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and by evening, mother and child were reunited in adoration. Grandma had initially moved in to help care for the struggling family, but from this time forward, she considered her most vital duty to be administering Sepia to Suzy every day.
UNWAVERING COMMITMENT
It has been some twenty-four years since
the birth of Suzy’s baby. Suzy has been a com- mitted and loving mother, never again wavering from her maternal duties as she did during those first difficult and trying days. Instead, her com- mitment to her child has been remarkable. She arranged and sat through every ballet class and taught her little girl to read at age four in both English and French. Suzy has proven time and again to be a loving and proud mother.
But this is not an uncommon occurrence when there is a call for Sepia. It is most often useful for mothers who would otherwise be quite focused on their children but whose hor- mones have gone awry or, perhaps, been chemi- cally manipulated. Over-focus on the children can render some mothers ragged and may even, as in this circumstance, cause them to become hardened and indifferent.
As a revealing side note, I learned not long after that Suzy had indeed taken synthetic hormones for four years leading up to the preg- nancy. Although this same hormonal disruption can be found naturally, even without tinkering with synthetic hormones, in my experience, natural disruption does not occur nearly as often. Sepia is used for the extremes either way.
COWS, TOO
Around the same time as the birth of Suzy's
baby, a farmer client contacted me when the family cow refused to nurse her newborn calf. It was day three after the birth, and because of the mother cow’s lack of interest in her baby, the calf was being fed with milk from another cow. The mother cow was so adamant in her disgust that she kicked the newborn away, and the farmer had to separate the two for the safety of the calf.
As a homeopathy student, I would have looked up this behavior in my repertory, but even with a rudimentary understanding of the sweeping ability of Sepia, it was easy to declare
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with confidence that the farmer should administer Sepia 200 twice daily for several days. That night, after the third dose, the mother cow cried out for her calf from her lonely stall. When the farmer reunited the two, she commenced nursing and cleaning her baby. The farmer administered Sepia 200 consistently for about three weeks—so there were no backsteps with this pair. As a fun aside, the farmer later told me they named the calf “Joette” as a thanks for my help. Is it any wonder that I find homeopathy a most rewarding life’s work?
SAFE AND TIME-TESTED
To fulfill an apparent need, the pharmaceutical industry is at the ready
with its new postpartum depression drug, expected initially to cost from twenty to thirty-five thousand dollars per treatment.4 Homeopathic Sepia, on the other hand, is neither synthetic, costly nor even new and poses no threat of side effects. In fact, Sepia was proven in the late 1700s and has been used for female hormonal conditions ever since by medical doctors, midwives, mothers and grandmothers. Bringing a medicine of repute into the home to become a part of a family’s arsenal offers control with safety and assurance, whether postpartum or during other mothering events.
The use of drugs is not well met with more drugs. Homeopathy of- fers a medicine that has proven itself safe, consistent and highly regarded for over two centuries. And we have a new generation to prove it.
Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCh, RSHom (Na) is a homeopathic consultant, educator and most importantly, a mom who raised her children to adult- hood using only homeopathy and Wise Traditions methods. Learn the homeopathy methods Joette discusses here in her course “Feminopathy” and the methods she used in raising her family in her study guide, Gate- way to Homeopathy: A Study Group Guided Curriculum. This guided curriculum teaches friends gathered in living rooms across the globe or in online groups how to gain the confidence and skills to become the heal- ers of their families. Learn specific protocols for particular conditions, such as those in this article, and a new homeopathic paradigm Joette has termed “Practical Homeopathy.” Go to HomeopathyStudyGroups.com to find everything needed to get started and read testimonials from moms, grandmothers and others who have taken this powerful eight-week course.
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