears Fade: Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary Results

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:34   It all started with tooth pain

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

            Gateway to Homeopathy II

04:39   Piqued curiosity: What else can homeopathy do?

            Joette’s blogs

07:22   Success Story: Hives

11:02   Success Story: Food allergies

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

12:33   Success Story: Exhaustion

14:57   Success Story: A dog swallowed a bee

16:48   Success Story: A dog with tummy troubles

17:48   Success Story: Ducky, the chicken, was sick

18:45   Success Story: Plants

20:15   Success Story: Mom’s stroke

22:36   Success Story: Sepsis from an infected toe

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25:10   Success Stories: Chronic food intolerances and allergies, seasonal allergies, skin conditions, migraines, menopause backaches, sciatica

            Blogs

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28:51   Closing advice

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 163.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so excited today because we’re diving into the heart of why so many of us love homeopathic medicine.

We’re going to hear real stories from real people living busy, full lives, who have seen homeopathy work wonders.

So, today our guest is Tina. She’s a wife, a homeschooling mom of three, a student of Practical Homeopathy®. Actually, she’s going through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

And she’s a leader of the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups and also the protocol study courses.

So, Tina, thank you so much for joining us. I’m excited to hear your stories.

Tina:

Oh, I’m so thankful to be here, Kate. It’s an honor.

I’m just a mom, an observer. I’ve seen this medicine change things, and in the most ordinary, everyday moments

Kate:

And extraordinary from what you’ve told me, too. Very exciting. So, that’s why we love hearing these stories, Tina, and especially what you’re going to bring to the podcast today. You have such a rich background, and I think people would want to know because it’s so interesting.

Microbiology, business, homeschooling, church music ministry, volleyball coaching, graphic design, short-term rentals and more, as we talked earlier. Yet, homeopathy has woven into all of it.

So, I want to ask you, Tina, what first drew you to Practical Homeopathy®, and how did those early experiences hook you into using homeopathy as your medicine?

Tina: (02:34)

I am so thankful to live a varied life and, within all of those moments, get to use homeopathy and see homeopathy shine.

But it all started with my youngest daughter during the time when we were all sitting at home, and we weren’t able to get into many practices or dental practices or doctors. And her tooth started turning pretty decayed, in which we were told before that it was just a little stain on her tooth.

So, I had a sister-in-law who had just taken Gateway I and Gateway II, and she had tried to convince me to get in the class. And I kick myself now because that was when I could have started. But it was in the middle of a move, and we just didn’t have time.

And so, I remember getting on the phone, calling her up and saying, “Is there anything homeopathy could do? Because we need help.”

At that point, my poor little youngest was in pain and waking up in the middle of the night. And we were doing all we could allopathically, and it just was not good enough. And your mom-heart just breaks to see them in pain and crying.

And so, I was introduced to a protocol for infection. And it was my first real introduction, and it was a beautiful start because not only did things change within the hour, but homeopathy just gently and ever so intelligently came and not only took the pain away — my daughter was able to sleep — but when we were able to get into a dentist, the abscess was gone that they had seen before. And we were able to do what we needed to do — pull the tooth.

Everyone was healthy and happy, and we were able to go forward.

Kate:

And from there, things just kept unfolding as far as you helping more things with your family and friends and animals and even plants.

Tina: (04:39)

And so, when something shows itself that dramatic in your life, when it shines the way homeopathy did for us, it was just a matter of “Hmmm, I wonder what homeopathy could do for this?” and “I wonder how it could help this?”

And I still didn’t, at that point, take a course, but I delved into Joette’s blogs. I delved into just voraciously feeding on all of the free information that she put out. And so, for every moment that came up, whether it be friends that would ask, “What are you doing?” and “What can I do for this?” and I would send blog posts.

Or my children, who suffered from whatever it was daily, or my husband, snoring or whatever it was, we would pull the blog post and just see what homeopathy could do.

It began to pique people’s interest around us, you know? And homeopathy just in every moment showed itself so gracious and intelligent, and the amount of healing that I began seeing around me just kind of blew me away.

Kate:

So, tell me what happened next? When did you really start studying homeopathy?

Tina:

Around me, as I started to really practice homeopathy, apply it — not just to my family, but like I said, friends that started asking, “What are you doing?” I was approached by one friend, and she said, “Tina, you know enough. Could you just lead the group, and then you can study with us?”

I accepted, and my first Gateway that I led ended up with nine people sitting in my living room. And not only did we enjoy the course, but we enjoyed the stories, and we enjoyed the camaraderie that came with it.

Kate:

That’s one of the things I love most about the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups is hearing, week-to-week, study group members share their stories of how homeopathy has helped them and their families and those around them. I think it is so powerful.

And that’s why I love these podcasts, because I love that the listeners get to hear from so many people, and how you’ve used it. And it gives them ideas about how homeopathy can help them. Many things they didn’t even realize that homeopathy could touch.

So, let’s dig into some of the many success stories that you’ve had using homeopathy. So, let’s start with your children’s acute issues and bumps and bruises and flus and all of that. Tell us some things that you’ve used homeopathy for.

Tina: (07:22)

I joke around often with my study group students — that when I say I have a story for this, I joke with them — because I say, “I’m pretty sure that God allows all this stuff to happen to me just for the stories.”

We have used homeopathy in many acutes. And we recently moved about five years ago from the desert of Arizona to the marshlands — and I’m sure they’re not marshlands, but whatever they are —- in Michigan.

With that came lots of bugs, lots of bites, lots of playing outside, lots of just new health issues, allergies and different things that we had never really been presented with.

So, homeopathy … I was so grateful to be introduced to it about the time of that move because not only were we able to take care of bug bites with Apis, after we got hives, or Ledum, but we were also able to heal to the point where now these issues don’t affect us.

My daughter: I remember we went to the fair, which was such a new and great thing for us moving out here. She had been walking down by the animal stalls and picking up straw and just throwing it everywhere. It wasn’t probably about 10 or 15 minutes later, her entire body was covered in hives.

And so, it was frightening, and it was frustrating. But by then, I was so grateful to have been using homeopathy.

And there’s something beautiful that happened at some point. I can’t tell you exactly when, but a lot of the fear of dreadful occurrences in our life — health issues that come — that fear is kind of taken away because I knew what to do when hives came. And I knew what to do when bites came. Or I knew what to do when my daughter comes in the room crying at two in the morning with a stomachache.

So, that fear was removed, and I was so grateful to just use the correct remedies for the hives: Urtica urens and Nat mur (or Natrum muriaticum) and all of these things in Joette’s blog that I could just go into and find the potency, find the frequency, and just administer to my children and watch it work … watch the hives go from all over the body to within five minutes the redness going down.

And then within an hour, disappearing from the trunk of the body. And then within two hours, disappearing from the arms and legs, and just a little bit resting on the neck. And then eventually, within four, everything gone.

But the best is, within 10 minutes, the itching’s gone, and my daughter’s happy running around. Even though the body has to complete the healing, she was happy and fine to go on about her life.

So, these little stories really stirred the continual use of homeopathy and then, also, the spreading to many others around.

Kate:

I love what you said about homeopathy calming our fear of whether it’s accidents or acute illnesses because we have tools at our disposal that we can use. They’re easily accessible, and they’re gentle, and I love that.

I hear that over and over again from students and those who listen to the podcast, that it really does help calm your fears because you have a solution.

Success Story: Food allergies

Kate: (11:02)

So, let’s jump into, now, some specific health challenges. Tell us more of the specific things that you’ve dealt with and used homeopathy to find relief.

Tina:

Well, we’ve been able to target many issues. I have two daughters, and with that comes female issues. And so, we’ve able to get rid of a lot of chronic menses pain with the blog and with the medicines that are given in there.

My son had struggled for many years after antibiotics with a tooth. He struggled with whey allergies and just really nasty reactions in his stomach. And from when I began to take courses — the Good Gut, Bad Gut course was one of the first ones I took after the Gateways — I employed the medicines that were given and protocols that were given.

And to this day, he can have a whey protein shake or enjoy ice cream or yogurt or whatever it is that has that kind of a dairy in it.

But it was so great to kind of ride that journey with him to watch the body slowly heal and to watch him be able to reintroduce foods that he loved but couldn’t eat, to just experience and to see over and over what homeopathy can do.

These are things that happen in my everyday life that I know happen to so many of your listeners and so many people that have started using homeopathy.

Tina: (12:33)

But I can think of another one early on that this one hits home because as a mother, you’re so intense on being there for your children and — or intent on being there for your children — and your husband and to do the motherly duties. And so often, we forget about ourselves. And much of the time, I didn’t even treat myself because I was so busy treating everybody else.

But I remember having hosted … and we do that often … we host, and we enjoy people, and we love just life. I had just finished hosting, and I was just emotionally, physically spent.

And my daughter, who at that time was about 16 … your children become a shadow of you. They watch what you do, they listen to what you say. And so, I was so grateful that she was able to go get the book off of my bookcase and repertorized for me.

Here I am, laid out on the bed. I laughed because it reminds me of that movie, The Princess Bride, where the main character’s been captured, and he’s down in the enemy’s lair, and they’re sucking the life out of him, and he’s just laying on this table like in agony, barely having any strength left.

And I laugh because I tell people that was me. I was just done … like, just done for.

And my daughter came home. She said, “Here, Mom” — I am pretty sure she said this — “Here, Mom, open your mouth.”

And she gave me Lachesis 200. And what happened after is my story and her story. It’s our testimony because people can say, “Well, homeopathy doesn’t work.” But they can’t say that to me because I’ve seen it work!

And so, in 10 minutes, I was sitting up talking to her completely coherent. And within 20 minutes, I was out in the garden, and I was gardening, and I was enjoying the sun, and I completely forgot that 30 minutes before, life was very bleak.

So, these type of just really dramatic turnarounds I have seen over and over with homeopathy.

Kate:

Yes, me too. And how great that your children are learning this along with you. You think that they’re not necessarily learning as much as they are. But then when they step up like that, it’s just beautiful. How great. What a gift to your family.

Let’s turn now to animals and plants. What have you seen homeopathy do with that?

Tina: (14:57)

Well, I think it’s the normal transition for many people that begin with homeopathy, that they see it working in humans, and then you soon hear, “Oh, it works on animals, and it works in plants.”

Well, here I am, just moved to Michigan, and I’m surrounded by lots of plants. And we moved out to the country from living in the city, and so here I’ve got my own chickens, and our dogs are getting to run free in the yard. The parakeets are happy in the house, and so we’re surrounded by opportunities (is what I see them as).

And so, with these different gifts — blessings given around us — there’s always moments for chaos and for healthful things that call on us.

So, we had just recently got a puppy. Her name was Ahava, and she’s a little Rat Terrier mixed with a Mountain Feist — and she is feisty. She’s more of a hunting dog, a treeing dog.

She loves to chase bees. She loved to chase bees as a puppy, and she still loves to chase bees.

One day, she had an allergic reaction after she ate one, naturally. Her poor little body got little hives on it. And she started what sounded like kind of coughing, and it was probably having some type of an anaphylactic response.

So, we took the opportunity to grab the remedies and give her what we knew would help: an Apis for anaphylaxis and also, an Aconite for that shock that was happening to all of us around.

I laugh, because anytime we have these scenarios, it seems like everybody around me gets Aconite, including myself. And then you can think … to be able to treat.

Within just five minutes, Ahava was normal. The hives eventually faded and went away, and so we were able to see homeopathy work for us.

Tina (16:48)

Along with that, we have a beagle, Beau. Beau the Beagle. He likes to sit around. He’s not your normal beagle. He loves … this guy loves food. He’s very, very much drawn to do anything if he’s given food.

So, I’m not sure if he ate something or what exactly happened, but one day we noticed that Beau was kind of sitting around a little more than he normally does. And he seemed a little overheated, and he just wasn’t himself.

After being able to observe him and see that what he was doing wasn’t normal, we were able to give remedies like Aconite and Bovista for his food allergy.

But my favorite is always Bioplasma®, especially for an overheated moment. It was summer during that time. So, Bioplasma has always turned a lot of scenarios around, and we saw Beau change within a matter of a couple hours, and he was back to himself by the next day.

Tina: (17:48)

So, seen it in our dogs. We saw it in our chickens. Bioplasma and Aconite brought …

Well, my daughter has affectionately named all of our chickens names, and one of them was Ducky (which she just has this affinity to do this).

And so Ducky was very sick, and she was laying around in the yard exhausted, not doing what the rest of the flock was doing. And we were able to put some Bioplasma and Aconite in a little spray bottle with some water. Shook it up and just went outside and sprayed Ducky in the parts that we knew that the homeopathy would take.

She turned around very quickly. Within maybe an hour, we looked outside, and we actually couldn’t find her because she had just acclimated right back into the flock. She was well. Completely revived her.

We’ve seen that happen a number of times with our chickens.

Tina: (18:45)

You mentioned plants.

Kate:

Yes.

Tina:

So naturally, here I am coming from the desert to not growing plants. And so, everything around me is a plant.

I took the opportunity to start growing my own herbs for loose-leaf teas and just enjoying the plants and flowers around me. Being a desert dweller, my green thumb needed to grow a bit, so I was able to use homeopathy for any transplanting.

I’ve had a number of near-death experiences with plants and Carbo veg. Carbo vegetabilis is my go-to for when one of my plants is just about to give on me.

Heat stress? I use Bioplasma. When I garden, when I transplant, I do a lot of Aconite in the beginning. I like to use Cina and Sulphur for any pests.

I just kind of like to watch the plants around me really thrive because homeopathy does exactly what they need, and it’s really for all creation.

Kate:

Some people may not know that there are actually books — homeopathic books — that just talk about using homeopathy with plants and for gardening. So, there is a lot of information out there on that. If you’re curious, you can just do a Google search.

Alright, let’s shift to some pretty serious situations where you’ve had some emergencies or pretty dire acute situations. Can you tell us about those?

Tina: (20:15)

My parents visit often. I enjoy having them annually come out. And during one of their visits, my mom began to mimic what looked like a stroke, and this would’ve been her third stroke. So, there was a history of this in her life.

My father came upstairs. (They were staying in our basement. We’ve got an apartment down there.) And so, when they come to visit, I love to treat them with remedies. I love to take any diagnosis they have and treat with protocols.

But specifically, on one visit, they came. And my dad came upstairs, and he looked very worried. He said, “Tina, I need you to come downstairs.”

And so, when I went down, what I saw was my mother sitting on the couch. The position and mindset that she was in was very familiar to me because I had happened upon her another time when she was having a stroke, when I was back in Arizona. So, I was very familiar with what it looked like and knew the emergent situation that we were facing.

My mother was in need of emergent care. We did what we could do to make the right calls. But while we were waiting, I went ahead and did what I knew homeopathy could help with. Gave Aconite for that situation.

Within four hours of remedies — looking at a few other symptoms that she was showing and administering what we could — within four hours, she was normal.

She was confirmed by the emergency technicians — the emergency care — that all of her vitals were stable. She was confirmed that she was well.

And so, within four hours, she was napping, and she was completely whole. And within six hours, she was upstairs doing dishes and playing with my children.

So, we were able to see again in another very dramatic situation. Where before it seemed hopeless, homeopathy just really came in and took care of a situation where something was completely normal, to completely not normal. And it was able to take it right back to balance.

Kate:

That is an incredible story. What a gift. Let’s shift to a case of possibly early sepsis with an infected toe. Can you tell me more about that?

Tina: (22:36)

As we began to see homeopathy do more and more things — not just in our home, but within the students that would take Gateway courses — everybody starts treating their families and starts treating those that they love around them.

So, I had a friend that took the course come to the house in desperate need. And her husband did not want to go to the emergency room while she was trying to get him to go. She said, “Tina, here’s pictures. It looks sepsis: the redness, the red streak line going up from his toe up the leg.”

And it was a desperate situation. He wasn’t really convinced that he wanted to go to the emergency room because, for him, it was just an infected toe. But for her, she could see that it was something a lot more serious.

So, we were able to look at it together, and she went away knowing what she needed to do, applied some of the information from the blogs for the toe.

Within about four hours, she sent me a message that said, “Everything’s turned around. The redness is going down.”

And she kept a really nice picture log of as it went on throughout the next day. And by about hour 10, she said, “The line is fading.”

By about hour … I believe it was about 12, she said, “He’s comfortable. There’s no pain.”

And by about, I feel like it was hour 18, she’s like, “Tina, all of the redness is gone, and everything is looking really good.”

So, within 24 hours, she said it didn’t even look like it was there. The toe was really healing well. And within three days, he was back walking around, and everything was normal.

Kate:

I bet that made her a believer in homeopathy if she hadn’t been before, right?

Tina:

Yeah. You know, it’s like when you get to experience what homeopathy can do in these kind of crazy situations, it really solidifies to you that this is a medicine that works.

Kate:

And I just want to mention, there’s the blog that you most likely looked at was called Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning!

So, if you’re interested in that information, you can look at the top on JoetteCalabrese.com. In the right-hand corner, there’s a search bar, and you can just put in “blood poisoning” or “holy cow blood poisoning,” and that blog will come up.

Kate: (25:10)

So, I want to ask you now about your personal journey. I know there have been things that you have needed help with, and I would like to hear your personal story and how homeopathy has helped you.

Tina:

I am so grateful for homeopathy. I am so grateful for how it gently comes in and does a job that I’ve seen no allopathic medicine do for me.

I have dealt for many years with chronic food intolerances, allergies (not just food allergies, seasonal allergies), skin conditions, migraines. And as each season in life presents itself, you are given new gifts — new gifts of symptoms.

Kate: New gifts!

Tina:

Yes, we’ll call them blessings. Yes.

So, I’ve been able to — with the education that I have gained from not just using remedies and watching cases, but the blogs, the podcasts, the courses that Joette has — I’ve been able to treat myself for all of these conditions.

Now I’m able to go to Chicago with my family and enjoy a nice Chicago piece of pizza — we did that a couple of weeks ago — without any reactions, without any intolerant actions from it that I would normally get.

I’ve been able to hives not just go away, but cured, to not return.

I’ve dealt with migraines and seen, within a few doses, migraines not just go away, but the frequency lessen, and to the point where I don’t have migraines anymore.

And with these seasons, come menopause and perimenopause, these different things. And I’ve just seen homeopathy shine in every moment of my life the last five years now that I’ve been a student of homeopathy.

When I was younger, I was in a few car accidents, and that kind of left the impression on your body. Whereas you get older, you have different issues in your back and joints. So, I really struggled with a lot of backache and sciatic issues.

Eventually got on protocols to where I just went in about a month ago to my chiropractor and naturopath, and they took X-rays. Bulging disc, degenerative disc, scoliosis (the start of it)? It’s all gone.

And it is incredible that I am living without pain. There’s no back pain; there’s no joint aches. And should they return, I employ the remedies that I’ve been given within the courses that I’ve studied.

Kate:

That is life-changing because it can be so debilitating.

So, what a gift that you’ve been given — and we all have — with this medicine.

There is so much more we could talk about. I know that you’ve mentioned to me personally, infertility, COPD, high blood pressure, glaucoma, gout, hypothyroid, diabetes, IBS, eczema. I mean so much more. So, we could go on and on. We’ll have to have you back for another podcast.

But I want to ask you now to share something with our listeners who may be just starting homeopathy or feeling overwhelmed. What would you say to those who are listening?

Tina: (28:51)

Experience matters, and confidence comes with time.

As you begin to use the remedies, as you begin to experience these different gifts, these stories that come into your life — we might call them chaos; we might call them trials — but my new outlook is they’re really gifts. Symptoms are gifts. And as you continue to learn and study, then you begin to grow.

You observe more, and you apply what you’ve learned. I’ve learned now, we don’t need to defend homeopathy. It has stood the test of time, but we carry a responsibility to care for it and to keep it alive. This is about preserving a gift rooted in creation, passing it on with clarity, integrity and courage. Not just to our inheritants, not just to our children, but to those around us.

I’m not an expert. I’m just a mother. I’m a wife, a friend, a daughter. I’ve seen it work with my own eyes in family and people around me, in animals. And I am so in love, and I am so deeply grateful.

If you’re beginning, stay curious, stay humble, pay attention to your stories. Let experience teach you.

Homeopathy works, and it’s worth stewarding well.

Kate:

Wow. Beautifully said, Tina.

I want to thank you for sharing your heart and these inspirational stories. What a gift it has been to us.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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01:00   Introduction: Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica

01:55   The way most people remember their remedies

02:55   The story of the injured bird

04:46   Arnica for longevity, vascular issues and trauma

            Joe De Livera (Joepathy)

05:52   More applications for Arnica

09:17   Remembering the homeopathic medicines through impactful stories

11:30   Closing Advice

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 162, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette Calabrese. I’m your co-host, Kate.

If you are looking for ways to remember which homeopathic medicines address specific conditions, today’s podcast is for you. Joette, our Practical Homeopathy® founder and trusted expert, will share her insights to do just that.

But before we jump in, I want to welcome you. You, our listeners. You’re in the right place today if your goal is to become a confident, capable healer in your own family. Or maybe you’re just learning about homeopathy, and you wonder if this could help you or maybe someone that you know. This is the place for you, too.

And this podcast is just one of the many resources Joette offers to help you — wherever you are on your journey.

But let’s get started with today’s podcast. Joette, give us an overview of the topic of our discussion today. It’s a good one.

Joette: (01:55)

Okay. So, let’s start with homeopathy being an academic pursuit, but it’s much more than that. And I’m going to give you some insight into that today.

The way most people remember remedies — learning the materia medica — is by taking cases and observing their successes by using homeopathy.

I guarantee — pretty much — you’ll likely never forget when you helped that little girl down the street with hives by using, say, Urtica urens and seeing a big shift.

You’ll never forget the remedy you used when it helped your husband with that horrible pain after that fall.

You might forget the medicine that helped you with your cough. But when it’s touching you on an emotional level — like when you’re helping a family member or a friend or a pet or even an animal from the wild — it’s more likely you’ll not forget it.

So, let me give you an example.

Joette: (02:55)

Let’s say a bird flew into your window. And this has happened to me a couple of times, and I’ll never forget the combination of the medicines that I used.

The first one I thought of, of course, was Arnica because the bird — being that it flew into the window — hit its head. Arnica is one of our best medicines for a head injury.

Now, I did not know whether or not the bird was in pain, and you might not know this either, but we do know that there was a head injury.

And one time, when we had a bird that flew into our window, I gave it Symphytum with Calc phos as a combination. And I did that because the bird’s head was cocked to one side. And I assumed that there may have been an injury to the spine or to the neck or et cetera.

So, I made that connection. Not sure of it, of course, but certainly, we knew Arnica, and then I added Symphytum plus Calc phos.

But did you know that Arnica has so many other uses? It is one of our most sweeping homeopathic medicines. And there are many medicines like this in our materia medica, but Arnica, because it is such a well-known medicine, ought to strongly be considered for many other conditions as well.

For example, Arnica’s a great remedy for insomnia, for sleeplessness. I learned that from my own mother, who started to use it. She knew only the name of the medicine, Arnica, when I first started learning homeopathy myself. And she just remembered the name, and a couple of nights she had some insomnia and took Arnica, and it worked! And that was news to me. (This was back in the 80s.)

But it can also be used for jet lag.

Kate:

Joette, that’s very interesting. I know that you have talked about some of the surprising uses of Arnica. It is a very sweeping homeopathic medicine. But give us some examples of those surprising uses that people may not think about.

Joette: (04:46)

Yeah. Arnica’s been used for Joepathy’s case (Joe De Livera). He believed it brought him longevity. Well into his 90s, he lived, and he took Arnica daily.

Now, he has a specific way of doing it. He put it in water, et cetera, et cetera. And there’s a whole method in the way that he used it. And he took a dose of it daily. He believed it was the longevity remedy.

But it’s also used for vascular issues, which perhaps could be what contributed to his longevity. Because that is an issue — vascular issues and cardiological issues. But it is one of our best medicines for vascular issues, such as spider veins and even varicose veins that are more prominent.

And of course, do I need to go into trauma? We already did that. That is very important, not only just head injuries, but also soft tissue injuries, such as an injury to the thigh or to the arms or a broken bone. It’s one of our best medicines for that, either recent or remote.

And it can also be useful including tumors formed in an area after trauma.

Kate:

I find that so fascinating, isn’t it?

Joette: (05:52)

Isn’t it? Yes.

So, in Robin Murphy’s “Nature’s Materia Medica” and his tome on the use of homeopathic medicines for so many conditions, this is a quote. He says, “Tumors in many parts following injury have been cured by Arnica, including serous tumors of the breast.”

So, it can be used as a medicine, for example, after a mammogram that caused an injury to the breast.

So, how do we know there’s an injury to the breast? Because there’s pain, or there’s swelling, or something like that that leads us to believe that there’s been injury to the breast.

Arnica’s also a great remedy for hemorrhoids.

It’s also a great remedy during labor and postpartum, and before and after an athletic event.

I know skiers — professional skiers — who have used Arnica montana. And when I’ve worked with professional hockey players, we’ve used Arnica montana after their injuries from their athletic pursuits.

And we’ve used it for football players, and those who are injured, even if it’s only a minor injury. And instead, all that remains is — after a rigorous game — is just the feeling of being beaten up because essentially that’s what athletic events often include.

But how about for just someone who’s overusing their muscles or joints? Someone maybe who is elderly and has overused their muscles by going to the gym with too much zeal their first week. And they’re feeling achy and overuse of their muscles and joints and bones, et cetera, and feeling that sense of being beat up.

How about for gout? It’s one of our great remedies for gout.

But let’s not forget Arnica montana for bed sores or even whooping cough.

This keeps going.

I’m going to name some more because this is so extensive. This medicine is so valuable on so many different levels, that’s also used for blood sugar issues. Joe De Livera, Joepathy, often used Arnica montana in his very special Joepathy way (in water) for diabetes.

And then, we’ve also considered it for ailments from stroke or during a stroke.

And then there are also taste disorders.

And these are some more interesting, unusual issues that could come up that could verify the use of — or shore up the argument for the use of — Arnica.

And also, Joe De Livera, Joepathy, used Arnica for hair growth. Ussher, who by the way, was a referenced homeopathic practitioner of the 19th and early 20th century. He actually contributed to the clinical information on certain homeopathic remedies in his practice.

He noted that “the local use of Arnica [meaning local directly on the skin, on the scalp, produced an extraordinary growth of hair on the area that’s in question] produced an extraordinary growth of hair on a limb.”

And this suggested the use of perhaps “an oil mixed with Arnica 1X in a case of baldness, which was followed with marked success.”

Rather interesting.

And so, let’s also consider Joepathy’s method of using Arnica locally on the scalp in liquid form.

Now, I’m not giving the exact formula, but I want to give you these ideas of how Arnica can be used in so many different ways.

Kate: (09:17)

Great. Those are very interesting and things that you wouldn’t normally think of, but maybe it’s something you want to look into as you have time.

I want to get back, Joette, to learning how to use homeopathic medicines and how we can remember what conditions might be addressed by what medicines.

Joette:

Yeah. Learning about homeopathic medicines is great. But this is more than just studying them and committing them to memory, such as the symptoms for this particular, that particular condition.

It’s different.

It’s making this a part of every fiber of your life. By doing so, then, you can save someone’s life, or you can soften the suffering that someone is experiencing.

So, I will never forget how quickly my mother responded when she was having a stroke, and we used Aconitum. (And I also used Arnica at that moment as well.) And I will never forget the look on her face.

I’ll never forget also how Stramonium helped relieve night terrors for my young son.

And think about it right now. Think about the stories that you may have that are in your arsenal. And the reason that you remember the medicine is because you have a story associated with it.

That’s how we learn our medicines, my friends. It doesn’t mean that we don’t study, but this is what concretizes our knowledge of the medicines. This is what really holds it into our memory.

But ask me what remedy my husband gave me when I was very sick with relentless vomiting, and I don’t remember, to be honest. I know what the medicine is that I would use for someone else, but I don’t remember what he gave me because I was too sick to remember it.

So, when you are giving of yourself and helping someone else — the little bird that flew into the glass, the mother who was having a vascular event, the husband who had an injury and had extreme pain — that act is bigger than you. And now you will remember that because it’s not only emotionally attached to the suffering of someone that you’re caring for, but your memory will remain most likely very much intact.

Kate: (11:30)

So, Joette, some of us may have those stories already, and some of us may not. Give us the upshot in how we can use this information to help us remember our medicines.

Joette:

Well, the upshot is: Take care of your family and take care of those around you, those you love. Take cases, take care of your family, and you’ll get good at this. That’s what’s missing for people who don’t take homeopathy seriously. It hasn’t stirred them deeply enough yet.

Kate:

Yeah. Once you see the life-changing power of homeopathy, like I have with my daughter in anaphylaxis, right? That will never leave my mind. That use of Apis in that situation … I will never forget that.

So, after that, then you begin to incorporate that into your lifestyle. You see someone else that has anaphylaxis? Now, I know what to do.

Joette:

Yep. Anything in life that’s unfavorable or traumatic is an opportunity to grow. In fact, those who live lives that don’t have suffering don’t have the chance to climb the mountain — because it’s in the climbing of the mountain that all the good comes.

I argue that that’s how you become a good homeopath. It’s about climbing one mountain after another.

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

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse 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 ‘C’ Remedy for Colic, Cramps and Cysts

01:59   What is Mighties Plus?

            Mighties Plus

02:49   What are homeopathic medicine keynotes?

03:30   Keynotes of homeopathic Colocynthis

            A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families by Joette Calabrese

08:02   Colocynthis for Colic

10:39   A clinical case study in Colocynthis for abdominal pain

            Colocynthis

15:29   Can Colocynthis also be used for GI pain related to anxiety?

16:07   Closing thoughts

            A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families by Joette Calabrese

            Free online materia medica

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 161, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette. I’m your co-host, Kate, and I’m looking forward to today’s topic because we’re diving into a homeopathic medicine that I believe every household should keep close at hand. And in just a moment, Joette, our Practical Homeopathy® founder and trusted expert, will explain exactly why.

But before we jump in, I want to welcome all of you. You are in the right place today. If your goal is to become a confident, capable healer in your own family, this podcast is just one of the many resources Joette offers to do just that.

So, let’s get started. Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate. This is so great. This is a very interesting topic today.

Kate:

It is! What sparked our topic of discussion today is a question from one of your Mighties Plus members.

So, some of our listeners might be asking, what is Mighties Plus? And do you want to explain it to them just a bit, Joette?

Joette: (01:59)

Mighties Plus is a virtual group. We meet each month, where I’ll get your questions answered.

And there’s much more because there’s also that community. And so, we also have a special lesson in Mighties Plus for each month, so that members can study.

We have those who have been in Mighties Plus for a little while. We have them give us exciting success stories.

And then, we have Remedy Riddles and all kinds of fun things that keep it alive and interesting. So, it’s not just me answering questions.

Kate:

So, one of those things in your Mighties Plus membership site is the flashcards that give keynotes for various homeopathic medicines. And it’s a great way — for whether it’s adults or even children — to learn the keynotes of the medicines.

For those people who may not know what a keynote is, can you explain that, Joette?

Joette: (02:49)

Well, each of our homeopathic medicines have sweeping, grand ability. They can touch on so many aspects of human suffering and human health. But there are specific aspects of each of them that rise to the top — certain abilities of these medicines — and we call them keynotes. It’s an appropriate name because these are the key aspects of this particular medicine.

So, for those who only know a little bit about Arnica montana, you would understand that — Arnica montana — one of the keynotes, is elements from an injury. So, soft tissue or hard tissue injury would be met with Arnica. That’s a keynote of Arnica montana.

Kate: (3:30)

So, in our last Mighties Plus live, one of the students — which is what sparked this episode, actually —asked you, “Does the homeopathic medicine Colocynthis work for just GI pain (because that’s what you were talking about) related to bullying? Or would it also help with GI pain related to anxiety?”

So, can you take us through how to think about this question, and why it was a good question.

Joette:

Well, I discussed that moment in Mighties Plus. I was describing a case that I had taken years ago about an adolescent boy who had been bullied and had tremendous GI pain. He was practically unable to go to school most days because of this pain, and it was related to having been bullied.

And those are two keynotes that are related to Colocynthis: being bullied or, actually, maybe indignation. And then, following that indignation, the person has stomach pain.

And so, the person wanted to know — that Mighties Plus member wanted to know — so is it only for bullying or would it also help with a stomach pain that’s related to anxiety?

Now, I could actually say, “Sure.”

But what I want to do is get my followers — and especially my students — to learn how to fish. I don’t want to give her the fish. I want her to learn how to fish.

And so, the next step I encouraged her to do — and I’m going to encourage you listeners today to do — that is to find that answer out not by asking me (so that I can give a yes or no answer), but rather to go to our beloved materia medicas.

Now, materia medica is a book that has the homeopathic medicines listed, and each medicine is described, the keynotes are included, and it gives a very good description. Sometimes, depending on which materia medica one chooses to read and then study, it can be three pages long of information on one particular medicine. Or you can go to, for example, my materia medica that simplifies it, makes it much easier for the beginner or for someone who needs kind of a quick reference.

So, I want that person who’s asking can it be from another cause, such as anxiety … Can stomach pain, that is a result of anxiety that fits the picture of the remedy Colocynthis, be associated?

And I say, “Please go to your materia medica and read up on it. Because indeed Colocynthis is ailments, such as stomach pain from anger, from indignation, from excitement. And anxiety could be certainly excitement, and the person can be also irritable.

So, if I explain this to someone — and I am happy to do so — they will not know enough to go digging deeper. They will not know enough to go into a materia medica and start reading up on this medicine and all of its capabilities and how it’s related to many different kinds of emotional issues.

Kate:

Let’s widen our lens just a bit. Joette, for those who may not know much about the remedy Colocynthis, and it’s spelled C-O-L-O-C-Y-N-T-H-I-S.

For those who don’t know much about this, can you give us a broader picture of what conditions or symptoms might be addressed with Colocynthis?

Joette:

Well, it’s for pain, but a certain kind of pain. It’s usually abdominal pain, or it can be ovarian pain — a cyst that’s in the ovary. It can be from dysmenorrhea from menstrual pain.

But we were talking about how this was affecting a young teenage boy with gastrointestinal colic, basically.

So, did we need to know whether it was the pancreas or the gallbladder or the stomach or the intestines? It would be useful, but, boy, I’ll tell you, the whole abdominal area is often difficult to fine-tune and determine exactly where it’s coming from … which organ it’s coming from. Sometimes we can, but many times we can’t.

So, it is specific for a colicky pain, a pain that can be very severe. It forces the person to double over, to bend double, or to put their hands against their abdomen and then double over.

It’s for muscles that are cramping. It’s for neuralgias — even sciatica with cramping or shooting pains.

These are the gastrointestinal or the abdominal that include also (besides sciatica), it’s all in the abdominal region. For women, it can be in the ovaries or the uterus as well.

Kate: (08:02)

One of the things I think of with Colocynthis is when a baby has colic. Do we use it for that?

Joette:

It’s a wonderful remedy for colic. And the way that we notice that the colic is related to Colocynthis is that when I say that someone doubles over and presses against their abdomen, babies don’t do that. Maybe children who are a little older, but a baby …

You might find that you can calm the baby down a little bit. It might not resolve the condition, but you can calm the baby down by putting pressure on the belly.

And how would that occur? Well, you might be holding the baby up so that the baby’s facing behind you, and the baby’s belly is pressed against your shoulder. And that calms the baby down.

Or if it’s much younger, if you put the baby on your arm and it hangs the way with arms and legs on one side and arm and leg on the other side — like a lion hanging from a branch of a tree over your arm, draped over — because there’s pressure that’s being put on the abdomen, that that’s somewhat comforting.

That tells us that it’s not curing it, but we’re looking at what are the symptoms and how are they presenting? And what makes it a little better, what makes it a little worse? What makes it much better, much worse?

And that gives us a clue that this baby is more comforted when there is pressure placed against the abdomen.

Now, the first thing we think of would be Colocynthis. But we would not know that unless we went to a materia medica and read up on this medicine because someone would say, “Well, is it worse from anxiety?”

Well, maybe. Perhaps the baby was anxious the night before because … who knows: There were loud noises; there were thunderstorms; or it was frightened by a big dog that came running in the room after it. And ever since then, the baby now has (or the child or even the person) has abdominal pains that are somewhat softened by pressure.

Kate:

So, does that emotional trigger have to be there in order to use Colocynthis?

Joette:

Well, that’s a great question, and I think that was part of the original question to a certain degree.

It doesn’t have to be there. No.

Or it’s there, but you don’t notice it. You may not have realized it.

And I’ll tell a story about that, a case that I took years ago. But before I do that, let me answer the question as frankly as I can. It doesn’t need to be there. But if it is, it really shores up your argument for using this medicine over another medicine, say Arsenicum album or Nux vomica or Ipecac or something like that.

We really want to be able to shore up our argument as best we can. And if there is an emotional component, yeah, we’ll add that in, and it just builds our argument for using this.

Joette: (10:39)

The case that I’m referring to that I think would be instrumental in understanding was an adolescent boy whose mother brought him to me, and he had tremendous abdominal pains. So severe with these pains that he was missing a great deal of school.

And when he had these pains — and they weren’t all day, but they were a good many hours, every day — he would double over and press against his abdomen. It wasn’t clear that that’s what he was doing in the very beginning, but it became more and more clear that this is what gave him a little bit of comfort.

So, I used a couple of homeopathic medicines. I used one, one time, and then another one, another time, and just, there was no improvement.

And the mother had put an enormous amount of effort into what she was feeding him. She was convinced that it was something that he was eating that was causing this. So, she rearranged her entire kitchen. She rearranged her ideas on what the family should be eating. She read and read and read, tried to find an answer to this, convinced again that it was something that he was eating.

And indeed, that makes sense.

But what didn’t make sense was that he didn’t have this all his life. Instead, it just started happening about six months before she brought him to me.

So, after the second — I think maybe it was the second or the third appointment — I asked. And I had asked before, but perhaps I didn’t ask properly because I didn’t get the answer that I needed. I asked, “What preceded this? Why is it that this boy was fine until six months ago? What happened seven months ago? Was he given an antibiotic? Did you move? Your marriage is still intact, right, Mom? Was there anything that could have shifted emotionally or physically?” (Maybe she started a new vitamin regimen, and it could be some kind of a synthetic vitamin that could be aggravating his abdomen.)

And so, when I asked this question in that way, asking, giving ideas — potential ideas — anything emotional, anything physical, anything extrinsic, the mom and son exchanged glances.

And then she said to him, “May I tell Joette about this?”

And he said, “Sure.”

So, she relayed a story to me that had occurred about seven, eight months ago of a boy in the school who was bullying this boy. And he felt trapped. He loved school; he wanted to be there, but he felt trapped by not being able to go to school comfortably because he was anxious, and I would say, experienced indignation and embarrassment in front of his friends.

So now we’ve got a couple of different emotions here.

So, when the mom told me this, it finally clicked. I said, “Oh my goodness. This is the medicine: Colocynthis. Because when someone has colic, whether it’s gastrointestinal or even ovarian or uterine, that follows an indignation, anger, irritability, excitement, loss of stature in their little community, in their school community, or anger towards them, and following that, there’s colic in the abdomen, et cetera, this is likely a medicine that we need to strongly consider.

His mother described how he bends over when the pain is severe, and he’s got his arms folded in front of himself and pushing down on them. That’s when it was clear to me that this was the need for the remedy Colocynthis.

And so, could we have used this had they never told us this? I might have come to it. But what really struck me was this story that ever since these events seven months ago, this boy has been suffering.

So, we used Colocynthis. We used it, I believe, in a 30th potency, as I recall. It was so long ago. I believe it was a 30th potency, probably, once or twice a day for a few days. And the mom called me and was so grateful that she was teary. She shared that, “My gosh, after the first dose of Colocynthis 30, he fell asleep,” something that was unusual for him.

And after the second dose, he felt steadier, or maybe, I don’t know, more firm in who he was. She said he started to think a little differently.

By three days of using Colocynthis, the pains were gone. He was back to himself and was excited about going back to school and felt resolve in his ability to be able to handle this bully at school.

It completely shifted this boy’s school experience, how he ate. The mother could relax and not have to worry about all the foods that he was eating, how perfect she had to be, how perfect it had to be when they went out to dinner, et cetera.

It relieved not just him, but the whole family, because it is a ricocheting event. When one cog in the wheel is off, the entire family is. It relieved especially him and secondarily his mother. Beautiful medicine, this Colocynthis.

Kate: (15:29)

Yes.

Now, I think I should ask you that question again, which was asked by your Mighties Plus member. Does Colocynthis work for just GI pain related to bullying, as in your story, or would it also help with GI pain related to anxiety?

Joette:

Well, given that Colocynthis is used for bullying, indignation, excitement, being angered, being distraught emotionally, I would say it’s very likely that if the pain is not unlike what I’ve just described, and it follows anxiety, I would say it could be a very good choice. Yeah.

Kate: (16:07)

Okay. So, what are our takeaways today, Joette?

Joette:

The takeaway is that before you choose a homeopathic medicine, don’t go by my story alone. Go to your materia medica. Own a couple. If you’re interested in this subject, own a few of them. You can go to my materia medica, which is very simple, quick reference, or there are online materia medica that are free, and I talk about them all the time.

But it behooves you to own the ability to at least have access to one and reach out and read the medicine before asking.

I mean, it’s a great question. I’m glad that she asked this question, but I urge people to ask the question of themselves. When you open up the materia medica, and you look up Colocynthis, you will learn that, indeed, from excitement, ailments from excitement, colic from excitement — whether it’s menstrual colic, whether it’s gastrointestinal colic — colic as a result of excitement.

And so, does anxiety fall into the category of excitement? And I would say, “Of course.”

So, it’s not like if you have strep throat; here’s the medicine, and there you are. You’re done. Bob’s your uncle.

No, my friends. These medicines have broad abilities, sweeping abilities, and you want to know that picture. And once you use this medicine, say, for this person who’s asking about colic following anxiety, you’ll remember this medicine. You’ll never forget it.

I know it’s an unusual word. These homeopathic medicines are all in Latin because it’s the real thing. This is actually made from a plant.

So, I’m sharing my story with you because perhaps you don’t have one yet about how to use Colocynthis. So, this story about the boy with the colic pain is mine to share with you to help you remember this. And as you do this, you’ll have stories. You’ll grow your own collections of homeopathic stories as you treat those around you.

So, I guess the bottom line is it’s all about collecting: collecting knowledge and your collection of assorted stories.

Kate:

Thank you, Joette. This has been so insightful. I appreciate you sharing.

Joette:

My pleasure, Kate.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

00:58   Introduction: Real-World Integration of Practical Homeopathy® and Conventional Care

01:56   Health care professionals seeking to incorporate both allopathy and homeopathy

            Boiron

04:40   Is homeopathy the same as “home remedies?”

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

06:07   A day in the life of a “combination” practice

11:28   Attention, health care workers: Stay at your post!

13:24   Homeopathy and/or pharmaceuticals

17:02   Success Story: Osteoporosis

            Watch Out for Dem’ Bones

18:07   Success Story: Depression

            Homeopathy Can Spoil a Girl

            JoetteCalabrese.com

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Joette’s Learning Center

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 160.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today’s guest is going to talk about how she integrates homeopathy into her existing health practice without abandoning the credentials, training and experience as a medical professional.

I’m thrilled to be joined by someone who embodies this balance beautifully. Michelle is a nurse and a homeopath who works alongside her physician-husband. She’s also gone through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and is now finishing the second year, which is the Mastery program.

So today, she’s here to talk about how to introduce homeopathy to people steeped in the allopathic world. Michelle, welcome to the podcast.

Michelle:

Thank you, Kate. It’s good to be with you today.

Kate:

I’m so glad you’re here. You have a very unique and exciting perspective, and I’m thrilled for you to be able to share with the listeners.

Michelle:

Thank you. I’m glad to be here as well.

Kate: (01:56)

So, tell me about what you’ve noticed. When we talked earlier, you said some things about nurses who are giving up their positions and their licenses because they’re wanting to go into homeopathy, and they’re not really sure how to incorporate both of those paradigms. Can you talk to us about that?

Michelle:

Yeah, especially through the last several months and getting to meet everyone, and there’s so many RNs. And I would say other health care professionals, too, that I’ve met along the way in my study groups, as well as the broader sense of the school, that so many of them seem to feel like they have to give up their nursing license or their doctor or physical therapy license in order to practice homeopathy because of the scope of practice.

And I don’t know the laws in every state. However, I’m in Florida. Florida’s pretty friendly with combining those. And I just find that for us in our private practice, I find it very beneficial to have one foot in the allopathic world, as I call it, and one foot in the homeopathic world — in the sense that there’s so many things, especially that you can teach patients or clients, that they can take something homeopathically and not have side effects.

Oftentimes, when they’ll come into our office, I have lots of remedies right in our office. And they can see those, and they will ask me questions about them. And we usually start with simple things like heartburn, or if they’re having issues with sleep, or as a woman with menopausal symptoms.

And Boiron does a beautiful job of making remedies sort of “shelf attractive” to people that are used to more Big Pharma over-the-counter type things. And so, I educate them on some of their choices so that they don’t have to be on more Big Pharma medicines. And the reason not to be is that there’s so many side effects with the synthetic drugs in our world today.

So, I feel like I can win more people over to homeopathy, and ultimately, it’s better for the person. A lot of people just don’t know. They’ve never heard of homeopathy, or that they misunderstand it.

They think that it is natural or herbal, and they aren’t sure. Functional medicine, I think, has come into play and confused waters even more. So, it does take some explaining. Once they see that something works for them and we have a small win, they’re ready to hear more.

Kate: (04:40)

When you said earlier, they think it’s natural. I want to just clear that up for a bit.

It is natural. However, I think what you were trying to say was they just think it’s a broad category of natural medicine, like herbs, and essential oils and all of that.

Michelle:

Home remedy.

Kate:

Yeah, home remedy. That’s what they think.

Michelle:

Right. Yeah. That’s what I meant by “natural” is, like, they think home remedy and homeopathy are the same thing.

Kate:

I think most people don’t really know that homeopathic medicines are regulated by the FDA. There’s the homeopathic pharmacopoeia that the pharmacies go by. So, these medicines are manufactured in pharmacies, according to strict standards. It’s very regulated. So, I just think that’s a fact that people don’t usually know.

Michelle:

And through The Academy, we’ve had the opportunity to see many interviews with the different pharmaceutical companies.

In The Academy, I was blown away by the homeopathic pharmacies that Joette actually interviewed, but we listened. And the regulations that they have to go through was unbelievable scrutiny.

I’ve never interviewed another pharmacy, but it just seemed to me like it was over the top — how much that they go through and how particular they are, and making certain that the medicines that we use homeopathically are exactly what they say they are.

Kate: (06:07)

Michelle, can you explain to me what happens in your private practice?

So, a patient is scheduled; they come into your office. How does that usually work as far as the balance between your husband and yourself, and the allopathic world and homeopathic?

Michelle:

Of course. We’ve been in practice for 30 years-plus now, and a lot of our patients are very well known to us. We still do have new patients, but most of them have been with us for quite some time.

And my husband has always been a minimalist as far as drugs and things. But as a physician in this world, his tools have always been pharmaceuticals from drug companies. And since learning homeopathy, we now feel so blessed because we have more tools to use.

And so, a patient comes into our office, they first come to my station — which is the nursing station — and I do the typical intake of what is currently going on with them, along with their vital signs and what they currently are taking for vitamin supplements and medications, et cetera.

They sit in the chair and right in front of them, up on my wall, I have several homeopathic remedies, specifically combination remedies for acute illnesses and things like that that we can use.

And so that oftentimes brings up lots of questions from them of something like, for example, the Acidil®, if they’re having heartburn. “Oh, is that what that’s for?”

And then we have a conversation and then go through some things, and it just puts some ideas into their mind of some things that they can take that don’t have side effects. So, that starts a discussion.

They go back to see Dr. D. He and I have an exchange of what’s going on with the patient. He goes in, sits down with the patient. He always says the patient will tell you what exactly is wrong with them if you listen.

I think this is an important lesson — as simple as it may seem to anyone working in health care, whether you’re a homeopath, a nurse or a doctor — that the symptoms that the person is describing leads us to the right remedies.

So, he will make his assessment. And as I said before, he’s a minimalist as far as drugs are concerned and tries to take people off of things that they don’t need to be on.

He will come out to me and discuss if there’s something that he thinks that we can do for them homeopathically. If so, many of those that are common that he has become very familiar with, he will go ahead and send them back to me for a homeopathic consult. And at that point, then we continue with that.

It’s not to say that we don’t believe there is not a place for allopathic medicine, especially in the diagnostics. That is especially where my husband shines, and he is very much a diagnostician, and we need him for those skills that he was well-trained and has great experience in … as well as Western medicine. We believe it’s great for a trauma situation.

Clearly, we need hospitals, and we need emergency trauma care. But other than that — and surgery — we believe that real health comes from diet and exercise, discipline, sunshine, homeopathy.

So, there is a place for both. And I think that that’s where we’re a little bit unique in that we don’t want to abandon where we came from. I think that it can add to where we’re going with a practice that is both somewhat in Western medicine as well as our tools — as much as we possibly can — have switched to homeopathy.

Kate:

I have a question. When the patients come in, and they are maybe needing a homeopathic remedy — it would be great for this situation — do they just get the homeopathic medicine (the box) from you, or does your husband write it on his prescription pad? Or how does that work?

Michelle:

So no, he does not write it. That’s when he turns it over to me, and then I guide them through the process.

If it’s new to them — which many of them now, it is not new to them — they have a pharmacy that they pick. I go through about three or four different pharmacies. I explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of some of them, whether they’re stateside or there’s one we use in the U.K.

If it’s a chronic, I try to go and help them out a little bit with that as far as one that they would need to have a more quantity from. So that’s where I guide them.

I have my own script pad, and from that point, then I write down the instructions for them, and they go forward with that. Then, when they come and return for a follow-up, the follow-up is with one or both of us.

Kate: (11:28)

That’s great. All right. Thanks for explaining that.

So, you’ve been passionate about encouraging nurses and other health care workers to stay in their roles. Talk about why that’s so important. You talked about this a little bit earlier, but if you could share a little bit more about that.

Michelle:

There’s one person who was in my study group, our first year of APH, who is an ER physician. And she’s done very similarly to myself in being able to offer the patient an option.

It’s never forced upon them, but many of them come in very timid or leery about what might be given to them or their child if it’s in a pediatric situation, and they are asking and seeking an alternative, if you will.

Although in the homeopathic, we would tend to think we are the original, and the synthetic version of pharma is the alternative.

But what I’m saying is when you remain in the system, if you will, of our hospitals and urgent cares or physician’s offices or in places where you can meet people and present an option to them of homeopathy, I feel very passionate about it. And I feel that the more people that can learn today that we do have options that perhaps people have just never heard of.

I think it’s important that some of us can stay and perform in that role, whether it’s physical therapy or chiropractic or emergency medicine or primary care.

Kate: (13:24)

One of the things we were talking about earlier was when you were saying that some older patients are on many medications at a time, and sometimes, they’ve been on them for many years. And you had mentioned a couple of conditions and how they may not have been improving on those medications, yet they’re still on them. Can you talk a little bit about that?

Michelle:

So, perhaps something about the years I’ve spent in the allopathic-dominant world of health care and how I often see that when patients go on pharmaceuticals, they’re on them for the rest of their lives. And those medicines, they will make them better in the short term, but they are literally on them forever.

So, it’s not curing them, rather it’s something that they must take the rest of their lives.

And, for example, thyroid or cardiac meds. Whereas in homeopathy, we have remedies that are intended to uproot the conditions that we suffer from. And eventually, hopefully, we would not require the homeopathic medicine any longer. And so, the conditions that we suffer from, and eventually we would not require any medicine, whether allopathic or homeopathic.

And that is something that I see in our practice that homeopathy is helping. It’s completely uprooting. I have many clients that I have gotten off of synthetic thyroid medications with the help of my husband, who is a physician.

So, as I give them the remedies homeopathically to correct their thyroid imbalances, then, he titrates down on the synthetic medicine to the point where we’re off completely. And then they continue for a short period of time on the homeopathy medications, and then they’re off.

And we have a person that no longer has symptoms of thyroid issues, whether hypo or hyper.

Kate:

Isn’t that exciting? I bet they are thrilled.

Michelle:

Correct. Correct. And also, takes a little bit longer and maybe a little bit more balancing, but we’re doing the same things with blood pressure and some cardiac issues as well.

So, to not be on — not only financially to be on medicines — Big Pharma medicines for the rest of your life, but also, and more importantly, for the health of your body.

Kate:

Wonderful. Exciting stories. And with acute conditions, I think you were mentioning that you usually see results more quickly.

Michelle:

Yes. I mean, it’s an acute and a shorter fix than from chronics. And I do find that when we have acute illnesses, and I can help the person feel better homeopathically, then they’re a little bit more willing to come out and say, “Hey, what do you think about this?”

And it might be a chronic problem that they’re having or suffering symptoms from.

“Is there anything available for that?”

And so again, I find it exciting to be in the position that I’m in that I can offer them some hope with their chronics as well.

Kate:

And I just want to add that we’re not saying that you alone should get off any medications. You should always work with your doctor, and that’s what Michelle is saying, that her and her husband worked together as a team in this effort.

Before we wrap up today, can you share a couple of success stories with us?

Michelle: (17:02)

Oh gosh, yes. I have lots of them. Let me think of some of my favorite ones.

Chronically, osteoporosis, especially with women. And it might be just our practice, but I think a lot of times women end up getting diagnosed more with osteoporosis, whether it’s the years of nursing babies, having babies and things like that. They end up going for bone density scans more often than men.

But we have a beautiful protocol homeopathically that I’ve been using, and many women, their osteoporosis scores have improved. They have had falls where they don’t have a broken bone, especially our elderly women who maybe are falling a little more frequently.

You can look the protocol up. I think Joette has a blog called Dem, D-E-M, Bones, Dem Bones. “Joette Calabrese and osteoporosis.” If you even Google that into your search finder, and that’s the protocol that I follow.

Michelle: (18:07)

Another one is depression.

We have a lot of depression within … whether it’s aging, whether anxiety leading to depression … with some of our younger people, both male and female. Again, Joette has a great blog on depression, and those are the protocols that we’ve been using homeopathically, and we’ve seen such great success with those.

Kate:

The podcast [blog post], if you want to look that up, is Homeopathy Can Spoil a Girl, and it’s medicine for depression. So, if you even — in the search bar at the top right corner of JoetteCalabrese.com — click on the search button and then type in “depression.” And you’ll see the blog posts that have to deal with depression or any other podcasts or anything.

In fact, if you want to go there and search for any condition, you can just click that search button and type in the condition or on your search engine, type in “Joette Calabrese,” and then the condition, and you’ll see all of the articles that come up about that condition.

Michelle, this has been such an encouraging conversation and enlightening.

So, your message was clear. You don’t have to abandon your license, your training, and your profession to practice homeopathy. Of course, look at the regulations, like you said, in your state, but you can stay in the field, serve your patients and gently introduce them to an alternative and let them choose.

So, I appreciate your time today, your wisdom and sharing your experience with us.

Michelle:

Absolutely. And thanks for having me, Kate.

Kate:

And thank you to the listeners for joining us today. If you are a health care professional wondering how to integrate homeopathy into your work, I hope today’s episode gives you some confidence and clarity, and we’ll see you next time.

Joette:

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