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Homeopathy Journal
Homeopathy Journal

HOMEOPATHY AND ANEMIA
By Joette Calabrese, HMC,CCH, RSHom (NA)
By Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH

Anemia is a familiar subject to many mem- deficiency anemia, especially if the menstrual Belladonna is
bers of the female population. flow is heavy. not a remedy
I remember regularly feeling so tired and Back in the days of attending naturopathic
drowsy when driving a car in my much younger college, I was racked by heavy periods with for cramps
years that I’d have to pull over, exit the car and large clots and severe menstrual cramps, which per se, or for
run around it a couple of times, or even take I valiantly tried to treat using my newfound bleeding or
a short nap before finishing the trip. This was knowledge of homeopathy. A number of rem-
a regular occurrence until blood tests showed edies worked temporarily, but the cramps, bleed- anemia, but
severe, chronic anemia with a ferritin level be- ing and clots would return after a short reprieve. for the whole
low 5. A normal level in adult females before Fast-forward to final exams in my post- state of a
menopause is 10-120 ng/ml. Quite the range, graduate training course in homeopathy when
right? Little did I know back then that 100 ng/ I was around thirty-three years old. Right in person.
ml is ideal. If your ferritin levels are only at 12 the middle of the several-hour-long examina-
or 15, your doctor may not see a reason to alert tion, the vile menstrual cramps hit suddenly. I
you to the relatively low levels, and you will was doubled over in labor-pain-voltage agony
suffer as a result. within minutes. There was no way I could fin-
Anemia is defined as a decrease in the total ish the exam. I timidly approached our teacher,
amount of red blood cells or hemoglobin in the Dr. Andre Saine, ND, and told him about my
blood (the iron-containing molecules in our condition. Amazingly, this incredible doctor had
red blood cells that carry oxygen) or a lowered a full acute homeopathic remedy kit with him
ability of the blood to carry oxygen for another in the hotel where we were taking the exam.
reason. Because all human cells require oxygen I told him my symptoms. He quickly
to function, low oxygen levels due to anemia glanced at his watch, unfurled his extensive kit
will cause weakness, fatigue and drowsiness. and proceeded to pop two pellets of a mystery
There are various causes for anemia, with remedy under my tongue. Three minutes later,
the most common being iron deficiency. Iron is all the pain was gone! What would normally
essential for human, animal and plant organisms have been the onset of two days of torture was
and required for the formation of hemoglobin in all over in a few minutes, and I went back to
humans and chlorophyll in plants. (If your plants writing the exam as if nothing had happened.
look wilted with a pale or sickly yellow color, The remedy was Belladonna, a homeo-
they may be iron-deficient.) Iron is needed for pathic preparation of deadly nightshade. Andre
all the respiratory and oxygen-related processes had checked his watch for the time. As it turns
of living tissue. The body of an adult weighing out, Belladonna is known for addressing ag-
seventy kilos (roughly one hundred fifty pounds) gravations that occur at 3:00 pm and, to a lesser
contains about 4.2 grams of iron, a tiny but non- extent, 3:00 am. From then on, I carried a little
negotiable amount. About 70 percent of this iron vial of Belladonna 30C in my purse. The next
is bound in hemoglobin. month, almost to the minute at 3:00 pm, the
cramps hit suddenly again and, as previously,
ANEMIA AND MENSTRUATION were vanquished by the little remedy within
In women of childbearing age, monthly minutes. The same routine took place during the
menstruation is the usual culprit for iron- following three months, and after that I never

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