Executive Co-Op Member Kelly
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Hello! It’s my understanding that the strength of the smell is what has the impact, but I have mostly only followed classical homeopathy and I know that’s not all that there is, so I may not be up to date…that said, here’s what I’ve heard:
Camphor should be avoided in all instances while under homeopathic treatment.
Mint should be moderately avoided – like, don’t brush your teeth with minty toothpaste or use minty essential oils the day that you take a remedy.
Coffee is fine so long as you’re used to having it (drinking or rectally) before you start the remedy but starting coffee may antidote when the system isn’t used to it.
I think so long as you don’t eat or drink anything other than water for 30 minutes before or after taking the remedy, it should have the time and opportunity to imprint the system. I haven’t had any antidoting occur in 4 years working with homeopathy, the only mint I’m exposed to is in AV tooth products, and I do avoid camphor.
Antidoting is just cancelling out the remedy you’ve taken so in the case that that occurs you just retake the remedy. My homeopath says that you’ll know if you’ve antidoted it if there is a change back to how you felt before you took the remedy (different than the return of past symptoms – as those would be not immediately related to what you’ve consulted the homeopath about about ie: being treated for hormonal imbalance and migraine auras occurring that haven’t occurred since the time of puberty etc; antidoting would be return of a regular mood swing that occurred premenstrually and had been occurring up until the correct remedy in the correct potency was administered).
Hope this is helpful in some way 💓
Editing to add:
Tissue salts and isopathics, as I understand them, are working more on a biochemic level than strictly the frequency/energetic, as there is more of the original substance available due to their lower potency form, so the impacts of mint would, to my mind, be less of an issue but I’m open to being corrected. Also, as tissue salts and isopathics are taken on a more frequent basis, their frequencies will constantly be reaffirmed rather than with a more classical approach of dosing a 1M potency remedy once a month whose energetic imprint isn’t regularly affirmed and the result of antidote would be more dramatically noticed.
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This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by
Kelly.
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Thank you all so much for your thoughtful responses! I really appreciate y’all taking the time to reply and it has been so helpful!
I’ll just do a quick update:
Two of the cows have calved within the last month, and as they are first calf heifers (this is their first baby and lactation), they aren’t making an over abundance of milk (1.5 gallons/day) so I have worked deals with some of my closest friends in a barter exchange, which really feels ideal for the time being. I trade for fresh sourdough, a couple hours of childcare (Kai goes to his best friends house and plays for a couple hours without me there!) and work on the farm (a friend who loves natural building and is helping build a root cellar and a sweat lodge) ??
The really large producing cow isn’t due to calve until October so I have a little more time to keep learning, which is great as this small scale experience is helping me to iron out the kinks of providing milk for my community.
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This is Bessy. She is primarily Holstein, which is a breed that has selected more for quantity of production and is the stereotypical milk cow coloring. She calved 2 weeks ago and is giving 1 gallon a day with once a day milking as well.
We ‘calf-share’, which means we don’t pull the babies off of their mamas at birth like many do, we leave them together full time for usually 2 weeks, until the calves are ‘keeping up’ with the milk and not letting us have enough at milking. Once this happens, we turn the cows out to graze in the morning, for the day, and keep the calves in a pen where they hang out all day. I usually halter Bessy in the pasture and lead her to the stanchion to milk and let Jelly in with the calves and she nurses them both. Then they all spend the night together in the pen until the calves are a little older and I’m confident that they will stay within the Hotwire fence at night so as not to wander off and upset their mamas.
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From my understanding of homeopathy, most topicals are suppressive for skin issues and can drive disease from a physical level in to mental or emotional levels (also, my teenage experience confirms that) so the essential oils, like a colloids silver, would give results but possibly at a cost.
Homeopathy or Isopathics would be the route I would choose. I have searched in some of my homeopathy groups and found a chart from a repertory that I’ll attach for symptom match/ identification.
In the isopathic book that Barre posted recently to Elin’s question (in ask Dr Barre), there is a very nice key that may help to identify the proper isopathics – I didn’t see ring worm specifically but to my mind cross referencing skin conditions like dermatitis with other skin conditions on there (rosacea, acne etc) and finding the common remedies/ protocols would give a starting point with which to then dowse a personalized protocol…
I’m not sure yet the symbiosis between the isopathics and homeopathics so commitment to one route may be best to keep the system from confusion…
Hope something from here helps or provides a starting point.
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Kev, great questions! Thanks for your interest, it is such a neat topic (to me anyway)!
A cows milk production peaks (for that individual lactation) around 3 months post calving but it generally doesn’t taper unless there is not enough nutrition or the demand is not there. They will continue to produce indefinitely per the demand placed upon them, just like a breastfeeding woman.
In order to dry them up, you reduce demand and they naturally taper off. In our herd, that is when we wean the calf and then hand milk twice a day to see what she is producing and each week, take gradually less (say she’s at a gallon, twice a day, we would take 3/4 of a gallon twice a day for a week, then go to 1/2 a gallon twice a day for a week, then I usually feel safe to switch to 1 gallon once a day, and taper that over another week or two down to a half gallon once a day, and then, in my experience, you just stop milking and she will completely dry off on her own). The industry has chemicals that they inject up the teat to make the process happen over night but I’m not privy to that as it doesn’t interest me lol. I’m sure that there are herbs and essential oils that could be utilized to aid/ speed the process, if one was so inclined.
The amount of time that you can go in between milking is dependent on the cows production and whether or not you are calf sharing and the calf’s consumption. My older cow (first cow) makes 4 gallons a day minimum from the day she calves forward so she has to be milked everyday for at least the first month because even while calf sharing, the calf isn’t consuming enough to make any difference and her production would likely tank from the demand side of things, she would be very uncomfortable, plus there is a programmed in fear (normie world) that when the milk stagnates at such a large volume it can cause mastitis (my guess as to the real explanation of this is that a conflict would be created because of the separation/loss conflict bc of absence of calf/milking – normal dairy people just think it is because of bacterial contamination that ‘creeps in’ to the teat ??♀️ but they also believe success at ‘combatting’ mastitis is accomplished by removing all the milk – which isn’t actually possible). Its general practice to milk everyday so that there is flow/circulation of milk happening, once a day is fine but the cow will be tight bagged and most likely uncomfortable when it’s time to milk if she is a big producer. I do tend to think a routine is necessary from a comfort standpoint as they have been genetically selected over time to make so much more milk than their calf can drink.
Once a calf can keep up with the milk, or more calves (generally orphans) are ‘given’ to the cow to nurse the extra milk, all dependent on the cow (also, the first lactation is the smallest volume with a general ‘peak’ at third lactation and then a plateau at that level), a cow can be milked at the dairyman’s leisure but the calves will need to be separated so that enough milk can build up to make it in to the bucket.
Hope this sheds some more light on the day to day of keeping a homestead milk cow. ?
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