Carcinosinum

-VERMEULEN Frans,
Carc.
Carcinogenic tumor
As often as we do good we sacrifice.
[Thomas Fuller]
Signs
Cancer nosode, prepared from a breast carcinoma.
CANCER The term 'cancer' refers to more than 100 forms of the disease. Almost every tissue in the body can spawn malignancies; some even yield several types. Each cancer has unique features, although the basic processes producing these diverse tumours appear to be quite similar. The 30 trillion cells of the normal, healthy body live in a complex, interdependent condominium, regulating one another's proliferation. Normal cells reproduce only when instructed to do so by other cells in their vicinity. Such unceasing collaboration ensures that each tissue maintains a size and architecture appropriate to the body's needs. Cancer cells, in stark contrast, violate this scheme; they become deaf to the usual controls on proliferation and follow their own internal agenda for reproduction. They also possess the ability to migrate from the site where they began, invading nearby tissues and forming masses at distant sites in the body. Tumours composed of such malignant cells become more and more aggressive over time, and they become lethal when they disrupt the tissues and organs needed for the survival of the organism as a whole.
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 Over the past twenty years, scientists have uncovered a set of basic principles that govern the development of cancer. For example, the cells in a tumour descend from a common ancestral cell that at one point - usually decades before a tumour becomes palpable - initiated a program of inappropriate reproduction. Further, the malignant transformation of a cell comes about through the accumulation of mutations in specific classes of the genes within it. Although constituting only a small proportion of the full genetic set, two gene classes play major roles in triggering cancer. The first class concerns proto-oncogenes, which encourage cell growth; the second class, tumour suppressor genes, inhibit cell growth. When mutated, proto-oncogenes can become carcinogenic oncogenes that drive excessive multiplication. The mutations may cause the proto-oncogene to yield too much of its encoded growth-stimulatory protein or an overly active form of it. Tumour suppressor genes, in contrast, contribute to cancer when they are inactivated by mutations. The resulting loss of functional suppressor proteins deprives the cell of crucial brakes that prevent inappropriate growth. After 50 to 60 doublings, human cell-growth normally stops; the cells are said then to be senescent. Some cells that sustain inactivating mutations will continue to divide, but eventually they will reach a second stage, called crisis, in which they die in large numbers. The occasional cell that escapes this dying population becomes immortal and will, together with its descendants, multiply indefinitely. 1

Cancer cell
METASTASIS Metastasis is the spread of cancer to distant sites in the body. Metastasis and the invasion of normal tissues by cancer cells are the hallmarks of malignancy. Acquiring the capabilities needed to emigrate to another tissue is a key event in the development of a cancer. To metastasize successfully, cancer cells have to detach from their original location, invade a blood or lymphatic vessel, travel in the circulation to a distant site and establish a new cellular colony. At every one of these steps, they must escape many controls that, in effect, keep normal cells in place. Cell-cell adhesion molecules appear to help keep cells in place; these molecules seem to be missing or compromised in cancer cells. Cells also adhere to an insoluble meshwork of protein filling the space between cells. This so-called extracellular matrix allows cells to survive and proliferate by letting them attach to a surface, a phenomenon called anchorage dependence. When cells are denied anchorage, they not only stop proliferating but commit suicide; they spontaneously undergo specific changes that lead to their own death, thereby safeguarding the maintenance of the integrity of tissues. In one way or another, cancer cells manage to get around the requirement of anchorage; they are anchorage independent. Circulating cancer cells, however, face several more hurdles, which many of them will not survive. Metastatic cancers spread preferentially to certain tissues. Circulating tumour cells usually get trapped in the first vascular bed that they encounter 'downstream' of their origin. The first vascular bed encountered by blood leaving most organs is in the lungs; only the intestines send their blood to the liver first. Accordingly, the lungs are the most common site of metastasis, followed by the liver. 2
CAUSES Tobacco and diet are considered to be the top two causes of cancer, accounting for almost two-thirds of all cancer deaths. Cancer changed its grasp as humankind advanced industrially and technologically. Cancers of the lung, breast, prostate and colon and rectum have all become more frequent in countries where risk factors such as cigarette smoking, unhealthful dietary habits and exposure to dangerous chemicals are more common. New accounts have been full of warnings about all manner of modern conveniences, from pharmaceuticals to cellular telephones. Only diet rivals tobacco smoke as a cause of cancer in the U.S. A, accounting for a comparable number of fatalities each year. Animal [saturated] fat in general and red meat in particular are associated with several cancers; both are strongly linked to malignancies of the colon and rectum, as well as to prostate cancer. Consumption of vegetables and fruits is thought to play an important role in cancer prevention. Children who overeat and exercise too little often grow more and seem to be at a higher risk of acquiring certain cancers. Excessive childhood growth, as reflected in attained height and weight, seems to push girls into menstruating when they are relatively young, and early menstruation is a major risk factor for breast cancer, although it may contribute to other cancers as well. Occupational carcinogens include asbestos, benzene, formaldehyde, diesel exhaust, and radon. Medical products and procedures may be responsible for about 1 per cent of all cancers. Immunosuppressive drugs can cause certain types of lymphomas and supplemental oestrogens have been linked to uterine and breast cancer. Oral contraceptives slightly increase the risk of some types of liver tumours, but are also claimed to reduce the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer. For educational, career-related and other reasons, millions of women in developed countries are putting off childbearing and are also having fewer children, in general, than their mothers and grandmothers did. The increase of breast and ovarian cancer seems to be related to such factors. The postponing of first pregnancies by younger women in the U.S. A that has already occurred will increase their breast cancer rates by about 5 to 10 percent within the next 25 years. 3
SUPPRESSED EMOTIONS "One characteristic of lung cancer patients, noted by many clinicians, is that they suppress their emotions. Cancer patients also seem to ignore their negative feelings, such as hostility, depression, and guilt. ... Long-term survivors [of breast cancer] express much higher levels of anxiety, hostility, alienation, and other negative moods than short-term survivors. They have more negative moods and expressed more negative attitudes toward their illness. ... There have been a lot of studies on the relationship between expressing anger and breast cancer. In an early study S. Greer and T. Morris found that women who were later diagnosed as having breast cancer differed from women with benign breast disease in how they expressed anger. Those women who had breast cancer exhibited a greater amount of anger suppression and then sometimes extreme anger expression during their interviews. They held in the anger as long as they could and then let it out all at once. However, they mostly suppressed their anger. ... People who habitually suppress anger also have significantly higher levels of salivary IgA than people who are able to express it. ... High levels of salivary IgA seem to correlate positively with the spread of breast cancer, which means that anger suppression may be strongly related to the spread of cancer. ... In a prospective study on breast cancer, Derogatis found similar results. Again, long-term survivors had significantly higher scores for several negative feelings including hostility, alienation, guilt, and depression than did short-term survivors. The long-term survivors were considered to be 'less well adjusted' and had many more negative attitudes towards their illness and their treatment."4
BIOTYPE The idea that the development and course of malignant tumours might be influenced by psychological factors has gained increasing attention. Research has shown that an attitude of passivity and hopelessness in the face of life stressors, including the stressor of being told one has cancer, encourages the proliferation of cancerous cells. Clinically dangerous forms of cancer are thought to develop in individuals who lack the appropriate defensive-immune response of detecting and destroying cancerous cells. "Potential cancer sufferers almost universally report having undergone a severely disturbed childhood. ... Heavily emphasised is the loss of a parent or sibling through loss or desertion. The background may have been extremely harsh and authoritarian, or the opposite, extremely laissez faire. In either case the notion of disrupted security is very common indeed. ... Very often, too, there is mentioned a lack of closeness to parents so that often when talking of that time a sort of greyness, not amounting to gloom predominates. ... Also, severe fright, or shock during childhood is often reported. ... The suicide of a close relative was surprisingly often mentioned. In the face of all this it is reasonable to ask by what means a child could use to cope with such traumata as were commonly reported? What emerged was that the only mechanisms powerful enough to maintain some sort of vital equilibrium were themselves ultimately destructive. Possibly the most common long term response was withdrawal. ... The children trained themselves, as it were, to respond to the events in their environments in a mechanical, uninvolved manner, thus denying emotional attachment. ... There is another expression of withdrawal that may be often unrecognised as such, because the withdrawal is internalised. Some of the people tested reported that they behaved as far as they could, in a bright and cheerful manner so as not to draw attention to themselves. They tried to 'keep in the middle of the road' in all things so they would not be noticed. But this sometimes led them into trouble for being careless, or uncaring, or not understanding what they were doing, or sometimes even cruel, especially to pets or wild life, when their attempt was to be deliberately unemotional, and not get involved. ... Cancer sufferers, as well as those in the 'pre-cancerous' stage were also noted for their tendency to blame themselves for their misfortunes. In later life they reported that they thought they were quite lazy, mediocre, unworthy, and especially guilty. ... Deep inside they harboured feelings of helplessness and hopelessness which sapped all their endeavours of any real validity or meaning. ... Conscientiousness and marital stability are more common among them than among the population at large; and so is family and social commitment, religiousness, citizenship ideals, and living according to high ethical principles. They not surprisingly score lower than the population at large on ratings with conflict with authority, and on scores of stress at work. They project the image of strong, well-adjusted, helpful people, so that to those around them it must appear as the most cruel stroke of malicious fate that they, of all people, should be stricken with such a scourge."5
FOOD In the last 40 years many food stuffs have been found to contribute to cancer prevention; most notably, beans, bran, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, shiitake [mushroom], garlic, milk, nuts, orange, spinach, and tea. Various tests have shown that beans, as well as other legumes, block the development of colon and breast cancer in laboratory animals. Legumes are considered concentrated carriers of protease inhibitors, enzymes that can counteract the activation of cancer-causing compounds in the intestine. Emerging high in numerous lab tests designed to identify foods with cancer-counteracting potential, broccoli appears to lower the risk of cancer. Broccoli tops the food lists of people who have lower rates of all cancers, and, particularly, cancer of the oesophagus, stomach, colon, lung, larynx, prostate, mouth, and pharynx. Like other cruciferous vegetables - e.g. cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, and turnips - it is rich in known cancer antidotes such as indoles, glucosinolates, and dithiolthiones. An American study found that the risk of colon and rectal cancer decreased the more broccoli was eaten. Carrots turn up regularly in studies pinpointing specific foods that ward off cancer, notably of the lung and pancreas. A 1986 Swedish study designated carrots and citrus fruits as prominent dietary barriers to smoking-related pancreatic cancer. Ten of eleven international dietary surveys document that people who eat the least carrots and other beta carotene foods - e.g. sweet potato [yam], cantaloupe, apricot, pumpkin, and green leafy vegetables - are more likely to develop lung cancer. Experiments on test animals showed that garlic is effective in warding off bladder cancers. Australian and American studies furnish evidence that milk prevents colon cancer, most probably on account of its high calcium content. Calcium detoxifies bile acids - which can promote cancer - in the intestinal tract. Of several hundreds of plants screened by the Japanese as part of a large-scale program to identify 'antimutagens', the Japanese green tea was the most potent in laboratory tests. Reinforcing this finding is the fact that habitual green-tea drinkers have dramatically lower rates of stomach cancer in Japan. 6
PROVINGS •• [1] Foubister - self-experimentation with 200c; symptoms: frontal headache extending into the eyes and insomnia, late in falling asleep, frequent waking, and finally waking about 4 a.m. after which no further sleep could be obtained.
"Dr D.M. Foubister, when paediatrician at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, noticed a similar appearance in two children suffering from insomnia, both of whom had been born of mothers who during their pregnancy were suffering from carcinoma of the breast. These children had café-au-lait complexions, blue sclerotics, and many moles. For some years Foubister and his associates gave Carcinosin to children with a family history of cancer, and observed certain characteristics common to these patients. Later it was realised that children with the Carcinosin appearance did not always have a family history of cancer, but that a family background of tuberculosis, diabetes, pernicious anaemia, as well as malignant disease, is more common in such children than in the average population. ... The family history of the subject is considered important; a background of cancer, tuberculosis, pernicious anaemia, diabetes or any combination of these, is an indication for the use of the remedy. The patient's part medical history may include glandular fever, whooping cough, any exanthema occurring more than once, or pneumonia at an early age. A severe reaction to vaccination is also significant."7
•• [2] Templeton - 17 persons [9 provers, 8 controls], 1952-53; method: 30c and 200c.
•• [3] Mattitsch and Haslinger-Prüger - 13 provers, 1993; one daily dose of 5 globuli of 30c, until reaction occurs, or with a maximum of 14 days.
Despite these provings the drug picture consists mainly of a collection of clinical symptoms.
[1] Weinberg, How Cancer Arises; American Cancer Society. [2] Ruoslahti, How Cancer Spreads; American Cancer Society. [3] Trichopoulos, Li, and Hunter, What Causes Cancer?; American Cancer Society. [4] Ornstein and Sobel, The Healing Brain. [5] Micklem, Carcinosin : A Compendium of References. [6] Carper, The Food Pharmacy. [7] Gibson, Studies of Homoeopathic Remedies.
Affinity
In 95% of cases, Carc. is prescribed on the basis of mental and general symptoms.
Modalities
Worse: Seashore. Short sleep. During storm, thunderstorm; approach of a storm. Vaccination. Vaults, cellars. Physical exertion. New moon. Sea-bathing. Undressing.
Better: EVENING. Seashore. Open air. Occupation. Physical exertion. Lying, knee-elbow position. Before / during thunderstorm. In natural surroundings. Hot drinks. Full moon. New moon. Short sleep.
Main symptoms
M Suppression, adaptation and disease.
• "The parents and former generations play an important role in a Carcinosinum-patient. The first is, trivially, that of a transmitter. Cancer is the family's history is generally understood as a predisposing factor of disease. The second role of the parents [and possibly of the grandparents] is that of the educator and in most Carcinosinum-cases I observed two basic patterns: In the first case, one or both of the parents are absolutely overanxious, they bear down their child by overprotection and deprive it of an appropriate development with all natural dangers. This concerns the medical field [all prophylaxes, vaccinations etc. are made; 'butterfly symptoms are broken on the wheel'], as well as other domains of life. The second case, which occurs more often in homoeopathic practice, is that of parents [usually near forty years of age] who demand too much from their children [and give them too much support, as well]. This exorbitant demand appears everywhere: in the field of intellect, the children are forced to take more responsibility than they should; their rooms must be in perfect order; and, which is the most disastrous thing, the social contacts with other children are very much interfered with; each healthy aggression is subdued, a 'non-violent maturity' is demanded, which is not even found in adults; sometimes these children are encouraged to tell on others. It is clear, that this difficulty affects mainly the 'upper' class people: parents who 'want the best for their children' but who are unaware of the fact that 'the best' is an unsuitable demand on them. You can also find this Carcinosinum-situation in nursery schools and schools that are influenced by certain aggression-denying ideologies. Of course, not each child growing up under these circumstances will necessarily need the remedy Carcinosinum; only those that have bent their neck under the 'suppression'. 'Precocious' children; children that are protected [mentally and physically] from every aggression and that can neither master the entry to a nursery school nor the contact with a pathogenic agent, as they cannot defend themselves. Children who keep their room in a non-childlike tidy order - by themselves [!] - something easy to elicit by the homoeopath. Their parents have told them that only then they are o.k. Those are children, parents are proud of, as they are well-behaved, easy to handle, orderly, prudent, social, etc.; they would always take good care of their guinea-pig ['love for animals']. They are positivists who do not rebel against the 'intact world' prescribed to us from above, but rather train themselves in good functioning and performance - obviously a social problem is touched with this attitude."1
• "What profited it a man if he gains the world and loses his soul? 'Does the body manifest something [in the form of cancer] which the person himself [we could say 'the rest of the person'] does not dare to express?' Her answer should not surprise us: 'The illness of the body is the attempt of the soul to heal itself'. And she says: 'Someone who becomes ill with cancer has not been living his own life but that of someone else, and they have given up hope of ever living their own life' - and - 'And thus the craving for a true life, this real longing has moved inward, under the shadow of the body, has curled into a ball under the enormous pressure [repression?] and it grows and develops and is called an evil. ... The tumour is made up of un-lived vital energy, un-lived because to live it would have been bad'. ... [She] sees the cancer cells as the more faithful and truer representatives of the individual than the rest of the being which, for understandable reasons, has so completely betrayed his soul. ... A cancer patient needs to see that in order to heal himself it is not his physical survival he needs to focus on, but rather the true substance of his life, his soul, his inner harmony which constitutes his potential health. He needs to become sensitive to his own individual needs and priorities and pleasures, he needs to begin to respect them, to give expression to these needs, even in the face of the collective judgement that by doing so he is being bad. It is the faith in higher 'authority' or in a higher order which is beyond the understanding and judgement of humans but which implicitly gives the cancer patient permission to respect and give expression to his true nature which provides hope for true life and, 'as an added bonus' the healing of the cancer patient. ... I have a very similar view to Wiedemann's: Cancer cells to me represent the real 'me' in a person when the rest of the organism has betrayed his soul. Cancer cells are the organism's last stand in its effort to give expression to the soul, to give substance to life. Why should we be prejudiced against cells because they are undifferentiated, 'primitive' and overly creative? After all, aren't we in awe of our similarly primitive and undifferentiated and creative reproductive cells? ... Cancer cells behave 'just like human beings who had suffered great neglect and who had learned to fend for themselves in a reckless way'. They lack consideration and a sense of proportion; they push in all directions to increase their space, only motivated by a quest for bigger, more, and faster; and, akin to self-centred humans, they live essentially in unrelated isolation, a life with no real substance. And consequently ... it is easier to label this [cancer] as 'bad' and to attempt to eradicate it by any means available. ... The soul's deepest need is for self-expression - in spite of contrary conscious wishes, commitment to self-discipline or a need to be approved of in the form of a being which is not 'me'. I see Carcinosinum as the true 'insider' when the rest of the 'normal' organism, mind and body, have abandoned the painful quest for individuality and personal growth, for the sake of other and meaningless and superficial but deeply seated perverse priorities. ... Man betrays his soul because it is less painful or less frightening to do so than to establish and manifest his own convictions at the risk of offending those whose love or protection he depends on."2
M SENSITIVITY.
• "VERY SENSITIVE, sentimental persons, sensitive to music, to surroundings, to natural phenomena, like thunderstorms, ROMANTIC persons, who love soft lights, dim lights, dinner by candle-light."3
M FASTIDIOUSNESS, PERFECTIONISM.
• "Things are never good enough. This has something to do with their education, which was usually very severe. In Carc. you will usually find a history of domination, demanding parents, demanding partners, or too much responsibility at a young age."4
In patients with very strong self-control.
• "It is to Michel Zala, of Orleans, France, that I owe my understanding of the deeper issues underlying this extremely reserved remedy. It corresponds to people who declare: "Sir, there are some things that should remain unsaid." Thus they are faced with a serious communication problem until, thanks to this remedy, they realize that these things can be said once one learns the art of it acquires a few pertinent skills. Incarcerated with themselves, these patients turn their aggression inward and suffer from allergies, insomnia, and eventually cancer. ... One's strength lies in one's secrets!" [Grandgeorge]
Try to be totally perfect; very forgiving of other people but not of themselves.
• "Carcinosinum is not more fastidious than Arsenicum. The fastidiousness of Carcinosin is a special kind of fastidiousness. These people are fastidious in their work, in whatever they are performing, because of their insecurity and their desire to be perfect. So, whenever they do something and present it to other people, it must be perfect. They are fastidious because they can be criticized. They feel that they can be criticized for almost anything, so they must be perfect. But they can be very untidy in their home or their clothes. That is not like Arsenicum. Arsenicum people display a neurotic fastidiousness, and they are fastidious because of a general insecurity." [Smits]
M SYMPATHETIC; anxiety about others. Affectionate.
• "The quality of sympathy opens them not only for the suffering of people close to them but also to that of animals and of the planet as a whole. They may be extremely sympathetic and open, even to the point of clairvoyance. This, of course, gives rise not only to anxiety for others, but also to a range of fears and imaginations such as occur at twilight and in the dark."5
M Sensitive to reprimands, admonition <. Weeping from admonition. • "The most characteristic feature in children is a sensitivity to reprimand. This sensitivity appears in about 70% of cases. They cannot stand to be yelled at or criticized. The children just fall to pieces. This appears to be a facet of their openness rather than an egotism. In the adults, however, a certain compensatory hardening and defensiveness shows itself as a strong predilection to take offence, an intolerance of contradiction, and a definite aversion to consolation."6 M ANTICIPATION; ailments from anticipation. M LOVE of DANCING. M LOVE of ANIMALS. M Cheerful during thunderstorm. [Cathartic, release of energy.] M Desire to TRAVEL. M Delusion of martyrdom. Scapegoat. Self-sacrifice. M STRONG SENSE of DUTY. Too strong, leading to undeserved feelings of GUILT [anxiety of conscience]. M Contradiction <; obstinacy; backward children, problem children, mentally defective. M Remoteness. Fogged. • "Aware but does not register. Must think deliberately. Forgets normal things like spectacles [went back three times]. ... All provers complained of a feeling of remoteness, if spoken to, could not reply. They were forgetful, which, in the particular individuals, was uncommon. They felt dull, disinterested. There was an aversion to conversation - having to make oneself think was an effort. They were irritable because they were forgetful and found concentration difficult."7 M RESTLESS CHILDREN with a tendency to destroy things, with DESTRUCTIVE OUTBURSTS. Disobedience; refusal of parental control. Tics; biting nails. REFUSAL to accept AUTHORITY. M TICS. • "I have noticed that Carcinosin often has bizarre tics; one of my patients constantly tapped his brothers' skulls with his fingertips; another used to gently bite the tips of children's fingers, one after the after; he had not lost this habit at the age of 40. Sometimes Carcinosin tears at the skin round the nails. Dr Templeton points out that blinking of the eyes, another common form of tic, suggests Carcinosin. It has all sorts of grimaces."8 G Family history of cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, or personal history of excessive parental control during childhood, prolonged fear or unhappiness [childhood feelings of neglect, despair, being unloved/unwanted]. G Never well since MONONUCLEOSIS. G Symptoms partially covered by two or more polycrests. G Blue sclerotics and brownish, cafe au lait complexion, numerous moles. [Foubister] G Generally WARM-BLOODED persons. Or: • "Resembles Pulsatilla, but they desire warm weather and warm rooms."9 Sensitive to both heat and cold. G Strong craving for BUTTER and fat [• "takes large quantities of butter, eats spoonfuls of butter" - Candegabe]. G Strong craving or aversion to any of the following foods: Salt, milk, eggs, fat meat, fruit. Particularly characteristic is an alternation, often over longer periods, between aversion and desire for any of these. G Chronic or prolonged INSOMNIA, even in childhood. Kept awake by flow of overactive ideas, or awakened by chilliness or excited dreams. A short nap > mental fatigue.
G SEASIDE > or <. G Lying in knee-elbow position, which >.
Or sleeps on the back with the arms above the head.
Or sleeps with arms and legs outstretched.
G < Afternoon. [headache < 1-6 p.m.; abdominal pain < 4-6 p.m.; throbbing heart < 2-6 p.m.] G Feeling of constriction. • "The brain felt tight, again leading to a condition of aversion to conversation. This tight feeling seems to be rather general. There was tightness and constriction. It is interesting that, as a director of provings, one thinks there is nothing in this and, yet, when you read through the descriptions, one began to see a little thread of similarity running through a number of provers. It is not all wishful thinking because it seems to come as a surprise. This feeling of constriction shows itself running through various regions of the body, such as the heart, stomach, abdomen and rectum."10 G Twitching. • "There was twitching of the eyelids and a twitching of various muscle groups seems to be a marked feature and can be taken as a general. ... Twitching muscles of thigh, arms, eyebrows, eyelids; a jerking and jumping. Twitches in the back. Twitching wakes him [general twitching]."11 [1] Müller, Carcinosinum: New and Confirmed Clinical Symptoms. [2] Steiner, The essence of Carcinosinum; HL 3/98. [3-4] Dockx and Kokelenberg, Kent's Comparative Repertory of the Hom. Materia Medica. [5-6] Shore, The Emerging Clinical Picture of Carcinosin; IFH 1989. [7] Templeton, Provings of Carcinosin; BHJ, April 1954. [8] Hui Bon Hoa, Carcinosin: A clinical and pathogenic study; BHJ, July 1963. [9] Currim, Clinical Experiences with Carcinosin; IFH 1994. [10-11] Templeton, ibid. Rubrics Mind Too much adapted [2K]. Ailments from prolonged anxiety [1], from homesickness [1K], from rudeness of others [1], from unhappiness, due to influence of other people [1/1]. Anger about his mistakes [1]. Love for animals [1]. Anxiety about his family [1], for others [1], if a time is set [1]. Ability for art [1]. Wants to be caressed [1]. Cautious [1]. Checking, must check twice or more [1]. Cheerful when it thunders and lightens [2]. Consolation < [2]. Curious [1]. Dancing [3], desire to dance even by oneself [1/1F], > mental symptoms [1], with strong sense of rhythm [1F]. Delusions, has suffered wrong [1]. Suppressing his desires [1/1]. Disobedience [1]. Too much sense of duty [1]. Dwells on past happy moments [1/1]. Fastidious [2]. Fear, of being alone [1], of animals [1], of cancer [1], in a crowded street [1/1], of impending disease [1], of dogs [1], of frogs [1/1], about health of loved persons [1], of high places [2], in narrow places [1], of spiders [1], of strangers [1]. Desire to be flattered [1]. Desire for harmony [1]. Indifference to loved ones [1]. Industrious before menses [1]. Irritability, from difficult concentration [1], due to forgetfulness [1/1]. High sense of justice [1K]. Kleptomania [1]. Loves nature [1]. Precocity [1]. Cannot rest when things are not in the proper place [3B]. Sensitive to music before menses [1/1]. Sympathetic [3], towards animals [1]. Weeping, cannot weep though sad [1], desire to weep all the time [1], when telling of her sickness [1]. Yielding disposition [1].
Vertigo
At night, waking him [1A]. When lying on back [1A], > lying on side [1A]. While walking, with sensation of gliding in the air, as if feet did not touch the ground [1A].
Head
Pain, deep inside the head [1T; Tub.]; forehead, left side, extending to right side [1A]; pressing, inward, right temple [1T].
Eye
Long eyelashes [1F]. Pain, pressing outward, during headache [1A].
Hearing
Voices seem distant [1A].
Nose
Catarrh, recurrent [1F]. Coryza, chronic, long-continued [1].
Mouth
Sensation of a lump on posterior part of palate [1T].
Teeth
Dentition, slow [1F]. Sensation of a sticky substance on teeth [1A], difficult to brush away [1A].
Throat
Hawking, keeps on clearing throat before being able to speak [1T]. Pain, > cold drinks [1], < warm drinks [1]; sore, when swallowing saliva [1T]. External throat Clothing < [1M]. Pain, thyroid, left side [1A]. Stomach Nausea, at beginning of menses [1]. Pain, > warm drinks [1M]; burning, evening in bed [1A], disturbing sleep [1A]. Vomiting, after anger [1M], from anticipation [1M], from chemotherapy [1M].
Female
Metrorrhagia, after coition [1M], between menses [1M].
Respiration
Asthmatic, in children, after vaccination [2T], from excitement [1M], from fright [1/1], from mouldy environment [1M].
Cough
Sympathetic, to that of another person's cough [2M]. From talking [1]. After vaccination [1M]. From yawning [2].
Chest
Constriction, heart, with sensation as if one wants to sigh [1/1]. Discharge, bloody, from mammae [1M]. Palpitation, audible, on lying down [1T]. Swelling, axillary glands [1M].
Back
Hair, soft, on spine [1F; Tub.]. Pain, cervical region, right side, on turning head to right [1T].
Limbs
Nails, crippled [1M], ridged [1M]. Pain, lower limbs, > gentle motion [1T], < rapid motion [1T], > warmth of bed [1]. Weakness, weak, tired feeling, lower limbs, in evening [1T], > short sleep [1/1].
Sleep
Position, genupectoral [2], on knees with face forced into pillow [2]. Sleeplessness, children, child must be rocked [2], from activity of thoughts [2], from excessive vivacity [2M], from persistent worry [1M]. Waking, from dreams [1], from twitching [1/1T].
Dreams
Clairvoyant [1]. Journeys [1]. Looking for someone and failing to find him [1T]. Work [1].
Heat
Long lasting, heat [2M]. After vaccination [2].
Perspiration
Odour, offensive [1A]. Profuse [1A]. Sticky [1A].
Skin
Eruptions, neurodermatitis [2K].
Generals
Constant change of symptoms [1]. Contradictory and alternating states [2]. Sleep, short > [1]. Unusually well, then < [1]. * Repertory additions: [A] = Austrian proving by Mattitsch and Haslinger-Prüger; Documenta Homoeopathica 1994. [B] = The Homeopathic Research and Information Center, Hechtel, Belgium. [F] = Foubister - The Carcinosin Drug Picture, 1975; Clinical Impressions of Carcinosin, BHJ, April 1954; The Carcinosin Drug Picture, BHJ, July 1958. [K] = Karl-Josef Müller - Carcinosinum: New and Confirmed Clinical Symptoms. [M] = Micklem - Carcinosin, A Compendium of References, 3rd ed. [T] = Templeton - Provings of Carcinosin; BHJ, April 1954. Food Aversion: [2]: Fats and rich food; fruit; milk; salt. [1]: Coffee [M]; eggs; ice-cream [M]; meat [M]; sweets; wine [M]. Desire: [3]: Butter; chocolate. [2]: Coffee; eggs; fat; fat ham; fruit; milk; salt; spicy. [1]: Bacon [M]; beer [M]; cheese; cold drinks; cream; farinaceous; fruit; ice cream; pastry; pepper; raw potatoes; smoked meat; soup; sugar; sweets; vinegar. Worse: [1]: Beer [M]; eggs; fat [M]; fruit [F]; meat [F]; milk [F]; milk, cold [M]; onions [M]; wine [F]. Better: [1]: Warm drinks. * Repertory additions: Foubister [F] and Micklem [M].

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  1. but aren't there a few different types of carcinosinum remedies? which is the one that covers all the above rubrics?

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  2. i have read there are 48 different sources of carcinosinum remedy, so do all of them share this same personality profile?

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