Saturday, March 31, 2012

last minute meal - cupboard pasta

by Alicia Severson on etsy
I was running out of time to make dinner, but I had thawed some ground beef... so what to make?

Beth's Cupboard Pasta Dish (that tastes like it came from a restaurant but we know it didn't!)

1 lb. of ground beef
box of spaghetti (I used a gluten free corn version)
1 onion
1-2 Teaspoons of Cinnamon
1-2 Teaspoons of Chili powder (one with Cumin... this is the most important ingredient, so just use
      Cumin if you don't have chili powder. I'm in love with cumin right now!)
Sea Salt to taste
1 Jar of GOOD spaghetti sauce (this does make a difference)
1 can of artichoke hearts (yes... my kids didn't know what they were but ended up liking them!)
1 can of small black beans
1-2 Tablespoons of Capers
Parmesan cheese (optional, but I always have a block in my fridge to freshly grate!)

This is so quick-- you can have it on the table in the amount of time it takes to boil water and cook spaghetti noodles!  I keep all of this stuff stocked in my cupboard or fridge so I didn't even have to shop for anything. They are all staples if you want to stock them too! I will say that I prefer dried beans but that requires overnight soaking and sometimes you just need a very quick, last minute meal... so here you go!

1. Start that water boiling. Chop up the onion.
2. Brown the ground beef and the onions at the same time. Add in the cinnamon, chili powder or cumin, and the sea salt to taste. I generally shake each one around so the whole thing is generally spiced, and mix it all together. I don't measure. Taste it and see... I could eat this without anything else! ;)
3. Put the meat mixture in a saucepan with the spaghetti sauce, the artichoke hearts, the beans and the capers. (This is not really cooking... just putting things in one pot!) Simmer while the noodles are cooking.
4. Your water should be boiling, so put the spaghetti in and by the time the noodles are done, so will everything else. Serve it up by plate and add some grated Parmesan cheese if you like that. (I love that.)
5. Enjoy!


I know lately I've been wrapped up in eating as healthfully as I can, sometimes asking a little too much in the way food is prepared. Everyone has their limits. And a lot can be said for moderation. It is a great goal to be able to eat 100% purely organic and fresh, but that's not reality for most people (unless you have your own farm!) so it's better to just do what you can and not stress out about it. Stress can cause disease in people who do eat wonderfully. Sometimes meals just need to be put on the table. I hate having to read labels and follow recipes, so basically I cook fresh vegetables, meat, and a side like rice, quinoa or a potato dish on regular nights. I keep it pretty simple. Buying fresh produce isn't expensive... and I want to compare it to frozen, because that's an option too. If you're buying produce in season, it tends to be the cheapest option and tastes the best. I've been training myself to sniff spices from my cupboard and then think about how they would taste with a vegetable or meat. I think you can trust your own judgement about that more than recipes. Cooking isn't really an exact science... there's leeway in there to try things on your own. Baking needs more exact measurements but even that can be fun to experiment with. I just think it's very satisfying to put dinner on the table, even if it's just this simple cupboard pasta and have the kids say that they really like it, their bellies are full of good food I made, and I have some great leftovers to reheat for lunch! ;)  I never told you this but I'm a lazy cook... it takes a lot for me to want to spend time cutting up all the vegetables or being patient with the meat. But the payoff to doing this is wonderful. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this way! Hope you do try this pasta... and if you have your own version, send it to me! :D

Thursday, March 29, 2012

a flock of chickens, cholera and an incredible little pill

I wanted to share this little story with you because it amazed me and was a big reason why I wanted to dig deeper into studying homeopathy and its healing potential. I hope you are as amazed as I was!

[Excerpted from Joette Calabrese's Cure Yourself and Your Family With Homeopathy: Empowering Mothers & Others to Bring Healing Back Home]

"Years ago when our family moved to the country it seemed a natural decision to raise chickens. Up to that point I’d never treated an animal so when one of our chickens became ill one afternoon I knew it was time to open that door. One morning our sons noticed that one of the chickens was walking “funny”. Her gait had rigidity to it. Next, we observed violent diarrhea and vomiting and she was taking frequent sips of water from the trough. These symptoms began at about 1:00 in the afternoon. By 3:00 she was laying on the ground trembling and salivating; by 4:00 she was dead. The first thought I had was poisoning such as mouse poisoning since our flock is free ranging and has been known to go off our property to a neighbor’s barn. It appeared to be an isolated incident so we buried her and kept the flock closer to home. However two days later another chicken began acting the same way. This one appeared cold from the onset and still assuming it may have been poisoned by perhaps arsenic, I gave her Arsenicum album 30c but with no response. She died so quickly (less than 3 hours) that I didn’t have time to repertorize. I phoned a veterinary friend to see if she had any ideas. She thought it sounded like foul cholera. Now I realized I needed totake quick action. I looked up foul cholera in my Chicken Health Handbook, a veterinary farming book, and sure enough the symptoms matched.   It said that one should expect a 45-55% mortality rate from foul cholera in a flock, even with the use of the recommended antibiotics. Additionally, those birds that survived would often be left with debilitating chronic cholera that would result in the inability to lay eggs. I’ve prided myself on the health of our chickens, giving them organic homemade mash including flaxseeds and plenty of worms. I certainly didn’t want half a flock of dead chickens and the remaining half chronically ill, not to mention that our hens were not only our egg sources but much loved pets. By the time I was off the phone with my friend, our 11-year and 6-year-old sons came in the house with two more sick hens… their two favorites, Gloria and Gladys! Gloria was lying on her side salivating with slight tremors.   I knew that meant she could have less than 1 hour left. Gladys was still at the thirsty, diarrhea, vomiting stage. Quickly I looked under rectum: cholera in my repertory hoping to find that foul cholera was enough like human cholera to indicate the same remedies. Cuprum, Veratrum album, and Camphor were the leading remedies. I didn’t bother with reading the differentials at that moment, as I knew Cuprum metallicum covered stiffness of the extremities, which would explain the odd little gait they displayed.  I ran to my remedy stock and found Cuprum first and promptly opened Gloria’s little beak and inserted 2 pellets. It was good enough for the moment.  I thought I’d differentiate after I’d gotten something in her mouth. Gladys got the same. With a little sense of relief I began to look for other clues when I noticed that Gloria was sitting up (in approximately 3 minutes).  Gladys no longer had diarrhea and vomiting, so the boys and I just watched. Gloria began to tremor again and go down on her side.   I gave her another dose and within 5 minutes she was walking. Gladys needed another dose shortly after and it revived her to pecking the floor (a good sign for chickens). Gloria received her third dose approximately 2 hours later when she appeared to be weakening again.   This revived her to full chicken activity by the end of the day! Later I gave Cuprum metallicum 30c to the entire flock as a prophylactic measure. One of my sons brought chickens to me one by one to give them each a dose of Cuprum metallicum 30c.  In hindsight I realize I could have put a dose into their water, but it felt good to take part in dispensing. We watched carefully for the next two days. There were no relapses and no new victims. Since this was an epidemic I viewed each chicken as part of the whole community and assumed that they had all contracted cholera since we have only one watering trough. We scrubbed down the coup and in doing so found the source of the infection: a dead wild bird was under the hay pile. Foul cholera usually strikes chickens that have contact with an infected wild bird.    

It’s been many years since this incident and I see only healthy contented chickens. There have been no additional deaths and no chronic illness following this incident. Gloria and Gladys each happily lay 1 egg daily nearly all year, as does the entire flock.  What a powerful reminder of homeopathy’s sterling reputation in an epidemic! "

This is a good example for doubting Thomases who think homeopathy is just a placebo effect. It works on animals and babies who have no idea what it is or what it's supposed to do... it just works!

I also wanted to share the great news:  I start my classes in May! I'm all registered and along with my homeopathy units, I also take Anatomy and Physiology. It's been 27 years since I took that course... I hope I do remember something! :P  Craig found some 3-D apps to help with that. Caroline will be taking Biology this fall so maybe we can compare notes. My spring cleaning is underway too! I'm trying to do a room a day when I can. That list I posted below is a good one to go over anything I might not think of doing. The weather is cooler so it's hard to do the windows. Hope you're having a good week!

Monday, March 26, 2012

spring cleaning


As much as I dread the work of it, I do look forward to a clean house and clean closets! I'm a little behind on starting, but today is officially the beginning of spring cleaning!

Here is a great blog post by Marissa with a "One-a-day Challenge": click here. We all know that breaking down any large task to small, manageable jobs makes the work easier. I like following a new list too because it puts some fun into the usual routine.

*20 Mule Team Borax was found to be the best at cleaning hard tub grime by Marissa at Finely Ground!

*Putting audio books, lectures by favorite speakers or just really good new music on your ipod also makes mindless cleaning a lot more fun!

** 9 Quick Tips for Keeping your Home feeling Serene and Organized!

Please leave me any of your suggestions for spring cleaning! I'd love to hear them...

Saturday, March 24, 2012

some changes around here

I hated to do it and have almost done this for years... making my blog private ended up being something I was feeling I needed to do. There are just too many crazies out there and I don't like it when I get weird comments from them. I love being open and sharing my life with all of you, so I didn't want to stop writing Red Yarn or have a way to connect with my blogging friends. I hope this works. I just dread the feeling that I've forgotten to include someone on the list of people with access.  My kids are getting older and with technology opening the doors to private lives, I thought maybe it's time to close some doors. I am not a fan of Facebook and I felt like with blogger I was beginning to lose control of how many people read but I never knew them-- about 160 hits a day! It sort of freaked me out. So....

I hope you stick around and please let me know what it's like on your end to read this...does it go straight through to my blog without any problem? Thank you!!!! xo

Friday, March 23, 2012

I can't keep it a secret anymore!!!

I applied to The School of Homeopathy in Devon, England and I received my acceptance letter two days ago! I was practically jumping up and down!!!  I would be doing the home study program here in the U.S. It's a four year program, with the last year being clinical work. I didn't want to share this until I had confirmation and talked to Craig more about it. I'm not exactly sure when I can start. I still have some debt from Hatch to pay off but the end of that road is near. I've been reading a lot about homeopathy and the more I read, the more I want to know. This is definitely a different direction than doing my art or illustration but I have a feeling that those things will all converge at some point. I have always chosen work based on if it makes the world a better place to live in, so this is being true to who I am.

I know homeopathy is not something that everyone is familiar with so there lies the hardest part of this whole journey. But what I do know is that regular medicine does not always have all the answers and this is a compliment or an alternative to what is sometimes too expensive or has too many side effects or is not meeting all the needs of the patient. There has been a lot of criticism of homeopathy and that's easy to find. But with scientific advances come more scientific answers and those in the scientific community are finding out that what couldn't previously be "proven" according to their methods, was just more advanced for it's time, and can be proven now. The Lancet recently published it's findings based on a number of studies done previously on homeopathy, and they proclaimed homeopathy scientifically based. Homeopathic treatment is different than traditional allopathic medicine and even herbal and chinese medicine. There are provings that have existed for 200 years and those still stand as facts today.

I was telling my mom that I imagine there were many doctors who used homeopathy when families were moving out West during the settling of our country and were miles and miles from any large city or hospital. And even then, there were actual homeopathic hospitals built and in operation for awhile. Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia was originally a homeopathic hospital named for homeopathy's founder Samuel Hahnemann. It changed to an allopathic hospital and few today probably know where it's roots lay.  One of my inspirations is also Mother Teresa who used homeopathy in her ministry in India. Homeopathy is not considered "alternative" in India nor in other countries.

I'm sure there's lots more to tell, but this is a busy day! I just have been busting to share my news with you and it is actually inspiring me to be creative again too. I'm starting a little counted cross stitch from Alicia, and doodling again which is a good sign. ;)
Have a great weekend!!!
xo

Thursday, March 22, 2012

a hint


I am SO excited about what I'm going to begin!!! I'm very close to sharing the big news with everyone! :)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Second Acts



I just happened to see this clip on The Today Show yesterday. It is inspiring because the general rule of thought was that whatever you chose as your career when you're going into college or in your twenties, is what you do for the rest of your life! But that doesn't have to be the case... and that's where I'm finding myself also.  The cheerleader happens to be from my hometown- Cincinnati, but don't worry... I'm NOT looking into being a cheerleader!!! ;)  There are two more women interviewed who also chose drastically different careers than what they had done previously. The verdict: They are happy!

let them eat cake



I posted these photos for Mom :)  He had an oreo birthday cake (I obviously didn't bake it). And it was his "best day ever"!

Today it's supposed to get up to 80º F outside! I think we went from autumn to spring to summer, all in the span of what should have been winter. Whether or not there is global warming, there is definitely warming around here!

If you happen to be suffering from hayfever or spring allergies right now or know someone who is, here is a list of remedies that won't make you drowsy and are gentle on the stomach: click here

I hope you have a great Wednesday!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Happy Spring and Happy Birthday...

There was plenty of happiness at this house very early this morning (look at that face!!!). Nathaniel turned 14 years old today and we surprised him with his own laptop (yes, it will probably go to college in another four years! yikes). I could not have asked for a better son-- he's so much fun and he's a great student and just a good guy. And on top of it all, we stood side-by-side last evening and I think he's actually taller than me now!!! I think he's quickly heading towards the 6 ft. mark and maybe beyond! I'm sure he's anxious to get home to play with his new toy and enjoyed having the day at school with all his friends. Maybe the sun will actually come out today too!

Caroline bought him some fancy earphones hidden in a shoe box!
He's sporting his new Mister Platypus Tee and is only half awake!

And I can never forget to send a "Happy Birthday" up to heaven to one of my favorite people-- Fred Rogers. I think there's a reason that Nathaniel was born on this day. It's a very special one!

Monday, March 19, 2012

sewing...

Caroline wants to learn to sew and hopefully this book will inspire her! She loves anything Asian and is really into some Asian drama, just for the clothes. I hope we actually follow through and try something! Spring starts tomorrow (and it's also Nathaniel's birthday) so there's a lot of excitement about what's coming up and what we can accomplish. The weather has been wonderful. I am much better when I can have some fresh air in the house. The ground is warm and ready for plants already. I'm helping out tonight at our Parish Renewal Services. I also have something I'm planning and it's really very huge-- well, really huge to me. And it's not anything to do with art so this is a brave step. I'm trying to be true to myself and not compare myself to others, because it's a little different and not what I'd call "the beaten path". I'll let you know when it's a go!

I've been writing and rewriting this post because I wanted it to come out right-- it is really easy to fall into comparing myself with others. I read blogs and wish that I was more like that person or had accomplished a lot more and then it kind of spirals into feeling badly about myself. There are definitely things I wish I could have done differently but we do what we do at the time, because that was what we knew. That's what my mom always tells me. If I had it to do all over again, I might have home-schooled, or raised chickens or sewed all the kids' clothing. I might have tried to travel more or maybe publish a book. I have to remember that all the blogs we read where it seems that life is so perfect, is a lot like our own lives-- there are ups and downs and trials for each one of us. My favorite blogs are the ones that are real. Sometimes I tend not to write about the problems as much because it's natural to highlight the good stuff. I hope you realize that-- there are ups and downs to my life and everyone else's. So when I'm comparing my life to what others are doing, then I just need to remember that life is a challenge for everyone. And I can look forward to making some new happy things happen!


"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." Mother Teresa

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Gorgeous day for riding



a feast for the senses...

I just got back from a beautiful walk with Elle at Landis Valley Museum and the whole time I was wishing that I could share this with you!  The temperatures are around 70º which I think is just perfect, there's a slight breeze, lots of sunshine, and you can smell the signs of spring! As I passed the little farm, two tiny lambs came out to sit in the sun! They must have just been born recently. You can see the two of them laying together in the grass in the middle of the photo...




It's so important for me to live around places like this-- nature and a place that reminds me to slow down and just enjoy the moment. I'm always transported back in time when we go there. I think I could be very content living a simpler life. This week has been a very difficult one, dealing with some family problems and they are getting resolved, but it takes some time to regain some energy and peace. I think God knew I needed this walk today. It made me smile.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

it's that time again...

Time to plan the garden! I've noticed some good heirloom options around town so I'm getting excited to actually plant! Hopefully March won't surprise us with a sudden turn to snow one more time. I just found Happy Cat Farm which has heirloom seeds and some other really neat stuff for sale. They aren't too far from us in Kennett Square, PA, but they sell their seeds in my markets here and online.

I also just found Tulip Tree Hill Farm here in Lancaster, PA which sells heirloom seedlings in 4" pots! They have a little stand at Central Market and they will also be showing at the Landis Valley Museum's 25th Annual Herb and Garden Faire on May 11th.

And I've written about them before, but one of the best places to buy heirloom seeds with the largest varieties is Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, MO.  They have their own seed bank and are helping preserve many vegetables that you just don't see in the supermarket anymore. Hopefully they have some left!

We were just going through the list of plants and thinking we might try melons this year. They take up more space but right now the thought of fresh cool juicy melons on a hot day sounds wonderful! We'll also grow some tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, and herbs. Are you growing anything this year?

{Just a note: My friend Jen posted about seeds also and pointed out that Monsanto owns about 80% of the garden seeds on the market, like Burpee, Park Seed and Ferry Morris. If you want to buy seeds that are guaranteed to be GMO free and you don't like the idea of supporting the bottom line of Monsanto, then seek out seeds like those above or check out this post which lists safe seeds and evil seeds!! ;P}



I just found this heirloom seed business in my own backyard!: Amishland Heirloom Seeds


Friday, March 9, 2012

happy friday


Spring is just around the corner! I know this because Nathaniel's birthday is March 20, the First Day of Spring!  We were outside in near 70º weather yesterday-- the sun was shining and the daffodils and crocuses are blooming! The cherry blossoms in D.C. should be showing soon too (Just south of us)! The Daylight Savings Time change occurs on Saturday night which is not good news-- I lose my hour of sleep-- but that means that our days will feel longer and brighter.

Usually right now I'm leaving to go do my Pilates lesson downtown, but I did that yesterday! My instructor has become a friend... someone to look forward to seeing and exchanging little snips of news from the week. I think it truly is the perfect form of exercise-- I can do it on my own and I use the apparatus at the studio. It creates a long, lean, strong physique and balance. This is the key: Balance. Not only in the physical sense, but emotionally and mentally. These things all work together. After a Pilates session you should feel light and happy! It never feels like work... I feel like I just got a massage after I do it! I also just finished reading Gary Calderone's The Pilates Path to Health: Body, Mind and Spirit which is a great overview of Joseph Pilate's life and inspiration and how Pilates or Contrology as Joe called it, promotes complete health. Brooke Siler's The Pilates Body is another excellent book I'd recommend, that has all the exercises you can do at home on the mat!

On Tuesday was the best day: my friend Erinn from Philly came into town and we had lunch and then I showed her around Central Market. We also discovered BellaBoo, a really adorable children's shop with lots of toys and clothing for little ones. It's fun to show people around town because I end up discovering things that I go right past all the time. I am planning on exploring Erinn's town in another month!

And last, but not least, is a note with a drawing that I received from my favorite cartoonist (Nathaniel) taped to the microwave. It states: "I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite restaurant on the Citadel."  I take that as the ultimate compliment from my teenage son! ;D


Have a great weekend!!!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Fence Rows and Gut Health | Your Family Cow


 I guess when you have a public blog, you have to expect that somebody will turn up out of the blue and decide they know better and post a comment. I don't know if anyone noticed the comment I deleted under my post about homeopathy? Someone stated something negative about my facts about antibiotics. Well, of course most people know that doctors have been saying that the overuse of antibiotics is a problem right now. People are becoming resistant to them and need even stronger doses to work. Our children are taking antibiotics from their pediatricians who are still dispersing it freely. Dermatologists prescribe them for teens with acne. We use antibacterial soaps and hand gels even though they are destroying any good bacteria. And that's just the point: somewhere along the line we started to believe that all bacteria is bad and must be wiped out!  That is exactly what antibiotics do-- they wipe out ALL the bacteria in our intestines which makes us susceptible to any pathogen that could become a problem. And that's where most diseases start.

My farmer Edwin Shank has written a blog post which explains how this happens in nature. If you've ever observed weeds in your yard (and who hasn't?) then it is a good example of how things work inside your intestines. This is a good little story to read to the family because your kids need to know this lesson too! The more we all understand how our body and nature works, the better the world and the people in it will be!:

Fence Rows and Gut Health | Your Family Cow

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

a little fun

Vive les crêpes!



A very cute animation short :)

Why are they spraying?



I am seriously worried about Bill Gates' motives. I think it's greed, pure and simple. I've heard about this chemical spraying in the atmosphere too. I would hope that our governments would be able to put a stop to this, but unfortunately money talks to politicians. My money isn't going to buy any of Bill Gates' products!

Monday, March 5, 2012

homeopathy: my introduction


I've been wanting to write about my new interest in homeopathy but it's such an expansive topic, I wasn't sure how to write a short post!  So I'll try to make this as brief as possible. When our family was sick with the flu last month, I was googling remedies and info, and I came upon Joette Calabrese's website on homeopathy and it intrigued me. Joette teaches people how to treat acute illnesses at home (such as colds, flu, earaches, small injuries, etc.) and she publishes articles about homeopathy in my Wise Traditions Journal.  Homeopathy is a practice of remedies based on similars: like cures like. Samuel Hahnemann found over 200 years ago that a minute amount of a natural substance introduced to the body will cause a natural response similar to the body's natural response and will instigate it to cure itself.   This is not herbal medicine or holistic medicine. Each remedy has been "proved" and there is a materia medica which lists each one with all their properties. Here is the fascinating thing: to find the correct remedy, you must match the symptoms AND the emotional/mental/physical state of the person. So, if someone has the flu, there are many remedies for many different types of symptoms of the flu. These must be matched to the person. The flu is only a symptom of something deeper that is out of balance and to cure that illness, you must figure out what the specific symptoms are. So symptoms are actually celebrated... the more unique, the better the chance of finding the right remedy! Conversely, medicine of commerce only suppresses the symptoms of an illness. There usually isn't much healing going on at all. This is why antiobiotics don't work-- they take away the symptom, but leave the underlying cause and sometimes that cause grows stronger and the antiobiotics need to be stronger the next time to take away the symptoms. See how this is not a path towards true health? Medicine of commerce always has side effects too. Homeopathic remedies have no side effects! That's because they address the appropriate issue and they do not disrupt anything else in the body.

What we don't realize in the United States is that homeopathy used to be one of the prime forms of medicine in our country. There were homeopathic hospitals. It wasn't until antibiotics were discovered and the American Medical Assoc. (ADA) was formed, did medicine of commerce push homeopathy to the sidelines. Homeopathic medicine is very inexpensive and there are no patents on it. There is no big money to be made and pharmaceuticals are fueled by profit (of course!). In other countries around the world, homeopathy still exists as a leading form of medicine practiced. The Royal Family of England has used homeopathy for years and the Queen never goes on a trip without her travel case of remedies. Mother Theresa used homeopathy extensively in her ministry in India, where homeopathy is still the leading way to practice medicine. Many other famous people have elected to use homeopathy as their main form of treatment for illness, and and so have countless families who are able to heal their loved ones at home without needing to consult a doctor for the regular challenges of health. We do need homeopathic doctors to help us with the chronic conditions because there is a proper way to go through the healing process of longer term illnesses and challenges. My own niece used homeopathic drops suggested by her family doctor instead of allergy shots to heal her from her allergies. It does work!

I highly recommend Joette's website and she also sells CD's from which I'm learning a lot! I put it on my iPod and listen as I clean or do errands. I also read Miranda Castro's book The Complete Homeopathy Handbook which is a wonderful introduction to homeopathy and how to treat acute illness at home. It has it's own materia medica and reperatory so that you can figure it out. I also ordered a kit, which is necessary to have around for first aid. The first night I had it, I burnt my finger and quickly took some Arnica (2 pellets at 30c dosage each) and the burn slowly receded until you could not see it at all and there was no blister (unlike the scar I have on my arm from the oven at Christmas!). I have already cured myself of the start of an infection (that I had previously taken antibiotics for!), quickly got rid of cramps, healed Caroline of a slight acute condition, am helping Nathaniel with an issue he's had... it's just amazing! I find myself saying all the time, "I can cure that!". I've started a notebook that includes every family member (and eventually my dog Elle) to keep track of symptoms and how I've treated them so I can be on top of anything that comes along.

After spending nearly $1000.00 on tests at the doctor's office recently to see why Caroline had swollen glands for a couple months and getting NO answer, I wish I had known about homeopathy. Now, if this happens again, I just need to take her symptoms, check my repertory and materia medica and see if I can find a remedy. And if not, I can call Joette or any homeopath to help me. Cost? Probably $6.00 for a bottle of the remedy (if I don't have it) and I probably wouldn't use it all either and maybe around $100-200 max for an initial consultation with a homeopath (after that, it's a lot less because they've already done your interview for all of your basic symptoms which can take 1 1/2 to 2 hours).

All of this political bickering about medical insurance is really just a fight over who is going to pay for medicine that in the end, does not heal us. I'm not saying we don't need surgeons and medical training. But I am saying that most of it is unnecessary and all of it is way over priced! Homeopathy offers such a kind solution to illness and healing and I hope you will learn more about it too!