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Autumn Homeopathy Conferences (2011) by Barbara Jones, UK
I spent 2 weekends last Autumn immersed in homeopathy, the first was with the Welsh Conference of Homoeopathy and the second was on Agrohomeopathy, an international seminar. In the next issue I’ll write something about the other speakers. Janet Snowdon spoke on Molluscs and Row 2 of the periodic table, Caroline Gaskin spoke about Narayani remedies and Dr Kaviraj spoke about homeop- athy for plants.
For now though – Dr Ramakrishnan talked about treating patients with cancer. I heard his method spoken of at Animal Energy 10, bought his book and have been using a version of this in my practice since then, with very encourag- ing results. I have now tweaked my protocol to be closer to his current teaching, (although I use his method it is in combination with other therapies as well). Two of his case reports illus- trate his protocol well.
He emphasised the importance of monitor- ing the patient (at least every 2 – 3 months in early cases in humans) and if the tumour is still growing, reconsider surgery if appropriate. He said that there is no medicinal aggravation in cancer patients, but there is wrong remedy selection. Although still a Kentian classical homeopath at heart, he said that in cancer the challenges are so many and so complex that if you treat in the classical way and you sit and watch, 100’s and thousands may die in the classical way. If there is no improvement (improvement includes no further growth of a tumour, even if it doesn’t reduce) then you don’t have the luxury of time to do classical homeopathy.
He graded patients into 6 categories and indicated his likely protocol in each grade:
1 PRECANCEROUS – at this stage he may use 30c – 200c potency of an organ related remedy, 1 split dose once a week (a split dose in his practice being four doses in twenty four hours)
2 JUST DETECTED – very early stage – use homeopathy
3 SMALL LUMP WHICH IS OPERABLE WITH NO GLANDULAR INVOLVEMENT OR SPREAD – surgery then homeopathy
4 LUMP OPERABLE , SPREAD TO SUR- ROUNDING TISSUE OR LYMPH NODES INVOLVED – surgery and homeopathy
5 PRIMARY LESION NOT OPERABLE, SEC- ONDARY SPREAD TO GLANDS AND SUR- ROUNDING ORGANS – try homeopathy first then if not successful, chemotherapy or radia- tion followed by homeopathy
6 PRIMARY LESION FIXED WITH PRESSURE EFFECTS IN SURROUNDING AREAS AND SEC- ONDARIES ALL OVER – homeopathic palliation
The best bet is to bring in a relevant nosode and intersperse it. Carcinosin is his top remedy, also scirrhinum, tuberculinum bovinum and medorrhinum. By using the plussing method
the remedies act faster and deeper, never aggravating; they work best in 30c, 200c and 1M.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE METHOD OF CANCER TREATMENT
Practically, you can put the 3 pillules in a bottle of water and dose every 10 – 15 minutes, plussing the remedy by shaking the bottle each time. Repeat this every day for a week, topping up the bottle with water at the start of each day then run the nosode the next week in the same way. Continue plussing through the week but on week 3 start at the original remedy at the original potency again.
In 70-80% of cases he sees signs of the cancer arresting, but still requests that the diagnostic tests are repeated in 3 – 4 months anyway.
In 3 – 4 months, even if the patient is doing well, he goes from 200c to 1M, then after 6 months go to 10M. He may go to a single dose once weekly, fortnightly and later once monthly or once every 2 months.
• Numerous moles
• Insomnia
• There is not always a family history of cancer
but could be TB, diabetes, pernicious anaemia or a combination, more strongly than average families
• Whooping cough or pneumonia very early in life • Diarrhoea and constipation
• Patchy alopecia from stress is curable by
Carcinosin
• Fastidiousness
• Very demanding parents, demanding high
achievement in child
• Vulnerability and sensitivity, tries hard to
please others, fear of failure, fear of being punished or humiliated. (This reminded me of some agility and obedience dogs)
• Sensitive to reprimand, 70% of cases, can’t stand to be yelled at or criticised, just falls to pieces
• Desires what it shouldn’t have (food) and develops sensitivities to it.
• Old head on young shoulders
• Takes life too seriously, struggle, resulting in
worries and emotional – anguish “today is the tomorrow he worried about yesterday”
Can you use Carcinosin in actual cases of cancer – Yes – emphatically YES, it has helped innumerable persons.
SCIRRHINUM
• Used very often but not as often as
Carcinosin
• Closely resembles phosphorus, thin built,
chilly patients yet have a desire for chilled drinks, like a phosphorus patient in having a headache that wants cold draft of air for headache alone, fears, glandular affecta- tions, glands that are stony hard, tendency to haemorrhoids, chronic necrotic pile mass. A lot of anal and rectal phenomena, pinworms.
How he picks the remedy as organ related rem- edy in prostate cancer:
• Sabal serrulata – benign as well as malig-
nant prostate problems; there may be spasm in mouth of bladder, the typical symp- tom is increased frequency of urination with large residual volume, – if benign give 200c, once a fortnight, split dose, if malignant use by plussing method alternating with Carcinosin. Review the patient regularly when malignant.
• Baryta mur and Baryta carb are remedies of the elderly, (Baryta carb –also the young) and huge prostate remedies. They also have a remarkable effect on atrophy of the brain. Baryta mur is a fantastic remedy to improve the blood flow, sitting in a warm room but feet are cold.
• Staphysagria is a remedy par excellence for suppressed anger and frustration, but the prostate can get phenomenal help from
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DRUG SELECTION
1 The constitutional remedy, if well indicat-
ed, is the drug of choice.
2 The nosode such as Carcinosin or
Scirrhinum in alternation with the above
remedy.
3 A remedy with affinity to certain areas is
invaluable in alternation with appropriate
nosode.
4 After four months the patient should sub-
jectively feel better; that is not enough – we should have corroborative evidence from lab work or diagnostic work sup- porting that. This feedback, this is very important – in a cancer case that is not just a sense of well being. You need at least one other parameter – if the mass is not growing at all he takes this as a great success. In the early stages of treating cancer he is simply fire fighting. Once at the pathology level he has con- tained the disease, then he uses the con- stitutional remedy. If we are going to halt the process, the administration of the remedy has to be aggressive.
5 Biochemic remedies are of great use and you can maintain dose over a long period. 6 Palliative remedies can be used where
indicated with wonderful relief.
Dr Ramakrishnan then outlined key indications for some of his most used remedies
CARCINOSIN
• Carcinosin from any source is good enough;
you don’t have to use the nosode made from bowel cancer in treating bowel cancer for example.
• Blue sclera –at any age, if you see blue scle- ra, Carcinosin can be given as preventative
• Cafe-au-lait complexion
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