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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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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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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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