In this podcast, we cover:

01:00    Introduction: Top Summer Homeopathic Remedies to Have on Hand

03:11      Apis mellifica

04:40    Ledum palustre

06:22    Urtica urens

08:26    Cantharis

09:30   Glonoinum, China (Cinchona officinalis) and Bioplasma®

            Ditch the Gatorade and Make My Sons’ Homeopathic Electrolyte Drink

            JoetteCalabrese.com

11:06   Rhus toxicodendron, Antimonium crudum and Anacardium orientale

11:55    Calendula

12:31    How to learn more

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 147, 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®.

Introduction: Top Summer Homeopathic Remedies to Have on Hand

Kate: (01:00 )

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette today.

Hi, Joette!

Joette:

Hi Kate. How are you?

Kate:

Good. I’m excited because we are going to be talking about summer remedies to have on hand for things that you do in the summertime (like go to the beach, go camping).

And so, we’re going to give the listeners today some important remedies that they might need for things that occur during being out in the sun or getting bug bites. So, let’s get started.

Joette:

Let’s.

Kate:

So, I thought we would start with, Joette, the remedies that you would have on hand for all emergencies. And there are many probably, right? Because I always talk about how I bring too many remedies when I go anywhere.

But some of the top remedies you would say to have on hand for any emergency, no matter the season, are what?

Joette:

So, let me first say that I don’t think you can have too many remedies with you when you’re on a vacation or a trip or a weekend or a picnic. I always say. “She who has the most remedies in the end, wins.”

Kate:

Right. And I always say, “We buy remedies instead of shoes.”

Joette:

Right, exactly. Yeah, because they last forever. You never wear out a remedy. Can wear out shoes.

So, yeah, this is a great topic because it’s, of course, timely. Summer’s coming up, and we want to know what remedies to have on hand before an accident occurs, before a bug bite, before a sunburn, et cetera, et cetera.

So, it’s really one of the main aspects of learning homeopathy is being prepared, right? As a mom, as a grandmother, as a scout leader, as a teacher, you want always to be prepared. So, of course, it’s important to have as many remedies as you feel comfortable carrying around and carrying with you, given the season and given the possibilities.

Now that we’re talking about summer, then, we can also add the summer conditions such as burns, sunburn, or even a burn from touching a hot coal at the grill at the picnic site. So, we want to be prepared for all of those eventualities as well.

Apis mellifica

Kate: (03:11 )

So, I’m going to mention a few, Joette, and then maybe you could talk about why you would bring that remedy with you.

So, let’s start with Apis.

Joette:

Well, Apis is called Apis mellifica. It’s specifically made from a honeybee; meaning homeopathically, it’s derived from a honeybee. So, hence, it’s great for bee stings. Doesn’t have to be a honeybee; it could be a wasp, could be a hornet, could be anything like that.

But really, what’s most important is that it shows … the way we know to use it is that it presents as hot and swollen and maybe even water-filled, you know, kind of edematous.

So, it’s a great remedy for extreme pain, burning pain — just like an insect bite would be painful — a stinging burning pain. And it swells up and it can be hot to the touch, or a person is experiencing the area as hot.

It can be a great medicine for any of those kinds of bites that are not itchy. These are not itchy bites; these are painful bites. “Stings” is really a better way to put it.

Kate:

And bonus, is that Apis is a great remedy, also, for an allergic reaction to something. So, you …

Joette:

Hives. Yeah, can be used for hives. Yes, absolutely.

So, let’s say you’ve gone to a picnic. It’s a big family picnic, and you didn’t realize that your child was allergic or would respond to red dye. And Aunt Martha brings a cake with red dye in it, and your child has some. Your child ends up with hives. Apis can be useful for that as well.

Ledum palustre

Kate: (04:40 )

And I know, Joette, you mentioned using Ledum as well for bee stings. So, that’s another option to have.

And there’s a couple of uses that I can think of and reasons why you would want to have Ledum as well. Can you talk about that?

Joette:

First of all, let me say that I like to use Ledum in a 200 potency, but if all you’ve got is a 30, you use what you’ve got. But 200 seems to be the most valuable for when there is any kind of puncture and a puncture wound.

Now, an insect does make a puncture wound. Essentially, it’s injecting its stinger into your skin. So, it is a puncture wound of sorts. But also, if someone were to step on a rusty nail at the picnic or they were to get a sliver stuck in their finger from climbing a tree, Ledum is one of our best medicines for any time that there is a wound that is more like a puncture than anything else.

And it can relieve not only the potential for an infection, if used properly in conjunction with other medicines, as well, but it also will help keep any poisons that might be associated with it at bay.

Kate:

And also, those nasty tick bites, right?

Joette:

Oh yes, that’s probably what you were getting at. Those tick bites.

Kate:

Yes, those tick bites.

Joette:

Yea