|
Cancer Healing & Energetics (VIII)
Homeopathy, Carcinosinum and CancerIntroduction by Healing Cancer Naturally © 2006 Following is a brilliant article written by Dr. Tinus Smits which gives both a deep insight into the homeopathic “cancer remedy” named
Carcinosinum and the way homeopathy works as a holistic treatment which addresses and works on the patient’s emotional, mental and spiritual “energetic” bodies. Regarding the author’s contention that the suppression of fever and related self-healing mechanisms in childhood lowers the person’s
ability to fight “intruders” and contributes to cancer causation, it is interesting that there are studies such as those mentioned by the German health food magazine “Schrot und Korn” in its June 2007
edition: an article discussing the pros and cons of vaccination cites Steffen Rabe MD, a Munich pediatrician, who “knows a number of studies proving that people who had measles in their youth contract cancer much more rarely”.
INSPIRING HOMEOPATHY Edited and annotated by Healing Cancer Naturally Links concerning Carcinosinum: INTRODUCTION For many years already Carcinosinum has had a special place in my practice and I have always been seeking for the essence and deeper understanding of it. Slowly this remedy has revealed its secrets to me and I felt the need to publish my understanding and experience with this nosode, the more so because Carcinosinum has become part of a totally new way of treating patients, namely the treatment of universal layers. PRODUCT Until recently I thought that the Carcinosinum we use all over the world was everywhere the same. The one I used was from Dolisos in Holland, which is the same as that from Nelson in London and is made with at least 15 different tumors. Colleagues who attended my seminars in the past and tried to apply my way of treatment told me that they were not able to obtain the same cures with Carcinosinum as I did and that they didn’t see as often as I did the shift to the next layer (most of the time that of Saccharum officinale) after a prolonged treatment with this remedy. One colleague from the USA even wrote to me: ‘Maybe you have special ability to connect and transmit healing through your understanding, because our results with Carcinosinum are not as good as yours.’ Though his explanation was very flattering for my ego, I was seeking for another explanation that I found only two years later: the quality of their Carcinosinum was not the same as the one I used. The one-tumor-Carcinosinum, made with a mammary tumor of one woman is surely not universal enough to resolve the whole Carcinosinum layer and not capable of causing a shift to the next layer. In many cases the one-tumor Carcinosinum will give only partial results for a short time and that’s what happened to my colleagues in the US when they tried out what I taught them. The Nelson Carcinosinum (London) is made of the following different carcinomas: Carcinoma Adeno (stomach), Carcinoma Papillary (colon), Carcinoma Papillary (ovary), Carcinoma Papillary (uterus), Carcinoma (bowel), Carcinoma Co. (bowel), Carcinoma Co. (K) - (K is a composite of carcinomas supplied by Koch Light) - Carcinoma Scirrhus (mamma), Carcinoma Scirrhus (stomach), Carcinoma Squamous (pulm). (source: A. Nelson & Co Ltd, London). A little investigation in different countries taught me that there are Carcinosinums made out of 58 different tumors (source Stauffen, Germany) and of only one tumor. This gives us the following listing: Holland: Dolisos 15 Belgium: Homeoden 1 Germany: Stauffen 58, with exclusion of bowel tumors France: Dolisos Prohibited! Switzerland: Dolisos 15 USA: Boiron 1 This means that homeopaths all over the world use and discuss quite different remedies when talking about Carcinosinum. It is clear that the one-tumor Carcinosinum is different from a 15 or 48 tumor Carcinosinum. I suggest that one-tumor-Carcinosinum should therefore be named after the tumor that is used, e.g. Carcinoma mamma, Carcinoma rectum. Only the remedy made with different tumors should be called Carcinosinum, followed by the number of tumors used, e.g. Carcinosinum (15T) 30K. The mixture of different tumors is important in my opinion because this makes it a universal remedy, applicable in a very wide range. That’s the reason that I made Lac Maternum out of 10 different samples of mother’s milk, the same procedure being followed for Vernix caseosa. HISTORY When we look at how Carcinosinum was born as a new therapeutic tool for the homeopath of this century, the first step, the basis of this remedy, was established by William Boericke, J.H.Clarke and J.H. Compton Burnett in the first part of this century. Carcinosinum was given renewed attention by Dr. D.M. Foubister from England in the fifties. He mainly experienced the remedy in practice and never did full provings. To this day, the origin of the remedy he used is still not very clear. I quote from the article published in October 1982 by Dr. Dorothy J. Cooper in the British homoeopathic Journal, Vol.71, no. 10. ‘ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF CARCINOSIN’. ‘Initially we must identify the substance under discussion. The preparation used by Dr. Foubister and Dr. Templeton in clinical practice and trials, was the original preparation of Carcinosin, the source of which is unknown. It was brought over from the United States and was probably prepared from an epithelioma of breast..... And then several other homeopaths published their experiences or did provings. Slowly the number of symptoms grew, but the deeper understanding of Carcinosinum remained unknown. In the 'Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy’, volume 82, number 4, December 1989, Jonathan Shore says in his article 'Carcinosinum: an overview with case studies': "I cannot say that I have identified a single thread or idea around which the whole image crystallizes, a kernel which sets this remedy clearly apart from all the others such as the idea of being overwhelmed which one often sees in Calcarea, "The desires and aversions are often the first clue that sets the prescriber's mind thinking of Carcinosinum." The diffusion of Phosphorus, or the cowardice of Lycopodium." and further on: But if we understand the essence, desires and aversions become much less important and in this remedy the desires and aversions are not stable indications for its choice. That’s why I retained only ‘desire chocolate’ as a valuable symptom in the synthesis of keynotes. BACK TO THE ESSENTIALS The problem with this remedy is that so many homeopaths added symptoms of which a certain number turned out -at least in my experience- not to be reliable or irrelevant. For many years I verified all these symptoms with every prescription and it became clear to me what symptoms to focus on and what symptoms to eradicate from the picture to have a more reliable and practical picture to prescribe on. It seems to be difficult, once a symptom is entered in the Materia Medica, to get rid of it, even when it turns out to be based on an error. So I started to take out symptoms from the picture that were of no value in enhancing the image of Carcinosinum and to add some others that seemed important to me from the essence. The fears of Carcinosinum are a good example. The most important fears of Carcinosinum are: FEAR of cancer; fear in a crowd; fear in narrow places; fear in high places; fear of spiders, mice, snakes; fear of failure in examinations; fear of failure; fear of thunderstorms. Therefore I removed fear of dogs, fear of the dark, fear of frogs. That doesn't mean that a Carcinosin patient cannot have fear of the dark or fear of dogs, but once we understand the essence of the remedy and we see this essence in our patient, fear of the dark and fear of dogs are not reliable symptoms and do not add any reliability to our prescription. Therefore such symptoms should be taken out of our materia medica to make the real picture more evident. When the essence of a remedy is not clear then we are obliged to collect every symptom that comes out of a proving or out of one or more clinical cases and this makes the picture more confused. When we really understand the essence of a remedy it is possible to build up the whole picture in accordance with this essence. That is what I shall try to do. THE ESSENCE: WEAK EGO AND ITS COMPENSATION MECHANISMSTo discover the essence of Carcinosinum we have to understand the basic problem of the cancer patient and what exactly is a tumor, because Carcinosinum is made from the materialization of the cancer problem. The cancer patient has permitted cells that are 'not him' to grow in his body without activating his defense mechanisms sufficiently to destroy them. The tumor is a foreign entity that does not respect him and finally destroys him, without even respecting structures such as blood vessels, muscles, lymph nodes. It grows by transgressing every structure, every border. We can easily understand what happens when we compare the patient to a country that has borders and an army to defend its integrity as a country. If an enemy soldier crosses the border and establishes himself inside the country and the army is not well-trained enough to capture the enemy, to imprison or kill him, the enemy will call his friends and other soldiers will pass the border and settle down. Their base will be stronger and stronger. Without any respect for the original people, they will destroy everything around them which is not to their own advantage and will take all the food that was intended for the indigenous people. They will send soldiers to other places in the country (metastasis) to take over all the power of the country. The only possibility the country has finally is to ask other countries to help it and to attack the enemy with heavy weapons (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy). But such a massive fight greatly weakens the country and the outcome is very uncertain. On the cellular level the same process takes place. The membrane of the cell is unstable and weak and the cell is ingesting toxins, not able
to defend its integrity. These ingested poisons damage its normal functioning, creating anarchy and estranging itself from its own essence. But the whole process had already started long before on
the emotional and mental level. What happens the most on the emotional/mental level to a patient having taken Carcinosinum is that his self confidence grows and that he starts to listen more to his own
needs and to defend himself better. He fortifies his borders and gets into a process of more awareness of what is ‘him’ and what is ‘not him’, no longer allowing the poisonous energy from outside to settle
within his borders. He takes better care of himself, being attentive to his own needs and desires. A process of cleaning out at all levels takes place, poisonous relationships are broken off or corrected, a
consciousness of being someone that deserves respect and love gradually blooms, and a marked influenza or inflammation with high fever for the first time in twenty years cleans the poison from his
body. All this means that the reactivity is increasing. MEDICAL INFLUENCESInfluences from outside that are experienced as attacking him or weakening him without giving him the possibilities to defend himself can stimulate the same process: first of all massive vaccination. I once asked a lady during regression therapy to go to her first vaccination and to tell me what this vaccination meant to her and without hesitation she said: ‘It took away an opportunity to defend myself.’ With massive vaccination in early childhood we give the message to the child and his immune system that his own defense mechanism is not reliable and that he has to be protected from outside. This not only weakens his immune system but also gives his personality the feeling that he is not strong and good enough and that he has to rely upon other people rather than upon his own force and vitality. (See my publication about ‘The Post-Vaccinal Syndrome’) Also the suppression of fever, a defense mechanism par excellence [compare Fever and Cancer Healing], the use of antibiotics and corticosteroids can lower the defense mechanisms. If during every infection the parents suppress the reactivity of the child by giving aspirin and penicillin, how can he still believe that he is able to defend himself against his invaders (bacteria, viruses, etc.)? This practice engenders a lack of reactivity and the development of severe illnesses in childhood such as pertussis, pneumonia, chronic inflammation (otitis, bronchitis, rhinitis, etc.). The Carcinosin patient has a tendency to place strength outside himself and to feel weak and vulnerable inside [emphasis added by Healing Cancer Naturally]. That's also what happens when he finally gets a tumor and he has to be operated on, radiated and treated with chemotherapy. He is helpless, desperate and completely dependent on his doctor. I always insist with cancer patients that they have to decide for themselves and feel what is good for them and what they want and do not want. You have to give them back their strength and they have to take it back. Dr. Bernie Siegel, an American surgeon, insists in his excellent book Love, Harmony and Cure, that as a patient you have to be assertive, to ensure that when hospitalized you have a room with a view, to ask for your favorite music during the operation, etc. To stand up for yourself and to fulfill your own needs is of primary importance in cure [emphasis added by Healing Cancer Naturally]. Maria Late, who was one of my patients, can help us to understand how difficult it can be for these people to stand up for themselves. She was a young woman, a doctor, with operated breast cancer and metastasis. One day she had to undergo an examination of her bladder. The surgeon decided to do a suprapubic puncture, but she felt strongly that a catheter would be better for her. So she asked the doctor not to do the puncture, but he had to ask the surgeon responsible, who said ‘no’ and decided she should undergo the suprapubic puncture. She finally felt unable to contradict him. Then the contrast fluid was injected by error in her abdomen. She was very ill and recovered only slowly during two months of hospitalization, but died some months later. The Carcinosin personality has a tendency to let others violate his own space. He doesn't take sufficient space for himself, but his space is invaded by others and he is too weak to throw them out. The Carcinosin personality has to learn to take his destiny into his own hands. RESTORATION OF HOPEPart of the allopathic damage is unfortunately often the complete annihilation of any hope of cure for the patient. To be sent away without any hope of betterment, without any support, leaves the patient in despair. But the patient needs hope. In hospitals this hope is often killed completely, because of some curious thinking on the part of the doctor and the use of inexorable statistics. Leaving any hope for a cure in the patient is often considered by allopathic doctors as giving ‘false hope’. But what is false hope? False hope is saying to your patient that you will surely cure him, that he will not die, etc. But no patient can heal if he, himself, does not decide to survive and for that he needs hope. Hope that he will not necessarily die, that his doctor will sustain him in his effort to find a solution to his life-threatening illness and that he is also capable to do so. He has to be respected in his attempt, knowing that his doctor will give the best treatment that is available. Not statistics decide what chance of a cure he has, but the patient himself. [Also compare On Cancer Statistics for facts and particularly fallacies in official cancer statistics.] He has to reconnect with his inner force, even if during the operation, radiation and chemotherapy he felt completely delivered to the authority of his doctor. He has to be helped to take responsibility for his life again and he has to be guided to do more than only wait and hope that there will not be any relapse. I have a patient that reacted wonderfully to chemotherapy and had almost no side effects and after 7 rounds her doctor decided to give her two more to see if even more progress was possible. But she didn’t have a good feeling to do so and decided herself not to take any more rounds of chemo and to wait and see if the tumor would shrink without further chemotherapy. Dr. Bernie Siegel gives us a clear vision on false hope.4 "The concept of false hope is one of the most ridiculous things I know of. Why should we try to authorize hope according to the statistics? Hope is a variable that can change the statistics. If only 99% die of a condition, then let’s stress the fact that that person has a chance of not dying. If you tell a group of those people that they are the 10% who will survive, you may find that 30% or 40% or 50% get better." Taking one’s destiny into one’s hands and discussing the treatment as someone who is completely responsible for his own health and life is very important and enhances the possibilities of a cure. The patient has to be strong to face remarks from her doctors and others who don’t believe in any possibility of a cure. RESTORATION OF REACTIVITY,
|
||
|
Disclaimer • Welcome • Why Alternatives ? • Alternative Cancer Therapy Books
This site depends on your support, and you can contribute to its
maintenance by giving as little as $10.00.
Dedicated to Joyful Healing
Paradise Now
|
||