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| Hpathy Ezine - June, 2004 | |||||
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Joe Lillard<-- Interviewed by Elaine Lewis |
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Joe...? This interview is taking on an eerie Shirley Reischman quality; because last month, Shirley was our 'Homeopath in the Hot Seat', and she answered all my questions with one word until finally I had to explain the Interview Format to her, and come to think of it, this is the very same Shirley Reischman who spent a week with you at Berkeley Springs in April! It's all coming together now! [Did I mention that Shirley called me right in the middle of "Motown 45"? It's true! I said, "Shirley, The Supremes! Mary Wilson! Cindy Birdsong! Why aren't you watching? Call me back!" So, she called back right in the middle of The Temptations, and Shana, my daughter, was furiously writing me messages--in pencil--and holding them up, and me without my glasses--she was trying to get me to turn up the TV, but, Shirley had an important cat case she was telling me about, and then Shana started to cry, and I said, "Shirley, Shana's crying because The Temptations are on!" and she said, "Oh, I meant to put that on my calendar." (Aaaah!)] And I say all this to point out that in homeopathy, we can't accept one-word answers. So, let's try something different. Perhaps you can tell me what your first experience with homeopathy was all about, and how did you hear of it? (Try to be expansive, if at all possible.)
Elaine, my answers are rushed, & therefore I would only be long if you want long. For instance: I could simply tell you that Linda Arnold introduced the medicine to me in 1977 or '78.
And I could call out the firing squad. Or, I could go on. Here's the go on - She smeared something on a chain-saw wound I had and not another thing, and it didn't get infected - hmmm, it was probably Calendula. A few weeks later I was leading a crew of Xmas tree cutters and got my back stuck, bent over. Bad timing - I struggled back home and Linda was there - she asked what happened and went to her remedies and came back and gave me a dose - I went right back to work - no more problems for years.
Probably Bryonia. She used the pendulum to find which remedy she wanted to use - quite a mystery and one I didn't have time to figure out. Instead, I believe it was the next summer before I looked further into homeopathy - I was looking for a way to treat animals going to DC... Hardly seems fair to the animals who weren't going to DC.... ...and, looking in the Yellow Pages - the only thing listed was the National Center, so I went there and bought the last kit they had - they had no books for sale. Then I went to the only alternative book store I knew about and bought the two books they had - Boericke's and a Cowperthwaite. The first "case" I recall was with Jane Doyle's goat - we fiddled around with the question of whether it was smellier than tender and I believe we voted for tender - gave the goat Hepar Sulph 6x - a few times and the abscess she had been to the vet for several times just went away. Jane went on to be a Veterinarian (in Berkeley Springs regularly using homeopathy) and I became whatever I am.
A cliff-hanger! What a great way to end this interview - Who IS Joe Lillard? Well, time for lunch!
Joe Lillard Washington Homeopathic Products 33 Fairfax St., |
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