04:00    Laying out a case

12:48    Starting with chronic conditions

21:17    You can’t mess up homeopathy

27:21    Remedy has to be repeated

28:02    Writing down the most important issues only

36:33    Figuring homeopathy as our focus

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You are listening to a podcast from practicalhomeopathy.com where nationally certified American homeopath, public speaker, and author, Joette Calabrese, shares her passion for helping families stay healthy through homeopathy and nutrient-dense nutrition.

Joette:  So, the satellite conditions that you hadn’t necessarily thought of as important could be critical in determining whether or not the remedy acted in the first place, and secondarily, if it should be repeated and started up again.

Kate:  You are listening to Podcast Number 55 at practicalhomeopathy.com. On today’s podcast, Joette describes how to write out an acute case. And she will share with us some great tips on how to know when it’s time to stop taking a remedy. So, let’s get started.

Hi. I’m Kate, and I’m here today again with Joette. We’re excited to bring you another great podcast packed with information. So Joette, welcome, nice to see you again.

Joette:  You see, we see each other, but people who listen in or read don’t know that we’re looking at each other. So, we can make funny faces at each other. It’s really fun.

Kate:  So, Joette, it’s summertime there, and I see lots of things blooming. Are you doing anything fun with the garden … or what’s going on outside?

Joette:  Well, this is the first spring that I’ve lived in this little cottage that my husband and I just got, and we’re really enjoying it. So, I’m totally into my garden. I’ve planted a couple of rhubarb plants and some asparagus so that sometime in the future, I’ll be able to harvest those. But, I’ve planted a lot of ground cover because I am not making a commitment to weeding every day — although I’m actually out there doing it every day. I go out for about an hour, and I water, and I weed, and I pull up this, and I move that. It really is fun. And then in the evening, I do the same thing. So, it’s a blast.

But one of the things that I’m sad about in my garden is that I’ve moved from my property — that had 15 acres — to a little plot, and I can’t find cardoons. Do you know what cardoons are?

Kate:  It sounds familiar, but I don’t know.

Joette:  Well, cardoons are burdock, and they are eaten by Italians and French. You can buy them at some upscale grocery stores, but they never taste the same. And so, I’m accustomed to harvesting my own cardoons every spring just as the lilacs blossom, just a little later, just as they’re kind of dying off then the cardoons come up, and they’re at their prime. And I go with my kids every year … we’ve just gone and gone to the back end of our property and dug them up and washed them and cooked them up and fried them, and they’re absolutely delicious. I actually have a blog on it … I wrote a long time ago about cardoons. So, I don’t have any here. So, as I drive through the countryside in Canada, I drive very slowly looking to see if I can find a wild patch somewhere, and I say, “Where are the Canadian cardoons?” I don’t get it. I don’t understand where they are. But I’m sure to find … one of these days, if I keep my eyes peeled … I’ll find them somewhere.

Kate:  I imagine you going to your neighbor’s property and digging around.

Joette:  Well, I’ve asked people. We’ve got a fellow who comes and helps me do some of the heavy lifting here in the garden, and I said, “Okay, do you see this plant? Do you ever see this anywhere?” He said, “What is that?” I said, “It’s a burdock. It’s the burrs that get in your dog’s fur … that’s what this is.” He said, “No, I can’t say I really noticed them.” So, he’s not looking, in the same way, I’m looking. I’ve got my eyes directly on the ground looking under disturbed soil and places like...