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PART II

(This section contains abstracts/extracts from selected articles; even the entire article in some cases)

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I. THE ONE-BERRY*

LEVY DAVID, (Simillima 1, 2/1993)

The following two cases represent my entire

experience with a particular remedy. I will give a

summary of each case before we discuss them. Then I

would like to propose a model/image/situation of the

remedy.

The case of Joshua

I had the occasion a few years ago to be asked by

Joshua, a young student of mine, for assistance with a

chronic sinusitis condition. He had suffered this for

many years and had once tried Homœopathy.

Unsuccessful, he depended upon an increasing dose and

variety of antihistamines. More recently he had

returned to Sydney from a visit to Canada. Whilst

abroad, he contracted measles, lost a great deal of

weight and was suffering from persistent night sweats.

These sweats, occurring 3 to 4 nights per week were

profuse, drenching his bed-sheets some nights. He was

distressed about these.

Prejudiced?

The difficulty I found in taking Joshua’s case was

that as he was a student of mine I had developed

preconceived ideas about him. He had sat at the front of

the lecture room for over a year, making remarks

through his nasal voice, a handkerchief never far from

his hands. He was the sort of fellow who always had a

remark to make and was usually the first to make it,

regardless of the topic or question under discussion. It

was not always an opinion he had to offer. Sometimes

it was a personal anecdote he felt he had to share with

the entire room of students and myself. At times his

remarks were silly, smug or slightly childish. For

example, he would joke about a patient’s symptoms,

often serious, in which no one else could find any

humour. He would remark that I was wearing the same

trousers or shoes that I had worn the previous week, in a

tone of voice loud enough and “smart” enough for all to

hear.

At other times he could be blatantly rude, usually to

his colleagues. For example he could react suddenly

and critically to a comment or opinion forwarded by any

of his colleagues. I had always found this unusual as

he was almost the youngest member of the group. Over

and above these observations, Joshua was clearly a

“chatterbox”, a talker. He could talk and talk at length

often changing the subject and seldom stopping to draw

breath. One almost sensed that he enjoyed listening to

himself speaking.

Interview

In taking his case no questions were asked. Joshua

came well prepared with many stories to tell. He spoke

willingly and at length of his childhood. He is the only

child from a very comfortable middle class Canadian

family. Why he is the only child is not clear. He boasts

that he was “the best” at many sports, activities and in

many subjects, speaks French and English fluently, was

the captain of this and that team. This competitiveness

was also apparent from his behavior in the lecture room.

He takes great pride in telling me these things,

becoming quite excited as he recalls a particular game

or a certain prize that he received. He seems to glow in

describing these details, speaking more quickly and at

times a little incoherently in spite of my attempt to ask

him to go on to something else.

By his own admission Joshua never wanted for

anything: “I had all the toys, games, equipment and

holidays that any kid could want”. Being an only child,

he spent long periods alone, with his parents or in

predominantly adult company. Consequently he had

developed quite strong ideas of his own from a

relatively early age. Joshua says that he never felt

alone, lonely or without friends and that he always had a

healthy idea of himself, which for a young man of 21

seemed extremely self-assured. He was a little

concerned that he may be a late developer as he was

currently having his first relationship with a young

woman. Before evaluating Joshua, the second case.

The case of Patsy

I had been seeing 62 year old Patsy for some time

regarding a chronic sinus condition. I was at the stage

of referring Patsy to another homœopath as the remedies

selected had been ineffective. Patsy had 2 operations

for this condition and as a consequence of the second

operation she suffered severe neuralgia in the left side

of the face. She had used various allopathic drugs and

still depended on analgaesics. Patsy had a constant

post nasal catarrh and was always trying to clear mucus

from the throat and larynx. With effort, she brought up

a tough sticky greenish mucous but never felt that it was

all expelled. So she is always hawking and hemming.

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Patsy is a talker in the highest degree. My secretary

remarks that “Patsy is never quiet from the moment she

sits down in the waiting room until the moment she

leaves. She talks of her troubles and complaints and

always seems dissatisfied. She hardly stops to breathe

and goes from one thing to the next”. This nagging

loquacity extended to numerous unnecessary telephone

calls, sometimes at my home. In Patsy’s mind there

were always good reasons for the call, yet it was often

nothing more than a delirious ramble or a repetition to

things she may have told me only hours before in the

clinic. At length she talked always of herself.

Patsy described a very happy childhood, secure and

content. As an only child she mixed mainly with adults

and says that her needs and desires were usually met

without delay. She had a marriage that somehow lasted

for 20 years. “It was a charmed marriage at first but

soured very quickly. He was an academic and was

always far too busy to attend to me”. According to her

daughter (my patient) however, “Mum drove dad mad

with all her chatter and demands, mocking and

criticizing him, contemptuous of his achievements. She

could be like a spoiled child if she didn’t get what she

wanted immediately”. Patsy divorced and had lived

alone for over 20 years.

Patsy had no dreams of any significance. She said

however, that she had a habit of waking from a dream

thinking that she was not in her own home and feeling

very alone. This happened repeatedly. I implored her

to remember her dreams but she could not. I felt this to

be a curious part of her case but was unsure as to how or

where it fitted.

Evaluating Joshua

In evaluating this case, I felt that the information

Joshua provided, did little to change my prior

observations of him. This concerned me. I wondered at

the validity of my observations and felt doubtful

whether I had enough objective information on which to

prescribe.

Of two characteristic symptoms I felt certain:

1. Loquacity, changing quickly from one subject to

another

2. Haughty

These two symptoms pointed to Lachesis and

Lycopodium yet hardly seemed sufficient upon which

to prescribe. To be sure I looked at each remedy.

Lachesis: Loquacious; haughty; egotism; boasts

Lycopodium: haughty; egotism; contempt; rudeness.

Interesting though both of these were, Joshua

seemed to lack the essential state of both of these

remedies. He did not seem truly driven, jealous, or

suspicious like Lachesis. Nor did he manifest any of the

fears, inadequacy or insecurity that we usually

encounter in Lycopodium. It was possible that these

qualities had already been heavily compensated, in

which case what I perceived may well have been the

opposite of his true nature. In any case I was not

satisfied and asked Joshua to wait.

I gave the case some thought. The main things that

intrigued me and that I felt to be significant were:

1. Joshua’s loquacity, the ease and pleasure in his

talking.

2. The silly/foolish remarks he was capable of

making.

3. The almost unreserved or blatant egotism which he

displayed most of the time.

My conviction was that these characteristics would

lead me in the direction of the remedy. On examining

the Synthetic Repertory, to my delight, I came to the

following small rubrics:

1. Loquacity, self-satisfied

2. Talking, pleasure in his own

3. Egotism, speaking always about themselves in

company

Please refer to these rubrics. I had already

eliminated Lachesis and I did not see Joshua in any

measure needing Stramonium, Nat-m or Staph (In fact

he had had both Nat-m and Staph from the previous

homœopath without reaction). What emerged from

these 3 small rubrics was Paris quadrifolia, a remedy of

which I knew almost nothing and had never prescribed.

Closer application to the S.R. revealed the following

symptoms:

- Loquacity, changing quickly from one subject to

another/cheerfull,

exuberant/foolish/insane/vivacious

- Foolish behavior

- Speech foolish/incoherent

- Childish behavior

- Mocking

- Egotism

- Haughty

- Rudeness

- Censorious

- Contemptuous

Phatak says of Paris quad: Garrulous loquacity;

loquacious mania; silly conduct; inclination to treat

others with rudeness and contempt.

I gave Joshua a dose of Paris Quad 200 and asked

him to avoid antihistamines. Within a week he reported

two profuse nightsweats but each other night he was dry

and slept well. After three weeks the sweats had

completely ceased and he felt great relief. This seemed

to me to be a very positive indication of the remedy’s

action. After 6 weeks, he reported that his chronic

sinusitis was improving. The stuffy fullness at the root

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of his nose was less but the discharge was more profuse,

“which feels good because I can breathe” he said. At

the same time, my observation of him in lectures was

that although still loquacious he was more controlled,

less foolish with fewer anecdotal or egotistical

outbursts. Seldom were these outbursts now rude,

foolish or contemptuous. However alone in

consultation he was still garrulous. The tendency to

egotistical talk of himself now seemed to confined in a

way to the “company” of one person, in this case

myself. At this point, after 8 weeks, I prescribed a

second dose of Paris 200. Three weeks later his

condition was altogether clear and he was pleased. In

the past 18 months I have given Joshua one further dose

when his sinus condition began to recur during very

changeable weather.

Evaluating Patsy

I had tried and failed with no less than 3 remedies.

It occurred to me that I may be prejudiced by a feeling

of frustration with her constant talking, or, perhaps I

needed to be “literal”, more direct in my assessment. So

I opted for a literal interpretation and found the

following rubrics.

- Delirium, loquacious

- Loquacity, changing quickly…

- Loquacity, self satisfied

- Loquacity, insane

- Childish behavior

- Censorious

- Contemptuous

- Mocking

- Reproaches others

- Talking, pleasure in his own

These all appeared to me a literal interpretation. I

was curious however about this state Patsy would find

herself in when she awoke from dreams. It had to be

significant, as it occurred at many stages in her life with

equal intensity. I thought that Delusion, strange land,

as if in a (SR 359) was a reasonable choice. This

contains Bry, Par, Plat, Verat. After a more thorough

search I found Delusion, places, (at night on waking)

finding himself in strange and solitary p. (SR 337).

Only Paris appears in this sub rubric. Although this

does not help us to account for the dreams, it describes

very closely the state Patsy was in when she awoke,

feeling both that she was alone and as though not in her

own home. With this sub rubric in its favour I was

willing to give Patsy this remedy.

I gave Patsy one dose of Paris and sac lac. The

result was astonishing. In a week she informed me that

the neuralgia in the left side of her face was better. No

pain at all in the left eye. After 4 weeks great relief in

her face and sinus condition. Far less hemming and

hawking. She was less garrulous. My secretary

observed that she arrived, sat down and read a magazine

until the time for her appointment. In consultation, she

was still ready and willing to find fault but conceded

there had been great improvement, “though I am not

cured”. I allowed a further month to pass with sac lac,

during which her condition deteriorated slightly so I

repeated a dose. Three weeks after the second dose,

Patsy responded that she was physically well.

Significantly, I had not had a telephone call from her

during the entire 7 week period. There was no further

mention of waking from dreams. Last time I saw

Patsy’s daughter she remarked that her mother was in

fine form.

A proposed model/Image/Situation of Paris

quadrifolia

Although I have only prescribed the remedy twice.

I have seen it act deeply and promptly. In each case:

- Joshua and Patsy were both only children

- They felt that they had quite happy upbringings

- Talking, pleasure in their own

- Selfsatisfied loquacity

- Contemptuous and censorious disposition

Whilst two cases is hardly a significant sample. I

would like to suggest the following points in an effort to

better understand this remedy.

Paris quadrifolia, the only child:

- Spend much time alone, therefore talk to

themselves a lot

- Very familiar with the sound of their own

voice

- Always heard and attended to, so become

spoiled and pampered

- Without the lonely/forsaken reaction of other

only children

- No brothers or sisters, therefore no rivalry

- Perhaps the child who has much older siblings,

so they are like only children

- As only children, mostly in adult company

- Mixing in adult company, develop early

egotism, becoming rather adult at an early age,

hence may be precocious

- Early egotism could be seen in talking about

themselves, pleasure in their own voice or

silly/foolish behavior

- The adult Paris therefore behaves

inappropriately, as the only child (adult)

- Such inappropriate behavior might include

being foolish/silly/childish/loquacious, or

rude/haughty/egotistical/censorious/contemptu

ous. Either way Paris Quad will be loquacious

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and this will be a pleasurable, “selfsatisfied”

loquacity.

I look forward to hear of your experiences with this

remedy and gratefully appreciate comments and

discussion.

David Levy

3/100 Bronte Road

Bondi Junction 2022

Australia.

*this paper was presented as an offering to a

Symposium held in the countryside of England in May

’93 for an international group of 16 homœopaths (from

Norway, India, Australia, Holland, Germany and

England).

Discussion

After this presentation at the Symposium there was

a small discussion about Paris Q. in which a.o. the

parallel between the only child and the common name

of Paris: “the one-berry” was remarked.

Jayesh from Bombay related a short case of Paris: a

man (fruit-seller) with knee-joint problems (giving

way); very much complaining about the knee but

everything else in life is o.k. No tension, happy life,

content. He speaks “big” in everything. He sells “big

apples, big fruit", speaking about “big hospitals and a

big doctor”. Everything big. (Rubrics: Delusion,

enlarged, distances are/head/objects). A peculiar

physical in this case was that massage of the knee would

produce flatus which ameliorated.

Jan SCHOLTEN remarked that in his experience

Paris lacks any self reflection, there is no mirror. They

are full of themselves, cannot see their own role.

Rajan SANKARAN remarked the resemblance

with Hyoscyamus who is also attracting attention by

loquacity and foolishness; but in Hyos there is a very

strong “suffered wrong feeling” and jealousy which

seems to be missing in Paris. Paris seems to be the

only child, so there is no rivalry or jealousy. There is no

companionship of other children and the only way to

attract the attention of grown-up company is by

loquacity and silliness, that is his way to “fit in”.

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II. i. General Review of The Present Homœopathic

Treatment Of Cancer

Dr.FORTIER-BERNOVILLE

(HOMŒOPATHIC RECORDER, VOL. LII,

1937, JAN. No.1, P.3)

To patients and even to physicians Cancer gives the

impression of being the most terrible scourge, which is

fatal, pitiless, irremediable as soon as it fixes its

signature on the human being. That isn’t always so.

[There is a book which got an award “The Emperor of

All Maladies Cancers” A Biography of Cancer by

Siddhartha MUKHERJEE”. I have read a ‘leading

homœopathic doctor. Who justified his technique

because Cancer is rapid and there is no time to wait. I

have also read another ‘leader’ who wrote “not be in a

hurry. Cancer will not rush overnight; so you take time

to think and analyse and pick the remedy carefully. If

the disease is such a killer, it will kill and you cannot

stop it by your hasty prescriptions.” = KSS]. Each of the

therapeutic methods employed against Cancer has really

shown itself capable of curing indisputable cases, and

even in certain circumstances, though they are rare, one

has seen malignant tumors not only remain stationary

but even regress and sometimes disappear. However, it

is impossible to make use of these facts for the future

because of their inconstancy.

The same holds true for classical homœopathy.

Some good Homœopathic practitioners, as well as some

empiricists, after having treated several hundred cases

of Cancer, have been able to boast, with truth, that they

have been able to cure some of these cases. We can

admit it, even after excluding the doubtful cases or those

unproved because of a lacking biopsy. But one cannot

depend on these for they are isolated accomplishments.

The properly called Homœopathic treatment can be

useful in Cancer, however, be it to retard the

progression of the Cancer, be it to palliate against the

pains, be it opposed, finally, to the general intoxication,

not only in the phase of the confirmed Cancer but

especially in the pretumoral phase, prophylactic

treatment of Cancer or the cure of the precancerous

state. [I would like to draw attention to a great book by

a great German doctor, Dr. Emil SCHLEGAL of

Tübingen ‘Die Krebskrankheit – Ihre Natur und ime

Heilmittel’, Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1927. He

gives a number of cases successfully treated. This is

followed by another smaller book by Dr. Emil

SCHLEGAL ‘Hoffnung für Krebsterdorke’ (Hope for

Cancer patients), by Johannes Verlag, Rozenburg 1929.

The books are based on the author’s personal

experiences = KSS].

However, modern homœopaths, knowing that it is

necessary to add more efficacious arms to their

traditional arsenal, have been orienting themselves for

twenty or thirty years in a channel of specific treatment:

nosodes, tumor extracts, isotherapy, dilutions of

products, various discovered organisms in the cancerous

masses, whatever their significance may be (generators

of lesions or saprophytes only).

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Successively, we shall study:

1. The properly called Homœopathic

treatment.

2. The different specific and isopathic

methods which are associated to

Homœopathy.

I. HOMŒOPATHIC TREATMENT

Actually then, the great directing idea of the

officials is that cancer is a disease, firstly local, which

then generalizes itself, which is only grave because of

this generalization and invasion of the body. That which

is called the precancerous state exists only in so much

local irritation, or the isolated organic inflammation can

be the cause for cancer (for example, a proctitis

determining a favorable state for the birth of a rectal

Cancer, a Uterine Polyp degenerating into a Uterine

Epithelioma, etc.). Consequence: it is essential to fight

these local inflammations, and act aggressively on the

tumoral element in order to destroy it (be it by radiation

or surgical intervention). The main argument which

appears to favor this belief is the relative rarity of

relapses of Cancers in aggressively treated cases and the

exception of cases of primitive tumors appearing

successively in different organs in the same patient.

On the contrary, homœopaths believe, in general,

and other colleagues hold equally to this idea, that there

not only exists at the same time but especially for some

time before the appearance of a tumor, a general

constitutional state or generator of Cancer. The local

irritation acts only as a focus of localization; it is a thorn

due to disturbances of regional tropism (tissue or

organ). Consequence: Know the signs of the

precancerous state in order to treat the body before the

appearance of the Tumor and treat the general state as

well as the cancer during or after the latter. The valuable

argument in favor of this idea is the possibility of

obtaining occasionally a remission or an amelioration,

which is only temporary, by acting on the general state

and via internal channels.

In reality, if certain officials are strangely blind

when they refuse to admit the existence of an already

deficient general state in a clinically pretumoral phase,

certain traditional homœopaths, especially foreigners,

are mistaken, in our opinion, when they neglect the

extreme importance of the local factor in Cancer as in

other affections.

To clarify our demonstration let us take another

example: an Abscess or phlegmon. Before the

appearance of the suppuration one can prove that there

exists in the general state of the subject warning

disturbances: suppurative tendency; the smallest wound

is infected very easily, the patient is fatigued, there

often exists cytological transformations etc. Then the

abscess forms. At this moment local signs appear and

assume more and more the first position over the signs

of general disturbance unless the abscess is opened and

the pus exteriorized. In this case, general treatment is

useful before and after; the abscess ought to be

associated with local measures in the suppurative phase.

There is likewise in Cancer a rational local

treatment whose object is the tumoral destruction, be it

by irradiation or better still by operative oblation, be it

by local application of homœopathic remedies, it should

be practiced each time this is possible, for without that

the treatment of general detoxification is shown to be

insufficient in the greater part of the cases.

It is then necessary to envisage Homœopathic

treatment from two aspects:

General (remedies to be prescribed in the

precancerous state as well as during the tumoral phase

or after it).

Local (treatment only possible in the actual Cancer

period).

A. General Treatment

This is composed of:

1.Constitutional remedies

2.Cancer remedies

3.Drainage and canalization remedies (This

subject is discussed in articles appearing in the

J.A.I.H. for July, 1936. S.A.K.)

I. CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES

Numerous polychrests, habitually employed as

remedies of morbid constitutions, called “basic

remedies” or improperly “constitutional remedies” are

quite often indicated in cancerous and precancerous

patients. As elsewhere, they can also be prescribed in

the greater part of the chronic diseases, as

HAHNEMANN described them. That it may be a

question of Psora, that state so difficult to define yet so

easily recognized; that it may be a question of Sycosis

in other cases; that Psora is identifiable, according to

NEBEL, with hereditary Tuberculosis (with infections

of intestinal origin for other authors); that it determines

in the subject a state called tuberculinique or

pretuberculous in others, or a precancerous diathesis in

others, we should only note that, habitually, it is the

same great basic remedies which should be prescribed

in the first place. Our object here is only a practical one,

namely, to present a general view of the treatment of

Cancer, and it is not an etiologic or pathogenic

investigation.

Thus we find that depending on age, sex, race, soil,

climate, habits of life, alimentation, morphology, there

are a thousand shades, which lend these remedies an

extraordinary polymorphism. It is also true that Thuja,

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Lachesis, Iodium, Silicea, Lycopodium, Sulphur, Sepia,

Petroleum, the Calcareas, the Kalis, the Natrums,

Carbo vegetabilis and animalis, Graphites, Causticum,

Arsenicum album, Phosphorus, Mercurius, Nitric acid,

Nux vomica, Ignatia, shall present themselves

judiciously to our minds as most often characterizing

the morbid state of our patients. They are for us protean

remedies, for precise personalities, which are multiple

facetted, variable. They can be described in a different

fashion, but as true as any other, as characterizing

certain hereditary psoric states in the child,

tuberculinique in every age but especially in the young

subject (child, adolescent, young adult): or

precancerous psoric or precancerous sycotic states in

adults and mature people or in the aged who frequently

present associations of Sycosis and Psora.

We lack the space required to describe in a detailed

manner the precancerous state as it is manifested in

Thuja, Lachesis, Sulphur, etc., as we have previously

done for the tuberculinique or tuberculous state

(General View of the Present Homœopathic Treatment

of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, L’Homœopathie Moderne,

Nov.15, 1932). The reader should refer to the Materia

Medica, which is the premier source of all

Homœopathic knowledge. Let us limit ourselves by

giving only several practical indications of the value of

these remedies, which are habitually employed in high

potency in the precancerous or even cancerous state.

THUJA: This is the king of Hahnemann’s Sycosis,

the diathesis which is productive of Neoplasms, that are,

most often benign. These are Warts, Condylomata,

Vegetations, Naevi, etc. Sycosis supervenes upon a

genital infection, especially Gonorrhoea, or after

repeated vaccinations which are toxic to the body,

especially Jennerian antivariolar vaccination.

Thuja is in the first rank of remedies for the

precancerous state. In high potencies it is wise to repeat

it rarely, since it can be dangerous and occasionally

even precipitate a subject toward a cancerous

localization.*

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In reality, Thuja can also act with success in the

confirmed Cancer if the latter isn’t too intensely

malignant, and if the tumor is still localized. In such

cases it can be used for Cancer of the breast

(degenerated Adenoma) and for the cutaneous

epitheliomata. In such cases one may be mistaken,

perhaps, in prescribing it in too high potencies. Thuja 6

repeated often would appear to act more favorably in

certain cutaneous Cancers, especially in cancroids.

LACHESIS: This is also a constitutional remedy of

the first order for the precancerous and starting cancer

cases. This is especially so in females approaching the

*

1

Generally speaking, the French writers consider the

200th and 1M are “high”.-S.A.K.

fifth decade, following a period of glandular and

circulatory disturbances affecting the Thyroid, Ovaries

and Liver. These disturbances are often accompanied by

vertigo, flashes of heat, palpitations, general

hyperaesthesia (cannot tolerate anything tied about the

neck, chest or waist) and often, arterial hypertension. If

there exists a bloody discharge the latter ameliorates the

patient (especially the periods). If, on the other hand,

there is a cessation of the discharge the condition is

aggravated (menopause).

In other cases and regardless of sex, the

precancerous Lachesis case is intoxicated (alcohol) or

jaded. The latter’s intensive creative efforts or inventive

researches have profoundly disturbed the humors and

destroyed the reserves of nervous energy.

Lachesis even acts well in certain Cancers, in high

potencies, and without appearing dangerous as Thuja is,

even if it is repeated often. Its action is more general on

the intoxication of cancerous origin. Thuja has a more

localizing action.

IODIUM: This is complementary to Thuja, which

is also its antidote. Patient is debilitated, weak and

wastes very rapidly in spite of his good appetite. He has

the tendency to produce new connective tissues and

hard glandular growths (Breasts, Uterus, Lymphatic

glands, Thyroid, etc.,). One must not neglect to

prescribe it for it often has a favorable action on the

weight and even on the tumoral element, which it can

cause to regress, or whose induration and invasive

tendency it will diminish.

SILICEA: This remedy is also related to Thuja and

Iodium. It acts especially on the connective tissues in

which, according to RIBBERT, modifications often

occur before epithelial neoformation. Lauded by

ZELLER, FARGAS and other authors, it is suitable for

the precancerous or cancerous diathesis. It can be

prescribed in cicatricial degenerations (Cheloids,

analogous action to Flouric acid) and especially in

sclerosing tendencies with the production of new

fibrous tissues. If Thuja is mentally obsessed, Iodium a

depressed melancholic and anxious type, Silicea is a

hypersensitive anxious type who is also capable of

possessing fixed ideas.

It is essential often to employ it in middle potencies

in tumors and high potencies in the pretumoral phase.

FARGAS also used Silicic acid in hypodermic

injections, he claims with success, in several cases of

Cancer. Like Iodium, Silicea is demineralized and

wastes very rapidly.

LYCOPODIUM: Antipsoric like Calcarea

carbonica and Sulphur, Lycopodium evolutes toward

Cancer through its hepatic insufficiency. Its action

fortifies against the precancerous state. In confirmed

Cancer it barely has any value since it has no power

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over the tumoral element as have Thuja, Iodium or

Silicea.

If the hepatic insufficiency is great it should be

cautiously employed in low potencies for even the 30th

has often shown itself to be dangerous, in cases of

hepatic blockage. It is here that the necessity for a good

preliminary general drainage makes itself felt.

The Lycopodium subject who becomes cancerous

will localize his tumor preferentially on the liver,

stomach or intestine.

SULPHUR: King of HAHNEMANN’s antipsorics,

Sulphur ought to be reserved for the pretumoral state. It

has no favorable action in a confirmed Cancer, even at

the start, and can even be dangerous in this case by

favoring the propagation of neoplastic cells and the

wasting. On the contrary, it is essential to know that it is

to be prescribed at times among these patients, generally

hypertensives, whose general arterial hypertension is

accompanied by an intense portal congestion, which is

both arterial and venous. This relieves bleeding

haemorrhoids. This abdominal arteriovenous

hypertension is the prelude of a Cancer, which will

preferably localize itself in the digestive tract or in an

abdominal viscus. In these cases an untimely local

treatment, as in stopping bleeding haemorrhoids, can be

very dangerous.

SEPIA: The morbid personality of Sepia is often

noted in subjects in whom Cancer is imminent. This

remedy, like Sulphur and Lycopodium, acts favorably

on a disturbed general state, but not on a tumoral

element. It is characterized by a venous portal

hypertension, the abdominal congestion predominating

especially in the pelvis, and is not accompanied, as in

Sulphur, by an arterial participation. The atony

determines ptoses and the “bearing down” sensations.

The endocrinal disturbances (liver, adrenals, genitalia)

cause the characteristic facies and the cutaneous

pigmentary modifications.

Untreated, Sepia will develop rather toward a

Cancer of the pelvis - uterus, rectum, sigmoid colon,

prostate.

PETROLEUM: This remedy is allied to Sulphur. It

is curious to observe the cancerous tendency of

Petroleum or of Benzol and the derivatives of the oil

(Pix liquida and the aniline compounds as I have

already recorded). All these products act rather on the

neoplastic tendency of the skin. Petroleum has cracks <

in winter, by cold. Its intolerance for cabbages is

accompanied by digestive disturbances and errors of

treatment. It can also develop toward a neoplasm of the

digestive mucosa as well as toward cutaneous Cancer.

Petroleum directs itself toward surface Cancers (skin,

mucosa) and not toward bulky cancers (glands).

THE CALCAREAS: Of the three great calcium

salts, Calcarea flourica, is the only one which exhibits a

neoplastic element. It confers on glands or connective

tissue a stony induration. It is related to Silicea. It acts

as well in breast and uterine cancers as in those in other

organs. Calcarea phosphorica has hardly any action

either in Cancer or in the precancerous state. Calcarea

carbonica -- HAHNEMANN’s great antipsoric – is

rather indicated among the precancerous hypothyroids,

hypersensitive to cold and chilly, with flaccid muscles

and integumet, malnourished, invaded by adipose tissue.

Blood-clotting times is increased. (Joseph Roy in his

blood examinations has demonstrated the frequency of

too rapid clotting in Cancer and precancerous cases.)

The subject wastes rapidly after an initial phase of false

plethora and fatty invasion. Calcarea carbonica can

materialize, therapeutically, the demineralizing factor in

Cancer. It can act selectively on the glandular

hypertrophy. In suspicious and indolent ulcerations, in

engorgement of lymph glands, Calcarea iodata will be

indicated. Calcarea oxalica should act on the pains in

ulcerating Cancers.

THE KALIS: It is known that there exists in Cancer

disturbances of potassium metabolism as well as those

of calcium, sodium and magnesium. To tell the truth,

the Kalis are remedies of secondary importance in

confirmed Cancer. However, the precancerous cases

often require Kali carbonicum (weakness, chills, lumbar

pains, sweats, wasting) or of Kali bichromicum (gastric

or pyloric ulcer which can develop into malignant

degeneration; sluggish ulcerations, indolent, with

perpendicular borders, thick discharges, viscous and

flowing gently). But we shall think especially of Kali

iodatum because of its selective action on the infiltrated

connective tissue and on the hypertrophied glands

especially after Syphilis. Kali arsenicum in inveterate

skin diseases with fissures and malignant tendency. Kali

cyanatum in lingual Cancer.

THE NATRUMS: Natrum muriaticum corresponds

much more to the tuberculinique state than to the

precancerous state. However, among decalcified

subjects it is occasionally indicated. Natrum

sulphuricum is suitable to the sycotic and hydrogenoid

states, sensitive to damp cold, in which the association

of Sycosis and Psora can prepare the birth of a

malignant tumor.

THE CARBOS: Carbo vegetabilis, for deficient

vitality, for deficient oxygenation and nutrition,

presenting a gastrointestinal atony already old and

stubborn, may be indicated in Cancer (especially

digestive) or the precancerous state. But Carbo animalis

is one of the best remedies for the established tumor;

hard tumor, indurated and swollen lymphatic glands,

subcutaneous venous distention, bluish discoloration of

infiltrated tissues, burning pains, gastric flatulence. It

has an especial selective action on the breast or stomach

Cancer and merits special mention not only for its

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beneficial effects often on the general state (gain of

weight or temporary arrest of wasting) but also for its

action on the tumor itself which regresses, becomes less

hard with amelioration of pains.

GRAPHITES: Subject is extremely psoric, very

chilly, oozing eruptions, obstinate constipation.

Graphites can characterize, in certain cases, the

precancerous state with tendency to induration of tissues

and degeneration of cicatrices.

CAUSTICUM: Very clearly this other antipsoric, at

the same time sycotic, often veers toward Cancer:

emaciation, dirty yellow color, terrified aspect, tendency

to facial warts, etc. in Causticum, as in other remedies,

the mental signs often are of great importance in order

to characterize and individualize the patient; the

precancerous subject frequently presents a weakened

morale, sadness, obsessions, fear of the future, anguish,

exaggeration of the sensitivity; likewise, the mental type

of Causticum (hypersensitive, altruistic, sadness) or of

Thuja (fixed ideas) of Iodium (anxiety) and other

remedies shall have to be considered in the choice of the

basic remedy.

ARSENICUM ALBUM: Very important and often

indicated, Arsenicum, by its prostration, alternating or

coexisting with a certain agitation, by its burning pains,

> by heat, its characteristic horary, clearly

individualizes many confirmed cancer cases to whom it

will often bring a temporary amelioration, transitory or

slightly prolonged, as in very weak precancerous

subjects. Selective action on the cancroids (with Thuja

and Cinnabaris).

PHOSPHORUS: Poorly known, this remedy can

clearly act with success before the tumoral phase when

the degeneration of a gland and its nuclei is yet hardly

delineated, Phosphorus has first a selective action on

the higher tissues in contrast to Silicea, its

complementary, which presents an efficacity for

interstitial tissues. It is especially in hepatic and

pancreatic cancer that Phosphorus appears. Although of

secondary importance, it is worthy of attention.

MERCURIUS: By its nocturnal aggravation, its

engorgement of lymphatic glands, its bleeding

ulcerations, its prostration, its sweats, its oral fetor,

Mercurius and its salts can be retained in Cancer which

is localized on a part of the digestive tract, especially if

it follows a former Syphilis. The most interesting of the

mercury salts is Cinnabaris (or Mercurius sulphuratus

ruber) in condylomata, which may or may not be

degenerated.

NITRIC ACID: Let us remember of this remedy,

complementary to Mercurius and Calcarea carbonica,

its tendency to fissures and painful ulcerations

(sensation of fine needles), the debility, the

demineralization, the progressive wasting and thinning.

It is to be thought of, then, in confirmed Cancer in

which it can act, if not on the general state, at least on

the painful element.

NUX VOMICA and IGNATIA: Finally, these two

strychnias, which are not, properly speaking, remedies

for the precancerous state. They merit mention,

however, because of the frequency and importance of

their mental signs and the beneficial action they are

capable of establishing in the neuro-vegetative system

and morale of our patients who are cancerous or have a

cancerous tendency.

Such are the principal constitutional remedies we

ought to review. The dilutions in which they ought to be

employed are variable enough. In a general way, the

high potencies will be reserved for the precancerous

state; the low and middle potencies for the confirmed

Cancers.

Let us hasten to add that the results obtained with

these remedies alone are very uncertain, the cases of

real cure very rare, simple amelioration very variable in

confirmed neoplasms. On the other hand, in multiple

precancer cases success is frequent. Unfortunately, it is

actually impossible, error or criterium and certainty, to

give proof of such accomplishments. The practitioner is

deeply convinced of it. It is an impression valuable to

himself alone.

3. THE PROPERLY CALLED CANCER

REMEDIES

They are very numerous in the classical

Homœopathic arsenal. We shall study them very briefly

by classifying them a little arbitrarily into several

groups for the convenience of our work

A. The Most Habitual Remedies. These are the

ones, which have revealed themselves as having the

most constant action on the tumoral element as well as

the general state.

SEDUM ACRE and SEDUM REPENS: The value

of Sedum acre was especially called to my attention by

the lamented Abbe Keul. In material doses, mother

tincture, 1x and 3x., it has an undeniable action on

Cancer in general, gives weight to the patients, and

occasionally modifies the tumor, or at least retards its

progress. Their principal sign is their tendency to

mucosal and cutaneous fissures, which are so frequent

in Cancer or the precancerous state. The pathogenesis of

these two remedies is incomplete. Because of that we

must be satisfied to use them in an empirical fashion.

Sedum repens acts especially on the abdominal organs.

Sedum teleplium, another plant of the same family,

should act especially on the Uterus or cancerous Rectum

with haemorrhages.

SCROFULARIA NODOSA: This remedy acts

especially on Cancers of breast, Skin, Uterus, Rectum,

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in low potencies or material doses, especially if there is

marked glandular invasion. A. NEBEL praised its

drainage action; COOPER insisted very much on its

value.

SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM: Lingual, Breast,

rectal and other Cancers. Its tendency to aphthae, to

Malignant Ulcers, specially indicate it in the ulcerated

Cancer. It must also be used in mother tincture or low

potencies.

CARBO ANIMALIS: Already studied as a

constitutional remedy of great value.

CUNDURANGO: I have personally observed the

value of Cundurango in oesophageal, Stomach or

Intestinal Cancers. One of its valuable external signs

consists in fissures of the labial commissures. It also

acts on Cancer situated at the junction of mucosa and

Skin: Lips, Anus, Lids. Low or middle potencies.

CISTUS CANADENSIS: This remedy acts

especially in Cancer of the breast, Pharynx, or neck and

gives rise to very marked cervical Adenopathy. Chronic

rhino-pharyngitis. Extreme sensitivity to cold.

HYDRASTIS: As good for the breast as for the

stomach, Hydrastis, is of great value in Cancer,

ulcerated or not, with progressive debility, wasting

emaciation; Hypochlorhydria is frequent before and

during the phase of Gastric Cancer.

KREOSOTUM: Bleeding ulcerations, vegetations

develop rapidly and emit a burning discharge,

excoriating, fetid; such are the principal signs of

Kreosote, which acts especially well in Cancer of the

Cervix.

ORNITHOGALUM: Already noted by COOPER,

then used by GISEVIUS and other authors, especially in

low potencies or material doses. This remedy has a

remarkable action in the Pyloroduodenal sphere whether

it acts on an ulcer or an established Cancer.

PHYTOLACCA: Here again is a remedy, which

must not be neglected in hard or Scirrhus Tumors, since

it can soften and diminish them: or slightly Malignant

Cancers, which develop slowly (breast Scirrhus) or on

suspected tumors, which have not yet degenerated

(parotids). But it has several indisputable cases of cure

to its credit. Syphilis is habitual among its antecedents.

Low potencies.

B. Remedies for Pain.

ARSENICUM ALBUM and NITRIC ACID,

already studied among the constitutional remedies,

dominate this group; the first with its burning pains, the

second with its sensation of fine needles.

APIS continues the series; burning pricks as with

red-hot needles.

ARNICA: bruised pains. Especially useful in Breast

Adenoma following traumatism. The Adenoma may or

may not be degenerated.

BRYONIA: amelioration through rest and strong

pressure (especially for Breast Cancer which ought to be

supported or bound).

CALCAREA ACETICA: many pains, often

constrictive.

EUPHORBIUM: burning or lancinating pains,

pustular ulcerations.

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA: spasmodic pains

(non-burning), > by heat.

RUTA: bruised pains, deep pains, osseous or

periosteal. Intense weakness. Selective spheres, bone,

periosteum, cartilage, rectum.

C. Tumor Remedies. The remedies chosen for their

action on the malignant tumor itself have selective

effects on a tissue or organ. Let us study here preferably

the tissue remedies reserving for drainage and

canalization the indications of visceral affinities of these

vegetables and minerals.

SILICEA: constitutional remedy which acts on the

connective and interstitial tissues; satellites are Silicic

acid, praised by FARGAS; Calcarea silicata

(emaciation, sensitive to cold); Lapis albus so useful in

simple uterine fibromas with adhesions (Calcium silic-

flouride).

BARYTA CARBONICA: acts also on the sclerosed

or indurated tissues, especially in breast Adenomas,

degenerated or not; Aurum metallicum, Aurum

arsenicum and Aurum muriaticum natronatum and

Plumbum iodatum, all act especially on the indurated,

scirrhus, non-vegetating forms.

SELENIUM is also praised here; debility, wasting,

possible tendency to Sarcomas.

Let us not forget the Calcareas which act on the

lymphatic glands; Calcarea flourica has a double

action, connective tissues and glands.

On osseous tissue: Silicea, Aurum, Ruta (which also

acts in rectal Cancer) and especially Symphytum.

D. Several Minerals and Acids. Secondly, different

mineral salts and acids have been proposed in the

treatment of Cancer with variable results, most often

negative. Let us rapidly enumerate after Nitric acid,

which has already been studied and is of value: Acetic

acid, used internally and externally by W.OWENS;

Carbolic acid, whose sudden pains are terrible, the

discharges putrid; this remedy acts well, especially in

ulcerating cancer of the Uterine Cervix; Formic acid,

used in low potencies, 3x. and 4x. and is as good in

Cancer as in deforming Rheumatism.

After Calcarea iodata, Calcarea oxalica, Kali

iodatum, Kali arsenicum, Kali cyanatum, Plumbum

iodatum – already cited above – let us indicate

Cinnabaris, the value of which Dr. LETELLIER

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recently pointed out to me when used in the 3c.

alternating with Thuja 6 in the cancroids of the face

(following his personal practice, after having observed a

case of Dr. CONAN, Sr.). Carboneum sulphuratum is

also useful in neuritis and paralyses; Ova tosta used for

the Cancer pains and warts; Arsenicum bromatum in the

indurated Tumors with weakness and eruptive or

ulcerating tendency; Antimonium chloridum in mucosal

Cancers with great prostration.

E. Other Remedies.

GALIUM APARINE: Incomplete pathogenesis.

Ulcerated Cancers and Nodular Tumors of the skin and

tongue developing on the surface. Acts also on the

urinary organs (urinary lithiasis).

FULIGO LIGN1: Useful in epitheliomata of the skin

and for irritated mucosa, especially Uterus and Scrotum.

Related to Kreosotum.

HOANG-NAN: Exhaustion and vertigo. Capable of

ameliorating the fetidity and hæmorrhages of Cancer by

causing an improvement in the general condition.

Related to Arsenicum album.

CINNAMOMUM: Pain, hæmorrhage, fetidity should

act especially in Uterine Cancer.

ANANTHERUM: Ulcerated Cancers, inflamed

lymphatic glands. Induration of breasts or tongue or

Uterine Cervix.

CHOLINE: Alkaloid of Taraxacum used by

Adamkiewicz. Taraxacum is a good drainer of the

precancerous state through its action on the Liver.

CHOLESTERINUM: In hepatic Cancer.

EOISINE: Burning pains of Cancer, according to

WOODBURY.

RADIUM BROMIDE: Weakness, vertigo, tendency to

cutaneous Epitheliomata.

X-RAYS: According to Dr. CHIRON these two

remedies antidote each other. Radium bromide

antidotes the bad effects of x-irradiation in patient who

has been treated too intensely. Likewise the x-rays

antidote the unfortunate effects of radium in patients

who have been treated by it.

We will note in a general way that all these

medicaments ought to be employed in low potencies,

occasionally even in material doses, in mother tincture

for the vegetables. A number of them will also be used

in local applications. The indefiniteness of their

pathogenic indications will have to be compensated

little by little through clinical experience, and especially

by new experimentation to be carried out in the future.

1. DRAINAGE AND CANALIZATION REMEDIES

In Cancer, as in Tuberculosis, it is essential to act in

a centripetal sense in order to retain the mineral salts

and prevent malnutrition (constant struggle against

wasting). We must also neutralize or eliminate in a

centrifugal sense, the toxins elaborated in the body.

That is why, in accordance with A. NEBEL, we drain

our patients.

Drainage ought to be directed, if possible, via the

local selective action of certain well individualized

remedies. A. NEBEL has praised a profitable remedial

association used in drainage; Chelidonium, Hydrastis,

Cratægus, China, Scrofularia nodosa, all in tincture,

whose action compels us to retain it also in the

precancerous states. We have also noted the value of

certain remedies which appear to act well according to

the hypothesis of drainage: Sedum acre, Phytolacca, the

first for the general condition and the tumor, the second

appearing to produce its effects in the tumor class.

First COOPER, then LeHunte COOPER, showed

the value of the action homœopathic remedies

administered in material doses, one or two drops of a

well prepared tincture which have a selective action on

certain regions or viscera.

That is why we ought to indicate here, more

especially, the local selective action of homœopathic

remedies in Cancer. We have arranged the following

table, which is prepared for additions, and modifications

that are always possible.

LIPS: Cundurango

TONGUE: KALI CYANATUM (inconstant action;

note that the saliva contains small quantities of

Potassium Ferro-Cyanate):: SEMPERVIVUM

TECTORUM, Galium aparine.

ŒSOPHAGUS: Cundurango

STOMACH: Carbo animalis, Cundurango,

Hydrastis, Lycopodium, Kali bichromicum.

PYLORUS and DUODENUM: ORNITHOGALUM

INTESTINES: CUNDURANGO, CARBO ANIMALIS,

ARSENICUM ALBUM, Sedum repens, Petroleum.

CÆCUM: Ornithogalum

SIGMOID COLON and RECTUM: RUTA,

SCROFULARIA NODOSA, SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM

ANUS: Cundurango

LIVER: CHOLESTERINUM, LYCOPODIUM,

PHOSPHORUS, Choline.

PANCREAS: Phosphorus

UTERUS: AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM,

KREOSOTUM, Cinnamomum, Sepia

BREASTS: ASTERIAS RUBENS, CONIUM, CARBO

ANIMALIS, HYDRASTIS, SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM,

Plumbum iodatum, Thuja.

TESTICLES: AURUM METALLICUM

SCROTUM: Fuligo ligni

SKIN: SCROFULARIA NODOSA, CUNDURANGO,

GALIUM APARINE, ARSENICUM ALBUM, THUJA,

CINNABARIS, Petroleum, Kali arsenicum, Radium

bromide

EYE: CUNDURANGO (lids)

PERIOSTEUM: Ruta, Symphytum, Phosphorus

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LYMPHATIC GLANDS in general: Carbo

animalis

GLANDS in general: Scrofularia nodosa, Iodium,

Calcarea fluorica.

FACE: THUJA, CINNABARIS.

NECK: Cistus Canadensis, Mercurius (parotids)

In general way we must note that all treatment

whose object it is to ameliorate the functions of the

various glands in the body, and especially the liver,

shall constitute in itself a therapy of effective drainage

against the danger of Cancer. It can even ameliorate the

state of a confirmed Cancer case. That is why we must

not neglect the value of Organotherapy in this question,

although in the Tumor phase glandular extracts can

hardly act favorably any more. The same does not

apply to the precancerous. Let us especially note the

need to achieve good hepatic function; liver drainage in

its biliary and centrifugal functions as well as in its

endocrinal and humoral work. Taraxacum,

Chelidonium, Carduus marianus, Cholesterinum, etc.,

all the draining and canalizing remedies of the liver will

play a very important part in the precancerous state if

they are judiciously prescribed.

It is also possible that in this case the deficiency of

certain mineral salts can be compensated by a therapy

depending on the addition to the daily alimentary

regime of this or that product. We must study here not

only the disturbances of metabolism of Magnesium, but

of Calcium, Sodium and Potassium as well. In order to

do this it is not necessary to give high doses of

magnesium salts, for under the pretext of combating a

possible Cancer one would too often provoke the

appearance of a very bad subacute or chronic Nephritis.

2. Local Treatment. We must not neglect local

treatment in Cancer. In the struggle against the

body and the Tumor, the destruction of the

latter, when this is possible, will naturally

benefit the patient. Homœopaths would be

mistaken to deny it. Certain officials deceive

themselves by placing their confidence only in

this single extirpating or destructive therapy.

Operative intervention, judicious and so beneficial

when it is precocious and not very mutilating;

Radiotherapy or Curietherapy is a two-edged sword,

which must be cautiously used following long clinical

experience and in very distinct cases (Radium for

Tongue and Cervix, Epitheliomata of Skin, etc.).

Homœopathy and its doctrine ought not to drive us to

such a degree of sectarianism that we should wish to

deny them. That would be an error. We ought only to

combat their excessive use. Each time it can be done let

us choose electrocoagulation, whose practice is free

from so many dangers and reverses.

But we must know well the value of certain of our

remedies, especially vegetables, used locally by means

of baths or compresses containing the mother tinctures.

Their action is such that excluding the specific type of

malignancy or the anatomopathological form of the

Tumor (spino or basal cell) the single act of local

treatment will be able to change completely our

prognosis in the different neoplasms.

From the morphological point of view let us

consider Cancer. It can be external or internal.

External, more accessible, it is then more accessible to

our compresses soaked in the mother tinctures. The

Cancer can be on the surface. On the surface it

especially affects the mucosa or the Skin; it extends in

two dimensions above all. In the third dimension it

ravages the glands and its increase in volume will be the

cause for a more rapid and grave fatality. Our local

treatment will act preferentially on the Cancer, which is

directly accessible on the surface, Tongue, Skin,

Breasts, Stomach, Cervix, Rectum.

According to the cases of our personal experience,

we sprinkle on a moist compress, preferably flannel of

double thickness, several drops (v, x, xx) of a

judiciously chosen tincture. After dressing (non-

absorbent cotton and bandage) which is renewed one to

three times daily, will diminish the surface and volume

of the tumor. Its consistence will be changed, the

neoplasm will become softer. Sometimes it will even

ulcerate in order to better eliminate a part of its

excretions. The beneficial action will also be able to

extend to the glands.

The tinctures we most often use are: Sedum repens,

Phytolacca, Scrofularia nodosa, Hydrastis (all

Cancers); Cundurango, Ornithogalum, Conium

(Stomach); Bryonia (Breast); Calendula (ulcerated

Cancers). I have not much experience with

Sempervivum tectorum, Galium aparine, Symphytum,

but we must not neglect them either.

II. ISOPATHIC METHODS AND SPECIFIC

NOSODES

For several years the tendency has been to

discover distinctly in Cancer as in other diseases, a

specific treatment at the base of which are organisms or

various extracts isolated from the cancerous tissues.

This tendency is followed today, not only by

homœopaths but by other colleagues as well. They have

been led in this direction themselves by a natural mental

evolution. This has been the direction of the general

homœopathic philosophy.

The remedies proposed in this fashion have been

numerous. We shall attempt to give an almost complete

list of them with some brief explanations of their fields

and indications.

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A. Specific Methods.

1. Homœopathic potencies of cancerous fluids have

been made for a long time: Epitheliomine (extract of

epithelioma), Scirrhinum (extract of scirrhus),

Carcinosine (extract of any Cancer). The results

obtained have been inconstant and variable.

2. More interesting is the work of CAHIS of

Barcelona, who has studied this question a great deal

and who used Cancero-toxin administered according to

a special scale of potencies, or again Pan-Cancro (we

shall be very thankful to Dr.CAHIS* if he would be

willing, providing his health permits, to send us some

articles of his Homœopathic Testament with his very

original reflections and explanations of his method).

3. Attempts have been made to isolate one or more

Cancer organisms and to prescribe them in

Homœopathic dilutions. That the isolated organisms

may perhaps be only witnesses or saprophytes or

profiteers in the Tumor, rather than its deep and real

cause, is not the question. It is not less true than in

certain case products of this kind show themselves to be

efficacious. It is to M. NEBEL that we owe our

Micrococcin (Doyen’s Micrococcus in the 30th, 200th

and higher) and to Joseph ROY his Oscillococcin. The

latter often acts with great benefit in those predisposed

to Cancer but it is dangerous and can aggravate the

confirmed Cancer cases, even according to the author.

On the other hand, Micrococcin has often a really

beneficial action, if not durable, at least temporary and

distinct, on the weight and general condition.

4. Dr. NEBEL uses especially in Cancer potencies

of his Onkomyxa (preferably the 4th, subcutaneously).

One can learn through the book he has published on this

subject the gist of his thoughts on this subject.

5. The employment of potencies of blood in Cancer

or precancer cases has been thought of; following

ROGER, Dr.Joseph ROY, the first in France, used

individual blood isotherapy. J.ROY has now abandoned

this practice, finding it dangerous and of only transient

action. In my opinion the truth is perhaps here is a

golden mean; believe neither in a marvelous therapeutic

action of a miraculous panacea nor in the converse. It is

certain that one ought to be very cautious about using

potencies of blood from Cancer cases. Aggravations are

to be feared. We have also been witnesses, however, to

beautiful ameliorations. It would be necessary to be able

to isolate from the blood the really Homœopathic

principle, which is capable of curative action; a

principle, which ought to be restrained, neutralized

unfortunately by other substances, other forces. Clinical

experience is the only method capable of judging the

results of this method and not, in our opinion,

philosophical concepts, which were conceived à priori.

Since then J. ROY has preferred to use isotherapy of

young and healthy blood, of which we have no personal

experience. Now it would seem to veer more towards

Organotherapy. In the same sense, GUILD has

previously used serum-vaccines with variable results.

6. RUBENS-DUVAL had the idea of using

globulin extracts from Cancers. This is his

Proteinotherapy described by himself in this revue. His

results are very encouraging and impressive and the

indicated dilutions are distinctly homœopathic.

7. Following many authors, CUVIER and

CARRERRE have recently reattacked the question of

treatment with Tumor extracts and have some very

interesting results.

3. Non-Specific Nosodes.

4. Psorinum is often used by homœopaths in the

cancerous or the precancerous as a constitutional

remedy.

5. In England, BACH and DISHINGTON have

used their Nosodes taken from cultures of

intestinal organisms, which are nonlactose

fermenters; Gærtner, Morgan, Dysentericus,

Proteus, are proposed. Here are their

indications:

In Carcinoma: Morgan and Dysentericus.

In Sarcoma: Morgan and Gærtner.

The Gærtner bacillus appears to act clearly on the

indurated tumors, especially abdominal, when the stool

analysis reveals the presence of this organism. The 30th

is the preferable potency.

In other Cancer cases, Proteus has seemed to be

much indicated. We have not had much experience in

France with these remedies; the organisms they

individualize are, besides, only rarely met with in the

intestines of our compatriots outside of cases of

bacillary Dysentery.

3. SCHLEGEL of Tubingen often uses Tuberculinum

and Syphilinum in the cancerous. COOPER also used

Tuberculinum. In a similar fashion, depending on the

etiology or terrain. Medorrhinum (gonorrhœal Nosode)

has been prescribed, or Malandrinum (Glanders

Nosode; COOPER indicated it in Cancer).

4. Starting from philosophical and metaphysical ideas,

Rudolf STEINER noted that the Misletoe (Viscum

album) ought to be a real specific remedy in cancer.

That is why the Anthroposophists, including KÆLIN,

use different kinds of mistletoe for the cancerous. The

results obtained should be extremely encouraging. The

blood of the patient is gradually diluted in glass

cylinders and rises up a length of filter paper; at the

height of its ascent he describes special figures which

determine whether or not Cancer exists and also its

factor of gravity. Potencies of mistletoe are capable of

modifying these results in the sense of reestablishing the

natural formula. One employs dilutions 50/100 of the

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plant, from 1 to 28 in progressively increasing doses,

which is the converse of classical Homœopathy. We

only know the action of Viscum album in Renal

Sclerosis and Bright’s disease with hypertension. It

would be necessary to take up again KÆLIN’s

experience. I had the honor of assisting at this work at

Arlesheim in 1929 and it appeared very interesting to

me. Reports of this appeared in the revue Natura.

CONCLUSION

How are Cancer cases to be treated at the present

time? Let us briefly indicate how a modern homœopath

can and ought to treat a Cancer patient each time

medical treatment is necessary or only possible.

6. The Precancerous State: One ought

systematically search for the existence of a

tendency to Cancer in every subject over forty

years. Were there any Cancer cases in the

parents or family? This is very important as

this has been demonstrated in the systematic

examination we never fail to make.

Was there Syphilis or Gonorrhœa, or repeated

vaccinations or even a former psoric, tuberculinique or

tuberculous state? All these morbid manifestations

appear often in different degrees; the first two especially

predispose to malignancy. Do there exist certain signs

of the precancerous state such as yellow spots on the

skin, nævi (signs of Thuja), or again, a disturbed mental

state through the morbid fear of Cancer? Truthfully,

these symptoms have but a reduced value because of

their frequency, or better still, we must consider all

patients today as being precancerous if they are

matured. Cancer is at most a precipice which all ought

compulsorily to scale at a certain time in life and into

which the unfortunate rarely fall. . … In spite of all

affirmations, unfortunately, Cancer can very well appear

even in subjects seriously or regularly followed. What

is more important is to appreciate the general vitality of

the subject.

We must fear Cancer following a period of marked

weakness, general or localized atony in the susceptible

area which can present the feared Tumor, hepatic

insufficiency with induration and swelling of the Liver,

changes in the attitude and appearance of the patient

who stoops, whose complexion becomes wan, the facial

lines drawn. One may fear an abdominal Cancer

coming with excessive and stubborn distension of the

tissues to palpation and modifications of the percussion

note. But all this constitutes more a vague picture,

which leads the mind intuitively towards the hypothesis

of the menace of Cancer rather than by a logical and

sure reasoning. That is why, in our opinion, one of the

best signs is simply the wasting. Let us fear the

progressive and inexplicable loss of weight in every

subject between the ages of forty and fifty, and older.

That indicates a general intoxication, prelude of a

palpable and visible tumor. What we call the

precancerous state includes, in large part besides, the

still microscopic existence of the tumor in the form of

some few degenerated cells.

It would be useful to have in this case a laboratory

criterion. It is here that the DOURIS and MONDAIN

blood drop test can be very useful.

Treatment should consist in the prescription of the

constitutional remedy and in the most serious general

drainage of the subjects. Results will be excellent most

often. It will be impossible, and with truth, to affirm

that one has been able to avoid in a patient an always-

hypothetical cancer; but the general impression is in

favor of a favorable prophylactic action of the scourge.

7. Cancer: Without hoping for too much but

with an absolute tenacity let us treat the

established Cancer cases. If we can almost

never cure it, at least let us be able to hope in

obtaining quite often a certain equilibrium,

which is more or less stable, between the

patient and his disease. This means a survival

sometimes of five, six, ten years or more.

One of our friends succeeded in saving thus a

servant in his employ for twelve years. She had a

generalized and incurable breast cancer surrounded by

multiple glandular chains. Such cases are not rare.

Personally, we have obtained it in ten malignant breast

tumors, in two cases of cutaneous neoplasm, in three

cases of gastric epitheliomata. Half of these patients

still live, some treated by us for six or seven years. The

tumors always exist, more or less diminished or as

large, but the patients are living and that is essential.

We do not know if that will last for a long time yet, but

such results, though inconstant and even rare in

comparison to the total of treated cases, are all the same

encouraging.

The weight curve, in our opinion, as in

Tuberculosis, is paramount to correct and consult. The

patient should be weighed each week. This curve will

govern the repetition of the constitutional remedies or

the nosodes. Likewise, the DOURIS and MONDAIN

blood drop test should be regularly performed. The

weight curve will very quickly tell us the results and

hopes which once can expect from the given treatment.

We should look after the morale of our patients.

We should absolutely avoid letting them know their

disease; we should shelter them from moral and

emotional shocks.

Plenty of food, healthful, rich in vitamins, poor in

spiced and nitrogenous elements should be given. Well-

prepared dishes will stimulate the appetite essential to

the gain in weight.

Cautiously, without too much repetition, the

constitutional remedies and Nosodes should be

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prescribed (the 200th every ten to twenty days; the 1M.

every fifteen to forty days, on the average) as the

specified remedies according to the methods of NEBEL,

RUBENS-DUVAL, etc.

At the same time one should give to the subject the

strictly indicated homœopathic remedies and a judicious

drainage should be instituted, glandular, humoral,

cellular and tissue. The patient should be remineralized.

One should not forget the local state at the expense

of the body. Each time it is possible, applications of

compresses soaked in mother tinctures of well-chosen

plants should be employed.

The patient should be followed with great care in

order to gather the slightest signs of change in the

condition. Acting thus, we should save the great part of

these cases certain suffering and their death should be

easier. In certain cases survival should be prolonged

and in other cases, rare to be truthful, we shall obtain

perhaps – who knows? – the joy of an unforeseen cure.

To attend without sectarianism and only to cure; to

be always ready to use every method with distinctly

superior results, old or new, seductive or formidable,

foreign or natural; according to general principles, to

abstract or philosophical ideas on the value of a beacon

of orientation, the last word, above all, to be decided by

accomplishments. Flee the charm of the dreams of

false occultism, trust only the faithful and monotonous

common sense. Such shall be our guides in treating our

patients, in Cancer and other affections, with

conscientiousness, patience and tenacity.

PARIS, FRANCE.

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ii. The Homœopathic Treatment of Tumors

Dr. STOCKEBRAND (ZKH. 3, 1976)

I speak as practitioner for practitioner, leaving out

definitions and theory and straightaway go to the

Theme.

The theme falls in 3 parts:

In Part 1: The Anamnesis of the Tumor Patient.

In Part 2: Tried and proved remedies.

In Part 3: The individual possibilities in Tumor

cases.

In the Conclusion I lay down briefly the diathetic

and mental treatment of the Cancer patients.

The homœopathic treatment of an individual case

begins with a careful Anamnesis. In treatment of

Tumors this Anamnesis is somewhat peculiar. It is

comprehended as perceiving:

1. The presenting general situation of a patient,

that is, the local and general biological symptoms of the

patient here and now. By General I mean in relevance

to the Carcinoma: the emaciation, the tiredness, the

sallow gray skin, the undefined sadness and anxiety, the

break or decrease in transpiration; the local symptoms

are different according to the location and are well-

known.

2. Since the Tumor is no local affection but an

ailment of the entire organism, the source must be

searched out from the entire organism. These are in a

toxin-caused weakness, i.e. for our Anamnesis of the

patient before he fell ill. It could be: Ill effects of

toxins of outworn GO, Leues, Tuberculosis, Malaria,

damages from toxins after infections, misuse of alcohol,

Tobacco and Tablets, checking of eruptions earlier, or

Sweat or Coryza which were functioning as

eliminations by the organism, at last traumas, as

causative agents.

3. For the Carcinoma-Anamnesis the knowledge

of the family diathesis, the parent soil (the matrix), the

cancerous terrain is necessarily to be examined. This

concept is difficult to be defined; it is very complex, but

everyone knows what is meant. Perhaps it may be

comprehended from the word “cellular disharmony”,

whose end state is the swelling.

As pre-cancerous signs, I think of: the jaded (dull,

faint, weak), muddy, dull, withered (limp, flaccid) skin

of dirty appearance, the flat, raised above the skin or

pigmented warts which easily desquamate or bleed,

Red Naevi (birth marks), which rapidly increases,

The venous-on-the-skin-visible net,

The disposition to Adenomas,

The disposition to Herpes zoster around 45 years

age.

The fissures in regions where the skin and mucous

membranes meet,

The fissures in mucous membranes,

The furrowed, thick and hard nails,

The tendency to pale red exudations (excretions),

oozings,

The constipation, the stool is so light in weight that

it floats on the water.

These pre-cancerous symptoms are some which the

well-experienced physician has come to know well. Of

course there are several biological tests, diagnostic

methods for early Ca.- diagnosis. These, for the

practicing physician are least feasible to be gone

through, they are also not certain unlike the pre-

cancerous symptoms. The awareness and uncertainty

obliges a very particular attention and diligence.

The Alpha and Omega of every homœopathic

Tumor treatment is the treatment of the Terrain. At the

same time it does not matter, whether the swelling has

not already appeared or not, whether it has been treated

already by surgery or x-ray or not. The terrain must be

cultivated and influenced continuously and over a long

period according to the Rule of Similie.

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I summarise once again: The Ca. Anamnesis

covers:

1. How the presenting complaints of the patient here

and now are,

2. Its toxin-conditioned impairment,

3. The so-called cancerous terrain.

Which are the essential terrain remedies? I call

them to your attention and then discuss them

individually through:

Arsenicum, Cadmium sulphuricum, Carbo

animalis, Causticum, Conium, Hydrastis, Kalium

arsenicosum, Nitric acidum, Radium bromatum, Thuya

and autoblood.

Arsenicum: with its emaciation, weakness,

chillness, its pale, earthy face, its anxious restlessness,

fear of incurability despite the best possible treatment.

A symptom particularly notable is the alternation

between skin diseases and stomach complaints, (the

clinical metastisation of STIEGELE. D.10-D.18!?!).

Under this point view of the terrain Arsenicum

comes in question in many forms of Cancer as terrain

medicine, as organotropic it comes under the plan:

1. In Stomach Ca., in the following, very impressive

symptoms: Stomach pains from eating or immediately

after eating, better from warm drinks, agg. from cold

drinks, it calls forth vomiting or worsens it, thereby

thirst and the above mentioned general symptoms. D10.

2. In Skin Ca. – When stinking pus, dry skin and

burning pains with amel. from warm applications, are

present. D.8 or 10.

3. In Rectum Ca. The general symptoms are always

the same: restlessness, anxiety, cachexia. The local

symptoms are: Burning in Rectum, amel. from warm

application, also tenesmus, stinking, corrosive

diarrhoea. D10.

Cadmium sulphuricum has not been proved; the

clinical observation indicates an elective action on the

cancerous tissues; it is a great terrain remedy with

following symptoms: weakness, chilliness, chilliness in

the near about of open air, indolence, desire for

quietitude, anxiety and fear of movement, also clearly

different from others the Arsenicum symptomatology.

D8 or 10.

Organotropically it comes:

1. In Stomach Ca. with coffee-ground like

vomiting, thirst, with desire for cold water.

2. In symptoms consequent upon Radium and X-

ray – irradiation. D8-10.

Carbo animalis: First the general symptoms: great

weakness with venous plethora, also bluish cheeks,

hands and feet, the surface veins are clearly tense,

general sluggish apathy, melancholy, desire for solitude

and silence, fear of cold air. D8-14.

Carbo animalis is not only a terrain medicine but is

also a proven Organotropic remedy:

1. In Stomach-Ca. with following symptoms:

Sensation of burning with amel. from eating; slow

digestion, the taste of certain foods is retained for

more days; Virchowic gland. D10.

2. In Skin-Ca. Local and peripheral bluish colored,

as earlier explained by me, ichorous, bad smelling

secretion, D10.

3. In Rectum-Ca. Stitching and burning in Rectum.

4. In Uterus-Ca. Here the related Kreosote works

more.

Causticum:

STAUFFER: “The diagnosis of this remedy is not

easy. I always rely on: the pale yellow appearance, the

general and nervous weakness and tiredness, the

susceptibility to Catarrhs and Rheumatism in dry winter

weather, the dry, hot skin, which hinder sleep at night. I

consider as the main preventive of Carcinosis.”

Conium

is one of the greatest Cancer remedies in

Homœopathy in the view of all the homœopathic

literature. In his long practice STAUFFER saw no

success with it. STIEGELE in September 1955

International Congress spoke of his very impressive

results in low potencies. I myself never obtained such

results. How are such discrepancies possible? Is it in

the preparation? It cannot be the dose, since

STAUFFER has probed all the potencies thoroughly.

Certainly Conium is an age-old medicine with

retardation of all functions and has well-observed and

verified connections to indurated glands and

lymphnodes. Its local indication is in Mamma-

Carcinoma with hardened and painful only by pressing

the nodes. D10 in French Homœopathy, D 1-2 of

STIEGELE.

Hydrastis

is a great terrain medicine. The patient is not

restless, but so weak that he undertakes nothing because

of weakness and is not interested in anything. To him

everything is stressful, he is therefore irritable,

melancholic and of bad moods.

The skin is earthy, yellow, unhealthy – there is

most often an old liver damage and because of which

constipation. CLARKE thought that with this medicine

more Cancer cases could have been cured than any

other medicine. SCHLEGEL opined this praise must go

to Arsenicum, STIEGELE to the Chininum

arsenicosum; BURWOOD begins the treatment of all

Breast Carcinoma with Hydrastis D 8 or 10.

Organotropically it comes into particular question

in Mamma-Carcinoma: When a burning, hard tumor

with burning and cutting pains and the general

symptoms already pictured are there. It has also been

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proved in Stomach-Carcinoma where the general

symptoms are leading. D8 or 10.

Kalium arsenicum: is indicated by its weakness, its

great chilliness, even near open air like Cadmium, but

the typical Kalium anaemia and the dry, scaling Arsenic

skin gives him the peculiar imprint, the aversion to fresh

air.

It is the typical cancerous anaemia D8 or 10.

Organotropically it has only the peculiar

connection with Skin-Carcinoma: the dry, scaly skin

and the general symptom are leading. D8.

Nitric acidum: Four symptoms characterize the

Saltpetre acid as terrain remedy: the cachetic

appearance, the great irritability, the splinter pains, the

stinking, acid secretions. D 10.

Organotropically there are particular relations

with Anus, Uterus and fissureous Mamma Carcinoma.

D.10.

A further important Terrain medicine is:

Radium bromatum: Radium bromatum was

discovered by the CURIE couple. By the way, it may

interest some one or the other that the grand father of

Pierre CURIE was the first homœopathic physician in

London. [He wrote a Homœopathic Materia Medica

also = KSS].

Although Radium bromatum was proved by

STEARNS and it was published in 1912 in the AHZ it

does not find a place in the German Materia Medicas.

Therefore I give again herein a brief physiological

action of the remedy.

The three important symptoms are: Irritation of the

skin, hyperleucocytosis and Rheumatoid pains in

muscles and joints. Also followed: Hypotension and

Weakness.

Since the radium rays have the capacity to destroy

living cells, particularly of the skin in all its structures,

the Rule of Similie requires the higher dilutions to

arouse the living energy (Vital Force). Therefore it is

the remedy of choice in Radium dermatitis.

Radium bromatum as Terrain medicine comes in

when there is disposition to Anaemia, Leucocytosis,

Polyneuclosis, Hypotension, Weakness and thickening

of the skin. D.8-14.

Organotropically it is indicated: in

Facial-Ca. When there is thickening of the skin,

itching and sudden eruptions in the surroundings (D8-

18).

Skin-Ca. Epitheliomas with itching and dryness of

the skin. D 10.

Tongue-Ca. If there is burning pains as from

Pepper. D 10.

The last Terrain remedy is:

Thuja.

It is characterised quickly as “Sycosis”.

Allow me pleases that here – out of the track – I

elaborate the picture of Sycosis. It is so important,

because it makes a distinct range a cancerous terrain.

The concept of Sycosis, we understand a sick

general state caused in the reticulo-endothelial system:

thereby water is retained in the tissues, which alters the

appearance of the skin. It develops warty growths,

different eruptions and local perspiration. On the

mucous membranes the water retention appears as

viscous catarrh, particular in uro-genital system.

In lymphatic area there is enlargement of glands,

lymphnodes, tonsils and the left ovary. The result is an

inconspicuous Anaemia with characteristic mental

symptoms: bad temper, discontent, depression and

worried restlessness, and to the extent of having fixed

ideas.

This Sycosis in the view of all, is the consequence

of a gonorrheal infection, of recent or far back, even as

far back as generations. The experience from youth

confirms these. This state is also found to occur after

Vaccinations.

The Sycotic manifestations in Thuja picture are

expressed in: Sensitivity to moisture, dirty, oily facial

skin, chronic partial sweats in axillae, and around the

nose, in genital region and hands. These are mostly

moist. The skin eruptions, I have already depicted. I

further make reference to: the brownish spots on the

entire body, mainly on the back and the arms; small

ruby-red points, mainly on the left half of body, the

warty, growing excrescences, tumors, are smooth and

ooze easily. D8-10.

Thuja is indicated in all new growths, if the

following characteristics are present. Sensitivity to

dampness and softness, smoothness of the new growth.

It is always an imminent, danger, if emaciation sets in,

and the sweat relieves.

Local consideration of Thuja comes particularly in

tumorus skin alterations, Prostate-Ca. and new growth

of left ovary. D8-10.

With this I close the series of Terrain medicine.

The list is in no way complete; there are indeed several

very important. The Terrain treatment is a field

treatment, i.e. continuous working out the ground in

orderly intervals. The Terrain medicines are self-

evidently sometimes the Simile. I will illustrate what

have been told so far by some case reports.

1. On 4.9.57 Mrs. A.S. 54 years; was operated in April

1956: Mamma amputation, right, with clearing of the

axillary lymph nodes; followed up with 72 deep

radiation, now she is to be operated upon for recurrence

in left mamma, where there is half fist large, hard

Tumor diagnosed. She could not decide for the

operation.

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She complained of tiredness, itching in irradiated

right breast, pains in the left breast.

Menses stopped since 51-year-age. She is very

excited, anxious, sleep poor, is thirsty. Arsenicum D10

once a day daily.

On 4.10.: a month later, the same medication was

repeated since the patient was doing well. The Tumor

remained unchanged.

On 11.11.: again a month later, she complained of a

peculiar much chilliness. Kali ars. D 8.

On 13.12.57: the Tumor has gone, but the pale

yellow appearance and an evident tiredness troubled her

much. Hydrastis D 10.

On 10.1.58: the Tumor remained dissolved,

tiredness still, pains in the thickened, irradiated breast

were much present. Rad-brom. D 12.

On 10.12.58: high fever Flu.

She seemed that further treatment would be

required.

1. The diagnosis was certain.

2. She has left all the allopathic treatment behind.

3. Only medium doses of Terrain medicine have

been given.

4. The treatment has not been closed.

II. On 13.2.39, 41 year-old female patient, A.F. She

was operated for a stomach complaint, was treated for a

Cholecystitis, besides her menses every four weeks was

very heavy. The reason why she came to me was the

hard, egg sized node in the right breast with burning and

cutting pains. She was a thin woman, weighed 90

pounds with pale-yellow appearance. She knew the

diagnosis already and decidedly refused every operative

measure.

I saw the patient lastly on 16.1.58, that is 19 years

later. In these 19 years the patient came regularly every

3-5 months. Hydrastis was the medicine, which had to

be given repeatedly and of course because of the earthy,

yellowish appearance, the tiredness and weak feelings,

lack of initiative, because of the diseased liver in the

background and the tendency to constipation.

Interveningly required Arsenicum, Silicea, Phytolacca,

Conium and some doses of Tuberculin D 18, also

Lycopodium, Causticum, and China; depiction of their

characteristics would take us far.

Since Dec. 1954 no more treatment was necessary,

neither for the Tumor nor for cancerous Terrain. She

was then treated for Cholecystitis and Duodenum ulcer.

In the right breast there remained a plum seed sized

node, which did not give any trouble.

III. On 1.2.44 the now 72 year-old female patient, E.E.

She showed me an apple-sized induration in her right

breast. She was a large, massive woman with bluish

cheeks, bluish lips, tense veins. Mentally she was very

quiet, taciturn and withdrawn. The medicine of choice

was Carbo animalis D10, but she received Arnica in

low potency. She explained very impressively that the

Tumor came on after a fall from a cycle, and she fell

with full weight on the steering suspension. I saw the

patient in the next 14 years regularly. Despite careful

medication, it was not possible to dissolve the Tumor.

The Tumor was softer and perforated exteriorly in 1947.

It discharged enormous quantity of mucous, blood and

pus. The abscess cavity was cleared away. The patient

was well, I saw her first three weeks ago, that 14 years

later. The histological investigation result showed it

was free from Carcinoma.

IV. On 10.6.48 the now 72 year-old joiner F.H. came to

me: actually always well. Since an year he has been

suffering from a constant Stomach pain, worse in the

afternoon, no relief from eructation. He is very much

emaciated, the distended abdomen appears unusual, the

face is very pale. Dropping 12mm in the first hour,

anaemic blood picture with 10 Stabkernigen, 63Kg with

clothes. He showed me the slip indicating surgical

section, because “Neoplasma ventricule is surgically

treatable.” Lycopodium D10, Terrain remedy once,

Argentum nitricum D4 as organotropic twice.

21.7.48 (6 weeks later): better, 66.5Kg. Lycopodium

D10, Argentum nitricum D4.

25.11.48 (4 months later): 68.5 Kg, afternoon again

worsening, Lycopodium D10, Pressing pains, Argentum

nitricum D4.

4.1.49: 71.4 Kg. Burning in Stomach, better from

eating. Carbo animalis D10.

15.3.58: With the last prescription no complaints at all,

feels well.

Upto this I have discussed about the Terrain

treatment of Tumor disease, which – I repeat once again

– is indispensably necessary. You will see from the

examples that we must unceasingly search about for the

Simile.

To make my theme full I must tell you of the

remedies which have a small limited organotropic

action but because of that are not less valuable.

Abrotanum

The remedy has been proved thrice in the Rhein-

Westphalia district.

The medicine has been proved thrice and its

relevance to skin, the intestinal canal and the vascular

septum.

In treatment of Tumors Abrotanum is useful in:

1. Boeck’s Sarcoid: In this rare lupus like disease,

solid, flat infiltrates or knots of brown red color are

formed; no inflammatory lesions; no decay. The seat of

this Boeck’s Sarcoid is above all in the Face and in the

extensor sides of the extremities.

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Histologically accumulation of Epithelial cells with

isolated giant cells. The allopathic prescriptions were

for X-ray, Radium and surgical measures.

Disease history: Mrs. F.N. 39 years, came on

11.11.1943. Since some years she was ill with Boeck’s

Sarcoid. Radiations were unsuccessful. At first she

received Thuja and then on 3.12.1943 under Abrotanum

because of the brown red discoloration, and because of

the similarity with Rupus pernio with striking action.

Towards end April the disease disappeared.

2. On Angioma: Dr. KIRN observed on himself

the retrogression of an Angioma. The cure of an

Elephanthias angiomatosa was observed by STIEGELE

himself.

3. On metastasizing Peritonial Carcinosis: The

medicinal provings do not give a clear indication for the

serous skin. But empirical experience has widened the

picture. STIEGELE reported in 1903 about the cure of

a Peritoneal Tuberculosis. However in Peritoneal

metastasizing carcinosis Abrotanum is effective.

Case: Mrs. W.S. 42 years has not recovered well

after last delivery in 1938. A tumor was removed in

1941. Subsequently radiation treatment for long

extensive Ascites necessitated much tapping; the last on

16.7.43; she received on 20.8.43 – the Ascites is much

and the general state is very bad – Abrotanum mother

tincture 5 drops thrice. On 17.9.1943 the general state

is very much better and the Ascites had gone away. On

3.11.1943 again under Abrotanum further improved.

No more Ascites. In the middle of December the

general state is worse and the Ascites increased;

Abrotanum is no more effective. Exitus letalis in March

1944. A satisfactory action in the Peritoneal Carcinosis

could not be obtained.

I could give more such cases. Always it is a

palliation, never a cure.

Acidum formicum

Introduced by KRULL in therapy in 1902,

systematically analysed by REUTER in the Rhein

Westphalia district. The results indicated a clear action

on Kidneys, Skin and Hair.

There have been no cases of cure of a Ca. neither

from REUTER nor by other colleagues, but cures of

ovarial system, if at the same time arthritic

developments are present. I can confirm these

observations.

Apis

Has like Lycopodium a large relationship to the

right ovary (Thuja and Lachesis to the left). In ovarian

bladder, in cystic Tumors it has been well-tried.

Argentum nitricum

Report of two patients, both men, who came to me

at the same time, 30 years ago. Both were in their early

50s. In both Rectum-CA, they complained of slimy-

bloody diarrhoeas, the Ca-Krater could be manually

verified. Both were Dyknic type and presented by no

means signs for Argentum nitricum. They received

during the three decades again and again, Argentum

nitricum D4, as soon as slimy-bloody diarrhoea made

their appearance again. Both died in their 82nd year, one

after he had 5 ribs broken, the other after an Apoplexy.

I prescribed Argentum nitricum from the observations of

STAUFFER:

“In all chronic ulcer processes in the mucous

membranes with chronic developing ulcer ventriculi, in

stomach, rectum and uterus Cancer, I found Argentum

nitricum as a trustworthy medicine. It suits very well

the anaemical and Blood dyscrasia.

SCHLEGAL reported that he had cured with it

many cases of Uterus-Ca. The key for these successes

is to be found in VIRCHOW’s Archives where it is

stated: Argentum nitricum causes irregular, epithelial

growths, which develops in the connective tissues.

Therefore here there is a cure according the Simile rule.

I wish to also add a curiosity. On New year

afternoon 1955 a 75-year man, a neighbor of my

parents, self-confident, visited me. His history had

already been told to me by the villagers and some

relatives. It was a case of Carcinoma of the large

intestine in the Sigmoidal region. It had been X-rayed

and an operation was considered unavoidable, which the

patient refused. I gave him Argentum nitricum DH. He

began to do well. After a few days he again consulted.

Laparatomy did not reveal anything for a Ca. Was it a

wrong diagnosis by X-ray or action of Argentum

nitricum? The patient, however, remained very well

and today is 78 years.

Arnica montana

Is relevant because of its action on the blood

vessels and its action on injuries and wounds, also a

Ca.–medicine. You recall the Mamma Carcinoma case

which was evidently after a knock by a bicycle.

Asterias rubens (Star fish)

Nightly, lancinating pains in the breasts call for its

use in Breast Carcinoma. According to BOERICKE of

undoubted action in ulcerative Mamma Ca.

Aurum

This remedy is suitable in Syphilitics and

Alcoholics. For this it is essential to have the

information on this in the Anamnesis. It has also been

observed in cures of Nose, Lips and Tongue.

“The cure of Rhinoscleroma by KRANZ-BUSCH

is a brilliant performance of Homœopathy; I myself saw

such a retrogression of a Fibroid of the Nasopharnyx

with penetrating foetor in the course of an year in a

young boy, that the nasal respiration was totally free and

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the stink completely went away, after a month long

treatment with Radium was futile. The weak patient

survived the continued use again of Aurum.”

STAUFFER.

And in Ovarian Cyst it is proved according to

STAUFFER.

The French Homœopathy recommends it more in

Liver-Ca.

Baryta iodata:

We know, that it has the capacity to restore a

hypertrophied Tonsils and hypertrophied Prostate.

STAUFFER gave it with great success in suspected

Mamma Tumors, and this experience I have also

verified.

The first observation remains in my memory

particularly.

In summer 1926 a now more than 70-year-old

female teacher. An Internist and Surgeon had advised

the immediate surgical removal and she was to go to the

surgery on the next day. I advised to wait for few

weeks and gave her Baryta iodata D4. In the interim

period the Tumor completely dissolved under the action

of the remedy and until today, 32 years later, has not

recurred.

Calcarea arsenicosa

The patient, female, N.P., 53 years came to me on

3.4.1954: The left breast was amputated in 1952

because of Mamma Ca. She came now because of

comprehensive metastasis in the left supraclavicular

region. She was a tired, pasty, pale woman. After two

prescriptions of Calcarea arsenicosa D3 the metastasis

completely dissolved, after continued terrain-treatment

she became healthy. STIEGELE has used Calcarea

arsenicosa in dangerous gland swellings successfully.

The ‘pasty’ type, the tiredness and the paleness were the

leading characteristics for prescribing Calcarea

arsenicosa.

Calcium fluoratum

is the remedy of choice for strong hard thickening,

if at the same time dilatation of veins are there and

inflammations and pains are absent. As complementary

remedy Luesinum is required. It is a matter of

experience that the type, which suits Calcium fluoratum,

is almost one in which leutic damages occurred

generations ago are indicated. You recall that I indicate

in the Anamnesis the past diseases.

On 8.3.1943, Mrs. MM came to me. In October

1942, a Sarcoma (Chondrosarcoma) of the right upper

arm was removed. Because of the histological finding

two surgeons agreed for the removal of the arm. The

patient who was a widow with three children did not

agree for that and consulted me.

On examination I found a thickening hard like

wood, which covered the entire armpit. Because of the

stony hard alterations and at the same time an exostosis

in the tibia, because of the long stretched out menses,

because of the chilliness, the patient received Calcium

fluoratum D6-D10 over a long time. Within 6 months,

she could do all the garden and household works once

again. After about 1½ year the patient decided to

consult the Surgeon. The clearly evident improvement

made the surgeons doubt the histological diagnosis. In

the course of the treatment many other remedies came

up naturally and were used, but Calcium fluoricum was

certainly the decisive medicine. The patient is well now

since 15 yars and she still has her arm.

Kreosot

Has a similarity with Arsenic. In Stomach

Carcinoma it is differentiated from Arsenic, by the

stomach pains which come three hours after meals.

Cold and disposition to emaciation are found in

both, but the disposition to vomiting and bleeding is

more in Kresot. In Mamma-Ca., it is successful than

Arsenic and is indicated by burning pains with

aggravation by cold and emaciation. In Uterus-Ca.

from bleeding and corrosive leucorrhoea.

Ornithogallum umbellatum

Is of undoubtful action in Pylorus-Ca. D3 or D8.

Phytolacca

Proved by Constantin HERING and introduced into

Homœopathy. No medicine has greater relationship to

mammary glands especially in hard, violet-colored and

Adenitis axillaris. It is to be considered in every case of

Mamma-Ca., is preeminent in local inflammation.

Ruta

Has clear relationship to rectum and is

characterized by inflammation, severe pains while

sitting and from least touch. The pains radiate often to

bladder and urethra. An intervening medicine often in

Rectum Ca. D1-D3.

Sedum, Sempervivum tectorum

Both have not been introduced into Homœopathy

by medicinal Provings, but by signature theory: actually

its signature is astounding. Tumor-like form in its leaf,

which in the beginning is slow, then rapidly develops to

a large proportion; so that the creeping big increase in

layers, one could call it as metastasis, finally its tenacity

to occur again which we consider as chronicity of

Tumors. Sedum and Sempervivum are well known in:

Anal fissures with and without haemorrhoids, Rectum-

Ca. with severe pains of drawing kind for some hours

after stools, hard Tumors of Tongue.

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Viscum album

The provings and application of this remedy has

been detailed in the DHM (1957, No. 11, 1958 and 59).

I summarise the second part of my lecture: First I

have told you about the Terrain medicine. I have also

mentioned the potency everytime. Mostly they have

been the middle. I then depicted the Organotropica in

their limited, but mostly certain, action range.

Before I now go over to the third part of my lecture,

I wish to give you some valid and effective and

important instructions with regard to Ca-treatment.

1. The treatment must be continued for long time in

which the medicines chosen are suitable to the changed

state.

2. If a remedy is proved as clearly effective, it should

never be fully taken away.

3. An improvement is expressed more often by an

improvement in the general state, and then the doses are

not given any more.

4. After radiation therapy homœopathic medicines are

inactive for 2-3 months. We wait before prescribing.

5. When the vitality of the patient is observably very

weak or extensive organic damages are present, high

potency should not be given in any case. If given the

patient is put in grave situation.

6. If treatment appears hopeless and is passed on to

the Contraria, a rapid end may follow.

I now come to the Third-part of my lecture. I

handle the same theme, only refer to other aspects. I

analyse a case of Ca. in its usual course and suggest

therapeutic measures for every phase.

Case 1: There is a cancerous terrain in this case

but the Tumor is not yet demonstrable. There is no

suspicion of a particular organ affection. What is to be

done?

We must then go to the origin of the thing, and

indeed the disturbances in the reticulo-endothelial

milieu must be removed. That is done by systematic

use of constitutional medicines – the French call it depth

remedy – and Nosodes, but only as indicated in the

patient. They are mostly Medorrhinum D14, D18,

Thuja D14, D18, Tuberculinum D14, Luesinum D14,

D18, Sulphur D14, D18.

If no clear indications are there, autoblood is given

in progressive dilution and in larger intervals, that is

D10 every 6 days, D14 every 12 days, D18 every 20

days. Auto blood is contraindicated absolutely when a

Tumor is observable.

Case 2: A cancerous Terrain without observable

Tumor, but there is suspicion of a specific organ; we

then give the terrain medicine, also the simile medicine

according to the complaints of the affected organ.

If the organ symptoms are not clear or strong

enough to find the Simile then one must be satisfied

with one or more remedies which are relevant to the

affected organ region and prescribes them in low

potencies.

Case 3: Tumor diagnosed, operable. The patient

determines the form of treatment. My lecture should

show you that this scourge can be treated by

Homœopathy.

If the situation is life threatening, compression

complication or Bleeding … only surgery or radiation.

After the surgical measure after radiation therapy

Terrain Cancer therapy is given for a long time or in the

organ affected or local affections the symptomatic

organotropic medicine.

Case 4: Inoperable Tumor: The terrain medicine

is given according to similarity of organotropy or local

medicine.

Slow, at times a stagnation and exceptionally a

recession of the Tumor.

Case 5: Post operatve recurrence or

Metastasisation: It is either only a manifestation or a

retardation of development of cancerous Terrains.

Similar treatment as of an inoperable Tumor.

Case 6: Cancerous Cachexia:

Acidum aceticum: Waxen pale with good appetite.

Antimonium chloratum D8: Cancer of mucous

membranes.

Arsenic.

Arsenic. iod.,

Carbo veg. D10: Loss of body warmth.

Causticum D10.

Corydalis

Iodum D10 with anxious restlessness.

Nitric acidum,

Sedum acre,

Mallein D14: mucous secretion of horse.

Conclusion: Another important point for a

significant Tumor treatment is the collaboration of the

patient. You are largely dependant upon the trust of the

patient, of the physician. This also is naturally the

developing, the insight the discernment of the patient

ultimately it is a question of trust. In every case, the

truth maintained and with earnestness, but without

disparaging hopes. I take care to say: you have a

disease with a swelling. That does not mean anything.

There are benign and bad swellings. And even the so-

called dangerous swellings are cured often. I cannot tell

you anything for certainty, but none else either can say

so for certainty. The uncertainty limits the human life.

You can of course consult some one else also. If you

place your full confidence in me, I will do my best. I

myself have had a swelling, 10 years ago in the brain in

difficult place, which was operated and has not recurred.

You are seeing for yourself how much work I do. What

I am telling you is no theory but my own experience.

If you would like to overcome your ailment you

must be patient. Restlessness is a symptom of your

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disease, but a good part of it from you yourself, a better

part will be for you to have a correct position to

overcome.

Do as I say; follow the Life precepts, take the

medicines, but above all, be calm.

Few words about diet: The cause of the disease is

unknown, but certainly there is a connection with our

civilisation, there is always possibly natural, most

possibly non-irritating, alkali rich food is relevant. I let

the patient ask what diet suits him and adjust the diet

suitable in every individual case.

I thank Emil SCHLEGAL for knowledge and

Insights mentioned in my lecture. I had good luck to

learn from him; further from his friend Karl

STAUFFER; lastly to a good extent French

Homœopathy. In between I have included my own

experience, and observations.

This lecture of mine will give you the courage to

take up the fight against this disease of our times.

I hope that you are interested in treating your

Tumor patients with our Therapeutic method, and

palliate suffering and even cure them.

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iii. Theory of Tumour Development

CLOVER Anne (BHJ. 73, 4/1984) (Part i)

This paper is the first of a trilogy relating to the

place of homœopathic concepts in the understanding

and therapy of Cancer. The aim in the first part is to

review some of HAHNEMANN’s theories relevant

carcinogenesis. It will consider the way in which he

assesses the contribution of factors as various as chronic

poisoning, subtle psychological determinants and

hereditary traits. Today there are increasing references

to a wide range of factors said to be causes of Cancer.

Physical carcinogens as well as emotional, ideological

and other similarly subtle factors and hereditary patterns

relevant to tumour development are being researched. It

may be argued that in many ways HAHNEMANN has

also spanned this spectrum of causes in his writings,

referring to the role of the latent, and many would say

hereditary, trait that he termed “psora”, as well as to its

provocation by contemporary irritants of various forms.

As in so many other situations, the role of distinct

physical factors is more easily considered than that of

psychological energies. But if we pursue

HAHNEMANN’s approach we will look as closely as

possible at all aspects of the relevant processes.

HAHNEMANN is by no means one of the first to

express insights concerning subtle determinants of

tumours. As early as the second century GALEN

expressed the opinion that women of a “melancholic”

temperament were more likely to develop breast Cancer

than those described as “sanguine”. This might suggest

that those who suffered such problems passively were

more liable to tumour development than those who

readily expressed their emotions. Such references to an

association between breast Cancer and psychological

disorders increased in the 18th and 19th centuries, and

even more so in the present era. Recent examples have

included a study published by GREEN and MILLER in

1958 reporting an association between Cancer and

preceeding personal loss,1 and by GREEN and

SWISHER in the 1969 on three sets of monozygotic

twins discordant for Leukaemia with prior major

personal psychological stress in the affected twin.2

Other studies published in the 1960s showed a

correlation between prior depressive illness and

subsequent Cancer development. Since then further

studies of such an inter-relation between malignant

disease and prior psychological stress have appeared to

give contradictory results. But many workers in this

field still argue firmly in support of the association from

their personal experience of patients’ reports, whilst also

pointing out the difficulty of adequately assaying the

frequency or role of such effects.

But as HAHNEMANN reminds us many times,

empirical experience is on its own not enough to

formulate or dismiss a theory. Rational deduction,

particularly when applied to careful observation of

patient's reports, is a more reliable guide.

Today, science has clearly shown that all matter is

energy behaving in an apparently substantial manner.

The idea of solid entities or uncuttable atoms has long

been exploded. It is only inertic thought that holds to an

erroneous dualism between supposed immaterial forces

and so-called material atoms. We are now in an era

when thought is having to catch up with science and

dynamize its interpretations. Since the physical body is

a dynamic form it follows logically that the energies of

thought and feeling are in continuous kinetic interaction

with the apparently physical aspects of beings.

FREUD and JUNG are well known exponents of

such theories. It is less often acknowledged that the

interaction had been stated long before them by Samuel

HAHNEMANN.

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HAHNEMANN’s many writings show a

progressive understanding on his part of a hierarchy of

causes of chronic diseases, one form of which he says is

Cancer. He currently emphasized the need to look at all

aspects in a spectrum of causes and warned against a

blind prejudice on one hand, or empty speculation on

the other.3 Blind prejudice, he says, is opinion-based

according to a person’s particular training. In other

words, someone who is inappropriately tied down to

their previous experience and ideas. Empty speculation

is an opposite type of error, that is, hypothesis

inadequately tested in experience. In collateral terms,

one is seeing no further than the end of a nose, the other

is flight of fancy or phantasy. The way to avoid these

errors, according to HAHNEMANN, is through careful

scrutiny of all relevant factors.

This hierarchy of causes described by

HAHNEMANN ranges from spiritual, or initiatory

forms, to diet and dampness. Although he was writing

long before public health was a common concern, he

firmly argued the need for care in this dimension.

Today it is easy to take such measures for granted. But

in his day, HAHNEMANN was again showing a

pioneer attitude when he emphasized their importance

to health or disease. His advice on diet is similarly

practical. He advocated a fresh, well balanced diet,

avoiding excesses or substances difficult to assimilate.

In a similar vein he argues against the abuse of drugs

and for appropriate regimes of exercise. All such

obvious physical factors, he argues, can play a

fundamental role in determining human health or

disease. They are the basic modalities in his hierarchy

of causes of chronic disease in general, or tumour in

particular.4

All through his writings HAHNEMANN

consistently argues the similar importance of

psychological factors for health or disease. Clearly to

him the physical performance was a type of end product

revealing the effect of progressively finer influences.

His assessment is constantly non-dualistic, emphasizing

the interaction of the subtle and gross determinants.

Amongst such subtle factors he differentiates

emotions, selective or trained thoughts, a higher mind or

understanding and ultimately the volition or will. Often

such modalities appear to be considered together when

he refers to the “Vital Force”. This term, though

unfamiliar today, was widely used in the time of

HAHNEMANN for factors that would now be termed

psychological. In expanding his understanding of this

aspect of human function, HAHNEMANN

differentiates such factors that in his opinion contribute

to malignant disease. Examples that he lists are training

in formative years, moral conflict, sexual difficulties,

family problems, jealousy, resentment and fear.5 His

list is wide-ranging, but can be summarized in today’s

terminology as referring to emotional imprinting and

intellectual conditioning.

Today it is widely acknowledged that the physical

organism holds dynamic imprints of prior experience,

such as perceived sensations, emotional reactions and

ideological training. Clearly these serve a useful

purpose when they facilitate useful training, but become

a problem when they strongly bias a person to repeat

experience remembered by them as pleasurable and

restrictively to avoid pain or threat. Such restriction can

easily conflict with personal creativity and become a

factor in the development of disease. Summarizing his

hierarchy so far, HAHNEMANN has referred to the role

in tumour development of three modalities that today

could be termed physical, emotional and ideological.

But this hierarchy of factors contributing to chronic

disease such as Cancer does not stop here. He also

refers to even more subtle vectors when he write of

spiritual essences and the higher mind.6

He appears to imply that the higher mind is an

understanding that extends beyond the individual

empirical training and intellect to include an awareness

that might be described as cosmic.7,8 Many

philosophers and other thinkers have referred to an

inherent intelligence and ultimate order in the universe.

Various religious, philosophical or psychological terms

have been pursued for this, examples are the Christian

Logos, the Buddhist field of formal voidity, the Platonic

realm of ideas, and the Jungian collective unconscious.

They all imply an immediate, innate consciousness with

creative power of its own processes. HAHNEMANN

appears to refer to such awareness and the possibility of

it informing the individual thinker when he writes of the

higher mind or the reason-gifted consciousness. It

implies an understanding reaching far beyond the limits

of ordinary egoic training. He then appears to develop

and apply this awareness in relation to chronic disease

when he implies that personal disregard of its

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information accompanies empirical bias and contributes

to interpersonal conflict.

Closely associated with such concepts are

references to spiritual or initiatory essences.7,8

HAHNEMANN’s writings imply his progressive

understanding of an informed initiation, a term also

translated as a spiritual essence, that is, the prime mover

of any creative process. It could be called an ultimate

cause, answerable only to itself. Logical deduction

implies that such an initiation would be a primary cause

of an act, the free will referred to in various ways by

philosophers, psychologists, religious thinkers or similar

researchers in all ages. In other words HAHNEMANN

appears to be saying, like many other thinkers have

done, that the primary cause appears qualitatively in its

effect. HAHNEMANN’s use of the term “initiatory

essence” implies this. It denotes a quality essential to

the form and not an imposed directive. One way of

illustrating such concepts is to liken the initiatory

essence to the pattern in an acorn that determines its

development, given appropriate resources, into an oak

tree. The term “conceptual essence” is a very

interesting one, implying the dual aspects of the will to

act in this way and the form expressing it.

HAHNEMANN argues that such a subtle form is the

prime mover of any extant structure and deduces that

just as such influences can sustain health, their

imbalance can contribute to disease. Such initiatory

derangements, he argues, need a similar form of

corrective. That is, an initiatory imbalance needs a

change of initiative for its correction. In relation to

these concepts he argues that potentization gradually

releases such initiatory forms and presents them in a

manner that can facilitate an appropriate re-orientation

in a disturbed energy field.

Here then are two more aspects, which, added to

the three of thought, feeling and drive previously

described, make a five-fold hierarchy. It begins with

the Will, or essential initiation, moves to comprehensive

understanding or higher mind, then refers to conditioned

temporalized thought or opinion, after this to emotional

conditioning and finally to diet, damp, drugs or other

similarly gross physical factors. The activity of all these

aspects, HAHNEMANN argues, is revealed in the gross

physical form, a dynamic construct that reflects the

whole series. All aspects, he says, are in continual

interfunction and all therefore contribute all the time to

health or disease.

In relation to chronic disease, including tumours,

HAHNEMANN argues that such influences accrue

during the lifetime of an individual, then interact with a

latent trait. Many have interpreted his writings on Psora

as implying a hereditary trait that is vulnerable to

reactivation by contemporary effects. HAHNEMANN

relates the origins of Psora to a chronic irritation

developed in the dawn of civilization and of which

Leprosy may be a long-standing sign, contemporary VD

a more recent manifestation.9 But whatever its o