Carcinosinum: Materia Medica

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Carcinosinum is a nosode made from carcinoma tissue that can help with conditions related to malignancy, degeneration, and a history of infections or illnesses.

Slow healing wounds, abscesses, eruptions on the skin, glandular swellings, and growths are some of the physical symptoms Carcinosinum can help with.

A history of multiple infections, illnesses in the family like cancer, tuberculosis or syphilis, and suspected but not fully developed malignancies indicate Carcinosinum may be suitable.

Materia Medica

Carcinosinum

May 17, 2008


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by Ajit Kulkarni
A Nosode from Carcinoma Carc. A Select Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Ishwardas Tarkas
A Select Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Ishwardas Tarkas
A Nosode from Carcinoma  Carcinocin
REGION
Nutrition
Metabolism
Liver
Solar plexus
Skin
Mucous Membranes: Throat, stomach, rectum
Sides, alternating
WORSE
Seashore
Thunderstorm
Warmth. Summer. Yearly.
Morning. Night, 1-6 or 6-7 p.m.
Exertion
Undressing
Short sleep
Vaccinations (Thuja)
Blood transfusion
Surgery
Climacteric
Suppressions
Depressing factors: Anticipation. Fright. Grief. Frustrations. Deprivation of love. Reprimands. Tensions.
Consolation
BETTER
Evening
Seashore (Medorrhinum).Open air (agoraphilia).Thunderstorm
Sleep
Cold; food, drink
Rest
Depraved. Degenerant. Malignant.
Cachectic.  Hysterical. Allergic. Syco-syphilitic.
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. Bipolarity. Heightened sensitivity.
 The ‘cancerinique’, a precancer cachexy: sudden decline, weakness, brownish, olive the typical
‘cafe-au-lait complexion, blue sclerotics (Tuberculinum),  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., degeneracies in short. The more
troubles combine the better indicated (cp. Streptoc.).  Cases whose parents or relations
needed Carcinocin
 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, according to some, it is
rather “risky and fraught with dangerous possibilities 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 Carcinocin”  Cancers of the softer variety (for
hard, Calcarea flour., Conium, Scir.).
Nerves:
 Apprehension in stomach (Dys., Medorrhinum);  sinking in pit from shock. Anticipation agg.
generally or causes vomiting, eczema etc. Dyslexia.Conversion hysterias (Tarent.).  Locomotor
ataxia. Lastly cerebral torpor, a mental inertia.
Tissues:
 Growths: e.g. corn-like, with severe burning on touch (with Rad-met.);  painful swelling at the
spot of injection, Led  not helping; exudating cicatrix after a scald; (cancerous) brain tumor;
traumatic neurofibroma; painless lump near outer canthus. Warts. Post-vaccinal or post-surgical
keloids. Moles. Polyps. Lipomas.
 Malignancies: Rapid or slow. From maltreated T.B. Hodgkin’s disease, lympho-granulomatosis.
Ca breast, with great pain, hemorrhagic, offensive, acrid discharge. Ca uterus, cervix. Leukemia.
 Tendency to inflammations.
 Hemophilia. Thallasemia. Hemorrhages from orifices of body.
 Bones: Brittle (Calc-p.).
 Soft: Mind. Cancer. Skin. Scar. Light. Music.
Generally:
 Tired in morning, fresh in evening. Burning or constricting pains (head, abdomen, rectum,
heart). Throbbing internally. Well before attack (like Psorinum).  Discharges offensive, acrid, thick.
Twitchings: from tension; of eyelids, of various muscle groups.
Make-up:
 Hard-yielding, anxious, tense, high-strung (like Dys.).  Spruce. Hysterical. Perfectionist.
Industrious. Fastidious. Exacting. Soft, mild. Refined (like  Silicea). A knowledge-hunter (DNA.).
Artistic. Nature lover, love of travel, of animals. Literary, poetic bend. Creative. Attuned to life’s
rhythm (Sepia), hence lover of dance and music (Tarent.).  Romantic; prefer soft, dim lights. One
with a drive. Affectionate. Frank (simple, open, transparent).Good sense of responsibility.
Distinguished, in short.
Children:
 Sensitive to reprimands, but will not weep. Precocity (Lycopodium).  Restless children with
destructive outbursts. Frequent tantrums; when angry become stiff and hysterical (like Mosch.).
 Shyness. Cannot hold his own with other children, fear of other children (Silicea).  Cry (day and)
night, nightmarish. Tendency to insomnia even in young children.
 “A scape-goat.” A victim of sexual abuse. Under excessive parental control (overdisciplinized)
(Folliculinum, Mag-c., Natrum mur.).  Therefore cowardice (fear of being punished or humiliated),
self-depreciated.
 Backward, autistic, Attention deficit, dwarfish or even mongols (Baryta carb., Med.); also
disobedient; refusal to parental control.
 A blend of Mag.  (non-protected) and Nat. (ill-protected) childhood. Also over-protected and
spoilt childhood. Puny. Averse to play. Self-contempt. Guilty, self-reproaching. Repeats actions.
Masturbating (Medorrhinum).  Biting nails (Medorrhinum, Natrum mur.).
Mind:
 Psychogenic causes:  rejection, deprivation of love, shock, prolonged and unresolved grief, bad
news, harsh upbringing, fright, anticipation, reproaches, etc.
 Sentimental. Sensitive; to reprimands (Medorrhinum). Averse to being alone. Vulnerable. Does
not like consolation. Intelligent, perseverant but slow.
 Obstinate; takes life too seriously, as a life or death matter; strong sense of duty (Aurum);  will
not relax, will waste emotional e’lan, will maintain the show of fitness; even take more
responsibilities, though in reality breaking down. Rigidly conscientious. Can’t say no to others.
 Self-sacrificing. Penalty of unlived life (Whitmont). Also the rebellious, contentious, non-
conformist, yet considerate (Bryonia). Also the timid escapist (Arg-n.).
 Also the amiable: sympathetic and loves affection (Phos.).  Puts himself in the shoes of
others.  Wants to please everyone. Likes soft music, but it makes him weep (Graphites,    Nat-c.,
Nux-v., Thuja). Likes travelling (Calc-p.,Tuberculinum).
 Religious minded. A spiritual bend. Wants to be one with God and nature.
 Forgetful. Attention to detail, exaggerated precision, or meticulousness (Anacardium,
Arsenicum, Graphites, Nux-v.),  or (may be) untidy (Sulph.).
 Love of thunderstorm, enjoys watching it (Sepia)  and at seashore (opposite Syphilinum).
 A victim of prolonged suppressions, repressions, tensions, struggle or unhappiness, becomes
melancholic, goes into brooding (Natrum mur.), even thinks of suicide (may be a family trait too).
Effects of prolonged fear, frustration or a severe fright.
 Fear: of failure, humiliation, horrible things, heights, losing self-confidence, of dogs (Syphilinum,
Tuberculinum);  of cancer (“Cancer is often preceded by fear of cancer”).
 Maladjusting.
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 (Medorrhinum, Natrum mur.);  <  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. Softness and harshness. Slow appearance and sudden appearance.  Paucity of
symptoms and abundance of symptoms. Recurrent fever or no fever for a long time. Lack of reaction or
severe reaction. Tired in morning, fresh in evening. Shyness or openness. Sharp or backward. Obedient
or disobedient. Narcissistic or self-contempt. Pushing or escapist. Restless or tranquil. Artistic or
dyslexic. Desire and aversion of food. A genius or a moron. Love of life or suicidal.
2.  Alternation of symptoms from one side of the body to the other (as in Lac-c., Sepia).
3.          Constant change of symptoms.
4.  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 (right) thumping. Occipital, maddening, < night. (Apoplectic
tendency).
 Effects of head injury.
Ears:
 Inflammation of wall of meatus. Intractable suppurative otitis or abscess.
Eyes:
 Blinking of eyes. Twitching of lids; left lid. Corneal ulcer.Retinal hemorrhage, diabetes.
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 commissures, with a hard gland (Cund  failing). Painful acne.
Herpes on upper lips and nose. Numerous moles (Hippoz.),  mother had cancer. Facial paralysis.
Mouth:
 Stomatitis; recurring; in children; glossitis. Ulcers.
 Teeth: Decayed, hollow. Grinding of teeth during sleep. Toothache, general.
Throat:
 Pain < warm drinks, empty (not of food) swallowing, > cold drinks. Pharyngitis. Sensation of
lump. Recurrent tonsillitis. 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.
 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. Bulimia
nervosa. Vomiting; cyclic; from anticipation; bilious, with headache; alternate with diarrhea. Ulcer
in.
 Apprehension /  linking in stomach (also Carc-adenostum, Scir.  has worms in addition), a cancer
trait.
Abdomen:
 Liver pains; pain in right hypochondrium, bitter taste, bilious vomiting,
debility, Chelidonium  insufficient, wells up bile, heartburn, right side meteoric, constantly belching,
offensive flatus, great prostration after stools, sick headache, cancerous family. Cirrhosis of liver,
hereditary. Tremendous sinking at navel (Scir.).
 Excessive flatulence; great accumulation in stomach and bowels.
 Colic > bending double (Coloc.), warm drinks, pressure. Burning pains like fire in ascending
colon. Vague pains in abdomen, < 4-6 pm, chronic colitis, ulcerative 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, Collinsonia  palliates,
cancer in family. Constipation, sans urging. ‘Cancer is often preceded by constipation.’   Anal abscess
after jaundice (which was managed somehow by Mercurius  and Sulph.).  Cancer. Fistula (which is
probably related to cancer). Condylomata; burning, and burning piles, arthritic pains (finished
by nitricum acidum).
 Diarrhea: chronic mucous or muco-membranous colitis; mucus diarrhea, mother had bone T.B.
Urinary:
 Children: bed-wetting, indicated remedies failing; nephritis. Burning in urethra, prolonged after
urination. Circumcision abscess, burning (Anthracinum),  mother and sister had required Carcinocin
 Diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus, hereditary. Nephritis; interstitial.
Female:
 Leucorrhea, offensive.
 Menses: dark, clotted, offensive, painful. (Menorrhagia).
 Increased sexual desire. Disposition to masturbate. Uterine bleeding after sex. Endometriosis
(cp. Thyr.). Fibroids. Ovarian cysts. Sterility. Uterine cancer, palliative. After hysterectomy.
 Mammae: Violent tension, swelling and tenderness before menses. Fibroadenomas. Chronic
mastitis. Abscess (Lachesis  insufficient), mother and brother had required Carcinocin  Cancer, great
pain and induration. Tumors of mammae, has gastric ulcer also, family h/o pneumonia, T.B.
meningitis, insanity and eczema.Ca breast. Retraction of nipples.
Respiratory:
 (Bronchial) Asthma; of infants; from dust; after fright, migraine, pneumonia
(Streptoc.);  pertussis; alternating with eczema (Thyr.; worse 10 am and in damp air (Natrum
mur.).  Cough, < cold air; warm room; dressing; undressing; yawing. Whooping cough; persistent.
 Burning in chest; from loss of sleep nursing sick, (Cocc.  failing). Desire to take deep breath
(Ignatia).Recurrent bronchitis or pneumonia; chronic pneumonia, Burning with vomiting, tonsils and
adenoids swollen (or excised), like Streptoc.  (which however is not cachectic).
Heart:
 Sense of constriction > sighing (Ignatia).  Throbbing. Weak heart; even a short walk exhausts.
Palpitation < 2-6 pm, violent. “Can feel the heart and hear it on lying down.”
 Bad heart; child’s mother was Natrum mur.  patient.
Locomotor:
 Back: dragging pain; burning, in cervical spondylitis. Burning palms and soles (Sulph.).  Warts on
soles. Varices of legs with purple points. Ganglion. Twitchings.
 Rheumatism, < violent, but > slow motion, cancer cachexy. Arthritis deformans (Dys.).Osteo-
arthritis.
Sleep:
 “Cancer is often preceded by bad sleep.” Troubled sleep of children: cry day and night; sleep in
knee-chest position (Calc-p., Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Phosphorus, Sepia, Tuberculinum)  or on
back with hands above head (Medorrhinum, Pulsatilla);  nightmares, after fright (surgery etc.);
insomnia, mother cancerous. Sleepless: till 1 a.m. Unrefreshing sleep.
 Dreams: of journey, looking for someone, mishaps, murder, work, robbers.
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.).Pustular eruptions; elder sister had leukemia.
 Metabolic or neuro-skins (Aster.).  Corns.  Boils; multiple; alternating sides. Molluscum
contagiosum. Lichen planus. Neurodermatitis. Psoriasis. Moles. Ganglion. Gangrene.
 Slow healing of wounds. Abscesses; of injection; of circumcision; one sloughing abscess 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 (Echi., Maland.),  also acidosis after removal of
tonsils and adenoids (parents diabetic).
 Rheumatic fevers. PUO. “May prove useful in glandular fevers (infective mononucleosis)
(like Felds.).They are generally very slow to clear up.” (and probably in AIDS too).
 Also, no fever for a long time.
Relations:
 An offspring of Sulph.  and Tuberculinum,  it helps all polychrests and nosodes, as
also Anthracinum, Hippz., Ins., Streptoc., Thuja when they prove insufficient.
 Complementaries: Arsenicum, Ars-i., Ast-r., Conium, Cundurango, DNA., Hydrastis, Bufo.,
Cuprum, Folliculinum, Graphites, Ignatia, lod., Lap-a., Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Mag-c., Nat-c.,
Natrum mur., nitricum acidum, Phosphorus, Phytolacca, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Rad-br., Sanguinaria,
Sepia, Sulphur, Syphilinum  (cancer and syphilis are related), Thuja, Tuberculinum, X-ray.
 Similar: Maland.  (minus greasy skin and plus depraved history; a low state of vegetation; said to
clear up the remnants of cancerous deposits; Carcinocin,  is the Maland.  of
malignancy), Thuja,  Bowel nosode cognate Dys.  (Syc.  is cognate to Medorrhinum,
Morb.  and Streptoc.),  Graphites
 “Pineal gland (Pin-g.).  is the Aconite  of cancer, where constitutional remedy seldom helps” –
Balfour.
 Guilty conscience group: Ambr., Aur-m., Carcinocin, Coffea, Cyclamen, Ferr-m., Lac-c., Lac-d.,
Mag-c., Nat-c., Natrum mur., Pulsatilla, Silicea, Zincum met.
 Counterpart:  DNA.  (Knowledge hunter, Hemorrhage, Bipolarity, < unusual responsibility, rigid
conscience, refined, F/h of grave illnesses).
 Suggested Trios:
1. Bryonia-Natrum mur.-Carcinocin                        2. Sepia-Natrum mur.-Carcinocin
3. Bryonia – Tuberculinum-Carcinocin  4. Calcarea flour.-Conium-Carcinocin
5. Streptoc.- Thuja-Carcinocin              6. Arsenicum-Lycopodium-Carcinocin
7. Nat-c.-Stront-c.-Carcinocin

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