In This Podcast, We Cover:

01:00    Introduction: Chronic Fatigue Through the Lens of Practical Homeopathy®

01:31    “Syndrome” Sounds Scary

02:23    Challenging the “One Size Fits All” Definition of Chronic Fatigue

04:55    Practical Homeopathy® Offers Medicines to Consider

07:15    Is a Conventional Diagnosis Necessary or Even Helpful in This Situation?

09:19    When Might We Use the Protocol for Chronic Fatigue?

10:25    Closing Advice

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Joette’s Learning Center

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

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Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 151, 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: Chronic Fatigue Through the Lens of Practical Homeopathy®

Kate: (01:00 )

Hi Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Today, we have a subject that I think a lot of people encounter, and that is chronic fatigue.

We just had a long conversation about it, and you have some amazing insights of how people can think about chronic fatigue, because that diagnosis can sound scary. But it can also be a little misleading and not help us to get to what we should use homeopathically.

So, can you let us know how we should think about it if we hear the words “chronic fatigue?”

“Syndrome” Sounds Scary

Joette: (01:31 )

Well, often, it’s called “chronic fatigue syndrome, which means that there are other aspects to the condition other than just the fatigue.

Kate:

Well, and it makes it sound scary too, right? “Syndrome.”

Joette:

Yeah, syndrome, I know.

But syndrome doesn’t necessarily mean that.

It means that there are a couple of additional conditions that are associated with the main condition — kind of like satellite conditions.

In the world of Practical Homeopathy®, knowing the name of a condition or a diagnosis can be useful. After all, there are well-established protocols for many ailments. But sometimes those labels can be misleading, especially when they come from a medical, a conventional or a functional medicine approach.

And they might sound super-precise, but they often fail to give us the true nature of what’s going on so that we can make a good decision on choosing a homeopathic medicine.

Challenging the “One Size Fits All” Definition of Chronic Fatigue

Kate: (02:23 )

Well, today we’re going to challenge some of that thinking and those intimidating diagnoses, Joette.

So, help us to reframe our thinking when we hear chronic fatigue or chronic fatigue syndrome, and how do we zero in on the symptoms that really matter?

So, help us to know how do we think about it? How do we frame our thinking so that we can dial in on and find a correct homeopathic medicine?

Joette:

Sure. Well, chronic fatigue. There is a protocol — and there is a Banerji protocol — for chronic fatigue, and you’ll find other protocols as well for chronic fatigue, in general.

But what’s probably more important in this particular situation is what’s happening in that person’s life?

Is this a person … let’s say a woman who just had her third baby, and the baby was born, say, five months ago. And she still feels fatigued after the birth.

We’re really not even supposed to feel fatigue after a birth. We should feel exhilarated, but she’s feeling fatigue after the birth.

We can call that chronic fatigue, but there’s an underlying hormonal issue here.

How about people who eat a lot of carbohydrates? They have Kix for breakfast with skim milk, and then for lunch they have a peanut butter sandwich, and then for dinner they might have a little protein with rice or pasta on the side. And they have chronic fatigue, thinking nothing of those kinds of meals that could be potentially causing a fatigue that’s related to what they’re eating.

And then what about someone who has just come out of surgery — say, a month ago — and ever since then they’ve been fatigued?

Well, first of all, surgery is like World War II on your body. That’s a big deal. You’re being generally anesthesed. You are being cut open! You are being given an antibiotic. You are given an anti-inflammatory, steroids afterwards, et cetera, et cetera. There’s so many drugs: tranquilizer to fall asleep because you’re restless after.

And many times, people are normal. They have a normal amount of energy until they have surgery.

So, it could be the shock of the surgery. But it could also — and this is super common — be a result of the number of medications that they were given. And it may not even be the sheer number (although that would be certainly a priority to consider), but it could have been one particular drug that did it.

We don’t know which one it was. Maybe it was just the general anesthesia. And ever since then, the person is fatigued in hindsight.

Practical Homeopathy® Offers Medicines to Consider

Joette: (04:55 )

Now, I’m going to attach some medicines to this. Because in that situation, we might consider Phosphoric acid, where with a mom who had her baby months ago and who still has fatigue, we might consider Sepia.

For someone who’s had a lot of pasta and breads and carbohydrates during the day, you might want to consider Helonias.

But then, let’s go to another condition. How about anemia? What if the chronic fatigue is low-level anemia, and that simply wasn’t tested?

How about someone with chronic insomnia? Now, that would make sense of course, that you’re going to be fatigued if you’re not sleeping properly.

But sometimes the person is getting eight hours, but they’re broken up because they go to bed; they fall asleep; then they wake up; then they fall asleep again; then they wake up; now, they’re up for two hours; then they go back. So, the sleep is broken up, so their rhythm is off. That can cause a concern. And then in that case, we’re talking about perhaps something like Coffea.

And then how about if it’s chronic fatigue resulting from depression? Sometimes people don’t even recognize that they’re depressed. They feel low, loss of interest in life, loss of interest in their work. They have no desire to strive, and they’re fatigued, and they just feel, “I don’t know, I just don’t feel up to it.” That could be something like, for example, Aurum metallicum.

Or how about this? How about just dehydration, living in a hot climate where they’ve perspired a lot. And they’re drinking, but they’re not drinking enough. Or they’re drinking, but they’re drinking only water. They’re not drinking anything with electrolytes or any salt added, and so they’re losing minerals as well. So, they’re dehydrated. In that case, we might consider China.

And how about overstudy? Let’s talk about that one. A lot of times people get fatigued — students get fatigued — from over-studying, staying up too late, thinking and thinking and thinking and memorizing and trying to put to memory many, many concepts into one brain in a short amount of time … say, cramming for exams. In that case, we’re going to consider something like Kali phos.

So, chronic fatigue is really an umbrella for what could be