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ADHREANLAILNGFA“TINGTUREA: CTETSATBSLER”EQDIUGIRESETDI?VNE ODTISATLRWESASYS! By Joette Calabrese,,HMC,,CCH, RSHom (NA)
Everyone knows one. You know—those uncommon people you meet who have joie de vivre oozing from their pores. They have ac- complished more in the last year than most of us can in a lifetime. Each time you see them, you have to restrain yourself from asking what they eat, why their skin is glowing, what are the secrets behind their success—basically how they live their lives.
That’s exactly how it is with Sunny. Just one look at her is enough to convince anyone that she must be dabbling in something unknown to the rest of us. However, things are not always as they seem. There was a time when Sunny was really dragging, and she hid it from everyone. She lived a secretive life. It was a struggle for her to get up in the morning and an effort to get dressed. The next battle was to get breakfast for her family and then to do the beastly dishes. Everything was an effort. Life was a protracted, relentless, effortful drag.
MANY SOURCES OF FATIGUE
A naturopath Sunny visited reviewed her
test results and offered the explanation: she suffered from adrenal fatigue. Frankly all she remembered was the operative word “fatigue” in the naturopath’s diagnosis. Just thinking about the naturopath’s advice to take numer- ous supplements left Sunny feeling exhausted. Fortunately, Sunny was an ardent student of homeopathy. She happily eschewed the recom- mended supplements and instead tasked herself with analyzing her illness through the lens of homeopathy.
Allow me to clarify that in homeopathy (particularly in the method that I employ and teach), we do not identify the adrenals as the cause of fatigue. Indeed, fatigue can emanate from a variety of sources and circumstances. In Sunny’s case, her fatigue could have resulted
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from having had three babies in four years, from her long career in nursing, or from a trying bout of influenza. In others we might encounter fa- tigue related to grief or childbirth, fatigue from having too much coffee or chocolate, fatigue as a side effect of conventional drug therapy or even fatigue stemming from low testosterone in men. The homeopath’s analysis of fatigue depends less on how the endocrine system reads on lab reports and more on the individual’s predominating circumstances. Do we need a saliva or blood test to prove the point? Not if we use homeopathy.
HOMEOPATHIC REVIVAL
Unfortunately, from the late 1940s until
recently, the practice of homeopathy has been rather sluggish in North America. You might even say it too has been suffering from adrenal fatigue. Despite its determined advocates, the pharmaceutical industry has beaten up home- opathy in the market square and forced it to take a back seat to allopathic medicine.
But not to worry. Today homeopathy is ex- periencing a revival! Because of the Internet and the resulting unfettered access to information, you might say that homeopathy has received a much-needed shot of adrenalin. The timely resurgence of homeopathy in the last decade or so has raised awareness of homeopathy’s potential to correct conditions such as adrenal fatigue, food intolerances and chronic allergies.
At just about the time of this homeopathic renaissance, Sunny discovered and embraced homeopathy. She recognized that the fatigue she was experiencing while her last child was nurs- ing was serious—more serious than any she had ever felt in the past. Her baby, Gino, nursed vo- raciously. Nighttime feedings seemed endless, and during the day it was like a feeding frenzy! Although Sunny did what she could to keep up
The homeopath’s analysis of fatigue depends less on how the endocrine system reads on lab reports and more
on the individual’s predominating circumstances.
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