Please could someone let me know where I can find more information about Carcinosin. I read a rather disturbing article a while back about the remedy - it stated that in a few cases a prescription of carcinosin actually led to cancer for a few patients! Is there any research on this or was the article talking rubbish??

I can't remember where I read this and am having trouble finding more information on this subject.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance ...

I have a lot of patients that I have given Carc. to in various potencies and not one of them has come up with Cancer. So I would interested in knowing where you have got this information from.

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I wonder then if Medorrhinum causes gonorrhoea, or Syph causes syphilis, or Tub causes tuberculosis?

I think this is most definitely "rubbish", as a remedy cannot cause pathology, only symptoms resembling the pathology. Considering the fact that we don't really know what causes cancer, how on earth can they say a remedy has done so. This sounds like sensationalist homoeopathy-bashing to me.

Having said that, it is possible that a nosode may aggravate an already existing state - Tub may activate latent tuberculosis, Med will recreate on old discharge etc. This might be mistaken for "creating" the disease, but the disease would have already been there. Modern medicine of course does not understand this, and would interpret it quite differently.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.

Dr. A.U. Ramakrishnan gives Carc. to people with cancer; he rotates it with the indicated remedy, for instance, he might give Conium one week and Carc. the next. He's written a book on homeopathy and the treatment of cancer.

There are those who say that Carc. is a polychrest, a remedy similar to Staphysagria; people eager to please and help out, peace-makers, people who try too hard and over-extend themselves, people with a history of domineering, demanding, strict parents who instilled fear--the individual learns to put his own needs aside to please others. It's a common story.

Snoopy

Nope, that'd be someone else. Not me, Barb.

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I swear I remember this though This will drive me nuts now. It was in a quote and it said something about either repeating doses or high doses or somehting - this must've been over a year ago at least.

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Phillip Bailey wrote a book about Carc. in 1998.

Carcinosinum ISBN 0646359975

I think he published it himself - the following url might help. (it's in the front of the book - I got my copy in Perth whilst over there)

http://town.nd.edu.au/~baileymd

I've just checked the url & it seems dead, maybe www.google.com will come up with a more recent address.

Check the archives for articles - I seem to remember one by Peter Morell & another in one of the North American newletters that publishes articles on-line .. these are of course memories from several years ago, when I was doing assignments on Carc & needed info!

[ 06 February 2002, 08:55: Message edited by: ozzie ]

There definitely is a homoeopath out there who has written this opinion that Carc can increase the risk of cancer - I don't remember his name though.

As regards your thoughts David, I don't think a direct analogy can be drawn between cancer and diseases which are associated with a specific bacteria such as TB, gonorrhoea or syphilis. Cancer is present in all of us, and is a fact of life in the body: it is kept in check by a healthy immune system. Only when the vitality is depleted is the balance lose and the cancer gains the upper hand, and is detectable as sizeable tumours.

In theory at least I can see the possibility that Carc could trigger cancer. Especially since it is used to treat cancer - anything which has the power to heal has the power to harm, depending on dose and susceptibility. ie. if Ramakrishnan has found that Carc reduces the size of tumours, then if we were to prove Carc fully it must have these symptoms.

These days I would only use the remedy as a last resort (when other well indicated remedies had failed)and with caution.

Please send me private email. I will provide you the email addresses of Dr. Abdul Rehman and Dr. Afsar Imam who are the master of Carcinosin with sufficent amount of data on carcinosin.

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I too think I read somewhere that certain dosing can cause cancer - in fact, Lisa didn't you post some info from a homeopath, a quote perhaps, where this was discussed?

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