Joette Calabrese Podcast

In this podcast, we cover: 05:23 Facing fears through education 11:55 Sticking with the chosen remedies and respecting the protocols 20:40 Being organized, consistent, and having distance 25:47 Homeopathy is relatively safe 29:56 Classical training and combination remedies 36:10 A case of suppression You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. Paola: It’s podcast number 26 at joettecalabrese.com. Here is what we have coming up. Hi, it’s Paola here. I’m really looking forward to Joette’s podcast today. We’re going to look at two important subjects. The first one looks at selecting a remedy and learning how to commit to that remedy. In other words, we’re trying to avoid running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Then the second subject we’re going to talk about is really important. It looks at whether or not Joette’s practical homeopathy, the Banerji Protocols and other protocols like that, whether or not they are safe when you compare them to classical homeopathy. This is an important subject because you really want to be confident and comfortable when you’re doing Joette’s style of homeopathy. Okay, so here we go. Hi. I’m excited to be here with Joette again. Hi, Joette. How are you? Joette: Hi Paola, very well. How about you? Paola: Good, good, and good. Alright, so we’ve got another podcast today for you guys, another homeopathy nugget that we’re going to learn and discuss today. Today’s subject is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I think it’s Lara that first coined that term in one of the classes. Lara is the gal that Joette teaches the classes with. So, go ahead and jump into that, Joette. What does Lara mean by that? Joette: Well, I think what she’s talking about, I think this is what we’ve all been subject to especially as mothers and grandmothers is that we try a homeopathic medicine, or we try a certain food, or we try whatever modality we’ve decided we’re going to start with and we don’t see instant relief. Say it’s our child. Because we’re so closely connected to our children and grandchildren, we can’t help but want instant relief. It’s horrible to see our children suffer. So, we want something to happen now. Instead of waiting the prescribed certain amount of time for a homeopathic medicine to act, we say, “Well, maybe it wasn’t that.” We second guess ourselves. “Maybe it really wasn’t Hepar sulph. What if I was wrong? What if it really was Arsenicum album?” So then, we go to Arsenicum album. We never gave Hepar sulph a chance. Let’s talk about it as an acute situation. So, let’s say for sore throat. So, we automatically go to for example, Hepar sulph, which is a very good choice for many kinds of sore throats. If we don’t see a reaction, we think, “Uh-oh, we’re doomed. We got to go to something else.” We say, “Okay, I can’t stand it. The child is crying.” Here’s what I urge mothers, grandmothers, parents to do. Take a chill pill. Calm down. Paola: By chill pill, you mean probably an Ignatia, right? Joette: Probably. I’m giving it to you rhetorically. Take a chill pill. Calm down. If the child is not dying, if they’re not hemorrhaging, you’re not rushing on the way to the hospital, and all it is is a sore throat or an ear pain or teething, or sleeplessness. I realize how horrible these can be on a family when somebody in that family is not well or they’re out of sorts. But you have to learn how to assess what is really dangerous and what is not. I harken back to Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, his book, How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. He was not a homeopath. He was a pediatrician. He died some couple of decades ago. Buy his book. I repeat this book all the time because this is where you get your guts, spunk and moxie or another way of putting it, of calming down over every little thing the child has. Let me bring it in from my counter perspective. Have more kids because if you only have one, every little thing is a catastrophe. I see it all the time. I know how it was for me when I had one child. The more kids I had, the more it rolled off the back of my back. Because it was something that I’d seen enough times now, croup didn’t scare me anymore. Ear infection didn’t frighten me. Teething didn’t freak me. I got accustomed to it. But if you don’t have the advantages of having more than one child, then by all means, you want to read Robert Mendelsohn’s book. I don’t mean once. Keep it by your bedside. Read it time and time again. Because if you are freaking and you’re acting like a chicken with its head cut off, you’re going to make poor decisions. Your decisions will be made out of fear. You will jump from remedy to remedy, modality to modality. In the end, you’ll have a mishmash. In Italian, it’s called a [0:05:00], a mess. Paola: Right. Well, there’

In this podcast, we cover: 04:33 Barb’s introduction to homeopathy and the Arnica basket 14:10 Joette’s influence with Kali carb for asthma 21:09 More Arnica experience: uterine fibroid 24:51 Using remedies on horses and tips on how to administer them 31:51 Childbirth and labor You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. Paola: It’s another podcast at joettecalabrese.com. Today, we’ve got a new episode for the Moms with Moxie miniseries. Joette: All the way from my desk in New York, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines. Your successes inspire me and they’re glorious and powerful. I can’t keep your successes a secret any longer. So with help from my roving reporter, Paola, we bring you this mini podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” It’s actually grandmoms, too but it’s moms with Moxie. See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Paola: Hi. I’m excited to have another “Moms with Moxie” interview. Today, we have Barb Rigelhof, hailing from the state of Washington. Hi, Barb. Barb: Hi. It’s nice to see you, Paola. Paola: I know. I’m so glad to be chatting with you. I love doing these little interviews because I want others to see and Joette wants others to see that normal moms, if you study this, you can become pretty awesome. I’m excited to hear your stories. Tell us about how you came to find natural medicine and homeopathy. Barb: Right. The natural medicines came about because I’m blessed and cursed at the same time that regular medicine doesn’t tend to work on me. I get side effects and no results. At some point, I started looking into natural medicine. I have a science background so I looked at herbs. I looked at sort of everything except homeopathy because homeopathy being energy medicine, so I was kind of woo-woo. And so, being a science snob, I was like, “Oh, that’s just perfect. Whatever.” So I didn’t look at that. It was when a friend of mine who dragged me to a talk by a homeopath back in Montreal where I’m from, she took me to this talk and this homeopath just blew me away. She had been a nurse for 35 years, and also French-Canadian lady, awesome, awesome speaker. Just what she was talking about just blew me away. So, I started thinking, “Okay. Maybe I do need to look into this homeopathy stuff.” It was in my face all the time. I kept putting it aside. So, I did start working with that. When I started trying it out, it was first on my dog. There’s no placebo effect on animals. That’s one of the things they always talk about with homeopathy. Oh, it’s the full effect. Paola: Yes. Barb: Yes. Try telling that to a dog. I don’t think you can convince a dog that what you’re doing is going to help them. They just either get better or they don’t. I had some great results. So then I started using it for myself and this was before I had kids. By the time my kids came along, I was really starting to get much more proficient with it. So, my kids were raised largely with homeopathic remedies. Paola: Oh, I’m so jealous. That is my dream story, that I found homeopathy before I have my kids, practiced on some animal, got comfortable with it. Barb: That’s just because I’m older than you, Paola. I found it and then I had my kids. That’s all. Paola: Well, that’s wonderful, I think. I meet moms even today that have just one tiny baby. I’m like, “Oh, you’re so lucky you met me and I get to share this with you.” So that’s great. I like that you had a science background. It is funny how we just dismiss homeopathy until we realize that maybe we don’t know it all. Barb: Yes, exactly. Yes, it’s that science indoctrination. Really, we’re not even looking at evidence. We’re just going with what we’ve been told. Paola: Right. Barb: We just spoon feed it along and now at some point, you go, “Oh, wait a minute. Well, I actually don’t know anything about this. Maybe there’s something to it. Paola: Right. I think that’s why people do the herbs and the essential oils first because in our heads, it makes more sense. Barb: Most allopathic medicines come from herbs or plants or something. We know that. So, using the herbal form is less of the mind shift. Paola: Right. I think the biggest thing that people need to grasp with homeopathy, just step one is understanding we’re not trying to kill the infection, which a lot of times garlic, herbs, and antibiotics -. I was kind of thinking along those lines. We’re thinking about changing the terrain so that your body can’t host the illness anymore. Barb: Exactly. We’re not suppressing. We’re actually helping the

In this podcast, we cover: 02:58 Getting a conventional diagnosis and some examples 18:11 Hencing/theorizing: stop trying to answer the whys 24:42 Homeopathy and the concept of baking a cake 28:21 Neophytes and the study of classical homeopathy 34:00 The importance of repetition You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. Paola: It’s podcast 24 at joettecalabrese.com. Right from the get-go, we want you to know that Joette’s podcasts are now available on Google Play, Blubrry, Stitcher, and Tune-in Radio. We’ve got a great episode for you. Today, we’re going to look at some topics that Joette feels bear repeating. First topic looks at getting a conventional diagnosis and Joette gives us some good examples of what she means. Then the second topic is pretty closely related to the first where Joette is looking at what she calls these ‘hencers’. So I have foggy brain and low vitamin D, hence, I need to supplement with vitamin D. So she looks at that more carefully. Finally, the third topic is the concept of knowing when you can use a protocol and knowing when for a chronic condition or even I guess an acute, you should be seeking professional help from a homeopath. So she wants us to know what our limitations may or may not be. Now, if you’ve heard these topics before, don’t assume that you already understand them. Today’s discussion came about because Joette has been receiving repeated questions in relation to these subjects. So you may think you get them but hopefully today’s episode will prove useful for you as you gain a deeper understanding of them. Okay, so here we go. Hi, I’m here with Joette. How are you, Joette? Joette: I’m well, Paola. Nice to be here with you. Paola: We’ve just been brainstorming and planning today’s podcast and we’ve got a real great one for you guys today. It is going to be on things we’ve said before, topics that bear repeating that Joette has talked about over and over again. We think it is a great time to remind you guys about some important subjects. We have three that we’re thinking of. Joette: Yes, sometimes things need bear repeating. As we learn, we think we understand and then a year later, we didn’t embody it fully. We have to go back and think it through again and commit it to our thinking structure. Paola: Well, homeschooling classical world, we have grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric. The grammar stage is when you’re first understanding the concept and you’re getting the vocabulary down and just the very basics. The dialectic is where you’re starting to ask questions about it and like you said starting to embody it. Then rhetoric is where you can really teach it and talk about it and have an authoritative position. I think the only way you get through those three levels is to repeat it and to hear it again and again. Joette: Well repetition is the mother of knowledge. Really, that’s just what it boils down to. Getting a conventional diagnosis Paola: So here we go. We have three topics we want to cover. The first one is the topic of getting a conventional diagnosis for any condition that you were trying to use homeopathy with. Joette: Yes. This is a hard and fast rule but there are always exceptions to every rule. So, if you get sore throats consistently and you’ve gone to the doctor many times and the doctor reports, “Yes, indeed, it’s strep,” do you need a diagnosis every single time you get a sore throat? Well, after a while, it’s pretty clear. It’s a strep throat. But if you’ve never had a sore throat and wondering if it’s strep, then it might be a good idea to get someone’s opinion who sees this consistently. Now, if you’ve seen it consistently, I would say you’re a pretty good measure. But if you haven’t then go to someone perhaps who has. Paola: Right. We’ve talked about before, getting those rapid strep tests from Amazon. That might be a good try. Joette: Love it, love it. Yes, yes, same thing with urinary tract infections. Those can be dangerous. So if you’ve never had one before, it might be a good idea to find out if indeed it is a urinary tract infection. Sometimes it’s just obvious as can be. So, I’ve gone without seeing conventional doctors for many years. I know what’s happening generally speaking but sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I have no idea what’s going on. So I really do need someone who has more expertise than I do in that particular area. So you have to weigh it out. Paola: I think a good example for me at least is skin conditions. I feel like sometimes red rashy skin looks like a red rashy skin. I don’t know is it rosacea. I mean, hives are pretty obvious, right? But is it rosacea? I mean, I was just helping a friend of mine. We’re doing a protocol for her eczema. Then suddenly, she got this terrible rash all over her. I thought, “Oh my gosh. What

In this podcast, we cover: 02:00 Kate’s Favorite Remedies 08:08 How homeopathy cured her daughter from her illnesses 14:28 Sharing some amazing homeopathic experiences 23:23 Kate’s accident and how Arnica and Hypericum helped a lot You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. Paola: It’s another podcast at joettecalabrese.com. Today we’ve got a new episode for the Moms with Moxie miniseries. Joette: All the way from my desk in New York, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines. Your successes inspire me and they’re glorious and powerful. I can’t keep your successes a secret any longer. So with help from my roving reporter, Paola, we bring you this mini podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” It’s actually grandmoms, too but it’s moms with Moxie. See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Paola: Alright. I’m here with Kate Bechard from Wisconsin. I’m very happy to have her. Kate has a lot of knowledge about homeopathy and some pretty extreme experiences with it which probably weren’t fun at the time but they’re fun to talk about now that everything turned out well. She is a mother of two children. One’s a teenager and one’s entering their teenage years. She loves horses. They do a lot of activities with their horses. They love music. Kate says that she is passionate about healing and learning. Welcome, Kate. Kate: Thank you. I’m glad to be here. Paola: Yes. Joette and I both think you’re definitely a mom with moxie. Yes, it’s real good and we love moms with moxie because you guys are willing to do what it takes to learn and take on the challenges. Kate, we’ve been talking a lot about homeopathy leading up to this interview. Share with us. What are your favorite remedies and maybe tell us why. Kate: With homeopathy, I get super excited. I think it’s super hard to have just a few favorite remedies. Don’t you? Paola: Yes. Kate’s Favorite Remedies Kate: This is a challenge. But I will tell you just a couple. Of course, Arnica. Who could live without Arnica, right? You have kids. You have animals. You need Arnica. Paola: Right. Kate: So definitely, I have to have that with me at all times. Paola: A lot of people have Arnica and they don’t even know they’re using homeopathy. That’s how popular Arnica can be. Yes. Kate: It is. That’s why I hate to say it’s a favorite remedy but it’s so important for accidents. We’ll get into that a little bit later. Paola: Yes. Kate: So Arnica is one of my favorites. Arsenicum is another one of my favorites. My kids actually have not had the stomach flu in five years. I attribute it to God and Arsenicum because pretty much every time they tell me they have a tummy ache, I tell them to take some Arsenicum. Paola: Right, great for tummy aches and kind of gastrointestinal issues. Kate: Another favorite remedy that I have is Ledum. That is a remedy that I use quite often as well for bee stings, bug bites, tick infections, things like that. So, it’s definitely one of my go-to remedies. Paola: That’s awesome. I love it. I’m always surprised at how much Ledum helps, sometimes even more than Apis when it comes to bee stings which is kind of counter intuitive because Apis is from bee sting but often Ledum is the one that acts a little bit better. Kate: Right. Yes, I have found that to be true as well. Yes, definitely you consider Ledum if you got any sort of bite and inflammation from the bite. Paola: Okay, so it feels like you’ve been doing homeopathy for a long time, even maybe before you learned about joettecalabrese.com. So, tell us how long you’ve been doing homeopathy. Kate: I have been studying homeopathy for about six to seven years now. At first, when I learned about homeopathy, I learned about classical homeopathy which is where you would take and use one remedy at a time. You look at everything about a person’s psychological, emotional, physical. I remember being frustrated in the beginning because it takes so much time to figure out the right remedy because you have to look at every symptom and there are thousands of remedies to choose from. So, when my kids would have a cough, it would take me about 45 minutes to try and figure out what to give them for the cough. Paola: Wow! Kate: So, Joette has rocked my world. She has changed our lives. This morning, when I was thinking about our interview, I was even emotional because I was so thankful for how she has changed our lives with what she teaches. When I met Joette, I found her on the internet and then I actually had a consult with her for one of my child

In this podcast, we cover: 03:22 Writing down information and fine-tuning them 13:48 Homeopathy transcends other methods of medicine 18:50 Assessing the case 27:05 How long before a remedy acts 34:59 Figuring out the conditions 41:30 The importance of note taking to determine one’s improvement   Paola: It’s podcast number 22 at joettecalabrese.com. Here’s what’s coming up. Joette: Dig around a little bit but if it doesn’t come up, don’t theorize. “Oh well, then it must be mercury. Oh well, you still have amalgams in your teeth. It’s got to be that.” Not really, it could be a gazillion thing and then you listen more. I have joint pain, all of those things you want to actually jot down but at the top of the page, you’re jotting down the ideas of the medicines that come to mind. The message is that homeopathy transcends the other methods of medicine. Paola: The goal of today’s podcast is to walk you through the case taking process for a chronic condition. At the time of this recording, Joette is in the middle of teaching the Allergic?! course and this podcast is turning out to be a homework assignment for the students taking that class. But this podcast really also benefits all of Joette’s listeners. So, the steps we’ll explore begin with listening to the case and taking notes on the person’s ailments. She emphasizes that it’s important to even write some of the exact verbiage that the person uses to describe their ailments. Joette recommends that we write down to what degree the person is suffering like on a scale of 1 to 10. Then as you’re listening to the person express themselves, you may think of protocols that might fit their conditions. So, while you’re hearing them and while you’re taking notes on the case, in the corner of the page, you’re supposed to be writing down what protocols might apply to them. So this is a brainstorming process. Then after you’ve completed taking the case, you take some time to look at those potential protocols and edit them down to the most important ones that you want to prioritize. Finally, once you’ve set around four protocols for that person, you need to commit to them to them for six to eight weeks. So that’s the Reader’s Digest version of what we’re going to discuss in today’s podcast. Joette is going to really take some time to tease apart each of those steps so that we can understand them more deeply. You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. All right, here we go. Hi Joette. How are you? Joette: Hi Paola. I’m doing well. Paola: For those of us who signed up for your Allergic?! Course, we’re well into it, I think past the halfway point. Joette: Yes. Paola: It’s been a fascinating course. I have pages and pages of notes. Joette: Oh good girl, Paola. Paola: Yes, I love it. But you’ve been giving us some homework for that course, the last podcast’s homework and this podcast tonight is some homework for the students. But you were saying that this would apply to just anyone and the Allergic?! students as well. Joette: Yes. This is the fundamental information that’s so useful when dealing with a chronic case. We’re going to touch a little bit on acutes too but particularly chronic. So yes, this is for anyone who wants to go that far in homeopathy in dealing with chronic conditions. Paola: Yes. For those of you who’ve already taken her courses, I think it’s a really important reminder, if you’ve taken Good Gut, Bad Gut or others. The topic of this podcast is what you like to call editing down a case. So I’m an English major. I know what it’s like to edit an essay when you have all the information there. But what do you mean by editing down a case? This is chronic, right? Writing down information and fine-tuning them Joette: Yes, yes. We’re talking about a chronic case. So that means something like for example, for this course that we’re doing right now on Allergic?!, when someone says, “Well, I have joint pains,” and if you know anything about homeopathy, the first thing you’re thinking of is oh my gosh. That must be or it could be Rhus tox. It could be Arnica. So you jot that down as soon as you hear it. Then you listen more. I have joint pains that are worse on first movement. It’s better when I limber up. It’s rare that they say it quite like this but most people don’t give you the answer that clearly. But let’s say that’s what comes of it. Now, you can cross off Arnica because Arnica doesn’t have that. So while you’re taking the case, you’re jotting down not the whole sentence necessarily, although you’re taking the case in a full sentence as the person is giving it to you but you’re also at the top of the page. You’re writing down the names of the medicines that are coming to mind. When you finish taking the case, now you find out that the person has terrible

In this podcast, we cover: 02:28 What is Discernment 11:30 Have The Knowledge 16:40 Own The Remedies 21:15 Know What You’re Looking For 26:17 Diagnosis 31:10 Selecting The Right Doctor 42:03 Finding the Good Doctors   Paola: It’s podcast number 21 at joettecalabrese.com, and here’s some upcoming highlights! Joette: There’s a lot you can take care of on your own with your family. You know, yes, cancer; yes, AIDS; yes, rheumatoid arthritis but you have to know your stuff. You can’t go say, “Oh, I can treat this” and just go by a protocol. You have to be sure you know what it is you’re treating. There does come a point when you may need more expert opinion. There are times when the people who do not know enough homeopathy that they really do need to go to someone and get perhaps conventional care, just in case. It’s nice to have that second opinion. Paola: What I like about this podcast is that it gives you another layer of self-empowerment. Those of you who have been reading Joettes blog for a while have come to know the Banerji Protocols which greatly simplify homeopathy. Basically if you have a diagnosis or a clear pathology, you meet it with a protocol to uproot that disease, but it’s important to remember that just because you have a protocol, doesn’t necessarily mean that you have the skill or the tools that you need to progress through that illness. So in this podcast, Joette gives us four key components to help us determine whether or not we are able to complete the healing at home ourselves, or if we should seek out conventional medical advice. Joette also gives us some great suggestions on how to find a medical doctor, should you need one. So if you’re ever in a situation where you do want that conventional medical advice, how do you go about selecting the right doctor for you. You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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. Paola Brown Joette Calabrese   Alright, here we go. Hi Joette, I’m excited to be talking with you again. Joette: Hi Paola. I love this too. Paola: I love this podcast. It really is like talking to my wise girlfriend. Joette: Friends, yup. Paola: Exactly. So today’s subject that we’re going to talk about is discernment and we’ll go into what we mean by that and also selecting a doctor, an allopathic traditional doctor, right? Joette: Yes, yes. Paola: So let’s get started. Tell us. What do we mean by discernment? What does that mean? What is Discernment? Joette: I think what you and I have tried to, what we want to convey today because you and I have talked about this in the past is that we want people to understand that there’s a lot you can take care of on your own with your family. You can take care of your children, yourself. You can take care of yourself, your husband, your pets, your livestock, et cetera. But there does come a point when you may need more expert opinions and even care. I always talk about how important it is to be self-empowered but let’s not be so foolish either. We have to know what we’re capable of. When we start learning homeopathy, it is a heady experience when you start curing your family. There’s no doubt about it. Paola: What do you mean heavy like stressful? Joette: No, heady, heady. Paola: Heady. Joette: Heady experience. Well, to speak in the 70s terms, it’s a rush. It’s a high. It’s a very exciting experience to be able to cure someone. No doubt about it. But we also have to know our limitations. So homeopathy has the ability to cure all diseases. This is an actual quote that Dr. Prasanta Banerji said to me once. He said, “Homeopathy can cure all diseases but it can’t cure all people. So it means that it can. Yes, cancer; yes AIDS; yes, rheumatoid arthritis but not all people with those conditions will be relieved of them completely. So it means that it also depends on the person. There are a lot of factors involved here. I wish I could say that this medicine is linear and is super simple and it is. We have gotten a very complex medical paradigm, homeopathy and distilled it. By we, I mean the Banerjis have done this. I have some protocols of my own as well as most homeopaths have been in practice for any period of time. But we’ve distilled it down to some real simple protocols. But you have to be sure you know what it is you’re treating. If you’ve got a urinary tract infection and we’re going to talk about that, if you’ve got a urinary tract infection and you’ve got some urgency and some burning and you’ve had this before, even if you haven’t, you can go right to the remedies that are specific for that: Cantharis 30, Medorrhinum 200, that kind of thing and start using them. You should see some improvement within, some people report improvement within a couple of hours of taking the remedy; some people, not until the end of the day; and ot

In this podcast, we cover: 3:19 Why we love homeopathy 5:30 Gaylyn’s story 18:33 It’s a gift 20:15 Teaching it to our kids 23:06 Being homeopathy missionaries 25:16 Success stories We’ve got another podcast for you here at joettecalabrese.com. We’re introducing a new miniseries called “Moms with Moxie.” All the way from my desk in New York, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines. Your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful. I can’t keep your successes a secret any longer. So with help from my roving reporter, Paola, we bring you this mini podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” It’s actually grand moms too but it’s Moms with Moxie. See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Today’s podcast, we meet Gaylyn, a busy mom of seven. What I really like about Gaylyn is that she is very normal. She reminds me of myself before I got sick with chronic health issues. She really just set out to heal her body. I can really relate. She intermittently fell in love with this awesome form of medicine that we call homeopathy. At the end of this podcast, Gaylyn shares some success stories she’s had with homeopathy and protocols she’s learned from my courses. We wanted to share some of the protocols she likely used! Here they are: Sinus Infection: Sanguinaria 200 mixed with Belladonna 6, also consider Kali Bichromium 30. Kidney stones– While there is a protocol for this condition, it may be easier to try this combination remedy first. So, for kidney stones, some people swear by a homeopathic combination remedy called Renelix manufactured by Pekana Homeopathics. Snoring- Sanguinaria 200 Seasonal allergies- consider Bovista 200, taken for many months, and look for progress over a few years (as your ‘allergy season’ returns, assess improvement). Gall Bladder- (Drs. said Gall bladder needs to be removed) Carduus marianus mother tincture—which is like an herbal tincture. Anxiety- Ignatia 200 Fever Seizure- Since Gaylyn’s son’s fever was not high, Gaylyn likely used Cuprum met 6 and then later for Strep Throat: Hepar sulph 200. You are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.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.   Paola: We’ve got another podcast for you here at joettecalabrese.com. We’re introducing a new miniseries called “Moms with Moxie.” Joette: All the way from my desk in New York, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines. Your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful. I can’t keep your successes a secret any longer. So with help from my roving reporter, Paola, we bring you this mini podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” It’s actually grand moms too but it’s Moms with Moxie. See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Paola: Today’s podcast, we meet Gaylyn, a busy mom of seven. What I really like about Gaylyn is that she is very normal. She reminds me of myself before I got sick with chronic health issues. She really just set out to heal her body. I can really relate. She intermittently fell in love with this awesome form of medicine that we call homeopathy. Also, towards the end of the podcast, Gaylyn gives a lot of success stories that she’s had in using homeopathy with her friends. If you go to Joette’s website under podcasts, you can find Gaylyn’s podcast and its transcription. So Joette has taken the time to write out some of the homeopathic protocols that Gaylyn likely used when she was helping some of her friends. So be sure to head to Joette’s website and find her reposted Gaylyn’s podcast to view the protocols that Joette added in. Hi there. I’m here with Gaylyn Scholes from Texas. She is our first interviewee for our new series that we’re calling Moms with Moxie. Hi Gaylyn, welcome. Gaylyn: Well thank you. I appreciate you taking the time. Paola: Gaylyn, you’re a girl after my heart. We could chat all day. I love getting to know you and how you do the homeopathy in your life. So let’s just get started here. Tell me, do you love homeopathy? Gaylyn: Oh I do, I really do. As Joette would say, it just simply works and I love it. It’s empowering. It’s the essence of liberty. It’s the knowledge that keeps on giving. I love how I can send kids out to play and just feel confident that they’re going to be able to come back, and they always do with bruises and bumps, and

In this podcast, we cover: 1:58 A Allergic, Joette’s new course 6:50 B How the allergies started 20:42 C Miasms or inherited taint 36:54 D Who should take the course and why 46:36 E Kali bichromium for allergies You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Paola: We’ve got another great podcast for you at joettecalabrese.com and here’s what’s coming up. Joette: Then they test you for it. I don’t know of any conventional allergist that tests you for nail polish, or cigarette smoke, or fumes in the truck ahead of you in the traffic. I’ll be honest with you. I think this is more insidious, this pharmaceutical industry because it gets you when you’re down. You’re already sick and scared and you say, “Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?” And now it’s telling you, not now, it’s been in the last decade, they’ve been encouraging people to go to the doctor and pressure their doctor. They don’t use the word pressure but that’s what it is. About every two weeks, I would go for these shots. As a small child with a skinny, little arm and they were giving me 16 shots, I mean I used to freak when I saw that. Paola: In this podcast, Joette is going to talk a lot about allergies. Be sure to stick around to the end of the podcast when she gives a great remedy for sinus problems. It’s funny how this comes full circle because we recorded this on a Monday and now it’s a Friday and I have just suffered from a terrible sinus infection. You can tell from my voice I’m still a little under the weather. Lo and behold, the remedy that she talks about in this podcast just a few days ago is the remedy that cleared out that sinus infection for me. So here we go. Hi Joette, I’m excited to be doing another podcast with you. Joette: I know. I love it too, Paola. Paola: We’ve got a really great topic coming up because it has to do with the course that you’re going to launch pretty soon here. Joette: Yeah. Paola: The course is called Allergic with a question mark and an exclamation point. So why is it called Allergic? Why isn’t it called allergies? Allergic, Joette’s new course Joette: Yeah, good distinction. When we first brought that word up, we weren’t really sure how to put it but I think that it makes it different. The two are different because most people think of allergies as something that they have seasonally, seasonal allergies or animal allergies, or food allergies. But allergic seems more encompassing. It’s a broader umbrella. So it incorporates not just allergies to the conventional ideas of what allergies are but also to having chemical sensitivities: food intolerances, allergic to perfumes, allergic to tobacco smoke, or even the change of weather, the change of seasons, barometric pressure changes. So I think it’s a broader term. We wanted to make sure the people understood that we get that, that I get that that it’s s broader term that people are suffering from these days. Paola: Yeah, that’s absolutely right. It’s true that the conventional side just really sees kind of anaphylaxis than your allergic or histamine issues. Joette: Right and they test you for it. I don’t know of any conventional allergist that tests you for nail polish, or cigarette smoke, or fumes in the truck ahead of you in the traffic. I knew years ago that that’s what I had. I could feel it instantly. I knew right away when somebody sprayed pesticide. I stopped wearing nail polish, those kinds of things. I didn’t need to be tested. It was pretty clear. Paola: Right, right, exactly, which leads actually to my next question. You have a history of allergies. Isn’t that why you started homeopathy in the first place? Joette: Yeah. I would say it goes even further back than that, further back from homeopathy. Rarely does the person come from illness directly into homeopathy unless you live in Europe, South America, or India. But in North America, people have to travel down this long, circuitous path from I don’t feel well to conventional medicine and all the drugs to gee, I don’t think I like these drugs anymore. They’re making me sicker in a new way to the health food store, vegan, macrobiotic, vitamin therapy, synthetic vitamins. Oh maybe synthetic is not a good idea, okay, now we go to natural vitamins and supplements. Oh my gosh, by the time people get to homeopathy, they’ve spent a good decade. Paola: And they’re pretty desperate. You are right though, I’m from Brazil. When my parents moved us as little immigrants to the United States, she brought her homeopathy kit. I told her, “So you understand [00:4:50].” Like, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. When you got sick, I just looked it up in my little book and I gave you the remedy.” I thought that was great. But listen, so then we’re here for 10 years. My mom throws away her kit. Joette: Oh no!

In this podcast, we cover: 1:50 A The origin 7:14 B Being prepared 12:54 C A little history 19:00 D The importance and content of the study group 27:40 E Motherhood Today we look at the heart of Joette’s mission, which is to make homeopathy very usable and accessible to moms and families. In this podcast, we talk about Joette’s brand new system she is launching called, A Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Book Curriculum If you’re new to JoetteCalabrese.com or even if you’ve been with us for a while but haven’t known how to get started, this episode is pretty exciting because it’s your launch pad into the world of homeopathy. Listen here or download to your personal device. If you are on the fence and just can’t decide if this is what you should do…listen and hear what motivated Joette and so you can make an informed decision for you and your family. Joette: And it was just coming to light how dangerous antibiotics were. We really, truly don’t want these drugs in our kids’ precious little bodies. It falls onto our shoulders. Paola: Yes. Joette: And I love when someone comes pre-skeptical, already skeptical, “Ah, really. You’re going to have to prove it to me because really, homeopathy? If it was so important, why isn’t my doctor using it or how come I’ve never heard about it?” I embrace it. I loved it. I have this vision of mothers linking arms across the globe. It is transformational. Paola: We’ve got a great episode today and we really look at the heart of Joette’s mission which is to make homeopathy very usable and accessible to moms and families. In this podcast, we talk about Joette’s brand new system she is launching called Study Groups, A Gateway to Homeopathy. If you’re new to JoetteCalabrese.com or even if you’ve been with us for a while but haven’t known how to get started, this episode is pretty exciting because it’s your launch pad into the world of homeopathy. So let’s talk Study Groups. Hi. I’m here with Joette Calabrese. How are you, Joette? Joette: I’m doing well. Hi Paola. This is really fun. We’re going to do this to make this really extemporaneous, right? Paola: Yes, we are just going to talk like we’re in my kitchen right now. Joette: Right. Paola: I’m excited about this topic on Study Groups. It’s near and dear to my heart and I know it’s near and dear to your heart. Joette: It is. Paola: So tell us about Study Groups, what with homeopathy. Tell us about why you started your first homeopathy study group? The origin Joette: Well, I started my first study group back in the 80s, when of course, there was no internet. It was very hard to find books on homeopathy. Most of them were from England and Germany and they had to be translated and all of that kind of stuff. I’d found a homeopath who I liked very much and she was helping me with conditions that my children might come up with here and there. And then, I asked her if she would teach a group of us. So we got a group together and I got my friends together. Many of them didn’t know what homeopathy was. They thought it meant home remedies, that kind of thing. I had to do a little bit of selling but not much because around that time, it seemed to be a big interest, at least in my neck of the woods in New York State with the problems with drugs in children. It was just coming to light how dangerous antibiotics were. It still didn’t get out into the general public but it was just coming to light if you’re paying attention. So I got this group together and we met in my living room every Thursday night for four years. It was a blast. And at the time, I had only one child. I wasn’t working outside of the home. I wanted to be home with him and I didn’t have time outside of the home. My whole life was our home, my parents, my child, my husband, my family. It was all about family and it was really nice to have kind of a night out. Well, it wasn’t really a night out because it was in my living room. But then after a while, we started to go to other places. Paola: I don’t think any group would meet for four years every Thursday night. Joette: Right, every Thursday night. I know. Exactly. Paola: If they didn’t love it. Joette: Right, right. Paola: If it wasn’t. Joette: Oh, we absolutely loved it. And sometimes, we actually veered off and said, “Maybe not homeopathy for the next month of two. Let’s come up with some recipes that we know are inexpensive, very wholesome, and easily made.” So we shared that kind of stuff. Every once in a while we take a little break. But the true focus was we, mothers all wanted to learn how to take care of our children without being dependent upon pharmaceuticals. That was the bottom line. That’s really what it was all about. So for those who came to the group, I’m going to go on and on. I’m sorry, Paola. I just – you only asked me one simple little question. Paola: I love it. You’re fine. Joette: Yes. For those who had children who were prone to ear infections, those mothers really studi

I share in this podcast the harrowing experience I had with my firstborn child and how that changed the way I raised all of my children. I explain that Homeopathy is more than home remedies, herbs, and vitamins; how it used to be prevalent in the US and is still widely used in Europe, South America, and India. Homeopathy is a simple – yet intelligent and elegant – way to physically help your family.   Jendy: This podcast is sponsored by the book, “Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less).” Whether your goal is to eat healthier, save money, live more sustainably or a combination of these, “Backyard Farming” helps you get there. Comprehensive and detailed, it covers everything you need to know to plan, purchase, plant, raise, harvest, preserve and enjoy your own backyard farm. Narrator: You’re listening to The Mom Prepares podcast, a feature of momprepares.com, which is a modern guide to self-sufficiency, and a place to learn how to keep your family safe, fed and healthy. Jendy: Hello, this is Jendy, and I am here with Joette Calabrese from JoetteCalabrese.com, and she is an expert on homeopathy and has several courses coming out that I believe our listeners would be very interested in. So hello, Joette. How are you? Joette: Hi, I’m very well. Thanks for inviting me, Jendy. Jendy: Would you tell us a little bit about yourself? Joette: Yes, certainly. I’m an American homeopath. I’m a public speaker and an author, and I’ve studied and practiced homeopathy for about 27 years. But I was not always a homeopath. I raised my children and homeschooled them for 15 years while studying to become a professional homeopath. And I also made all my family’s foods from scratch and raised chickens and ducks, and we have bees, and we have a pond. And so, my children are all grown now. They’re adults and away from the home, but I raised my children solely with homeopathy. They just never got an antibiotic, never had a Tylenol, not even an aspirin. My oldest is 27, and we have two others just under his age, and they’ve never had any drugs at all because I counted 100% on homeopathy and homemade foods and some botanicals as well. I have been very involved with Weston Price Foundation. I’m on the honorary board of the Western A. Price Foundation, and I’m a professional speaker and present at many of their international and regional conferences. I’ve spoken internationally and have authored not only my own blog where I try to give mostly women … I skew towards moms because I feel very strongly about what I was capable of doing with my education, and I want to be able to share that with others. Jendy: I think for me, when I became a mom is when I became much more interested in what I was putting in the body. Before that I didn’t think about it, for me personally. And I love what you said about that, about antibiotics. One time I took my child to the doctor, I think for an earache, and they gave him antibiotic. And they said, “Well, that’s not really going to take it away. You’re going to have to come back and get something else.” And I was kind of like, “Well, then why do I want this?” Joette: Right. Good question. What I want to do with moms is I want them to question the authorities and not just … once you homeschool your children, for example, you can’t help but start questioning other traditional methods of raising children. Once you step outside of one box, you can’t help but note that, “Boy, that’s not right either, and maybe I should check this out; maybe I should look into this instead of that.” And it just snowballs into a lifestyle that is pure and noble, as far as I’m concerned. Jendy: So how did you first get interested in homeopathy? Joette: Well, I went to a lecture offered by a doctor, an M.D., about 27 years ago. He was traveling through my hometown of Buffalo, New York, and he was giving a lecture on vaccines, and I was pregnant with our first son. And I went to the lecture to learn a little bit about vaccinations, because I wasn’t sure. I’d read a little bit and just wasn’t certain about it. And I had no idea that this man was also a homeopathic physician. And so when I went and listened to him, I was astounded by the numbers and his data and the information that he gave this small band of mothers in regards to how every single illness that vaccines are supposed to protect us against, there’s a homeopathic medicine that’s been used for close to 200 years that has been shown to be even more efficacious. I was blown away that night. And I went home and told my husband about it and was very excited. And I bought a book, a simple homeopathy book, and a little homeopathy kit, which meant that I had a number of remedies that I could use if something happened to someone in our family, and then this book to help me determine it. And then I went and me

  In this podcast, we cover: 0:46 A Taking prescription drugs starts in the pediatrician’s office. 3:06 B Statin drugs on lowering cholesterol. 19:40 C Rooting out cardiac problems with Arsenicum album. 35:14 D Lachesis for heart problems during menopause. 40:30 E Heart conditions could be symptoms of other health conditions. 46:10 F Learn to say no. Shut UP! How Taking Drugs Shut Up Symptoms and Cause New, More Sobering Ones Later On: Cardiac Disease Can Stem From This Abuse While Homeopathy Can Resolve It You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy, and I’m here with Joette Calabrese. And today, we’re going to talk about drugs, silencing symptoms, and heart conditions. Now I was a little taken aback from the title that is on here, Joette. Using “shut up” is a little rude, don’t you think? Taking prescription drugs starts in the pediatrician’s office Joette: Yes, it is. It is. But it’s an important subject given the number of people who take drugs pertaining especially to the heart. Let me give you a quote here from the Mayo Clinic that will open this up. It says that seven out ten Americans take prescription drugs. I find that absolutely shocking. And it all starts in what might surprise many people to hear. Now I believe it all starts in the pediatrician’s office. Jendy: I’ve heard you mention that in the past. You’re not very fond of pediatricians and you blame them for a lot of things. Can you tell us why? Joette: Yes. Yes. I blame them for ISIS too. Oh, just kidding, just kidding. The problem I have with them is that they’re paradigm for using an antibiotic for every infection, whether it’s bacterial or not; an analgesic for any pain; ibuprofen to shut up a fever; suppress symptoms that are simply signs of an illness instead of the illness itself. That it’s a model that needs to be turned on its head. And because in thinking this way, it becomes the training ground for mothers, young mothers and middle aged mothers. Not to mention that the child has now learned when you’re sick, you go to the doctor for a drug. It’s early training for compliancy, as far as I’m concerned in a modern drug lifestyle. My favorite pediatrician who is unfortunately no longer with us on Earth is Dr. Robert Mendelsohn. He once said that the key to health is to stay away from doctors. He went on further in my favorite book of his and he’s written a few of them – was called How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. He says the best way to raise a healthy child is to keep them away from doctors except for emergency care, in the case of an accident or an obviously serious illness. And if your child displays symptoms of illness, monitor it closely but don’t seek medical help. Don’t seek medical help until there are clear indications that he is, here’s the word – seriously ill. So it all starts there. That’s the end of his quote. It all starts there. Then add to the chronic bombardment of commercials on TV and women’s magazines. Jendy, I can’t even look at those magazines anymore because they’re fundamentally drug promos with some nice photos of interiors and a few good recipes. What this has done is culminated into a lifestyle that is so drug-filled that no one considers it unusual to not be taking drugs. I have to say that the guidelines are constantly changing so that more and more of the population come under these guidelines. Jendy: I think you have a recent study you can tell us about, right? Statin drugs on lowering cholesterol Joette: Yes. There was a study that was just published online. Actually it was just this past week on Wednesday and by the New England Journal of Medicine. It was published by the American Heart Association, the study itself and the American College of Cardiology. What they’ve done is publish new guidelines for what percentage of the population ought to be taking statin drugs. And so it recommends that believe it or not, almost half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 70 qualify to consider cholesterol lowering statin drugs. These new guidelines put less emphasis on cholesterol and more on drug treatment. So what they’re doing in my estimation is planning to put many people on statin drugs who previously would not have qualified for that. I’ve a background in marketing and sales. I worked in NBC and I worked in an independent TV station years ago and I know marketing. I can smell a marketing campaign from miles away. Let me tell you what other doctors who are not in this camp are saying. For example, in the book, The Statin Disaster by Dr. David Brownstein, he says tha

In this podcast, we cover: 0:50 Joette failed 17 times on a real estate exam 7:43 Don’t eat defeat 12:29 Perseverance and commitment in treating your family 17:30 Antibiotics and why we should avoid them 27:23 Change your way of thinking when it comes to treating common diseases This is my favorite subject: how to defeat failure. It helps to know when somebody else can (or has) overcome something, no matter how big or small, because only then can you start to believe you are capable of doing so, too. Failure is not a shameful word. In fact, we must fail in order to find the right path to success. Stopping or giving up before you reach success is what separates the mediocre from the mighty. I invite you to listen to/read my story and hopefully gain some inspiration from it. Here’s the Banerji Protocol take- away from today’s podcast: Lycopodium 200 mixed with Arsenicum 3, twice daily for bloating and a belly that’s distended. Warmly, Joette You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: This is Jendi and I’m here with Joette Calabrese from JoetteCalabrese.com. And today, our topic is on failure and how to get out of a rut of failure especially pertaining to curing your family. Hello, Joette! How are you? Joette: Hi, Jendi! I’m doing pretty well. Thanks! Jendi: Are you ready to talk about failure? Joette: Yes, yes! This is one of my favorite subjects, yeah, how to defeat failure. I love this subject. Joette failed 17 times on a real estate exam Jendi: So of course, the first thing we want to know is if you have ever failed, and can you tell us about that? Joette: Oh, never. I’ve never failed. That’s always interesting, isn’t it? It’s fun to know who’s failed and who hasn’t, and it makes our shortcomings seem a little more tolerable, I think. Jendi: Yes, it does. And it helps to know if somebody else can overcome something, then I can, too. Joette: Yeah, yeah. Well, let me tell you about a failure that I experienced years ago. It was back when I was in my 20s and I lived in Arlington, Virginia just outside of DC, and I absolutely adored Washington, DC. It was vibrant. It was a great city. It was cosmopolitan, chic. It was so cool. At the time, I lived in these [Murphy – 00:01:34] apartments that looked like World War II barracks and so much wanted to live in the great city of DC. So I made the decision that I wanted to become a real estate agent to be a part of that excitement of DC. And it was going to fulfill two issues and that was one, to get out of this little apartment that I didn’t like, and also to be able to be a part of what was going on in that vibrant city. So this was back in about 1975. And if anyone was around during that time, any of our listeners, they might remember that there was a real estate boom in Washington, DC that was absolutely over the moon. So I wanted to be involved in that. So I studied first for the Virginia Real Estate Exam because, of course, I was living there, and I passed the exam right away. No problem. And then because Maryland State is adjacent to DC also on the other side, I studied and sat for that exam as well, and I passed that right away. But what I wanted more than anything was to practice real estate in DC. But I had been advised to take the other state exams first. I wondered why this would happen. I asked, “Why would that matter?” Well, they gave me the example of the brokers for whom I was about to work for. Because the DC exam was particularly difficult and I might not pass it the first time. So to get started on my new career, I decided I should at least be able to sell in Virginia and Maryland. So indeed, I got hired by a real estate company and I set my sight on that exam, on procuring that coveted DC real estate exam. So I took the exam and I failed it. “No problem,” I thought. “I’ll take it again when it comes around in a few months.” I decided to do that again. So I did it again. But then, when I took it the second time, I failed it again, and then again, and again. Now, allow me to set the stage a little, perhaps to soothe my frazzling ego at the time. This exam was understandably tricky because there was such a boom market in DC. And I mean, contracts were being flipped within days, and even sometimes hours before going to closing while selling the contract two and three times. It was super intense. And that’s how hot it was at that time. People were making huge profits, agents were not excluded, and so the word in the real estate market was that the DC board wanted no more agents to be licensed. So they made the exams irregularly challenging. And I mean irregular, but nonetheless. The wording in the exams was strange and it was difficult to decode and I don’t really know whether that was the case or not because I knew people who were also

In this podcast, we cover: 0:59 Question, challenge, defy accepted ideas and practices 6:55 The mother’s role in her child’s life 17:54 Convincing your spouse on the wisdom of using homeopathy 19:48 Joette becoming accomplished in homeopathy 23:17 Arm yourself with knowledge to decide for yourself what’s best for you and your family I realize I am going to receive some staunch differences of opinion regarding this blog for the position I take and the philosophy I espouse, but I offer no apologies. This week I talk about a lifestyle change; one that takes courage. I personally have a set of rules, and have found that if I abide by them, they rarely fail me. Listen to learn about the sense of self-satisfaction you will experience once you understand how to take charge of your family’s health and well-being. With this podcast, I will be introducing a new feature; a full transcription providing more reasons than ever to listen, learn and pass on to others. Warmly, Joette You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: Hello, this is Jendi and I’m here once again with Joette Calabrese. Today, we are going to talk about being a mighty mom and grandmom. And I personally love that idea, and I imagine that you, Joette, are not going to be discussing mothers working out and getting rippling muscles, right? Joette: Well, yes and no. And I don’t mean physically working out but I do mean muscles. We’re talking about learning to flex the brain muscle and more importantly, the muscle of the will. Jendi: You mean willpower? Question, challenge, defy accepted ideas and practices Joette: Yeah, but it sounds a little trite, that term willpower. I want to talk about having guts, spunk, and moxie. And I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again and again, that living this kind of lifestyle takes courage. But I have some rules, and I found that if I abide by them, they rarely fail me. So let me give you some rules. We must defy the practices of our peers. This doesn’t mean you become their foil. It doesn’t mean you forget polite society and bash them down with your ideas. It means you find a way to speak pleasantly and with respect and then direct yourself in your own path. And the second rule is you must question, even challenge, every idea that impacts your family’s health. This most often comes from pediatricians, other doctors, media, and of course, the rest of society that has profited from these ideas emanating from these sources. So this group might come in the form of in-laws and neighbors, too. And then the third rule that I adhere to and I urge others to do is at least question, usually challenge, and in many instances, downright defy. The world is filled with assumptions that are false and it’s up to you to tether your sails and set your family off on a different tack. So the upshot is that you must, and I mean must, set yourself on a path that is directly in conflict with what you see around you. The more you see an idea around you, the more you should resist it. Jendi: That seems a little bit counterintuitive. Joette: Well, the reason that I say this is because I believe most ideas are wrong, or at least, need refining. For example, read the billboards in your locale and whatever they say, do the opposite. Common horse sense is not found on billboards, in magazines, in doctors’ offices, on TV. Instead, those are marketing tools for an entity, either an industry or a government program trying to convince you of something. Jendi: And there is no doubt that the internet has opened up our knowledge base and we can find out several sides of an issue through the internet. Joette: Yes, yes, we can. But it’s useless unless you put it to good use. I know I’ve said this again and again and I’ll do until I have barnacles hanging on me. You must do your homework. You must look up every drug and procedure that a doctor recommends and I guarantee, he has not done this. But you, my friends, will do this because before you put a fragment of any stuff that is derived from an industry in your or your child’s mouth, you must do your homework, or you must submit to a test that is unnecessary. So there’s no doubt that we’re smarter now, we mothers. There it is, all the information we’d ever need, and yet, most people don’t even think about using it to its capacity, I mean, the internet. Not you though. You do your homework. And how do I know this? And I’m not talking just to Jendi. I’m talking to those who are listening. Because I speak to those who follow me every single day. Jendi: And the internet is a wonderful research tool. Joette: Yes, but without the master behind the tools, nothing is possible. So remember, the internet is only a marketing tool for big industry and government. So you must sniff out the answers in co

In this podcast, we cover: 1:35 Acute vs. chronic conditions 6:58 Drugs are antithetical to true health 16:10 Drugs suppress while homeopathy cures for the long-term 23:16 Rousing the sleeping giant 24:13 Learn homeopathy to cure diseases Just last week on the phone, Skype and through emails, I met and spoke with over 80 people in my practice. What I heard from mostly moms and grand moms is that they have used homeopathy for their family’s illnesses from their collection of homeopathy books they’ve purchased from health food stores and online, but they can’t seem to treat the eczema their son or grandson has. They can’t seem to get a grip on food intolerances or chronic constipation, arthritis, asthma, ovarian cystic disease, or severe acne etc., because they can’t find anything on these chronic conditions. In this week’s Podcast I can tell you why and more… I explain the difference between chronic and acute illness The good news and the bad news The solution; a real life solution you busy moms and grand moms can use immediately It’s not good enough to strive to be the best in the world, you must be the best FOR the world. Join me and change your world first, then the rest by spreading the message. Warmly, Joette You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: Hello! This is Jendi and I am here with Joette Calabrese and today, we’re going to talk about acute versus chronic. Hello, Joette! How are you? Joette: Hi, Jendi! I’m well. Jendi: I know you talk about this a lot and we talked about it in some of the previous podcasts but why does acute versus chronic matter so much? Joette: Well, let me step back a little bit. Just this past week, I’ve had a very busy week on Skype and emails and on the phone. I met with over 80 people in my practice. And what I hear from mostly moms and grandmoms is that they have used homeopathy for their family’s illnesses from their cadre of homeopathy books and courses they’ve taken that they found maybe at health food stores, etc., and online, but they can’t get to the eczema their son has. They can’t seem to get a grip on food intolerances or chronic constipation, arthritis, asthma, ovarian cyst disease, acne, etc. They can’t find any of these conditions. And, why not, they ask. Jendi: Yeah, why not? I hate to ask you this but is it because homeopathy doesn’t help in those conditions? Acute vs. chronic conditions Joette: No, no, not at all, a resounding no. In fact, it’s these very conditions that homeopathy does its best work. It’s because in homeopathy, and all medicine for that matter, we categorize conditions into two main classes, but especially in homeopathy because it’s so perfect. First is acute and second is chronic. Those are the two main classes. And the difference is noteworthy. In fact, it’s downright vital. So in classical homeopathy, which is not what we’re talking about here, we are taught that an untrained homeopath can cure her family herself when it comes to acutes. But it requires years and years of study to be able to cure a chronic condition. Jendi: So in case someone doesn’t understand, can you give me an example of a chronic and an acute condition? Joette: Yes. Let’s start out with that. So acutes are illnesses that have a natural beginning and a natural end. They end. They are usually short lived, but not necessarily. They can last for weeks, months, but generally, they’re short lived, and they show a great deal of vitality. If you have the flu or strep throat infection, there’s a great deal of fanfare that accompanies it. The body gets super hot with fever, perhaps there’s vomiting. There might be weakness. Especially with the flu, we might even see depression. But this is the big distinguisher – you know it will go away at some point. Flu doesn’t stick with us forever. It resolves or you die. But it’s not going to last for years. By the way, acute conditions don’t always resolve. I want to make that point. Death can be the outcome. So otitis media, conjunctivitis, strep throat, lacerations, bug bites, injuries, they begin and you know that you won’t have that bug bite or laceration forever or even a few years, right? Jendi: For most bug bites. In this area, we have a lot of Lyme disease, so I’m not sure about that one. Joette: Well, that’s right. Lyme disease is a little different. Sometimes an acute or short-lived show of symptoms such as a bug bite can turn into a chronic condition, and that’s precisely what we’re going to talk about today. Jendi: So that’s the acute conditions. Can you tell us about chronic conditions? Joette: Yes. So with most chronic conditions, it often shows a lower level of presentation. So it’s not screaming-in-the-bed illness necessarily like a flu would cause but it’s in a lower level and it’s pretty much forever. An

In this podcast, we cover: 0:36 Keep copious notes for future reference 9:13 Antibiotics act like a bulldozer 10:59 Always compare using previous notes 14:56 Joette’s headaches and how she got rid of them permanently 24:47 Pass on the knowledge and help others Once they are over, we humans don’t generally ponder all of our previous sufferings. Soon we let them go, otherwise we’d be doomed to chronic thoughts of misery. Hence, it is the duty of the homeopath/mom to keep careful notes. This is the only way clear comparisons between past and current symptoms can be drawn when assessing a chronic condition. Without this information, you might be tempted to think (on the sufferer’s recall) that the remedy did not work. And this could lead to premature abandonment of the remedy that simply wasn’t used long enough. This ability to draw clear comparisons of the symptom picture is vital. For this is where too many people become disillusioned with homeopathy because they don’t understand that it often takes time for a remedy to fully act. There is a practical way to approach this and how to interpret the remaining symptoms that I teach it in my classes. One story I tell in this podcast is a personal one. Learn the remedy Kali bichromium 30 that cured my chronic, sinus headache. Over 25 years ago…and never returned. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: Hello! This is Jendi and I am here with Joette Calabrese, and today, she has a story for us about a homeopathy cure. Is that right? Joette: That’s my plan. Yup. Jendi: I like to hear a good story. What do you have for us? Keep copious notes for future reference Joette: Well, I could write a book on the subject of cures from using homeopathic medicine and I could actually author volumes on this subject of how and when homeopathy works when all else has failed. I actually had forgotten about the one I’m going to relate today because it was a personal suffering that was so old. We humans don’t generally ponder all of our sufferings. We let them go. Otherwise, we’re basically doomed to chronic thoughts of misery and that’s not a good human condition. Jendi: Yeah, I understand that and I think it’s probably a good thing that we don’t remember all the sufferings. Joette: Yeah. And it’s not only so in forgetting these kinds of sufferings. It’s demonstrable. So before I begin my story, let me share with everyone what I witness every day. And although it may at the onset seem an uninteresting fact, it holds a great deal of information for those who are using homeopathy. So I’d actually like to share a little something on that particular subject, the subject of memory. Jendi: And in particular, memory of suffering? Joette: Yes. That’s exactly it, the subject of the memory of the suffering. And so on a day-to-day basis, I speak with clients and students and they report that they or their loved ones are very much better, of course, after using the homeopathic medicines. But there are also those who tell me they are no better after taking the remedies. We’re, of course, discussing more chronic conditions here, not an ear infection or a strep throat. So let’s stay with the chronic idea for a while. The first thought might be when you hear something like this, I know better, is that the remedies were ill chosen. But homeopaths need to keep copious notes. And I always ask this person if they’re reporting when taking a case to give me not only the symptoms they suffer but to assign a number to each of them. So the person might report, “I get headaches.” And the question would be then, “How often?” And then you write that down, of course. “How long do they last? And let’s allocate a number to the pain on the scale of 1 to 10 so that we have a clear record of how you’re suffering.” This is all recorded in the notes now. Okay, on to the next symptom. “Oh, you have anxiety.” “Yes, I have anxiety.” “How often do you get it?” I will tell you, I can often read someone’s anxiety by listening to their voice and demeanor. It’s not hard to do this. So I might put my two cents in there as to how it sounds in their voice. So then we ask, of course, for the frequency and the number again on the scale of 1 to 10 of the intensity or the anxiety that they’re suffering in numerical value. So the next symptom reported by the person, let’s say she’s got arthritis in her knees. Jendi: And you write all of this down, all the symptoms and all the numbers and everything? Joette: That’s right. And on the left side on the margin, I’m writing joints, I’m writing about knees, or mind. I’m writing about how her emotions are, or sinus issues, and I’m putting that in the sinus category so that I can review it quickly in my notes. Otherwise, when the assessment is made in two months after this p

  In this podcast, we cover: 0:48 Using essential oils 5:25 The healing powers of homeopathy 6:34 Essential oils that are also used in homeopathy 9:03 Differences between homeopathy and essential oils 12:53 Rules in using homeopathy with essential oils 15:17 A protocol using homeopathy and essential oils 22:58 The Banerji protocols Before I learned homeopathy 29 years ago, I used whatever means I had at the time. When someone got sick, I employed botanicals. I wild crafted herbs from around my property, like St. John’s wort, coltsfoot, nettles and such and made them into tinctures so I always had a store of quality homemade herbal medicines. Listen to today’s podcast where I answer the question, “So if you know that essential oils have therapeutic value, why don’t you use them in your day to day work?” I know you are going to like the answer. And don’t miss today’s new protocol to add to your growing homeopathic tool kit. Ultimately it comes down to you having the tools to buck the system when necessary…transforming meek moms into mighty moms! Warmly, PS I recently gave an interview as a participant in an on-line summit called The Essential Oils Revolution Summit. Erica, of Homestead Bloggers Network, introduced me to Dr. Eric Zielinski, one of the two organizers of the Summit. Check it out as I discuss the subject of essential oils and homeopathy. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: This is Jendi and I’m here once again with Joette from JoetteCalabrese.com. Hello, Joette! How are you? Joette: Good morning, Jendi! I’m well. How about you? Jendi: I am well also. And part of that is due to your recommendations. Joette: Oh, great! Jendi: I have a lot of friends that use essential oils and I would like to know what you think about them. Using essential oils Joette: Well, essential oils bring up actually a broader question and that’s what is my opinion of other methods of alternative health? So I’ll start from the beginning because of course, it’s a very good place to start. Before I learned homeopathy, I used whatever means I had at the time. I depended on my homemade bone stocks, my homemade meals, common sense methods to protect my kids, their immune systems, for when I got sick or my husband. I employed botanicals. I even wildcrafted. And I still do some of that today, too. I wildcrafted herbs from around my property out in the country like St. John’s wort, crowfoot, nettles. I made tinctures out of that. So I always had a store of quality homemade herbal medicines. So I spent a lot of time learning about the herbs that are indigenous to my area. But I also had a store of essential oils for my old-fashioned vaporizer. Now, you’re too young to remember this but there was a vaporizer that we used to use in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was green glass and you plug it in. Now, when I look at it, I think, “Wow, this is a firetrap.” There’s no grounding plug on it. There it is, electricity extending directly into water. But it worked for all those years and so I used it when my family was in need to. So as far as essential oils go, I began using my old fashioned vaporizer and I would put lavender, etc., in that. But I began making this lovely concoction that was not unlike one of the formulas produced by the large essential oil companies. Many people know it as Thieves. But a friend of mine got restarted on it and she named it Scoundrels which is such a great word, with of course, reference to the product Thieves. So now my father makes it for most of us in our family today. And when he puts it in a mist bottle, which he does so that when we travel, we can mist our hands and wash them up, he cleverly calls it Scoundrels in the Mist. So it conjures up this image of these interesting old characters from the Middle Ages. So anyway, it’s clove oil, lemon oil, cinnamon oil, eucalyptus, and I think rosemary’s in there, too. And we use it to clean the air and on our hands when we travel, as I said, and we put a few spritzers on in the cold season and spritz it all around the room and I love it. But I didn’t stop there. Jendi: So you use it actually on your skin and you use it in the air, like just wherever? Joette: Yes. I like to put a few drops in bathwater or on a handkerchief and I used to take sniffs or give it to my children to take sniffs. And I might add a drop of oil into a carrier oil such as coconut oil and rub it into the skin, the bottom of their feet. But generally, I didn’t give it to them internally. I just wasn’t a hundred percent sure about that. I used mint to make mint ice cream when I was making my own ice cream but I’m particularly concerned about using essential oils internally and in great concentration for children. So I’m rather conservative about the concentration, e

In this podcast, we cover: 0:36 Joette on pediatricians: “Yikes!” 2:17 How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor 7:54 Examples of drugs that are dangerous to us 12:04 Trust in your ability to mother 18:07 “I’ve had enough!” 22:12 Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa believed in the powers of homeopathy 25:26 Be a defiant mother Today’s podcast is a bit more personal than previous ones. I offer no apologies. I am a defiant mother. While raising my children, my thinking went something like this: If I was going to bring children into the world, I ought to be able to identify whether they were well or not. In fact, not unlike any of you mothers reading this now, I checked my baby (who was generally in my arms anyway) pretty much by the minute so I felt pretty capable of conducting my own well baby check-ups. I also read unceasingly. Additionally, I put a lot of time into homemade, organic, pasture fed foods, so it seemed stupid (excuse the sophomoric word, but it’s so fitting!) to forget all that when the baby got a common illness and defer to someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed. I hate drugs, he loved ‘em. Ultimately you have to be willing to buck the system. Listen to the podcast for more reasons why mothers need to be vigilant and defiant. And why my parting word is NO!   You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: This is Jendi and I’m here with Joette Calabrese. Hello, Joette! How are you? Joette: I’m doing well, Jendi. How about you? Jendi: I am good. I am glad for a nice, sunshiny day today. Joette: Finally. Joette on pediatricians: “Yikes!” Jendi: I’ve been looking at your site and I am particularly interested in how you raised your children. I know that your children are adults now and out of the house but my children are still at home and I am interested in learning how others who have already been through this did it successfully. So did you ever give your kids any medicine and what did your pediatrician think about this? Joette: Well, for any mother, the most important aspect of their lives is, of course, their children. And then let me say most emphatically, pediatrician, yikes! I’m being a little flippant here but there’s a measure of truth to my reaction. I didn’t need a pediatrician. Those ubiquitous well-baby checkups were something I never bought into. Excuse my skepticism but they’re just a calendar-building technique for an otherwise not very busy medical specialty. Perhaps they fulfill a need in mothers who don’t trust knowing whether or not their children are well. But I always felt that I was happy to buy things when I needed them but I don’t really like to buy services and products that are redundant. And I found from years previous to having children and having been married to a doctor back in my 20s before I remarried and then had my children a decade later, you can learn a lot in a decade of going to doctors, that they’re always looking for something to do. And I interpreted that something to do meant prescribing drugs or ordering tests and I was already clearly against that from the very onset. How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor I guess I don’t care for nor do I trust drug fundamentalists and I prefer those who are looking to protect the sanctity of the human body and not taint it with questionable drugs, particularly during the susceptible years of childhood. And I think a drug fundamentalist is someone who says, “Ear infection? Oh, antibiotic. Eczema? Oh, steroid. Got a little issue here on your skin? Let’s remove it.” So the more I read, the more I found this medical specialty to be a disappointment. I loved Dr. Robert Mendelsohn and his book, How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor. Love that book. So my thinking went something like this. If I was going to bring children into the world, I really ought to be able to identify whether or not they were well. In fact, not unlike any mother, I checked my baby pretty much by the minute because they were always in my arms when they were babies. And when they weren’t and they were at my feet as I was doing my work around the house, I felt pretty capable of knowing what was going on with my children. I knew when they were sick. And I felt and still feel that common horse sense that what I was applying trumped any pediatric drug-laden scheme every time. Jendi: I personally really like this kind of thinking but it seems like it’s hard to carry out and there’s a lot of fear around mothers today when we hear about the medical community coming and taking the kids and it just seems like the fear takes away the confidence and it’s hard to rely on yourself as the mother. Joette: Yeah. Well, I think we should be getting our PhD in mothering. I really believe it’s important that we know wh

In this podcast, we cover: 0:45 Joette as an anti-pesticide activist 2:32 Medicines: The worst kind of pollution 7:52 Don’t rely on your doctors to tell you the harmful effects of medicines 11:05 Transitioning from conventional medicines to homeopathy Today’s podcast is about pollution, but not the first kind that comes to mind. Years ago, I was an anti-pesticide activist. I met with local hospitals and school boards in my community and got them to stop spraying dangerous pesticides on their lawns and school grounds. We are all too familiar with that kind of pollution, and the ability of grass roots activism to create positive change. This podcast, I want to talk about one that may be much more important than the sprayed kind. It actually might be the most vicious, as its overuse has become the number one killer in the U.S. today. Remarkably, we not only willingly accept this kind of pollution, we agree to it, so it’s not enforced like taxes. Instead, the public is convinced to respect it enough to pay for it! It’s even bold-facedly standing in your medicine cabinet every morning. Listen, as I tell a story of a young girl named Dolly, who experiences the devastation that occurs in the wake of having taken only a round or two of one of these pollutants… on the recommendation of a trusted college physician. There’s a little Dolly in each of us, but failures teach. Don’t we all wish that someone, be it a doctor, our mother or SOMEONE, would just tell us what to do, what to take and be on with our lives? A life well lived is one that requires that we unapologetically take control of our own destinies. For if we don’t, we will likely fulfill someone else’s instead, and it might be the way of industry promoting, pharmaceutical pollution. In the end, knowing how to use homeopathy before or even after poor choices can be transformational. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: Hello! This is Jendi and I’m here with Joette Calabrese. Today, we’re going to be talking about pollution and what we can do about it to protect our families. And I’m excited to learn about this. So Joette, is there something we can do about pollution other than getting involved in grassroots and community movements? Joette as an anti-pesticide activist Joette: Yeah, there certainly is. Years ago, I was an anti-pesticide activist. I met with local hospitals and city groundskeepers in the city of Buffalo and school districts, etc., because I was concerned about the amount of pesticides that were being sprayed on the lawns where children played and in the hospitals where people who were sick were adjacent to the lawns. So given the amount of pesticides spewed on the lawns or on our food supply, fluoride in our water, the GMOs, the mercury in vaccines and dental fillings, you’d think we were doomed. But consider a different take on pollution. That’s what we’re going to look at today, one that may be much more important, I believe, actually, than the randomly emitted sort, not the kind that is sprayed on the trees in the summer by the city workers, and that’s exactly what I was working against. And actually, by the way, I might say parenthetically that I was successful. Buffalo was the first city in the nation to stop its use of pesticides on city properties. So it did work. It was back in the ‘80s and it was very effective. We made the national news and Reuters picked us up and we went all over the country with this information. But at any rate, what we’re going to be talking about today might be the most vicious as its overuse has actually become the number one killer in the US today. And remarkably, we’re not only willing to accept this kind of pollution, but we agreed to it, and it’s not enforced like taxes. Instead, the public is convinced to respect it enough to pay for it. And it’s bold facedly standing in your medicine cabinet every morning. Jendi: So I worry about all those other things you said. So if this is worse, this scares me. Medicines: The worst kind of pollution Joette: Well, you might have guessed what this is anyway if you thought about it. The pollution is the medicines and over-the-counter drugs, pharmaceuticals. And they’re euphemistically christened as medicine instead of what they often actually are, and that is pollution of a most personal nature. Jendi: So why is it more serious than DDT and all those other things? Joette: Well, because it’s what I call personal pollution. The spraying of DDT with all its side effects was only done once every summer, and the same thing with lawn pesticides. They’re sprayed once a month. I actually remember DDT being sprayed on the trees on my street growing up in Buffalo, New York. We were often playing outside while it was being done. But with drugs, we

In this podcast, we cover: 1:09 Conditions that take longer to treat 2:11 Antimonium crud mixed with Arsenicum album for itchy eczema 7:41 Petroleum for eczema that’s worse in the winter 9:22 Use camphor in between the wrong protocol and the new protocol 10:16 Coffea helps with sleep 12:08 Food intolerance, the root problem Herein I finish the three-part series What to Expect When Using Homeopathy. In my previous two podcasts (and blogs) I covered acute illness, general guidelines for selecting dosage and chronic illness, what to watch for (the three magic markers) to determine whether the remedy was well chosen. Now in Part 3, I cover what to do if you recognize that the remedy is not the best selection for the case. Here are my guidelines: Give the remedy the necessary 6-8 weeks time to work. Access the case applying the 3 magic markers (Part 2 of 3 – Podcast 7) Stand firm in your convictions. Go back to your study course notes and observations. New realizations often present that were not obvious 6 weeks previous, leading you to select a second remedy. Consider Camphor 200 for a smoother transition to the next remedy if you clearly made a mistake.   Remain confident in your skills, knowing even the wrong remedy choice can give us information that may have gone unnoticed or perhaps wasn’t available at the time the first remedy was selected. I know you know what it means to have your child feel better after months of suffering. Now imagine what that must feel like knowing that it was at your hand…that YOU cured your child, husband, mother, friend. Many of you know this feeling. I know this feeling. Is there anything on earth that is a better high than this? You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: This is Jendi and I’m back with Joette Calabrese from JoetteCalabrese.com, and this is our series of What to Expect When Using Homeopathy. So far, we’ve covered the number of doses, the spaces in between, and the other important details and kind of focused on acute conditions. That was part one. And part two, we talked a little bit more about chronic conditions and we covered how to watch for what Joette calls magic markers to determine whether the remedy was well chosen. Now, this is the third and last part of this series of What to Expect When Using Homeopathy. And I’m looking forward to hearing about what to do if I choose a wrong remedy for a condition. Conditions that take longer to treat Joette: Okay. Let’s talk about some conditions take longer than others, sometimes even remedies. Certain remedies are slower acting. But generally, it’s the conditions and in the corresponding article, I mentioned vitiligo. And for vitiligo, the Banerji protocols have been shown to alleviate this problem in a certain number of people. It’s not a hundred percent for everyone. But it’s generally a very long process with slow results. You know, I like to use musical terms. I know that you play instruments and I play piano. And so I love to use musical terms. And it might be called adagio, adagio. That’s a very slow snail’s pace. And although homeopathy has a history of being able to treat psoriasis, it, too, has an elongated pace. And here is how it often fleshes out. I’ll explain this to you. Pun intended, by the way, Jendi. Jendi: And you have another story for us about a little boy today. And I love it when you share the stories because I understand and I find I remember the example better. Antimonium crud mixed with Arsenicum album for itchy eczema Joette: Yeah, it does help. Yeah, there’s nothing like a story to demonstrate a point. So I’ll tell you about Joseph who’s 10 years old. This is a case of a mother who’s been taking my online courses and she’s been following my blog for a few years, and also, she’s had other interest in homeopathy through other homeopaths as well, and then decided to take my course, Skin: The Ugly Truth, and later, Good Gut, Bad Gut. And this is where she learned how to master the Banerji protocols which is who I promote indirectly. And she implemented them with her son. So Joseph had a few things going on. He was irritable, he had food allergies, but most importantly, he had kind of mid-level eczema until a few months ago. And then around that time, probably two or three months ago, his skin worsened and so did his behavior. His rashes got very itchy and his mother, Millie, figured it was something he was eating. He was allergic to something. She kind of knew that all along anyway but didn’t have to pay too much attention to it until a few months ago. But she wasn’t sure it was anything more than dairy and wheat. So the family had been on the GAPS diet kind of loosely. And if you’re not familiar with the GAPS diet, it’s a good diet to help eliminate food intolerances and build

In this podcast, we cover: 1:01 Length of time needed to treat a chronic condition 5:00 Take copious notes 8:58 Homeopathic remedies for vomiting 10:13 Take note of the improvements 16:21 Joette’s magic markers of improvement “Being able to take responsibility for your family’s care in such a meaningful and committed way is the substance that makes for a life well lived.” This week’s podcast is about starting and using homeopathy for your family’s chronic conditions. First, when addressing a chronic illness, the length of time that we need to stick with a protocol is generally about 4-8 weeks. It’s a matter of pacing. Think of it this way…allegro for acutes and adagio for chronics. I talk about the crucial need to take notes at the onset of the case. And the need to continuously take observational notes, for only then will we be able to see the proof that things are getting better. The 3 questions to ask when taking notes for your case records. 3 Magic Markers of Improvement: the presence of any one of these indicates that we’re on the right track and have chosen the correct protocol. 2 Top remedies for horrible vomiting. Being a wife and mother is one of the noblest jobs on this earth. Use this free blog and incorporate my homeopathy tips, and you’ll accomplish this like a sovereign. Podcast 6,7 and 8 are supplemental to blog articles that are titled: What to Expect Using Homeopathy Parts 1-3   You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendi: This is Jendi and I’m back again with Joette Calabrese and I am looking forward to learning more on the subject of what to expect after using a homeopathic remedy. So in our last podcast, we talked about using homeopathic remedies for acute conditions and I have used them for colds and headaches for my kids. So I now turn to the homeopathic remedy instead of a store-bought drug, and I’m looking forward to hearing what happens when there’s a condition that continues or has been for a while, as you call it, a chronic condition. Length of time needed to treat a chronic condition Joette: Yes. So last week in part one, we covered the kind of results we would look for when using homeopathy to address acute situations such as fever, like you said, otitis media, sore throats, headaches, bee stings, things like that. So acute problems are relatively straightforward compared with what to expect when dealing with chronic conditions. That is, it only takes a few minutes, hours, or maybe a couple of days to know that you’ve chosen the remedy correctly. But in a chronic condition because it’s a longer lasting one, it’s different. Certainly, there are also signs along the road that we can look for to reassure us that we are in the correct path or to redirect us if we’re on the wrong path. So here’s the first one. When addressing a chronic illness, the length of time that we need to stick with the protocol is generally about a month to two months. So that gives us information in and of itself. That tells us that it is a matter of pacing. Think of it this way. Allegro is the acute pace and adagio is the chronic pace. So we don’t expect something that’s a chronic illness that’s been going on for many years or decades, sometimes months, but more often it’s years or decades, to completely clear up overnight like we would a headache that just started three hours ago. So in general, it’s usually best to observe a chronic protocol over that two-month period of time before there’s an assessment. And to give you an idea of what this means, for a 4-year-old, expect sleep to be reestablished within a few weeks, whereas someone who’s older, it might take a lot longer for it to be reestablished. Someone who’s had insomnia for, say, five years, it might take many weeks. So it will be a couple of months. Mind you, these are examples of what might occur so don’t hold these degrees of length of time to specific scrutiny. I’m kind of giving you an overview. So it can take time, perhaps months, but it is a march in the direction of wholeness. So we have to remember that along the way, that we’re looking for improvement, prompting you to continue with your remedies in the same fashion. So if you’ve decided to use a remedy twice daily and you’re going to use that every day for a full month, you need to stick with that. Don’t waver because if you waver, you’ll certainly question yourself and wonder whether or not you’ve made the correct decision. So when a remedy is working, we must not tinker with success. And this is one of the catches that most people get stuck on. As much as we want the remedy to move quickly because we’re so, again, accustomed to seeing an acute situation resolve so quickly, we must hold our ground. Once the remedy no longer acts and there’s no improvement at all and there’

In this podcast, we cover: 0:54 Open your doors to homeopathy 4:17 What to expect with homeopathy 10:19 The harmful effects of using antibiotics 13:44 What dosage to use and how to know if treatment is working 26:08 Get started with homeopathy The Secret of Getting Ahead Is Getting Started – Mark Twain This week’s podcast is about starting and using homeopathy for your family’s acute illnesses. I list the 5 main goals we expect to accomplish when treating an acute illness. Where homeopathy surpasses modern medicine and in contrast often makes modern medicine look outdated. General guidelines for selecting dosage. The 3 criteria that need to be met to know if the selected remedy is working. (This is a writer downer.) Why it is important to improve your observational skills and why it will happen naturally as you study and use homeopathy. A little hint on how to keep your family’s records. This took me years to refine. In 1890, Mark Twain was quoted in Harper’s Bazaar: “The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You many honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.” Good old Samuel Clemens’ words were prophetic. But he had no idea that only 50 years later homeopathy was indeed attacked and destroyed in North America. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Jendi: Hello! This is Jendi and I’m here again with Joette Calabrese. Hello, Joette! How are you?   Joette: I’m well, Jendi. Here we are again. I think this is the sixth podcast we’ve recorded. This is becoming a habit.   Jendi: But it’s a good habit.   Joette: Yeah.   Jendi: And I did hear a statistic that most podcasts don’t make it past about number eight. So we’ll see how we do.   Joette: We got two more to find out.   Jendi: Yeah, yeah. I hope the listeners enjoy it and follow along with it and it becomes a habit with them.   Joette: Yeah, exactly.   Open your doors to homeopathy   Jendi: So I am learning a whole lot and thinking about a whole lot of new things. And everything I learn just opens up like more questions and more ideas of more things that I want to learn about. And it is so exciting. We went for many years without health insurance and I wish I would have known some of this then. It’s just like I can do this and that’s very exciting for me. I was able to meet a lady at church who grew up on homeopathic remedies, raised her children that way, and it’s just like, wow, more and more people the more I learn about it.   Joette: Well, you know, I think what happens is that we don’t know anything about it. We have never heard the word before. And then once we learn the word and recognize what it is, because most people misunderstand what homeopathy means and what it is, then suddenly you start using the word and you find out there is a whole another world. It’s like what I always said before. It’s like you know that under the water in places like the Caribbean, you know it’s beautiful under there. You’ve seen it on television. There it is, this vast, beautiful world.   But it’s not until you put that snorkel on and you go there on the surface and hang out over a coral reef do you realize the depth and breadth of the subject or the depth and breadth of the beauty and the vastness of what’s below the surface. That’s what homeopathy’s about. It’s not until you open up this door do you recognize how fabulous this is. And, “The secret of getting ahead” always “is getting started,” by Mark Twain. That’s one of my favorite statements by Mark Twain. So yeah, let’s get started.   Jendi: So one of the questions that I wonder is I get the homeopathic remedy that was advised. How long do I use it before I change that remedy? And I’m used to a society that’s an instant society and microwave society like they call it and give me one pill and I’m fixed. So how long should I stick with a remedy before I move to a different one?   Joette: Yeah. That’s a good question. I get asked a lot of questions that demonstrate beginners and even those with more experience that there’s confusion about what kind of results to expect if they use one dose or two doses or whatever. And when they begin relying on homeopathic methods, now, what do I do? And that’s really the essence of the question, is people want to know how long they ought to continue with a particular remedy, how many times to administer it, and how to tell if they have chosen the correct remedy or protocol. And sometimes, folks make the mistake of not sticking with the protocol long enough. Other times, the error is sticking with the protocol for too long.   I might add that the former is t

In this podcast, we cover: 1:08 Homeopathy is universal 5:06 Benefits of homeopathy 10:36 Remedy for colic 16:10 Happiness that homeopathy brings 20:59 Organizing one’s life This week’s podcast should have been titled: “What can homeopathy do for you and your baby (and other ages too)? Plus 3 benefits that you can take to the bank.” This is the take-away. I tell my story of raising my three boys so you can hear my practical advice and use it. How I used Chamomilla for teething instead of Tylenol and avoided the dangerous side effects. What one of my nursing babies received when he had a bout of colic because I ate too much garlic. How knowing some homeopathy made me happy, had me leap frogging instead of ladder climbing when it came to curing my family’s ills and gave me confidence as a new young mother. Don’t be dissuaded. Like a good piano teacher, my methods and the Banerji Protocols can have you treating your family’s ills in no time. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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. Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy and I’m back with Joette Calabrese. Today, we’re going to talk about What Homeopathy can do for you and your baby. Hello, Joette! How are you? Joette: Hi Jendy. I’m well, thanks. Homeopathy is universal. Jendy: You have about three remedies or three benefits of homeopathy that we can use for babies? Joette: Yes, that’s right and other ages, too. So I’m trying to bring it into both babies and adults, so that those who don’t have babies can also be helped. It’s not of course not everyone has them. So you might have a baby cat or a baby dog or your neighbor might be struggling with a baby and this will apply across the board. Homeopathy applies for babies, infants, the elderly, dogs, cats, livestock, wild birds, you name it. So, homeopathic remedies are universal. That’s my point here in teaching you that it says for babies but we can use it for anyone Let’s get back and give you some benefits while offering kind of a practical tip so you can talk these tips away in your mind for future reference. Many of you are just entering this profound world of homeopathy. While others have recognized intuitively the importance of health independence, autonomy, and particularly now in the glaring light of the changes our American health system is going through, I always try to make the information I give here on my blog as practical as possible. So I’m going to use my personal experiences as a springboard. It will help define the best way to use the remedies. It gives you stories and a little narrative so it’s more easily remembered. Today I’ll give you what homeopathy did for me, especially when I was first starting and I had young children. Of course one at a time and it was with my son that I recognized the importance of homeopathy. Then you can extrapolate how this might fit into your lifestyle. Let me clarify that you needn’t go as far as I did. Although I secretly hope you will. That is I never used Tylenol in raising my children or aspirin or antibiotics in the two and a half plus decades of my mothering years. Instead, I bought a kit with the top 100 remedies in it. I used it. It became my, I don’t know maybe my arsenal. I took my kit with me on road trips, on family vacations. It was quietly present in my home at all times. At first it was in the linen closet in our city home. Then when we moved to the country, it had its own little place in a chest at home as well. In fact, I could barely resist using it. But I always encourage moms now to hold back and not jump into using remedies too quickly. But I also want to mention that I actually still own the same kit and replaced only a few remedies in it. Jendy: So those remedies, they are still good even though your children are grown up and adults? They still have the same amount of potency? Joette: Yes, yes. They don’t go stale. These remedies, I’ve owned in my kit – this particular kit for about 20 years. I have remedies that are even older than that. They last for decades. In fact, I’ll share with you that in my office I have a shadow box with four remedies in it given to me by an elderly man who was a client of mine many years ago. His mother was a homeopath in Chicago when he was a lad. As a gift, he gave me four bottles dated from about I don’t remember now, but about 1919 to around 1930 something. I’ve used these same remedies, the ones in these bottles over the years and indeed they still work. So that means that these remedies, some of them are 100 years old and yet they still have their ability to do exactly what they did back in 1919. So when I purchased my first kit, instead of looking at it as a financial stretch, I considered it as an investment in my family. I don’t know. Can you think of anything greater value than a box of cures that it

In this podcast, we cover: 0:56 Acute versus chronic condition 7:02 Otoscope for diagnosing ear infections 12:20 Examples of chronic conditions 20:30 The use of remedies after antibiotics 25:55 Protocol for all Can you treat only acute illnesses or are families able to root out chronic problems too? Here’s the upshot of this week’s blog: Is it safe for moms to treat their family’s chronic illnesses? (If you’ve been following my blog, you actually already know the answer.) Learn my little secrets on how to avoid drugs If nothing else, at least have this essential remedy on hand What I mean when I say that when you know some homeopathy, it is life changing. Forget what this administration is touting. Homeopathy is the affordable health care. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy and I’m here again with Joette Calabrese. This week, we are going to talk about the difference between treating chronic conditions and acute illness with homeopathy. Of course, I’m going to get another homeo tip from her that I can use right away and other moms can as well. So stay and listen to the whole interview with us. Hello, Joette! How are you?   Joette: Hi! I’m well, Jendy. Nice to talk to you again.   Jendy: First of all, let’s start off. Can you tell us the difference between acute illness and chronic conditions?   Acute versus chronic condition   Joette: Yes, an acute illness is something that has a natural beginning and a natural end. It actually finishes. So a fever would be an acute illness. A fever when a child shows vitality in an illness which we actually call that vitality, a fever presents. The fever gets good and high. I will also say that good is good. It’s important in fevers. We do want a nice show of vitality through a good high fever. Then if you just left it alone and did nothing but just kept your child hydrated, and warm, and clean, etcetera, the fever would just go away. It would take maybe four or five days, maybe 10 days but it would just finish. That describes an acute condition in which it ends on its own.   Now let’s say the child gets an ear infection and this is the same thing. An ear infection is an infection. It comes. If you did nothing as they often do in Europe, pediatricians don’t treat ear infections. They just left them be. Give something for the pain. That’s about it. They don’t give antibiotics generally. But in any way, you would just let that ear infection come to fruition and make the child comfortable. Make sure she’s hydrated, et cetera and watch the ear infection go away.   However in this country, the US, we often see where the pediatricians can’t keep their hands off those kids with their infection so they give them antibiotics. What that does is it forces the ear infection to be suppressed. So it kills the antibiotics but it hasn’t gone to the essence of the propensity for it to occur in the first place. So we give the child an antibiotic and it looks like okay it’s done. But then more often than not, I don’t know the statistics. I used to know them but I don’t remember them now. Very frequently, the child gets a second ear infection. It appears as though it’s isolated. But it isn’t. It’s really the same ear infection that’s just come back again because it was ill-treated. Only the bugs were killed. We didn’t get to the illness or the aspect of getting these kinds of illnesses. We didn’t root out the problem. So the child’s given antibiotics again and again.   It looks as though we’ve resolved the condition. Everybody happily goes on except now, six months’ later another ear infection. So now what we’ve got here is chronic otitis media. We’ve got an ear infection that keeps coming back. Many times we even see where it’s constant, always low-level ear infection so that after that third or fourth time of the antibiotic use, the ear is saying, “Boy, you’re not letting me show this vitality with a high fever. I’ll just stay suppressed here and stay low level.” So now what we have is a chronic condition.   So in homeopathy for moms in all of my original works, my CDs, and books which still have some value but the message is slightly different. I gave the message originally. My narrative was you can only treat acute illnesses. You can only use homeopathic remedies for acute problems where there’s a natural beginning and a natural end. When it comes to chronic, now you need the aid of a professional homeopath. I am recanting that. I am saying something different now. Because of the methods that I have learned by working with Prasanta Banerji Homoeopathic Research Foundation in India for two years, I have gleaned enough information in their chronic cases because they have put together protocols over the la

In this podcast, we cover: 0:59 Curing and caring for our family 6:28 A wonderful legacy 9:01 A cure for any sickness of all ages 16:35 Treating colds 19:56 Remedies worth having all the time 24:28 Essence of motherhood I’ll supply the inspiration; you the perspiration. But I promise that the benefits to you and your family will be significant. Let me give you several more reasons and tips you can use today in this week’s podcast. I believe knowing how to cure your family is the epitome of womanhood. It is the essence of who we are. It is what we do best. And when you learn how to do this, it is what I call parental exceptionalism. I’ve been teaching moms for almost 27 years, so I get a lot of folks coming back to me saying, “Holy cow, I cannot believe what this has done for my child.” Once you learn this easy homeopathy, it will become second nature to you. Become the extraordinary parent, in a class of your own, the kind of parenting that gives you a legacy.   And here are a couple of my favorite remedies every family should have in their medicine cabinet: Calc carb 30 or 200 Nux vomica 30 or 200 (I’ll tell you why I took this away from my son when he was a teen.) Arnica montana 200 You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy and I’m here with Joette from JoetteCalabrese.com. Hello Joette! How are you?   Joette: I’m doing well. Nice to see you again, Jendy.   Jendy: It is good to see you. These two weeks went a little slower but not too much. I was looking at your website a little bit and seeing how you really have a passion to help moms. You even go into nutrition. You really seemed like an advocate for the families. So how does that connect with homeopathy?   Curing and caring for our family   Joette: Well, it really takes an interest in the subject. The subject is taking care of your family. Most moms are very interested in that subject, of course. Just like anything else that’s important in life, it takes inspiration which is what I hope to offer here, too in addition to homeopathy and perspiration because there is some work that’s involved in learning this lifestyle.   I know what it’s like to be at home with kids. I was a full time mom and I homeschooled my children until high school. But let me share that when you’re home with them, of course it’s one of the most important jobs a woman can ever have. It’s pure joy but it’s physically demanding. It takes emotional stability and it’s nearly fulltime consuming except for one little area.   We as humans, we moms, for those who love to learn especially when our kids are babies, we need and crave intellectual stimulation. I know that I did. If you’re a lifetime learner, that comes automatically. If you’re homeschooling your children of course, you’re getting that. You’re learning things that you never caught on to when you were a kid. You learn all kinds of great, new things. But if you’re not homeschooling your children, there is that desire.   So ought we take up the study of say Renaissance Art or how about something like 19th century opera. That’s one of my favorite subjects. I would love to take that up more thoroughly. But wait! Wait! I’ve got an idea. Why not learn something that not only satisfies the intellectual appetite but it supports our lifestyle so thoroughly. Why not learn something that will save our family money? Even more importantly, put us in control of our own destinies and our family’s. That’s where homeopathy comes in.   It’s brilliant! It’s a medicine at its best. You learn biology, anatomy, physiology, pathology, botany. It’s like going to medical school of sorts without all the junk science that that attends the profession because you’re not learning how to subdue symptoms with drugs. You’re actually learning how to cure your family. You get a full understanding of it with all of these other sciences that are relevant to it.   Now, I don’t know if anybody really heard me. You can cure your family, not suppress symptoms, not watch it diminish only to come back later like pressing down on a water balloon where it bulges out not too long after. You could actually do this with your family. In fact, that’s the name of one of my books: Cure Your Family and Self with Homeopathy. So I find this extraordinarily exciting.   For those who don’t have a grand income, I urge them to read my blogs. They’re free for goodness’ sakes. Download them. Print them. Learn them. Study them. Use them. They’re very user-friendly and they’re practical. I believe in practical homeopathy. For those who want to go the next step, they can get CDs. They can learn that. They can get other homeopath’s books and other homeopath’s CDs. If someone wants to go further, they

  In this podcast, we cover: 1:07 What conventional medicine is great for 4:32 Using homeopathy versus conventional medicine 10:14 Chamomile and its uses 15:35 Poison Ivy: From poison to homeopathic medicine 18:48 Homeopathy is medicine, not supplements 21:30 Hypericum for cuts 25:46 Take advantage of available resources to study homeopathy I’ve just recorded my second podcast. I hope these podcasts will become a valuable resource in your audio library. Every two weeks we will post the latest podcasts here. Very soon you will also be able to find these on popular sites like Itunes. I promise to bring you useful content in my weekly blog, on my community page and now in this new podcast format. Each podcast will include a new section on “Remedies You Need to Know” designed to help you start treating your family’s everyday conditions right now with homeopathy. Here are some of the topics we discuss on this week’s podcast: Why today’s health care limitations provide strong reasons to learn homeopathy. Why you need to re-train yourself in how to use a doctor as an occasion aid and not the first line of defense. How to use the Internet as a health resource tool. Why you need homeopathy if you love freedom. How you can get started by treating acute illnesses, easily and inexpensively and avoid being overwhelmed. What is Practical Homeopathy? Why it is important for you and your family? What does 30c or 200c on a homeopathic remedy mean? Relatively safe: safeguards to follow when making your remedy choices. How to get started learning because you will fall in love with homeopathy. And here are the remedies you might want to add to your medicine cabinet: Sore Throat: Hepar sulph 30 or Belladonna 30 A good cold remedy: Coldcalm® from Boiron (available at Walmart!) You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Jendi: Hello! This is Jendi and I’m back again with Joette Calabrese from JoetteCalabrese.com. Today, we want to kind of go back to the basics and talk a little bit about what homeopathy is. Good morning, Joette! How are you? Joette: Good morning, Jendi. This is so nice doing this together. Jendi: It is fun. I enjoy talking to you and my family reaps the benefits of it as I reiterate everything that I learn from you, and I’m learning so much because until I talked to you, this was totally new to me. Joette: Great! That’s what I love to do, is to turn people onto this, especially families. Jendi: Yeah, and mothers. Joette: Yeah. Jendi: I am already like questioning my doctor. What conventional medicine is great for Joette: Well, let’s use that. Let’s use that as a springboard. That’s a great way to look at this. I don’t tell people that they should not have a doctor. But I do believe that the mom should be the first doctor. And doctors are great for diagnostics. If you have a lump, you need to know. Is that a cyst? Is that cancer? Is it a boil? You need to know what it is. And without a lot of experience, it would be great to have a doctor that you could go to and say, “Okay, doc, what is this?” And that’s what I love them for. They’re also very good for emergencies. If you’re in an automobile accident, for goodness sakes, you don’t go to a homeopath. You get yourself to an emergency room. And then I also believe that modern medicine is excellent for surgery. I cannot say enough, obviously, about organ replacement and the kinds of surgical procedures and plastic surgery and heart surgery. We might not even have my father today if it weren’t for surgery. So I believe that surgery is very useful. The problems lie in the degree to which we count on these methods. We’ve got it upside down. What we should be looking at is, “What can I do at home first? I’m the mother. What can I do with nutrition?” Let’s say if somebody has a fever or something, “How can I change the environment for this child or this member of my family? What homeopathic remedies can I use?” And if you’re stumped, then you move on to someone else and look at that possibility. What I don’t like is the idea that we mothers have been “trained” to go to a doctor for every single ill. I think that is far too much dependence on someone whose interest in our lives is not as great as our own interest in our lives. I think surgery is performed too frequently. There are a lot of surgical procedures that I think truly are superfluous. But when it’s needed, we need it. I think the diagnostics are used too frequently. I think this mammogram every year is silliness. Chronic colonoscopies when there is nothing wrong, I think, is a potentially dangerous pursuit. But when there is something wrong, you need that colonoscopy, perhaps. You need that mammogram, etc., etc. So I want to just soften the edges a little bit, get this down to the point where we’v

In this podcast, we cover: 0:38 All-natural foods that you can use on your face 7:16 Uprooting the problem versus suppressing it 21:35 Homeopathy’s proven efficacy for over 200 years 27:26 Joette’s personal battle with eczema and other health issues 31:36 Joette finally finds homeopathy Would you eat Diazolidinyl or Imidazolidinyl urea? Doesn’t sound appetizing, but these are two common preservatives used in moisturizer creams. Yes, urea is an organic waste compound, and the body excretes it through the skin (in the form of sweat), but the urea in your common moisturizer cream is synthetic. That means it is made in a lab, and the synthetic raw materials are ammonia and carbon dioxide. Would you be comfortable spreading them on a slice of toast? Consider this, the moment you put anything on your skin it is absorbed into the body. Hi folks, this week’s blog is a little different because I am using it to announce a new feature here at JoetteCalabrese.com. I will start podcasting every two weeks with the help of my friend Jendi. We will post the podcasts here, and later you will be able to find them on I-tunes and other websites that archive podcasts – my favorite is Stitcher radio. Whatever service you choose, I promise you’ll find these short 30- minute or so recordings to be informative and an easy way to teach your kids, whether they’re still at home or across the country, to turn friends and relatives on to homeopathy and, of course, to continue your homeopathic education and ultimately your health independence. As you might have expected, this week’s podcast is on the subject of skin. That’s because we are right in the middle of the launch of my newest course Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy. This week’s Podcast at-a-glance: What I recommend folks use on their skin. What if you have already used drugs like prednisone or Accutane to treat a skin problem? Remember, your past need not control your future. Why is suppression so bad with skin problems? Why homeopathy is the medicine you hoped you were getting from your doctor. Why skin problems should be considered a representation of what is lurking below. (Hint-hint: The goal should be to get rid of the problem within, not simply try to cover it up or scrub it away on the surface.) A quick and simple way to learn what may have caused your skin issue that will likely lead to a revelation of monumental proportions. Why we look better but in many ways we are worse off or even sicker. You are listening to a podcast from JoetteCalabrese.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.   Jendy: Hello! This is Jendy and I’m here with Joette from JoetteCalabrese.com. Today, we’re going to talk about Skin, The Ugly Truth. Hello, Joette! How are you?   Joette: I’m doing well, Jendy. Nice to talk with you, as always.   All-natural foods that you can use on your face Jendy: Let’s jump right into the topic. What do you use or recommend people use on their skin? Joette: I urge people to use only food. And I don’t mean ketchup and relish. I mean food such as ointments and oils that are made that are actually from the kitchen. So coconut oil. Now, some people can’t use coconut oil. And it turns out that sometimes, it’s folks whose families originate from Northern Europe. So Germany and Sweden and those parts of the world often can’t use coconut oil. It’s uncomfortable for them or they actually have allergic reactions to them. And I think it’s because coconuts are from around the Equator. So coconut oil is one of my first choices but if that doesn’t work, butter. Yes, but without salt. Because if you have any cracks or abrasions, then of course, salt is going to hurt. But butter is so available. There it is. It’s right in the kitchen. In the old days, they used to say if you have a burn, you put butter directly and, of course, it’s salt-free butter. But one of my favorites on skin besides butter is tallow and/or lard. So lard is the fat that’s been rendered from a pig, and tallow is the fat that’s rendered from the fat of beef and you can make it yourself. Now, it’s hard to find this in grocery stores but if you happen to be purchasing your own meat directly from a farmer, then you ask for the fat and you render your own. It’s very easy to do. And then if that doesn’t work, you can often purchase it online. Also, another product that can be used on the skin is cod liver oil. So that sounds like it would smell really awful. However, there’s a wonderful product that Radiant Life sells and it’s cod liver oil that’s made into a product without the preservatives, etc., etc., that doesn’t have a strong odor. So cod liver oil is another good one. Saturated fat is what it’s boiling down to. And then, of course, the reason we don’t use other products that