CARCINOCINUM [Carc]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

A Nosode from Carcinoma

Region

Nutrition

Metabolism

Liver

Solar Plexus

Skin

Mucous Throat

Membranes Stomach

Rectum

Sides, alternating

Worse

Seashore

Thunderstorm

Warmth

Yearly. Summer

Morning. Night

1-6 or 6-7 pm

Undressing

Short sleep

Vaccinations

Suppressions

Depressing factors:

Anticipation. Fright

Grief. Frustrations

Deprivation of love

Reprimands.

Tensions

Surgery

Better

Evening

Seashore (Medo.)

Open air (agoraphilia)

Thunderstorm

Sleep

Cold; food, drink.

Rest

Depraved. Degenerant. Malignant. Cachectic

Highlights : Chronicity; recurrent attacks; infections, past history of. Damaged nutrition. Paucity of symptoms. Lack of reaction to well-selected remedies. Degenerative history. Threatened malignancy. Slow-insidious development of symptoms.

The 'cancerinique', a precancer cachexy: sudden decline, weakness, brownish, olive the typical 'cafe-au-lait' complexion, blue sclerotics (Tub.), blinking eyes, bizarre antics, numerous pigmented naevi etc., esp. when no single remedy could cover the whole case by itself, or there is a paucity of helpful symptoms, or standard remedies do not go beyond palliation.

Multiple infections in history of self (or inherited), like bronchitis, whooping cough, pneumonia, tonsillitis (also excision), recurrent colds, influenza, glandular fevers (infectious mononucleosis), P.U.O. etc.

Family history of depraved, inherited conditions; troubles starting early in life, like recurrent colds, asthma, dust allergy, acidity, eczema, diabetes, cancer, t.b., leukemia, pernicious anemia, secondary and tertiary syphilitic troubles, ataxia, alcoholism etc., degenerations in short. The more troubles combine the better indicated (cp. Strept.). Cases whose parents or relations needed Carc.

Suspected malignancy, but the farther away from frankly developed cancer the better indicated. Any way, useful in the stress / shock stage of malignancy. In active cancers, acc. to some, it is rather "risky and fraught with dangerous possbilities of distant metastases and severe aggravations." This may refer to low potencies; since we are told also that "as an intercurrent in cancer cases its use is not precluded. There is no case of carcinoma that it will not help at some stage. It may even be suggested: when in doubt give Carc." Cancers of the softer variety (for hard, Cal-f.,Con.,Scir.).

Tissues : Growths : e.g. corn-like, with severe burning on touch (with Radm.); painful swelling at the spot of injection, Led. not helping; exudating cicatrix after a scald; (cancerous) brain tumour; traumatic neurofibroma; painless lump near outer canthus.Warts. Post - vaccinal or post - surgical keloids. Moles.

Generally : Tired in morning, fresh in evening. Burning or constricting pains (head, abdomen, rectum, heart). Well before attack (like Psor.). Discharges offensive, acrid, thick. Twitchings: from tension; of eyelids, of various muscle groups.

Make-up : Hard-yielding, tense, highstrung (like Dys-co.). Spruce. Hysterical. Perfectionist. Fastidious. Artistic. Nature lover. Love of travel. Literary, poetic bend. Creative. Attuned to life's rhythm (Sep.), hence lover of dance and music (Tarn.). Romantic; prefer soft, dim lights. One with a drive. Distinguished, in short. Affectionate. Frank (simple, open, transparent). Good sense of responsibility. Mild.

Children : Sensitive to reprimands, but will not weep. Precocity (Lyc.). Restless children, with destructive outbursts.Tendency to insomnia even in young children. Frequent tantrums; when angry becomes stiff and hysterical (like Mos.). Shyness. Cannot hold his own with other children, fear of other children (Sil.). Cry (day and) night, nightmarish. "A Scape- goat". A victim of sexual abuse. Under excessive paternal control (overdisciplinized) (Folliculinum., Mag-c., Nat- m.).Therefore cowardish (fear of being punished or humiliated), backward, dwarfish or even mongols (Bar-c.,Med.); also disobedient; refusal of parental control. A blend of Mag. (non- protected) and Nat.(ill-protected) childhood. Puny. Averse to play. Self- contempt. Guilty conscience. Repeats actions. Masturbating (Medo.).

Mind : Psychogenic causes like rejection, deprivation of love, fright, anticipation, reproaches, etc.

Sentimental. Sensitiveness to reprimands (Med.), averse to alone. Does not like consolation. Obstinate; takes life too seriously, as a life or death matter; strong sense of duty (Aur.); will not relax, will waste emotional , will maintain the show of fitness, even take more responsibilities, though in reality breaking down. Also the rebellious, contentious, non- conformist, yet considerate (Bry.). Also the timid escapist (Arg- nit.). Depression; suicidal. Also the amiable: sympathetic and loves affection (Phos.). Music makes him weep (Graph., Nat-c., Nux-v., Thuja.). Likes travelling (Tub.).Religious minded. Attention to detail, exaggerated precision, or meticulousness (Anac.,Ars., Graph., Nux-v.), or (may be) untidy (Sul.). Love of thunderstorm, enjoys watching it (Sep.) and at seashore (opposite Syph.).

A victim of prolonged suppressions, repressions, tensions, struggle or unhappiness, becomes melancholic, even thinks of suicide (may be a family trait too). Effects of prolonged fear, frustration or a severe fright.Fear of failure;of loss of self- confidence, of dogs (Syph.,Tub.); of cancer. "Cancer is often preceded by fear of cancer." Maladjusting.

Nerves : Apprehension in stomach (Dys-co., Med.); sinking in pit from shock. Anticipation agg. generally or causes vomiting, eczema etc. Conversion hysterias (Tarn.). Locomotor ataxia. Lastly cerebral torpor, a mental inertia.

Noteworthy Symptoms

1. Presence of bipolar symptoms; either (<) or (>) from heat or cold, or else the patient is sensitive to cold; both (<) and (>) from sea air (Medo., Nat-m.); (<) on the East coast and (>) on the West coast or vice-versa; desire as well as aversion to salt, milk, eggs, meat, fat, fruit. Cough (<) cold or warm, wrapping or undressing. Either a genius or a moron. 2. Alternation of symptoms from one side of the body to the other (as in Lac-can.,Sepia). 3. Reaction to change of attitude: worse undressing (cough, skin) (as in Rumx); worse talking or laughing (cough) (as in Phos.); better after a short sleep (as in Phos.). Select Particulars Head : Various headaches. Sick headache : heavy head in morning on waking, (>) moving about. Throbbing, after meals, (>) wrapping tightly up. (See stomach). Deep-in headaches, constriction and tightness of brain. Supra-orbital (r.) thumping. Occipital, maddening, (<) night. (Apoplectic tendency). Effects of head injury. Ears : Inflammation of wall of meatus. Intractable suppurative otitis or abscess. Nose: Recurrent colds; infantile. Recurrent sinusitis. Chronic catarrh. Discharge yellow, excoriating. Epistaxis. Face : Tawny, cafe-au-lait. Earthy, muddy. Wearied look. Forehead blackish or looks as if scorched. Withered dried look, like hide. Cracked commisseurs, with a hard gland (Cond. failing). Painful acne. Numerous moles (Hippz.), mother had cancer. Mouth : Stomatitis; recurring; glossitis. Ulcers. Throat : Pain (<) warm drinks, empty (not of food) swallowing, (>) cold drinks. Pharyngitis. Sensation of lump. After tonsillectomy.

Stomach : Desires: fat, fat meat, fat bacon, bacon rind, eggs, chocolate, soups, butter, milk, salt, sweets, sugar, fruits, liquors, cold food, highly seasoned food. Also averse to : fat, salt, milk, eggs, meat fat.

Indigestion, flatus accumulation in stomach and bowels, with cachexia. Heartburn, with sick headache; with severe frontal headache; spiced food intolerance; recurrent stomatitis. Vomiting; cyclic; from anticipation; bilious, with headache; alternate with diarrhea.Ulcer in. Apprehension / sinking in S. (also Carc-adenostum. Scir. has worms in addition), a cancer trait.

Abdomen : Liver pains; pain in r. hypochondrium, bitter taste, bilious vomiting, debility, Chel. insufficient, wells up bile, heartburn, r. side meteoric, constantly belching, offensive flatus, great prostration after stools, sick headache, cancerous family.

Tremendous sinking at navel (Scir.). Excessive flatulence; great accumulation in stomach and bowels.

Colic (>) bending double, warm drinks, pressure. Vague pains in abdomen, chronic colitis, enteroptosis, h / o bronchitis and pneumonia, weakness and emaciation, suspected malignancy. Pain, peritoneal nodes and ascites, ovarian cancer. (Intussusception).

Rectum : Prolapse. Constriction. Worms (Scir.). Bleeding piles; during childbed, Coll. palliates, cancer in family. Constipation, sans urging. 'Cancer is often preceded by constipation.' Anal abscess after jaundice (which was managed somehow by Merc. and Sulph.). Cancer. Fistula (which is probably related to cancer). Condylomata; burning, and burning piles, arthritic pains (finished by Nit-ac.).

Diarrhea. Chronic mucous or muco-membranous colitis; mucous diarrhea, mother had bone t.b.

Urinary : Children : bed - wetting, indicated remedies failing; nephritis. Burning in urethra, prolonged after urination. Circumcision abscess, burning (Anthr.), mother and sister had required Carc.

Female : Leucorrhea, offensive. Menses dark, clotted, offensive, painful. Uterine cancer, palliative. After hysterectomy. (Menorrhagia).

Mammae : Chronic mastitis. Abscess (Lach. insufficient) , mother and brother had required Carc. Cancer, great pain and induration. Tumours on M., has gastric ulcer also, family h/o pneumonia, t.b. meningitis, insanity and eczema.

Respiratory : (Bronchial) Asthma; of infants; from dust; after fright, migraine, pneumonia (Strept.); pertussis; alternating with eczema (Thyr.); worse 10 am and in damp air (Nat-m.). Cough, (<) cold air; warm room; dressing; undressing; yawning. Whooping cough; persistent. Burning in chest; from loss of sleep nursing sick, (Cocc. failing). Recurrent bronchitis or pneumonia; B. with vomiting, tonsils and adenoids swollen (or excised), like Streptc. (which however is not cachectic). Heart : Sense of constriction (>) sighing (Ign.). Throbbing. Weak heart; even a short walk exhausts."Can feel the heart and hear it on lying down." Bad heart; child's mother was Nat-m. patient.

Locomotor : Back : dragging pain; burning, in cervical spondylitis. Burning palms and soles (Sul.). Varices of legs with purple points. Ganglion.Twitchings.

Rheumatism, (<) violent, but (>) slow motion, cancer cachexy. Arthritis deformans (Dys-co.). Osteo-arthritis.

Sleep : "Cancer is often preceded by bad sleep." Troubled S. of children: cry day and night; sleep in knee-chest position (Calc- p., Lyc., Medo., Phos., Sepia., Tub.) or on back with hands above head (Med.,Puls.); nightmares, after fright (surgery etc.); insomnia, mother cancerous. Dreams of journey, mishaps, robbers. Sleepless : till 1 am.

Skin : Harsh; like hide or dead leather. Eruptions; itching or stringing-itching (<) night, water, sweat, at seaside, (>) cold applications. Eczema; allergic, alternating with asthma; alternating sides; from anticipation; from bath in chlorated water; dry, in a lead worker after suppression of scabies; infantile, depraved heredity (diabetes, t.b., cancer, skins, hearts etc.). Metabolic or neuro-skins (Aster.). Boils; multiple; alternating sides. Pustular eruptions; elder sister had leukemia. Psoriasis. Moles. Ganglion.

Abscesses; of injection; of circumcision; one sloughing A. among painful, burning, purplish eruptions; in various places.Reduces incidence of keloid scars if given pre-operatively to patients undergoing plastic surgery.

Leprosy. Leucoderma (all nosodes).

Thermic : Recurrent attacks of high fever; after vaccination (Malan.), also acidosis after removal of tonsils and adenoids (parents diabetic). Rheumatic fevers."May prove useful in glandular fevers (infective mononucleosis) (like Felds.).They are generally very slow to clear up." (and prob. in AIDS too).

Relations : An offspring of Sul. and Tub., it helps all polychrests and nosodes, as also Anthr., Hippz., Iris., Strept. when they prove insufficient.

Complementaries : Ars., Ars-i., Ast-r., Bufo., Con., Cund., Cup., Follicu., Hydr., Iod., Lap-a., Lyc., Med., Mag-c., Nat-m., Phos., Phyt., Psor., Puls., Rad-br., Sang., Sep., Sul., Syph. (cancer and syphilis are related), Tub.

Similar : Malan. (minus greasy skin and plus depraved history; a low state of vegetation; said to clear up the remnants of cancerous deposits; Carc. is the Malan. of malignancy), Thuj. Bowel nosode cognate Dys-co. (Syc-co. is cognate to Med., Morb. and Streptc.), Grap.

"Pin-g. (pineal gland) is the Aconite of cancer, where constitutional remedy seldom helps" - Balfour.

Guilty conscience group : Ambr., Aur-m., Carc., Coff., Cycl., Ferr-m., Lac-c., Lac-d., Mag., Nat-m., Pul., Sil., Zinc.

Suggested Trios :

1. Bry.-Nat-m.-Carc. 4. Calc-f.-Con.-Carc.

2. Sep.-Nat-m.-Carc. 5. Strepto.-Thuja-Carc.

3. Bry.-Tub.-Carc. 6. Ars.- Lyc.-Carc.

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