I just bought "A Homeopathic Approach to Cancer". There is much mention of the remedy Hekla Lava, including certain leukemias. Does anyone have experience w Hekla Lava in general or as it applies to bone marrow diseases? My MM doesn't have a very full symptom picture to be used in this way. Many thanks!

Dear Maramu

Dictionary of Homeopathic Materia Medica
by O.A. Julian B.Jain Publishers

page 135 Hekla Lava some good info on this remedy.
does not mention a thing about cancer

i have used it often but only in acute's nothing chronic with deep miasmatic layers like 'cancer'.

Gina Tyler

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The first paragraph reads as under:

"Marked action upon the jaws. Of great use in exostosis, gum abscess, difficult teething. Nodosities, caries of bone, etc. Osteitis, periostitis, osteosarcoma; rachitis. Tumors in general. Bone necrosis. Necrosis and sinus after mastoid operation."

It doesn't mention of cancer in particular even in later paragraphs.

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Maramu,
It is mentioned in Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica by C.Hering,M.D in the first Paragraph last sentence"but in some fatal case a hole in the bone going down to the marrow was discovered under swelling"

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As it has evolved thus far, Ramakrishnan's method comprises three basic adaptations of the classical or " unicist" model, based on the single remedy and the minimum dose:

1) The remedies are given at regular, specified intervals, not on an "as needed" basis, and repeated over long periods of time, almost always for months at a time.

2) Two remedies are given weekly in alternation, usually an organ-specific or more general cancer remedy followed by a cancer nosode.

3) Remedies are administered by "plussing," according to specifications provided in the text, or by the "split-dose" method in early cases, such that each weekly dose is split into four and taken within a single day, from waking till bedtime.

The remainder of the book is largely given over to individual case reports, most of them followed by Ms. Coulter's helpful comments on the choice of the remedies and other individualizing features pertaining to that instance.

In Chapter 2, the main cancer remedies in Ramakrish nan's practice are listed, subdivided into three groups:

1) nosodes, chiefly Carcinosin and Scirrhinum;

2) what he calls "wide-spectrum cancer specifics," Conium, Thuja, and Arsenicum album, used in cancer of many types; and

3) organ-specific remedies, such as Aurum muriaticum natronatum (cervix, uterus, ovaries), Ceanothus (spleen, pancreas, liver), Hekla lava (bone, bone marrow), Hydrastis (stomach), Lycopodium (lung), Phytolacca (breast, parotid), Plumbum iod (brain), Sabal serrulata (prostate), and Terebinthina (bladder), to name a few.

In Chapter 3, general rules are formulated for the use of the Plussing and/or the Split-Dose methods, again with illustrative cases. Chapter 4, by far the longest (80 pages), gives cases of many types of cancer that have responded favorably to remedies given in this fashion, including several sites where conventional treatment has had the poorest record, such as brain, esophagus, lung, stomach, pancreas, and ovary.

This is from review of a book by Dr.Ramakrishnan.

For more info. just google 'hekla lava cancer'.

Murthy

Dear gavinimurthy,

Your knowledge of homeopathy is appreciable .A person like you who is very much strict in following homeopathic philosophy can favour Ramakrishnan's method of cancer cure is very much astonishing to me atleast.

I know you just gave a review of a book by Dr.Ramakrishnan.Do you think it is advisable to follow his method of curing cancer,using organ and pathological remedies alone with alternation of cancer nosodes,ignoring individuality which is must for curing these type of multi miasmatic diseases.

You know that if we are capable of curing these type of grave diseases with such a simple method we can save people from toxic and painful threapy and can also save a lot of money that is spent by the patient.

I hope you will agree.

sajjad.

Dear Sajjad

That was not my opinion. As you observed I just gave a part of the review.

Murthy

Dear Murthy,

Thank you for your realistic reply.

sajjad.