May 26, 2025 • 45 mins
Send a text to Melissa and she’ll answer it on the next episode.
Dive into the fascinating world of constitutional prescribing, a concept that represents perhaps the most misunderstood territory in homeopathy. As practitioners and patients alike grapple with identifying "constitutional remedies," this episode clarifies the crucial distinction between what's truly constitutional versus what's fundamental or pathological.
Your constitution represents your genetic blueprint—the unchangeable aspects of your physical structure, metabolism, and baseline tendencies. Drawing from the teachings of Dr. Francisco Xavier Eizayaga (1923-2001), we explore how your constitutional type (primarily Calc Carb, Sulfur, Silica, or Phosphorus) differs fundamentally from the layers of acquired conditions that build throughout life.
Melissa and Bri untangle the confusion between classical homeopathic approaches, where "constitutional" often means whatever remedy matches your current symptoms, versus the more precise definition where constitutional remedies strengthen your healthy baseline state. This distinction changes everything about treatment priorities—we must clear pathologies and fundamental issues before supporting the constitution.
Physical characteristics provide important clues, from the short, square physique of Calc Carb types to the tall, thin frame of Phosphorus constitutions. Yet these indicators represent just part of a comprehensive assessment that includes genetic tendencies, basic temperament, and inherent strengths and weaknesses.
Whether you're new to homeopathy or an experienced practitioner, understanding constitutional prescribing transforms how you approach treatment. It shifts the focus from constantly changing remedies to recognizing the unchangeable foundation while clearing acquired layers. By strengthening your constitutional vitality, you create resilience against the energy-draining stressors of modern life.
Want to explore this fascinating topic in greater depth? Join us for our upcoming live course on constitutional prescribing, where we'll delve into detailed remedy profiles, potency selection, dosing strategies, and practical case taking approaches.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, I am super excited to talk about
constitutional remedies.
We get this question all thetime, don't we?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All the time, from all kinds, both sides too,
practical side and classical.
So I am looking forward to this.
It's one that I think overlapsboth worlds.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Before we do that, I want to read this fan mail, and
so sorry, bree, that I didn't.
I forgot to mention this to youbefore.
Let me get over here, so I have.
So so if you listening to thispodcast right now, if you're on
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the Buzzsprout website, you cantype in questions to me, and it
looks like I don't know what itreally looks like, but it's
something like a text, almostlike you're texting me, but it's
not coming straight to my phone, it's going to what's called
fan mail, and so then we seethese questions and then we can
answer them and talk about them.
And I want to try to rememberto answer fan mail every time we
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do podcast episodes.
So if you have a question andyou ask it, you should expect to
, in the future, hear an answerto it.
So this one is from St Louis,missouri, and he or she says I
have a question aboutchelodonium.
From your podcast, youmentioned that it is good for
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menopause.
Well, obviously this is a she.
Then you mentioned that it'sgood for menopause 6x, one to
two times per day.
What purpose would it serve andwhy would it be good for
menopause?
Um, so am I going to put you onthe spot.
If I ask you what do you think?
Why do you think breathe Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I have some thoughts.
I'm going to look in themateria medica just to see if
there's actual like stuff I canread to you, but also just
knowing what I know about thefemale body.
Chelodonium is a huge liverremedy and the liver directly
affects your hormone levels.
So just for that reason alone Iwould think that plays a big
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part.
Um, I'm just trying to see ifthere's anything just in the
Materia Medica I could give youright off the top Well, it's not
off the top of my head, but inhere.
I would really say though Okay,so for female it has some
irregular menses, menses toolong, um, burning, otherwise
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there's not a lot just forfemale.
But when you look at the liverI would encourage you to do that
it does have some appetitethings which could be a big deal
for some people, bladder thingswhich during menopause can be
an issue.
What are your thoughts?
Anything you'd like to add?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think that's it.
It's just it's.
Chelidonium is a huge liverremedy and, um, our you know our
hormones, um are, what's theword?
Bree, uh, processed, um, what?
What is the?
What is the liver's role inhormones?
It it's if your liver isunhealthy, your hormones are
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likely to be unbalanced, and, um, vice versa, probably.
So it's just really common thatwhen you go into menopause, um,
your livers is can be prettytaxed at that point.
Okay, I have it for youTechnical terms.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, I have it for you Technical terms.
The liver plays a critical rolein regulating female hormones
by primarily metabolizing andbreaking down excess estrogen,
progesterone and androgens,essentially acting as the body's
primary site for eliminatingthese hormones once they're no
longer needed, thus maintaininghormonal balance.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
There you go the liver can lead to hormonal
imbalance because it can't clearthe hormones from the blood
system.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
There you go.
The liver can lead to hormonalimbalance because it can't clear
the hormones from the bloodsystem.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So you go there, you go.
So you know.
But another big symptom ofmenopause is, um, sleep gets
very disturbed.
And, and chelodonium, becauseit has a great effect on the
liver, it really helps sleep.
So a lot, a lot of women andmen, when I, you know, when I
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choose Chelidonium for a man whoI know has a liver issue and
sleep issues, it's just reallyhelpful.
So there's that one At the, ifI remember, at the end of this
podcast episode, we'll readanother fan mail and actually,
bree, that would be a reallygood one for you to answer as
well.
So the, the question is and onthe, the thing that I did for
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tonight, but anyway, in acuity,it's in acuity, okay, it's an
acuity, okay, all right.
So what I'm gonna do is talkabout constitutional prescribing
and, um, again, we get thisquestion all the time.
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So at the 2025 homeopathyRetreat, I taught this class
live to the ladies there.
What's coming next is anopportunity for you all to join
me in a live teaching on Zoomfor everybody else for the
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public, on Zoom for everybodyelse for the public.
So if you're listening to thismuch later, you know, months or
years later then the recordingwill be available to you on my
website, but you know as ofright now what we're doing is.
I want to give you a taste ofwhat the full course is going to
be like and what you're goingto learn, but I also want to
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just explain to youconstitutional prescribing.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, so can I ask a question before you even open?
Yeah, who would this maybe befor?
Could a beginner like I'mhomeopathy 101, I've only maybe
taken gateway one or I've doneyour um mentorship program,
where would you?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, I truly believe anybody any level, because this
is not advanced stuff, not likemy asms.
You know, my asms is prettyadvanced, um, so it's not like
that.
And but even if you're brandnew and you're like, uh, I don't
you know why, do I even need toknow this?
It's very interesting and thequestion is going to come People
are going if you work with ahomeopath, there's different
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ways to practice, and people are.
You're going to hear it andthen you're going to wonder, oh,
wait a minute, what's myconstitutional remedy?
I need to be on aconstitutional remedy and so you
need to.
I think it's good for everybody, every level.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, and I even think, even if you're not
practicing classically I putthose two together this is still
good information and reallyuseful.
These are really usefulremedies.
And even thinking the directionof somebody's constitution can,
I mean, I think, be a good nota good segue, that's not the
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term but a good path sometimesto consider.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yep, I agree.
Okay.
So what I want to do is just gothrough a couple of basics
about constitutional prescribing.
So homeopathic remedies affectthe vital energy and the
constitutional vitality of theperson.
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So constitutional prescribingis good for people who are not
sick.
There's your key right there.
So in classical homeopathy, theterm constitutional means the
remedy that matches the totalityof symptoms.
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Today, let me say that again,in classical homeopathy, the
term constitutional when they,when classical homeopaths use
the word constitutional remedyor constitution, they mean their
constitutional remedy is theremedy that matches the totality
of symptoms.
So the whole person today, theway Brie Hurlburt presents to me
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today, right now, that would beyour constitutional remedy for
the classical homeopath.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can I ask a question?
Yes, if it's today, does thatmean it can be different
tomorrow or two months from now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Exactly.
Yes, in classical homeopathy,the constitutional remedy and
the constitution can change,change.
So, um, iziaga and I'll I'll hewas, uh, um, I'll I'll tell you
exactly who he was.
Later, iziaga definesconstitutional as your healthy
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state, um, how you are whenthere's no problems, again, when
you are not sick, so how youfunction at normal capacity.
Okay, so, so class.
So it's opposite, iziaga says,and Murphy say something
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different than the classicalhomeopaths?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, okay, so even there's disagreement here on
what a constitutional remedy is.
Yes, okay, so of course thereis.
Of course, like everything else, the more you know, the more
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Great, Okay.
So there's a bit of a yeah, um,a disagreement here.
So a classical constitutionalwould be the remedy that matches
the totality of the symptomstoday.
Right, and it's completelychangeable.
So I adhere to Iziaga'sdefinition of constitutional
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remedies in states.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, which would make sense, because a
constitution I mean.
Then why would you have theterm constitutional remedy if
it's changing all the time?
It's just a remedy that fitsyou today.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Exactly.
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Also.
I want to just really.
I also really do want to say Iam not here to put down
classical homeopaths.
It's just different.
There's just a different way tothink and a different school of
thought.
And so if you're a classicalhomeopath listening to this or
you're working with a classicalhomeopath, this is not to say
that they were wrong or stupidor anything like that.
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So in classical homeopathy,they call the fundamental remedy
the constitutional remedy andthey call the constitutional
remedy the constitutional remedy, and they call the
constitutional remedy theconstitutional remedy.
So so Iziaga says that thefundamental remedy is different
than the constitutional remedy.
(11:15):
Okay, so so Iziaga teaches, ortaught, that you would get rid
of the fundamental remedy state.
That's where we are right now,bree.
You and I and everybodylistening to this and watching
this is in their fundamentalremedy state.
You have pathology, most likely, you have disease, you have
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things wrong and that's whyyou're lying homeopathy, because
you have things wrong.
So we're going to address thatfundamental state Before we get
to the constitutional state.
I saw your wheels turning.
Were you going to say somethingelse?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I mean I.
Is it possible, in your opinion, for someone to ever reach a
constitutional state?
Are you going to get there?
I feel like I'm going to askyou questions ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, no, I'm not, no, that's not.
That's a great question and um.
So I believe I've pretty muchalways said no, like you, we
always have.
We don't, you're, we're notwhole, right and completely 100
healthy until we reach ourheavenly home.
There's not.
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Yeah, you're on earth, we'renot, there's not a.
So, anyway, but I do haveseveral clients that I've worked
with for several years and theyfeel like there's nothing wrong
, there's no pathology, there'snot a symptom, there's not
something we're addressing, sothey are on their constitutional
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remedy.
So I've had several clients whowere like I'm good, I don't
have anything wrong with me thatI want to address, so they're
on their constitutional remedy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay.
So we're not talking likeperfection you never get an
acute illness or your body'salways perfect every day but in
okay I'll put in this together.
So what I consider a healthyperson is a healthy body that
can encounter disruption, is ahealthy body that can encounter
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disruption, encounter acuteillness and then come back to
baseline without getting stuckin a chronic cycle of illness.
So like if you eat something oryou get sick, but you can come
back to baseline.
You're.
You're still healthy, you'renot chronically sick.
So in that situation that'd bea person who's on their chronic
or a constitutional remedy andyou take it regularly if you're
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not sick.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's right, yeah, and we'll talk about that.
Okay, great.
So, um, so this, you know, theIZIaga way is it just makes more
sense to me and, um, and sothat's why I adhere to that.
So the lesion level is whereyou're looking at the disease
and this is where most of usspend our time in homeopathy.
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So so there's the lesion level.
So Asiaga, um, you know, taughtin layers.
He had the layers method.
So you have the lesion, thelesion layer, the fundamental
layer, and then yourconstitutional.
And I think there were more,honestly, I think there were
more layers in Asiaga, but I'mnot an Asiaga expert, so, but
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those are, they're three, andactually I have on my radar to
teach some layers here on thepodcast a little bit later.
So if there's a pathology, wealways address that first.
Always that's the thing that'son top, that's the presenting
issue, right?
So it's the most importantthing for the body's immune
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system.
Therefore, it's the mostimportant thing to address.
We have to get rid of the, wehave to clear the pathology so
that the person can get to thefundamental layer which is their
general remedy that they needat that time in their life.
It's not their constitutionalremedy.
So Dr Murphy taught.
He really hung out on thegeneral remedy.
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You need your general remedy,take your general remedy, and so
the fundamental is your generalremedy that you need right now
in your life and it just kind ofgraphs on top of the
constitutional.
So you're, you are, I'm goingto get there.
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So the constitutional state iswhat you were born with and
we're going to, I'm going totalk about that.
Is this getting confusing?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, this is good.
I mean, I am sure it's going tobe confusing to people who this
is the first time you've heardthis stuff.
This is actually really puttingsome bricks in place for me,
and I've heard Melissa talkabout this a hundred thousand
times, probably to some degree,not this extensively.
So this is actually.
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Things are falling into placefor me, but just know that
there's been all those otherhundred times I've listened to
this constitutional stuff andnot been able to place it
completely.
But no, you're a.
This is a great explanation.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know, I think, also for those that choose to
come to the full course, we'regoing to go into a lot more
detail, right?
So this, you know, this is just.
This is a podcast episode togive you a basic understanding.
And so if someone has adiagnosed disease, it is
pathological, so, like diabetes,is an example Underneath.
That is the fundamental.
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So constitutional yourconstitution is your genetic
makeup.
It's what you were born with.
You can't change it.
These symptoms, these symptomsare not removable.
So that's how you know what'syour constitution and what's not
your constitution.
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You can't remove those, thethings about a person's
constitution.
So go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Okay, so if you didn't see Melissa, you heard
her.
She did quotes around symptomsthat are not removable.
Okay, Does are you saying whata another term for symptoms
there be, like characteristics?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yes, so like body type, skeletal build, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So symptom is not always meaning a pathology like
a sickness symptom.
We're just saying a symptom iswhat's presenting.
That's right.
Yeah, okay, thanks foranswering all my millions of
questions.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I love it.
So symptoms are signs.
Right, we teach that in classesall the time.
Symptoms are signs, and so thesigns of your constitution are
your body type, your skeletalbuild, hair color, eye color,
skin color, skin texture, gender, genetic strengths and
weaknesses, basic food desiresand aversions, general
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susceptibilities, even yourbasic temperament or personality
type.
So it's what you were born with, essentially what your DNA
codes for, or your genotype, oryour genotype.
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So let's give, when you thinkabout Calc Carb, the remedy you
think about the Calc.
If you go and read Calc Carb inyour Materia Medica, think
about the Calc Carb individual.
They are shorter than mostpeople, broader.
Their skeleton is broad.
Slow metabolism, laid back,methodical, slow development.
Slow metabolism, cold-blooded,chilly, prone to constipation.
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And then the calc carbs.
Opposite is sulfur.
The sulfur is tall, slim,stooped, fast metabolism, desire
sweets, prone to diarrhea andwarm-blooded.
So if your father was analcoholic, that weak liver is
passed on to that child.
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So that child has aconstitutionally weak liver.
He was born with that.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And you would say that even if they weren't
symptomatic in like a negativeway, is that just an?
That's something you know fromtheir big picture.
You know inherently that'sprobably something they have.
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I think you could.
Yes, you could.
You know, I think normally wecould find that's fair.
Yeah, I mean because you, wedefinitely inherit those things,
so right.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We've seen that happen.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Your parent was alcoholism and then you were
conceived in that alcoholism,that you know they have a weak
liver.
And so then, yeah, your livercould also be weak.
And so someone else might havea lot of, yeah, might eat a
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really bad diet, have a lot ofsuppressed anger, eat a lot of
sugar and junk food, thenthey've acquired a weak liver.
That's fundamental.
Okay, so two people with a weakliver one was born with it or
inherited it.
That's their constitution.
The other one acquired itbecause of their choices, and
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that's fundamental.
So you can look at somebody'sphysique Did you get a question?
No, that is really cool.
So you can look at somebody'sphysique and make a rudimentary
calculation, um, like it's likea hint towards what this
person's constitution may be.
It's not complete, but you cansee a calc carb, you can see a
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sulfur, um, and I'm going totalk about some of these
physical characteristics in afew minutes, but it can, just it
can be a hint towards that.
So I've referenced Asiaga.
So he was Dr Francisco XavierAsiaga.
He was from Buenos Aires,argentina, and he lived from
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1923 to 2001.
Argentina, and he lived from1923 to 2001.
And he suggested that there arebasic four constitutions, and
that's calc, carb, sulfur,silica and phosphorus.
Then later he added possiblylycopodium.
Okay, so this is really cool.
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Think about Laurel and Hardy,so you youngins might not know
who Laurel and Hardy are.
Do you know, bree?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean, are we talking about?
No, I'm not going to say thatbecause that might embarrass me.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, I don't Old, old black and white TV show.
I definitely saw it on TVsometimes when I was a kid.
I didn't like it or want towatch it, but I think maybe my
grandparents were watching it orone of my parents or something.
I don't know.
But Laurel and Hardy was.
It was a TV show, Do you?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
see them.
Yeah, okay, I recognize them,okay, yep.
So if right now you'relistening to, this is so good.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This is such a good example right, if you're
listening to this or watchingthis, go and google laurel and
hardy.
And so oliver hardy is um is anextended calc carb physique.
So you see the the short fatguy was Cal Carp, stan Laurel,
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who could be a nice silica.
He was.
He was pretty bashful and timidand shy.
If you watch the, you have towatch the show to see how he
behaved.
And that was his, his onstagepersonality, right.
So that was his, his onstagepersonality, right, so that was
his character in the show.
So the basic idea is that bothof these physiques so that you
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know, um, um Laurel was tall andslim, um, and so the.
The basic idea is that both ofthese physiques can accumulate
remedy layers on top of theirhealthy constitution.
But you could never give aremedy that would change that
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individual's physique, theirphysical structure, right, when
you're a constitutional calccarb, you might be shorter and
broader and you know a littleflabbier and whatever, and
you're not going to change thatUm, you know outside of, you're
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not going to change that withnatural ways anyway.
So then that base um physicalstructure is what Iziaga would
term as the constitutional levelremedy.
Okay, so constitutionalremedies.
Remember Iziaga said four,maybe five, and so calc carb.
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To describe calc carb, andremember, in the full class
we're going to go into moredetail about these remedies,
what they look like and all thatand when you would use them.
So the calc carb is short,square.
You know, this might be theprofessional weightlifter,
football player big, bulky guyswith thick, short, strong arms
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and a neck, but the torso issquatty, square and strong.
The phosphorus tend to be tall,slim, fast metabolism.
Their teeth can be triangularin shape, especially the canines
, the pointy canines.
We see those especially inchildren, but sometimes we see
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those in adults too, and thosecan be long distance runners,
marathon runners.
And then sulfur is whereeverything tends to be
particularly harmonious.
So they're not too slim, nottoo broad.
Sulfur is what a lot of peoplethis is just like your middle of
the road, normal, everything iswhat's my word?
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Proportionate, right.
So then silica is thin, paleand frail, with a large head and
then like a podium.
If we you know, if we're goingto adhere to that like a podium,
if we're going to adhere tothat like a podium is a
constitutional remedy, then theycan be thin, with a big belly,
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the face is pale and yellow,deeply furrowed and looks
elongated.
So just remember, if you're onone of these remedies right now
and you don't fit the physique,it's because we're not using the
remedy for your constitution.
We're using the remedy for afundamental or a pathological
layer.
Okay, all right.
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So you're.
You know, looking at you, brie,you're not a calcarb, but you
might need calcarb at some pointin your life, right?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, yep, I'm following.
I'm just keeping my mic on incase I need to ask a question.
I realized I was muted, so Ididn't want to not be able to
ask it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right.
So Dr Murphy um in hisrepertory.
So if you have Dr Murphy'srepertory you can look at it
right now and you can see underthe constitutional remedies he
lists seven metals asconstitutional remedies.
So let's confuse you a littlebit more, right?
I mean, this is just different,different ways to look at it.
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So we believe that Dr Murphychose those because of his
chemical background and he saidthat it silver, mercury, copper,
iron, lead and tin are allconstitutional remedies.
And he also stated in hisSeaholm course that
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constitutional remedies are mostoften minerals.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So is he the?
He's the only one who thinkslike are those in addition to
those other constitutionalremedies?
Is he the outlier here whothinks that's different?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Is the outlier.
You know, like that's what hedid.
Right, he was like yeah, heabsolutely thought different,
and I mean pretty genius.
So you know, when he sayssomething, I'm like I want to, I
want to listen to that and payattention to that.
So, so the constant.
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So constitution is the mostmisused word in homeopathy.
I hear it all the time, all thetime.
Well, are you going to give memy constitutional remedy?
Or how do I know what myconstitutional remedy is?
And I definitely don't meanlike I don't.
I didn't mean to make thatsound like y'all are so stupid.
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I don't mean that at all,really at all.
I didn't mean for it to evenlook or sound that way, but it
is the most misused word.
So when the average homeopathsays constitutional, they mean
fundamental.
And so if you say a person is anap mirror, they need nap
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mirror because they had grief.
That grief was acquired intheir life.
They weren't born with thegrief.
That grief was acquired intheir life.
They weren't born with thegrief.
They can tell you when they gotthe grief.
So they're not a NatMirror,they just need NatMirror right
now.
Okay, so environment versusgenetics is what you've acquired
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in life versus what you wereborn with your environment is
what we acquire the things inour environment and the things
that happen to us, and that'sthe difference between
constitutional and fundamental.
So constitutions can be builtup, but not changed.
We can strengthen them, we cancan keep them strong, but we
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can't change them.
Fundamentals and pathologiescan be changed.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We can clear those layers off and so sometimes you
can see the constitution throughthe fundamentals that are there
maybe, but not always like, aresome people?
So if you're just looking atphysique for constitutional
maybe so is is it just physiquethat you primarily base these on
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, because I know there's so muchmore to remedies than just
physical build right, no, notphysique.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So looking at that list of um, remember the, the
gender, um, genetic, basic, fooddesires, so all those things
that we, when we take an initialcase right, the initial
consultation, we ask, pretty, we, we know we end up finding out
all these things.
So very often I can seesomebody's constitutional remedy
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in the beginning.
Sometimes I can't, and that'sokay, and we're going to get to
it, right, so I'll figure it outat some point, all right.
So your constitution is youroriginal framework.
Your genetic makeup is who youare.
Your genetic makeup is who youare and how you lived your life
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brought things on top of that,right.
So amendments, so theseamendments are fundamental,
pathological, acute andemergency layers.
If you're helping someone'sconstitution or, you know,
addressing someone'sconstitution, that person has to
be healthy.
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And this is that one little,this, one little sentence, this
is what I say all the time.
The constitutional remedy, orthe constitutional state, is
your healthy state.
That's our goal in homeopathyis to get back to that state.
You're healthiest, thehealthiest that you can be while
you're here on this earth.
So there's nothing else toaddress in the constitutional
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state, because all thefundamentals have been cleared,
all the diseases have beencleared.
And then you know, therapeutics, acutes and emergencies are all
cleared away.
So there's nothing left buttheir genetic makeup.
So there's nothing left buttheir genetic makeup.
So when we get to thatconstitutional state and you're
giving the constitutional remedy, it's also a good idea to give
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cell salts and herbs and maybeyou know, in your constitutional
remedy to boost yourconstitution to its optimum so
that the person it's likemaintaining the healthiest state
that you can be.
Now, I'm not an herbalist, so Idon't usually suggest, I don't
tell people what herbs to take.
I don't because I don't, I'mnot, I don't know enough.
So if you want to take herbs, Ithink herbs are great, but you
need to go, you know, do yourown research or work with
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somebody who knows which herbsyou need, when or what.
But cell salts are homeopathicremedies and that's you know.
Cell salts are great to helpmaintain, along with your
constitutional remedy.
So your constitution is avitality barometer.
So you are fixed with this.
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Again, this is your geneticmakeup and as things happen,
stressors happen in life we get,so Dr Murphy would call them
dings, d-i-n-g-s.
Ding, ding, like somethinghappens.
You get an accident, you have agrief, you have a loss, um, a
stressor.
You have a stressful job,childbirth, an illness, whatever
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you get a ding.
So then you have a ding andthat then can lead to it can
start to drain you.
So this is why, if you get inan accident but you feel fine,
you know like.
Or you, you twist your ankleand you're like, oh, I'm fine,
you know, um, or you have alittle cold and you're like, oh,
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I'm fine.
This is why we, I usehomeopathic remedies, even if
it's not terrible, because Iwant to address the ding before
it grows Right, because it juststarts then.
Then your energy just keeps.
Dr Murphy would teach yourenergy would just keep going
down and down and down, becauseyou didn't address the dean and
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our constitution should berunning at 80 to 90%.
When you, when your energy isleaking, so to speak, so
basically, when you're puttingout more energy than you can
recoup during sleep, then youstart to really go into energy
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debt.
And how many people are inenergy debt these days?
We are so busy, right?
So fatigue, you you knowchronic fatigue.
So things that drain us are baddiet, emotional stress, stress
at work, taking care of otherpeople, you know elderly or
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children, so just like pouringyourself out to other people are
things that drain us and andthen, as you are being drained,
your vitality, your health kindof goes down and and then layers
start being built on top rightso you start getting pathologies
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or things start start happening.
So we remove all of thosethings and then, when the person
is healthy and built up, thenwe come in with herbs and
exercise, diet, cell salts toboost the constitution and
prevent Okay.
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Constitutional prescribing ispreventative medicine and
maintenance.
That's really the basic of it.
So if you in the full course,if you haven't taken the full
course yet, or if you you know,if you're watching this later
and you you haven't taken it yet, or if you you know, if you're
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watching this later and youhaven't taken it yet, or if you
are interested in coming to thelive one when we teach it.
We are going to go into a lotmore detail about the remedies,
the potencies, frequency ofdosing.
We're going to talk aboutlayers more in more detail the
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layers of a person's health, umunderstanding the different
layers, prior prioritization andtreatment.
Um.
Constitutional prescribing indepth what defines a
constitution, morphologicalobservations, which is using the
physical traits to infer theconstitutional type.
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So we're going to talk abouthow you can do that other than
just looking at a person.
Historical perspectives ofconstitutional prescribing and
fundamental and pathologicalprescribing.
So we're going to go into thatin this course.
We're going to talk aboutfundamental remedies,
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pathological remedies and I'llpresent some case studies to you
and then practical strategiesfor case taking, for the
chronological case analysis andwhen to prescribe for the
chronological case analysis andwhen to prescribe.
We're going to talk about toolsto maintain and optimize your
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constitution, diet, lifestyle,prevention strategies, and then
we'll conclude with a live Q&Aat the end so that you can get
all of your questions answered.
So come to the live course.
That information will be on mywebsite.
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You know timing, you know howyou can register.
All the things will be there.
So did you think of anythingelse, bree?
Any other questions or thingsthat I should share with people?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
No, not for this.
I think there is so much morethat we could talk about.
I know, even for myself I'mthinking through cases that I'm
working through now and alreadyyou know, processing through all
those things but I think thiswas so much information to
enough to really get people'swheels turning, Um, but also,
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there's so much more.
There's just so much more wecould do.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, love it.
Thank you for asking goodquestions.
This is why I love, because youknow you're, this is why I love
having you with me here andthat you're, you're coming into
this hopefully, like you know,like a lot of the listeners, and
you think of questions maybethat they would have.
But listen, if you have aquestion and you want to ask it
(38:30):
in the fan mail part on the,it's on the Buzzsprout.
It's not on my website, it's onBuzzsprout.
So that link, that link issomewhere, I'll find it.
I'll put it in the show noteshere.
So, yeah, so you can go andfind fan mail.
(38:52):
And speaking of fan mail, let'sread this last one before we go
.
So and I know this is going tobe a great question for you to
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answer, brie, so this one isfrom Fort Worth, texas, and she
asks what does the natural wayof birth control look like if
you are irregular and stillnursing?
I have some thoughts, but I'dlove to hear what your thoughts
are.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I actually would love to hear yours too,
because this is a bit of.
I wouldn't say there's astraightforward answer here.
Number one I want to know areyour periods irregular Because
you're like meaning you've beenbreastfeeding and they're just
coming back, or have they alwaysbeen irregular?
For somebody who's always beena regular, I mean natural birth,
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I would probably do.
I think natural family planningis by far the best option
because you're not messing withyour hormones.
You can use other forms ofnatural birth control if you
want, like other forms ofprotection, but in that case, if
I was always irregular beforeand had a really unpredictable
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period starting, I would do thestuff like your basal temp in
the morning, doing ovulationstrips, making sure you're
keeping up with if you're reallytrying to prevent.
If your periods are juststarting to come back and
they're just not regular yet, Imean I still think I would do a
lot of that stuff.
Mine were very regular so Icould gauge by other things,
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even like cervical mucus, howI'm feeling discharge.
There's a lot of other ways youcan tell around your ovulation
time and I would start trackingthat immediately after having a
baby, because sometimes you canovulate and not have a period
for a little bit after having ababy.
So those were things I wasreally aware of and tracked
(40:52):
right away.
But if you don't know that,there are still a lot of great
ways you can track your body'sregularity.
Otherwise, you need to get yourhormones taken care of.
If you're really irregular, youcan still be on good remedies
to get you regular, even whileyou're nursing.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
What would you say?
Yeah, so from the homeopathicstandpoint, it's what symptoms
are presenting, you know what,what does it look like for you?
So 10 people could post thissame question to get 10
different remedies.
So I need to talk to the personand so I love I would be doing
all the things that you said,bree, right, because you need to
be be careful if you don't wantto get pregnant yet, and and so
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you need to track things andand use other forms of
protection that are you know,that are natural and safe.
But then for for homeopathy, Imean, yeah, we've got our
biggest hormone remedies, but Idon't know if those would be a
good fit, you know.
So we'd really have to look atthe person.
What do they?
What does it look like for them?
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What does it feel like?
What's their mental, emotionalstate?
There's so much to look at.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah for sure, and then you can move into more
successful, probably naturalfamily planning.
I would never, ever, ever usehormonal birth control again.
Serious conditions and hormonalbirth control that we're just
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starting to see from people myage who were started on it when
they're 13, 14, 15 years old,and now what we're seeing as we
enter perimenopause and intomenopause, and those are things
that there are links to how awoman moves through that, from
having ever taken it, even whenher, if she never did, in her 20
or thirties.
So it just sticks with you.
It just it disrupts them sodeeply that it may not show up
(42:48):
till you're 45, 50 years old,but it still is.
It messes with you and I mean,if you've listened long enough,
you know how we feel about it,so I'm just going to leave it.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And that's an acquired right.
That's an acquired thing.
You, you took a, and that's anacquired thing.
You took a, we took a hormonalbirth control or, you know,
messed with our hormonesartificially, we acquired issues
in our hormones and thenhomeopathy can change that.
So if you're listening to thisand you're like, oh no, I took
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birth control, you know, 10, 15years ago, Just come on, we're
just going to use homeopathy.
And you know, clean up yourdiet and clean up your.
You know your cleaning suppliesat home and we know that what
you breathe in, the fragrancesand things, those can mess with
your hormones.
So just baby steps, startcleaning it up.
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Use homeopathy.
We can change that, we can getit back to normal for you.
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That answers your question.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, Great, great podcast.
We'll look forward to seeingyou guys next time.
Look for details of the fullcourse on my website and in the
show notes.
All right,
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, I am super excited to talk about
constitutional remedies.
We get this question all thetime, don't we?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
All the time, from all kinds, both sides too,
practical side and classical.
So I am looking forward to this.
It's one that I think overlapsboth worlds.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Before we do that, I want to read this fan mail, and
so sorry, bree, that I didn't.
I forgot to mention this to youbefore.
Let me get over here, so I have.
So so if you listening to thispodcast right now, if you're on
(00:51):
the Buzzsprout website, you cantype in questions to me, and it
looks like I don't know what itreally looks like, but it's
something like a text, almostlike you're texting me, but it's
not coming straight to my phone, it's going to what's called
fan mail, and so then we seethese questions and then we can
answer them and talk about them.
And I want to try to rememberto answer fan mail every time we
(01:16):
do podcast episodes.
So if you have a question andyou ask it, you should expect to
, in the future, hear an answerto it.
So this one is from St Louis,missouri, and he or she says I
have a question aboutchelodonium.
From your podcast, youmentioned that it is good for
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menopause.
Well, obviously this is a she.
Then you mentioned that it'sgood for menopause 6x, one to
two times per day.
What purpose would it serve andwhy would it be good for
menopause?
Um, so am I going to put you onthe spot.
If I ask you what do you think?
Why do you think breathe Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I have some thoughts.
I'm going to look in themateria medica just to see if
there's actual like stuff I canread to you, but also just
knowing what I know about thefemale body.
Chelodonium is a huge liverremedy and the liver directly
affects your hormone levels.
So just for that reason alone Iwould think that plays a big
(02:19):
part.
Um, I'm just trying to see ifthere's anything just in the
Materia Medica I could give youright off the top Well, it's not
off the top of my head, but inhere.
I would really say though Okay,so for female it has some
irregular menses, menses toolong, um, burning, otherwise
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there's not a lot just forfemale.
But when you look at the liverI would encourage you to do that
it does have some appetitethings which could be a big deal
for some people, bladder thingswhich during menopause can be
an issue.
What are your thoughts?
Anything you'd like to add?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think that's it.
It's just it's.
Chelidonium is a huge liverremedy and, um, our you know our
hormones, um are, what's theword?
Bree, uh, processed, um, what?
What is the?
What is the liver's role inhormones?
It it's if your liver isunhealthy, your hormones are
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likely to be unbalanced, and, um, vice versa, probably.
So it's just really common thatwhen you go into menopause, um,
your livers is can be prettytaxed at that point.
Okay, I have it for youTechnical terms.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, I have it for you Technical terms.
The liver plays a critical rolein regulating female hormones
by primarily metabolizing andbreaking down excess estrogen,
progesterone and androgens,essentially acting as the body's
primary site for eliminatingthese hormones once they're no
longer needed, thus maintaininghormonal balance.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
There you go the liver can lead to hormonal
imbalance because it can't clearthe hormones from the blood
system.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
There you go.
The liver can lead to hormonalimbalance because it can't clear
the hormones from the bloodsystem.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So you go there, you go.
So you know.
But another big symptom ofmenopause is, um, sleep gets
very disturbed.
And, and chelodonium, becauseit has a great effect on the
liver, it really helps sleep.
So a lot, a lot of women andmen, when I, you know, when I
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choose Chelidonium for a man whoI know has a liver issue and
sleep issues, it's just reallyhelpful.
So there's that one At the, ifI remember, at the end of this
podcast episode, we'll readanother fan mail and actually,
bree, that would be a reallygood one for you to answer as
well.
So the, the question is and onthe, the thing that I did for
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tonight, but anyway, in acuity,it's in acuity, okay, it's an
acuity, okay, all right.
So what I'm gonna do is talkabout constitutional prescribing
and, um, again, we get thisquestion all the time.
(05:19):
So at the 2025 homeopathyRetreat, I taught this class
live to the ladies there.
What's coming next is anopportunity for you all to join
me in a live teaching on Zoomfor everybody else for the
(05:42):
public, on Zoom for everybodyelse for the public.
So if you're listening to thismuch later, you know, months or
years later then the recordingwill be available to you on my
website, but you know as ofright now what we're doing is.
I want to give you a taste ofwhat the full course is going to
be like and what you're goingto learn, but I also want to
(06:03):
just explain to youconstitutional prescribing.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, so can I ask a question before you even open?
Yeah, who would this maybe befor?
Could a beginner like I'mhomeopathy 101, I've only maybe
taken gateway one or I've doneyour um mentorship program,
where would you?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, I truly believe anybody any level, because this
is not advanced stuff, not likemy asms.
You know, my asms is prettyadvanced, um, so it's not like
that.
And but even if you're brandnew and you're like, uh, I don't
you know why, do I even need toknow this?
It's very interesting and thequestion is going to come People
are going if you work with ahomeopath, there's different
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ways to practice, and people are.
You're going to hear it andthen you're going to wonder, oh,
wait a minute, what's myconstitutional remedy?
I need to be on aconstitutional remedy and so you
need to.
I think it's good for everybody, every level.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, and I even think, even if you're not
practicing classically I putthose two together this is still
good information and reallyuseful.
These are really usefulremedies.
And even thinking the directionof somebody's constitution can,
I mean, I think, be a good nota good segue, that's not the
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term but a good path sometimesto consider.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yep, I agree.
Okay.
So what I want to do is just gothrough a couple of basics
about constitutional prescribing.
So homeopathic remedies affectthe vital energy and the
constitutional vitality of theperson.
(07:53):
So constitutional prescribingis good for people who are not
sick.
There's your key right there.
So in classical homeopathy, theterm constitutional means the
remedy that matches the totalityof symptoms.
(08:13):
Today, let me say that again,in classical homeopathy, the
term constitutional when they,when classical homeopaths use
the word constitutional remedyor constitution, they mean their
constitutional remedy is theremedy that matches the totality
of symptoms.
So the whole person today, theway Brie Hurlburt presents to me
(08:37):
today, right now, that would beyour constitutional remedy for
the classical homeopath.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Can I ask a question?
Yes, if it's today, does thatmean it can be different
tomorrow or two months from now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Exactly.
Yes, in classical homeopathy,the constitutional remedy and
the constitution can change,change.
So, um, iziaga and I'll I'll hewas, uh, um, I'll I'll tell you
exactly who he was.
Later, iziaga definesconstitutional as your healthy
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state, um, how you are whenthere's no problems, again, when
you are not sick, so how youfunction at normal capacity.
Okay, so, so class.
So it's opposite, iziaga says,and Murphy say something
(09:36):
different than the classicalhomeopaths?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh, okay, so even there's disagreement here on
what a constitutional remedy is.
Yes, okay, so of course thereis.
Of course, like everything else, the more you know, the more
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Great, Okay.
So there's a bit of a yeah, um,a disagreement here.
So a classical constitutionalwould be the remedy that matches
the totality of the symptomstoday.
Right, and it's completelychangeable.
So I adhere to Iziaga'sdefinition of constitutional
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remedies in states.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, which would make sense, because a
constitution I mean.
Then why would you have theterm constitutional remedy if
it's changing all the time?
It's just a remedy that fitsyou today.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Exactly.
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Also.
I want to just really.
I also really do want to say Iam not here to put down
classical homeopaths.
It's just different.
There's just a different way tothink and a different school of
thought.
And so if you're a classicalhomeopath listening to this or
you're working with a classicalhomeopath, this is not to say
that they were wrong or stupidor anything like that.
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So in classical homeopathy,they call the fundamental remedy
the constitutional remedy andthey call the constitutional
remedy the constitutional remedy, and they call the
constitutional remedy theconstitutional remedy.
So so Iziaga says that thefundamental remedy is different
than the constitutional remedy.
(11:15):
Okay, so so Iziaga teaches, ortaught, that you would get rid
of the fundamental remedy state.
That's where we are right now,bree.
You and I and everybodylistening to this and watching
this is in their fundamentalremedy state.
You have pathology, most likely, you have disease, you have
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things wrong and that's whyyou're lying homeopathy, because
you have things wrong.
So we're going to address thatfundamental state Before we get
to the constitutional state.
I saw your wheels turning.
Were you going to say somethingelse?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I mean I.
Is it possible, in your opinion, for someone to ever reach a
constitutional state?
Are you going to get there?
I feel like I'm going to askyou questions ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, no, I'm not, no, that's not.
That's a great question and um.
So I believe I've pretty muchalways said no, like you, we
always have.
We don't, you're, we're notwhole, right and completely 100
healthy until we reach ourheavenly home.
There's not.
(12:33):
Yeah, you're on earth, we'renot, there's not a.
So, anyway, but I do haveseveral clients that I've worked
with for several years and theyfeel like there's nothing wrong
, there's no pathology, there'snot a symptom, there's not
something we're addressing, sothey are on their constitutional
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remedy.
So I've had several clients whowere like I'm good, I don't
have anything wrong with me thatI want to address, so they're
on their constitutional remedy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay.
So we're not talking likeperfection you never get an
acute illness or your body'salways perfect every day but in
okay I'll put in this together.
So what I consider a healthyperson is a healthy body that
can encounter disruption, is ahealthy body that can encounter
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disruption, encounter acuteillness and then come back to
baseline without getting stuckin a chronic cycle of illness.
So like if you eat something oryou get sick, but you can come
back to baseline.
You're.
You're still healthy, you'renot chronically sick.
So in that situation that'd bea person who's on their chronic
or a constitutional remedy andyou take it regularly if you're
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not sick.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's right, yeah, and we'll talk about that.
Okay, great.
So, um, so this, you know, theIZIaga way is it just makes more
sense to me and, um, and sothat's why I adhere to that.
So the lesion level is whereyou're looking at the disease
and this is where most of usspend our time in homeopathy.
(14:07):
So so there's the lesion level.
So Asiaga, um, you know, taughtin layers.
He had the layers method.
So you have the lesion, thelesion layer, the fundamental
layer, and then yourconstitutional.
And I think there were more,honestly, I think there were
more layers in Asiaga, but I'mnot an Asiaga expert, so, but
(14:29):
those are, they're three, andactually I have on my radar to
teach some layers here on thepodcast a little bit later.
So if there's a pathology, wealways address that first.
Always that's the thing that'son top, that's the presenting
issue, right?
So it's the most importantthing for the body's immune
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system.
Therefore, it's the mostimportant thing to address.
We have to get rid of the, wehave to clear the pathology so
that the person can get to thefundamental layer which is their
general remedy that they needat that time in their life.
It's not their constitutionalremedy.
So Dr Murphy taught.
He really hung out on thegeneral remedy.
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You need your general remedy,take your general remedy, and so
the fundamental is your generalremedy that you need right now
in your life and it just kind ofgraphs on top of the
constitutional.
So you're, you are, I'm goingto get there.
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So the constitutional state iswhat you were born with and
we're going to, I'm going totalk about that.
Is this getting confusing?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, this is good.
I mean, I am sure it's going tobe confusing to people who this
is the first time you've heardthis stuff.
This is actually really puttingsome bricks in place for me,
and I've heard Melissa talkabout this a hundred thousand
times, probably to some degree,not this extensively.
So this is actually.
(16:04):
Things are falling into placefor me, but just know that
there's been all those otherhundred times I've listened to
this constitutional stuff andnot been able to place it
completely.
But no, you're a.
This is a great explanation.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know, I think, also for those that choose to
come to the full course, we'regoing to go into a lot more
detail, right?
So this, you know, this is just.
This is a podcast episode togive you a basic understanding.
And so if someone has adiagnosed disease, it is
pathological, so, like diabetes,is an example Underneath.
That is the fundamental.
(16:41):
So constitutional yourconstitution is your genetic
makeup.
It's what you were born with.
You can't change it.
These symptoms, these symptomsare not removable.
So that's how you know what'syour constitution and what's not
your constitution.
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You can't remove those, thethings about a person's
constitution.
So go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Okay, so if you didn't see Melissa, you heard
her.
She did quotes around symptomsthat are not removable.
Okay, Does are you saying whata another term for symptoms
there be, like characteristics?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yes, so like body type, skeletal build, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So symptom is not always meaning a pathology like
a sickness symptom.
We're just saying a symptom iswhat's presenting.
That's right.
Yeah, okay, thanks foranswering all my millions of
questions.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I love it.
So symptoms are signs.
Right, we teach that in classesall the time.
Symptoms are signs, and so thesigns of your constitution are
your body type, your skeletalbuild, hair color, eye color,
skin color, skin texture, gender, genetic strengths and
weaknesses, basic food desiresand aversions, general
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susceptibilities, even yourbasic temperament or personality
type.
So it's what you were born with, essentially what your DNA
codes for, or your genotype, oryour genotype.
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So let's give, when you thinkabout Calc Carb, the remedy you
think about the Calc.
If you go and read Calc Carb inyour Materia Medica, think
about the Calc Carb individual.
They are shorter than mostpeople, broader.
Their skeleton is broad.
Slow metabolism, laid back,methodical, slow development.
Slow metabolism, cold-blooded,chilly, prone to constipation.
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And then the calc carbs.
Opposite is sulfur.
The sulfur is tall, slim,stooped, fast metabolism, desire
sweets, prone to diarrhea andwarm-blooded.
So if your father was analcoholic, that weak liver is
passed on to that child.
(19:12):
So that child has aconstitutionally weak liver.
He was born with that.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And you would say that even if they weren't
symptomatic in like a negativeway, is that just an?
That's something you know fromtheir big picture.
You know inherently that'sprobably something they have.
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I think you could.
Yes, you could.
You know, I think normally wecould find that's fair.
Yeah, I mean because you, wedefinitely inherit those things,
so right.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We've seen that happen.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Your parent was alcoholism and then you were
conceived in that alcoholism,that you know they have a weak
liver.
And so then, yeah, your livercould also be weak.
And so someone else might havea lot of, yeah, might eat a
(20:11):
really bad diet, have a lot ofsuppressed anger, eat a lot of
sugar and junk food, thenthey've acquired a weak liver.
That's fundamental.
Okay, so two people with a weakliver one was born with it or
inherited it.
That's their constitution.
The other one acquired itbecause of their choices, and
(20:31):
that's fundamental.
So you can look at somebody'sphysique Did you get a question?
No, that is really cool.
So you can look at somebody'sphysique and make a rudimentary
calculation, um, like it's likea hint towards what this
person's constitution may be.
It's not complete, but you cansee a calc carb, you can see a
(20:56):
sulfur, um, and I'm going totalk about some of these
physical characteristics in afew minutes, but it can, just it
can be a hint towards that.
So I've referenced Asiaga.
So he was Dr Francisco XavierAsiaga.
He was from Buenos Aires,argentina, and he lived from
(21:18):
1923 to 2001.
Argentina, and he lived from1923 to 2001.
And he suggested that there arebasic four constitutions, and
that's calc, carb, sulfur,silica and phosphorus.
Then later he added possiblylycopodium.
Okay, so this is really cool.
(21:42):
Think about Laurel and Hardy,so you youngins might not know
who Laurel and Hardy are.
Do you know, bree?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I mean, are we talking about?
No, I'm not going to say thatbecause that might embarrass me.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, I don't Old, old black and white TV show.
I definitely saw it on TVsometimes when I was a kid.
I didn't like it or want towatch it, but I think maybe my
grandparents were watching it orone of my parents or something.
I don't know.
But Laurel and Hardy was.
It was a TV show, Do you?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
see them.
Yeah, okay, I recognize them,okay, yep.
So if right now you'relistening to, this is so good.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This is such a good example right, if you're
listening to this or watchingthis, go and google laurel and
hardy.
And so oliver hardy is um is anextended calc carb physique.
So you see the the short fatguy was Cal Carp, stan Laurel,
(22:44):
who could be a nice silica.
He was.
He was pretty bashful and timidand shy.
If you watch the, you have towatch the show to see how he
behaved.
And that was his, his onstagepersonality, right.
So that was his, his onstagepersonality, right, so that was
his character in the show.
So the basic idea is that bothof these physiques so that you
(23:06):
know, um, um Laurel was tall andslim, um, and so the.
The basic idea is that both ofthese physiques can accumulate
remedy layers on top of theirhealthy constitution.
But you could never give aremedy that would change that
(23:28):
individual's physique, theirphysical structure, right, when
you're a constitutional calccarb, you might be shorter and
broader and you know a littleflabbier and whatever, and
you're not going to change thatUm, you know outside of, you're
(23:50):
not going to change that withnatural ways anyway.
So then that base um physicalstructure is what Iziaga would
term as the constitutional levelremedy.
Okay, so constitutionalremedies.
Remember Iziaga said four,maybe five, and so calc carb.
(24:16):
To describe calc carb, andremember, in the full class
we're going to go into moredetail about these remedies,
what they look like and all thatand when you would use them.
So the calc carb is short,square.
You know, this might be theprofessional weightlifter,
football player big, bulky guyswith thick, short, strong arms
(24:38):
and a neck, but the torso issquatty, square and strong.
The phosphorus tend to be tall,slim, fast metabolism.
Their teeth can be triangularin shape, especially the canines
, the pointy canines.
We see those especially inchildren, but sometimes we see
(25:00):
those in adults too, and thosecan be long distance runners,
marathon runners.
And then sulfur is whereeverything tends to be
particularly harmonious.
So they're not too slim, nottoo broad.
Sulfur is what a lot of peoplethis is just like your middle of
the road, normal, everything iswhat's my word?
(25:23):
Proportionate, right.
So then silica is thin, paleand frail, with a large head and
then like a podium.
If we you know, if we're goingto adhere to that like a podium,
if we're going to adhere tothat like a podium is a
constitutional remedy, then theycan be thin, with a big belly,
(25:48):
the face is pale and yellow,deeply furrowed and looks
elongated.
So just remember, if you're onone of these remedies right now
and you don't fit the physique,it's because we're not using the
remedy for your constitution.
We're using the remedy for afundamental or a pathological
layer.
Okay, all right.
(26:09):
So you're.
You know, looking at you, brie,you're not a calcarb, but you
might need calcarb at some pointin your life, right?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, yep, I'm following.
I'm just keeping my mic on incase I need to ask a question.
I realized I was muted, so Ididn't want to not be able to
ask it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right.
So Dr Murphy um in hisrepertory.
So if you have Dr Murphy'srepertory you can look at it
right now and you can see underthe constitutional remedies he
lists seven metals asconstitutional remedies.
So let's confuse you a littlebit more, right?
I mean, this is just different,different ways to look at it.
(26:55):
So we believe that Dr Murphychose those because of his
chemical background and he saidthat it silver, mercury, copper,
iron, lead and tin are allconstitutional remedies.
And he also stated in hisSeaholm course that
(27:17):
constitutional remedies are mostoften minerals.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So is he the?
He's the only one who thinkslike are those in addition to
those other constitutionalremedies?
Is he the outlier here whothinks that's different?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Is the outlier.
You know, like that's what hedid.
Right, he was like yeah, heabsolutely thought different,
and I mean pretty genius.
So you know, when he sayssomething, I'm like I want to, I
want to listen to that and payattention to that.
So, so the constant.
(27:56):
So constitution is the mostmisused word in homeopathy.
I hear it all the time, all thetime.
Well, are you going to give memy constitutional remedy?
Or how do I know what myconstitutional remedy is?
And I definitely don't meanlike I don't.
I didn't mean to make thatsound like y'all are so stupid.
(28:16):
I don't mean that at all,really at all.
I didn't mean for it to evenlook or sound that way, but it
is the most misused word.
So when the average homeopathsays constitutional, they mean
fundamental.
And so if you say a person is anap mirror, they need nap
(28:36):
mirror because they had grief.
That grief was acquired intheir life.
They weren't born with thegrief.
That grief was acquired intheir life.
They weren't born with thegrief.
They can tell you when they gotthe grief.
So they're not a NatMirror,they just need NatMirror right
now.
Okay, so environment versusgenetics is what you've acquired
(29:04):
in life versus what you wereborn with your environment is
what we acquire the things inour environment and the things
that happen to us, and that'sthe difference between
constitutional and fundamental.
So constitutions can be builtup, but not changed.
We can strengthen them, we cancan keep them strong, but we
(29:24):
can't change them.
Fundamentals and pathologiescan be changed.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We can clear those layers off and so sometimes you
can see the constitution throughthe fundamentals that are there
maybe, but not always like, aresome people?
So if you're just looking atphysique for constitutional
maybe so is is it just physiquethat you primarily base these on
(29:54):
, because I know there's so muchmore to remedies than just
physical build right, no, notphysique.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
So looking at that list of um, remember the, the
gender, um, genetic, basic, fooddesires, so all those things
that we, when we take an initialcase right, the initial
consultation, we ask, pretty, we, we know we end up finding out
all these things.
So very often I can seesomebody's constitutional remedy
(30:23):
in the beginning.
Sometimes I can't, and that'sokay, and we're going to get to
it, right, so I'll figure it outat some point, all right.
So your constitution is youroriginal framework.
Your genetic makeup is who youare.
Your genetic makeup is who youare and how you lived your life
(30:47):
brought things on top of that,right.
So amendments, so theseamendments are fundamental,
pathological, acute andemergency layers.
If you're helping someone'sconstitution or, you know,
addressing someone'sconstitution, that person has to
be healthy.
(31:07):
And this is that one little,this, one little sentence, this
is what I say all the time.
The constitutional remedy, orthe constitutional state, is
your healthy state.
That's our goal in homeopathyis to get back to that state.
You're healthiest, thehealthiest that you can be while
you're here on this earth.
So there's nothing else toaddress in the constitutional
(31:27):
state, because all thefundamentals have been cleared,
all the diseases have beencleared.
And then you know, therapeutics, acutes and emergencies are all
cleared away.
So there's nothing left buttheir genetic makeup.
So there's nothing left buttheir genetic makeup.
So when we get to thatconstitutional state and you're
giving the constitutional remedy, it's also a good idea to give
(31:59):
cell salts and herbs and maybeyou know, in your constitutional
remedy to boost yourconstitution to its optimum so
that the person it's likemaintaining the healthiest state
that you can be.
Now, I'm not an herbalist, so Idon't usually suggest, I don't
tell people what herbs to take.
I don't because I don't, I'mnot, I don't know enough.
So if you want to take herbs, Ithink herbs are great, but you
need to go, you know, do yourown research or work with
(32:21):
somebody who knows which herbsyou need, when or what.
But cell salts are homeopathicremedies and that's you know.
Cell salts are great to helpmaintain, along with your
constitutional remedy.
So your constitution is avitality barometer.
So you are fixed with this.
(32:43):
Again, this is your geneticmakeup and as things happen,
stressors happen in life we get,so Dr Murphy would call them
dings, d-i-n-g-s.
Ding, ding, like somethinghappens.
You get an accident, you have agrief, you have a loss, um, a
stressor.
You have a stressful job,childbirth, an illness, whatever
(33:07):
you get a ding.
So then you have a ding andthat then can lead to it can
start to drain you.
So this is why, if you get inan accident but you feel fine,
you know like.
Or you, you twist your ankleand you're like, oh, I'm fine,
you know, um, or you have alittle cold and you're like, oh,
(33:28):
I'm fine.
This is why we, I usehomeopathic remedies, even if
it's not terrible, because Iwant to address the ding before
it grows Right, because it juststarts then.
Then your energy just keeps.
Dr Murphy would teach yourenergy would just keep going
down and down and down, becauseyou didn't address the dean and
(33:53):
our constitution should berunning at 80 to 90%.
When you, when your energy isleaking, so to speak, so
basically, when you're puttingout more energy than you can
recoup during sleep, then youstart to really go into energy
(34:15):
debt.
And how many people are inenergy debt these days?
We are so busy, right?
So fatigue, you you knowchronic fatigue.
So things that drain us are baddiet, emotional stress, stress
at work, taking care of otherpeople, you know elderly or
(34:37):
children, so just like pouringyourself out to other people are
things that drain us and andthen, as you are being drained,
your vitality, your health kindof goes down and and then layers
start being built on top rightso you start getting pathologies
(35:00):
or things start start happening.
So we remove all of thosethings and then, when the person
is healthy and built up, thenwe come in with herbs and
exercise, diet, cell salts toboost the constitution and
prevent Okay.
(35:22):
Constitutional prescribing ispreventative medicine and
maintenance.
That's really the basic of it.
So if you in the full course,if you haven't taken the full
course yet, or if you you know,if you're watching this later
and you you haven't taken it yet, or if you you know, if you're
(35:43):
watching this later and youhaven't taken it yet, or if you
are interested in coming to thelive one when we teach it.
We are going to go into a lotmore detail about the remedies,
the potencies, frequency ofdosing.
We're going to talk aboutlayers more in more detail the
(36:05):
layers of a person's health, umunderstanding the different
layers, prior prioritization andtreatment.
Um.
Constitutional prescribing indepth what defines a
constitution, morphologicalobservations, which is using the
physical traits to infer theconstitutional type.
(36:27):
So we're going to talk abouthow you can do that other than
just looking at a person.
Historical perspectives ofconstitutional prescribing and
fundamental and pathologicalprescribing.
So we're going to go into thatin this course.
We're going to talk aboutfundamental remedies,
(36:47):
pathological remedies and I'llpresent some case studies to you
and then practical strategiesfor case taking, for the
chronological case analysis andwhen to prescribe for the
chronological case analysis andwhen to prescribe.
We're going to talk about toolsto maintain and optimize your
(37:08):
constitution, diet, lifestyle,prevention strategies, and then
we'll conclude with a live Q&Aat the end so that you can get
all of your questions answered.
So come to the live course.
That information will be on mywebsite.
(37:31):
You know timing, you know howyou can register.
All the things will be there.
So did you think of anythingelse, bree?
Any other questions or thingsthat I should share with people?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
No, not for this.
I think there is so much morethat we could talk about.
I know, even for myself I'mthinking through cases that I'm
working through now and alreadyyou know, processing through all
those things but I think thiswas so much information to
enough to really get people'swheels turning, Um, but also,
(38:04):
there's so much more.
There's just so much more wecould do.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, love it.
Thank you for asking goodquestions.
This is why I love, because youknow you're, this is why I love
having you with me here andthat you're, you're coming into
this hopefully, like you know,like a lot of the listeners, and
you think of questions maybethat they would have.
But listen, if you have aquestion and you want to ask it
(38:30):
in the fan mail part on the,it's on the Buzzsprout.
It's not on my website, it's onBuzzsprout.
So that link, that link issomewhere, I'll find it.
I'll put it in the show noteshere.
So, yeah, so you can go andfind fan mail.
(38:52):
And speaking of fan mail, let'sread this last one before we go
.
So and I know this is going tobe a great question for you to
(39:13):
answer, brie, so this one isfrom Fort Worth, texas, and she
asks what does the natural wayof birth control look like if
you are irregular and stillnursing?
I have some thoughts, but I'dlove to hear what your thoughts
are.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I actually would love to hear yours too,
because this is a bit of.
I wouldn't say there's astraightforward answer here.
Number one I want to know areyour periods irregular Because
you're like meaning you've beenbreastfeeding and they're just
coming back, or have they alwaysbeen irregular?
For somebody who's always beena regular, I mean natural birth,
(39:43):
I would probably do.
I think natural family planningis by far the best option
because you're not messing withyour hormones.
You can use other forms ofnatural birth control if you
want, like other forms ofprotection, but in that case, if
I was always irregular beforeand had a really unpredictable
(40:06):
period starting, I would do thestuff like your basal temp in
the morning, doing ovulationstrips, making sure you're
keeping up with if you're reallytrying to prevent.
If your periods are juststarting to come back and
they're just not regular yet, Imean I still think I would do a
lot of that stuff.
Mine were very regular so Icould gauge by other things,
(40:31):
even like cervical mucus, howI'm feeling discharge.
There's a lot of other ways youcan tell around your ovulation
time and I would start trackingthat immediately after having a
baby, because sometimes you canovulate and not have a period
for a little bit after having ababy.
So those were things I wasreally aware of and tracked
(40:52):
right away.
But if you don't know that,there are still a lot of great
ways you can track your body'sregularity.
Otherwise, you need to get yourhormones taken care of.
If you're really irregular, youcan still be on good remedies
to get you regular, even whileyou're nursing.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
What would you say?
Yeah, so from the homeopathicstandpoint, it's what symptoms
are presenting, you know what,what does it look like for you?
So 10 people could post thissame question to get 10
different remedies.
So I need to talk to the personand so I love I would be doing
all the things that you said,bree, right, because you need to
be be careful if you don't wantto get pregnant yet, and and so
(41:34):
you need to track things andand use other forms of
protection that are you know,that are natural and safe.
But then for for homeopathy, Imean, yeah, we've got our
biggest hormone remedies, but Idon't know if those would be a
good fit, you know.
So we'd really have to look atthe person.
What do they?
What does it look like for them?
(41:55):
What does it feel like?
What's their mental, emotionalstate?
There's so much to look at.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah for sure, and then you can move into more
successful, probably naturalfamily planning.
I would never, ever, ever usehormonal birth control again.
Serious conditions and hormonalbirth control that we're just
(42:26):
starting to see from people myage who were started on it when
they're 13, 14, 15 years old,and now what we're seeing as we
enter perimenopause and intomenopause, and those are things
that there are links to how awoman moves through that, from
having ever taken it, even whenher, if she never did, in her 20
or thirties.
So it just sticks with you.
It just it disrupts them sodeeply that it may not show up
(42:48):
till you're 45, 50 years old,but it still is.
It messes with you and I mean,if you've listened long enough,
you know how we feel about it,so I'm just going to leave it.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And that's an acquired right.
That's an acquired thing.
You, you took a, and that's anacquired thing.
You took a, we took a hormonalbirth control or, you know,
messed with our hormonesartificially, we acquired issues
in our hormones and thenhomeopathy can change that.
So if you're listening to thisand you're like, oh no, I took
(43:21):
birth control, you know, 10, 15years ago, Just come on, we're
just going to use homeopathy.
And you know, clean up yourdiet and clean up your.
You know your cleaning suppliesat home and we know that what
you breathe in, the fragrancesand things, those can mess with
your hormones.
So just baby steps, startcleaning it up.
(43:43):
Use homeopathy.
We can change that, we can getit back to normal for you.
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
That answers your question.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, Great, great podcast.
We'll look forward to seeingyou guys next time.
Look for details of the fullcourse on my website and in the
show notes.
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