IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

05:45    Homeopathy Journey                                                                 

08:55    Children Using Homeopathy

23:30    Methods Used in Giving Homeopathic Medicines to Animals

29:49   Keys to Success with Homeopathy

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Sepia for Mother’s Day! This Time for Headaches

The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs

Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good

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Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 103.

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.

With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

 

Kate:  Hi, this is Kate. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast.

Today, I have a Mom with Moxie with me, and her name is Lyda. She’s going to share with us a lot of information. But something I wanted you to know up front — so you’re ready to take notes — is that she’s going to talk about animals today because she’s very educated and has a lot of experience on using homeopathic medicines with the animals on her farm. So, for those of you who have a farm or just animals, be ready to take some notes.

All right. Lyda, welcome to the podcast.

Lyda:  Thank you. I really appreciate you having me on, and it’s quite an honor.

 

Kate:  We’re so glad to have you. I’m excited for you to share with the listeners of this podcast because you have some pretty amazing stories — and one in particular I’m thinking of, but we’ll get to that in a little bit.

First, I want you to tell us about yourself.

Lyda:  We live in Western Colorado just outside of Grand Junction. My husband and I have been married 27 years. We have five kids: four boys and a girl, ranging in age from 11 to 25.

My husband has been in the printing business for 30 years, but he’s just this next week transitioning into a real estate job, so that’s exciting. He’s very supportive of me and everything I take on, especially homeopathy. He’s been very helpful in that.

We have the farm where we raise Herefords, chickens, Jersey cows, sheep, turkeys, hens, and a really big garden, and we also raise Australian Shepherd and Great Pyrenees puppies. So, we’re very busy.

 

Kate:  Oh, my gosh, I don’t know how you do it all. I love those Pyrenees. We talked about this earlier, but we had a Great Pyrenees, and they’re amazing dogs.

Lyda:  They are. They’re very different than any other dog I’ve ever been around.

 

Kate:  You use them as protection for your other animals, right?

Lyda:  Yes, I do.

 

Kate:  Yeah, yeah, they’re amazing. It sounds like you have a very busy life. I’d love to hear about your day. What does your day look like?

Lyda:  Oh, goodness! I start the day out milking as soon as I can — before it gets hot right now, because it is so hot.

We grass feed all of our animals. So, it’s a lot of moving animals around to new pastures. We raise the meat chickens that have to be moved (which my son does that). We put all our cows on new pasture every day; put our sheep on pasture. So, it’s just a lot of taking care of animals.

I raise pullets to sell to people — that are young laying hens — and so I take care of those. I stop somewhere in there for a meal. I spend as much time in the afternoon in the garden getting that taken care of, and then it’s pretty much supper time, and we go to bed.

 

Kate:  Exhausted, right?

Lyda:  Exhausted, yeah.

 

Kate:  Now, when you move the animals around — the Herefords — do you use horses or four-wheelers or just walking? How do you guys do that? I’m just trying to picture it.

Lyda:  Yes, just walking. I mean, we have horses. My daughter, shows horses, but we don’t use them. We only have 10 acres. But my oldest son lives right next door to us, so we use his 10 acres. The cows know that in the morning they get to go to a new pasture. They pretty much move themselves. You just open gates and close gates and away they go.

 

Kate:  Do you try to make most of your own food from scratch like from your garden and do you do a lot of canning?

Lyda:  I do. I don’t do as much canning as I would like just because of time. But yeah, we have, of course, all of our own different kinds of meats. We have our own milk and eggs. We do freeze and can as much as possible. I like to make sourdough bread and just try to be as self-sustaining as we can.

 

Kate:  What is the weather like for you in the area of Colorado that you’re in?

Lyda:  Well, we have pretty hot summers — dry. It’s very dry here. That’s the other thing I do during the day is a lot of watering. I’m watering something all day, every day.

The wintertime is pretty cold, usually in the teens and 20s during the day. That’s a four- or five-month winter. We don’t get a lot of snow, and we don’t get a lot of rain, but we do have the cold and hot.

 

Kate:  It’s better than Wisconsin, let me tell you.

Lyda:  Yes, we don’t have humidity, and I’m very thankful for that.

 

Kate:  I was thinking of the cold when it gets below zero. I think one year we had three months that it never got above zero, which was crazy.

Lyda:  Oh, my goodness! Oooh, yeah, that would be very hard.

 

Homeopathy Journey

 

Kate:  Let’s talk about your homeopathy journey, how you learned about homeopathy or started to use it and found Joette. Tell us a little bit about that.

Lyda:  Okay. My older sister knew more about homeopathy than I did when I got married. She suggested that I buy a Hyland’s kit, which I did. I didn’t really use very much of it, mostly Arnica and Chamomile are the two that I used the most with my kids. I didn’t really know that much about it, or what I was doing.

I did take my oldest to a homeopath when he was about a year old because he didn’t sleep. He hated to nap. He wouldn’t sleep unless he was in my arms pretty much. So, we took him in. He gave him Calcarea — and I don’t remember now if it was Calc phos or Calc fluor or which “Calc” it was. It was just a “Calc,” but it helped him. He started sleeping better, and that was a real blessing.

So, that kind of sold me on more homeopathy. But I still didn’t really learn too much about it until about four years ago when my whole family came down with the flu. I was Googling stuff trying to figure out what would be the best way to treat us. We hadn’t gotten flu that often in our lives, and so I just was trying to find some things to help relieve everyone, and I came across Joette’s website. I put in the search bar “flu” (like she always says to do).

I learned quite a few different things to try, which I did. And it ended up being the best flu we’ve ever had. It was very easy. We just watched movies and just kind of sat around and got better.

From then on, I just started reading her blogs and listening to her podcasts as much as possible.

Then I decided to do a Gateway I with my family: my mom, my sisters, and two of my kids. We all did it together, which we really enjoyed. But I wanted to go further so I did the Gateway II class with you and really enjoyed that.

Then I started purchasing the classes or the courses. I got the Survivalist course and The Antibiotic Alternative course, and then I did the live Pain course with Joette this winter.

I’ve been able to learn a lot in the last two or three years, which has been a huge blessing.

 

Kate:  I love that you did the Gateway I with your mom and your sisters and your family. What a great way to do that.

Lyda:  Yes, it was fun. It was nice to learn together.

 

Kate:  So, are they all using homeopathy as well or did it kind of stop there? How did that go?

Lyda:  No, they all use it. It’s mostly just the easy things like Arnica and different things. My folks are older and having more health issues, and so, I’m trying to help them as much as I can. It’s mostly structural things that they’re dealing with: pain from arthritis, carpal tunnel, hip problems, and things like that. They’re very open to using homeopathy for whatever I can help them with. And again, my older sister, she uses it quite a bit for her family as well.

 

Kate:  Your husband, is he supportive of you using homeopathy?

Lyda:  Yes, yes, very. He wanted me to use it on the kids. He was totally fine with that, but he didn’t think it would work for him for a long time. But we finally had a few successes, and he’s more sold on it working for him now.

 

Children Using Homeopathy

 

Kate:  You have some older children, and I know you’ve talked about your sons using homeopathy. I think it’s really interesting to hear about that. Tell us about your sons, and what they consider to be their medicine?

Lyda:  My oldest son, he’s very open to it because he’s had some good successes with it. He got rid of a bunch of warts with Thuja. He gets really bad ingrown toenails. They grow into the side of his toe. He has to have a little surgery done on them to cut them back, and they just keep growing. We’re trying homeopathically to fix the problem. But until then, the last time he had surgery, he used Arnica before the surgery, and he didn’t even hardly have any pain afterwards — which was a huge change from the other surgeries he’d had in the past. That really sold him — plus just colds and flus that we’ve addressed with it.

My second son, he is a total over-doer.  He overdoes everything in his life, and he has found that Nux vomica works very well for him. He doesn’t really sleep very often. He’ll go a day or two without sleeping. He uses Nux vomica when he has situations like that, and it really helps keep him going.

Third son is the most hesitant to use it, but he had … I’m not sure if it was a strep throat or just an infection in his throat. It just started out with being painful and having white pustules in it. He had that one evening, and I gave him Hepar sulph. The next morning, the pain was gone. By the next afternoon, the white pustule was gone. That really helped him to kind of see that it actually works.

My little guy (my 11-year old, I guess he is), he gets real bad headaches. We’ve done the Belladonna/Picric with those and sometimes just Belladonna, sometimes Chamomilla — just depends on his headache. But we’ve been able to address his headaches really well with homeopathy.

 

Kate:  When you mention the Belladonna and Picric, that’s actually Belladonna and Picric acid, and it’s a combination remedy, a Banerji protocol.

I know Joette talks about that on a blog. I just looked it up here, and it’s called Sepia for Mother’s Day! This Time for Headaches. If you’re prone to headaches, look up that blog because it has a lot of information about headaches. And not just hormonal headaches! There’s that Banerji protocol in there for general headaches.

I know headaches can be a bit tricky. I mean, if you’re new to homeopathy, it might not be the first thing to try to tackle. But that’s a great protocol. So, look up that blog.

Lyda:  Also, two of my boys went to the March for Life in January in Washington, DC. They were around just thousands and thousands of people plus being on six different airplanes, I think. They came back, and the day after they got home, were both sick.

And that was when coronavirus was first being talked about. I have no idea if that’s what they had or not. It was just kind of a flu-type illness, but both of them came to me as soon as they started feeling symptoms, and we got right on it.

The younger one, he was in bed for a day. The other one, my older one, he was in bed for a couple days. But they got better very quickly and with not a lot of residual problems after that.

 

Kate:  Didn’t you say that your boys consider homeopathy to be their medicine?

Lyda:  Yes, they do. We’ve always raised our kids to try to heal themselves. Since I’ve gotten into homeopathy so much, it’s been pretty inspiring, I think, to them to do the same. Because the doctor around here is the last resort! Whatever we can do to avoid going to the doctor, we do — and they’re all in on that. They really enjoy being able to use homeopathy.

 

Kate:  I love that your family uses homeopathy. Because I’m sure you probably feel like I do — and Joette says all the time — that homeopathy keeps us relevant in our kids’ lives especially those who have grown up and moved out of the house. It’s another way for us to share something in common and stay connected. Isn’t that great?

Lyda:  Yes, I agree totally.

 

Kate:  So, let’s switch gears, Lyda, and talk about animals because you have a lot to share regarding using homeopathy and all the different animals on your farm. Let’s dive into that. Tell us some ways that you’ve used homeopathy with your plethora of farm animals.

Lyda:  Okay. Well, one of my best successes was with one of my milk cows. We had bought her from a dairy, so she was a very heavy producer. She started kicking when I milked not very long after I got her — just mainly when I touched one teat.

I struggled with that for quite a few months, and she finally quit. The next time she calved, she started doing it again. It was rather dangerous because she would try to kick me off the stool. She absolutely hated for me to touch that teat. It wasn’t like it was the pain. It was like — it was a tickle, a very annoying tickle.

The reason that it was such a success to me is a vet never would have addressed that. They would have just said, “Well, you’re just going to have to deal with it.”

So, I went and repertorized her symptoms — and mainly the skin being sensitive to touch, I think, is the one that I started with — and ended up corresponding that with loss of bodily fluids. I tried China on her.

Within two doses, she had totally stopped kicking, totally stopped twitching every time I touched it. That was the end of it. I’ve never had that problem since. That was just so amazing to me because I couldn’t have ever fixed that any other way.

 

Kate:  Isn’t that a great feeling?

It was something that you figured out. “Okay, what are the symptoms?” You went to a repertory. You looked up those symptoms. What medicines match that symptom and then looked up those medicines and matched that to what best fit your situation. What a great success! You’re right. Good job!

Lyda:  Then, like I said, we raise Great Pyrenees, and we have an older Pyrenees female. Well, just so anybody knows (because I didn’t know this) that dogs do not go through menopause. They just keep getting pregnant no matter how old they are.

I had thought that she was too old to get pregnant. She’s 11 years old, and that’s really old for a Great Pyrenees. But she got pregnant, and we didn’t know about it until she went into labor.

She ended up having two puppies, but she had an extremely hard labor because she is so old and arthritic and lots of different things that would make labor hard.

The first puppy came out just fine. The second puppy was blue and not breathing. So, I ran and got some Carbo vegetabilis and gave a couple doses of that to him and kind of did CPR with my thumb on his heart. He started turning pink and got completely breathing and was in great shape.

And we still have him now. He’s a big old pup now that is just as healthy as can be!

But that night after she’d had the puppies, she started going downhill very quickly. She got to where she wouldn’t get up unless we made her get up. She would not eat anything, which is very unusual for a mama dog right after they’ve had puppies. She wouldn’t drink. Whenever I’d make her go outside, she would go and strain and try and get up and go again and go again and go again and wasn’t ever going, just constantly straining.

I came in and got my books out again and started trying to figure out what could be wrong with her. So, I started with the urinating and the straining was the main symptom that I can see. I gave her Cantharis 30, and I gave her some Arnica just for the trauma of the birth.

Within 30 minutes — and I am not kidding — within 30 minutes, she was up walking around, eating ravenously, drinking, went out, went to the bathroom, everything and was totally fine after that.

I was just shocked because I really didn’t have any hope for her. I thought she was going to die before the night was out. It was just amazing how quickly she came back and had absolutely no more trouble after that.

 

Kate:  Wow! You saved two dogs within probably 24 hours!

I can’t get over how amazing homeopathy is,. How it can literally save whether it’s human lives or animal lives. It’s incredible! I have new people that I talk to, and they ask me, “Can this medicine help this? Can it help that?” And I kind of chuckle to myself because when people are new, they don’t have the confidence yet. They haven’t seen what you’ve seen, Lyda, that homeopathy can literally save lives — like someone that had an anaphylactic reaction to something, and we are far away from a hospital.

Lyda:  I have to with all of our animals. I haven’t had the opportunity to use it in a life-threatening condition with a human at this point, but I have with the animals, and it has definitely been a blessing.

 

Kate:  Yes. Tell us the story about your Hereford cow that was pregnant and what happened.

Lyda:  We had a Hereford cow that was about six months pregnant with her second calf. She had a vaginal prolapse which is extremely unusual during pregnancy. That’s not supposed to happen obviously. It just looked like a very large cantaloupe hanging outside of her.

So, I pushed it back in hoping that it would stay — I had talked to the vet — but it didn’t. It came back out again even larger. And so, he had to come out, and he pushed it back in. He said that because she hadn’t had her calf yet … normally, they would sew up the vulva area so that it wouldn’t come back out. But because she hadn’t had her calf yet, they couldn’t do that.  Otherwise, if they go into labor when they have that sewn up, it can tear them apart literally. He didn’t want to do that.

Instead, they placed a pin that looks like a spool that thread comes on, only it’s really long and really, really narrow. They go inside, and the pin has kind of a nail-like head on it. He puts that inside, goes up through the hip, out the other side on the outside of the hip and puts a cap on it. It’s like this spool that goes all the way through her flesh and holds it in so that it doesn’t have that problem anymore.

Well, he couldn’t get it in exactly where he wanted it so he put it a little further than he should have, I guess. It affected her hip terribly, and she couldn’t walk. She went for two or three days, and she didn’t move — maybe 10 feet during that time. Completely stopped eating. She was absolutely miserable.

So, he came back out, took the pin out. Now she has this gaping hole in her side, and he said, “You’ll just have to watch her very closely and make sure that if she goes into labor, take that stitch out.”

Well, that was kind of overwhelming. I wasn’t really thrilled about that, plus she was in so much pain already. It was awful. She was absolutely miserable, couldn’t move, and totally stopped eating after that even.

During those two procedures, he gave her penicillin twice I believe, and then gave me sulfa powder to give to her for vaginal infection, for possible bladder infection, for infection of the wound. She just had so many possibilities of really being sick.