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When it Based on this symptom portrait, the remedy Her grandparents beamed when they saw Maria
comes to the chosen for Maria was Nitric acidum, a remedy engaged in making the family Sunday dinner.
shown to antidote the ill effects in certain people And her parents? Well, you can imagine their
long-term who have chronic ailments from antibiotic use, delight when she walked into church with her
dangers even as long as decades ago. It also matched her brothers and sisters, sitting together like close-set
of drugs nihilist attitude, her proclivity for cursing, and stones of a building foundation. Their family had
an appetite for flagrant behavior.
a structure and calm for the first time in many
conventional Maria took the remedy one day every two years.
medical weeks for a period of two months.Within a few
fundamentalists weeks herpetic eruptions returned to the corner Joette Calabrese, HMC,CCH,RSHOm(Na) is
of her mouth, as she had had a few years previous. a classical homeopath who melds this style of
skirt the Mrs. Reyne knew that this could be a good sign medicine with WAPF principles. She meets with
discussion. in that it was something that had been suppressed folks on Skype to help them return to health via
by an over-the-counter medication numerous these methods. She also teaches families how to
times. The cold sores lasted a few weeks and then use homeopathy in her virtual classroom in her
obligingly departed. What also vanished were popular webinars. She presents at WAPF con-
the nightly arguments in the Reyne household. ferences and throughout the U.S. To learn more
Maria even started to dress more modestly and about how homeopathy might fit your lifestyle,
the pierced earrings in multiple orifices began to contact her office at (716) 941-1045 or www.
disappear. HomeopathyWorks.net, for a free 15-minute
Others noticed the changes in Maria, too. conversation with Joette.

LONG-TERM DANGERS
Does a pharmaceutical company have the right to sell its products? Certainly! But we’re not obliged to buy them. Now
Maria’s mother has made a point of learning enough homeopathy to treat her children herself, so that she is not subject
to a paradigm that doesn’t suit her family’s needs. She recognizes now that the remedy that would have met Maria’s otitis
media without side effects and in relatively short order was probably Chamomilla 30. The remedy would have cost about
twelve dollars, and certainly less than a co-pay.
Sometimes when Mrs. Reyne thinks of this, it unnerves her. Yet Mr. Reyne reminds her that it is because of their
mistakes that the family was put on the path of using homeopathy for their acute problems―and that this has enabled
them to avoid superfluous medical visits for their brood for the last several years. Well, except for the time when their son
broke his arm. They were grateful for the x-rays and re-setting of the bone. That’s the kind of medicine they’ve become
comfortable with.
Are your drugs telling you the truth? In Maria’s case, her parents trusted that the antibiotics given to their baby daughter
were “indicated.” But for what? To cure the problem of ear infections? Were the ear infections cured? Not if the drug had
to be repeated for years. It simply thrust the pathology to a later date only to be approached again by another antibiotic.
Furthermore, Maria was left with a more sobering illness. To the Reynes, it originally appeared that each ear infection
was an isolated incident. Not until many months into the third or fourth antibiotic did they begin to question whether it
was the same infection knocked down to a lower level, only to return with a vengeance. At that time, it certainly would
not have occurred to them that they were trading the short-term and manageable pain of an ear infection for years of
overwhelming behavior problems.
It’s not as a result of double blind tests that we learn of behavior problems in children after antibiotic use. It’s not
our family doctors who warn of the seriousness of using such products. Instead we learn through a neighbor, WAPF, or a
GAPS practitioners. We learn by doing our homework and eschewing the advice of drug enthusiasts.
Any substance that annihilates microorganisms in the digestive factory of the body (the stomach and intestines), in-
cluding the beneficial ones, can only result in a chronic gut disorder and even a personality lobotomy of sorts. The Reynes
certainly would not have acquiesced to such tinkerings had they been able to consider all of the facts.
The bank has to advise us that our interest rate could go up in a few months. The fabric store warns that silk draperies
will fade in the sun. It’s good business to tell the truth, to warn customers, to protect them simply because it’s the right
thing to do. Yet when it comes to the long-term dangers of drugs (not merely the side effects, which are bad enough, but
of effects to come years later) conventional medical fundamentalists skirt the discussion.
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