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A Homeopathic Substitute for Tums

Posted by on January 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

A Homeopathic Substitute for Tums

My step-son turned five the other day and we had a party for him. My sister-in-law said she couldn’t possibly eat a thing because she had Mexican food right before and had awful indigestion. She then asked me for some Tums.

I have Tums.

Here’s the thing though, other people’s misfortunes when it comes to physical ailments are viewed differently by me. They are viewed as my window of opportunity to demonstrate how well homeopathic remedies work.

So, I got out the Tums, and I said she could have some… in ten minutes.

First, I told her, she had to try the Hyland’s Colic Tabs for her gas and indigestion. She’s always a good sport, so she agreed without hesitation. I gave her a couple of the Hyland’s Colic Tabs and then I sat the bottle of Tums in front of the poor girl. I reminded her that she could have some in ten minutes.

A more caring person, would probably have just given her both, but I didn’t want her to be able to thank the Tums when she felt better right away. So, the Tums sat there on the table, while we all chatted.

Less than ten minutes later, she pushed the Tums aside. She said, “You know what, I’m feeling all better. I guess I don’t even need the Tums anymore.”

I was thrilled.

I’d love to say I was thrilled because I am so compassionate towards human suffering and I was happy she was feeling better. The truth is, indigestion isn’t generally something I feel super sorry for people about. It is what it is. She had Mexican food and got indigestion. It happens all the time and we usually all get over it in a few hours or so. The reason I was thrilled is because I had before me, four adult witnesses to the remarkable healing effectiveness of homeopathic remedies.

So, the moral of the story is, before grabbing the Tums, grab your baby’s Hyland’s Colic Tabs, and then know first-hand how much they sooth your baby.

-Dawn Papple

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Natural Remedy for Colds

Posted by on November 16, 2010 3 Comments

Yesterday, all day, I was feeling  so run down. You know the feeling. I know you do. It’s the feeling you feel when you say, “I’m so achy, I think I’m coming down with something.”  Then the next day, you wake up miserable with a cold or the flu.

For most people, this feeling brings acceptance that they are about to be sick. It used to for me as well, until I started learning about homeopathy .  While all the rest of the world tries to find a cure for the common cold, people who rely on homeopathy, just find a natural remedy for it. Why bother finding a cure when our bodies, with a little homeopathic sugar pill, can fight it off. Once I started using the contents of the Kid’s Kit which I purchased just to try out, (never believing in a million years it would actually work) I never “accepted” sickness as inevitable again.

If you take one tablet of Aconitum Napellus from the Kid’s Kit, during the hours when you feel “like you’re coming down with something,” you can fight the cold before it takes over your body. That’s what I did. I took one tablet under my tongue and let it dissolve. Then I went to bed.  I know the bottle says 3-5 tablets, but you don’t need to do that because more isn’t really any better with homeopathy. Dosages on the bottle are just on there because as American’s we try to make homeopathy seem more like regular medicine.

Let’s say, I did what most people do, and I took a NyQuil. I would sleep well, but all my mucus membranes would dry out. A dry mucus membrane is the PERFECT breeding ground for the cold virus. NyQuil is like putting a bandage on a wound… except the analogy would be more appropriate if the bandage contained a bunch of bacteria. Because cold medicines, while you feel better for awhile, actually make your sickness worse. Our body’s natural reaction to a virus is to get WET. We get a runny nose because our body is trying to make the itself safer. It’s trying to take the germs and flush them out. When our passage ways are dry, we think we feel better, but we just extend out the length of time we will actually be sick. Which, I guess is just fine for cold medicine manufacturers, because we end up using more of their product. It’s not fine for me though. I don’t feel like paying a gabillion dollars for medicine and I don’t feel like being sick longer.

That’s why I took a natural remedy for the cold.

I woke up, energized and healthy. Any traces of coming down with anything were gone. My body no longer ached. My lungs no longer hurt. I could breathe through my nose. My headache was gone. All thanks to one little sugar pill that contained such a small amount of Aconitum Napellus it wouldn’t even be measurable. It would be LESS than “trace.”

The morals of the story are this:

  • Get your family the Kid’s Kit to have on hand before you will need it.
  • Throw away your cold medicines.
  • Start letting your body (and your child’s body) heal itself using homeopathy.

-Dawn Papple

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I’m Glad Hyland’s is Smart

Posted by on November 10, 2010 5 Comments

So, the FDA didn’t like that the amounts of belladonna in Hyland’s Teething Tablets were inconsistent (they said.) Though, we all know what they didn’t like was that Hyland’s was impeding the sales of Big Pharma’s sales of the traditional (dangerous and toxic) go-to’s for teething like Baby Motrin, Baby Tylenol and Oragel.

Did I say dangerous and toxic? Yes. I did. Because they are. Not because I’m a crazed hippie. I don’t even like hippies, but to each their own. I said it because, it’s well documented that Tylenol and Motrin damage the livers and stomachs (respectively) of our babies.  So, the FDA is just fine with us giving our babies Oragel, (I outline the toxic ingredients in a previous blog.)but it pretended to be looking out for our babies safety by getting all up on Hyland’s back for the miniscule amounts of Belladonna in their Teething Tablets. The amounts so miniscule that you would scientifically have to ingest a child’s entire “teething years” supply of Teething Tablets before the FIRST side effect of a belladonna poisoning (dry mouth) occurred. And that’s the truth. Perhaps some women (probably wives of Big Pharma’s  buddies) claimed their babies had signs of Belladonna poisoning, but unless their children were left to raid Walgreen’s entire stock of Teething Tablets and ingest them, that just didn’t happen. (Let me tell you, if those infants were left alone in Walgreens long enough to eat that many Teething Tablets, I say someone needs to be charged with neglect.)

So, enough of that. We all know the truth. Those of us in love with Hyland’s just used their voluntary recall as an opportunity to score discounted bottles of the tablets anyway. (Yay for cheap Teething Tablets!)

In February, they will be putting the new improved tablets on the shelves. Hyland’s knows homeopathy. Apparently the FDA doesn’t though.  So, they put even less Belladonna in their Teething Tablets. Now, I highly doubt even the most advanced machines would be able to detect any Belladonna in the tablets. But that’s OK, because since homeopathy works energetically our bodies WILL be able to detect it. At the new potency, our bodies will be able to detect it even better. So those coveted Teething Tablets will be even better. Soon, Hyland’s Teething Tablets will work even better at fixing all of our aches and pains, even the huge ones like our older children’s sports injuries and our husband’s back problems.

Hyland’s and our families win. Bad guys loose.

Yay! Hyland’s is smart.

-Dawn Papple

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Homeopathy and Dosage

Posted by on October 27, 2010 4 Comments


Homeopathic Doses are often so vague. Sometimes, they will post a dosage schedule on the bottle, and it follows normal “medical style” dosing. The bottles will have a dose that says usually something like, “Take 3-5 pellets under the tongue four times a day.”  This is Americans trying to shove homeopathy into modern medicine’s mold. This is actually less effective than how those of us that live by homeopathy dose.

Let me explain.

The more FREQUENTLY you can expose your body to the remedy the faster it will work. So, taking 5 pellets four times a day does not work better than taking one pellet (or one wet dose even) 20 times a day.

Here’s why.

Chemically, you’re pretty much looking at a sugar pill.

So, by trying to dose chemically, five times zero is still zero.  Chemically, you can take a whole bottle and your body just sees a sugar pill. Remember though, homeopathy doesn’t function at a chemical level. It functions at and energetic level, recognizing the crystalline structure of the water that has been suspended in the lactose or alcohol.

Let’s take a runny nose and eyes from pollen allergies.  Modern medicine works chemically.  You take an antihistamine like Benadryl that blocks the allergic reaction from taking place. In homeopathy, you would take, for example, the chemical in an onion that makes your eyes water and nose run when you’re cutting them, and expose water to that chemical. The water takes on a different crystalline form with the “energetic  fingerprint” of an onion, but chemically, remains water. Your body then tries to fight off the runny nose and eyes from the onion (and does so quite successfully, since no actual onion is there to fight) and inadvertently also fights off your allergies.

Make sense?

So…. You put a homeopathic pellet into your mouth, (or five pellets or five hundred pellets into your mouth) your body ONLY sees the introduction of that remedy into its system and it tries to fight it. There is no “quantity” of that chemical, so it really makes no difference if it’s 1 pellet, five pellets, or 500 pellets at one time.

It is better to expose your body to the remedy repeatedly until healing is observed. That way, your body repeatedly tries to fight off the imaginary onion and can successfully fight off the allergic response to pollen.

On the new forum for Everything Birth and Diaper Parties I explained it to the members like this:

”It’s not like our medicine of today. If you are going to understand homeopathy, you have to really just disregard everything you have been taught about medicine and realize homeopathy is absolutely foreign.

If modern medicine was the English written word, herbal remedies would be the French written word, but homeopathy would be Japanese Kanji.  Does that make sense… it’s TOTALLY different. It functions on a different level, in a different way and has different principle entirely.”

-Dawn Papple

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Mother Nature, MD.

Posted by on October 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

I love passing along information about natural remedies to anyone who could benefit. It’s one of my favorite things about writing for Everything Birth.  Every once in awhile though, I will get a message like this:

“Dear Dawn,  In response to you telling my friend to put coconut oil on her baby’s skin to act as a natural defense for staph infections, I have to ask you; Why do you presume to know more than the doctors?”

Well…  I don’t.

I don’t presume that I know more than doctors.  I do presume some things though.  Here are the main presumptions that go through my head as I suggest trying a natural remedy before running to the doctor’s office.

Presumption # 1

Human beings have either evolved in our natural environment for hundreds of thousands of years.  *OR*  God created humans with an environment that is physically suitable to meet our needs. Either way, the result is the same:  Humans have the ability to function their best when our lifestyles are connected to nature.

Presumption # 2

Doctors go through extensive training in modern medicine, but experience very limited (if any) training in holistic medicine. This means that as intelligent and well trained as a medical doctor may be, he is also very likely unaware of the vast majority of natural remedies that exist. So when people say, “Well, if Hyland’s Teething Tablets work so well on teething, why didn’t my doctor suggest it to me?” I explain that medical doctors are not trained to understand homeopathy. It’s really that simple. I don’t presume to know more than doctors. I simply don’t presume that doctors know more than “Mother Nature.” Americans deify medical doctors. I recognize their actual strengths and weaknesses.

Presumption # 3

Not every illness requires immediate medical attention. I understand that some conditions are better suited for a medical doctor. I also understand that most childhood ailments are not life threatening conditions that cannot wait a day or two to give people a chance to try a homeopathic or natural remedy before running off to the pediatrician’s office where they will be exposed to a plethora of probably more serious illnesses at a point when their resistance is already down.

 

These are my presumptions.

I invite anyone to find fault in any one of these presumptions.  If anyone can, I will promise to never suggest another inexpensive, 100% safe alternative remedy to that person again.

 

-Dawn Papple

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Why are homeopathic remedies safe for my children and still able to help?

Posted by on August 27, 2010 4 Comments

People always hear about how homeopathic remedies have no side effects, and they have a hard time believing it. How could something heal, but then at the same time, have no possibility of causing harm? Many people just don’t believe it, and bypass a safe remedy for a dangerous drug. Then, you have people who believe in homeopathy, and try to urge their friends to try homeopathic remedies, and when questioned, they can’t quite find the words to explain why homeopathic remedies like the teething tablets and Calms are safe for babies and have no side effects.

I explain very simply why homeopathic remedies are safe in a previous blog.  Now, I want to explain why they are able to heal.

You hear it all the time, from people of every walk of life: Our bodies have the ability to heal themselves. We believe it, for the most part, in theory.

It’s not some imaginary ideal though. That is homeopathy’s promise.

Ideally, as human beings, we would have natural water sources. Our water wouldn’t run through purification systems or city treatment plants; it would course through the veins of the earth. Just before drinking our water, it would run over river beds, rush up against beaches, trickle over every kind of plant. There would be no water treatment plant, if we were living as we were designed (or evolved) to. The water would be rich with trace minerals, pollens, proteins, and natural substances, and it would be directly ingested.

As our natural water supply was exposed to the elementals of our earth, the chemical compound of water would remain, but the crystalline structure and the energetic resonance of the water would be rich with all of the pieces of our earth that we could ever possibly be exposed to. Our water, would give our bodies a glimpse of all of the allergens, the toxins, and the chemicals that could cause harm. This barely noticeable exposure would act in a similar manner as how vaccines attempt to function.

But this is not where we meet our water supply.


Not only is our water supply altered by agents designed to keep it safe, such as chlorine, but it is also filtered or refined. We meet our water supply via a middle man: either a faucet or a bottle. The essences that would normally be there to induce our bodies into self healing are absent.

That’s where homeopathy comes in.

With a good homeopathic doctor, or a keen eye on our own symptoms, we can find a remedy that with stimulate our bodies own healing mechanism, without any chemical reaction. Our bodies merely recognize the essence of the ingredient suspended in the lactose and it induces their natural reaction to fight our symptoms.

Homeopathy doesn’t heal us. It tricks us into healing ourselves.

Dawn Papple

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Homeopathy for Postpartum Depression

Posted by on August 21, 2010 3 Comments

PPD.

I had it.
It sucked.
I hated myself.
I had childish thoughts.
I wanted to disappear.
I thought I was ugly.
I believed I was worthless.
Things didn’t taste good.
I cried so much.
I doubted myself; I doubted everything.

Postpartum Depression is horrible. I had it for about two months and it started a couple of weeks after my pregnancy. Then, I turned to homeopathy, as I often do, by the request of my mother-in-law. I was too far in my depression and I was convinced it wouldn’t work. Logic told me it could have been PPD, but everything else told me I just sucked. As a new daughter-in-law often does, I acquiesced simply to appease my mother-in-law. I took a dose of Pulsatilla 30X that came in my Hyland’s Remedy Chest. I also took dose of Sepia 30X.

15 minutes later, my fog of self loathing lifted. Within an hour, my PPD was gone.

For a couple of weeks, I would start to feel a little down every few days, but I could catch myself and then I’d take another couple of doses right away and I stabilized again.

If you don’t have either of these remedies lying around, as I once discovered, there is Pulsatilla in the Hyland’s Calms Forte for Kids which most natural parenting moms have on hand ready to use at a moment’s notice. The Calms for Kids actually includes a few effective remedies for various symptoms of PPD. So, you could take a dose of that as well. Sepia just happened to match some of my symptoms and was an important remedy in my personal healing.

To find the perfect match for your symptoms, you can take a postpartum symptoms questionnaire on the ABC Homeopathy website that will match you with the most perfect remedy. Then, you can check the combination remedies, your Hyland’s Kid’s Kit or your Hyland’s Remedy Chest that you already have for your infant to see if they are in there before purchasing a brand new single remedy.

For soon to be mothers, I strongly recommend you have some of the common remedies available to you and that you bookmark this blog because of the links it includes. I also urge you to tell your spouse or partner to keep an eye out on your behavior and if it looks as though you are experiencing symptoms of PPD, that they assist you. I suggest prior to the birth of your child, that you show your partner where they can find this bookmarked page should they need it.  When you are in the thick of PPD, it is nearly impossible to make a decision on your own, let alone seek out healing. It can sometimes come down to your partner needing to evaluate your symptoms, purchase the remedy, and then actually hand you your first dose of Calms for Kids.

Dawn Papple

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The Safety of Hyland’s Teething Tablets

Posted by on June 23, 2010 9 Comments

I got an e-mail this morning from a customer of mine from before I closed my natural living shop to tend to my three children. This is what she wrote:

“Hopefully you don’t mind but I have to ask you a question, I have been giving (my daughter) Hyland’s Teething Tablets and they are working great…during a conversation with another mother she said her doctor told her to stay away from them because of the Belladonna in them…in researching the internet, I have read that yes Belladonna is harmful and that it is not.”

She had been using Hyland’s Teething Tablets for her infant because I told her they were safe. There is a reason why if you google the word “Belladonna” you will find two very different stories. We’re talking about two very different things.

Belladonna is one of the most toxic plants that exist in the western hemisphere.  That’s the truth of the matter.

The thing that proves that that particular pediatrician knows absolutely nothing about homeopathy (and consequently the safety of Hyland’s Teething Tablets) is that he declared that Belladonna is listed as an ingredient on the label. That’s not true.

What IS listed on the label is: Belladonna 3X hpus.


 

Belladonna is not the same thing as Belladonna 3X hpus.

Very, very simplified, I like to translate “Belladonna 3X hpus” as:

“One drop of Belladonna is put into a big container of water and shaken up vigorously. Then, one drop is removed from THAT new super diluted mixture and added to a different big container of water. Then, that second glass of even more diluted mixture is shaken up vigorously. Then, you repeat this process until you have absolutely no detectable amounts of the original DROP of Belladonna and you’re basically left with just a big container of water. Then, that whole container of water suspended in a huge amount of lactose and then cut into tiny pellets the size of two grains of rice.”

Apparently to save room on that tiny little bottle, instead of my translation, they just write “3X hpus.”

When I say undetectable, I don’t mean it has “trace amounts.” I mean that if a chemist were to sit down and examine a pellet from a Hyland’s Teething Tablets bottle, there will be basically no Belladonna in it. It’s less than trace amounts. Actually, what a chemist will tell you is that it’s pretty much a sugar pill.

Homeopathy offers a much safer scenario than the “trace amounts” or “small amounts” of aluminum, formaldehyde, mercury, msg, and antibiotics that are actually very detectable in the vaccines that our pediatricians have absolutely NO problems administering to our children.

Pediatricians used to suggest Tylenol or Motrin, but with all of the recalls lately on those items, most parents are saying “No thank you.” to those medicines anyway.

When you say your infant is teething, the pediatricians usually recommend that you use Baby Orajel. Since they’re so concerned about the Belladonna that many pediatric doctors and nurses think is in the teething tablets, I wouldn’t mind getting a commentary from a pediatrician on the safety of some of the MAIN and very detectable ingredients in Baby Orajel.

The specific MAIN ingredients in Baby Orajel that I’d like a pediatricians honest evaluation on are: FD&C red #40 (which has been banned in Europe as a food coloring because of its toxicity,) polyethylene glycol (which is a caustic used to dissolve grease in cleaning agents,) sodium saccharin (which is listed as a possible carcinogen and dramatically alters a person’s pH,) sorbitol (which can cause chronic diarrhea) and benzocaine (which may cause a rare, but serious condition where the amount of oxygen that can be carried through the blood stream is greatly reduced called methemoglobinemia.)

I don’t know about you, but I guess for my baby, I’ll stick with the “sugar pill.” You know… the one that works way better than Orajel or Tylenol anyway.

Dawn Papple

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Homeopathy at Home

Posted by on May 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

I am not trained in any medical field. But, I am a mother and when sickness and illness come to my home I like to be as prepared as humanly possible. This means that I keep herbs, homeopathic, and over the counter drugs on hand.

I recently went to see a Homeopathic doctor for myself for the first time. I have been to a naturopath before, but never just strictly a homeopath. I have been a long time sufferer of eczema. So horrible, that the backs and fingers on both of my hands have been swollen, red, itchy, and cracked for close to 15 years now. I never imagined life without the pain I was experiencing. I had tried to troubleshoot a remedy for myself, but it never worked and I was tired of wasting money. One of my friends brought her daughter to see my homeopathic doctor for her eczema. Her daughter was cured and her eczema still has not come back. I thought I should give it a try.

I am so glad I did. My remedy was four doses of sea salt 1M. It has been a little over a month since I took my first remedy and I have had one very small flare up, but my hands are completely clear now. My dry cracked skin is healing and I am not itchy all the time.  My first appointment was close to two hours long.  My doctor really got to know me and was figuring out how my body as a whole dealt with ailments.  I was amazed at how I was treated as a whole.
Most people do not understand homeopathy and a lot of people do not believe it’s effiicacy.  But let me tell you that it has worked miracles for me.

Homeopathic Medicine at Home by Maesimund B. Panos, MD and Jane Heimlich is a wonderful book to have if you are interested and would like to know more about what homeopathy is and where it fits into medical history.  You can also look into getting Hyland’s Homeopathic Remedy Chest.  Both items will round out your medicine cabinet so that you can be prepared for almost anything that comes your way.

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