Podcast 143 — Health Fears: The Power of Assessing Symptoms (Without Unnecessary Tests)

In This Podcast, We Cover:01:00   Introduction: Health Fears: The Power of Assessing Symptoms (Without Unnecessary Tests)01:19   When Should I Use a Remedy? 02:10   What Could Be Extrinsic?10:30   Routine Tests Fuel Fear.12:29   Using Symptoms to Determine Illness (Not Tests) Additional Resources:Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)PracticalHomeopathy.comGateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group CurriculumFind a Practical Homeopath® (for consultations or for educational study groups led by my Discovery Ambassadors)Joette’s Mighty MembersKate:This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 143, with Joette Calabrese.Joette:Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.So, for the next few minutes, let's link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.This is the medicine you've been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.IntroductionKate: (01:00)Hi, it's Kate! Joette and I are back for another podcast.Hi, Joette.Joette:Hi, Kate.Kate: We're going to record this because we were just having a conversation, and we thought it was so good that you wanted the listeners to hear this. So, let's get into it. This is just off the top of our heads, and we're just going to have a conversation about what to do.When Should I Use a Remedy?Joette: (01:19)Should I use a remedy for this? Should I not use a remedy? Should I ignore it? Should I live with it? Should I allow it to pass naturally, et cetera. I think that's kind of what the upshot of this conversation was. Wouldn't you say, Kate?Kate:Yes. And that's something that you talk about in your Mastery™ program because we have a whole lesson on “Is It Normal?” I think that is something that most people wonder and have fear about.“Is this normal?” “I'm experiencing this thing, is it normal?” “Is it something I should be concerned about?” “Is it something I should take a homeopathic medicine for?”Joette:“Be tested for this?” “Should I be checked for this?” “Should I be worried about this?” “Can I assume that if it's (on a scale of 1 to 10), a 4, now that it's going to go to an 8, it'll progress that it could get worse.” “I could die from this?” (Whatever “this” is.)What Could Be Extrinsic?Joette: (2:10)Alright, so let's go back to Kate, because you had mentioned to me that you had this sensation in your chest. And my first thought always is, what could be extrinsic? What could be from the outside coming in?And, of course, diet matters, food matters, but that's not what I was thinking.I was thinking that I know, Kate, that you were taking a medicine (a homeopathic) for appetite, right? To curb your appetite?Kate:I was, but I actually stopped taking that a while ago.Joette:Oh, okay. Okay. So, my first thought is in looking at that medicine — at any homeopathic medicine — if we have new symptoms, then my first thought is it's likely the medicine — the homeopathic medicine.Kate:That's a good point because I actually did stop taking that medicine because I had a new symptom. Now, I don't know for sure if it was from that medicine or not.Joette:We don't know. We don't know. All we can do is, yes, check it out. That's right.Kate:Yes. But I did stop taking it, and I haven't had that symptom since. So again, it could be, or it could not. But it wasn't a medicine that I absolutely needed to take.Joette:No, you were kind of testing it out. “Let's have some fun with this. Let's see if this will work for me and see if it reduces my appetite, et cetera.”So, that's always my first thought, is what's coming in. And if there is, whether it's a conventional drug, whether it's a vitamin, a supplement (which are, by the way,