Okay - I ordered the carc lm - calc carb lm- and calc nitlm - The calc nit is not a remedy they (freemans) has in pharmacy so it will take a bit longer to arrive. The Carc and Calc Carb will probably take 2 weeks.

Would it be worth a try to take a 200C dose of calc carb (in water) while I wait for the other remedies?

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Just want to say that I have never used Carc. in an LM. Has anyone?? What can I say about all this? I was reading through the rubrics that were chosen and I was thinking Arg. Nit. Then I see that David J=K suggested Calc Nit which is a brilliant idea. Personally (naturally this is up to you) I would start with Carc. 30, 200, 1M over 24 hours ( IME prevents agg)to cut down a layer and then see if the Calc Nit still shows.
However as I suppose you know that if you put 10 homeopaths in a room with a case all 10 can be relied on to come up with a different remedy for excellent reasons and they will probably all work well. After the first remedy you see what is left and treat that

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Snoopy -

Any experience with using carc in an lm? I am wondering if I should order the 30,200, and 1m, Ricky suggested. Obviously would prefer not to if I don't have to. Please let me know what you think - I am anxious to get started.

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Dear Barb,

I prescribed carc. 9C twice a day for a patient with allergic asthma and it worked successfully for some time until he got a phosphorus cold; so after taking the phos., he said he felt great, so I said, fine, continue with the phos.; so isn't it interesting how carc and phos are so close?

In another carc. case I gave 12C twice a day, I wrote down: Reasons--too many symptoms, keynotes of many polychrests, also, specific symptoms for carc: ailments from rape, allergic asthma, symptoms-many, concentration-difficult, guilt, learning disabilities, reading-understands-does not,
loves thunderstorms, loves to travel, loves to dance, sympathetic, sleep-abdomen. By the way, this patient also got headaches every day.

I have carc. LM/1 here, but I don't believe I ever gave it to anyone. I don't think it matters what potency you take as long as it's under 30C, so you can take a daily dose. The reason this is important is: 1) so you don't have an aggravation--which you need like a hole in the head, 2) so you don't have to worry about accidently antidoting the remedy, 3) so you don't have to wait for weeks on end wondering if you've taken the right remedy or if you've unknowingly antidoted it,
4) so you can stop your remedy if you get an acute and treat it with the indicated acute remedy and then resume the chronic treatment when the acute has resolved.

So, what would you prefer? You can take them all the same way as the LM; in other words, here's what I do: I put the remedy in a 4 oz. bottle, succuss 10 times, pour a capful into a cup of water, stir, and take a sip. Putting it in water and succussing before each use prevents accidental antidoting of the previous dose. An Lm you would take once a day, a 9C two or three times a day, a 12C once or twice a day. Any of those would be fine with me.

Snoopy

[ 07 June 2001: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

Dear Barb,

I just remembered your question about whether you should take a dose of calc 200C while you're waiting for other remedies to come in the mail. Well, you can if you want to, however, once you take it, it would be like any other prescription of a 200C, you'd be obligated to wait a month for results, and other remedies would be off limits, and if it turns out to belong to an earlier layer, you may be disappointed to find it doesn't work now, or that it aggravates and doesn't ameliorate because it's being blocked by the layer on top. So, I know you wanna get started, and I'm thinking there must be a cell salt that can be taken 4 times a day that's similar to this case. I remember Divina mentioning the magnesiums, so I wonder how mag-phos might relate to this case....Cramping of muscles relieved by warmth, stiffness of neck and back....Then there's nat-sulph, which looks good anyway because of the head injuries. So, the cell salts look interesting as an intermidiate "something to do".

Snoopy

I think Carc will at least palliate the anxiety, and it may be the appropriate nosode (I haven't thought about miasms yet) but I agree with DavidJ, the domination causation is lacking, and the perfectionism. These 2 elements are fairly crucial to the idea of Carc. And I have seen a couple of cases of unresolved mono remain unresponsive to Carc, so I am not sure that is a reliable indication.

I don't think it will hurt to try one of the remedies you have first, but keep the potency low. You are very sensitive, and if the remedy is wrong, a high potency will aggravate much longer. I am happy with 30c at first, but feel free to use LM's if you feel safer with that. An M of the wrong remedy could be overwhelming. I would expect to see a reaction within 3-4 days, and something positive should be seen within 7-10 days. It is important not to take too many remedies too quickly, so we can observe the effect of each one.

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I'll wait for the remedies then before trying the calc carb.

2 things I didn't post about because I didn't feel they were relevant and more importantly wasn't comfortable doing so, but after reading about the history of dominance in carc wonder if it will give more credence to snoops suggestion.

In my early 20's there was a incidence of date rape, it wasn't violent and I feel like I let it happen. I verbally tried to get the guy to stop but not physically and I believe if I had put up a fight he would've stopped.

Another thing - GRRR, I HATE EXPOSING SO MUCH! The lovely young man (sarcasm here) in my thread a few weeks back about a verbally abusive man is (lucky me) my husband.

Don't know, but it seems this may lean towards carc too. :razz:

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Roll out the Carcinosin!! So, your husband is the guy who moves furniture around? Did we ever figure out what remedy he was? What have you tried so far?

Snoopy

Yea, that's my hubby - what a great pair we are. You should see us at a restaurant, him moving the table and chairs and me searching for the bathrooms

I tried the Lyc but haven't seen a result. i'll pull up his thread again when i get a chance.

Quick question - can you (anyone) address the dynamic behind carc being used for too many symptoms? Is this similar to sulph being used to clear a case?

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Dear Barb,

I checked the suggestions thread and it's not there, which means I completely made it up.
Desires to move furniture-taren. NOT! Please disregard.

Snoopy