Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
I am a Registered Homeopath and Lactation Consultant who loves Jesus and believes in the power of prayer in healing and restoration. God designed our bodies to heal themselves. We interfere with the body’s abilities by introducing medications which stop the action our bodies were made to do - heal! Homeopathy comes in and stimulates the immune system to help the body remember how to heal itself. ALL people are welcomed here, no matter your beliefs! I discuss mostly homeopathy here, but also I bring an encouraging word from the Lord and touch on the topics of parenting, homeschooling, marriage, and nutrition. Welcome to my world! It’s a beautiful, healthy life!
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
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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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Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa hey, melissa hey.
Speaker 2:Brie. I am so excited to talk about what and actually share with our listeners what we do when we're sick and when our families are sick.
Speaker 1:So you know, what I have seen over the years is people get kind of surprised when homeopaths get sick, because they're like wait, you're supposed to be healthy all the time, all the time, and so I think this goes back to we just talked about this. I think our understanding of healthy is skewed, sometimes, even mine, um, and I have to remember that a healthy body is not one that is never symptomatic or never encounters an acute illness or something you know, um, but like that, we can come back to baseline and come back to balance fairly quickly and well, without lingering or whatever. So, yeah, we do have, um, we do get sick. Yeah, Technically, I'm not a homeopath yet, so I can get sick. You just can't.
Speaker 2:You are a homeopath.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, here in the U.
Speaker 1:S Well, you know, here in the US, yeah, so I do.
Speaker 2:I still get you know. It still gets people get surprised when they hear that I've got a cold or a flu or something. And I just thought that it would be encouraging to people to hear what we do. I mean, I think I've even gotten that question like well, what would you do, what do you do here? Because I do a lot of acute consultations and you do some too.
Speaker 2:So in the acute consultation the difference between what I tell you to do and what I do for myself is only there, because I'm not you and I'm not with you and I can't, I don't know what's going to happen next. So when I do an acute consultation, I'm usually doing remedies every three to six hours. And I say that you know every three to six hours and I'll say one or the other. You know, take this remedy and then let me know how you're doing in 24 hours. For me I don't set an alarm at three hours and take the remedy, because I pay attention to my body and I take the remedy again when I need it. But that's often too hard for people who is deep into homeopathy, as we are.
Speaker 1:Well, and I, I do even tell people when we're telling you things to do or like it's. It's not that it's this hard rule you have to follow. If it's three and a half or four hours, it's okay. Or if you you forget to give the other dose and it's five hours later and you notice they need it again, that is okay. It's just when you're telling other people. It's easier for everyone. It's easier for them if you're just told what to do. So, yeah, I think that's very different too. I don't always do things the same, but I'd love to know. I don't even know that you and I, I think we probably know what the other one does because we've observed over the years. But I would love to know when you, I think I know what you do, but what about for your family, um, are you really on top of things? Or do you find that we're really good at telling other people what to do? But then, when it comes to you, are you like?
Speaker 1:I forgot, I'm not, I haven't taken anything.
Speaker 2:I'm really good at telling everybody else what to do. Yeah, you know, for my family. If somebody's sick, well, and then you also have to keep in mind that my children are 17, 19 and 28. Right, true, um, so I'll tell. But but you know, when they're sick in bed and they don't feel good, I'll take. I'll take them remedies. But they usually will have to ask because I'll be busy, I'll be working or cleaning or something, and then they'll text me and say I need some more remedy. Well then I'll take it to them. But I don't keep an alarm going and say, oh, you need some more, you need some more. I just, yeah, I give it to them when they ask for it. So that's kind of the same thing. When my body asks for the remedy, again I give it.
Speaker 2:So you know, let's just take a flu, for instance. You know, as soon as somebody comes and says my throat's really dry, I give the remedy that's indicated at that moment and that's probably. You know, it might be throat calm. It also depends on the person. So I know that my daughter is faramphos, I know that my daughter is faram phos, I know that my youngest son is phosphorus and I know that I'm, I'm usually throat calm. I mean, if I've got a sore, dry throat, throat calm is usually my first go to and and then I might not. I might not just I might not do four 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 they say you know, I have a headache and so I'm like oh, oh yeah, I forgot, you had a sore throat.
Speaker 2:How's your throat feeling, you know like. But if they're really sick in the bed with a fever or whatever, then I'll do as I'm checking on them and I'm like, you know, how are you, how are you feeling and what are you, you know, what do you feel like? I'll ask the questions what do you feel like right now? What does that feel like? Or I can just observe that. You know, my son is asking for ice cold drinks. All right, you can. You need some phosphorus too, you know.
Speaker 2:So, um, so for my family, yeah, it's just really laid back. Um, it's really as the symptoms present. I don't waffle, so I don't want to sound like that. I don't waffle between remedies because I don't know what to do. It's just yesterday you had a dry, sore throat. Today you don't have that today. Is you know? Um, what a fever and a cough or whatever. So I I changed the remedies based on the symptoms and and we expect for their energy to come up. So I'm not trying to turn this into an acute like learn how to treat acutes, but in my family and myself, I'm really laid back. What about you?
Speaker 1:Um, I would say the same and I've kind of always been that way. Anyway. There were a few times that I got a little freaked out about things when my, mine were babies and mine are younger, so mine are um, nine, a couple of days seven and four, and just recently, okay. So I'm trying to think through that. They got sick one after the other over the week of Thanksgiving and we had family in town. So I think in the past that would have been super stressful. But one of them just started feeling like didn't have an appetite, was the thing I noticed. I didn't do anything, I just noticed he didn't really eat much and that night he went, he wanted to go to bed during dinner and he threw up and how he was warm. He had kind of a fever. So I gave him, um, I think, noxvamica and Belladonna. That's probably what I did If he had a fever.
Speaker 1:I always do Belladonna in our family 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 I started using Belladonna and I love it, so I usually start them on that and that either kind of knocks them out, they go to sleep, and it did for him. But he woke up a few more times throwing up and it kind of. The next day he woke up and said his throat was sore and then he had really like a lot of sinus congestion. So I changed remedies for that.
Speaker 1:So by the time the same thing happened that next day for my older son and then the third boy he's the youngest, so by that time I was much more on top of it, like my the first kid. I kind of waited until he acted sick before I even was paying much attention at all. And then my older son got it and I kind of did the same thing. I gave him a couple remedies and let him go to bed and by the time it was our third, he's four. He told me his mouth hurts, like he doesn't know, or his neck. He said his neck hurts, I guess he doesn't know what his throat is. And I knew at that point okay, I'm like all right, I'm just 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 way the other two did. So I do think I you know when you have it happen in cycles by the third. I you know when you have it happen in cycles by the third.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'm a little more proactive, um, but outside of remedies, I try to like cut back on sugary junk, like feed them well, make sure they're eating better foods. Um, not it like resting, I mean in bed a little bit more, or I'll let them watch more TV than normal. So they don't. They are little boys. They will get up and run around and then feel awful. They don't feel good. So I have to. I don't want to force them, but I do kind of like just we stay in here and just rest for a little bit.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you brought that up, though, because I do that for sure when, when I'm sick or there's. You know well, let's say this when 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 to make it. But if it's one, if it's anybody else, even if I'm sick, I'll get in there, because it's so easy. I'll get in there and make the meat stock, and so that is something outside of remedies I will absolutely do is have the meat stock and and. And yeah, I love what you're saying about rest. It's so important to rest and you know and I think also, having used remedy, having used homeopathy for 25 years, that it's it's easier to be relaxed about it, because I'm not brand new at learning this. I'm sure back in the beginning I was not as relaxed about it, and my kids are older. So you get there right, it gets easier.
Speaker 1:I do remember feeling like it was really overwhelming to know what remedy to pick and I would spend so long like trying to look through my notes and Googling something and figure out like, what do I use. So I absolutely think I feel much more comfortable picking remedies. But also just I think, before I'd pick a remedy, try it, and then I would be thinking about like, okay, I'm going to watch and see if it works. So my brain is always so wrapped up in what remedy do I pick? I give the remedy, then watching, is it working? Is it not working working? Do I? Should I do a different one? And now I just give it and let it go.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty confident it's gonna do something go about your yeah, go about your life right, 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 just had. What, if we think about and it might be, it might be easier for you because your kids are younger than mine Um, what is, what do you do when you're, when your children are young, and you're studying homeopathy? Where do you go? Where do you start? You know, when your children are young and you're studying homeopathy, where do you go? Where do you start? You know, when you don't know the remedies yet, you've just started studying, or you've been studying for a little while and you're like, all right, well, I have, you know, these notes from classes and I have these books, but in the middle of it it's just hard to think where do you start? What do you do?
Speaker 1:in the middle of it. It's just hard to think where do you start? What do you do? Okay, well, what I did do for a long time is I would start Googling things. That took about 85,000 years to ever feel like I picked the right thing. And then I felt like I never had enough remedies. I never. I would be like, well, I don't have that one and it. That got frustrating, because I would feel like I buy remedies and then I'd never have the one that I need. And it wasn't until your gateway class that I had learned kits even existed.
Speaker 2:So really Well, I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 1:I just found them at the store. So I would just like buy what was at the store. I didn't even look on Amazon, I just bought what I saw in the store for the thing Like I, I didn't even look on Amazon, I just bought what I saw in the store for the thing Like Melanoma said for fever, so I'd buy that. So I mean, I was the person who, like people, ask to help you at the store because they're like do you know what you're looking for?
Speaker 2:And I'm like no, I don't.
Speaker 1:So what I, what I wish I would have known. And if you are listening to this, if it's possible to invest in a kit, do it. The kit usually comes with a little pamphlet and that little booklet will tell you. It will have like a little mini repertory. It'll tell you for a cough or flu or whatever, do this remedy and you just do it, just try it. Yeah, um, that's not what I did. Googling. You're going to find a hundred different things. It's going to be really hard to go through. They overlap so much and then you don't even know what remedy you have. We're in the kit, you have those from what you have and use a little book that comes with it. That is probably what I would recommend for a total newbie and truly and I'm not just saying this to try to sell something to you guys I, when I started doing acute consults with you for my kids, even after being in gateways for a while, it wasn't just that you did the work for me, I was also learning, like observing how often are you asking me to dose or um the remedy combinations and potencies that you're suggesting and um when to change in the questions you're looking for and asking I learned so much about how to even do that from you, from you taking, like, doing the acute consult for me.
Speaker 1:I really am not. I don't want to be the person who's like do this because it's our business. You know like it really is helpful to learn you're treating your family, but you're also learning so much about how you would do it in the future that you will build confidence. I don't know. What are you? What do you think? Is that what you'd suggest?
Speaker 2:So you just, yeah, absolutely. You can definitely learn from an acute consult and I love when people ask me why did you choose that remedy? I will absolutely answer that question when I can. So what I said in class the other night is, for the most part, most of the time. I can tell you exactly why I chose it. Sometimes it was just you know, maybe it was, maybe it was just been past experience or a thought, you know and. But I can confirm it now. It's not like I'm just woohooing, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2: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 I was like I didn't. Even early on on I didn't even know what a materia medica was no, I didn't even know that was a thing.
Speaker 1:So the little booklet I was like oh, okay, well, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, this matches. You know this looks good and so and you're right, that's so good the kit comes with usually. So you, you really do want to get a kit that comes with the little booklet that tells you how to use the remedies in it and at some stores they have them, like the little boyron book is typically at the store where they sell boyron remedies.
Speaker 1:So maybe if your kit doesn't have one, you could always grab one of those. Those are free, but I feel like most kits come with something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I definitely. So. I don't follow a tight schedule and I hope this isn't confusing or discouraging to those who have done or will do acute consults. When I tell you to do every three hours, it's only because I can't predict what's going to happen when, so it's just a guideline.
Speaker 1:Right, right. And typically when people are coming for an acute consult, the illness has progressed enough that it's a little bit more severe. Severe meaning like the symptoms are more uncomfortable, like most people aren't coming for just a really mild cold, they're coming when it's turned into like a sinus infection or I have a. Now I'm really uncomfortable and have a high fever and body aches. So that's also why you're stimulating more often that mood.
Speaker 1:Um, but that is something I have found does work well every three hours for that first initial 24 hours, to kind of like get things moving. I started to do that more with my kids, I will say, even if their symptoms aren't severe, I've noticed it like pushing that through a little faster. Nice, I will give you a little secret for myself, and I've told you this, melissa I will not take anything, any remedies, if I feel myself getting sick. I without I haven't.
Speaker 1:Actually, in a long time now that I'm thinking this through, I haven't had any real sickness in a long time but when I do, or when I was getting them, I know that when I take remedies, especially for a flu, it burns its way through me and I'm better the next day almost every time. But I will go like that's going to knock me out, and so I will clean my house, I'll make meat stock and I'm like slowly going downhill and I'll wait as long as I can to like my husband's make meat stock and I'm like slowly going downhill and I'll wait as long as I can to like my husband's home from work and I know I'm going to take that remedy and I'm going to need to go to bed Like it's going to knock me out, so that's something I'll do for myself.
Speaker 1:I will not take a remedy unless I'm ready to go to bed, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, um, um. That's a really great point too, is that that it's a really good sign when the remedy makes you 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 people are just paying attention to the cough, the, the mucus, the fever.
Speaker 1:It's so fun. You and I are opposite. I just you. Oh my word. This woman taught a whole day class with the flu. Who takes Yosemite? Almost good as new, like you couldn't even tell me. On the other hand, almost good as new, like you couldn't even tell me. On the other hand, if I take one dose, I am literally like I have to go right to bed. Within 15 minutes I will be asleep.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's funny. Yeah, I hadn't thought of that either. Well, I hope that this was actually encouraging and not confusing, and if it did bring up more questions for you or anything. Comment.
Speaker 1: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 about remedies. We've been using them long enough. I think we don't need maybe as often or as much stimulation during acute illness, as we haven't suppressed things for a long time. What other things? So we mentioned meat stock, we mentioned rest. Do you add any other supplements like vitamin C or NAC, zinc or you know?
Speaker 2:Electrolytes yeah, electrolytes. I don't do vitamin C and I've never taken NAC, zinc, glutathione, I don't know all the things that people come and say they're doing. This huge list of things, and I'm not judging you if you do that. I just feel like it's too much for me. 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:No, I think I would agree with you. I I think the people do a lot of stuff, but, um, I will say over time, I just haven't found it as necessary. Like it's not, like I consciously thought I'm not going to do all those things I used to have like a humidifier and all, like the chest rubs or like the nasal sprays that are even the natural kinds, um, the nebulizer stuff with colloidal silver. I used to have all that on hand cause my kids got croup a lot. Um, but I have, over time, I haven't needed any. The other night, I don't even think I told you one of them woke up, had that barky cough following that illness. They all got congested and one woke up with that croup sound. I gave him one round of that protocol, the croup protocol we use, and previously I would have had to turn the hot shower on.
Speaker 1:You would have of the remedies. I just didn't need all of that. So, um, don't, I think we'll. You know people ask us the. Typically that stuff isn't necessary. You might use more of that early on in remedy using. Like when I first started using homeopathy, I still did need some of those other supports, like the steam shower and like all that stuff and but over time the remedies work so well I haven't needed. I have a whole cabinet of stuff I don't use. That's true.
Speaker 2:I didn't even I didn't even think about that either. That, um, you know, in the meat stock I'm not even positive that I need it. I like it. It feels good when you're getting nourishment when you don't want to eat and the electrolytes are in the meat. Stock right, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1:Well, at least minerals, you're getting minerals and hydration, and there is nutrition. There's fat in there. I mean it's so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it tastes so it's like so good. Yeah, and it tastes so it's like so good, yeah, yeah, awesome. It was helpful to somebody we got to.
Speaker 2:Oh, I do want to say something else, because I just looked down and saw my little um organic mini candy cane. I've been eating these things and it reminded me that people um have recently been coming, you know, and and I'm doing acute consults, and then a few days into it I realize they are using some kind of cough drop with mint or eucalyptus um in it and I'm like, darn it. So we, I think, in acute. So you, if you've listened to me before and you've learned anything from me ever before, you will probably have heard I don't worry about mint, I don't worry about any of that stuff, but in an acute situation I I will stay away from it. I will stay away from mint and eucalyptus tea tree oil. Are there any others? Camphor I'll stay away from during acute illnesses.
Speaker 1:So look, at your Chest rubs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the chest rubs. Yep, if you like cough drops or whatever, you have a favorite one, get one that doesn't have that stuff in it, and so this is actually my favorite. It's lemon, ginger, echinacea throat coat.
Speaker 1:Do those have that licorice flavor that the drink does?
Speaker 2:Let's see. I hope I'm not telling you wrong. Let me see what's in it. Let me see what's in it, let me see. All right, so it's got active ingredient.
Speaker 2:Okay, inactive ingredient what what is in this thing? Okay, here it's got ginger extract, lemon essential oil, sweet. Yeah, that's it. It is literally just ginger and lemon. I mean it's got other stuff in it, but it does not have. No, it doesn't take like licorice, not this one. So this one is this one. If you like to suck on something for your throat, this one's not going to mess up your remedies.
Speaker 1:That is really good to know. I'm going to start recommending that to people. I don't think I knew they had, like, made a contract. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have it right here because when I talk too much I start getting froggy and so it helps with that. But yeah, if you're feeling like um, you know like you need some help, you've got a cough or something you need to calm down. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:All right, okay, you guys got to know us a little better, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let us know in the comments if you have any questions or if you're confused. I really was hoping this would be encouraging. You know that over time especially, I think what the end message is over time, you're going to get get. It's gonna get easier, faster, you'll be more relaxed, it's not gonna be so complicated and and scheduled, and you know all the things with that. People stress out about remedies. So hang in there, you're gonna get there, yeah.
