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Cancer is
that dreaded phenomenon which has haunted mankind since a long
time.Thanks to homoeopathy which has extracted the curative
principles from the obnoxious products of this disorder.
Carcinosinum or
carcinosin is a cancer nosode of a very deep acting nature and
its efficacy is also at par excellence.Carcinosin has shown its
efficacy by helping some the difficult & stubborn cases.
Although, many practioners have admitted the marvelous results
obtained by carcinosin but the available text of it is not much
extensive.
The credit
for bringing carcinosin into lime light goes to Dr. W. lees
Templeton & Dr. Donald M. Foubister.
Dr.
Templeton was the dean of the faculty of homoeopathy and
director of provings at Royal London Homoeopthic Hospital. He
carried out a proving of carcinosin in around 1952-53 by
dividing provers into two groups. Group- I ,consisted 4 provers
& 4 controls,Group-II consisted 5 provers & 4 controls.The drug
was proved in 30 and 200 potencies.
Dr.
Foubister was physician in charge of children’s department at
the same institute. He observed two children born to a mother
who was suffering from carcinoma of breast. Both these children
shared similar characteristics like café-au-lait
appearance,blue sclerotics,numerous moles over body and both
suffered from insomnia.So,out of curiosity foubister
investigated 200 cases in his OPD, of kids with similar
appearance for a history of cancer & found that there was a
strong family history of cancer, diabetes mellitus and
tuberculosis.
The report
of Templeton’s proving & the results of Foubister’s clinical
findings were published in the british homoeopathic journal
in April 1954.vol.43,i.e in the same issue.
The original
source of carcinosin preparation is not known but
some authors suggests, it was a preparation from carcinoma of
the breast, of which most of the symptomatology is procured.
So, the
symptomatology of carcinosin can be divided into:(i) Symptoms of
proving-by dr. templeton (ii) Clinical symptoms-most of the
symptoms available today are clinical symptoms.
Prescribing
criteria for carcinosin can be summarized as follows:
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Café-au-lait
appearance(coffee with milk appearance)
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Numerous
moles all over the body
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Blue
sclerotic (bluishness of sclera)
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Tendency
to insomnia
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A family
history of cancer, diabetes mellitus, tuberculosis
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Absence of
any of the childhood diseases is a strong keynote.
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When there
is a partial indication of two or many more medicines but no
one is covering the full case.
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There can
be a desire or aversion for salt ,milk egg ,
fat, fruits
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There can
be a marked aggravation or amelioration at seaside OR from
hot or cold
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Genu
pectoral position during sleep
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Aggravation from undressing(cough,skin)
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Amelioration after a short sleep
To explain
the contrasting modalities ,desires & aversions of carcinosin
frank w. gruber has explained a cycle of carcinosin which
demonstrates how the modalities,desires & aversions changes as
the patient passes from one phase to another of this cycle. I
found this cycle interesting & informative.
Regarding
its indication in case of cancer, according to dr. Foubister the
farther a case is from actual cancer, the more closer it is to
carcinosin.
So, this
nosode has got a lot of potential & a lot more virtues to be
discovered by extensive provings & clinical verifications.
Despite this, carcinosin is gaining its importance day by day in
the armamentarium of more and more homoeopaths.
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