IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

01:17   Americans for Homeopathy Choice

02:49   Meetings with the FDA

09:54    Draft Guidance

32:08    Donations to Americans for Homeopathy Choice

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Americans for Homeopathy Choice (homeopathychoice.org)

Hyland’s, Boiron, Hahnemann, Washington, OHM

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 89 with Joette Calabrese.

 

 

Joette:  Hi, folks. Today, we're doing something a little different than we have done in the past. I'm going to be interviewing Paola Brown. She's going to tell us all about her organization. You may already know about it. If you don't, I want you to know about it.

 

We are very involved with Paola’s organization on many different levels. I want you to be involved right along with me. You don't have to do a lot of work. You just have to be even just one toe into the water in getting involved with this wonderful organization.

 

Paola, tell us about your organization. Paola Brown, here you go, Sweetie.    

 

Paola:  Thank you. Americans for Homeopathy Choice.

 

I just thought I'd start right from the get-go and tell them what they can do. They can go to homeopathychoice.org. Right now, we are seeking 100,000 comments to go into the FDA docket. I checked today, it's January 5th, and there was about 25,000 comments in there. So, we're needing this to really pick up. The deadline is January 23rd. So, if you go to homeopathychoice.org, right on the homepage…

 

Joette:  Homeopathychoice.org. We'll have this listed down below for you folks to click into.

 

Paola:  Yes. We have software that if you're in the US, that makes it super easy for you. Just click, click, click, and it goes straight to the FDA.

 

If you're international people, you can also comment. We have a copy-and-paste that makes it super easy.

 

Right from the get-go, pause this podcast, run over there, and get that done. But we can talk about the background of the issues, too, of course. 

 

Joette:  I always tell folks, I've written many times to the FDA and other government bodies in my adult life, and I find that if it's short, and it's concise, and it's not just an opinion, but perhaps a short story (how Belladonna helped your child with pain and ear infection or how Chamomilla has helped your teenage daughter, and you need to have this medicine available, and you need all your homeopathic medicines available), how your doctor uses it, or how your practitioner uses it, and give examples — but no anger! No sarcasm. Don't do that. You will just turn them off.

 

You want them to actually read these and say, “Wow, this is interesting. Look at this person's arthritis improve by using Rhus tox and Symphytum,” or something like that. We want them to know that we are real people out there. We're not oddballs. We simply decided to use homeopathy often instead of drugs — but sometimes alongside drugs as well.

 

We're not anti-medicine. We are pro-medicine. But we're also very much pro-homeopathy. It's very important that they understand that there's a large body of citizens in the U.S. and elsewhere who are very interested in keeping homeopathy alive. Because indeed, Paola, it is under threat, isn't it?

 

Paola:  It is. It really is under threat. In the United States, our government works better when we can speak up and communicate and help our officials do the right thing. If we don't get involved, I think that's how overreach happens. That's how things slip away from us. It's such an important role as a citizen or as a resident of this country. You don't have to be a citizen, obviously, because the international people can comment, but as a resident of this country to speak up and to help them understand your perspective, because they don't know it.

 

I remember at our very first FDA meeting, we brought our homeopathy kits, me and the moms.

 

Joette:  FDA meeting, meaning you went to DC. Now,