Joette Calabrese Podcast

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01:00   Introduction: Successfully Healing a Toddler’s Cellulitis

            Podcast 99 — Moms with Moxie: A Powerful Matriarch

            Joette’s Learning Center

02:49   I Thought They Were Bites

04:13   Time to Pivot … but I Needed Support

            The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs

05:18   Thinking Several Steps Ahead

07:44   Trusting My Community

            Podcast 130 — Courageous Couples: Now I Feel Ready as a Mom … of 10!

08:53   The Beauty of the Banerji Protocols and Medicines Proven to Act

10:48   How to Develop a Community

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

12:28   Expectations and Assessing the Case

14:54   Practical Homeopathy® Is Freeing

19:08   We Need to Learn How to Fish

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Joette’s Learning Center

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

20:10   Closing Advice

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 149.

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)

Hello and welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast, where we explore real-life stories and empowering solutions using the gentle and effective power of Practical Homeopathy®. I’m Kate, and I’m so glad that you’re here with us today.

We have a heartfelt and inspiring episode for you. I’m joined by Jordan, a mom whose story is a shining example of what calm confidence and the right knowledge can do, especially when it matters most.

She’ll be sharing how her understanding and experience with Practical Homeopathy® helped her to navigate a potentially serious health issue: cellulitis in one of her children.

You’ll hear how Jordan stayed grounded through the uncertainty, trusted what she knew, and took action in a way that supported her daughter’s recovery beautifully.

So, whether you’re new to homeopathy or a seasoned user, this episode will leave you feeling encouraged and empowered. Welcome to the podcast, Jordan.

Jordan:

Happy to be back. Thanks for having me again, Kate.

Kate:

Yes! So, you might have heard Jordan’s story in a previous podcast. It was Podcast 99, where she shared her story. So, you might want to take a listen to that when you have some time.

But Jordan is one of the team members at JoetteCalabrese.com. She is actually an amazing writer. In fact, if you’re a Mighties Plus member, you may have experienced her delightful writing. She helps with those Remedy Riddles we all know and love and are posted each month.

If you’re not a Mighties Plus member, and you don’t know what we’re talking about, you can find that information at JoettesLearningCenter.com. Check it out. It’s a really great community. Jordan, thank you for being with us, and you’re going to share mostly about a case of cellulitis that you dealt with, with your daughter.

So, let’s just dive in. Can you tell us what happened?

Jordan: (02:49)

Yeah, so my daughter, Zélie, was just over a year old when this happened. So, she was very little, and it began with what seemed to be a few bites on her legs — very red, hard, swollen, definitely looked painful.

The first time I noticed them was when I was changing her diaper right before bedtime. And when I saw the bites, I thought she had been off that day. She woke up early from her nap crying, and she’s normally very cheery and bubbly. But she was just not her normal cheery self that day.

So, when I saw the bites, I thought, “Okay, this makes sense.”

I gave a few doses of Ledum 200 and put her to bed and then kept a close eye on it through the night. Whenever she woke up to nurse during the night — which is very typical for her, she nurses quite a bit — I would give her a dose of Ledum and feel her legs to see if this swelling was going down. And it was. So, I was feeling very encouraged and thought, “Okay, good. This is going to be gone quickly.”

The next morning, looked at her legs, and they definitely looked better initially. They were flatter, and they were fading. But then it took a wrong turn very quickly.

So, it would maybe be only an hour or so later that I noticed that the spots were rapidly spreading. It was probably during one of her diaper changes, and they were all over her legs, and they were very inflamed, very angry-looking.

Now, Kate, as you know, I have seven kids. I think you joked one time that my house was an urgent care — which it’s true. There’s always something going on here, but I had never seen this before. This was beyond my experience.

Jordan: (04:13)

I could tell it was probably a systemic reaction of some kind because of how it was spreading. But beyond that, I was not sure.

So, I definitely started to feel overwhelmed.

I don’t know about you, but when I’m confused and I don’t know what the next step is, I start to feel very overwhelmed. So, I had that feeling of panic setting in.

But then, very soon after I was starting to feel my heart racing, I heard Joette’s little voice say in the back of my head, “You need to know what you’re treating. You need to know the name of the condition. Then you can just choose the correct protocol.”

So, I thought, “Great. That’s my next step.” So, I called my sister to see if she knew what this was. Nicole is one of Joette’s Academy graduates. So, she’s very knowledgeable, very competent, and has always been a very strong support to me.

So, when she saw the pictures of Zélie’s legs, almost immediately she said, “That looks like cellulitis.” And she knew what she was talking about because many years ago, her own daughter had been bitten and had developed cellulitis.

So, even before we were off the phone, I began giving Zélie Hyper/Ars 200, which is the Banerji Protocol for cellulitis that I had learned in the Antibiotic Alternative class.

Kate: (05:18)

Okay, so let me just clarify, Jordan, that is a combination remedy of Hypericum and Arsenicum album. So, for those who might not know what we’re referring to.

Jordan:

Right. And I gave her three doses of that — close together — and then laid her down for her nap.

And although my sister and I felt pretty confident it was cellulitis, we both thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if a practitioner could just confirm it for us?” But I really did not want to go that route. I really did not want to go to urgent care. I knew that if I stepped into that realm, there’s a good chance I would lose the freedom to treat this the way I wanted to treat it.

I kept thinking of Joette’s chess analogy. I can’t remember which class she shared this in, but it really made an impression. And basically, what she was saying is a good chess player not only thinks about the move they’re about to make, they’re thinking two, three, even four steps ahead.

So, I don’t play chess, but I’ve watched my husband play my sons and my brothers playing each other, and I can see the wheels turning. And they’re not just thinking about their move. They’re thinking about if I move this piece, how will that change their strategy?

And so, in my circumstance, I was thinking, “If my move is to take Zélie to the doctor or urgent care, what will their move be? How will they respond to me? Will I be allowed to simply walk in, get a diagnosis and leave, especially considering that this was a baby with what would be seen as a dangerous infection?”

Now, I’m not saying there’s never a time and place, right, Kate?

Kate:

Right. Right.

Jordan:

There is a time and a place. My kid breaks their bone? I’m out of my league. I need to go get that set. But that was not the case here. I had what I needed. I had the Banerji Protocol and a community to back me up.

Kate:

I think what you’re saying, Jordan, is so important to think ahead about the things that we are about to do. I had to do that so many times as I was caring for my mother, just thinking about, “Okay, I really want a diagnosis, but what comes with that?”

And so thankfully, I had a team of people who were very willing — including her primary care physician — to give us a diagnosis and then say, “Okay, so now what do you have that can help her?”

And if you don’t have a care team like that, whether it’s a physician or maybe a friend who’s a nurse or even a chiropractor for some things, I think it’s beneficial to find those people who can give you the information that you need where you don’t have to worry about “Am I going to be chastised for not taking a medication?”

Jordan: (07:44)

Right. So, that’s the route I took. I depended on my community. First, as I mentioned. I went to my sister. Then, to confirm what we were thinking, I reached out to a few more knowledgeable friends — including you, Kate. And they all came back saying, “Yes, this looks like cellulitis.”

And one friend in particular not only confirmed that for me, she was such a support. She really stayed by my side, Franicia. Daily, she was checking in on me, sending me texts saying, “How is she doing? What are you noticing?”

And at one point, she even sent me a chart with other medicines to consider should I need to pivot. Fortunately, I didn’t. The protocol did act. But how beautiful is that? That she was engaged with me, and she gave me that sense of “You’re not alone. I’m here for you.”

Kate:

And that’s the importance of community that we talk about so much. And you’ve developed a community of people, Jordan, that you can rely on, and that are there for you, and you’re there for them, which is so beautiful.

Jordan:

Yes, and that’s it. I was relying on them. But there are other times where I have a community of other people who are new to homeopathy, and they’re using me as that safety net.

It’s that … both … that you’re reaching out to those who are further along, perhaps, and then you’re also being that guiding light, helping those who are not as far along as you are.

Kate: (08:53)

I just want to be clear. And we’re not saying that someone who’s not a physician can diagnose or treat conditions. What we are doing is we’re assessing, and we’re using the medicines that we have known — or not we have known — but really that have been proven over many, many years to act for certain conditions. And those are called Banerji Protocols. So, that’s what you were employing.

Jordan:

Right. And I don’t think I would’ve felt confident to treat this on my own had I not had a protocol. I’ll circle back to that later, but it was because I was standing on the Banerjis’ centuries worth of experience knowing what treats cellulitis.

If this were just me and a repertory, I don’t think I would’ve gone there. But because I had the protocol that’s backed up by their vast cumulative clinical experience, I thought, “This is a no-brainer. I’m going to start here.”

And not only that, as I was mentioning, I had a community to say, “Yes, this is what this is.” And no one was calling into question what I was doing. They were all like, “Yeah, this is great. Rock on!”

They were there for me to support me through that, and to — if I needed help — if I needed to pivot, they were willing to help me with that.

Kate:

And if it would’ve been dangerous where you thought you had to take her, and you certainly would’ve done that. I know you.

Jordan:

Yep, absolutely. And that’s one thing Joette teaches is if you’re out of your league, you need to know that.

But in order to get to that point where you have that ability to choose, that’s why you build your knowledge. That’s why you build your community so that your threshold for what you can handle gets higher.

I would not have dealt with this five years ago when I first began. I would not have been able to tackle cellulitis if I had not tackled ear infections and UTIs and headaches and all those things that came before it.

And like I said, too, the community was a huge part of that. I think my initial conversation … so I called my mom (I was supposed to visit her later in the day). Our initial conversation was, “Which urgent care might you need to take her to if this doesn’t turn around quickly?”

So, we were discussing that, but like I said, my heart just went, “I know my community and my knowledge is enough.” And I really felt very confident in that.

Kate: (10:48)

How did you develop that community? I know we’re taking a little side conversation from the progress of what happened with your daughter, but I know people are probably thinking right now, “I want that. How do I get that?”

What would you say?

Jordan:

Yeah, I mean, it’s a combination. I mean, one of those people that I mentioned was my sister. And we’ve been on this journey together for several years now.

And a lot of it’s God. I mean, He brings people into our lives to help us achieve our mission, to fulfill our calling.

This is everybody’s calling. This isn’t just me, Jordan. This is all mothers … anyone taking care of a family. God intended for us to be competent healers. So, if we’re open and our eyes are ready to see those opportunities, I feel like God puts those people in our paths.

Kate:

And you’ve taken the Gateway I and II; I know you’ve been in some of our study groups, right?

Jordan:

Yeah. So, taking those leaps of faith to start Gateways, to be part of Gateways. I mean, I was a part of your Gateway II, Kate.

I’m just thinking back to how I met other people through The Academy. And that was prioritizing those chances that I would have to meet people, like going to Florida when Joette would gather us from The Academy. And that’s where I met friends there, who I still connect with and talk to.

So just making that a priority. This is something I need. God did not intend for us to work in isolation. We were not meant for that. So, I’ve made choices in my life to make sure that I’m building these relationships. I’m spending the time and money and energy to fly to Florida to keep up with people. It’s just as valuable, I feel like as the knowledge that you gain on your own.

Kate:

Sorry, I didn’t mean to lead us astray there for a minute, but I thought that was so important.

What happened next?

Jordan: (12:28)

As I mentioned, I gave the three doses of Hyper/Ars close together before her nap. And when she woke up from her nap, I was so eager to see what it looked like. I was really hoping some change would happen, and it did.

The spots were still there — definitely — but they looked less proud, less inflamed, and no new spots had emerged. So, the progression of the disease was halted.

So, in other words, that’s the magic marker of less intensity that I was looking for. And keeping in mind those markers was so important — that less intensity (lasting for a shorter period of time with longer spaces between each episode) — that was just so key, especially during the first day.

And if you’re a student, you know Joette talks about these markers often. Sometimes you’re like, “Okay, enough, enough.” But now, especially going through this case of cellulitis, I can see why she over and over again repeats that.

Because if I had had unrealistic expectations — if I had gone into that bedroom where I was getting her up from her nap and I was hoping it was going to be gone or such a huge change — if I was looking for that rather than just some degree of improvement, I would’ve lost heart and been like, “I’m done. I’ve got to take her in.”

But because these magic markers have been so ingrained in me, I knew I was looking for improvement. And so, I was encouraged and could continue giving them to her — the medicines.

So, I stuck with the medicines throughout the day, and since I had already planned to visit my mom, I just went ahead with those plans, packed up the kids, and we went.

And while we were there, I just kept Zélie’s pants off because I wanted to keep a close eye on her legs to see if any new spots were emerging and just to see how the old ones were looking.

And it was actually kind of cool because there she was running around in her diaper with cellulitis on her bare little legs, but no one was freaking out. No one was pressuring me to take her anywhere. No one was saying, “You got to do something about this!”

My parents, my children, my adult siblings and my husband, who was out of town for business, they were all on board. Everyone accepted that this was how I was handling it. And the overall feeling was not, “Oh my gosh, this is terrible.”

It was: This is how we handle hard moments. This is how we take care of our children with homeopathy, with careful observation and with calmness.

In the older generations of my family, there was a lot of fear surrounding illnesses and disease. So, this experience felt like we were rewriting that story together. It was actually kind of healing in a different way.

Kate:

And freeing — free from fear, right?

Jordan: (14:54)

Yes. Now, I don’t want to make it sound like I was never anxious because that would be glossing over some other important parts of the story.

And there were a few moments — this is something that we learned about with Joette — is healing is not always linear. And there was moments where it seemed like there was a small step backwards. Later that day, I think it was … yeah, it was later that day.

That first day, I noticed a new smaller spot on the top of her leg. And right away, that fear came in again and was like, “What if this doesn’t work? What if these medicines fail? What if you have to take her in?”

And again, my heart started racing, and I was panicking a little bit again. But then that voice of Joette that has been so ingrained in me said, “You might just need to tighten up the frequency of the medicines.”

So, when I thought about it, I was like, it had been a while since I’d given the last dose. Because she was doing so well and because we were visiting and enjoying ourselves, I kind of forgot to give her the dose when she should have had it. Because, as you know in acute situations, not only is the medicine important, so is the frequency.

So, that’s what I did. I went back to giving the medicine more frequently and carried on.

By the next morning, just under 24 hours of starting the protocol, I could tell with even greater confidence that her legs looked better. So, I began to space out the medicines, and then by day four or five, I stopped them altogether. I may have been able to stop them sooner, but just to be safe, I did continue until about day four or five.

And that’s quite incredible. When you look at the typical trajectory of cellulitis. When it’s met with antibiotics, it seems to take a lot longer to really see that improvement and to see, not a cure — I guess, in the case of antibiotics — but that relief from that disease.

Kate:

That’s incredible progress with the healing and how quickly that happened. And you did stay really calm during this whole period of time. We talked, I know at least once, and you seemed oddly calm for such a serious condition. And so, I’m just really proud of you for handling that and your confidence that I saw.

And you wrote down the word “freeing,” and I just want to talk about that for a bit. Can we break that down as to why did you feel that this was freeing and how did that come to be?

Jordan:

So, my sister felt the same way about noticing how calm I was. She said after the fact, “Yeah, I was surprised at how calm you were on the phone.”

And just to kind of make a point about that, this is not the way I’ve always been. Before I knew homeopathy, about seven years ago, one of my kids woke up in the middle of the night with croup. And I immediately called my mom in a panic, and I said, “Take me to the hospital. I need to take Thérèse.” (That was my child who had it). “Take us to the hospital.”

And she said, “Are you sure you want to go right now? Don’t you want to wait and see?”

And I was like, “No, we need to go now.”

And I just was so panicked. I didn’t have the knowledge; I didn’t have the community. I just panicked and went there.

Part of me is mad at myself. Why did I do that? But I do understand why. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have the protocols. I didn’t have the knowledge. I felt alone. I didn’t have the community to back me up.

Obviously, a lot has changed now. Right?

So, besides that, another thing that has been the reason that I was able to hold steady and treat this homeopathically was the trust that I’ve come to have in these protocols. Once I knew it was cellulitis, my heart didn’t sink like, “Oh no, it’s cellulitis.”

Oddly, my heart leapt because then I thought, “Oh, cool. I know what to use. I know what protocol to use now.”

I’ve seen these protocols act. I’ve seen them cure, as I mentioned earlier, all kinds of things: ear infections and UTIs and headaches and allergies and asthma.

So, when it came to cellulitis, I wasn’t intimidated. I had seen it dozens of times act in other situations and in other contexts. And that’s why I think it’s a mistake when many of us, who are new to homeopathy, are … The usual thing that we ask is, “Just give me the protocol. I just want to have all the protocols.”

And I think wanting the protocol without wanting to learn and build your experiences, like wanting the answer key to a test.

Kate:

Uh-huh. Right!

Jordan:

You might be able to answer those questions on that test. But what about other tests, future tests? What about applying that information to your life?

And I understand why students ask that. They want relief from whatever condition it is that they’re suffering from or that they’re watching one of their loved ones suffer from. But if we’re going to tackle difficult, scary, chronic, difficult conditions, we want to be truly competent and independent.

Jordan: (19:08)

We need to think bigger than just, “Give me the fish.” We want to know, “How do I fish?” Right? So, we want to understand how to apply these protocols in real-life situations.

Kate:

What happens when the hook gets caught in the fish’s mouth, and what happens if you can’t reel the fish in? And you know what I mean?

There are all of these things that happen. You’re right, Jordan. And if you know the bait to use, that’s only one part of fishing.

Jordan:

Right. Because if someone had just handed me the fish — handed me the Banerji Protocol — when I had gotten that diagnosis of cellulitis, and I didn’t have that foundation of trust and experience already — and I think I said this earlier — I’m not sure I could have followed through with it. I’m not sure that I would’ve had the guts or the knowledge or any of that to say, “I’m going to give this time. I’m going to be patient.”

Just like with the croup — my other daughter having croup. I panicked when I didn’t know what to do.

In this case, I knew what to do, and I had the trust that these protocols are going to act. In 80% of cases of cellulitis, the first-line protocol will act.

So, to batten down the hinges and weather that storm, I needed to know down to my toes that these protocols work.

Kate: (20:10)

Such good information, Jordan. I hope this is helpful for those who are listening today.

I know watching you throughout the years and your confidence and your knowledge grow in homeopathy has been a blessing to me, and it’s very encouraging.

So, for those who are listening and wonder, “I don’t think I could do that.”

You CAN do it! It just takes time. It takes a community and the experience, as you said, and the study.

Because you are a student, Jordan. You are always learning.

Something that I think might be worth mentioning is how do you learn with such a large family, homeschooling your children. You’re very busy! So, how do you fit that into your life?

Jordan:

The question I think we need to ask whenever we’re trying to make a decision about making something a part of our lifestyle or making a change, is how important is this to me? Because when it’s important enough, we will find a way. We make excuses when it’s not important enough.

So, for example, I’ve been wanting to lose weight for a long time. I’ve been really wanting to lose the baby weight for a while, but yet, I wasn’t willing to make the changes necessary to lose the weight until recently. Now it’s becoming more important to me because my quality of life is being affected, and so now I’m making changes to lose the weight.

So, it’s true with homeopathy. How important is this to you to learn? What are your goals? If your goal is to treat occasional ear infections or stomach flu, it’s probably fine just to read the blog and dabble in maybe Gateway or a course.

But if you want to really handle the tough situations, the high-stakes situations, we need to immerse ourselves.

It’s like learning a language. If you want to be fluent in French, you’re not just going to buy the book, “How to learn French,” and just read that. You’re also not probably going to take just a high school or college class.

To really grasp the language so it becomes second nature to you. You have to immerse yourself in it. You’re reading, listening, practicing often — perhaps even daily — or traveling to France and living among native speakers.

And it’s the same with homeopathy. If our goal is to treat just a few conditions, casual study’s probably fine. But if we want to be fluent in homeopathy, we want to be able to take care of our families, we really need to immerse ourselves in it. And this looks different for each person. Some people are taking The Academy, others are doing it a class at a time.

And my approach is every day I’m listening to something when I’m nursing the baby, or I’m preparing food for dinner, or I’m washing a floor. Whenever it’s a task that doesn’t require mental effort, I’ve got in my ear Joette talking: a class, a lecture, a podcast, something. So that every day, I’m immersing myself in that world, and I’m learning that language every day.

Kate:

Really good, Jordan. Thank you for sharing all of this. Again, it’s been amazing watching you grow in your knowledge and confidence using homeopathy. What final thoughts do you have today as we end the podcast?

Jordan:

So, I was remembering a time before I had children. I had just gotten married, and I was in the bathroom looking in my mother’s medicine cabinet. I’m not sure why, but I was looking in her cabinet, and I was looking at all the medicines in there.

They weren’t homeopathic at the time because my mom and I had not discovered that. So, they were just the typical Tylenol, Benadryl, that kind of thing.

And I was looking at each of them and thinking, “I don’t know what to do with these. I don’t know how to treat my family. I don’t know what I’m doing.” And it was a terrifying, disempowering thought, and I still remember what that felt like.

But I think God heard the cry of my heart because look at what He’s done. Look at the teachers, look at the community, look at the knowledge, look at the experiences — the good and the bad — that He has brought into my life.

And I really don’t feel like my situation is unique. I feel like this is not just for me, not just for Kate. This is for everyone, for all mothers. This is God’s desire for you and your family.

Kate:

Well said, Jordan. Thank you so much for taking the time today to share with us.

Jordan:

Thank you, Kate. It’s been a joy.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

01:00   Introduction: From Freaking to Fabulous Success Stories

03:02   Homeopathy — and Joette — Were Life-Changing

            Practical Homeopathy® Podcasts

            Courses in Joette’s Learning Center

03:59   Success Story: Enlarged Lymph Nodes

            Joette’s Blog

            5 Reasons to Own a Homeopathy Kit (and My Favorite Remedy for Soft Tissue Infections)

04:54   Success Story: Environmental Allergies

            Yikes! Peanut Butter and Bee Stings Anaphylaxis

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

06:17   Success Story: Childhood Asthma

07:40   Success Story: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) and Hypotension

09:48   Success Story: Acute Stroke Care on the Way to the Hospital

10:53   Success Story: Catheterization Issues

            S is for Staphysagria

11:20   Success Story: Toe Infection

12:04   Success Story: Sunburn

13:56   Success Story: Tailbone Injury From a Fall

15:09   Success Story: Sinus Issues Resolved Along With a Chronic Painful Shoulder

16:13   Success Story: Eczema

17:01   Success Story: Runny Nose

18:22   How to Learn This for Yourself

            Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

            Joette Calabrese on Facebook

            Joette’s courses in the Learning Center

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

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

            Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

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

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

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

21:18   Find a Practical Homeopath™

21:52   Closing Advice

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 148, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the podcast. We love it that you’re here with us.

Today, I have a special Mom with Moxie with me, and if you want to know if homeopathy can help you or your family member with allergies, rashes, anxiety, toenail infections, sunburns, eczema, tailbone injuries, chronic shoulder pain, and so much more, you are in the right place.

Suzy’s going to share her homeopathy stories with you and how she learned to address these conditions. So welcome, Suzy.

Suzy:

Thank you, Kate. It’s great to be here.

Kate:

Yes, it’s great to see you. Normally, we get to see each other in person at least a few times a year, so it’s fun to see you even if it’s on the screen today.

Suzy:

Yep. It is a joy to meet you and your team. It’s been great. I love it.

Kate:

So, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Suzy:

So, I’m a homeschool mom. My family and I live in South Florida. We’re a big boating family. My husband is a mariner; he’s a captain. I have two boys, 18 and 13, and in all these years, homeopathy has blessed my family in many ways. And, yeah!

So, I was always into researching things, and when my son started presenting with severe allergies and asthma issues at five years old, I decided that it was time to look into other modalities because the remedies that were being offered to me with allopathic medicines had a lot of negative side effects.

And so, I began searching, and people knew that. And people were sending me articles and things that were further along in their study of natural remedies.

And I found Joette, and that was a pivotal moment in all of our lives, because that was nine years ago. I can’t even believe it, nine years. Anyway, it was right when Joette was starting to offer courses, and I think I heard about her right before Allergic?! came out.

So, it was a godsend, and it was timely. And we will go more into it, but that was basically how I found Joette and what springboarded me into using homeopathy.

Kate: (03:02)

I love something that you said. “I found Joette after a friend sent me a recording of Joette discussing fevers,” and then you wrote, “Sold.”

Suzy:

Absolutely. It was life-changing. I had never really heard anybody speak about things like I had heard Joette speak about them, and it made so much sense.

And I share a Sicilian background, and so many things about Joette I can relate with, and it was a match made in heaven for me. And she’s become my mentor … sort of like a mom/grandmother that I don’t have anymore. And it’s just been such a blessing. Yes. So, it made so much sense.

Kate:

And then you started listening to podcasts and taking some of the courses and learning more and more and applying those things to the conditions that your family or those you had contact with who had conditions.

So, I think it would be great to hear some of those success stories if you wouldn’t mind sharing some with us.

Suzy: (03:59)

Sure. So, early on, I didn’t have everything memorized. So, I would write down the name of a podcast. If I knew someone in my homeschool community had a child suffering with an ailment, I would refer them back to these podcasts or the blog.

There’s a few stories that stick out in my mind. And one was a mom who had been so freaked out because she kept going to her doctor, and she had these enlarged lymph nodes on her neck. And I guess maybe she had some illnesses in her family. So, she was super freaked out.

And I had sent her the blog, 5 Reasons to Own a Homeopathy Kit (and My Favorite Remedy for Soft Tissue Infections), which addressed her issues … the enlarged lymph nodes. And she began taking the advice from the blog, and within just a few weeks, everything had disappeared, and another believer made! So, that was cool.

Suzy: (04:54)

Another girl, a younger girl in our community, suffered from peanut allergies and anaphylaxis and just environmental allergies in general. So, every time we’d enter the church where we held our homeschool meetings, she would start breaking out, getting hives, and it would really affect her.

So, I had read the blog [Editor’s note: a Monday Night Live video], Yikes! Peanut Butter and Bee Stings Anaphylaxis, and I offered for the mother to offer her child Apis and Aconite, alternating them during one of her episodes. And after a few doses, it had really calmed down.

And all of these things just added up to make me trust homeopathy more and more, because in the beginning, you’re not really sure what to expect — how much to rely on it. But this has been bolstering my trust in homeopathy big-time from the beginning.

And then our good friend, Beth (who you know, too), her husband had developed a severe allergic reaction with a super-red rash on him. And she had tried the normal remedies that you go to, and they weren’t working. But during an Allergic?! class, I remembered Joette mentioning a remedy, Rhus venenata. It was for a deep, deep red rash. And I told her that, and it worked! And we were just like high-fiving. Yay!

Kate:

Yay! Okay. So, tell us about some of the success stories with your family, because these are some incredible success stories that almost unbelievable.

Suzy: (06:17)

My son and my father are two of the ones that it has helped the most because my son, like I said, had developed childhood asthma. Every time the air conditioning would kick on and it would blow past his face, he would start wheezing. And he had severe reactive airway, and he would get really sick several times a year. And we were in the hospital many times, admitted with pneumonia and everything else that comes along with it: so many steroids, so much albuterol and nebulizers.

And I took the Allergic?! class and started employing the remedies that I was learning there to uproot these conditions. And there was some steps back and steps forward. But ultimately, I wasn’t afraid because Joette says these medicines are safe — relatively safe — as long as you’re following protocols and knowing what to look for. And I think that’s what was so helpful is knowing what to look for using these remedies.

So, probably within about six to eight months, things were improving significantly. No more nightly wheezing, no more albuterol inhalers at midnight. The steroids would make him kind of very irritable. So, all of that combined has just greatly improved his quality of life and has lowered my anxiety.

And he’s 18 years old now. This started when he was, like, six. So, I mean, he basically doesn’t even need an inhaler anymore at all. It’s been wonderful. And that wouldn’t have happened without homeopathy.

Suzy: (07:40)

And another good story that I love to tell is my father, who … he’s elderly, he was 80 (I guess he was about 80 years old). He started developing sciatica pains — very, very severe pain throughout his whole body.

None of the remedies that the doctors were giving him — the allopathic meds, the painkillers — nothing was working. In fact, made him worse, made him not eat, made him lethargic.

And basically, he collapsed at home one morning. We had to break down his door, and the paramedics had to take him to the hospital.

So, after a lot of probing and figuring out, they gave him a spinal tap and found out that he had an illness called CIDP, which is chronic [inflammatory] demyelinating polyneuropathy. And basically, it’s sort of like the chronic of Guillain-Barre syndrome, but it’s chronic.

So, I didn’t know what to do with that. There was so much going on there that I actually wrote into the Banerji clinic, and they gave me a protocol for it. And I’m telling you, Kate, within three or four days, I could see a significant difference.

Kate:

Wow!

Suzy:

Yeah, we kept with that protocol for about a year. And I was going back and forth with them, checking in, making sure all was good. When we finally went to a follow-up visit with  his neurologist, she goes, “I am sorry. I think that your father was misdiagnosed because people with this illness, they don’t get better. They’ll only get worse.”

So, I didn’t say anything, but I was just so pleased that, yes, he was weakened overall from this. He’s not really been as vibrant as he once was, but he is way better than what would’ve been had he been on gabapentin, all these drugs, all these years. Yeah, so that was a big one.

And he used to faint continuously. He had hypotension — postural hypotension. So, every time he would get up after laying down, he would get lightheaded and many times just faint flat on the floor. And I had come across a Banerji Protocol for that, and he was on that for a good six-eight months and never again … never fainted again.

So, yeah, this stuff works. It’s amazing.

Kate:

Isn’t it? Incredible. It’s life-changing.

Suzy: (09:48)

Absolutely. And then there was another time that he was talking with me, and his texts weren’t making sense, and his language was all garbled. He wasn’t speaking well. So, I had never had an encounter with someone having a stroke, but that was, in fact, what was happening.

So, when I got to his house and the ambulance was on the way, I just started dosing him with Aconite … Arnica, Aconite … Arnica.

By the time they got there, they actually didn’t even want to take him in because they thought he was so much better. But they did.

And they did find that he had a small stroke, but he did not suffer any major repercussions from it. There was no muscle loss or any of that. So, was it the Aconite … Arnica? Yeah. I’d like to say it was a huge help right from the start. The earlier the better. So, that was great.

He’s had so many. I mean, he’s had unknown lip swelling — anaphylaxis — and Apis to the rescue. He couldn’t even believe it. He goes, “I start to feel the tingle, and you give me those little pills, and the tingle goes away.”

“That’s amazing, Dad. Isn’t it?”

Kate:

I love it. So many people use that terminology: those little white pills. Yeah, those little white …

Suzy:

Yeah, those little white balls. Exactly.

Suzy: (10:53)

And one more that comes to mind: So, when he came home from the hospital, he was catheterized for that week or whatever he was in there. And he got home that night, and the pain started, and he couldn’t go.

Recalling those blog posts, Joette wrote a blog called S is for Staphysagria, and it was all about how to deal with problems with urination after catheterization. So, two doses of Staphysagria … all better. That was another ER trip avoided, for sure.

Kate: (11:20)

Yes. So, let’s go on to your other son and an infection that he had.

Suzy:

He came up to me one day, and his big toe was just bright red and nasty-looking. And he was saying it was throbbing, and it was hurting. And I just remembered Belladonna. That’s a keynote for Belladonna: hot, red and angry.

Every time someone says … you know, I say, “What does that look like?”

“It’s hot; it’s red; it’s throbbing; it’s angry.”

Belladonna.

So, a couple of doses of Belladonna. I think we did it a few times on the first day and then went to twice daily for a couple of days … all gone.

Kate:

And again, another trip to the doctor avoided.

Suzy:

Absolutely. And I don’t like going to the doctor. If anybody knows me, they know that.

Kate:

Who does? The doctor and the dentist? No one wants to go.

Suzy:

Nope, you are right.

Kate: (12:04)

Okay. So, living in Florida, I know that you have encountered sunburns, right? So, tell us about your husband and one time when he got a bad sunburn.

Suzy:

Right. So, my husband’s a workhorse. When he goes out to clean the boat, he will go out lunchtime till seven o’clock at night and be cleaning that boat with no shirt on. He came in one day, and he was just fried.

Many people in my group that I — I have a study group (that’s another topic) — but it had been telling me that they use Cantharis for sunburn. And then Joette recently has been starting to talk about sunburns as well.

So, I decided to give him Cantharis 30. I think I gave it to him once, and a half an hour later, I gave it to him again, and half an hour after that I said, “How’s your sunburn feeling?”

And he goes, “Oh, I totally forgot about it.”

Score! That’s great. It’s a great tool because, you’re right, we are out in the sun sometimes morning ‘til night, and inevitably, sometimes, we get burned.

Kate:

And you’ve used Cantharis instead of putting on a lot of sunscreen when you guys travel and you’re gone for weeks and spending, like you said, maybe all day outside.

Suzy:

Right. So, we spend two months in the Bahamas each year, and my children absolutely hate sunscreen. And so, having these remedies to use instead of ..

In the morning, I’ll give them a dose before we go out. If they seem red midday, I’ll give it to ’em again. And if it stays red throughout the day, I’ll do it again at night.

Over time, by doing that, they have not gotten as sunburned at all like they used to get, especially my little one, who’s very fair. But if the sun’s too strong, we use our common sense. We’ll put a hat on, put a shirt on, and we’re good to go.

Not putting all those sunscreens on with all those chemicals gives me peace of mind.

Kate:

Right.

Do you have any other stories before we wrap up the podcast?

Suzy: (13:56)

Sure. So, for me, I’ve had a couple injuries myself. And one year, while we were in the Bahamas, I was stepping onto our little dinghy, and it was slick. So, my foot just gave way, and I fell flat on my tailbone.

And in my purse — thank God, I carry some things in my purse — I had Aconite, and I had Hypericum — I think both in a 200. And I just started alternating them until I calmed down, and the pain started to calm down.

And I think I had to use it probably for several weeks to a few months ‘til the pain was totally gone. But yeah, it was amazing how quickly I got back on my feet. It did not ruin my vacation, where it could have, for sure.

Kate:

What is it with vacations and landing on your tailbone? That happened to me on a vacation as well in Puerto Rico. And I fell, landed on my tailbone on marble, and I had to teach a class that night. It was a homeopathy class.

I also took Hypericum and Aconite, and I thought I was going to have to go to an emergency room because it was really so painful. But the remedies, they worked, and I was able to teach a class that … in a few hours after that. Amazing!

Suzy:

It is. It’s amazing.

I mean, for sure, I think I either cracked it … I did something. I landed hard.

Kate:

Yeah, I know.

Suzy: (15:09)

And one other one that sticks out is that I was using Sanguinaria for some sinus issues that I was having. And in high school, I had developed severe right shoulder pain from playing volleyball and softball. And I just really didn’t address it because it really only bothered me when I would take on and off a shirt or a bathing suit or something. I could not raise my right arm over my head without a lot of pain.

And then after taking Sanguinaria for maybe a month or two, I noticed that my shoulder pain had totally gone away. I mean, I can lift that shoulder and do everything I could before.

And that was just such an added bonus to clearing up my sinus congestion that my chronic, long-term shoulder pain dissipated.

Kate:

Oh, wow.

Suzy:

From a sinus remedy! But when you know materia medica, you realize, yeah, that’s what it does.

Kate:

They can do more than one thing. Oftentimes, if you address one of the symptoms you have, it may act and clear up some of the other ones. I’ve seen that happen so many times.

Suzy: (16:13)

Exactly. So that was a good one.

I mean, I have maybe one or two other stories that I’d like to share. So …

Kate:

Sure!

Suzy:

The son that struggled with asthma and allergies also developed eczema on the backs of his hands … pretty severe. He was a hand washer, and he would wash his hands a lot. And I think the soaps and everything else had just been too much for him.

I had gone and used some of the specific eczema protocols, and maybe I saw some improvements.

But then I added Bovista, which is sort of like an overall remedy for allergies. And within two weeks, the eczema was totally gone, never came back.

Like Joette says, you can use something — it might not be totally proper for that person — but you will eventually land on the right remedy. And that was for sure. That happened with Bovista, which was great.

Suzy: (17:01)

One other story I like to tell is when this son would develop his allergies or a cold was coming on, he would get a streaming, runny nose. I mean, through probably two boxes of tissues a day. It would get all red, and it just wouldn’t stop, no matter what I was using. All of the typical remedies that you would use for runny nose would not work in all these years.

But once it got to the other stages, all those remedies would work, right?

So, if you started to develop the cough and then the chest tightness, I would have those protocols, but the running nose just never stopped. But that would start freaking me out the most. Right? Because once you see that runny nose start, you just play the tape through and know what’s going to come in a few days.

So, anyway, I was using a combination remedy, and Joette always says it’s one of those remedies in that combination you could probably pinpoint.

So, I was reading down, and it said, “for a streaming, runny nose.” And I’d never seen it labeled like that on any remedy before. And it was Gelsemium.

And sure enough, I gave him a higher potency of Gelsemium — two doses — and it stopped his running nose after all these years.

Just getting those tips from Joette are so helpful.

Kate:

You said it also made sense because Gelsemium is for fatigue as well, and he was usually fatigued and wouldn’t want to move.

Suzy:

Right. Whenever it would happen, he would go straight to his back for days, and he wouldn’t get up. He wouldn’t move. He would just lay there.

Kate: (18:22)

I’m sure these stories are only the tip of the iceberg. Suzy. I know that you have so many more.

If you are here and you’re new to homeopathy (or newer), and you’re wondering, “How do I find the information on helping my family or my friends?” There’s a search function at the top of the website, JoetteCalabrese.com, and you can go there and type in a keyword like “runny nose” or “fatigue” or “sunburn,” and it will bring up all of the blogs, articles, and podcasts that talk about that condition or symptom. And it’s a great resource.

You can also type in one of the search engines, “Joette Calabrese sunburn.” So, it can work that way as well, and it’ll bring that information up for you.

So, Suzy, before we end today, I wanted to know if you could share how do you learn how to handle all of these conditions? Or what did you do?

Suzy:

Well, all of Joette’s various forms of teaching have been so pivotal in my growing knowledge and knowing what to do and how to do it.

So, I would recommend just starting with blogs, starting with podcasts. If you’re in your car, just repeat one after the other. I would just listen to them. And I would just have that all in my memory to recall when something came up.

And then what I would do is I would download the Remedy Cards that came with each blog, and I would store them on my computer digitally. And I can access them from my phone at the drop of a hat. I can just search, and all of those Remedy Cards are saved and easy to access. And they’re free and so helpful.

It’s just like you said, so I’m constantly giving Joette’s name out, saying, “Type her name with whatever you’re looking for in the search engine, and you’ll find it. It will come up with either a blog or a Monday Night Live or something.”

If you’re on Facebook, you could go through there, too. Right. She’s on so many platforms now.

Kate:

Yeah. I know that you’ve also taken some of Joette’s courses, and you’re in The Academy as well. So, how have those helped you?

Suzy:

Right. So, certainly after I took Allergic?! that was timely and needed, right, for what I needed it for.

And then after doing that, I decided that I was hooked. I just couldn’t get enough.

I took the Mindful course, I took Good Gut, Bad Gut. I took Feminopathy.

A good friend of mine and I are still involved in doing biweekly classes with a local group of ladies going through the courses one by one or doing the Gateway to Homeopathy classes. Those are amazing. I’ve probably taken Gateway I and II three or four times each now. And hopefully, I plan to teach it too, so that’ll be great.

So, then that led me to joining The Academy because I wanted more practice with case-taking more chronic stuff. I mean, I kind of felt pretty good doing the acutes, but getting into chronics can be a little bit more complicated and a little bit more difficult to navigate.

So, The Academy has really bolstered my confidence there. And I look forward to Mastery™ because I know that that’s where that’s leading — just really getting into case study and getting a lot of practice there.

Kate: (21:18)

Good. And for those of you who are listening and you’re wondering, where do I find a homeopath who’s graduated from The Academy and/or Mastery™ programs, you can find a list of those graduates who are taking cases on FindAPracticalHomeopath.com. That’s FindAPracticalHomeopath.com. And we’ll have that link in the notes for this podcast on the website.

It’s been so much fun talking to you today and hearing your stories and your passion for homeopathy. Do you have any final words for us?

Suzy: (21:52)

Learning homeopathy all these years has been such a blessing to me and my family. And after all these years listening to Joette, she has really taken me “from freaking to fabulous.”

And if you know Joette and you’ve listened to her for any amount of time, that’s one of her mantras.

And I know that if she can do this for me, she could definitely do it for you, too. So, take time, study homeopathy. It will not disappoint.

Kate:

Aw, thank you, Suzy. What good words to finish the podcast.

Suzy:

Thank you, Kate. It’s been great. Love seeing you.

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: Top Summer Homeopathic Remedies to Have on Hand

03:11     Apis mellifica

04:40   Ledum palustre

06:22   Urtica urens

08:26   Cantharis

09:30   Glonoinum, China (Cinchona officinalis) and Bioplasma®

            Ditch the Gatorade and Make My Sons’ Homeopathic Electrolyte Drink

            JoetteCalabrese.com

11:06   Rhus toxicodendron, Antimonium crudum and Anacardium orientale

11:55   Calendula

12:31   How to learn more

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 147, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette today.

Hi, Joette!

Joette:

Hi Kate. How are you?

Kate:

Good. I’m excited because we are going to be talking about summer remedies to have on hand for things that you do in the summertime (like go to the beach, go camping).

And so, we’re going to give the listeners today some important remedies that they might need for things that occur during being out in the sun or getting bug bites. So, let’s get started.

Joette:

Let’s.

Kate:

So, I thought we would start with, Joette, the remedies that you would have on hand for all emergencies. And there are many probably, right? Because I always talk about how I bring too many remedies when I go anywhere.

But some of the top remedies you would say to have on hand for any emergency, no matter the season, are what?

Joette:

So, let me first say that I don’t think you can have too many remedies with you when you’re on a vacation or a trip or a weekend or a picnic. I always say. “She who has the most remedies in the end, wins.”

Kate:

Right. And I always say, “We buy remedies instead of shoes.”

Joette:

Right, exactly. Yeah, because they last forever. You never wear out a remedy. Can wear out shoes.

So, yeah, this is a great topic because it’s, of course, timely. Summer’s coming up, and we want to know what remedies to have on hand before an accident occurs, before a bug bite, before a sunburn, et cetera, et cetera.

So, it’s really one of the main aspects of learning homeopathy is being prepared, right? As a mom, as a grandmother, as a scout leader, as a teacher, you want always to be prepared. So, of course, it’s important to have as many remedies as you feel comfortable carrying around and carrying with you, given the season and given the possibilities.

Now that we’re talking about summer, then, we can also add the summer conditions such as burns, sunburn, or even a burn from touching a hot coal at the grill at the picnic site. So, we want to be prepared for all of those eventualities as well.

Kate: (03:11)

So, I’m going to mention a few, Joette, and then maybe you could talk about why you would bring that remedy with you.

So, let’s start with Apis.

Joette:

Well, Apis is called Apis mellifica. It’s specifically made from a honeybee; meaning homeopathically, it’s derived from a honeybee. So, hence, it’s great for bee stings. Doesn’t have to be a honeybee; it could be a wasp, could be a hornet, could be anything like that.

But really, what’s most important is that it shows … the way we know to use it is that it presents as hot and swollen and maybe even water-filled, you know, kind of edematous.

So, it’s a great remedy for extreme pain, burning pain — just like an insect bite would be painful — a stinging burning pain. And it swells up and it can be hot to the touch, or a person is experiencing the area as hot.

It can be a great medicine for any of those kinds of bites that are not itchy. These are not itchy bites; these are painful bites. “Stings” is really a better way to put it.

Kate:

And bonus, is that Apis is a great remedy, also, for an allergic reaction to something. So, you …

Joette:

Hives. Yeah, can be used for hives. Yes, absolutely.

So, let’s say you’ve gone to a picnic. It’s a big family picnic, and you didn’t realize that your child was allergic or would respond to red dye. And Aunt Martha brings a cake with red dye in it, and your child has some. Your child ends up with hives. Apis can be useful for that as well.

Kate: (04:40)

And I know, Joette, you mentioned using Ledum as well for bee stings. So, that’s another option to have.

And there’s a couple of uses that I can think of and reasons why you would want to have Ledum as well. Can you talk about that?

Joette:

First of all, let me say that I like to use Ledum in a 200 potency, but if all you’ve got is a 30, you use what you’ve got. But 200 seems to be the most valuable for when there is any kind of puncture and a puncture wound.

Now, an insect does make a puncture wound. Essentially, it’s injecting its stinger into your skin. So, it is a puncture wound of sorts. But also, if someone were to step on a rusty nail at the picnic or they were to get a sliver stuck in their finger from climbing a tree, Ledum is one of our best medicines for any time that there is a wound that is more like a puncture than anything else.

And it can relieve not only the potential for an infection, if used properly in conjunction with other medicines, as well, but it also will help keep any poisons that might be associated with it at bay.

Kate:

And also, those nasty tick bites, right?

Joette:

Oh yes, that’s probably what you were getting at. Those tick bites.

Kate:

Yes, those tick bites.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah, those tick bites.

People are very afraid of tick bites. I don’t think we need to be as afraid as the media has led us to believe. Because we have our medicines, because we know what to do.

So, if someone gets a tick bite, you take off the tick. Save the tick, my friends. Save it; put it in alcohol when you get home; label it (what day it was, et cetera). But meanwhile, you’re going to be using Ledum palustre 200C four times that day or even more frequently than that. And then, for several days after that as well.

Kate: (06:22)

We were talking a bit earlier, when we spoke about Apis, about a burning pain. And there’s another remedy that if, say, you’re going to the ocean, and you might encounter a sting there. Urtica urens: that might be useful for if you’re at the beach by the ocean or some other types of stinging pain, right?

Joette:

Yes. From stepping on Portuguese man o’war, Urtica urens can often be the medicine. So, Apis, you have to kind of differentiate between the two of them, but you want to own both.

And Urtica urens also presents in hives … in urticaria … called … That’s why the remedy’s called Urtica urens. It’s for hives as well as Apis. Both of those, they’re very closely related remedies, interestingly.

And so, that is a great medicine for hives, regardless of what the cause is. Both of them, regardless of the cause, we don’t necessarily need to know what the cause is. It’s how it’s presenting that gives us the clue as to which medicine to use.

Kate:

I like how you distinguished one time, Joette, when you were speaking about Apis versus Urtica, that Apis is more in the upper part of the body, the face and the swelling around the neck and the head, and Urtica was usually lower. Am I on the right track there?

Joette:

I think you are, but let’s put it this way: Apis will present more in an allergic reaction where the lips, the eyes, under the eyes, the mouth, the tongue, the uvula, the throat might swell. When you say it’s the upper part of the body, you’re meaning, yes, around the head, the face, the mouth, inside the mouth. When we see those kinds of reactions — those kind of allergic reactions — we automatically think of Apis. Now, Urtica urens could also potentially be used for that, but we think of Apis first.

Now, Urtica urens is when we see hives where it’s not around the mouth, the nose, the eyes, the throat, the tongue. It doesn’t mean it can’t ever be useful, but we always think of Apis first when we think of any anaphylaxis.

Kate:

Oh, I thought of another one for Urtica urens: jellyfish stings, right?

Joette:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Yes, yes. Very good for jellyfish stings.

Kate: (08:26)

Okay, let’s move on to heat and burns. And one of the remedies that we want to speak about now is Cantharis.

Joette:

Yeah, Cantharis is one of our great medicines for the burning and pain of urinary tract infections, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. But I want to make that association so that you can imagine that kind of stinging, burning pain during a urinary tract infection can be presented in another way.

If someone picks up a hot stick at the fire pit, and they burn their hand; it’s burning, stinging. It’s Cantharis. We do want to think about that.

But I also love Cantharis for sunburn. It can be one of our best medicines for sunburn.

In fact, I’ve got a towel in my guest room bathroom that has Cantharis written on it, and then the remedy is right there on the counter. So that, when my guests come in from out of town and they get burned in the sun, they’re in that bathroom; that’s their towel. It’s the Cantharis towel, and there’s the remedy, should they have gotten a sunburn that day.

Kate:

That’s a really sneaky way to teach people remedies, Joette.

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Kate: (09:30)

Alright, what about if you get overheated and too hot during the summer? What would you use?

Joette:

Well, one of our best medicines for being overheated — there are two good ones. The first one I think of is Glonoinum — kind of a fun word to say. Glonoinum is really great for heat stroke, heat exhaustion, just feeling overheated. And you may not even recognize that it’s from the heat that you’re feeling so uncomfortable and weakened by.

And then I also like China. Just the way it sounds. C-H-I-N-A, China is for when they’re overheated that is related to dehydration because they usually go hand in hand.

And, of course, we want water with electrolytes or water with salt in it while the person is also taking the homeopathics. You want to be smart and use those kinds of measures as well.

Kate:

And Bioplasma®, which is a combination of all 12 cell salts, can be useful for that as well.

Joette:

Well, what I love about Bioplasma — that’s made by Hyland’s — you can put that in the water with the electrolytes and salt.

And I also (if you happen to have it around) some yogurt whey (the liquid from yogurt). That helps the gut absorb the nutrients from the electrolytes more readily. So, that’s not a bad thing to add in there as well. I actually have something about a drink like that on my blog that I posted years ago.

Kate:

And we’ll link to it from the notes from this podcast. So, if you’re listening to this podcast, just go to JoetteCalabrese.com and click on podcasts. And the transcripts from this podcast will be there, and you can read and click right there on the links.

Kate: (11:06)

A couple other things I want to get to really quick before we end the podcast is if you go out, Joette, into the woods, and you might encounter some itchy plants or plants that would make you itch. So, what might be some good remedies for that?

Joette:

Well, most people think automatically of Rhus tox, but I also think Antimonium crud can be very, very useful, and so can Anacardium. We’re not giving very specific information here as to what potency, what frequency, how often to use it. This is really just to give you an overview of, “These are the medicines you want to consider having on hand for these kinds of conditions.”

Kate:

So, look them up in your materia medica and read about them, and that will help you determine in what situation you might use that remedy. And again, all these remedies’ names will be spelled out in the podcast notes.

Kate: (11:55)

I think, Joette, let’s end with something that you could apply topically as well as take internally if you want. But there’s a good soothing remedy that you can use after sunburns or anything that might have a little scratch from the woods or something like that. What would that be?

Joette:

Well, there are a number of them, but one of the most common and one of my favorite is Calendula.

And you can get that in ointments, in creams, or you can just purchase it as a homeopathic in its pill form and actually make it a little paste out of it in a little bit of water and rub it on the area. It can be very soothing and very comforting and also protects against the potential of infection.

Kate: (12:31)

Thanks, Joette.

This is just a quick overview of some of the remedies you want to have on hand for those summertime activities.

But I wanted to mention that we do have a whole section (or a lesson) in the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II study guide on emergencies. So, if you want to learn more, that’s a great place to go and find out more about the remedies that you might want to have on hand in addition to the ones that we mentioned today.

Joette, thank you so much for the information.

Joette:

Thank you so much, Kate. This is great.

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: Absolutely anyone can lead a study group

            Joette’s Learning Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15:04   Lesson Three: First aid situations

17:22   Aconitum napellus

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

20:55  Joette’s time with the Banerjis

            Arnica montana 200C

            Ignatia 200C

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

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

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

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

36:37   Closing Thoughts

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

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

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 146, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Joette:

Hi Kate, Michele.

Michele:

Hi Kate. Hi Joette.

Kate:

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

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

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

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

Michele:

Absolutely anyone can lead a study group.

Kate:

Yes, yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michele: (02:35)

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

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

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

Kate: (02:59)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (09:59)

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (11:52)

Right.

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

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

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

Michele: (12:52)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

Yeah, that’s a very interesting section.

Michele:

It is.

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (15:04)

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

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

Joette: (17:22)

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

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

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

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

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

There’s Aconitum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (19:41)

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

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

Michele:

For sure. My lips are sealed!

Kate:

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

Kate: (20:55)

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

Michele:

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is their paradigm.

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

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

And then you find out from that patient.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (30:04)

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

Michele:

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

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

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

Kate: (31:28)

It is.

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

No. Homeopathy is actual medicine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

Alright.

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

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

Oh, yeah. That’s a great benefit.

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

Michele:

Right.

Kate: (35:48)

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

Michele:

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

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

Joette:

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

Kate: (36:37)

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

Michele:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Joette:

Thanks, Kate. Thanks, Michelle. Really fun.

Michele:

Thank you, Joette.

Kate:

Bye.

Michele:

Bye.

Joette:

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

01:51   Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
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            “How to Raise a Healthy Child… in Spite of Your Doctor”

            “Confessions of a Medical Heretic”

            “Male Practice”

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

06:01   It’s just common sense.

12:40   Fevers

            Get Your Kids High: Fever Is Good

18:21   The takeaway? Relax.

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 145, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Joette:

Hi Kate.

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette: (01:51)

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (04:30)

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

Right? It was funny.

Joette: (06:01)

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

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

So, this is what he says:

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Vision and hearing problems.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (12:40)

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

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

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

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

Joette:

Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

Kate:

Tell us about that a little bit.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But other than that, we love fever.

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

No, it’s not a problem.

Kate:

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

Joette:

… that needs to be tended to. Yes.

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (18:21)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s my message.

Kate:

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

Joette:

Yes, thanks, Kate. Talk to you soon.

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

04:28   Homeopathy and the Amish Community

07:15   Success Stories: Farm Animals

09:26   Success Story: A Pulsatilla Child

11:02   Success Stories: Emotional Conditions

14:21   Success Story: Umbilical Hernia

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

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
Joette’s Learning Center
PracticalHomeopathy.com
Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
Joette’s Mighty Members
Find a Practical Homeopath® (for consultations or for educational study groups led by my Discovery Ambassadors)

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Hi, Jane.

Jane:

Hi, Kate. Thank you for having me.

Kate:

Yeah, welcome.

Jane:

I’m very humbled.

Kate:

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

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

Jane:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate: (04:28)

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

Jane:

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

That’s very exciting.

Jane:

Yes.

Kate: (07:15)

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

And five babies on the way, huh?

Jane:

Yes, five babies on the way in May.

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

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

Kate:

Oh my gosh.

Jane:

Carbo veg is the corpse reviver.

Kate:

Yes.

Jane:

It really works.

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

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

Any other animal stories?

Jane:

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

Kate:

For an infection?

Jane:

Yes.

Kate:

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

And then the Calendula, were you using topically or …

Jane:

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

Kate: (09:26)

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

Jane:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

You mean before she had homeopathy? Yeah.

Jane:

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

Kate: (11:02)

You have some situations where some emotional things have happened.

Jane:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

Exactly.

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

Oh, definitely

Kate:

… in conjunction. Yeah.

Jane:

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Jane: (14:21)

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

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

Kate: (15:17)

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

Jane:

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

Kate:

Yeah.

Jane:

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jane:

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

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

Kate:

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

Jane:

Thank you, Kate.

Joette:

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

01:19   When Should I Use a Remedy?

02:10   What Could Be Extrinsic?

10:30   Routine Tests Fuel Fear.

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

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

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 143, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

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

Joette: (01:19)

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

Kate:

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

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

Joette:

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

Joette: (2:10)

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (10:30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (12:29)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

Why test?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

Yeah, nice conversation, Kate. Take care.

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01:00   Introduction: Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?

02:55   Are You Ready to Lead?

04:21   Staying Connected With Your Group

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

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Hi, Michele.

Michele:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

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

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Michele:

Yeah, you couldn’t get rid of me.

Kate:

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

Michele:

Never.

Kate: (02:55)

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

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Michele: (04:21)

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

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

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

Kate:

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

Michele:

Yeah.

Kate: (05:31)

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

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Michele:

Right.

Kate:

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

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

Michele:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

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

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

Michele:

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

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

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

Michele: (11:14)

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

Kate:

Right.

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

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

Michele:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

Michele:

They’re passionate.

Kate: (14:52)

Yeah, they are. They’re great leaders.

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

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

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

Michele:

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

Michele:

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

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

Kate:

Yeah.

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

Michele:

Can they?

Kate:

Michele, what do you think?

Michele:

I dunno. Can they?

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michele:

Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

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

05:04   Tackling Arthritis

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

07:36   Bringing Homeopathy to the Medical Community

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

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

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

15:56   Homeopathy Offers Hope for the Hopeless

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 141, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

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

Joette:

Hi, Johnelle.

Johnelle:

Hi. Good to talk to you.

Joette:

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

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

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

Johnelle:

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

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

Joette:

Your body’s a pretty smart entity.

Johnelle: (02:52)

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle: (05:04)

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

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

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

Joette:

Do you remember what the remedy was, Johnelle?

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

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

Johnelle: (05:56)

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

Joette:

Yeah.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

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

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

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

Joette:

Yes.

Johnelle: (07:36)

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

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Johnelle:

Right.

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

Well, he was a friend anyway.

Joette:

Oh, okay.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Good question, yeah.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

And he is a GP, Johnelle?

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Oh, okay. Okay.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette: (10:49)

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Right.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

Yeah. It’s called the Lifelong Learning Center.

Joette:

Oh, perfect.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Yes.

Johnelle: (11:54)

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

I’m trying. Yes, yes, yes, ma’am.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

Johnelle: (13:04)

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

Joette:

Oh, wow. Yes.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Yes ma’am.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

Right.

Joette:

Yeah. You’re directing them.

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

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

Joette:

Yeah. Because they’re more committed.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Nice.

Johnelle: (15:56)

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

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

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

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

Yes, we are. Yes.

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

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

Johnelle:

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

Joette:

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

Johnelle:

Thank you. God bless.

Joette:

God bless you, too. Bye now.

Johnelle:

Bye.

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate:

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

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

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

05:17   What Is Homeopathy?

13:06   Purchasing Homeopathic Remedies

15:51   Homeopathy Gives Moms Health Care Autonomy

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

21:17   Recovery After Childbirth
            Blogs: JoetteCalabrese.com

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

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

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

30:51   Morning Sickness
            Tabacum 30C

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

36:21   Ailments from Restaurant Food
            Pulsatilla 30C

40:43   Homeopathy and Catholicism

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

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Kate:

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

Joette:

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

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

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

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast.

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

Timmerie:

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Timmerie:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (05:17)

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

Timmerie:

Yes.

Joette:

Okay, great.

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

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

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

Homeopathy is not like that.

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

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

Homeopathy is the opposite.

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

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

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

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

So, you probably want an example.

Timmerie:

Sure, yeah, that would be great.

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timmerie:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (13:06)

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

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

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

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

Timmerie:

So, what company is that?

Joette:

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

Timmerie:

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

Joette:

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

Timmerie:

Yeah, Boiron.

Joette:

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

Timmerie:

And Sprouts, some of the others …

Joette:

Sprouts. That’s right, yes.

Timmerie:

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

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

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

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

Joette: (15:51)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timmerie:

Did you say for bees?

Joette:

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

Timmerie: (18:34)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

Timmerie:

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

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

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

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

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

Donna: (21:17)

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

Timmerie:

Congratulations on your baby!

Joette:

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

Donna:

Yes.

Joette:

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

Timmerie:

Yes.

Joette:

It is exactly what I used for my births.

Timmerie:

Me too.

Joette:

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

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

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

Timmerie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Right in Google.

Timmerie:

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

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

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

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

Timmerie: (24:30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joette: (26:17)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s one of my favorite homeopathic medicines.

Timmerie:

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

Timmerie: (28:44)

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

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timmerie: (30:51)

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

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

Joette:

Ipecac.

Timmerie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Timmerie:

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

Joette:

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

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

Timmerie: (33:05)

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

Joette:

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

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

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

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

It’s only Arnica, and it’s used by many plastic surgeons throughout the U.S. and Canada. Because they know that after plastic surgery — especially facial — one of the biggest problems is ecchymosis, which is black and blue essentially. And that and the swelling can take a long time, and there’s a lot of pain, and SINECCH™ made of Arnica montana — it’s only Arnica montana, that’s all it is; it just has another name — will not only treat the condition but abort the problem in about half the time. And so, then, the surgeon looks like a hero.

Timmerie:

And they don’t know that it’s homeopathy and it’s Arnica, and you’re treating the pain, the swelling, the bruising, all of it.

Joette:

Yes, ma’am!

Timmerie:

That’s why you mentioned using it for everything from birth to postpartum to injuries for adults and children. Arnica, if there’s one thing we have, if we run out of Arnica, I’m going, “No!!!”

Joette:

Yeah, it’s a very important remedy to have on hand, and it’s good to have in a 30th potency. That’s 30C. Arnica montana 30C or Arnica montana 200C. Very important remedy to own in the home.

Timmerie:

That’s Joette Calabrese again, I’ll push her website. She has a learning center, if you want to learn more about homeopathy, it’s JoettesLearningCenter.com. Joettes is spelled J-O-E-T-T-E-S, JoettesLearningCenter.com. And great programs.

We’re linking to her blog as well where she often speaks of addressing various ailments.

Could you mention maybe one other common day-to-day ailment that people have that you see they’re needing to address and be capable of addressing themselves within their home?

Joette: (36:21)

Yes. How about when someone eats normally at home — good food that the mom is preparing — and then they go out to a restaurant, which is a little unusual for them. They eat foods that are not common to their diet, or they have too much ice cream, or they have too many desserts.

And so, the food is not common to their — generally, not common to their — gut, and then they feel sick. They can either have a stomachache or nausea. It can even cause constipation, et cetera.

And the medicine is called Pulsatilla, P-U-L-S-A-T-I-L-L-A. And this one is best — if we’re going to use it in this form for this particular condition is best — in a 30C. Pulsatilla 30C for restaurant food: ailments from restaurant food.

Timmerie:

Fascinating. How often do you hear that today? It’s so true, and I understand that from the food allergy perspective. But if people feel so sick after they go out to eat often, which is a whole ‘nother topic in and of itself. But you’re saying this helps to ease that discomfort and outright pain, among other things, that people experience when they eat out.

Joette:

So that also, Timmerie, the other idea is that not only does it ease the pain or the discomfort or the nausea or whatever, the bloating that might be associated at that moment in time, but the next time there’s an indiscretion — a dietary indiscretion — it may not bother them quite as severely because the goal here is to uproot, not to be dependent.

Timmerie:

And that’s what’s different about homeopathy. You’re actually treating what’s going on rather than a Band-Aid.

I want to come back; we’ll take some questions, everything from allergies, also some fun facts about your work and how homeopathy has been used in the past by Catholics. So, we’ll be right back with Joette Calabrese. If you have a question, our line is 888-914-9149.

Timmerie: 

Loving me some Advent music over here. In fact, my daughter was sitting here going, “Please, please,” can we listen to her current favorite?

I don’t know who showed my child “Frozen,” but someone did. And we are listening to “Frozen” all day/every day for weeks now, which, it’s really cute. They sing and really sing as a one-year-old and a three-year-old belting it out is pretty cute.

But we were in the car, and I think we were listening to “Come Divine Messiah.” And my daughter goes, “They’re singing about Jesus. They’re singing about Jesus.”

I said, “Yes, they are.”

It was just neat to see. She was really paying attention. She goes, “Okay, I like this song. We can keep listening.”

I went, “Oh, okay, good.” Because I really wasn’t planning on changing it from my Advent music.

You’re listening to “Trending with Timmerie” here on Relevant Radio.

My guest today is homeopathic practitioner Joette Calabrese. She’s been practicing for over 38 years, treated thousands, tens of thousands of cases. She’s a founder and director of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery™. Has a great program at her website, JoettesLearningCenter.com. That’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com. She’s taught and worked with the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in Calcutta, India, and has served on the honorary board of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Joette, I would love to just hear some of the little touch points kind of touching on our Catholic faith, in that I had no idea until today that St. Mother Teresa used homeopathy in much of her work. Can you share a little bit about that?

Joette: (40:43)

Well, I was at her convent and her home when I was in India. I spent years in India studying with the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, as you mentioned earlier. And Prasanta Banerji — Dr. Prasanta Banerji — was a medical doctor and a … but used only homeopathy.

And he actually knew Mother Teresa and I loved that he could report to me that, indeed, it is true. She had tables set up, and they didn’t just treat the acutes. They treated long-term infections and many other conditions that the poorest of the poor were suffering in Calcutta.

I love having that first-step connection. But I’ve taught in convents, and I’ve taught in (Buffalo, New York) a convent there for years.

But I also have to say it would be good for people to know that the Grand Cross was bestowed upon a homeopathic physician, and that is the highest honor a pope can give to a layperson.

And it was to honor him because of the cholera epidemic that occurred in, especially, Italy — in the Vatican, of course — in the 1800s. And so, he won that award and many other awards were given to homeopathic physicians in Italy by popes because of their great work in infectious diseases. So that’s a very special part of our faith.

And another one I want to talk about is Antonio Negro … was a medical doctor of Naples. And he was a leading Italian homeopathic physician in the last part of the last century, I should say. He was the homeopathic doctor to Pope Paul the Sixth. And he was granted the order of St. Gregory for his work in homeopathy, as well as his son who also treated Pope John Paul II.

So, we have a history. We homeopaths, we Catholics, have a lovely tapestry of a history that’s been intertwined for a long time.

Timmerie:

And I love that.

Joette:

I also believe — I just have to say — whether someone is of our faith or not, what really pulls this all together for me — what has really pulled it together for me as a mother, because first I’m a mother; second, I’m a homeopath — is that it fits in such a tidy fashion in my lifestyle.

I homeschooled, I home birthed. I made my own foods (home cooking). I homeschooled. I wanted to have a medicine that I could use, that I had the ability to utilize without resorting to synthetic, patented drugs of commerce.

These medicines — these homeopathic medicines — are not synthetic. They’re not patented. That’s why they’re so inexpensive because there is no patent. They’re simply made by this dilution process. That’s all it is.

It’s a very specific process, but it is — it’s all it is — is dilution. And so, I wanted that autonomy and that’s exactly it gave me.

Timmerie:

And it’s phenomenal to see that when you have this tool, it’s widely used in Europe and other places in the world. And even, I remember learning that the Vatican had a homeopathic doctor in residence for decades up until recently. It’s neat to learn about how this was so part of our culture, but yet you have Big Pharma. You have the conversations.

Western medicine can be wonderful but often overused in our modern day to day. And if we can be empowered to care and treat our families, to have a greater confidence in navigating our health, it’s a huge … it’s a game changer.

And I know that this is something that my mom had when she was raising myself and my siblings. Now, I have in my arsenal when treating and caring for my children. Joette, I want to take a few more questions. I know some have come in.

We’ve had multiple questions come in about allergies. Let’s see. Let’s take Claire from St. Louis.

First, Claire, welcome to “Trending.” What’s your question for Joette?

Claire: (45:28)

Hi, yes. So as mentioned, allergies. So, I seem to have an allergy for every season, a lovely gift from my mother, who I love very much. But pollen in the spring, summer and fall: plants, trees and ragweed and all the fun stuff. And then the winter, just the dry air and all the dust that seems to collect. Because let’s face it, we all get lazy and busy with the holidays, so, we might forget to do the dusting.

So, I was just curious what you would recommend for someone who suffers from allergies, all different kinds throughout the year. What would you recommend homeopathy-wise for someone with allergies?

Joette:

Well, I have an entire course called Allergic?! And the reason it’s an entire course is because allergies are so broad.

Some people have allergies to foods. Sometimes it’s called food intolerances. Others have allergies to chemicals. So, it’s chemical sensitivities.

Others are, like you say, seasonal allergies.

Others have allergies to perfumes and to wool and feathers and dogs, et cetera, et cetera. Keeps … the list is very, very long.

Now, we don’t necessarily use a homeopathic medicine for each of those conditions because, generally speaking, if a person has an allergy to one substance, it often carries over into other substances as well. And so, if you want to really delve deeply into this, then I would urge you to go to JoettesLearningCenter.com and go down to the course titled “Allergies.”

But let’s say you don’t want to go that far. You want to just dip your toe into this.

Then again, I would urge you to go to my blog, Joette Calabrese and put the word, “allergies,” “hay fever,” “spring allergies.”

And there it is. All the information — not the all — but a good amount of information that will help people with seasonal allergies. I’ve suffered them myself. I used to have extreme chemical sensitivities. I had extreme food intolerances, and I no longer have any of those conditions. And it only gets better.

Now I’m going to tell you, though, and warn everybody who’s doing this: Certain conditions in homeopathy can be addressed within sometimes minutes, just like what Timmerie described earlier with the rash that she got and the insect bite. That can work very quickly because it’s an acute.

But when it comes to a chronic, more often, it can take a good deal longer. And so, allergies can take many months, sometimes even up to a year.

Now what I mean by that is not that it takes a year before you see a shift. No, no. We usually see a shift within a month or so. Very small, just a little leap, just a little hop.

And then a couple months later, we notice, “Wow, this is not bothering me as much.”

And I always say, we have three magic markers to determine whether or not the medicine that we’re using — the homeopathic medicine — is acting.

And the first marker is there’s less intensity to the symptoms.

The second magic marker is that it lasts for a shorter period of time. (In other words, instead of having the sniffling and sneezing and perhaps fatigue, instead of it lasting all day, it lasts only a few hours.)

And the third is — third magic marker — is that it’s a larger space between each episode of its occurrence.

And having that information at hand when you go to my blog and read up on it, I believe you’ll be able to find something that’s going to be quite useful for you.

Timmerie:

Excellent. So that’s on seasonal allergies.

We’re running out of time. I know we had so many more questions that people had on the topic of homeopathy, getting your feet wet. I do recommend … I’ve not taken Joette’s courses, but I know a lot of people who have and felt like that were really equipped to start navigating and have a network to dive deeper into navigating health with homeopathy.

You can learn more at JoettesLearningCenter.com. That’s J-O-E-T-T-E-S learningcenter.com.

Thank you so much for your time, Joette, and we’ll have to have you back on again soon.

Coming up tomorrow. Lots! Have everything from walking through the Advent wreath, what each of those candles symbolize, along with combating loneliness.

This is a space as Catholics, whether it’s ourselves or others, there’s a lot that can be done and easily and well to be transformative.

Kate:

Thanks for listening to today’s podcast. If you liked that interview and want to hear more, we have more to come in the future. So, stay tuned.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse JoettesLearningCenter.com to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit PracticalHomeopathy.com.