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
Peeling the Onion: The Art of Constitutional Prescribing
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Constitutional prescribing stands as the crown jewel of homeopathic practice – the art of understanding not just what symptoms a person has, but who they truly are at their core. This brief yet illuminating episode pulls back the curtain on this profound healing approach that transforms how we view chronic health issues.
Melissa explains that your constitution represents your "factory setting" – the genetic blueprint, personality tendencies, and susceptibilities you were born with. The beauty of constitutional prescribing lies in recognizing how life experiences create layers over this core self. Through a compelling example of a child whose calc carb constitution gains a pulsatilla layer after a frightening separation, we see how trauma literally changes our health patterns, food desires, and emotional responses.
What makes this episode particularly valuable is its practical application. Parents struggling to understand their child's behavioral shifts, practitioners hitting walls with chronic cases, and anyone experiencing the frustration of remedies that "stop working" will find clarity in the layered approach. The episode offers a tantalizing glimpse into how constitutional prescribing transforms healing from scattered guessing to systematic confidence.
Beyond the mechanics of remedy selection, constitutional prescribing touches on deeper dimensions – how trauma leaves layers in our bodies, how our spiritual walk influences our health, and how physical features like hand-to-palm ratios reveal our core constitutional type. This integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing sets constitutional prescribing apart as truly holistic medicine.
Ready to master this approach yourself? Melissa invites listeners to join the Inner Healing Circle for access to her comprehensive Constitutional Prescribing Masterclass. With visual aids, layer flow diagrams, morphology guides, and case studies, this course equips you to support yourself and loved ones through every health transition. Because true healing isn't about fixing symptoms – it's about supporting the whole person, layer by layer, back to their authentic self.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey Melissa, hey Brie. So today we get to do a little episode for you guys. That's really special. It's a teaser into one of the most transformative tools and probably the most requested to learn about in homeopathy, and that is constitutional prescribing. So whether you're a parent and you're trying to understand your child's shifts in behavior, or a practitioner wanting to go deeper with your chronic cases, hopefully this episode will be helpful and our goal is to give you a sneak peek into the wisdom behind constitutional prescribing, how to get there, the structure and the beauty behind the layered healing using homeopathic remedies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is going to be a really short episode because you know we did a full constitutional prescribing podcast episode a while ago. But even that podcast episode is not a complete learning of what you can do. I mean it's so deep. So I wanted to come again and just do a little bit of explanation into what constitutional prescribing is and you know, talk about the layered thinking and and just also invite you to join my the inner healing circle where you can be a part of the live teaching. If you catch this episode before the live teaching happens, if you catch the episode later, it's recorded and it's in the Inner Healing Circle. So the Inner Healing Circle is where you get access to all of my courses that I've ever taught and all the courses that I'll ever teach. I add them there and it's got a lively, amazing community and we're both in there just having community and it's so fun.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about what constitutional prescribing is. Then we start with the basics. What is a constitution? And so in homeopathy, your constitution is your core. It's your genetic blueprint, your personality tendencies, your morphological structure, so your hand to palm, palm to finger ratio. I'm going to teach all of that in the class in very much detail your general susceptibilities, think of it as your factory setting. So it's what you were born with. Dr Samuel Hahnemann spoke of miasms, or inherited tendencies towards disease, and I have a miasms course in the Inner Healing Circle. Later, homeopaths like Antoine Nebel Iziaga and Dr Robin Murphy expanded on this, adding the idea of layering, so how one remedy state can be laid over another and how true healing involves peeling back those layers to reveal the core. I often talk about this when I talk to new clients and I explain we're peeling an onion. So that's what constitutional prescribing is all about. It's not just treating symptoms but getting to the root of who someone is and supporting them through every phase of their life.
Speaker 1:So I already find myself thinking of questions, conversation topics. We get questions on this a lot, so those are the things that we will discuss in the inner healing circle, because it is really deep. So I'm already thinking, I'm excited to talk about this some more. So let's talk about why most chronic cases do need that layered thinking approach, and this is something I've seen, and I mean, if not every chronic case, most of them, a vast majority, and I would think the same for you, melissa is never just one remedy, just one remedy.
Speaker 1:So let's say, a child may start out as a textbook calc carb or calcarea carbonica, that slow, methodical, they might like eggs, very structured, so they start there, but then they have a scary experience and now they're clingy, weepy, never thirsty. That would be a pulsatilla layer on top of the original calc carb core. So that is one very simple example. But in the course you're going to walk through exactly how to identify those transitions, what we call etiology, and how to know whether you're dealing with a constitutional layer or an acute episode or a recovery remedy to bring the body back into balance after an illness or a trauma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know some of the tools that you're going to learn in the course. The full course, I believe it's 10 modules and we're going to take two modules per week when we meet live. We're going to do two modules per week, and so some of the tools you're going to learn are that you just don't. Well, I'm not going to just throw theory at you, right, and this constitutional prescribing masterclass is really what it is. We're going to take our time and go through this and really learn it.
Speaker 2:You're going to get visual aids comparing the top constitutional types. Layer flow diagrams to understand how a remedy state shifts over time. Morphology guides to help you read faces, hands and body types. Case study worksheets to help you map out layered cases for clients or your own family. Interactive matching games and quizzes to deepen your remedy knowledge in a fun and engaging way. You're going to learn how to use this in everyday life, not just in a clinical setting. So imagine knowing how to support your child through emotional changes, growth spurts or recovery from illness without scrambling for remedies. That's what this course is all about.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have never wanted to go back to school until I'm here about this class. This stuff gets me excited. Okay, so a real life case teaser. So this is maybe an example of what you are going to work through in the course. Which rabbit trail as I do? Course, which rabbit trail as I do?
Speaker 1:This was the type of work that helps me learn so much in your mentorship course. This is what was helpful. What does this look like in my actual life? How do I do this? Because, like you said, there's so much theory out there. I read the idea, but I don't know what that means for me and my family.
Speaker 1:So here's a quick example of what we'll explore in the case study portion of the course. You have a six-year-old boy who looks like the classic cult carb constitution, but after a stressful separation at the store, his behavior shifts. He becomes clingy and emotionally sensitive. Over time, his food desires change, his susceptibility to ear infections increases. Now he matches a pulsatile state. So, similar to what I mentioned before, you're going to learn how to take that case, so even know how to ask the questions. To get to what I just told you Identify the layers of and treat what's the most active today, but without losing sight of that core blueprint for that little boy. So that approach isn't just what remedy fits right now. It's about understanding that whole the narrative arc of healing, and once you can do that it really changes everything, true.
Speaker 2:And this is why. So this little little case teaser, it's real life case teaser, real life case, that little incident. Two things quickly. Number one, in the, in the event of a shocking or stressful separation you know between for anybody, or accident or whatever. This is why I say you need to take a remedy. Take aconite or Ignatia or Arnica, whatever fits, because had this little boy gotten aconite, he could have. We could have prevented this whole change.
Speaker 1:Whole layer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, and so also as parents. You see what happened here. He became clingy and emotionally sensitive and then over time his food desires changed. So these changes come about sometimes really slowly, where you don't even recognize it. All of a sudden one day you're like what Where's my happy, little free, you know, fun-loving child that used to be? Remember, when he used to be so happy and just free and didn't worry about things. And now he does. So you kind of might not see it happening in the moment, and then all of a sudden they're in a pulsatile state.
Speaker 1:So, which is why I mean when you're taking a case, don't you think I see people have that connection when we're talking through something and we'll talk about that and ask like, well, when did this start, when do you remember this starting? And they'll say, oh, this happened whatever time, or they'll just talk and I'm like, okay, so this sounds like it was about the same time as this, and they'll then put it together. So understanding that sometimes it does take an outside person, I think when you have so much going on. But it's really incredible to see the links when you go back like that, to where some of those started.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely. I love seeing the lights come on when I'm talking to a client and they say that's when it started, you know. So one of my favorite parts about teaching constitutional prescribing is showing how homeopathy touches not just the body but the soul, and so we're going to talk about emotional healing, how trauma leaves layers just like with this little boy and how even our spiritual walk can affect and be affected by our health, and vice versa, your spiritual walk can affect your health. So you know just, it really depends on where you are in your walk and your beliefs, so how partnering with the Lord through prayer and reflection can help us recognize the emotional blocks keeping us from full vitality or health. These are some of the things that I love to integrate and, of course, they're going to be integrated into the course. It's how, what does this look like spiritually and how can we pray into this and be healthy? Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1:So who is this course for? This course is for you if you are a parent who wants to go deeper than acute use of remedies, you're a student or a practitioner wanting more confidence in chronic cases. Maybe you're somebody who has seen remedy after remedy work but feels like it's temporary, or those remedies you know stop, quote, unquote, stop working. Or if you're really just ready to understand yourself, your loved ones, the circle that you're in at a deeper level so pretty much anyone. This course will help you move from scattered guessing to systematic confidence. So instead of thinking what in the world do I try next Two. I understand what's happening here and this is what I can do about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I want to personally invite you, as you're listening to this, to join us inside the inner healing circle, where you're going to be able to join to be a part of the live teaching of constitutional prescribing. Again, if you catch this before we actually teach it live, if not, if you see or hear this later, teach it live. If not, if you see or hear this later, then it's recorded and you're going to gain a lifetime access Well, lifetime, as long as you're a member.
Speaker 2:The membership is $35 per month and it includes all the courses, like I already said, and then this specific course, the Constitutional Prescribing Masterclass, has 10 modules printable worksheets, remedy visuals and case studies. Plus, when you join the Inner Healing Circle community, you're going to get access to live Q&As at least three per month. Three per month meetings where you come and ask whatever questions you want, and I'm there. You'll get exclusive bonus content and a supportive space to learn and grow. You can go to joinmelissacrenshawcom and you can join anytime, and then remember that true healing isn't about fixing symptoms. It's about supporting the whole person, layer by layer. So I hope to see you in the inner healing circle.
