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

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

Car Sickness Blues

When you are going 65 miles per hour on the highway and you notice one of your kids turning green, your options of what to do can be quite limited.  I am talking from experience here because all three of my kids are prone to car sickness.  Here are a few things I have learned from experience.  Also, if you have some other things that work for you, please put your suggestion in the comments.

First of all I always make sure  to leave the on board dvd system at home.  Once we started having problems with car sickness this was the first change we made.  Movie in the car=puke city with us.  At the beginning it was difficult for me to imagine going any distance at all without the dvd player.  Now my kids do not even ask for it.  We play games like I spy and travel bingo.  And, there is nothing wrong with just being able to have some down time.

Some people use kids dramaine with success, but I have found that Hylands Motion Sickness tablets work great and are easier  to administer.  Dramamine has a horrible taste.  Tablets have no taste.

Another effective tool is the Bioband.  These are wristbands that you wear and they help prevent the feeling of nausea.

And if all else fails than you need to bring the sick bags, lots of towels, air freshener, a change of clothes, and a garbage bag.

You must remain calm when your kids get sick in the car.  Getting worked up will not accomplish anything.  I learned this weekend that you can’t always stop the car if someone is getting sick.  You just have to deal until you are able to stop.

Good luck, I hope this never happens to you.

The road to parenthood.

I went for a walk with my son the other night and we stopped at our neighbor’s house.  They also have a little boy the same age as mine.  While the boys were playing, my neighbor was telling me about her brother.  He is a newlywed, and every time he visits he gets a little freaked out by the whole family scene with little kids.  He says he wants kids someday, but when he is in the middle of the reality, it is a bit overwhelming.

I can remember those days. The prospect of becoming a parent can be scary for some.  I always knew I would have kids, but my husband was a little more terrified than I.    My biological clock was very strong.   I would not feel complete without a baby coming through my birth canal.  Giving birth was the only thing that would switch off my biological clock.

Now that I have three kids and they are all old enough to reason and somewhat take care of their own basic needs, I can look back and  remember what things were like.  The only thing is I can’t truely remember exactly what it was like.  That is the funny thing.  I can vividly recollect the times when I thought I would not make it through the metaphoric deep valley I was in at the time.  And then I would resurface and be on top of the world again.  My mind erases or blurs the picture a little bit.

What I would like to tell those folks out there like my neighbor’s brother.  You are not thrown into parenting all of a sudden.  It is not sink or swim.  Each stage prepares you for the next.  You just need to keep your head on straight and know that once you hit the lowest low, you will start moving up again.  Being a parent is challenging, don’t get me wrong, but you can take it in stride.  Laughing a lot helps wonders.

Raising Chickens.

Along with my three kids, I also have eight chickens that I am raising.  I never realized how wonderful chickens were as pets until we got our first six chicks last spring.  We lost one this winter, Pepper RIP.  And we just got three more chicks to introduce to the flock this spring.

They are wonderful companions in the garden, they eat most of the pesky insects and grubs, and my kids love to help take care of them.  Not to mention all the delicious eggs.  There is nothing like retrieving eggs from the nest box and cooking them fresh.  Yum.

Bring Spring.

Most of the northeast is experiencing flooding and record rainfall, but I am thinking about the spring weather to come.  Just looking at the forcast, here in Maine we are looking at near 80 degree weather this weekend.  Thank Goodness.

I am looking forward to:

Hanging my clothes out to dry on the line.

Laying in the sun with my kids.  Spreading a blanket in the grass and soaking up the sun.  Maybe even a nap.  With three kids, who am I kidding.  Even a ten minuet sunsoak would be worthwhile.

Eating outside.  Any meal.

Lemonade Stands.

Opening my windows to let in the fresh air.

Less layers.

Dipping my toes in the ocean.  Even if they freeze off.

And last but not least, the garden.  Once the water drains from my yard, I will till my soil to prepare for the  plants that will nourish us all summer long.