Category: 2016

For my family, homeopathy and home schooling are a lifestyle, but I recently realized that I’ve been remiss in combining the two!  Homeopathy was a part of our lives long before home schooling. Except for a couple doses of Tylenol my oldest received when she was an infant, my kids have never taken pharmaceutical drugs.  From infancy, they’ve all simply taken homeopathic remedies when needed, so I never did much explaining, and they simply took what was offered.

I’ve started to remedy the situation by going into more detail about homeopathy and why homeopathic remedies are superior, in most cases, to pharmaceuticals.  I’ve also started teaching them how the body works and why suppressing symptoms is so harmful.  Fevers are one of the easiest illnesses to explain.

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Belladonna is one of those words that are fun to say with a big, exaggerated Italian accent!  It means “beautiful lady,” and in fact, it was actually used as a beauty aid long ago.  Women would put drops into their eyes to dilate their pupils and achieve a glassy stare they considered beautiful and seductive.  Considering that belladonna’s other name is deadly nightshade, the practice definitely wasn’t particularly safe!

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The first half of 2016 has been quite an eventful year on many fronts.  Here at my home, we’ve had quite the round of medical issues!  I dealt with a horrible sinus infection, spring allergies, a bout of hand, foot, and mouth disease, and we followed all of that up with constipation with one of my kiddos!  Whew!  I used homeopathy for all of it and I will be doing future blogs on the other issues, but today I’ll delve into how I handled the hand, foot, and mouth virus.

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Hello, Friends!  Welcome!

This is a subject that has been on my mind a lot for the past several weeks due to the circumstances of two families that I’m acquainted with.  One family lost their three year old daughter a few weeks ago and the other is fighting for every precious day they have left with their 1 year old.  My heart aches every time I think about what they’re enduring, so I’d like to use this space to talk about grief and how homeopathy can help.

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I recently listened to a fantastic interview with homeopath Joette Calabrese.  She said something that really struck me and I wanted to expand on it because I think that this simple thing can mean the difference between success and failure when making the switch to natural healing methods.  I don’t have her exact words so I’m very much paraphrasing, but here’s the gist of what she said:

You can’t just decide you want to use natural remedies and leave it at that.  If you don’t educate yourself and prepare ahead of time, you’ll fall back to what you already know when faced with illness.  For pretty much everybody, this will be conventional medicine.

So if you wait until your child has a fever and you’re still afraid of fevers, you’ll use that fever reducer.  If you aren’t prepared and have a plan for the next time you get the flu, you’ll reach for those over the counter flu medications.

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