About three times a month my table is overrun with Dixie cups. Lots of Dixie cups. Some of you know we utilize homeopathy to help overcome illness. But we have also utilized it to treat underlying issues in two children. One child, Jedidiah, was not able to continue on homeopathy due to financial reasons many years ago, but thankfully we saw lasting results for many of his issues. I have no doubt we would have seen his growth hormone issue resolved had we been able to stay with the treatment.
Currently we have Isabella in treatment for various ailments that I know she would not like for me to share. But I can assure you that her ailments have been a huge burden for her to bear, and we are very pleased that we can utilize homeopathy at this time for her.
The only problem is that Isabella is very, very sensitive to the remedies. This may make some people balk since the remedies are already diluted beyond there being any physical remnants of the original substance, just it's energy. Most people think that homeopathy is bunk due to this, but it would only take someone to actually see homeopathy work to be convinced that it has the ability to heal the body.
It has taken us many months to find the right dosage for Isabella so that she is not left in an aggravated state (where she is experiencing more symptoms). There is still healing going on, it just won't be evident! With her recent batch of remedies sent to us we will be putting her on a new schedule that we are hoping will bring even more noticeable healing for her.
But between her sensitivities and the new schedule....well, things are pretty challenging. I have to give myself pep talks before I tackle making up her remedies. I have to wait for a time where the baby will be asleep or being taken care of by someone else, and that we have filtered water on hand. Those two things seem like such a simple matter, but not so!
Because once I get started with making up her remedies having the baby come along can really undo a LOT of work! This is what my table looks like as I am making the remedies:
I couldn't fit them all in, but behold...168 Dixie cups. But you can see that should a little wee lass come along and knock those over....well, let's just say there will be tears shed (by me!).
I first have to figure out which level is next for her to take. I make a label, put it on one of the little blue bottles. Then I take the remedy pack (the small manila envelopes you see on top of the cups) and place them on top of each row of cups, along with the blue bottle that pertains to that remedy.
I put the remedy, which is the size of a grain of salt, onto a spoon, and drop it in the first cup. Five of her remedies have 24 cups, one has 48 cups. I then fill each of the cups with some water. All 168 of them! I give the first cup, with the remedy in it, a stir, then pour a bit of that water into cup two. I dump the first cup of water into a container, and pick up cup number two to give it 3 to 5 swirls. Then I pour a bit of water from cup two into cup three, and repeat the process until we get to cup 24 (or 48). With cup number 24 I give it a few swirls and pour the water into the blue bottle for that remedy. Then I repeat the process for the second remedy, and third, until I am all done.
With the new schedule she will be taking half the remedies (3 of them) on one day, and the other 3 remedies the next day. So this time around I used a marker to color the tops of the labels, three with green, and three with pink. That way she can look at each day to see which color remedies she needs to take. She can't take them all at once, but needs to space them out over the day.
This is one of the bottles up close. I have the remedy name, which is usually abbreviated. This one is Belladonna at the 1Q potency. I also write on the bottom when her last dose is to be taken. Each remedy (for Isabella due to her sensitivity) will be taken 5 times over a 10 day period. She *knows* when she went past the 'expiration' date because she will suddenly come down with symptoms! I kid you not. But it always works like this:
Bella: Mom! I don't know what is up, but _______________ (insert symptom) is out of control! I don't know what is going on.
Me: What is the date on the remedy bottle?
Bella: Oh, yeah. Let me go check.
She comes back to tell me the last day for her remedy was two days ago....yup, time to make the new remedies. Now I do put the date to make up her new batch on our family calendar. However, our family calendar is dry erase. Two words for you....little boys. Enough said! Ha, ha!
So that is my table-scape three times a month!
Currently we have Isabella in treatment for various ailments that I know she would not like for me to share. But I can assure you that her ailments have been a huge burden for her to bear, and we are very pleased that we can utilize homeopathy at this time for her.
The only problem is that Isabella is very, very sensitive to the remedies. This may make some people balk since the remedies are already diluted beyond there being any physical remnants of the original substance, just it's energy. Most people think that homeopathy is bunk due to this, but it would only take someone to actually see homeopathy work to be convinced that it has the ability to heal the body.
It has taken us many months to find the right dosage for Isabella so that she is not left in an aggravated state (where she is experiencing more symptoms). There is still healing going on, it just won't be evident! With her recent batch of remedies sent to us we will be putting her on a new schedule that we are hoping will bring even more noticeable healing for her.
But between her sensitivities and the new schedule....well, things are pretty challenging. I have to give myself pep talks before I tackle making up her remedies. I have to wait for a time where the baby will be asleep or being taken care of by someone else, and that we have filtered water on hand. Those two things seem like such a simple matter, but not so!
Because once I get started with making up her remedies having the baby come along can really undo a LOT of work! This is what my table looks like as I am making the remedies:
I put the remedy, which is the size of a grain of salt, onto a spoon, and drop it in the first cup. Five of her remedies have 24 cups, one has 48 cups. I then fill each of the cups with some water. All 168 of them! I give the first cup, with the remedy in it, a stir, then pour a bit of that water into cup two. I dump the first cup of water into a container, and pick up cup number two to give it 3 to 5 swirls. Then I pour a bit of water from cup two into cup three, and repeat the process until we get to cup 24 (or 48). With cup number 24 I give it a few swirls and pour the water into the blue bottle for that remedy. Then I repeat the process for the second remedy, and third, until I am all done.
Bella: Mom! I don't know what is up, but _______________ (insert symptom) is out of control! I don't know what is going on.
Me: What is the date on the remedy bottle?
Bella: Oh, yeah. Let me go check.
She comes back to tell me the last day for her remedy was two days ago....yup, time to make the new remedies. Now I do put the date to make up her new batch on our family calendar. However, our family calendar is dry erase. Two words for you....little boys. Enough said! Ha, ha!
So that is my table-scape three times a month!
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