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you are listening to a podcast from joettecalabrese.comwhere nationally certified american homeopath, public speaker, and author, joette calabrese,shares her passion for helping families stay healthy through homeopathy and nutrient-densenutrition.â â shut up! how taking drugs shut up symptomsand cause new, more sobering ones later on; cardiac disease can stem from this abuse whilehomeopathy can resolve itâ jendy:â hello! this is jendy and i’m herewith 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
officejoette:â yes, it is. it is. but it’s an important subject given the number of peoplewho take drugs pertaining especially to the heart. let me give you a quote here from themayo clinic that will open this up. it says that seven out ten americans take prescriptiondrugs. i find that absolutely shocking. and it all starts in what might surprise manypeople to hear. now i believe it all starts in the pediatrician’s office.jendy:â i’ve heard you mention that in the past. you’re not very fond of pediatriciansand you blame them for a lot of things. can you tell us why?joette:â yes. yes. i blame them for isis too. oh, just kidding, just kidding. the problemi 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 thisway, it becomes the training ground for mothers, young mothers and middle aged mothers. notto mention that the child has now learned when you’re sick, you go to the doctor fora drug. it’s early training for compliancy, as far as i’m concerned in a modern druglifestyle. my favorite pediatrician who is unfortunatelyno longer with us on earth is dr. robert mendelsohn. he once said that the key to health is tostay away from doctors. he went on further
in my favorite book of his and he’s writtena few of them – was called how to raise a healthy child in spite of your doctor. hesays the best way to raise a healthy child is to keep them away from doctors except foremergency care, in the case of an accident or an obviously serious illness. and if yourchild 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 theword – seriously ill. so it all starts there. that’s the end of his quote. it all startsthere. then add to the chronic bombardment of commercialson tv and women’s magazines. jendy, i can’t even look at those magazines anymore becausethey’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 considersit unusual to not be taking drugs. i have to say that the guidelines are constantlychanging so that more and more of the population come under these guidelines.jendy:â i think you have a recent study you can tell us about, right?statin drugs on lowering cholesterolâ joette:â yes. there was a study that was justpublished online. actually it was just this past week on wednesday and by the new englandjournal of medicine. it was published by the american heart association, the study itselfand the american college of cardiology. what they’ve done is publish new guidelines forwhat percentage of the population ought to
be taking statin drugs. and so it recommendsthat believe it or not, almost half of americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 70 qualifyto consider cholesterol lowering statin drugs. these new guidelines put less emphasis oncholesterol and more on drug treatment. so what they’re doing in my estimation is planningto 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 independenttv station years ago and i know marketing. i can smell a marketing campaign from milesaway. 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 that statin drugs failfor nearly 99% of those who take them. they
neither prevent heart attacks nor have theybeen shown to show that people live any longer. jendy:â can i ask you what would define astatin drug? what would that be? joette:â oh, yes. good question. i alwaysassume people know what that means but they might not. it’s the drug that lowers cholesterol.when your cholesterol is at a certain range, they automatically put you on these drugs.jendy:â instead of saying change your diet and exercise?joette:â yes, yes, exactly. they might also give that information. but i think the messageis very clear to people that if they’re not going to do that then they just have totake these drugs. but my contention is that we don’t even need to reduce our cholesterolin many situations.
jendy:â yes. so now they have these new guidelines.joette:â right. and these guidelines are increasing the number of people who only months ago,before wednesday, before they put this out, they were considered healthy. now they throwthem into a pool of people they now can call patients and buyers. once you’re a patient,you’re a customer for life. but as i said, this has been orchestrated since early childhoodwhen the mom takes the child in for fevers and coughs and tummy aches and rashes. i alwayssay never expect the disclosure of the dangers of medical procedures from those who use them.upton sinclair said, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when hissalary depends on his not understanding it.â€â jendy:â but you don’t have to take drugsfor life, right? you’re only supposed to
take them until you get better.joette:â well, you’d think that was the case but it’s not because once you starteddrug for so-called chronic condition, the guideline the doctors are taught by the ubiquitousdrug rep is that this is a drug that’s used indefinitely. when i talk to people, i mean,we just had a loss in our family. someone just passed away in my extended family andi’ll be going to the wake and funeral this coming week. i know that we’ll be talkingabout health, et cetera. and when i talk to them who have been taking drugs and many,i’ve a lot of cousins, lots – a big, fat italian family is where i come from. and soi’ll be with a lot of people this next week. when i ask people how long they’ve beentaking the drugs, “oh, yes, 10 years, 12
years.†and i always ask them, “so areyou cured, yet?†really? isn’t the idea of taking a medicine to cure not to keep someoneon the conveyor belt for life? but let me go back if you don’t mind. letme go back because these drugs are used for cholesterol and i don’t believe cholesterolis a disease. high cholesterol is not a disease. it’s simply a marker. and it’s a markerfor the lipid theory and i believe the operative word here is theory. with this new guideline,they’re going to increase the population by 56 million people. but only half of thepeople will be so-called protected from heart attacks in the next years. that’s 0.89%,less than 1%. we should be absolutely outraged. but anyway, the lipid hypothesis of heartdisease has been the darling of the medical
establishment for i don’t know, maybe 60years. clogged arteries is their sacred dictat. this hypothesis, arguably without scientificmerit, often has managed to influence and harm generations of people in my opinion.in contrast, there’s another theory – the myogenic theory of heart disease. that assertsthat heart attacks occur as a result of a cascade of stress-induced conditions in theheart muscle cells themselves. it’s not the arteries is what this theory says. thereis indeed compelling evidence to substantiate this therapeutic approach, too.;and if there are opposing views on the same condition, oughtn’t we to know about bothof them and perhaps a third or a fourth or a fifth theory? but as often as the case inmedicine as in most subjects that we find
where there’s a big profit behind, thatthe only view that’s considered is the view, is one view.let me propose another consideration, the homeopathic take on this. the homeopathictake on cardiac disease does not speculate on the various functions of the vessels ofthe tissues, their uptake ability or the extent of their occlusion, et cetera.jendy:â so homeopathy doesn’t do any speculation at all?joette:â well, it’s well-established aphorisms in homeopathy. aphorisms are the rules thathomeopathy follows. they’ve been put out before us by dr. samuel hahnemann, the founder;well, i wouldn’t call him the discoverer but the founder of today’s homeopathy aswe know it and back in the late 1700s in germany.
he believed that once the disease is suppressedby outside means such as a drug that it drives the illness to a deeper state and that’sa basic aphorism. he had many aphorisms. this happens to be aphorism 201. i mean, if youever want to look it up – dr. samuel hahnemann, aphorism 201 in the organon.it emphasizes the externalization of internal symptoms. see, what we’re talking about,the externalization of internal symptoms are symptoms. the symptom is something that presentson the outside. it’s an instinctive reaction when disease is present which naturally createsless risk to more vital organs that are threatened from the originating disease. in effect, itcould be described as an innate response by the body’s natural defenses to survive andreduce resulting impact on the internal organs
and system.so we consider one of the main causes of heart disease for example, we as homeopaths to bea result of suppression or deepening of some less serious illness from the past or evenat the present. in other words, illness that originally presented in a less crucial organis forced into a more vital organ, the heart; less crucial might be say, the skin, as adirect result of suppression by a drug and other heroic medical measures.iatrogenic, by the way is a great term for a disease because it means that a diseaseor a condition that is caused by medical mismanagement. and that’s exactly what we believe happens.let me give you an example. imagine a skin condition such as acne or eczema. the personwants to fix it to silence, to shut up the
symptoms via drugs such as topical steroidcreams or antibiotics or such. so the illness must either beg to return as soon as the ointmentor other suppressive method is halted. but it reappears with symptoms more severe thanbefore or if not allowed to return, will and this is the pivotal moment, drive more deeplyinto a more critical organ. the illness has the opportunity to be freed from the bondageof drugs but only if it’s not suppressed. at this time, if the vital force of the personis capable, it will simply put the pathology right back where it belongs, on the skin whereit started. that’s not a serious place. i mean, it might be uncomfortable. it mightbe horribly uncomfortable. but it’s not serious.the heart is more vital organ. if the person
is not of great resiliency because of inheritedfactors or overuse of previous suppressing treatments, then pathology will travel tothe more crucial organ and this might include the lungs. even pediatricians recognize it.asthma follows eczema. but what they don’t recognize is that it’s the treatment ofthe eczema with the suppressive drugs that then drives it to the lungs. the gut, andhere’s another example, the gut is also a place that is affected especially aftera skin rash has been held back by a drug. oh and then of course, the heart which iswhat we’re going to be talking about today. a new illness compensates for the suppressionof the old is more serious and it can make it very difficult to eradicate this.i want to mention this to folks who have skin
conditions particularly eczema and psoriasis,et cetera. i just found this website. actually a client, student told me about it. it’scalled itsan.org, i-t-s-a-n.org. it’s a not for profit organization that is designedto help people understand that skin afflictions that have been treated with topical or oralsteroids cause an addiction. if you or someone you know has used or is using steroids, checkout the site. it is really fascinating. there’s a great video on it. i will tell you, i don’tagree with their solutions to the problem with the topical steroid addiction but atleast it’s a group of doctors and patients who have accepted that there is a seriousproblem that needs awareness. jendy:â what does this mean to us and to ourlisteners?
joette:â well, if you go to itsan, i-t-s-a-n.organd watch their short video, this is really a great video. what it talks about is theresolve to keep your children away from medications for fevers, eczema, allergies, diarrhea andanything easily treatable with wiser food choices for example, homeopathic medicines.in the case of a normal fever, doing nothing other than leave the small issues alone; stopusing drugs. shut up the drug use instead of shutting up the symptoms with the drugs.the goal always is to protect our children from damage that can be thrown into theirfuture. remember when nancy reagan, well you don’tremember nancy reagan or you barely remember nancy reagan. well, i was in high school whennancy reagan was around and she said that
slogan, “just say no to drugs.†and peoplemade fun of her. but she was right. the resolve is that simple. say no to drugs. now she wastalking about street drugs. well, but also prescription drugs to a certain degree aswell but just say no. no, thank you. i’m not going there.jendy:â what about the people that have already taken years’ worth of medication?joette:â that’s a good question, jendy. do you know anyone who isn’t taking or hasn’ttaken a drug in the past? really.â jendy:â i don’t think so unless it’s like…not even a newborn in these days. joette:â right. that’s right. even newbornscome into the world with pitocin, spinal blocks, pain relievers, antibiotics and such. that’sfrom a simple so-called natural birth, born
in the hospital. what if the mothers had ac-section? it’s ubiquitous.â jendy:â how does that affect the heart conditions?joette:â well, let me give you a story to illustrate my point. let’s take arnie, okay?his digestion or intake of questionable ingredients in his meals has triggered something in him.he’s been getting these heart palpitations and pounding and restlessness and apprehension.it could be from the msg and his egg beaters that he has for breakfast every morning orthe gluten in corn syrup. he loves bagels. we often blame what we’ve eaten and it doesn’tmean we shouldn’t look at it. but then again, we put a timeline together and i’ve talkedabout this many times. if he would look back at what happened in the past several monthsor even years but particularly in the last
several months because now this is new forhim, he might recall that he took antibiotics just a few months previous. and his habit,he had this habit of sinus infections. i don’t mean to call it a habit but he had these sinusinfections that were repetitive. and after the sinus infections, he suffered from indigestionand bloating. so if you were to put it together, you might think well, it’s the sinus infectionsproblem, so that its the fault of his own body. it means that there’s something wrongwith his body. but of course, i’m going in a different path right now.a few months ago, arnie woke up at three in the morning with pain in his chest. his heartwas racing and in a panic and it scared the bagels right out of him. no, because he haddiarrhea. a visit to his doctor and days off
from work from all the tests revealed thatarnie was suffering from angina. well, to be honest, he already knew that except hecalled it pain in his heart but they got to give this medical term. along with arnie’sangina also came a sense of urgency and overwhelming anxiety and racing thoughts. during all ofthis time, he had this painful heart spells. he also found himself pacing the room withangst and couldn’t quiet his mind. but when he visited the cardiologist, no questionswith the intent of shedding light on such information were opposed. his doc simply offeredtests that revealed of course, a need for prescription. because folks might think ofthe meds they took as a culprit but when they asked their doctor if the meds could be theculprit or be the source of the problem, the
doctor usually says no, that’s not possible.doctors believe in their paradigms. they’re not going to tell you what they gave you isgoing to cause a problem. jendy:â yes. it sounds like maybe he’s justprescription deficient. joette:â yes, i know. that’s what i thinkthe way the modern medicine, medical world looks at it. that’s well said, jendy, aprescription deficient. in the end, the answer he received went somethinglike this. you’re not young anymore, arnie. no more steaks for you, arnie. no more eggs.you have to take these pills. oh, and for how long? yes, yes, arnie, for the rest ofyour life. jendy:â what would you prescribe for him usinghomeopathy?
rooting out cardiac problems withâ arsenicumalbum. joette:â well, the considerations of his cardiacreactions to msg would necessitate the remedyâ arsenicum albumâ 30. now we don’t know that that’sfor sure that it was msg but that’s certainly something to think about. it has a reputationfor being able to remove the immediate poisoning effects of such additives. it would not betaken – you don’t takeâ arsenicum albumâ 30, however unless there are clear indicationsthat it is the reason for the influence, so it’s influenced this problem.in other words, this is not a time for speculation. if you look into antidote the effects of msg,let’s say it wasn’t from his egg beaters even though he’d been eating them for along time,â arsenicum albumâ would certainly
be the remedy.arsenicum albumâ 30 would bethe remedy to bring down the palpitations, pounding, apprehension and restlessness. ithas the ability to allay fears and panic and to abort the potential of ensuing cardiacpathology. we’re not treating symptoms here. we’re not just getting rid of the problemsthat are presenting. we’re rooting it out. jendy:â and would he still need to stop eatingthe egg beaters? joette:â well, i would do that if i were arnie.if he thought that was the cause, certainly; just to calm things down a bit. i mean, eggbeaters, really? nobody should be eating egg beaters. you should be eating eggs.jendy:â true. joette:â that’s the way they were intendedto be eaten, the whole egg. so eventually,
arnie snapped to his senses. he realized thathe was probably relying on drugs more often than was prudent. so he consulted with a homeopath.and the homeopath told him to take the nitroglycerin that the doctor had ordered for a while longerbut to follow it with a specific homeopathic medicine within a few minutes of each episode.that would likely take care of the racing heart and his anxiety.jendy:â so this is where the ‘like cures like’ in the homeopathic philosophy?joette:â yes. yes. this is where it comes in. as its paradigm, what better remedy choicethan something that in its gross form causes symptoms such as what arnie was suffering?so we might also use the remedy, the homeopathic remedy that might be prepared from coffeebecause that’s exactly what he was experiencing,
that raciness and stepped-up heart, et cetera.so he took the remedyâ coffea crudaâ 200. that’s homeopathiccoffeaâ that’s madeoriginally from coffee. and after a few nights of takingâ coffea cruda, arnie was able tocalm down. and he started to return to sense of himself again. the remedy helped him minimizethe need to use the nitroglycerin. this is what his homeopath counted on, of course.but arnie didn’t listen to his homeopath. the next time he experienced that horribleanguish and jumping heart with pain, he skipped the drug altogether – the nitroglycerinand instead only tookâ coffea crudaâ 200. to his relief again, he not only came downfrom that anxiety but the pain and pounding heart vanished in about the same amount oftime as he would have experienced with the
use of the drug.jendy:â does that mean he could wean himself off the nitroglycerin?joette:â well, no homeopath in the us is willing to overstep in the situation like this. thehomeopath was cautious and she’s told arnie that she would like him to meet with his cardiologistregaining this decision. but arnie didn’t do that. arnie’s got this kind of personalitythat he just does what he wants to do which is actually very good in many ways. afterusingâ coffea cruda, after the span of about two weeks, his confidence completely returned.he reported that now he keeps the nitroglycerin in his medicine cabinet instead of his hippocket. and just as homeopathy is intended to work, he requiresâ coffea crudaâ less andless because his problem is resolving. it’s
happening fewer and fewer times.here’s themost important part about homeopathy as far as i’m concerned is that we’ve used symptomsas signs; signs that there is something wrong. and if the signs are not there then the diseaseisn’t either. so i’d like to be clear that because homeopaths no longer have theirhospitals in north america nor the climate within which to practice freely, i, too wouldnot recommend to clients that they eliminate a drug without the oversight of a medicaldoctor. removal of any prescription medication is never a decision to be taken lightly especiallyblood pressure drugs, et cetera. but you have to consider the possibility of a boomerangeffect when you do this, when you do get off of the drug with the guidance even of thedoctor and even if it’s done slowly and
judiciously. remember, the body has habituatedand compensated for with these drugs and remission should be carefully monitored, if possible.jendy:â did arnie just stop the drugs? is he still taking thecoffeaâ 200?joette:â yes. well, he no longer takes either one. he doesn’t take theâ coffea crudaâ andhe doesn’t take the nitroglycerin. now, i also want to say here that if these werea more serious condition other than simply palpitations and some angina, this is notthe answer. but this is the answer for arnie and that’s why i’m giving a specific example.but the homeopathic remedies do something most people don’t even expect. they curethe condition so that even the homeopathic remedy is no longer needed. that’s the bestpart.
jendy:â so you are saying that homeopathycures all diseases? joette:â well, i worked with drs. banerjiin calcutta and dr. prasanta banerji once told me that homeopathy has the ability tocure all diseases but it may not cure all people with diseases.jendy:â what about diseases like aids or cancer? joette:â yes, even those and more. i’veactually seen it in calcutta. but some people, depending on the amount of drugs they’vetaken, the depth and breadth of their involvement to such methods, their age, their history,the inherited taint, how late they came to homeopathy, all of those will influence theoutcome in whether or not this person can find the cure.but even now after being a homeopath full
time for 20 plus years and having studiedand taught it for 29 years, i’m still amazed even flabbergasted by what this medicine iscapable of accomplishing. i tell people regularly, you must allow the medicines to act. it oftentakes time with little steps forward and perhaps a small one back again. i know we’ve gotmore with arnie. so let me go back because we were talking about the bagels and his food,his egg beaters and all that. let’s look at another homeopathic medicinethat would have benefited arnie;â lycopodiumâ 200â mixed withâ arsenicum album.this is the combinationthat i learned from the drs. banerji while in calcutta. and it’s usually taken twicedaily. it’s a great antidote to the ills that result in bloating in the sense of uncomfortablefullness in the gut even including the lower
chest. it’s not for heart necessarily butit certainly is for gastrointestinal bloating. of course, arnie should improve his diet.but remember, not everyone is willing to do that and arnie’s strong willed. he mightbe one of those people who don’t want to change his diet. but just doing that is agood step towards guiding him to excellence in his food even if we just discussed it.that alone can perhaps change his thinking a little bit.â jendy:â can you tell us more about a homeopathic medicine that would help a cardiac condition?joette:â yes. yes. let me give you an example of one that i have taught about a few yearsago. several years ago, for some reason, i received a rush of desperate phone calls.they were all from women and they were all
about 45 years old. i don’t know why ithappened like that but it just happened that way. they were complaining of overwhelminganguish and anxiety and their heart was quickened and their heart was thumping and they werehaving atrial fibrillation occasionally. none had been asked by their family practitionerswhat they had eaten just before their cardiac incident. i think it’s important that weask those questions. none were asked whether they regularly drank coffee or how much. nonewere asked whether chocolates especially, a lot of sugar, msg laden foods, even wheator other such foods for daily fare or consumed prior to their cardiac palpitations, theirincidences. the mayo clinic, i just want to include thislittle statement, says that palpitations can
be frightening but they are not always dangerousand that’s something to remember. now obviously, we don’t want to be foolish about this.but if you start looking at okay, they’re not always dangerous and what did i just eat,it’s really important to break it down. a lot of women who have this are certain they’regoing to die of a heart attack when this happens. and especially at that age, 45 years old,i see this happening more and more and i believe they’re entering into menopause. they runto the er where they submit to a battery of tests and they’re exhausted and frightenedand then they whimper home with the prescription that suppresses all of their symptoms.â jendy:â these are pretty interesting. i’m sure you have another example you could shareabout shutting up symptoms.
joette:â yes. yes. i also want to mentionthat these calls that i started to get, a couple of them were women who were just eatinga lot of chocolate. one of them was, actually two of them had just eaten. it was halloween.it was after halloween and one of them, when their kids went off to school, just got intothe chocolate that they don’t normally eat that much of. and my guess is when it’shalloween candy, i’m sure there’s msg and all kinds of other kinds.â jendy:â you would think that would to raise a red flag.joette:â yes. yes. but you know what? it gets so scary for people that they just can’tthink straight. and another time was the same situation. this woman had eaten those coffeebeans coated with chocolate and her heart
was racing. in both those cases i might add,i used, specifically i usedâ nux vomica.â i told them to useâ nux vomicaâ 30â orâ 200.â jendy:â and why doesn’t the doctor ask? joette:â i know. they don’t think aboutit. it’s not about rooting out the illness. it’s not about uprooting and getting ridand getting to the bottom of things. it’s about simply, here’s the prescription, next;next person. let me tell you about jane, okay, so anotherperson. jane was an empty nester and she didn’t like to speak about it too much. she sufferedsilently. she felt as though she was probably overreacting. but she was secretly weepinga lot. she would get into the bath tub nightly, night after night after night and she wouldjust weep.
to everyone else, it appeared that she hadstrolled seamlessly back into her previous world. she was a real estate agent but ithelped her get her mind off the fact that her last baby, who is now 21 years old wasout of the house. and after raising four kids, the change required as usual significant shiftin her nature. i know the feeling. i know that it’s an awful feeling. you know whenthey say empty nester, the real operative word here is empty. it’s a horribly emptyfeeling when your last child leaves. but she would get into the bath tub to calmher nerves and she would whisper to herself all soaking in the tub, “i used to be amom and now a real estate agent. i hate this.†so it was right about this time that not onlydid her daughter leave but her menses did,
too. isn’t that unfortunate that everythinghappens at once? in its place, of her menses came sleepless nights, heart pain, anxiety,palpitations, and even a little vertigo. but her brother-in-law was from england andhe was a homeopathic physician there. and england has many homeopathic physicians, verycommon. she contacted him. and instead of drugs, this is what he said. instead of drugsto restrain the warning signals; do you hear that folks, again? i’m going to say it again.this physician in england knows; instead of drugs to restrain the warning signals.â jendy:â it’s so different than homeopathic view.joette:â it is. it is. we’re not going to use drugs to restrain the warning signs. we’regoing to use homeopathics to correct the problem
that the warning signs are telling us about.we don’t believe that symptoms ought to be shut up. i’m going to say it again andagain. as i mentioned earlier, take in to a deeper level of illness. instead, rememberthose symptoms. everything that jane is experiencing are indicators as to how to treat the problemthat we are intended to make a point of. so we want to uproot the problem so that symptomswill not be required to present and the drugs will become superfluous.jendy:â so did her brother help jane? joette:â yes, brother-in-law. yes. jane didn’tfavor hormone replacement methods either. those are those bioidentical hormones thatwe euphemistically are calling natural but she might have halted some of her menopausalsymptoms with that. there’s no doubt that
those drugs would have done that. but whatshe would have done, she would have accomplished a suspension of her ills. it would not havecured her problem.â jendy:â and i’ve heard that you have a courseout now called feminopathy? do you cover this information about the bioidentical hormones?joette:â yes, yes, i do. i’m happy you brought that course up. it’s called feminopathy:how you can correct female ailments using safe, inexpensive, and effective homeopathy.it’s not that i want everyone to run and get this course. but what i do want peopleto do is to start thinking about learning how to do this themselves.lachesisâ for heart problems during menopause anyway, let’s get back to jane. she wentto these remedies that her brother-in-law
sent along, her brother-in-law sent along.the first remedy wasâ lachesis, twice daily.â lachesis200 is chosen probably because to calm jane’sheart, palpitations, and the angina. it’s nearly specific for women during and aroundmenopause. interestingly, it’s particularly well-chosen for this particular combinationof heart symptoms during menopause.â lachesisâ 200â taken twice daily.hdr. gibson in his studies of homeopathic remedy says oflachesis; now remember here’sa doctor again. so for those of you who believe that i’m anti-doctor, i’m not. there areplenty of doctors out there who get all of these. he says, syncopal episodes are associated(this is under the title oflachesisâ and how it is associated with the heart) with cardiacpain or accompanied by nausea and vertigo.
now she didn’t have the nausea but she didhave vertigo. heart thumping, palpitations, he says are associated with the sense of tightnessin the chest. the remedy is of special value in relation to the throat and affections andmenopausal disorders. now again, jane didn’t have all of thesesymptoms. she didn’t have the throat problems yet the remedy picture here fits in otherimportant ways. so then he added another remedy,â ignatia200â taken twice daily. and this is the best bet forthe deep sadness jane felt for the loss of her life as a stay-at-home mom. it has a reputationfor lifting sufferers from grief and relentless sadness.i’ve written about this remedy on my blog and i urge folks to read about it. you justuse the little search bar in my blog and put
inâ ignatia. just read about how valuablethis remedy can be.â jendy:â it sounds really interesting becausethat brings the whole emotional side and not just physical which we always separate likemental health, physical health. joette:â right. right. theâ lachesisâ is dealingwith the heart issue and the hormonal issue that’s obviously or apparently appears tobe the ideology, the cause of all of these. but now we also have this emotional aspectand we giveâ ignatiaâ to help with that as well. i totally agreed with her brother-in-law,by the way. they were very well chosen remedies. and later on, he addedâ crataegus, c-r-a-t-a-e-g-u-s,â crataegusandit was a mother tincture that he gave her. it’s mother tincture. it means it’s notmade into homeopathic medicine yet. it’s
still in the gross form and so it’s a botanical.it also covers cardiac maladies. it’s just a great remedy for any cardiac malady andi believe she was taking that twice a day as well.there’s another bit of information here that i want to read and this is from fransvermeulen’s concordant materia medica, a medical homeopathic medical book. he talksaboutâ crataeguswith valvular murmurs, angina pectoris, cardiac dropsy which is swelling(dropsy’s the old word for edema), aortic disease, pain in the region of the heart underthe left clavicle and under the left scapula, pulse accelerated and irregular, feeble intermittentvalvular murmurs, and angina pectoris. that’s the end of his quote.that’s what gives us this information as
homeopaths to determine which remedies tochoose. we use this book. we don’t just pick these remedies out of the sky. we usethis kind of information that’s been collected through the sentries.â jendy:â and did that help jane get over her bath tub crying and her palpitations?joette:â yes, her bath tub crying. yes. yes. in a mere couple of days afterâ ignatiaâ 200and it’s her daily routine, jane’s anxiety and sadness and depression just melted away.then she started baking cookies and did something positive to send back to her daughter awayat school. a lot of times, simple gestures will bring people back to themselves. butpreviously she couldn’t get there. she just wasn’t in that frame of mind. she was weepingand so saddened that she couldn’t move forward.
by the third or fourth day of taking all theremedies, she noted that the palpitations have gone and her sleep was re-established.by the end of the two months that rolled around and that’s when she was supposed to skypecall with her brother-in-law, nothing that was plaguing her previously remained. instead,she asked if he had a homeopathic remedy for weight gain. but that’s the subject of anotherarticle. what that means is it finished everything though homeopathic remedies took care of everysingle aspect of what she was suffering.â jendy:â yes and you said it was like foursdays. it was fast. joette:â yes, it was fast. but it doesn’talways act that fast. i got to tell you that, jendy. it also again depends on the case andthe person. but to get an idea of what to
look for so that you can know that the remediesyou’ve chosen are correct and that you’re moving in the right direction, i always wantto tell people – our listeners to go to our podcast titled podcast #12 and why youmay be disillusioned with homeopathy.â jendy:â so what’s the upshot?heart conditions could be symptoms of other health conditionsjoette:â okay. the upshot is that many cases that present as a heart condition may indeedbe a reaction, a symptom of something else that just necessitates our attention. thismeans that all symptoms represent something. hence, they should never be shut up with drugs.sometimes it’s easy to figure out what they signify. sometimes it’s not. but the examinationof them is worthy of our effort, particularly
if we have homeopathy to address each oneof those and not just to cover them up. this is also true when we take into accountthat these concomitant conditions that may appear unremarkable by ignoring them mighteasily miss the most telling information. the importance of taking superfluous drugsthat shut up the symptoms or merely silence the condition away from our bodies can’tbe emphasized enough. it is an off-missed piece to the puzzle of not only heart diseasebut many other chronic conditions.â jendy:â we need to switch our thinking tolook strategically and long term. joette:â yes and from a health standpoint,our lives are simply timelines. the more time on a drug, the darker the hue of the graph.each onslaught affects our health on some
area or another.â jendy:â but it is encouraging to know that homeopathy can still help someone that hasa burdened timeline from years of medication. joette:â well, who doesn’t have a burdenedtimeline? would it not be wise to keep the assault to a quiet murmur now from the timethat you know this though, instead of allowing it to get to a roaring tsunami before youstart doing something about it? less is more. not when enjoying healthy saturated fats butwhen considering taking a drug. i believe and i want to mention that healthy saturatedfats. i believe in taking saturated or eating saturated fats.we need to remember that we save drugs as dr. mendelsohn said earlier for rare life-savingemergencies not for common ear infections,
fevers, birth control pills or birth controli should say, eczema, menopausal shifts, or chronic conditions. but if you’re on them,don’t just slip off imprudently. i always tell folks, be careful. we have to seek abetter way and put your life in order first and then move out of them quietly and gently.i want to remind you that you mustn’t count on the doctor however, who prescribed thedrug to offer that alternative solution. if he had one, he would have given it to you.i suggest that people find the doctor with compatible convictions. if you have to goto a doctor, find one who is in agreement with you, or work with a homeopath, or betteryet learn how to use homeopathy for the small potatoes so that you don’t have a biggerone to pick later.
so try to learn to treat your family, yourselffor those acutes. learn how to really treat fever. know how to root out eczema insteadof driving it to a deeper state. know how to address asthma yourself or with your homeopath.as your knowledge deepens, you’ll be able to take on more complex conditions and you’llbecome more confident. then you’ll be able to go use such foods, good foods as nourishingtraditional foods and homeopathic medicine. and just be unstoppable in your resolve becauseit’s important.â jendy:â you can learn how to do a lot of theseon joette’s blog. for our listeners, we go to joettecalabrese.com. i just am learningshe has written a weekly blog post for about nine years and you can go there. there’sa search bar in the top and you can type in
what your problem is and it’ll bring upa list of things to read and check out for. i’ve gone there many times. just recently,we went through a bout of fever and flu at our house and she had a free ebook download.i think it’s called ahh choo! the flu! i downloaded that. i was reading that. you stillhave it up, right? joette:â yes. i believe so. i mean, thingsare always changing here and i’m not the one doing it. i have my family members mailthat for me.â jendy:â well, you can check in the searchbar on the blog and then there’s also like if you want more in-depth courses and youreally want to study it, joette has things, theâ coursesyou can buy, theâ cdsâ you candownload to put in your car. you can even
get somebody to work with youâ one on one.sometimes people feel better talking to somebody. but there are all levels of information ifyou want to learn more. joette:â yes and i’m not the only one outthere teaching homeopathy for these everyday ills to families. for those who are just starting,take a look at our quick start guide on the front page of my website. it will help youget going on all of these. then take advantage of every article i write on this blog. i teachhow to use homeopathy instead ofâ antibioticsâ and i teach how to treatâ acneâ using our medicines.not our, meaning that you buy the medicines from me but homeopathic medicines. i teachhow to address evenâ lyme diseaseâ andanxiety, et cetera. it’s all there for free so takeadvantage of it.â
jendy:â yes, that’s the first place i go.i don’t go to the over the counter drug shelves in the store anymore when we’resick. i go to joette’s site. joette:â yes. well, thank you. thank you forsaying that. oh, yes. there’s no need to spend money here, folks. just take it allfor free. it’s a course in and of itself.â jendy:â all right. do you have any partingword for us this time? learn to say nojoette:â no. well, actually not that i don’t have a parting word. but the word is no. that’smy parting word. i think i’ve said this before but the word is no. say no. you couldalways say yes later but start with no first. it will buy you time to figure out what youneed to do. it will also allow you to tuck
in. figure out what needs to be done afterthe blush of the doctor’s office has worn off.no is the most powerful word in our vocabulary. no thanks, doc. i need to give this some thought.then run. don’t walk to your search engine and look up the side effects that will helpyou understand what it is you’re about to take or give to your child and the homeopathicmedicine that can be used instead. no. not today, doc. i need to discuss this with myhusband. my rule of thumb is don’t be a good girl.be a good mother. be prepared to fight to the finish for your family. don’t be a compliantpatient. be a force. don’t accept mediocre food. don’t accept the mediocre life. infact, don’t just step outside of the box.
gain enough knowledge so that you can kickthe box away.â jendy:â thank you so much, joette. i knowyou’ve told us this before but it’s always good to be encouraged and hear it again.joette:â yes. thank you, jendy. nice conversation. â thank you for listening to this podcast with joette calabrese. if you liked it, pleaseshare it with your friends. to learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit inyour health strategy, visit joettecalabrese.com and schedule a free 15-minute conversationwith joette herself.