CASES

Carbo animalis

Case1v2

- Woman, 44 years old

- This patient came with a tumor in the breast and her mother died of a breast tumor.

- I was wondering why her mother died of cancer and why she also has a tumor in the breast.

- There must be a relationship.

- If she had an appearance like we see in Carcinosin and she had the mind of Carcinosin, with a desire to read, and if she was a hard working woman, I would have given her Carcinosin.

- But this was not the case.

- So I had to see which other remedy I could give her.

- She came with a tumor in the right breast and the other doctors proposed an operation.

- A: You have a tumor in the breast.

- P: Yes.

- A: They don't know what kind of tumor it is, whether it is calcificated or...

- P: No, it is not.

- Around the tumor there was calcification, but the tumor itself, probably, it was a cyst.

- A: I tried to examine the breast and it was difficult to find out where the tumor was exactly.

- P: When you touch the place it is very painful.

- A: So that is the problem.

- They proposed an operation and an examination of the tissue for you.

- You are very anxious of course, because your parents both died of cancer.

- P: My mother died of breast cancer, my father died of lung cancer.

- A: That's the reason why you are so anxious.

- It might be cancer.

- I'm sure there must be a reason and we have to find out.

- We have to see why her parents died of cancer and why she develops a breast tumor.

- You just don't get cancer, without any reason.

- Cancer means something.

- Which is the remedy which is mostly used for cancers in women?

- Mostly, it concerns cancer of the glands.

- Which remedy?

- Conium.

- We know that a lack of love, a lack of understanding with the husband is behind all this.

- That is the reason for the hardening.

- Don't forget Bufo in breast cancer.

- Cancer with ulceration and lymphangitis, very painful, with high fever.

- An inflammatory cancer which pushes outward.

- That is Bufo.

- Conium expresses cancer in another way, it is a hardening.

- Conium is the remedy for cancers of the glands of the pancreas, the breast, the uterus and testicles.

- P: In fact, the doctor is very anxious and he says there is a risk.

- They told me that the tumor itself is not malignant, but around the tumor...

- Therefore I had to come back after 1/2 year.

- Another doctor said, it was better to come back earlier.

- A: On the mammography something could be seen.

- Last year the lymph glands were swollen.

- P: On the left side.

- A: It was on the left side, not on the right side.

- P: No.

- A: Were the tumors in the lymphnodes in the armpit or in the breast?

- P: They were more in the breast itself.

- A: They were rather hard.

- P: And during menstruation they hurt.

- It went away, also the stitching pain.

- A: But it is gone now?

- P: I don't feel it anymore.

- Maybe it went away because I took medicines, ORGAMETRIL, one year long.

- This would be sufficient to let the tumor disappear.

- A: There was also something particular, as you told me.

- You lived in L.

- A: In fact, you were born in H., but there was something, you told me spontaneously.

- P: In fact, I never liked to live in L.

- I didn't know why.

- I was always homesick for H.

- I must tell you, at our home we were always together.

- Then I went to L., I started working to do with it, I don't know.

- A: So, homesickness.

- P: My youngest brother lives in L.

- And we have good contact with each other.

- Less than with the other members of the family, but nevertheless we meet each other regularly.

- HP: If she drive there and I think of home, it makes me upset.

- Then I think, "Oh dear, now I have to go back to L."

- A: For 20 years you couldn't get rid of this feeling.

- P: No.

- A: That is very strange.

- That is the reason for the existence of cancer, but you also have to be susceptible to it, you must be able to develop cancer and then you will get it if certain circumstances allow.

- For example, Aurum is very susceptible, when they build up something and it falls apart.

- Do you remember the story of King Ludwig von Bayern?

- I saw a film about him and this king Ludwig von Bayern was a man who was always alone, he didn't want company.

- He built wonderful castles, the most beautiful castles in the whole world.

- He was riding in a golden car.

- They dismissed him from being a king, because he was schizophrenic.

- Then he killed himself.

- In the movie you could see the way he was standing there and wanted to jump into the water.

- That was clear Aurum, a wonderful Aurum picture.

- If Aurum sees his Aurum state disappearing, this means, that he is no more gold anymore, that black things are thrown upon his gold, life has no sense anymore, it is over.

- Here it is something else.

- These people have a very close relationship with the place where they grew up.

- Her brother lives in the same place she lives, but that is not enough.

- She needs the village where she was born and the house in which she grew up.

- If someone is susceptible to this remedy and he has to move to another house, because a highway is built there, for example, they will develop a cancer because they are taken away from a very deep relationship.

- That is a question of constitution.

- In the rubric " homesickness is so strong that it causes cancer when it lasts for a longer period.

- And that is the reason why the parents and all the members of the family developed cancer.

- When they had to leave their village.

- P: Besides, regularly we go to H.

- A: If you go away from H., don't you want to go home?

- P: No, in fact not, but at the beginning I was very much homesick, I cried very much.

- I couldn't get used to it.

- A: Why did you cry?

- P: I didn't know, I don't know, how I should say?

- A: At what time did you cry?

- P: I still had my mother, but I have good relationship with my brothers and sisters.

- HP: She married at an old age, she was 28 years old.

- From childhood on she was working in a shop.

- P: We had two shops.

- HP: And she knew everybody.

- She has always worked in a shop and then she moved to L., alone between four walls.

- P: But I was only at home one month.

- Then I started working.

- A: In H.?

- P: No, no.

- That was in L.

- HP: As a cashier in a shop in L.

- A: And you didn't like it?

- P: On the contrary, I liked it very much.

- I worked there with heart and soul.

- A: And then you weren't homesick?

- P: Yes, I was.

- A: You were still homesick!

- It was not because of the job.

- HP: She becomes better as soon as she started working, as soon as she met people, she was always very melancholic.

- A: Do you weep easily?

- P: Yes.

- A: Can you tell me something about your working hours?

- P: At 12 o'clock my husband comes home for such.

- Previously when I was working he didn't come home.

- Then he went to my grandmother for lunch.

- But at 4'clock my husband was at home and so was I.

- A: Were there certain hours at which you cried?

- P: I ca n hardly tell.

- HP: It is already 20 years ago.

- A: But you still do, don't you?

- P: Weeping, yes.

- HP: Now, she cries because of the operation.

- A: No, I mean, does she cry in the morning or at noon, or do you cry when you lie in bed or when you are cleaning or when you are sitting at the table.

- When do you cry?

- P: That it very difficult to say.

- HP: In fact, when she is alone at home.

- P: Yes, I also think when I'm alone at home.

- HP: When you are working, while ironing, don't you?

- P: I didn't weep so easily when my husband or my children are at home.

- But I still talk very much about H. to my children.

- HP: And when she passes the shop by coincidence, oh dear!

- Even after 20 years!

- A: All right.

- That is a very particular symptom.

- Further you told me that you are rather anxious in the dark.

- P: Yes, I always am, since my childhood on.

- Alone in the dark, oh no, I would go nowhere.

- HP: It is linked p with the dark, but also with strangers.

- P: No.

- I'm not reserved in conversations or in contacts.

- HP: But you are anxious when you have to enter an unknown building.

- P: To go in a strange building that looks horrible, no, I won't do that.

- HP: In general she is rather conservative.

- Also when it concerns elections.

- P: No, I'm rather domesticated.

- A: But nevertheless you are homesick.

- "I'm domesticated."

- To which remedy does this remind you?

- To Kali bichromicum.

- Kali bichromicum has pain in a small spots, and you know that the type of pain is an expression of the character.

- Kali bichromicum has pain in a small spot and it has limited interest, only the family.

- All our diseases, the way which we express our suffering It’s an expression of what we really are inside.

- We can explain some, but we don't know enough to explain everything.

- A: In fact, you didn't need to work in shop.

- P: No, now I stay at home voluntary because of the children.

- They were happy when I stayed at home.

- Since the last time quite a lot changed at work, that's right.

- HP: She couldn't talk so well with new colleagues.

- P: The colleagues which were working there previously were dismissed.

- In fact, the last half year I went to work against my will.

- Also because of the new boss who changed some things.

- HP: There was not such a good human relationship as before.

- P: In fact, I didn't want to work there anymore.

- I have worked there for 15, almost for 18 years and in the last time I couldn't tolerate it anymore.

- I also wanted to be home.

- The children are at boarding school the whole week, one child is at boarding school, the other one is at home and only comes home at 5 o'clock on Friday evening.

- A: The last time you also said that you were tired.

- P: Yes.

- That's right.

- And especially here, I was very tired here (shows the region of the breast).

- I would like to do something else at home, but I noticed that it didn't go.

- I have never been lazy in fact, that's not the reason.

- I always would like to, but....

- HP: She is also anxious she might have something in her heart.

- P: Yes, that's especially when I am so tired.

- A: All right.

- We said that it was a rather clear picture.

- We give the remedy, but we also said that we will wait for one month or five weeks or how long?

- P: I can only come back after six weeks.

- There is no spare time before the 10th.

- A: So, we said that first we will see how you feel in general.

- You took the remedy on the fifth, three days ago.

- Did you have headache?

- P: Terrible headache, for two days and I didn't dare to take anything.

- Two days, from morning until the evening, event night.

- A: Do you suffer from it otherwise?

- P: Yes, sometimes I do, but lately I didn't suffer so much from headache, at least no such a strong headache for two days long.

- A: This means that you react very well.

- P: Do you think so?

- I didn't know what I should do.

- It was an aggravation, a very severe aggravation with headache and so on.

- I let her come back because of the teaching in our Centre at Hechtel.

- A: You read the paper, our information brochure.

- P: No, I didn't receive one.

- A: Read it.

- I see now that you reacted to the remedy, because you had headache for two days.

- So this started the day after you took the remedy?

- P: Yes.

- I had headache for two days.

- Today I don't have headache.

- A: That's the way it should be.

- P: I hope so.

- And still I'm suspicious.

- They told me that I may not wait another month.

- Therefore I'm worrying whether it will be all right.

- HP: She doubts.

- P: Of course, I have to trust it.

- A: It is not necessary that you trust.

- But with four or five weeks, that is no problem.

- P: No, I hope so, but often I'm anxious that it is malignant.

- And when I wait some more weeks, then..

- A: As I told you, this doesn't come from outside, but from inside, and I don't think that you will cure by cutting away the tumor.

- Only by becoming stronger yourself, you will conquer the case.

- It is very important for you to know that you don't gain anything by fighting against it.

- I would like to propose that you take a mammography first, before you are operated on.

- P: Yes, of course.

- But infect, they didn't say anything about it.

- Is it allowed to do mammography so quickly after each other?

- Normally, they say, after half a year.

- A: It is not so good for mammography, I know, but before you are operated on and they don't find anything...

- P: I don't know.

- A: Or an ultrasound.

- P: I can have an ultrasound.

- They already proposed to do this in four weeks and four weeks have already passed.

- A: So, have an ultrasound in two, three weeks by a gynecologist and ask for the result so that we can compare it with the previous ones.

- P: I will.

- That's all right.

- HP: And when she gets headache again?

- A: No, no, she reacted the first time by headache.

- P: Do you think that I won't get it now?

- I thought, that it also came from my neck.

- A: Yes, but why do you get a headache immediately after you took the remedy?

- This means that you have reacted to it, otherwise it wouldn't have occurred.

- This is a good reaction, it had to be like that.

- P: I thought it came from the muscles of the neck.

- A: You had a strong.

- And when I stooped it was terrible.

- Nothing helped.

- I'm not allowed to drink coffee anymore.

- Previously, it helped me, but now I don't dare anymore.

- HP: She is a little bit dependent on coffee.

- P: No, that's not true.

- I always liked to drink a cup of coffee.

- A: So, don't worry, but have an ultrasound by the gynecologist after three weeks.

- HP: If she can't sleep, can she take anything?

- A: No.

- She may drink lime tea or things like that, but no sleeping tablets.

- The remedy is clear.

- It is: Carbo animalis.

- But it is important what is behind all this the two capital remedies with homesickness are Carbo animalis and Capsicum.

- There are many other remedies like Natrum muriaticum, Aurum, Ignatia and so on.

- " Fear in the dark", capital remedies are Stramonium and Cannabis indica and there is also Carbo animalis.

- She didn't say that she cried while eating.

- I tried to find out, but she didn't say.

- Look at the rubric "weeping while eating" on page 93, there is only one remedy; Carbo animalis.

MIND, WEEPING,eating, while : Carb-an.

- Further, if you look under "chest, cancer, mammae," on page 8243 you see a lot of remedies.

- There is Apis which is a complementary remedy to Natrum muriaticum.

- Strangely enough, Natrum muriaticum is not there.

- A Natrum muriaticum patient who develops a tumor of the ovary, on which side will she develop it.

- On the right side, because she needs Apis then.

- If Natrum muriaticum has a grief, a lot of grief and she develops a tumor of the ovary, and it is on the right side, then it is Apis.

- Also the breast cancer in a Natrum muriaticum patient you will not cure with Natrum muriaticum.

- First, you will have to give Apis.

- It is strange, but it is so.

- In the rubric we also see Asterias rubens, Asterias with fear of apoplexy at night, with hypertension and an expression like Belladonna.

- Belladonna is only indicated in cancer when there is a supper- infection.

- Belladonna will not cure the cancer, but it will take away the inflammation and later on you will have to give, of example, Calcarea.

- You know, in breast tumors with metastasis to the bones, when these patients knock against something, it is Calcarea.

- Then, there is also Bellis perennis.

- The cause of Bellis perennis is a contusion, and another remedy has cancer after contusion, namely Conium.

- In Holland I asked what you could get when you push too hard on the testes, and a man answered jokingly, “A lump in your throat."

- All right.

- So injuries of the testes, after falling on a bicycle or things like that can induce cancer.

- That is the cause in Bellis perennis or in Conium.

- Further, there is Bufo and Carbolic acid, but Carbolic acid is the end of the state.

- Then Carbo animalis, as in these case, then Chimaphila with this difficult urination, further Clematis with the syphilitic background, Conium, Condurango.

- You can recognize Condurango by the cracks, cracks in the rectum, cracks in the corners of the mouth and pain under the scapula, going from the left scapula to the right.

- Then there is also Graphites, Hepar sulphuris, Hydrastis.

- Phytolacca has to be there, of course Mercurius, Nitricum acidum, Tuberculinum.

- Kali carbonicum is only a one, but it is an important remedy as a constitutional remedy.

- I gave the patient Carbo animalis and after wards she got an aggravation with headache and that was sufficient for me to know that the remedy was right.

- In the three interviews you will see how the story develops philosophically

Feedback (may 2, 1988)

- A: I gave you the remedy on April 2, on Tuesday, four weeks ago.

- On April 22, one week ago you came with pain in the back and you were seen by a colleague.

- It was a tired pain, especially when you stood for quite a long time.

- It started last Friday, it was a little bit better in the morning and then it became worse again.

- And then you got your menstruation again, which you didn't have for one year.

- P: The menstruation disappeared because of the medicines I took.

- What were they called?

- A: You didn't write it down?

- She took progesterone tablets and they suppressed the menstrual flow.

- I stopped them and then the menses appeared again, after the remedy.

- P: Last time I brought the box with me.

- Now, I don't remember.

- I also had to take these tablets to let the tumor disappear, but it didn't go away.

- And now I got the menstrual flow again for the first time.

- The pain in the back is much better, but now and then I still feel it a little bit.

- A: With Foliata squalosa it was better and the menstruation came back again.

- We agreed that you should go to the gynecologist.

- P: I was there last Thursday.

- He did an ultrasound and it seemed as if the tumor decreased a little bit.

- A: Smaller, with certainty.

- P: Yes.

- But he said that it depends, sometimes it becomes bigger, sometimes it becomes smaller.

- A: And did it ever occur to you that it became smaller than before?

- P: Well I haven't had and ultrasound very often, one last year and one at the end of February.

- And from February until now it has become a little bit smaller.

- A: And from last year until February?

- P: No, then it was not smaller.

- Even my husband noticed that it was little bit smaller, we could see it on the television screen.

- The gynecologist said that it often occurs that it becomes smaller than at other times.

- A: It might occur that the tumor may become smaller, but you have to be careful with the evaluation.

- P: Yes, my husband said that I am in treatment with Homoeopathy and he said the following, "I trust homoeopathy in the sense that the tumor will disappear, but the rim of calcification will surely not disappear with Homoeopathy."

- A: Does he understand anything about Homoeopathy?

- P: I don't know.

- A: So, he can be wrong.

- P: He advised me to have further examinations done; not because of the tumor, but because of the calcification of the rim.

- He advised me not to wait the operation, but to have and operation as soon as possible.

- A: Only because of the calcification deposits?

- P: Yes.

- A: And what did you decide?

- P: Well, if I have to be operated on I would like him to do the operation because I have always been seen by him and I am satisfied with him as a gynecologist.

- A: Our aim is to let the tumor disappear completely.

- The only thing he could do is to do an aspiration.

- P: But they already did.

- He advises us to have the tumor removed and to have the calcification deposits examined.

- That's his point.

- A: So your husband himself saw that the tumor became smaller than at other times.

- A: It might occur that the tumor may become smaller, but you have to be careful with the evaluation.

- P: Yes, my husband said that I am in treatment with homoeopathy and he said the following, "I trust Homoeopathy in the sense that the tumor will disappear with homoeopathy."

- A: Does he understand anything about homoeopathy?

- P: I don't know.

- A: So, he can be wrong.

- P: He advised me to have further examinations done; not because of the tumor, but because of the calcification of the rim.

- He advised me not to wait with the operation, but to have an operation as soon as possible.

- A: Only because of the calcification deposits?

- P: Yes.

- A: And what did you decide?

- P: Well, if I have to be operated on I would like him to do the operation because I have always been seen by him and I am satisfied with him as a gynecologist.

- A: Our aim is to let the tumor disappear completely.

- The only thing he could do is to do an aspiration.

- P: But they already did.

- He advises us to have the tumor removed and to have the calcification deposits examined.

- That's his point.

- A: So your husband himself saw that the tumor became smaller?

- P: Yes.

- The tumor it self was smaller, but the calcium deposits were the same.

- You may not push your patients.

- Let them make a decision.

- She had Carbo animalis and I don't care.

- I know that the remedy is right and that it will cure the whole patient and the tumor.

- And when they operate on the tumor you will see what happens.

- I suppose that you can't know.

- We only know that the remedy is known for breast cancer and there is a deep psychological reason to get this breast cancer.

- Every disease has a psychological reason, only when you knock with a hammer on your thumb, then it is not psychological, then it is Hypericum.

- P: I must tell you that I feel very well since the last time.

- A: Do you feel better lately?

- P: Yes, I feel very well.

- But he says that it concerns the calcium.

- A: Is the calcium malignant?

- P: They don't know.

- They can only know when they examine the tumor.

- In the mammography calcium deposits could be seen.

- A: Is the calcium malignant?

- P: They don't know.

- A: No, never.

- P: But he wants to have it examined.

- A: It is important now that we think logically.

- First, you take a homoeopathic remedy and you got an aggravation: headache.

- Since February you stopped the progesterone and then the menstruation came back.

- Later you felt better in general and also the tumor has become smaller.

- That is a strange relationship.

- P: Yes, that's what my husband says.

- He was very satisfied.

- (They are discussing the development, operation or not.)

- That was the second feedback.

- I gave her Sac- lac.

Feedback (june 3,1988)

- A: What happened in the meantime?

- P: Well, I had it removed.

- HP: She was too anxious.

- A: That is no problem.

- You decided to have this tumor removed.

- How was the result of the biopsy?

- What was the result of the examination?

- P: It was not malignant.

- It was very deep.

- HP: One night she got drainage and the next day she was allowed to go home.

- A: How do you feel in general after the operation?

- P: Well, in fact, not well.

- I don't know why it is, but I am tired and I don't know, what...

- HP: She doesn't look so well either.

- A: That's right.

- I just showed you the video of the last time and there you looked beautiful and you felt very well.

- You said, "I'm doing at least as well as before."

- You were optimistic.

- P: I took iron tablets and I thought that this might be the cause, but I'm still as tired.

- A: you don't feel well.

- P: No, I'm always tired and I don't wan tot do anything.

- I don't know why, I always could do my work, but now it is really a burden to me.

- In fact, I can't do anything at all.

- It is not that I'm worrying.

- A: The tumor has been removed.

- You are sure that it was benign, and yet you don't feel as well as before when the tumor was there.

- P: Yes.

- I still have some pain at ht place of the operation.

- She is not anxious anymore, because the tumor has been removed.

- It was benign.

- But although the anxiety has gone she is very tired.

- She can't work anymore.

- A: Listless and tired.

- HP: Also stitching, but I don't know whether this is normal.

- P: Yes, the doctor said that this would be so for a few weeks, because it was so deep.

- I have been operated on by the gynecologist.

- A: And what did he say?

- That you don't have to worry?

- That everything will be all right?

- P: Yes.

- I should come back after half a year for a check up.

- In fact, I always do that.

- A: But now you see that the operation was not necessary.

- P: Well.

- A: Do you see it?

- P: Well, but I was so anxious.

- I thought, I will come back afterwards anyway.

- I was so anxious because my mother also suffered form it.

- If it was something superficial I would have seen it my self, but so....

- HP: She couldn't live with the uncertainty.

- A: All right.

- you don't need to worry about it.

- The remedy acted before and now we will see.

- P: Well I don't know, but I must tell you something; I have and allergy in the eyes.

- It's terrible.

- "Itching in the eyes", look on page 244.

- All the symptoms which she has now are symptoms we know from before Carbo animalis.

- Do you understand why?

- They have removed the tumor, the symptom which her body pushed out itself; so they suppressed.

- First the weakness came and then all the other symptoms.

- The tumor is gone, now she has to express it in another way.

- P: I rub my eyes constantly.

- HP: She already used eye ointment, but it doesn't help.

- A: Do you like to be alone now?

- Do you have the tendency to be alone?

- P: Hmm, I don't like to go outside.

- HP: She really has to conquer.

- A: Does she weep easily?

- P: No, not so easily.

- A: But at the beginning you did.

- P: Not so easily anymore.

- HP: She did at the beginning.

- The nipple is still very sensitive.

- She has to wear a bra, otherwise it is very painful.

- P: I wash myself in the evening and I can hardly tolerate it if I don't wear a bra.

- HP: Yes.

- Maybe it lasts for a while.

- (Pause)

- A: How is it now?

- Is she still talking about H.?

- HP: It hasn't changed.

- P: The homesickness in not so strong, but I like to have contact with my family.

- A: Has it become stronger after the operation?

- P: They paid me a visit at home.

- A: It has not become stronger?

- P: No.

- A: Do you have other complaints?

- Besides the sensitivity of the nipple?

- P: I'm cold, but I always am.

- Nothing further.

- A: When you are lying in bed, is that a problem?

- The bed feels too hard or thing like that?

- P: No.

- A: Do you sleep well?

- P: Well yes, sometimes not so well.

- A: Do you have other complaints?

- P: No.

- I cant go on, I don't have energy.

- HP: Tell me about the blisters.

- P: Well, for a few years I get blisters on the soles of the feet.

- In fact, I get blisters constantly, then it starts itching very much and when it breaks open, a watery liquid comes out.

- I have it again, but I don't suffer from it.

- A: Is it worse that before?

- P: No, I can't say.

- In the rubric " itching, toes" on page 1028 there is Carbo animalis.

- A: Tell me about the itching of the eyes.

- P: It is tremendous itching.

- I have had it a few years.

- Last year it was not so bad, but now the itching is very strong.

- A: When were you operated on?

- P: On Friday, the sixth, it is four weeks ago.

- A: One month ago.

- And since the operation you always feel tired.

- There was no amelioration within these three weeks.

- P: No, not physically.

- HP: Now and then I have the impression, but she can't?

- A: Then I know what I have to do.

- I will see you again on September 2/3, but call me in the meantime, in two or three weeks, to see how you are doing.

- Then you must have more courage.

- The operation is not the problem.

- You don't have to worry, because it is not malignant.

- Because of the operation you were knocked down in general.

- Now we have to take care that it will be better.

- So don't worry about it.

- P: And the iron tablets?

- A: No, no, stop them.

- The iron is not good, you start weeping from it.

- HP: Is it possible that she has low blood pressure?

- P: Yes, yes, that's.

- When I sit down I'm a little bit dizzy.

- "Vertigo, rising, a seat, on" on page 103, Carbo animalis is a two.

- HP: Also when she puts her head downwards.

- P: No.

- In fact I'm a little bit dizzy when I sit down.

- I told her not to worry, I will repeat the remedy and everything will disappear.

- Now, I'm sure that other symptom will appear if you cut away the original symptom.

- If you cut away the cancer and this cancer is an important expression they will get metastasis (because of the blowups).

- It is important not to cut away the cancer but you can't propose it as long as you are not sure of the sure of the remedy or when there are already metastasis.

- That is my opinion, but we don't know.

- If the remedy was right, she must be well soon.

Feedback (september3, 1988)

- A: How was the reaction to the last remedy?

- How are you doing?

- P: I felt very well.

- I said it a few times, it was as if I got a wonder tablet, it suddenly went so well.

- A: After the remedy?

- P: Yes, yes, immediately after I took the remedy I felt very well.

- A: Has the itching disappeared?

- P: Yes.

- I didn't have it once afterwards.

- A: Also the courage is better?

- P: Yes.

- A: The tiredness is also better

- P: Yes.

- A: And what about the sensitivity of the nipples?

- P: Yes, that is better.

- A: So, you don't have any complaints.

- P: No.

- In fact, I feel...

- During the week I had little bit...

- I always have this with my liver...

- HP: It might be the pancreas.

- P: I ate plums and I think a I can't tolerate fruit with stones.

- It only hurt a few days, then it went away.

- I have always been a little bit sensitive towards that.

- HP: She suffers from it as long as I know her.

- Then she becomes anxious she might get cancer of the liver and then it is over again.

- A: The pancreas is on the left side.

- P: Everything here hurts, especially when I eat fruit with stones.

- I don't eat whipped cream and gravy because I don't tolerate them.

- I suppose, it comes from the fruit.

- A: You don't tolerate fat?

- P: No, I never did.

- A: How does it affect you?

- P: Pain here.

- Here it hurts.

- A: Did you spoil your stomach?

- A bad feeling in the in the stomach?

- P: No.

- HP: No, she thinks It is over when she has flatulence.

- P: It always hurts here when I eat gravy or whipped cream.

- A: It might be that you need another remedy in the future.

- Do you have these complaints only when you eat fat or fruit with stones?

- A: You don't have any other complaints?

- You are optimistic, the homesickness has decreased...

- P: Yes.

- We just had very nice holidays, but I must tell you that I already felt better before the holidays.

- I cleaned my whole house.

- My husband also said, "You can't be stopped by anything", I was so industrious.

- I really feel very well.

- A: All right, then this is the last consultation.

- I don't have to see you again, unless there are problems, then you call me.

- I only wanted to show that you needed your remedy again after the operation.

- P: I must say something, Doctor, that's also why I also called you.

- After the operation I had so many heart palpitations and you said I don't have to worry about it and then I didn't worry about it anymore, but I'm still suffering from it.

- That's strange, isn't it?

- But apparently, it's not bad, is it?

- A: Do you have this often?

- P: Yes, at that time I had it very often, but now it is less.

- My heart skips.

- Here you see that you can be sure that you will damage the patient when surgery takes away a symptom.

- The background of Carbo animalis is indeed being cut off from the origin.

- Then they get cancer when they are susceptible to it.

- In the differential diagnosis it is very important to pay attention to this symptom.

- I had another patient with a tumor of the pancreas who came from Germany to Belgium after the war and married here (in Belgium).

- Her daughter was a doctor.

- She came to me and said that I couldn't cure her mother anymore, but if I would try to take away the pain, if this is possible with homoeopathy.

- Immediately, I thought of Carbo animalis.

- She was a person who came from Germany to Belgium and regularly she drives back to the village where she was born, but I couldn't find a real homesickness.

- Carbo animalis weeps and weeps because of this homesickness.

- They are very romantic and they have to go back to their village.

- Carbo animalis was not clear in this patient but then Conium appeared.

- She had a hard tumor of the head of the pancreas and in the rubric " abdomen, pancreas" on page 599 you see Conium, Odium, Iris, Phosphorus and Spongia, and when you look in the Generalities " cancerous affections, glands" on page 1346 you see three remedies: Aurum muriaticum, Conium and Carbo animalis.

- If you compare those two rubrics, Conium remains.

- I gave her Conium and it was beautiful reaction.

- The pain in the abdomen was nearly gone and she could sleep.

- The allopathic doctors said that she couldn't be cured, she had to die.

- We will see.

- Her husband is someone who is always working, working, working.

- He is working for the children, for the house, but he doesn't take care about his wife.

- First I gave her Conium 1M.

- After three weeks she got more pain and I repeated Conium 1M.

- It was better and then she came with pain in the back.

- I'm a little bit anxious, because I don't know whether tumors of the pancreas have metastasis to the bones or the vertebrae.

- Normally yes.

- I let her take Conium LM6 every day to try it out, because some South American Homoeopaths who have a lot of experience say that they can cure cancer: of course with the right remedy, with low potencies and by repeating.

- I don't know, we have to find out here.

Case 2 v2

Carbo animalis

Woman, 45 years old

This is a patient with a mammary tumor on the left side, which has been treated homeopathically, I think eight times with the same remedy and the tumor came back eight times. There was surely something wrong.

A: I took you on video because of a recurrent breast tumor. When were you here the first time? I have to look it up. In 1983?

P: Already in 1983.

A: Then you received a remedy, the breast tumor disappeared, it was gone a while and then it came back. This is strange. You received this remedy nine times and every time the tumor went away and it came back after a while.

P: I wrote it down at home.

A: The last time was how long ago?

P: I think I was here on June 14.

A: This is this strange story. When the breast tumor had gone other symptoms appeared. First rheumatic complaints. How are these pains?

P: Burning pain, always burning.

A: Pain in both knees, especially in the evening in bed, worse when you are sitting.

P: Yes, terrible.

A: And pain in the back. I don't know whether it is also a burning pain.

P: It is more a stitching, or a gnawing feeling.

A: And pain in the heels, especially in the right one. Is this also burning?

P: No, it is also stitching.

A: And it improved when you were rubbing it.

P: It goes away one moment and then it comes back later.

A: Now and then you had pain in the breast, also when there was no tumor. The breast was sensitive, very sensitive, especially the last few days you had a kind of stitching pain in the nipples.

P: This is less now.

A: But wait, I'm ahead of myself. In connection with the rheumatic complaints you had sleeping hands in the morning in bed. You were also - and this was a very particular symptom - very worried about your health.

P: Yes, that's true.

A: There was always a kind of worried undertone with it.

P: It is better, but I still have it.

A: Now it is less, but it is something which always comes back. You are also worried about your family, worried about everybody.

P: In fact on all levels.

Anxiety about others, pain which improved on rubbing, this is which remedy?

Audience: Phosphorus.

A : Can she be Phosphorus? She is really anxious, the anxiety about her health is very strong. When there is something wrong with her daughter immediately she becomes anxious.

You will see that she might be Phosphorus.

A: Regularly you had a kind of vertigo. You always slept on the right side, you couldn't sleep on the left side.

P: No, I couldn't.

A: You still can't?

P: No, I still can't.

A: So always on the right side. The last time we said that there was something wrong. We gave Conium maculatum for the breast tumor, it disappeared, but then the rheumatic complaints appeared.

I think I gave Conium maculatum 9 times. She had typical Conium maculatum symptoms. She had to hold her breasts on walking, because they hurt with every step. With every jar they have pain and also touch hurts. She had these symptoms and therefore I gave her Conium maculatum. The tumor disappeared, which was a beautiful cure, but it returned every time.

When the Conium maculatum symptoms disappeared the rheumatic complaints appeared. Therefore I gave her another remedy, and then the tumor came back. Strange.

A: For the rheumatic complaints I gave Phosphorus which also fit your character. Did this improve then?

P: A little bit, but it didn't disappear completely. Up to now.

A: Then I also gave .... (not understandable), but it didn't help. In July I gave you the higher mentioned remedy because you were homesick for a long time. Homesick for what?

P: For everything, I think. I cannot express how it was. It is a kind of homesickness which comes and doesn't disappear.

A: "Homesickness" means that you long for your home.

P: Yes. I don't like to live where I live now. I would like to live closer to my parent's home, live with my mother, but this is impossible. Although it is not far away, but it is impossible.

A: So always a tendency to go home.

P: It's still there.

A: Your mother and father are still alive. How old are they?

P: My father is 84 years old, my mother 79 and they are very healthy. They are never ill.

A: How often do you go there?

P: Regularly twice a week, I think.

A: This was a very important point for you.

P: I'm older now and I don't want to change this.

A: Why are you homesick? Is this homesick for the past, for the parents' house, or what is it?

P: I have the feeling that I always have to go back there. I have to be with these people.

A: In the house?

P: Yes. If I am there only for 1/2 hour it is all right.

A: If your parents would have been in a home would the homesickness be as strong?

P: I don't know. My father has been in the hospital and I always visited him.

A: Before you had children you went home every day.

P: Yes, every day. And when my husband was working I also went home.

A: If you could take your house and put it down there ....

P: I would surely do it.

A: This is strange, isn't it?

P: It is unexplainable, but I have grown up there, it is completely different than here. I just can't stay away from there. It is very close, but I want to be there.

A: When your eldest daughter married she moved very far from home and you didn't sleep for nights and nights.

P: I really suffered from it. Now it is better.

When you are dealing with a person who is anxious about his children you think of this remedy. Therefore she couldn't sleep. You also find this in Pulsatilla and Phosphorus. When the daughter marries and goes away from home they are doing bad.

In this remedy the homesickness concerns a very big area.

It is not only related to the house, but also to the children. You have to understand it this way. When it concerns the worry and anxieties about children you have to ask further to see whether it only concerns their children or whether it also has to do with the house, the parents, the village and so on.

P: Now it is all right, but when the children were little I was really ill because of that. That was my biggest worry.

A: What?

P: That they lived so far away and that I couldn't go to them when I wanted. I just couldn't go there when I wanted and I thought, "How can I manage with the children?" They have to manage themselves. My daughter also managed herself, but I always wanted to be there. I wanted to help her, but I couldn't. Besides I had another daughter who was still living at home and who means everything to me. But this is also with the other daughter.

She was at home and she was wondering how her children were doing. What did she do? She was meditating, she was wondering how her children were doing, how her parents were doing and so on. This thinking, this pondering on certain things, what does this mean? There is a capital remedy, but it is not Sulphur.

Answer: Carbo animalis.

A: Yes, Carbo animalis. They are thinking about how beautiful their childhood was together with their parents and their siblings in the village. It is a romantic way to think of the past.

Numbness in the hands in the morning on waking up, burning pain in the heels and the thinking of the past.

P: It still comes up. (is weeping)

A: Is this still important for you?

P: Yes, it still is. I want to keep everything with me, but I know I cannot.

A: You cannot let go?

P: No.

A: Also with your parents. You want to take care of them?

P: Yes, I think so. I don't know myself where this leads.

A: Good, this is a strong symptom.

P: I think it controls everything.

A: This is the strongest aspect in your life.

P: Yes.

A: Good. Then you also told me that sexuality is not so important for you.

P: Yes, that's right.

A: You have never been on a holiday?

P: Yes, very often, but after one night I already start counting the nights until I can go home again. I never liked to go on holiday, but I never dared to tell anybody. I said to myself, "Another 6 nights, then I can go home." I was always counting down.

A: Did it concern your house or did you want to go back to your parents?

P: Both. I always wanted to be home, really always. When there is somebody with me - recently both daughters were with me on holiday - then it is not so bad, then the tendency to drive home is not so strong.

A: So the eldest daughter was with you on holiday.

P: Yes. And also the youngest. Then it was not so bad.

A: Tell me what you prefer to eat.

P: Always sweets. I cannot eat a meal without some sweets for dessert. I always try to stay away from it, but I don't succeed.

A: And further? Do you have other desires? What about meat?

P: I eat it as little as possible.

A: You don't like it so much?

P: No, I don't have an appetite for it.

A: What do you prefer to eat then?

P: Vegetables, I prefer vegetables and rice.

A: Do you like rice a lot, vegetables a lot?

P: Very much.

A: Raw or boiled?

P: Both.

Vegetables are a very strong desire in all these cases. Not always, but very often you find in these patients a strong desire for vegetables and at the same time a lesser desire for meat.

A: You always eat it?

P: Yes, it always tastes good, even twice a day if I have to.

A: And bread?

P: I also like to eat it, but no potatoes and no meat.

A: But you like rice?

P: Yes.

A: This is also strange.

P: I also like pastas.

A: I gave you the remedy on July 4 in M potency and I repeated it on September A. How is the numbness in your hands now?

P: It is better.

A: How often do you still suffer from it?

P: I noticed it only a few times.

A: During the whole period?

P: Yes.

A: How is the pain in the heel?

P: It is still there, but seldom, and it disappears very quickly.

Look in the Repertory on page 1080:

EXTREMITIES, pain, foot, heel: ... carb-an ...

Also look on page 1091:

EXTREMITIES, pain, burning: ... carb-an ...

EXTREMITIES, pain, burning, external: Carb-an

Carbo animalis is the only remedy in this rubric.

Burning pain is a symptom which indicates Carbo animalis very strongly; besides a numbness of the hands in the morning in bed, a symptom which you often find in women. Further pain in the heel, homesickness and the desire for vegetables.

A: And the pain in the back?

P: It is also better.

A: Do the breasts still hurt?

P: Yes, but much less. I still feel something.

A: I forgot to mention one symptom. You had black spots before the eyes.

Therefore I gave Conium maculatum.

Look in the Repertory on page 272:

VISION, colors, black, points: ... con ...

Look a little bit lower at the following rubric:

VISION, colors, black, points, candlelight, by: Carb-an

Remark: In the rubric "Vision, colors, black, spots" Carbo animalis is an addition of Hahnemann.

A: Oh many thanks. Where did you find this?

Audience: In the Complete Repertory

P: Yes. It was flickering especially before the right eye.

A: Only before the right eye?

P: Also a little bit on the left side, but much less. Last week I still had it.

A: Is it gone completely?

P: Yes, up to last week. These are black points which are floating before my eyes.

A: It appeared again only recently?

P: Yes.

This is a very important remedy in cancer.

For example, look in the Repertory on page 1346:

GENERALITIES, cancerous affections: ... aur-m ...

Carb-an ... Con ....

This patient had so much confidence in our Center that she did not go to an allopathic doctor, nor to the hospital. The tumor has never been punctured, so that nobody knows whether it was cancer or not.

In this case you see again that a symptom can disappear with a superficial remedy, but in this case it returned every time, until I found the right remedy. In high potencies you can work palliatively with a superficial remedy. Palliative is not too negative, but in reality it is a suppression.

If this tumor was operated in such a case very big problems might appear. In our Center we have had cases in which many problems occurred after the operation on a tumor. In some cases you can cure the patient even when the tumor has been removed, in some cases not.

Now I have a case I'm struggling with, a patient with a tumor in the left breast. It is very difficult because I have the feeling that there is something wrong, but I can't find out what. This appears more often in rich people who don't have any contact with other people in the village and where everything goes according to fixed rules. They are very polite, don't show any feelings and so on, and because they are so distant you cannot find the remedy.

"Do you have homesickness?" - "No, Doctor, I don't." - "but your husband..." - "No, he is a very strong man." - "Do you have the feeling you are suppressed?" - "No, Doctor, certainly not." But in reality she is suppressed by her husband.

In these patients you can see that they have big difficulties, because they build up a wall behind which you may not look.

The patient with the tumor of the left breast came two months ago and said that she didn't see anything with her right eye. Her eye was convergent and immediately I thought of a brain tumor. I sent her to the neurologist and asked him to do a CT (computerized tomography) of the brain and one of the spine because she was always complaining about pain in the back. The result was negative, but I didn't believe it, because these were pains which were not influenced by any remedy. I sent her again for an examination and the result was osteoporosis and bone metastasis of the spine.

What should I do? Up to now I have only one patient with metastasis to the bones who is doing really well on Mercurius. She also had these osteolytic spots.

In this case I was very doubtful. I asked her husband to come, because I wanted to tell him the truth. and then he said to me, "Sir Doctor, this is really a problem because I want to set up a new business of which my wife is a member."

Do you see? He doesn't care about his wife, but only about his finances. The fact that his wife has bone metastasis doesn't seem to move him. By this reaction it became clear to me that she was very much suppressed, that it was difficult to find the right remedy. I gave her Mercurius because of the nightly perspiration, the nightly appearance of the pain, the localization of the pain in the bones and the necrosis of the bones.

If you find necrosis of the bones on the X-rays you find the corresponding rubric on page 1375:

GENERALITIES, necrosis, bones: ... con ...

You find Conium maculatum in this rubric and maybe some other remedies have to be added here.

In cancer patients you have to individualize. There are patients you can cure, and there are some you cannot cure, this is individually determined. Patients you cannot understand you don't have the opportunity to cure. You must understand their character, their personality, otherwise you cannot find the remedy. There are people you can talk with for 3, 4 or 5 hours and who you don't understand, who will not be open and then it is impossible to cure them.

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