INSPIRING HOMEOPATHY
Carcinosinum (15T)
cases
CASE 1: To give a clear example of this state that can easily
lead to cancer this 62 year old man is a perfect case. He came to see me in rather a bad
state: he was emaciated and there was a look of death in his eyes. Investigation in
hospital revealed cancer in the colon with metastasis (ingrowing hydronephroses) in the
right ureter. He is operated on for removal of the right colon, sigmoid, jejunum, the
right kidney and gallbladder. His life expectation is only some months and the surgeon
didn’t take pains to close the wound properly. But the patient refuses palliative
chemotherapy and immediately starts the homeopathic and orthomolecular treatment. The most
important thing now is to understand why he got cancer. He is the eldest of three
children, a dreamer with an enormous tendency to fantasy and with a certain paranormal
gift. He is left handed and already at the nursery school and at primary school he is
forced to write with his right hand, the teacher caning him on his fingers and on his
buttocks; he still has the mark on his buttocks , he says. He doesn’t feel accepted
in his family, because he is so different. When he was six the second world war broke out
and he remembers clearly how a German solder broke his toy saxophone when he was
serenading to a column of German soldiers marching into his town. At ten he is sent to a
boarding-school, where he is happy because he is accepted as a person and can exercise his
painting abilities. His father is a world-famous artist and he knows him as a good and
incorruptible man, open to everything that is good and worthwhile. But later he will have
problems with his father, when he starts his own career as a painter, in finding his own
identity and not as the son of the famous ....He grows up in a very severe dogmatic
family, strongly under the influence of his grandparents, his father mostly being busy or
absent and his mother running a shop. He receives a lot of disapproval in his early
childhood and his self-confidence is below zero. Later he works as a teacher in painting
and drawing in a secondary school and marries at thirty. His hobbies are drawing, music,
theater, reading and nature. He has a phobia of water, some fear of high places, can enjoy
tremendously lightings and storms. He is always on time and inwardly angry when other
people are late. His work has to be perfect (100%), but otherwise he is rather untidy. His
marriage is catastrophic. ‘I gave up everything for her. All my activities, all my
personal ambitions and pleasures such as the theater, music, painting. I painted at
school, telling my wife I had to stay longer because of a teachers’ meeting. I felt
deeply unhappy, I sacrificed myself because I had committed myself with her and I wanted
to stick to my word. I loved her and accepted everything also because of the children. I
am not able to fight and only feel an enormous anger inside. She always wanted to change
me, and even my own children don’t accept me as I am. When she left me after 22 years
I felt broken, as I could never have done that, but later I felt a sense of liberation and
was happy with it.’ This strong feeling of adapting to what he once promised and
never give up brings us to another aspect of his character. He is very organized, plans
everything, wants to finish things the same day, he follows rules conscientiously (when
meaningful). He is angry when other people disobey traffic rules. He can be very angry in
his heart about injustice. He says: ‘The greatest injustice is that I am never
accepted.’ He is very persevering: when he wants to achieve something, he is sure to
attain it. All this indicates clearly his Cuprum side and therefore the homeopathic remedy
he needs will be Carcinosinum cum Cuprum. Besides there is a lot of cancer in his family.
His father died at age 49 from cancer, all his uncles and aunts from both sides got cancer
and he also has a lot of cousins and nieces with cancer. His mother died at age 87 from
‘old age’. But a homoeopathic remedy alone will probably not be sufficient to
cure this patient. The patient has to be convinced that it is worthwhile to go for it, if
it is for prolongation of life, for a better condition of life or for cure. Any
possibility is valuable and worthwhile to go for. This is not false hope as so often said.
This is giving yourself as much of a chance as you can get. Cure is only possible if you
believe in it, if you feel stronger than your cancer. Therefore the support by the doctor
is important. Other measures are also important to sustain the body in its effort to throw
the cancer out. The treatment of free radicals with vitamin. C, E, Selenium and
bioflavonoids, the restoration of the copper and zinc equilibrium, the harmonization of
the home, organic food with a good quantity of vegetables and fruit and little or no meat,
sufficient rest, natural clothes and connection with the earth by wearing shoes with
leather soles to minimize static electricity. Also good bowel movement is important. Shark
cartilage can be important to check vascularization of the tumor. I give this in 4CH now
because good shark cartilage is very expensive and because I believe that in potentised
form it can transmit also the quality of the shark, namely be more aggressive and defend
yourself better. The killing of millions of sharks every year for this purpose is also an
important aspect for me that urged me to look for another solution. But I have been doing
this only for quite a short time and cannot say much about the results. The first two
persons who were controlled with life blood tests after taking this remedy for one month
have very active white blood cells. So the first results are very encouraging.
This patient, five months after his operation, is doing quite well. He feels in good
condition, his appetite in good again and his weight is increasing by one kilogram every
week, he has no pain and feels happy. He has started painting again. Concerning the
homoeopathic treatment I started with CCC LM6 every day, but now he feels better I changed
it to CCC 30K twice a week.
CASE 2: this 53 year old lady came to me with osteoporosis as
her main complaint. She says about herself that she is not persevering and that she never
was able to stand for herself. She was born during WWII, the third of five children. Her
father and mother had a confectioner’s shop and she was brought up by nurses. She had
to work all the time even as a child and she wanted to play and run away. There was no
place for feelings and she needed attention, which she found with a girl friend of her
mother’s who unfortunately died when the patient was just 20. Then she sought
consolation with a married man for four years and there she was caressed for the first
time in her life. But it was a difficult relationship and finally she got overwrought.
Then she was treated by a psychiatrist . Even now my self-confidence is zero she says. In
my mother’s eyes everybody was good, all other children were clever, but we were
stupid. My sister tried hard to be the best, but I didn’t do anything, and that gave
me a lot of trouble with my mother. She was very dictatorial and I fought with her until
her death. I still feel angry with her. My father was a nice man, but he never intervened;
I never knew him well. I have felt nervous all my life. I have no attachments. My body is
as if I have a phobia for it. I have a lot of fears: of high places, of narrow places, of
crowd, of cancer, a tremendous fear of spiders and thunderstorms. (I feel nervous before
them.) My body is full of static electricity and I walk almost always bare feet. I love to
read and do puzzles. My mother had rheumatism, my father died from a stroke. My
mother’s father, her brother and my grandfather’s sister on her side died of
cancer. I only eat in the evening and dislike bread and farinaceous food (this is the
expression of her Saccharum layer). I wake up frequently at 2.30 a.m. and am sleepless
after that. I prescribed her Carcinosinum 30K, once a week.
Then gradually she feels better. In the beginning she has cystitis, but she is less tense,
feels more confident, and drove for the first time in four years on the highway. Five
months later she says: I have become someone else. I feel the need for spiritual books and
I feel connected with the cosmos, which gives me a feeling of happiness. I had completely
lost my believe in God before, but now I feel his existence again. My mother was a fanatic
catholic and sent me to church every day. After a dose of Carcinosinum I feel relaxed and
content and don’t have any urge to perform. At the end of the two weeks (she takes
now 200K) I feel much more the need to work and to be active. Now again after two months I
feel that I have to do something for all these new things, all this love, so I decided to
stop smoking, which I never was able to do during my whole life. I made a promise to
myself. I sucked my thumb until I started to smoke at age seventeen. But life now seems
empty to me, I am missing something.
Here we see the shift to the Saccharum layer: she needed so much attention in her
childhood and she compensated it with sucking and later on with smoking cigarettes. This
was her only satisfaction and consolation. But at this point I did not change her remedy
because she still feels the benefit of it and that will help the saccharum picture to come
up still more clearly.
In this case the mother played the role of the disapproving father and the father himself
added to it by his absence and non involvement.
(Taken from: Homoeopathic Links 1/98)