01:00    Traveling with remedies

03:54    Do X-rays affect homeopathic remedies

07:37    Traveling by car

11:48    Having the information at hand

15:04    Books to carry

18:21    Remedies to bring when traveling

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Homeopathy Kits available through Joette Calabrese

A Materia medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families

 

The top three single remedies you should travel with:

Arsenicum album 6 or 30 (or Veratrum album 6 or 30) for dysentery, for Montezuma's Revenge, Delhi Belly (gut issues from food or water)

Hepar sulph 30 or 200 for infections (ear infections, throat infections, eye infections) or plugged-up ears

Nux vomica 30 or 200 (perhaps both) for jet lag, restaurant foods, not getting enough sleep, “over the top” feeling (see transcript for frequency appropriate to specific issue)

 

Related travel blog posts:

“Flying: A Pain in the ... Ear”

“Holiday Travel? Call AAA!”

“No Jet Lag on My Trip to India”

Joette:  Before you travel to a country that has diseases that are much different than your own, you might want to get this book. It’s super easy to carry around …

 Kate:  You are listening to Podcast Number 53 with Joette Calabrese at practicalhomeopathy.com. On today’s podcast, Joette shares her homeopathy travel tips and some of the most important remedies to have on hand while away from home. Now, let’s hear from Joette.

Hi! I’m Kate. I’m here with Joette today, and we are talking about travel. Travel is fun, right?

Joette:  Yeah. It’s fun, but it can also be cumbersome. So, let’s try to make it as easy as we possibly can.

Kate:  Exactly. So, let’s talk about how you travel with your remedies, and what remedies you might consider bringing and things like that.

Traveling with remedies

Joette:  Sure. Well, there are lots of different kinds of remedy kits. The manufacturing pharmacies — these homeopathic pharmacies that produce these kits — have a very good handle on what you will need. Besides remedies that are obvious to you or to most people such as Arnica, and Arsenicum, and Nux vomica, they know that in a household, most people will need “this, this, and this,” as well. So, they do the thinking in advance which is one of the reasons why I love kits.

By a kit, I mean, usually it’s a plastic box. Sometimes they come in pretty hardened cardboard boxes, but more often, they’re plastic boxes. They usually have 50 remedies. My first kit had 29 remedies, and they were larger bottles. But they have 50 remedies or 100 remedies, and they’re the top, most frequently used for most households. So, what I love about them is that you’ve got exactly what you need, pretty much. I mean it’s not going to be perfect. You can’t have 6,000 homeopathic medicines, but you’ll have 100 — the top 100. Those are the remedies that you need to know how to use once you really start learning homeopathy.

But you needn’t know how to use every single one of them while you’re just traveling. That’s just the goal that you should have for the eventuality of learning more. So, at any rate, what I like about them is the bottles are small. Some people complain, and they say, “Those bottles are too small.” I say, “No, no, no. You don’t understand.” If you get sick, and you’re traveling — or if you’re home, and you get sick or someone in your family falls ill — you need to have the choices of the medicines. Then once you know that Arsenicum album, for example, is acting for this terrible, relentless diarrhea and vomiting, then you get out, and you buy a bigger bottle. But at least it carries you until you can get to a place, or you can have it sent to you directly from OHM or Amazon or Boiron or something like that. So, you’ve got them on hand.

So, for travel, you don’t know where you’ll be in terms of finding a homeopathic pharmacy. Now, throughout the world, they’re very plentiful. In South America and Europe, you’ll find homeopathic pharmacies on many corners of big citi...