Podcast 155 — Quashing the Pain of Fibromyalgia With Homeopathy: Rhus tox
Description
In This Podcast, We Cover:
01:00 Introduction: Quashing the Pain of Fibromyalgia With Homeopathy: Rhus tox
02:00 Personal Experience Dealing With Fibromyalgia
How I Cured My Fibromyalgia With One Simple Medicine
03:43 Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
07:50 The Most Valuable Homeopathic Medicine for Fibromyalgia
10:17 Do We Change Our Use of Homeopathy Depending on the Specific Sufferer?
11:30 Where To Buy Homeopathic Medicines
12:16 Causes of Fibromyalgia
14:48 What if Fibromyalgia Returns?
16:20 Homeopathy vs. Conventional Medicine
19:14 Closing Advice
Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum
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The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®
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Introduction: Quashing the Pain of Fibromyalgia With Homeopathy: Rhus tox
Kate: (01:00 )
Hello and welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette. I’m Kate, and as always, we are thrilled to have you joining us today. If you are new here, welcome. This is the place where we dive deep into the power of homeopathy and how it can offer real, practical solutions for you and your family.
Today, we’re exploring the topic of fibromyalgia. It’s a condition that’s often misunderstood and notoriously difficult to manage using conventional approaches.
But what if there was another way, a gentler yet powerful system of healing that addresses this chronic condition? Well, that’s exactly what we’re diving into today with Joette: how homeopathy can offer and help those suffering from fibromyalgia.
We’ll be talking about some real cases, practical remedies, and what makes the homeopathic approach so unique and effective.
So, let’s get started.
Hi, Joette.
Personal Experience Dealing With Fibromyalgia
Joette: (02:00 )
Hi, Kate.
This is one of my favorite subjects, you know.
I used to have fibromyalgia, and I’ve actually written about it. I think it might even be on my blog, but I think it’s time to go over it again because it’s such a common condition, particularly for women. And it’s something that seems like all we can do is take an analgesic, and it simply is not so.
In fact, analgesics only cause more trouble. Some of them cause liver disease and cause gut problems, and we can keep going on all the problems that are related to taking drugs just to soften some pain. And all that does is it drives the condition to a deeper state and causes more conditions that we call side effects.
And side effects, my friends — I have to just add this one little aspect to this — doesn’t mean that it just happens right away, and you know what it is and okay, and you’re calculating it into your determination or a decision as to whether or not you want to stay with the drug.
No, no. Side effects can be very subversive without us ever really realizing. They can cause liver damage that you’ll never know, or you may not know for many years.
They may cause side effects that seem like, “Oh, no, that’s not a side effect, that’s just aging.”
No, my friends, we don’t want any “effects” from a drug. We want to use a medicine that’s relatively safe — as long as it’s used properly — is relatively safe, is efficacious, and is very inexpensive and often resolves the condition once and for all.
And that’s why I say that I really appreciate this particular condition or subject we’re talking about today, because this topic is dear to my heart.
As a result of having used homeopathy, I no longer have fibromyalgia.
Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
Kate: (03:43 )
Joette, can you talk about the symptoms of fibromyalgia? Because I think everyone has heard the word fibromyalgia, but they may not know what it actually is or what the symptoms might be.
Joette:
Well, “myalgia” means pain, and “fibro” means fibrous tissue, such as muscles — mostly muscles — but it can also be tendons. And there’s a tendency for there to be a kind of tenderness. And so, the muscles are inflamed; they’re in pain.
So, there’s a tenderness, but it’s also accompanied by a couple of other symptoms, such as fatigue, sometimes sleep difficulties. Because sleep, of course, if you’re laying on a place that hurts, such as your shoulder or your arm or your knees, your back, your neck, that can cause pain because it’s so tender.
So, it affects sleep, but it also can affect cognitive abilities — to be able to reason and think through your day-to-day activities. So, it depends on how severe it is.
Now, there are certain areas where we find fibromyalgia to be most commonly positioned in the body, and it’s often in the shoulders, as I said, in the upper back, near the neck, the sternum, the knees, the hips, sometimes even the hands.
And it’s also a condition that afflicts women more than it does men. Now I have a theory: Why does it affect women more often than men?
It’s only a theory, my friends, but I have to mention that I think it’s often women suffer from a lot more conditions than men because women are more often tinkered with, yet women start going to a doctor at a very early age.
Once they finish with the pediatrician, then if they get their menses, or they’re going through menarche, and there’s a little problem here or a little problem there, or they get acne.
The thought of acne: “Oh my gosh, we’ve got to get to the doctor right away!” And instead of considering the possibility that it could be diet, BAM! In come the birth control pills, in spite of the fact that she’s only 13 years old. Or BAM! Antibiotics.
And so, we see a lot more tinkering.
And because of those kinds of conditions that are treated, synthetic drugs of commerce, I believe that it causes an inflammation. I don’t have proof of this. It’s my theory based on thousands — and I mean many thousands — of cases that I have taken.
Now, I’ve also noticed that fibromyalgia often comes a little bit later in life. Could that be because there’ve been more and more antibiotics, more and more birth control pills, years and years of all of these steroids and all of the drugs that women automatically take?
And I have to say parenthetically that you don’t realize how many drugs you’ve taken because we don’t care to remember, to be honest. It’s only human nature.
What we need to do is even look at: “I had pneumonia two years ago. Let’s see, and ever since then, I’ve had pain, and after that, I had a urinary tract infection, and then I was getting headaches. Oh my gosh, remember? Oh, and I also had that otitis media. And then, oh my, oh yeah, I had that sty.”
For every one of those conditions, I guarantee most people have had drugs that have accompanied them. So, that’s something that has to be considered.
Now, let’s put that all aside and get back to fibromyalgia. I’m happy that you thought of this topic, Kate, for today, for us to discuss, because we’re heading into autumn in the north. Autumn is cold and damp and wet, and that often exacerbates the myalgia. It brings things more to the fore, and it’s something that we find ourselves when we have something like this.
And let me also say, it can be very mild version of fibromyalgia. It can be a moderate version of fibromyalgia; it can be an extreme version. And I found myself, when I had it, I found myself rubbing my neck, rubbing my shoulder, rubbing
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