Ask Me Anything About Homeopathy S1E3

Answering Your Questions About Homeopathy: Pets, Protocols, and Alternative Remedies

In the third episode of Holistic Health Guide, Kathryn Berg, a classical homeopath with over 20 years of experience, answers various questions about homeopathy from a prior webinar. The episode covers topics including treating pets with homeopathy, recommended resources, understanding homeopathic protocols, and handling specific conditions. Kathryn also shares alternative methods for administering homeopathic remedies, especially when oral intake is not an option. Tune in for spontaneous and insightful discussions about holistic health practices.

00:00 Introduction to the Episode

02:04 Starting the Q&A: Treating Pets with Homeopathy

06:19 Recommended Homeopathic Resources

06:54 Protocols and Symptom Suppression

11:20 Homeopathy and Managing Cancer Treatment Symptoms

13:02 Understanding Miasms in Homeopathy

18:04 Alternative Methods for Taking Remedies

20:37 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Transcript

Hi and welcome to the third episode of Holistic Health Guide. I'm Kathryn Berg and I'll be your guide for today.  Today's topic is Ask Me Anything About Homeopathy.  Prior to creating this podcast, from time to time I would have webinars where clients and others could come onto a Zoom call and ask whatever questions they had about homeopathy. 

This episode will come from questions that were asked in one of those calls.  You'll find it more spontaneous and lighter than scripted episodes.  The video will also not be as clear for those of you who are watching, but I promise it will be just as informative and helpful.  I can anticipate what people might want to ask, but I can't know for sure, so I always appreciate being able to answer questions spontaneously.

After all, being able to just talk about the background, the history, and the philosophy of homeopathy. is one of the reasons I decided to start this podcast.  And who knows someone might have asked a question that you have been wondering about regarding homeopathy.  And if you stick around until the end, we'll discuss alternative methods for taking homeopathic remedies.

Even if you think you know what they might be,  there are a couple you might not have thought of.  So let's get started.  Have you ever wondered how your favorite holistic health practices really work? Are you curious to learn more?  Welcome to Holistic Health Guide.  I'm Kathryn Berg, a classical homeopath with over 20 years of experience.

Join us as we explore homeopathy, stem cell activation patches, the Enneagram, and much more.  Let's dive in and uncover the secrets and tips behind your favorite ballistic health modalities. 

The first question someone asked me on this particular webinar was about treating pets with homeopathy and here is my response.  I love the idea of people treating their pets with homeopathy because animals don't have a placebo effect, right? They just get better or they don't.  I'm going to just share mostly about my  pet dog because I haven't been treating pets in quite a few years.

There is a really good book that you could get if you're interested in treating your pets. And it's Dr.  Pitcairn's natural pet care book for cats and dogs. But if you just remember Pitcairn, P I T C A I R N, you can find his book on Amazon. He's a really good homeopath. I've heard him speak. He very much knows the philosophy and the background of homeopathy.

He's not just a diagnosis equals prescription kind of prescriber. So he's really good. I was able to help,  um, some cats in the neighborhood or people who had questions just by looking in his book.  So the best story I have is my dog who was a puppy and would not go up and down the stairs. I couldn't get him to go up and down the stairs.

He was scared  and I was concerned about it. I tried a couple different remedies. What was interesting is he just got tired of us carrying him up and down the stairs and he started sleeping in the crate that was downstairs, so that was kind of nice. He got a little more sleep. He'd move around and I'd kind of wake up at night just like having a kid again when he was a puppy.

I was talking with a colleague of mine one day. She was over at my office and she said, And we were sharing some remedies. She said, have you ever used the remedy Boron? And I haven't had or had any reason to. What's an element on the periodic table? Well, here's my periodic table. I always have one handy.

Doesn't everyone? It's in column three, row two, Boron. I also have a repertory in my electronic repertories. And I was looking at fear of going up and downstairs and it was in there. Because it's not an uncommon problem. One of the remedies in there was boron. And she had just asked me about that, and I thought, Okay, this is just too coincidental.

I had never even thought about that remedy before, much less prescribed it, right?  I ordered it, got the remedy, gave him the remedy,  and the next day, we were able to convince him to go up and down the stairs with some treats. We had never been able to do that before.  It was, just, made too much sense to be a coincidence.

So, that's what happened. He has gone up and down the stairs. His, his constitution is mercury  and homeopathic mercury is a common remedy in acute care homeopathy. But there are a couple of really common symptoms and one is lots of drooling.  You'll see that especially in mercury acutes.  that in addition to this hot, cold, hot, cold temperature thing, you can get all this drooling. 

And I found myself saying about him one day,  you know, he's kind of mercurial. He, you just never know what to expect. It could change every day. And I went, okay, I know what remedy he needs. I just told myself. And so that has helped him a lot. He's kind of an excitable dog and mercury as a remedy is kind of anxious.

And his mother was apparently a high strung female poodle. He's a bernie doodle. He's about 55 pounds.  So, those are my stories.  about pets.  With animals, I would always start with a 30C, especially with something like that. My Akita had hip dysplasia and we were taking him to a different holistic vet at the time.

This was many, many years ago, like a couple of decades ago or more. And he gave him a 1M, which was appropriate for that particular type of situation. But you don't want to aggravate a kidney kind of  really.  So I would give it to him or her and just watch.  and see what happens. And you might have to dose two or three times to get a response at a 30 C.

Um, and then if the symptoms start to come back, I'm assuming he has, he or she has symptoms.  The next question that someone asked me was if I could make some recommendations on some good resources for homeopathic books and such. On my website, there are some books that I've recommended.  Dana Allman has some books and they were the first ones I bought.

And there's still really good books.  U L L M A N, Dana Allman. I don't know if it's two N's or one, it doesn't matter, you'll find him.  He has a website where you can buy a lot of his stuff too, you know, as opposed to giving the money to Amazon.  The next question someone asked me was about protocols and suppression of symptoms and using more than one remedy at a time. 

Here are my answers.  I always think that Western medicine either masks or suppresses symptoms.  You know, it drives them deeper or it just hides them  and then they eventually show up some other way. That can also be done with homeopathy. Some of these protocols are really quite suppressive as opposed to healing.

And the Banerjee protocols, if you don't know what they are, there's just these Indian doctors who came up with these protocols for certain diagnoses. Just because you have a diagnosis doesn't mean we know what remedy you need. In fact, you know, if there were 25 people in the room with, let's say, fibromyalgia, chances are only a couple of them would need the same remedy  because there's just so many.

Rustox is one of the remedies for fibromyalgia, by the way, but there's a lot of other ones too.  I don't do the protocols because I think that they can be suppressive, but the Banerjis put them together as a last resort, not a first resort.  The Banerjee's are classical homeopaths. One of my colleagues went and studied with them.

And so they do do  classical homeopathy and they came up with these protocols for situations where they couldn't find any remedy to help somebody.  The only thing I can say that's a little different. Now, since COVID  is that a lot of practitioners are finding they do need to like alternate remedies or they need to do more organ support and organ support is stuff that we do organ therapeutics where you give a very low potency of a remedy, you can kind of think about potencies as having different levels.

And they do, they have a different vibration at a different level and they also have a different vibration in every remedy.  One M of Restox is going to vibrate here and a 30 C is going to vibrate here.  They don't really run into each other. C potencies  are one in a hundred. So it's one part of the substance to 99 parts of water. 

The  expotencies  are 1 in 10, so these are Roman numerals, and so it's 1 part to 9 parts of water, 1 part of substance. And so there's more material dose, these lower potencies, expotencies, and so they tend to work more towards the organ that there is an affinity for. One of the best known remedies for liver problems is lycopodium. 

But if you give it on as an expotency, it should only affect the liver and not affect anything else. If it's a match, and you still have to match it  with the symptoms. So, Taraxacum, which is dandelion, is going to have a tympanic abdomen. It's going to be tight and it's going to feel like a drum. Whereas, Lycopodium is going to be really gassy as part of their liver symptoms.

You still have to match the symptoms.  But so I find that I'm doing more and more organ support, supporting organs kind of underneath with other ones, but it isn't a protocol per se. It's, well, what does this person need?  This person needs this constitutional remedy, but I don't think the constitutional remedy alone can deal with the organ for now. 

It doesn't mean they're going to have to take that the rest of their life, but it just means for now, we need to give this organ a little bit more support, whichever one it is that is their chief complaint.  Um, I had a client once who had a situation where she should have been dealt with as a child and she wasn't and so it resulted in her getting kidney stones a lot. 

Oh, Berberus vulgaris, we call it in homeopathy.  I know they're taking a 3x, so it's a very low potency of that  to go along with  her constitution.  I remember I had this client, oh my gosh, she was on an antidepressant. And this was a long, long, long, long time ago.  And she was doing really pretty well on her remedy.

And she's like, yeah, I just decided I was doing so well. I just decided to stop the antidepressants.  Don't do that.  But, you know, she suffered a little bit, but she got through it.  The next question someone asked me was about homeopathy and cancer.  There's the option to support the others, you know, like, so if somebody's throwing up, we have remedies, you know, so that they don't.

I want to say there are remedies to help prevent your hair from falling out, but since I couldn't stop my hair from falling out with COVID, I, I guess I, I can't say that.  It isn't the chemicals that, that directly make your hair fall out, the chemotherapy, it's, it's because it's so hard on your butt. 

That's why you hear  Pulsatilla. There are certainly things that could potentially be done for somebody that would make it, make it just less harsh on their body.  There are definitely remedies to be used for post radiation and radiation burns and all those kinds of things. There are all, you know, definitely remedies that can help sort of support the treatment.

One of the most intense vomiting remedies out there is Pulsatilla. made from Ipecac, which is what we used to use to induce vomiting. I don't think doctors really do that so much anymore. I don't even know if you can get it, but as a remedy you can, and it, and it can help stop vomiting, but there are other ones too.

It would just depend on her symptoms, and she might have some strange or odd little symptom that would direct us to something else. And the other thing about supporting people with cancer is their symptoms change a lot.  They can,  feel this way for two weeks and then feel a different way later. You really need to check in with them a lot to make sure that the remedies are still working because their symptoms can change and what they need can change.

So you have to have a lots of them available  to help them out. Just speaking of cancer, I'll just talk about this for a little bit.  In homeopathy, we have what are called miasms  and miasms are basically disease categories.  When Dr. Hahnemann was alive, he's the one who developed this concept and came up with it. 

There are certain  symptomatic similarities in all these different  miasms. So when he was around, there were three of them, and there was what's called a psoric miasm. There was a psychotic miasm and a syphilitic miasm. And the psoric miasm is about  unquenchable optimism and lots of skin issues. You've got sulphur and you've got Surinam, which isn't always so,  um,  so positive, I guess. 

The psychotic miasm, it's spelled with an S, not a P. It's S Y C O T I C.  That's, um, associated with  gonorrhea  and it's associated with, um,  hiding skin. So,  when you have people who physically hide, like children who might hide behind their parents or something like that, or people who just aren't open and honest about things, people who won't tell you very much, you have to  know that you're looking for a remedy in that miasmatic grouping. 

Then there's a syphilitic one in which that one is associated with syphilis,  and that's more about hopelessness  and things kind of falling apart.  Then along came a tubercular miasm, which fits in between a couple of the others, and a cancer miasm.  The tubercular miasm is about, well, tuberculosis.  And tuberculosis  is just never quite being satisfied, always wanting to be going somewhere, always wanting to be doing something, the grass is always greener, and that is very much the characteristic of the people who  get tuberculosis.

It is a disease of poverty.  And so naturally, The grass is always greener somewhere else when you are poor  and you don't have any money.  What are the characteristics of carcinosin? Overdoing it on behalf of other people.  It's a lack of boundaries, just like cancer is a lack, is a disease with a lack of boundaries.

And so the people who need it  need to shore up their boundaries as well.  There's even more of them now. There's a ringworm miasm and there's a leprosy miasm. As you can imagine with that one, that one's like, you know, you're really shunned. You feel shunned. Doesn't mean you really are. You feel shunned.  A lot of people believe, and I'm one of them, Okay, I'm here to say I'm one of them, that it was made in a lab.

And I mean, there's this little CRISPR, CRISPR thing where you can take these different things and, you know, put them together. I mean, it's, it's like a science fiction horror movie combo.  So I think malaria was one of the things that got stitched together  to the coronavirus. I think malaria, the protozoa, was somehow stitched together with it because there were so many cases, especially originally,  where people thought they were over it, and then they got sick again.

They got worse right away. They'd say, Oh, I'm feeling good. And three days later, they'd come down with it again. So it's just typical malaria symptoms.  That's one of them, is these intermittent symptoms, where they come and they go, because that's what malaria is. And malaria fever is one that comes and goes. 

I hope you found the questions and answers interesting and helpful.  There were many other questions that were asked that I may include in an upcoming episode of Holistic Healthcare.  Being able to answer general questions about homeopathy for listeners is, after all, one of the reasons I started this podcast.

Do  you have some questions you'd like answered?  I suppose you could count on someone else to ask your questions.  But if you want to make sure that your questions get asked, you can send an email to holistichealthguideatproton dot  me.  That's holistichealthguideatproton  dot   me.  If you send an email, you might get your questions answered on an upcoming episode of Holistic Health Guide. 

Otherwise, you'll have to cross your fingers and hope that someone else has asked.  But please don't send messages asking me for a remedy to take for your situation. That's not what this is about.  And it would just take too, too much time.  Again, that is Holistic Health guide@proton.me.  And finally, now, as promised earlier today, I'll share some alternative ways to take homeopathic remedies.

Sometimes taking a remedy orally just isn't an option. Maybe someone isn't alert enough due to an illness, or perhaps you're unconscious because of a head injury.  So extremely sensitive. Individuals also often need alternative methods for homeopathic treatment.  And let's be honest, sometimes kids and even adults just refuse to take any kind of medicine. 

Interestingly, the refusal to take medicine is actually a symptom.  There are 17 remedies listed under Refuses Medicine.  However, if your patient typically refuses treatments, this would not be the time to consider that symptom, unless it's an unusual occurrence in an acute situation.  One alternative method is to simply sniff the vial containing the remedy pellets or liquid.

Inhale deeply through each nostril as if you're taking two pellets, and that's it. And then wait. For an unconscious patient, say from a head injury or sleeping due to a high fever, you You can dissolve the pellet in distilled water, use about a 1 4th of a cup of water with one dose, and stir rapidly for 30 seconds.

Don't worry if the pellets don't fully dissolve. You'll need a thin, fragrance free rag or towel. And if you can't find one, a paper towel will do. And dip it in the remedy water, making sure it's quite wet in one spot, and dab it on the patient's lips. Repeat as needed.  Alternatively, keep a dropper vial of common remedies for concussions handy.

Especially if you're involved in sports or have kids, and just put a drop on the patient's lips.  But you don't want to give an unconscious patient pellets because they could choke.  Finally, an unusual but effective method is to dissolve the remedy in water and use a spray bottle to mist it around the patient. 

This technique was popular with a local dispensary for a particular remedy for children on the spectrum, helping them feel less overwhelmed in public. And the spray contained several different potencies of the same remedy, and this is known as a homeocort.  Now, some might think that they could sneakily get a family member to take a remedy,  but spraying someone while they're sleeping, especially an adult, is unethical.

As a parent, you can decide for your sick child, but for adults, it's a different story, unless it's a life or death situation.  I hope you'll find these alternative methods of taking homeopathic remedies helpful and informative.  Stay tuned for more tips and insights in our next episode.  Until that time, be happy and healthy.