April 14, 2025 • 27 mins
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Experience the unexpected truth about homeopaths: they catch colds just like everyone else, but it's how they manage to bounce back that sets them apart. If you're curious about navigating illness within your family using homeopathic insights, this episode offers a treasure trove of wisdom. Discover how we balance intuition and structure when caring for ourselves versus our clients, and learn why flexibility in dosing can make all the difference.
Gain confidence in your health management skills with our insights into effective home remedies. We emphasize the educational journey of treating family members, stressing the importance of remedy kits and guidebooks for building competence. Through shared experiences, we reveal how observing energy shifts can be a powerful indicator of healing, and why preparing your home environment is just as crucial as the remedies themselves.
Join us as we shift away from traditional supplements, exploring the power of simple, natural solutions like meat stock and electrolytes. If you're seeking natural cough remedies, discover our favorites that exclude licorice, and find out how they can offer soothing relief without complicating your regimen. This episode aims to empower you with simple strategies and inspire confidence in managing family health with ease and relaxation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa
hey, melissa hey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Brie.
I am so excited to talk aboutwhat and actually share with our
listeners what we do when we'resick and when our families are
sick.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you know, what I have seen over the years is
people get kind of surprisedwhen homeopaths get sick,
because they're like wait,you're supposed to be healthy
all the time, all the time, andso I think this goes back to we
just talked about this.
I think our understanding ofhealthy is skewed, sometimes,
(00:43):
even mine, um, and I have toremember that a healthy body is
not one that is neversymptomatic or never encounters
an acute illness or somethingyou know, um, but like that, we
can come back to baseline andcome back to balance fairly
quickly and well, withoutlingering or whatever.
(01:06):
So, yeah, we do have, um, we doget sick.
Yeah, Technically, I'm not ahomeopath yet, so I can get sick
.
You just can't.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You are a homeopath.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, you know, here in the U.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
S Well, you know, here in the US, yeah, so I do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I still get you know.
It still gets people getsurprised when they hear that
I've got a cold or a flu orsomething.
And I just thought that itwould be encouraging to people
to hear what we do.
I mean, I think I've evengotten that question like well,
what would you do, what do youdo here?
Because I do a lot of acuteconsultations and you do some
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too.
So in the acute consultation thedifference between what I tell
you to do and what I do formyself is only there, because
I'm not you and I'm not with youand I can't, I don't know
what's going to happen next.
So when I do an acuteconsultation, I'm usually doing
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remedies every three to sixhours.
And I say that you know everythree to six hours and I'll say
one or the other.
You know, take this remedy andthen let me know how you're
doing in 24 hours.
For me I don't set an alarm atthree hours and take the remedy,
because I pay attention to mybody and I take the remedy again
(02:34):
when I need it.
But that's often too hard forpeople who is deep into
homeopathy, as we are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, and I, I do even tell people when we're
telling you things to do or likeit's.
It's not that it's this hardrule you have to follow.
If it's three and a half orfour hours, it's okay.
Or if you you forget to givethe other dose and it's five
hours later and you notice theyneed it again, that is okay.
It's just when you're tellingother people.
(03:05):
It's easier for everyone.
It's easier for them if you'rejust told what to do.
So, yeah, I think that's verydifferent too.
I don't always do things thesame, but I'd love to know.
I don't even know that you andI, I think we probably know what
the other one does becausewe've observed over the years.
But I would love to know whenyou, I think I know what you do,
(03:29):
but what about for your family,um, are you really on top of
things?
Or do you find that we'rereally good at telling other
people what to do?
But then, when it comes to you,are you like?
I forgot, I'm not, I haven'ttaken anything.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm really good at telling everybody else what to
do.
Yeah, you know, for my family.
If somebody's sick, well, andthen you also have to keep in
mind that my children are 17, 19and 28.
Right, true, um, so I'll tell.
But but you know, when they'resick in bed and they don't feel
good, I'll take.
I'll take them remedies.
But they usually will have toask because I'll be busy, I'll
(04:04):
be working or cleaning orsomething, and then they'll text
me and say I need some moreremedy.
Well then I'll take it to them.
But I don't keep an alarm goingand say, oh, you need some more
, you need some more.
I just, yeah, I give it to themwhen they ask for it.
So that's kind of the samething.
When my body asks for theremedy, again I give it.
(04:26):
So you know, let's just take aflu, for instance.
You know, as soon as somebodycomes and says my throat's
really dry, I give the remedythat's indicated at that moment
and that's probably.
You know, it might be throatcalm.
It also depends on the person.
So I know that my daughter isfaramphos, I know that my
daughter is faram phos, I knowthat my youngest son is
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phosphorus and I know that I'm,I'm usually throat calm.
I mean, if I've got a sore, drythroat, throat calm is usually
my first go to and and then Imight not.
I might not just I might not dofour doses or 24 hours of that
remedy.
It depends on what happens next.
So maybe it might even be way,maybe more than 24 hours later
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they say you know, I have aheadache and so I'm like oh, oh
yeah, I forgot, you had a sorethroat.
How's your throat feeling, youknow like.
But if they're really sick inthe bed with a fever or whatever
, then I'll do as I'm checkingon them and I'm like, you know,
how are you, how are you feelingand what are you, you know,
what do you feel like?
I'll ask the questions what doyou feel like right now?
(05:33):
What does that feel like?
Or I can just observe that.
You know, my son is asking forice cold drinks.
All right, you can.
You need some phosphorus too,you know.
So, um, so for my family, yeah,it's just really laid back.
Um, it's really as the symptomspresent.
(05:54):
I don't waffle, so I don't wantto sound like that.
I don't waffle between remediesbecause I don't know what to do
.
It's just yesterday you had adry, sore throat.
Today you don't have that today.
Is you know?
Um, what a fever and a cough orwhatever.
So I I changed the remediesbased on the symptoms and and we
expect for their energy to comeup.
(06:14):
So I'm not trying to turn thisinto an acute like learn how to
treat acutes, but in my familyand myself, I'm really laid back
.
What about you?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Um, I would say the same and I've kind of always
been that way.
Anyway.
There were a few times that Igot a little freaked out about
things when my, mine were babiesand mine are younger, so mine
are um, nine, a couple of daysseven and four, and just
recently, okay.
So I'm trying to think throughthat.
They got sick one after theother over the week of
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Thanksgiving and we had familyin town.
So I think in the past thatwould have been super stressful.
But one of them just startedfeeling like didn't have an
appetite, was the thing Inoticed.
I didn't do anything, I justnoticed he didn't really eat
much and that night he went, hewanted to go to bed during
dinner and he threw up and howhe was warm.
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He had kind of a fever.
So I gave him, um, I think,noxvamica and Belladonna.
That's probably what I did Ifhe had a fever.
I always do Belladonna in ourfamily with a fever of any kind,
even if it's not super high.
It just has worked very well.
So I just keep using it.
That was from my pre-rule.
I didn't know anything when Istarted using Belladonna and I
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love it, so I usually start themon that and that either kind of
knocks them out, they go tosleep, and it did for him.
But he woke up a few more timesthrowing up and it kind of.
The next day he woke up andsaid his throat was sore and
then he had really like a lot ofsinus congestion.
So I changed remedies for that.
(07:51):
So by the time the same thinghappened that next day for my
older son and then the third boyhe's the youngest, so by that
time I was much more on top ofit, like my the first kid.
I kind of waited until he actedsick before I even was paying
much attention at all.
And then my older son got itand I kind of did the same thing
(08:13):
.
I gave him a couple remediesand let him go to bed and by the
time it was our third, he'sfour.
He told me his mouth hurts,like he doesn't know, or his
neck.
He said his neck hurts, I guesshe doesn't know what his throat
is.
And I knew at that point okay,I'm like all right, I'm just
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going to, I know what's coming.
I started the remedies earlier.
He never threw up, he didn't.
It didn't even progress the waythe other two did.
So I do think I you know whenyou have it happen in cycles by
the third.
I you know when you have ithappen in cycles by the third.
Maybe I'm a little moreproactive, um, but outside of
remedies, I try to like cut backon sugary junk, like feed them
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well, make sure they're eatingbetter foods.
Um, not it like resting, I meanin bed a little bit more, or
I'll let them watch more TV thannormal.
So they don't.
They are little boys.
They will get up and run aroundand then feel awful.
They don't feel good.
(09:16):
So I have to.
I don't want to force them, butI do kind of like just we stay
in here and just rest for alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm glad you brought that up, though, because I do
that for sure when, when I'msick or there's.
You know well, let's say thiswhen me or my husband or my sons
are sick, if it's just Grace,she's not going to drink meat
stock, so I'm not even going tomake it.
But if it's one, if it'sanybody else, even if I'm sick,
(09:43):
I'll get in there, because it'sso easy.
I'll get in there and make themeat stock, and so that is
something outside of remedies Iwill absolutely do is have the
meat stock and and.
And yeah, I love what you'resaying about rest.
It's so important to rest andyou know and I think also,
(10:06):
having used remedy, having usedhomeopathy for 25 years, that
it's it's easier to be relaxedabout it, because I'm not brand
new at learning this.
I'm sure back in the beginningI was not as relaxed about it,
and my kids are older.
So you get there right, it getseasier.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I do remember feeling like it was really overwhelming
to know what remedy to pick andI would spend so long like
trying to look through my notesand Googling something and
figure out like, what do I use.
So I absolutely think I feelmuch more comfortable picking
remedies.
But also just I think, beforeI'd pick a remedy, try it, and
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then I would be thinking aboutlike, okay, I'm going to watch
and see if it works.
So my brain is always sowrapped up in what remedy do I
pick?
I give the remedy, thenwatching, is it working?
Is it not working working?
Do I?
Should I do a different one?
And now I just give it and letit go.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'm pretty confident it's gonna do something go about
your yeah, go about your liferight, or your day, and and
don't stay focused on it.
And what's it doing?
What's happening now?
Um, you know?
So here's what I thought I justhad.
What, if we think about and itmight be, it might be easier for
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you because your kids areyounger than mine Um, what is,
what do you do when you're, whenyour children are young, and
you're studying homeopathy?
Where do you go?
Where do you start?
You know, when your childrenare young and you're studying
homeopathy, where do you go?
Where do you start?
You know, when you don't knowthe remedies yet, you've just
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started studying, or you've beenstudying for a little while and
you're like, all right, well, Ihave, you know, these notes
from classes and I have thesebooks, but in the middle of it
it's just hard to think where doyou start?
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
in the middle of it.
It's just hard to think wheredo you start?
What do you do?
Okay, well, what I did do for along time is I would start
Googling things.
That took about 85,000 years toever feel like I picked the
right thing.
And then I felt like I neverhad enough remedies.
I never.
I would be like, well, I don'thave that one and it.
That got frustrating, because Iwould feel like I buy remedies
and then I'd never have the onethat I need.
(12:24):
And it wasn't until yourgateway class that I had learned
kits even existed.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So really Well, I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I just found them at the store.
So I would just like buy whatwas at the store.
I didn't even look on Amazon, Ijust bought what I saw in the
store for the thing Like I, Ididn't even look on Amazon, I
just bought what I saw in thestore for the thing Like
Melanoma said for fever, so I'dbuy that.
So I mean, I was the person who, like people, ask to help you
at the store because they'relike do you know what you're
looking for?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And I'm like no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So what I, what I wish I would have known.
And if you are listening tothis, if it's possible to invest
in a kit, do it.
The kit usually comes with alittle pamphlet and that little
booklet will tell you.
It will have like a little minirepertory.
It'll tell you for a cough orflu or whatever, do this remedy
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and you just do it, just try it.
Yeah, um, that's not what I did.
Googling.
You're going to find a hundreddifferent things.
It's going to be really hard togo through.
They overlap so much and thenyou don't even know what remedy
you have.
We're in the kit, you havethose from what you have and use
a little book that comes withit.
(13:37):
That is probably what I wouldrecommend for a total newbie and
truly and I'm not just sayingthis to try to sell something to
you guys I, when I starteddoing acute consults with you
for my kids, even after being ingateways for a while, it wasn't
just that you did the work forme, I was also learning, like
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observing how often are youasking me to dose or um the
remedy combinations andpotencies that you're suggesting
and um when to change in thequestions you're looking for and
asking I learned so much abouthow to even do that from you,
(14:21):
from you taking, like, doing theacute consult for me.
I really am not.
I don't want to be the personwho's like do this because it's
our business.
You know like it really ishelpful to learn you're treating
your family, but you're alsolearning so much about how you
would do it in the future thatyou will build confidence.
(14:43):
I don't know.
What are you?
What do you think?
Is that what you'd suggest?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So you just, yeah, absolutely.
You can definitely learn froman acute consult and I love when
people ask me why did youchoose that remedy?
I will absolutely answer thatquestion when I can.
So what I said in class theother night is, for the most
part, most of the time.
I can tell you exactly why Ichose it.
(15:07):
Sometimes it was just you know,maybe it was, maybe it was just
been past experience or athought, you know and.
But I can confirm it now.
It's not like I'm justwoohooing, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Belladonna popped in my head, so I'm going to use
Belladonna.
No, I don't do that, but um,anyway, you just reminded me.
That's what I did early on.
I used my kit.
It had the little booklet and Iwas like I didn't.
Even early on on I didn't evenknow what a materia medica was
no, I didn't even know that wasa thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So the little booklet I was like oh, okay, well, all
right.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, this matches.
You know this looks good and soand you're right, that's so
good the kit comes with usually.
So you, you really do want toget a kit that comes with the
little booklet that tells youhow to use the remedies in it
and at some stores they havethem, like the little boyron
book is typically at the storewhere they sell boyron remedies.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So maybe if your kit doesn't have one, you could
always grab one of those.
Those are free, but I feel likemost kits come with something.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I definitely.
So.
I don't follow a tight scheduleand I hope this isn't confusing
or discouraging to those whohave done or will do acute
consults.
When I tell you to do everythree hours, it's only because I
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can't predict what's going tohappen when, so it's just a
guideline.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Right, right.
And typically when people arecoming for an acute consult, the
illness has progressed enoughthat it's a little bit more
severe.
Severe meaning like thesymptoms are more uncomfortable,
like most people aren't comingfor just a really mild cold,
they're coming when it's turnedinto like a sinus infection or I
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have a.
Now I'm really uncomfortableand have a high fever and body
aches.
So that's also why you'restimulating more often that mood
.
Um, but that is something I havefound does work well every
three hours for that firstinitial 24 hours, to kind of
like get things moving.
I started to do that more withmy kids, I will say, even if
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their symptoms aren't severe,I've noticed it like pushing
that through a little faster.
Nice, I will give you a littlesecret for myself, and I've told
you this, melissa I will nottake anything, any remedies, if
I feel myself getting sick.
I without I haven't.
Actually, in a long time nowthat I'm thinking this through,
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I haven't had any real sicknessin a long time but when I do, or
when I was getting them, I knowthat when I take remedies,
especially for a flu, it burnsits way through me and I'm
better the next day almost everytime.
But I will go like that's goingto knock me out, and so I will
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clean my house, I'll make meatstock and I'm like slowly going
downhill and I'll wait as longas I can to like my husband's
make meat stock and I'm likeslowly going downhill and I'll
wait as long as I can to like myhusband's home from work and I
know I'm going to take thatremedy and I'm going to need to
go to bed Like it's going toknock me out, so that's
something I'll do for myself.
I will not take a remedy unlessI'm ready to go to bed, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, you know, um, um.
That's a really great point too, is that that it's a really
good sign when the remedy makesyou sleepy and or if your energy
comes up.
So if it affects your energy,then you know you're on the
right track, where most peopleare just paying attention to the
cough, the, the mucus, thefever.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's so fun.
You and I are opposite.
I just you.
Oh my word.
This woman taught a whole dayclass with the flu.
Who takes Yosemite?
Almost good as new, like youcouldn't even tell me.
On the other hand, almost goodas new, like you couldn't even
tell me.
On the other hand, if I takeone dose, I am literally like I
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have to go right to bed.
Within 15 minutes I will beasleep.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, I hadn't thought of thateither.
Well, I hope that this wasactually encouraging and not
confusing, and if it did bringup more questions for you or
anything.
Comment.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Go ahead.
I do think it's worth asking.
I want to ask you this too.
So we have remedies.
That's kind of how we go aboutremedies.
We've been using them longenough.
I think we don't need maybe asoften or as much stimulation
during acute illness, as wehaven't suppressed things for a
long time.
What other things?
So we mentioned meat stock, wementioned rest.
Do you add any othersupplements like vitamin C or
(20:08):
NAC, zinc or you know?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Electrolytes yeah, electrolytes.
I don't do vitamin C and I'venever taken NAC, zinc,
glutathione, I don't know allthe things that people come and
say they're doing.
This huge list of things, andI'm not judging you if you do
that.
I just feel like it's too muchfor me.
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I don't, I just don't.
I don't do anything.
I don't do any of that stuff,and I'm not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
No, I think I would agree with you.
I I think the people do a lotof stuff, but, um, I will say
over time, I just haven't foundit as necessary.
Like it's not, like Iconsciously thought I'm not
going to do all those things Iused to have like a humidifier
and all, like the chest rubs orlike the nasal sprays that are
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even the natural kinds, um, thenebulizer stuff with colloidal
silver.
I used to have all that on handcause my kids got croup a lot.
Um, but I have, over time, Ihaven't needed any.
The other night, I don't eventhink I told you one of them
woke up, had that barky coughfollowing that illness.
They all got congested and onewoke up with that croup sound.
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I gave him one round of thatprotocol, the croup protocol we
use, and previously I would havehad to turn the hot shower on.
You would have of the remedies.
I just didn't need all of that.
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So, um, don't, I think we'll.
You know people ask us the.
Typically that stuff isn'tnecessary.
You might use more of thatearly on in remedy using.
Like when I first started usinghomeopathy, I still did need
some of those other supports,like the steam shower and like
all that stuff and but over timethe remedies work so well I
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haven't needed.
I have a whole cabinet of stuffI don't use.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I didn't even I didn't even think about that
either.
That, um, you know, in the meatstock I'm not even positive
that I need it.
I like it.
It feels good when you'regetting nourishment when you
don't want to eat and theelectrolytes are in the meat.
Stock right, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, at least minerals, you're getting
minerals and hydration, andthere is nutrition.
There's fat in there.
I mean it's so good.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And it tastes so it's like so good.
Yeah, and it tastes so it'slike so good, yeah, yeah,
awesome.
It was helpful to somebody wegot to.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh, I do want to say something else, because I just
looked down and saw my little umorganic mini candy cane.
I've been eating these thingsand it reminded me that people
um have recently been coming,you know, and and I'm doing
acute consults, and then a fewdays into it I realize they are
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using some kind of cough dropwith mint or eucalyptus um in it
and I'm like, darn it.
So we, I think, in acute.
So you, if you've listened tome before and you've learned
anything from me ever before,you will probably have heard I
don't worry about mint, I don'tworry about any of that stuff,
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but in an acute situation I Iwill stay away from it.
I will stay away from mint andeucalyptus tea tree oil.
Are there any others?
Camphor I'll stay away fromduring acute illnesses.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So look, at your Chest rubs.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, the chest rubs.
Yep, if you like cough drops orwhatever, you have a favorite
one, get one that doesn't havethat stuff in it, and so this is
actually my favorite.
It's lemon, ginger, echinaceathroat coat.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Do those have that licorice flavor that the drink
does?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Let's see.
I hope I'm not telling youwrong.
Let me see what's in it.
Let me see what's in it, let mesee.
All right, so it's got activeingredient.
Okay, inactive ingredient whatwhat is in this thing?
(24:55):
Okay, here it's got gingerextract, lemon essential oil,
sweet.
Yeah, that's it.
It is literally just ginger andlemon.
I mean it's got other stuff init, but it does not have.
(25:15):
No, it doesn't take likelicorice, not this one.
So this one is this one.
If you like to suck onsomething for your throat, this
one's not going to mess up yourremedies.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That is really good to know.
I'm going to start recommendingthat to people.
I don't think I knew they had,like, made a contract.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I have it right here because when I talk too much I
start getting froggy and so ithelps with that.
But yeah, if you're feelinglike um, you know like you need
some help, you've got a cough orsomething you need to calm down
.
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right, okay, you guys got to know us a little
better, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, let us know in the comments if you have any
questions or if you're confused.
I really was hoping this wouldbe encouraging.
You know that over timeespecially, I think what the end
message is over time, you'regoing to get get.
It's gonna get easier, faster,you'll be more relaxed, it's not
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gonna be so complicated and andscheduled, and you know all the
things with that.
People stress out aboutremedies.
So hang in there, you're gonnaget there, yeah.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa
hey, melissa hey.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Brie.
I am so excited to talk aboutwhat and actually share with our
listeners what we do when we'resick and when our families are
sick.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So you know, what I have seen over the years is
people get kind of surprisedwhen homeopaths get sick,
because they're like wait,you're supposed to be healthy
all the time, all the time, andso I think this goes back to we
just talked about this.
I think our understanding ofhealthy is skewed, sometimes,
(00:43):
even mine, um, and I have toremember that a healthy body is
not one that is neversymptomatic or never encounters
an acute illness or somethingyou know, um, but like that, we
can come back to baseline andcome back to balance fairly
quickly and well, withoutlingering or whatever.
(01:06):
So, yeah, we do have, um, we doget sick.
Yeah, Technically, I'm not ahomeopath yet, so I can get sick
.
You just can't.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You are a homeopath.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, you know, here in the U.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
S Well, you know, here in the US, yeah, so I do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I still get you know.
It still gets people getsurprised when they hear that
I've got a cold or a flu orsomething.
And I just thought that itwould be encouraging to people
to hear what we do.
I mean, I think I've evengotten that question like well,
what would you do, what do youdo here?
Because I do a lot of acuteconsultations and you do some
(01:53):
too.
So in the acute consultation thedifference between what I tell
you to do and what I do formyself is only there, because
I'm not you and I'm not with youand I can't, I don't know
what's going to happen next.
So when I do an acuteconsultation, I'm usually doing
(02:13):
remedies every three to sixhours.
And I say that you know everythree to six hours and I'll say
one or the other.
You know, take this remedy andthen let me know how you're
doing in 24 hours.
For me I don't set an alarm atthree hours and take the remedy,
because I pay attention to mybody and I take the remedy again
(02:34):
when I need it.
But that's often too hard forpeople who is deep into
homeopathy, as we are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, and I, I do even tell people when we're
telling you things to do or likeit's.
It's not that it's this hardrule you have to follow.
If it's three and a half orfour hours, it's okay.
Or if you you forget to givethe other dose and it's five
hours later and you notice theyneed it again, that is okay.
It's just when you're tellingother people.
(03:05):
It's easier for everyone.
It's easier for them if you'rejust told what to do.
So, yeah, I think that's verydifferent too.
I don't always do things thesame, but I'd love to know.
I don't even know that you andI, I think we probably know what
the other one does becausewe've observed over the years.
But I would love to know whenyou, I think I know what you do,
(03:29):
but what about for your family,um, are you really on top of
things?
Or do you find that we'rereally good at telling other
people what to do?
But then, when it comes to you,are you like?
I forgot, I'm not, I haven'ttaken anything.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm really good at telling everybody else what to
do.
Yeah, you know, for my family.
If somebody's sick, well, andthen you also have to keep in
mind that my children are 17, 19and 28.
Right, true, um, so I'll tell.
But but you know, when they'resick in bed and they don't feel
good, I'll take.
I'll take them remedies.
But they usually will have toask because I'll be busy, I'll
(04:04):
be working or cleaning orsomething, and then they'll text
me and say I need some moreremedy.
Well then I'll take it to them.
But I don't keep an alarm goingand say, oh, you need some more
, you need some more.
I just, yeah, I give it to themwhen they ask for it.
So that's kind of the samething.
When my body asks for theremedy, again I give it.
(04:26):
So you know, let's just take aflu, for instance.
You know, as soon as somebodycomes and says my throat's
really dry, I give the remedythat's indicated at that moment
and that's probably.
You know, it might be throatcalm.
It also depends on the person.
So I know that my daughter isfaramphos, I know that my
daughter is faram phos, I knowthat my youngest son is
(04:47):
phosphorus and I know that I'm,I'm usually throat calm.
I mean, if I've got a sore, drythroat, throat calm is usually
my first go to and and then Imight not.
I might not just I might not dofour doses or 24 hours of that
remedy.
It depends on what happens next.
So maybe it might even be way,maybe more than 24 hours later
(05:11):
they say you know, I have aheadache and so I'm like oh, oh
yeah, I forgot, you had a sorethroat.
How's your throat feeling, youknow like.
But if they're really sick inthe bed with a fever or whatever
, then I'll do as I'm checkingon them and I'm like, you know,
how are you, how are you feelingand what are you, you know,
what do you feel like?
I'll ask the questions what doyou feel like right now?
(05:33):
What does that feel like?
Or I can just observe that.
You know, my son is asking forice cold drinks.
All right, you can.
You need some phosphorus too,you know.
So, um, so for my family, yeah,it's just really laid back.
Um, it's really as the symptomspresent.
(05:54):
I don't waffle, so I don't wantto sound like that.
I don't waffle between remediesbecause I don't know what to do
.
It's just yesterday you had adry, sore throat.
Today you don't have that today.
Is you know?
Um, what a fever and a cough orwhatever.
So I I changed the remediesbased on the symptoms and and we
expect for their energy to comeup.
(06:14):
So I'm not trying to turn thisinto an acute like learn how to
treat acutes, but in my familyand myself, I'm really laid back
.
What about you?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Um, I would say the same and I've kind of always
been that way.
Anyway.
There were a few times that Igot a little freaked out about
things when my, mine were babiesand mine are younger, so mine
are um, nine, a couple of daysseven and four, and just
recently, okay.
So I'm trying to think throughthat.
They got sick one after theother over the week of
(06:47):
Thanksgiving and we had familyin town.
So I think in the past thatwould have been super stressful.
But one of them just startedfeeling like didn't have an
appetite, was the thing Inoticed.
I didn't do anything, I justnoticed he didn't really eat
much and that night he went, hewanted to go to bed during
dinner and he threw up and howhe was warm.
(07:09):
He had kind of a fever.
So I gave him, um, I think,noxvamica and Belladonna.
That's probably what I did Ifhe had a fever.
I always do Belladonna in ourfamily with a fever of any kind,
even if it's not super high.
It just has worked very well.
So I just keep using it.
That was from my pre-rule.
I didn't know anything when Istarted using Belladonna and I
(07:30):
love it, so I usually start themon that and that either kind of
knocks them out, they go tosleep, and it did for him.
But he woke up a few more timesthrowing up and it kind of.
The next day he woke up andsaid his throat was sore and
then he had really like a lot ofsinus congestion.
So I changed remedies for that.
(07:51):
So by the time the same thinghappened that next day for my
older son and then the third boyhe's the youngest, so by that
time I was much more on top ofit, like my the first kid.
I kind of waited until he actedsick before I even was paying
much attention at all.
And then my older son got itand I kind of did the same thing
(08:13):
.
I gave him a couple remediesand let him go to bed and by the
time it was our third, he'sfour.
He told me his mouth hurts,like he doesn't know, or his
neck.
He said his neck hurts, I guesshe doesn't know what his throat
is.
And I knew at that point okay,I'm like all right, I'm just
(08:33):
going to, I know what's coming.
I started the remedies earlier.
He never threw up, he didn't.
It didn't even progress the waythe other two did.
So I do think I you know whenyou have it happen in cycles by
the third.
I you know when you have ithappen in cycles by the third.
Maybe I'm a little moreproactive, um, but outside of
remedies, I try to like cut backon sugary junk, like feed them
(08:55):
well, make sure they're eatingbetter foods.
Um, not it like resting, I meanin bed a little bit more, or
I'll let them watch more TV thannormal.
So they don't.
They are little boys.
They will get up and run aroundand then feel awful.
They don't feel good.
(09:16):
So I have to.
I don't want to force them, butI do kind of like just we stay
in here and just rest for alittle bit.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm glad you brought that up, though, because I do
that for sure when, when I'msick or there's.
You know well, let's say thiswhen me or my husband or my sons
are sick, if it's just Grace,she's not going to drink meat
stock, so I'm not even going tomake it.
But if it's one, if it'sanybody else, even if I'm sick,
(09:43):
I'll get in there, because it'sso easy.
I'll get in there and make themeat stock, and so that is
something outside of remedies Iwill absolutely do is have the
meat stock and and.
And yeah, I love what you'resaying about rest.
It's so important to rest andyou know and I think also,
(10:06):
having used remedy, having usedhomeopathy for 25 years, that
it's it's easier to be relaxedabout it, because I'm not brand
new at learning this.
I'm sure back in the beginningI was not as relaxed about it,
and my kids are older.
So you get there right, it getseasier.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I do remember feeling like it was really overwhelming
to know what remedy to pick andI would spend so long like
trying to look through my notesand Googling something and
figure out like, what do I use.
So I absolutely think I feelmuch more comfortable picking
remedies.
But also just I think, beforeI'd pick a remedy, try it, and
(10:48):
then I would be thinking aboutlike, okay, I'm going to watch
and see if it works.
So my brain is always sowrapped up in what remedy do I
pick?
I give the remedy, thenwatching, is it working?
Is it not working working?
Do I?
Should I do a different one?
And now I just give it and letit go.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'm pretty confident it's gonna do something go about
your yeah, go about your liferight, or your day, and and
don't stay focused on it.
And what's it doing?
What's happening now?
Um, you know?
So here's what I thought I justhad.
What, if we think about and itmight be, it might be easier for
(11:28):
you because your kids areyounger than mine Um, what is,
what do you do when you're, whenyour children are young, and
you're studying homeopathy?
Where do you go?
Where do you start?
You know, when your childrenare young and you're studying
homeopathy, where do you go?
Where do you start?
You know, when you don't knowthe remedies yet, you've just
(11:48):
started studying, or you've beenstudying for a little while and
you're like, all right, well, Ihave, you know, these notes
from classes and I have thesebooks, but in the middle of it
it's just hard to think where doyou start?
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
in the middle of it.
It's just hard to think wheredo you start?
What do you do?
Okay, well, what I did do for along time is I would start
Googling things.
That took about 85,000 years toever feel like I picked the
right thing.
And then I felt like I neverhad enough remedies.
I never.
I would be like, well, I don'thave that one and it.
That got frustrating, because Iwould feel like I buy remedies
and then I'd never have the onethat I need.
(12:24):
And it wasn't until yourgateway class that I had learned
kits even existed.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So really Well, I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I just found them at the store.
So I would just like buy whatwas at the store.
I didn't even look on Amazon, Ijust bought what I saw in the
store for the thing Like I, Ididn't even look on Amazon, I
just bought what I saw in thestore for the thing Like
Melanoma said for fever, so I'dbuy that.
So I mean, I was the person who, like people, ask to help you
at the store because they'relike do you know what you're
looking for?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And I'm like no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So what I, what I wish I would have known.
And if you are listening tothis, if it's possible to invest
in a kit, do it.
The kit usually comes with alittle pamphlet and that little
booklet will tell you.
It will have like a little minirepertory.
It'll tell you for a cough orflu or whatever, do this remedy
(13:17):
and you just do it, just try it.
Yeah, um, that's not what I did.
Googling.
You're going to find a hundreddifferent things.
It's going to be really hard togo through.
They overlap so much and thenyou don't even know what remedy
you have.
We're in the kit, you havethose from what you have and use
a little book that comes withit.
(13:37):
That is probably what I wouldrecommend for a total newbie and
truly and I'm not just sayingthis to try to sell something to
you guys I, when I starteddoing acute consults with you
for my kids, even after being ingateways for a while, it wasn't
just that you did the work forme, I was also learning, like
(14:00):
observing how often are youasking me to dose or um the
remedy combinations andpotencies that you're suggesting
and um when to change in thequestions you're looking for and
asking I learned so much abouthow to even do that from you,
(14:21):
from you taking, like, doing theacute consult for me.
I really am not.
I don't want to be the personwho's like do this because it's
our business.
You know like it really ishelpful to learn you're treating
your family, but you're alsolearning so much about how you
would do it in the future thatyou will build confidence.
(14:43):
I don't know.
What are you?
What do you think?
Is that what you'd suggest?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So you just, yeah, absolutely.
You can definitely learn froman acute consult and I love when
people ask me why did youchoose that remedy?
I will absolutely answer thatquestion when I can.
So what I said in class theother night is, for the most
part, most of the time.
I can tell you exactly why Ichose it.
(15:07):
Sometimes it was just you know,maybe it was, maybe it was just
been past experience or athought, you know and.
But I can confirm it now.
It's not like I'm justwoohooing, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Belladonna popped in my head, so I'm going to use
Belladonna.
No, I don't do that, but um,anyway, you just reminded me.
That's what I did early on.
I used my kit.
It had the little booklet and Iwas like I didn't.
Even early on on I didn't evenknow what a materia medica was
no, I didn't even know that wasa thing.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
So the little booklet I was like oh, okay, well, all
right.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, this matches.
You know this looks good and soand you're right, that's so
good the kit comes with usually.
So you, you really do want toget a kit that comes with the
little booklet that tells youhow to use the remedies in it
and at some stores they havethem, like the little boyron
book is typically at the storewhere they sell boyron remedies.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So maybe if your kit doesn't have one, you could
always grab one of those.
Those are free, but I feel likemost kits come with something.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I definitely.
So.
I don't follow a tight scheduleand I hope this isn't confusing
or discouraging to those whohave done or will do acute
consults.
When I tell you to do everythree hours, it's only because I
(16:38):
can't predict what's going tohappen when, so it's just a
guideline.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Right, right.
And typically when people arecoming for an acute consult, the
illness has progressed enoughthat it's a little bit more
severe.
Severe meaning like thesymptoms are more uncomfortable,
like most people aren't comingfor just a really mild cold,
they're coming when it's turnedinto like a sinus infection or I
(17:04):
have a.
Now I'm really uncomfortableand have a high fever and body
aches.
So that's also why you'restimulating more often that mood
.
Um, but that is something I havefound does work well every
three hours for that firstinitial 24 hours, to kind of
like get things moving.
I started to do that more withmy kids, I will say, even if
(17:28):
their symptoms aren't severe,I've noticed it like pushing
that through a little faster.
Nice, I will give you a littlesecret for myself, and I've told
you this, melissa I will nottake anything, any remedies, if
I feel myself getting sick.
I without I haven't.
Actually, in a long time nowthat I'm thinking this through,
(17:49):
I haven't had any real sicknessin a long time but when I do, or
when I was getting them, I knowthat when I take remedies,
especially for a flu, it burnsits way through me and I'm
better the next day almost everytime.
But I will go like that's goingto knock me out, and so I will
(18:12):
clean my house, I'll make meatstock and I'm like slowly going
downhill and I'll wait as longas I can to like my husband's
make meat stock and I'm likeslowly going downhill and I'll
wait as long as I can to like myhusband's home from work and I
know I'm going to take thatremedy and I'm going to need to
go to bed Like it's going toknock me out, so that's
something I'll do for myself.
I will not take a remedy unlessI'm ready to go to bed, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, you know, um, um.
That's a really great point too, is that that it's a really
good sign when the remedy makesyou sleepy and or if your energy
comes up.
So if it affects your energy,then you know you're on the
right track, where most peopleare just paying attention to the
cough, the, the mucus, thefever.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's so fun.
You and I are opposite.
I just you.
Oh my word.
This woman taught a whole dayclass with the flu.
Who takes Yosemite?
Almost good as new, like youcouldn't even tell me.
On the other hand, almost goodas new, like you couldn't even
tell me.
On the other hand, if I takeone dose, I am literally like I
(19:20):
have to go right to bed.
Within 15 minutes I will beasleep.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, I hadn't thought of thateither.
Well, I hope that this wasactually encouraging and not
confusing, and if it did bringup more questions for you or
anything.
Comment.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Go ahead.
I do think it's worth asking.
I want to ask you this too.
So we have remedies.
That's kind of how we go aboutremedies.
We've been using them longenough.
I think we don't need maybe asoften or as much stimulation
during acute illness, as wehaven't suppressed things for a
long time.
What other things?
So we mentioned meat stock, wementioned rest.
Do you add any othersupplements like vitamin C or
(20:08):
NAC, zinc or you know?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Electrolytes yeah, electrolytes.
I don't do vitamin C and I'venever taken NAC, zinc,
glutathione, I don't know allthe things that people come and
say they're doing.
This huge list of things, andI'm not judging you if you do
that.
I just feel like it's too muchfor me.
(20:50):
I don't, I just don't.
I don't do anything.
I don't do any of that stuff,and I'm not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
No, I think I would agree with you.
I I think the people do a lotof stuff, but, um, I will say
over time, I just haven't foundit as necessary.
Like it's not, like Iconsciously thought I'm not
going to do all those things Iused to have like a humidifier
and all, like the chest rubs orlike the nasal sprays that are
(21:20):
even the natural kinds, um, thenebulizer stuff with colloidal
silver.
I used to have all that on handcause my kids got croup a lot.
Um, but I have, over time, Ihaven't needed any.
The other night, I don't eventhink I told you one of them
woke up, had that barky coughfollowing that illness.
They all got congested and onewoke up with that croup sound.
(21:41):
I gave him one round of thatprotocol, the croup protocol we
use, and previously I would havehad to turn the hot shower on.
You would have of the remedies.
I just didn't need all of that.
(22:03):
So, um, don't, I think we'll.
You know people ask us the.
Typically that stuff isn'tnecessary.
You might use more of thatearly on in remedy using.
Like when I first started usinghomeopathy, I still did need
some of those other supports,like the steam shower and like
all that stuff and but over timethe remedies work so well I
(22:24):
haven't needed.
I have a whole cabinet of stuffI don't use.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I didn't even I didn't even think about that
either.
That, um, you know, in the meatstock I'm not even positive
that I need it.
I like it.
It feels good when you'regetting nourishment when you
don't want to eat and theelectrolytes are in the meat.
Stock right, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Well, at least minerals, you're getting
minerals and hydration, andthere is nutrition.
There's fat in there.
I mean it's so good.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And it tastes so it's like so good.
Yeah, and it tastes so it'slike so good, yeah, yeah,
awesome.
It was helpful to somebody wegot to.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh, I do want to say something else, because I just
looked down and saw my little umorganic mini candy cane.
I've been eating these thingsand it reminded me that people
um have recently been coming,you know, and and I'm doing
acute consults, and then a fewdays into it I realize they are
(23:27):
using some kind of cough dropwith mint or eucalyptus um in it
and I'm like, darn it.
So we, I think, in acute.
So you, if you've listened tome before and you've learned
anything from me ever before,you will probably have heard I
don't worry about mint, I don'tworry about any of that stuff,
(23:50):
but in an acute situation I Iwill stay away from it.
I will stay away from mint andeucalyptus tea tree oil.
Are there any others?
Camphor I'll stay away fromduring acute illnesses.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So look, at your Chest rubs.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah, the chest rubs.
Yep, if you like cough drops orwhatever, you have a favorite
one, get one that doesn't havethat stuff in it, and so this is
actually my favorite.
It's lemon, ginger, echinaceathroat coat.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Do those have that licorice flavor that the drink
does?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Let's see.
I hope I'm not telling youwrong.
Let me see what's in it.
Let me see what's in it, let mesee.
All right, so it's got activeingredient.
Okay, inactive ingredient whatwhat is in this thing?
(24:55):
Okay, here it's got gingerextract, lemon essential oil,
sweet.
Yeah, that's it.
It is literally just ginger andlemon.
I mean it's got other stuff init, but it does not have.
(25:15):
No, it doesn't take likelicorice, not this one.
So this one is this one.
If you like to suck onsomething for your throat, this
one's not going to mess up yourremedies.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That is really good to know.
I'm going to start recommendingthat to people.
I don't think I knew they had,like, made a contract.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I have it right here because when I talk too much I
start getting froggy and so ithelps with that.
But yeah, if you're feelinglike um, you know like you need
some help, you've got a cough orsomething you need to calm down
.
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right, okay, you guys got to know us a little
better, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, let us know in the comments if you have any
questions or if you're confused.
I really was hoping this wouldbe encouraging.
You know that over timeespecially, I think what the end
message is over time, you'regoing to get get.
It's gonna get easier, faster,you'll be more relaxed, it's not
(26:20):
gonna be so complicated and andscheduled, and you know all the
things with that.
People stress out aboutremedies.
So hang in there, you're gonnaget there, yeah.
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