CASES

CASE1

Behavior disturbances

Carcinosinum

Girl, 11 years old

A: She has been in treatment since 1984.

In May 1988 this child started to be dissatisfied in general. She was weeping from the slightest thing. If you just asked her something she started weeping. In fact it was a behavior problem, wasn't it?

FP: Yes.

A: You also felt nauseous when you had to ride in the car?

P: Yes.

A: They said that you like everything to be precise. On which level?

P: (Doesn't dare to answer)

A: You don't have to be afraid.

FP: It is on all levels. Everything has to be in the right place, also at school. Her things at school are tip top all right. Her clothes, her shoes, her food, everything has to fit precisely. She will never drink anything before she has cleaned her teeth.

A: She makes a ritual out of this?

FP: Yes.

A: It is remarkable that she is very capable in speaking and also likes to read.

(To the patient) What do you like to read? Only strips or also books?

P: Books and now and then strips.

A: How old are you?

P: 11 years old.

A: Do you also read thick books?

P: Yes, adventures.

A: Can she read the whole day?

P: Yes.

A: She is not a child who likes to play sports?

FP: No. She prefers to sit on the couch and to read rather than to go outside and play.

A: You also dance, don't you?

P: Yes, sometimes.

A: But you don't like running and jumping?

P: No.

A: You become too tired from it, don't you?

P: Yes.

A: She almost always had a cold, and was laughing during sleep. Did she also sleepwalk?

FP: At that time she did.

A: She doesn't mind going to bed in the evening, doesn't like to get up, is nervous, pessimistic. She complains when the bed isn't made correctly. A lack of self-confidence.

She also has particular food desires.

FP: For example, she likes to eat the fat of the meat.

P: Yes.

A: She also likes to eat fruit. What kind of fruit?

P: Apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries.

A: What about chocolate?

P: I like sweets very much, also sour drops.

A: Your father looks doubtful ...

FP: Especially, she likes sweets.

A: Chocolate?

FP: Very much. Also chips.

A: In 1988 the lack of self-confidence was a big problem. She was irritable, but especially very insecure. I gave her a remedy to which she reacted wonderfully. You came back three months later, and she improved a lot in her character and didn't have a tendency to vomit any more. She became much more self-secure. This has been good up to now.

This remedy was repeated a few times because she had a cold.

I waited long enough to be really sure that the remedy worked deeply and for a long time. Now, it is surely two years ago that I gave her the remedy and since then she is doing well. Half a year or one year after the first doses I repeated it once again, because she had a relapse.

A: How is she doing now?

P: Good.

FP: In general she is a lot better. If you take all the symptoms together there are still a few symptoms but less strong than they were before.

Now she has a cold again and still the feeling that she is treated unfairly.

A: Doesn't she resist?

FP: Yes, she does.

A: But not at that time?

FP: No. Indeed at that time she was really treated unfairly.

A: What do you mean?

FP: Her brother has a totally different character. He wants everything for himself and wants quite a lot of attention. Because she was so quiet and so easily satisfied she probably received less. This was on all levels. Her brother always had to have the nicest, the biggest and the best things. We didn't treat her differently consciously.

A: No, this happened because her brother had such a demanding character. Is he younger than she is?

FP: No, one year older.

A: Has this been so all the time, that her brother overshadowed her?

P: Yes, up to the time we are talking about, up to 1988.

A: In her character she has a kind of defenselessness, she lets do too much to her.

FP: Yes, up to then.

A: Until I gave her the remedy. Before she already showed dissatisfaction, but she didn't resist. She complained a lot, wept a lot, wept from admonitions and so on, but she didn't react.

FP: No, she couldn't resist. She reacted in her way by wetting her pants. Before she got rid of it for quite a long time.

A: She also never contradicted?

FP: Maybe she tried once, but then no more, while her brother remained rebellious all day.

A: She let it happen. Now it is a lot better. Can she react sometimes?

FP: Yes.

A: And what about her self-confidence?

FP: It is a lot better, not yet the way it has to be, but it is already a lot better.

A: What about music? Do you to listen to music?

P: Yes.

A: Do you play an instrument?

P: No.

A: Does she listen a lot to music?

FP: Yes. All day long. She prefers to listen to pop music.

A: You mentioned that she had leucorrhea now and then.

FP: It might be, but not so much anymore.

A: I forgot to ask something: Do you like eggs?

P: Yes.

A: And highly seasoned food?

P: Not so much.

A: And icecream?

P: Now and then.

A: I wrote down here that she worries a lot, mothers other children. She has a weak character.

FP: Although this is not so strong anymore. She doesn't play so much with small children anymore.

A: Does she like to travel?

FP: She likes to go on holiday, but she doesn't like to ride in the car, because the travel almost always is a problem for her.

A: The cause of her psychological complaints is the fact that she has been suppressed by her family.

FP: Yes.

A: I also must add that your father had cancer.

FP: No, my grandfather, so her great-grandfather had cancer of the bones.

A: The grandfather of her mother also had cancer?

FP: Yes.

A: This is also very important information.

You see that she has the appearance of Sepia officinalis, but it is more in the direction of a gypsy and this is another remedy.

By character she is a child who lets herself be suppressed.

She is the second child, her brother is older than she and got Lycopodium clavatum, like the father. She lets herself be suppressed by him, has recurrent coughs, wheezing respiration and was dissatisfied. Sepia officinalis would not let herself be suppressed by such a brother, she would react very sharply; between a Lycopodium clavatum brother and a Sepia officinalis sister there would be a constant war; this does not fit her, she doesn't fight.

And what else do we see?

Weeping from admonitions. When you tell her that she cannot do this or that she starts weeping. She has a lack of self-confidence and she is very precise, very fastidious. She becomes nauseous while riding in a car, she doesn't like to dance very much, instead she prefers to read. She prefers to sit rather than play some sports. She is a typical Carcinosinum girl. Another point which indicates Carcinosinum is that her great-grandfather died of cancer.

Her appearance resembles that of Sepia officinalis a lot, but in a different way, more like a gypsy. The behavior of a gypsy is very typical for Carcinosinum. They like to travel, they like music and then let themselves be suppressed. They settle down in a place, they are chased away, go to another place, are chased away again and so on. They don't fight. This is the typical Carcinosinum mentality.

When you have a patient who has the appearance of Sepia officinalis it might be Carcinosinum. There are also blond Carcinosinum patients, but in most cases they have a dark appearance.

CASE2 ( like anil )

Dr. mortelmans guido

Carcinosinum

Case

By seeing these videos we will have some more ideas about the mental state of Carcinosinum, and what is essential in Carcinosinum.

I am going to present a case to you about a woman born in October 1956. First, I want to say that I did not give Carcinosinum as the first remedy, but I gave another remedy. Of course, you will find it. I gave it in several potencies and also in 50M. Then I stopped. There was an amelioration, the headaches were better, but they were not gone. Afterwards, I gave a second remedy. There was also an amelioration, but not the jump, as George Vithoulkas tells us, namely this jump in health of the patient. As a third remedy, I gave Carcinosinum, and then there was this jump. The patient has been doing well for one year. I am not going to say that this must be Carcinosinum for the rest of her life, but I just show it, because we have to learn.

D : You came the first time in September 1985, so quite a long time ago. You came for recurrent colds and migraine. At what age did the problem with sinusitis start?

P : When I was 17 to 18 years old.

D : Did you take medicines for it?

P : I took nose drops and antibiotics.

D : Did you have really fits of sinusitis?

P : Constantly, I had a cold and when I was bending down I had pain everywhere.

D : Where? Only on the right side?

P : No, under the eyes and at the forehead.

D : Did you see a specialist for it?

P : Yes, I went to the ear-nose-throat specialist, but then I was already married. My family doctor advised me. I think I was about 24 or 25 years old. He said that he would clean the nasal cavity by an operation, but after about 2 years the problem would come back.

D : Were you operated on?

P : No.

D : Were you afraid?

P : I didn't see any use of an operation if the problem would come back after two years.

D : But he said that it was sinusitis. Did you really suffer from it the whole year or only at certain periods?

P : During the summer I had a cold, but I didn't have pain.

D : Was your nose obstructed?

P : Yes, I always had to low my nose in the morning and during the day.

D : Did you have yellow or watery discharges?

P : It depended.

D : Did you also suffer from it at night?

P : No.

D : You took quite a lot of antibiotics for it, but it wasn't cured. How many times a year did you take antibiotics?

P : 5 or 6 times.

D : How long did you have to take them?

P : Sometimes two courses.

D : One course was not always sufficient. So, you took antibiotics for several weeks. In fact, you didn't really react very well to antibiotics.

P : No. I not only had a cold of the nose, but I also started coughing.

D : A bronchitis?

P : And pneumonia. Well, it was not really a pneumonia. It was a little bit inflamed here (points to the breast).

D : Did the bronchitis start at the age of 17 or did you get it later?

P : Did you smoke at that time?

P : I smoked since I was 16 years old.

D : Did you smoke a lot?

P : Yes, more than one pack a day.

D : That's quite a lot.

P : When I do something I want to do it properly.

HP : Self-made cigarettes.

P : But that was at the end of the smoking period.

D : Did you really have a tendency to smoke?

P : Yes. I don't understand it at this moment, but I smoked quite a lot.

D : You really had pain during the sinusitis. Was it situated at the nose?

P : No, it was rather under my eyes.

D : Did you have the impression that it improved in the open air?

P : I got an obstructed nose especially when I came from outside inside.

D : In the warmth?

P : Yes.

D : Did your nose start running?

P : Yes.

D : But you didn't wake up at night?

P : Only when I had a very severe cold, because I couldn't get air anymore. But that happened only seldom.

D : Did you also have crusts in the nasal cavity?

P : No.

D : The bronchitis started when you were 21 years old. Did you suffer from it the whole year through?

P : Yes, except during the summer. Not from May until September.

Sometimes, I got a bronchitis in the summer, but it didn't last constantly.

D : With green expectoration?

P : Yes, from the nose.

D : Did you have fever at that moment?

P : I often had influenza.

D : What do you mean by influenza?

P : The doctor said it was influenza. Nauseous, headache, pain in the muscles, and I had to lie down in bed, because the fever was rather high.

D : Did you have to lie in bed for a few days?

P : A few days? A few weeks.

D : With high fever?

P : The fever was better after 4 or 5 days, but I couldn't get up.

D : You also said you got the beginning of a pneumonia. Did you really have a pneumonia in 1985?

P : I had taken antibiotics for quite a long time, but the cold didn't improve. I kept coughing. One day I got pain on the left side and decided to go back to the doctor, because they hadn't helped anything. At that time he told me that the virus resisted those kind of antibiotics. Then I got another antibiotic and afterwards it went away. I didn't have to go to the hospital, because I could rest at home.

D : But as a child you never had a pneumonia?

P : No.

D : Did, you have any childhood diseases as a child?

P : No, only colds, or influenza.

D : Have the tonsils been removed?

P : No.

D : Did you have any childhood diseases?

P : I don't remember. I have my vaccination card with me. I have been vaccinated for the diseases. I think I had measles, but I don't remember.

D : Did you get ill from the vaccinations?

There are some reasons why I did not give Carcinosinum the first time. Up to the age of 17 she was not often ill. With Carcinosinum you often see that there are quite a lot of diseases in children and mostly recurrent colds, and bronchitis. If you hear that in a child it points to Carcinosinum. But she did not have those diseases as a child. They only started when she was 17 years old. It become worse and worse. First, there was only a coryza, afterwards when she was 21 years old she had problems with the lungs. It was not really a pneumonia. That is also a question you have to ask for. If there is a pneumonia in the history of the patient you can think of Carcinosinum, but only when they had a pneumonia during the first two years of their life. Carcinosinum is also interesting concerning the childhood diseases. First, a lot of Carcinosinum patients did not have childhood diseases as a child. If you have a patient with frequent colds, no childhood diseases you can think of Carcinosinum. Another possibility is that they may have childhood diseases when they are older, for example, when they are 13 or 14 years old or even older. They get mumps or measles at that age. That is strange. If you have this combination you can think of Carcinosinum.

D : As a child you were seldom ill?

P : Yes.

D : No fever?

P : No.

D : It started when you were 17 years old?

P : Yes, about that age.

D : Did the tiredness start at the age of 17 or did it start later with the bronchitis?

P : It started later.

D : But you took quite a lot of antibiotics at that time? How often each year?

P : As often as I got a cold. About 2 or 3 times during one winter and usually it was more than one course. Sometimes it happened that I took 2 or 3 courses, but it didn't help. Then I went back to the doctor. I had to start again, and it improved very little, But it wasn't gone yet. When I relapsed I went back to the doctor. I constantly had a cold.

D : At what time did you start to become tired?

P : When I was 24 or 25 years old. We were married for about 2 years.

D : Can you tell me something about the tiredness? Were you tired during the day or in the evening?

P : I can hardly remember it.

D : You also started to loose weight?

P : Yes, when I had been ill, I always lost 5 or 6 kilos. I gained them again during the months I was better. But when I became ill I lost them again within 3 or 4 days.

D : Did you eat anything at that time?

P : No, not when I had influenza. Well, I ate something, but very, very little. It didn't taste at all.

Until now it is not typical a Carcinosinum case. Are there remedies you are thinking of?

D : You were suffering quite a long time from migraines, once a week or once a month. Can you remember where you had pain?

P : At the forehead, sometimes it extended to the back. It was a pulsating pain.

D : Could you do anything, or did you have to lie down?

P : I was very ill. My husband didn't know what to do with me during those fits of migraine. I am a pretty strong woman. Even when we had painted something and I got the influenza I was still cleaning the house as long as I could.

Nothing helped at that moment, not even lying down, or walking, nothing.

D : Could you bear noise during the headache?

P : No.

D : Light?

P : No. I couldn't bear it, but it didn't help either.

D : Were you sensitive to smell of food?

P : No.

D : Did you have to vomit during the headache?

P : Yes, for hours. After I had vomited, it was better.

D : What did you have to vomit?

P : Bile, greenish.

D : Did the headache appear suddenly?

P : Yes, suddenly. For example, I worked the whole day and suddenly at 4:00 o'clock it appeared and it became very strong and then one hour later I didn't know what to do.

D : Did you take pills for it?

P : Yes. But they didn't help.

D : What kind of pills did you take?

P : Aspro, aspegic, sedergine, salicylic acid, not only one tablet, but three or four tablets, but they didn't help anything.

D : Did it disappear slowly or suddenly?

P : No, after I had vomited it was gone. But afterwards I was very tired.

D : At the moment you got a headache?

P : No, after I had vomited.

D : For the rest of the day? Or also the next day?

P : Also the next day, even when I slept that night.

D : If you had headache and you went to bed did the headache improve?

P : I couldn't sleep.

D : Sleep didn't improve?

P : I couldn't sleep. For hours and hours I didn't know where to sit or to lie, and I couldn't sleep.

D : Your vision was less at that moment. Was your vision blurred during the headache.

P : Yes, blurred. And I also felt dizzy.

D : Did you ever try cold applications?

P : yes, my husband did.

HP : I held a piece of cloth under the water-tap and let the water run for several minutes so that the water was icy cold, but it didn't help anything.

D : What about pressing?

P : It didn't help.

D : At certain times you started crying?

P : I could do something bad at that time. I am still afraid I might get those migraines back.

D : You didn't feel beforehand that a headache was coming?

P : No.

D : It came suddenly?

P : Yes.

D : During the day or in the evening?

P : Usually, in the evening. Well, in fact in the late afternoon.

D : And how long did it last then?

P : Until 12:20 o'clock, 1:00 o'clock. Sometimes even later, very late in the night.

D : Did the headache improve if you could urinate? Did you notice that you had to urinate frequently?

P : Yes, I had, but it didn't help. Also when I vomited, I had to get out of bed 2 or 3 times afterwards, I never noticed it, but it is true.

D : These were your main complaints when you came here at the beginning.

First, I want to know something more about your sleep. It was remarkable that you slept very deeply. Do you need quite a lot of sleep?

P : Yes, I think so.

D : How many hours do you need?

P : Minimum 8 hours. If it happens that I can only sleep 6 or 7 hours for two days in a row, I feel it immediately. I need 8 hours sleep.

D : Are you a person who likes to go to bed early?

P : It's impossible for me to go to bed.

That is one of the main points of Carcinosinum. They are better in the evening. They do not like to go to bed early. In the evening they feel well and they want to live.

D : Does this only occur the last years, or did you have this as a child?

P : I don't think so. As a child I had a very regular life. I went to a boarding school and the light had to be switched off at 10:00 o'clock. We had to go to bed. But now, it is very difficult for me to go to bed early.

HP : Also when you were a student you could stay up for one day, one night and another day after each other. You didn't have a regular life at that time either.

D : Without problems?

P : Well, not worth mentioning problems;

d : You still like to stay up late in the evening?

P : Yes.

D : If you go to bed do you easily fall asleep?

P : Yes.

D : No problems? And previously?

P : No.

D : Now do you feel in the morning?

P : The last years I wake up refreshed when I went to bed early. But previously, I was always tired. If I slept from 11:00 o'clock in the evening until 11:00 o'clock in the morning I was tired.

D : Previously, did you feel better if you slept long in the morning?

P : No. It didn't help.

D : Did you feel worse?

P : No, not worse. As tired.

D : At night you didn't wake up from the noise, because you slept very deeply. You slept on the right side. Is this still so?

P : Yes.

D : Do you still talk during your sleep?

HP : It is less.

D : Also starting and screaming during the sleep?

P : Yes, I often dreamt of spiders. But it is over now.

D : Did you dream of other things, except of spiders?

P : Yes, about my work. I was always occupied. I was always thinking. I had to do this and that. Also when I studied something, I kept repeating it during my sleep.

D : So, what you studied during the day you repeated at night?

P : Yes.

D : Concerning your work, did you dream about things you did during the day or did you dream about things of the next day?

P : No, of the next day.

D : Did you have anxious dreams,

P : Only about the spiders.

D : Not about other things?

P : No.

D : Did you have anxious dreams about your work?

P : Yes. I was worried I couldn't finish my work, or that I couldn't do it properly, or that I would forget some things. Sometimes I could repeat 10 times what I had to do.

That is another big point of Carcinosinum, anxious during the nights. There is a lot of anticipation in Carcinosinum patients. It is a big remedy for anticipation.

P : I planned everything.

D : You are a person who plans everything?

P : Not everything, but very much.

D : Did you have dreams about spiders as a child or did they only occur the last years?

P : No, they only occur the last years.

D : But really nightmares?

P : Yes. It was so bad that I even started to scratch my husband. I was dreaming that I saw a spider. I called him to kill this spider. But he was teasing me, laughing at me and holding me but I wanted to run away.

D : Usually, you didn't wake up?

P : Yes, yes I did.

D : Were you in a panic?

P : Yes, I was really perspiring all over. Sometimes I thought the spider was in my bed. Suddenly, I realised that it was impossible, but at first I thought the spider was somewhere near me.

Foubister himself said this. You have to think of Carcinosinum in children who have nightmares. They wake up and they are afraid of something. They think there is something in the corner of the room. There are other remedies, but also think of Carcinosinum.

D : Are you still afraid when you see a spider?

P : Yes, but it is less. It is much better at the moment. Now, I grow my own nature-garden.

HP : Previously, it was out of the question.

P : Yes, it had to be a very sterile garden. I also think it is terrible that I'm afraid of spiders, because I love everything that lives. I see that everything has its own life. I will never kill those insects. I'm still afraid of big insects, not the little ones.

HP : She even puts little spiders outside.

D : You dare to put them outside?

P : Yes, the little ones. Although I am not that afraid of big spiders anymore. When I see a big spider I will wait until my husband comes home. Previously, I would call someone else.

You will notice this also later in the consultation, the sensitiveness to animals. She was afraid of spiders, but now she dares to put the little spiders outside. A lot of persons would sweep them away, but she does not. She is sensitive.

D : Are you afraid of other animals?

P : No.

D : Only of spiders?

P : Yes.

HP : Previously, your father said that they would never creep over you.

P ; Yes, my mother was very scared of spiders. In that respect I am exactly the same as my mother and one time I was sitting in a meadow and they were creeping all over me.

D : You have a very good appetite, don't you?

P : Yes.

D : You told me you could eat the whole day?

P : Yes. I still can.

D : Although you are not fat?

P : No, previously, I ate from the morning until the evening and everything mixed up, chips, chocolate, breads of butter, warm meals and so on.

D : Do you mean as a child?

P : Yes, when I was about 14 years old, as far as I know. But I think I always ate very much. For example, my nephew and I did a contest on eating the most croquettes.

D : And you could bear all the food?

P : Yes.

D : When you are eating it is difficult for you to stop?

P : Yes, I can't.

D : You keep on eating?

P : Yes.

D : When do you have a big appetite?

P : Especially in the evening in the morning I ate very little.

Particularly, when I finished work. Now, it is better.

HP : She eats less sweets at the moment. Now she can put the box of cookies aside, which was impossible previously.

P : I can have off the cookies and sweets, but not the meals.

D : Do you eat your warm meals in the evening?

P : No, we eat very irregularly.

D : You had a very great need for sweets. Was it a particular kind of sweet?

HP : All kinds of sweets.

P : And chocolate.

The biggest desire of Carcinosinum is chocolate. They also like all kinds of sweets. It is important.

D : Are there other tastes you like?

P : Bread.

D : White, dark, cereals bread?

P : All kinds of bread. It may be dark bread, or whole meat bread or cereals bread. I also like meat.

HP : Lately, you like to eat more natural things.

P : Yes, I changed quite a lot. Especially, concerning that level.

D : Also meat?

P : Yes, previously.

D : Now you eat it less, because you think of your health?

Another desire is meat and fat, fat meat, bacon. That is important, for example in children, they like to eat fat bacon. You give Tuberculinum or Calcarea phosphorica, but there is also Carcinosinum.

P : Yes, I changed quite a lot. But it is not so much for my health, otherwise I would have done it previously, but because I love animals a lot, and I think we all eat too much meat. I eat meat, but much less than previously.

D : Especially bacon?

P : Yes, bacon and cutlets.

D : All kinds of fat meat?

P : Yes, I prefer that to beefsteak. I also like minced meat.

D : Chicken?

P : Not particularly.

D : Also gravy?

P : Yes.

D : Mayonnaise?

P : Yes. But I don't taken it anymore.

D : Do you like other tastes?

P : No, especially the sweet things.

D : Highly seasoned food?

P : Yes. And I still eat that.

D : Salt.

P : Yes, but rather highly seasoned.

"Highly seasoned food" is also Carcinosinum. That is from Pasquero. But they also like salt. There are a lot of desires and aversions in Carcinosinum. You must be careful in prescribing on desires, because you can give Carcinosinum in every patient, only by asking his desires and aversions.

P : Highly seasoned things.

D : What about sour things?

P : Also. When I open a pot of gherkins I will eat it until it is empty.

D : There were also a lot of things that you don't like, for example fruit?

P : No.

D : Is it still so?

P : Yes, I eat my three pieces of fruit a day, because I have to.

D : Otherwise you wouldn't eat it?

P : Yes, but the fruit ahs to be sweet, like bananas or a sweet apple, grapes, or kiwi. But not an orange.

Well, this is not a real aversion. But you have to add Carcinosinum in the rubric "aversion fruit".

D : Vegetables?

P : Previously, I hardly ate vegetables, and when I ate them they had to be boiled. Now, we changed to uncooked food.

D : Soup?

P : Yes, I still like that. But previously, we had soup with meat and potatoes, like my grandmother. At the moment I only cook soup with vegetables. And I like it as much as previously

D : Did you like soup previously?

P : Yes.

D : Very much?

P : Yes.

Together with another homoeopath of Belgium, Philip Degroote, we found out that Carcinosinum patients like soup. He also had two patients with this desire for soup. We started looking and now we have more patients with the desire of soup. We can not add it yet, but we have seen it in a lot of patients. We gave Carcinosinum to some patients and there was a desire soup, but we have not yet prescribed Carcinosinum for so many years. Therefore we do not known if they will stay Carcinosinum. You still have to be careful about that, but think about it.

D : It is strange, because you said you didn't like roast meat?

P : But I always liked soup.

D : You don't like beer so much, but rather wine?

P : Yes.

D : Can you bear it easily?

P : Yes.

D : No problem?

P : Well, yes like everybody.

"Desire alcoholic drinks" is Carcinosinum. That is a big rubric of course.

P : If you would empty two bottles of wine you don't know where you are. I also drink some pints of beer when we go out.

D : Do you drink beer because of the company, or because you really like it?

P : I only drink beer when we go out, because everybody drinks it, as a kind of social drink.

D : Not for the taste?

P : No. When we are at home in the evening, I would rather drink wine.

D : No problem with the digestion?

P : No.

D : What about the stool?

P : It is much better than previously. But I think because I changed my food habit.

HP : But you had some problems with your stomach?

P : Previously, yes.

D : Concerning your character it was a problem because you were so tense. Can you tell something more about it. You didn't feel very well?

P : No, if someone asked me something it was too much, everybody got in my way, I mean my husband, because there was nobody else.

HP : When the slightest thing went wrong, it was a disaster.

P : I couldn't bear anything.

D : You planned everything beforehand, today I will do this and that and when something went wrong, it was a disaster?

P : I mean also trivial things like the bell of the front door, or when I dropped something. For me it was a drama.

D : What happened then? Were you angry or sad?

P : It depended. First I became angry, furious. I started to throw with things.

D : Furious? Were you angry at your husband or at yourself?

P : I was grumbling, and throwing things, and angry and I kept saying, "It is always me, and it is always the same and so on..."

D : At what age did the irritability start? When you were 16 or 17 years old?

P : No.

D : As student?

P : No.

D : When you were married?

P : Since I was home

D : You didn't like to do your job.

P : No.

D : What kind of work did you do?

P : Secretary and accountancy. I have always been an accountancy secretary.

D : Was there a bad atmosphere? Or didn't you like the job at al?

P : It was a very small factory, and I had to work very, very hard, making extra hours, taking quite a lot of responsibility, because the boss was always away. I think it was because of the accountancy, it had to be precise. I thought it was senseless, but I did it very perfectly, i did everything very well. I can't say that I did not like my job, only I think I didn't know it at that moment. I think I had to do it and so I did.

D : Was the job monotonous?

P : I don't think so, because I was very busy. I could use my languages very well, because it was an import and export factory.

HP : But you were more occupied with the accountancy.

P : Yes, in fact, I did everything. Everything that had to do with administration.

D : But afterwards you didn't go to work again; Was it because you were not interested anymore?

P : No.

D : Or because you didn't find any hob you were interested in?

P : If I looked very well, I would have found a job.

HP : She applied a few times for a job and she had a good chance to get a job in a particular factory. They retained a few candidates and then she started to doubt, "Shall I accept the job or not?

P : Yes, always that doubt. I thought, "Oh yes, I will accept it, because it is only for half a year, or there is a good bus connection, or I will earn no much money." But on the other hand I thought, "But it is a long way, and I have to take the bus, and the dogs are alone at home, and what about my family life, maybe it will be the same as before and so on". And then I didn't take the job. In fact, I could never make a decision. The decision was made by others. I asked my husband, "What shall I do?" He said, "You have to decide yourself, but if you see it that way, you don't have to go working."

I could never make a decision by myself. I let my husband decide for me.

D : You are not a kind of person who wants to have career?

P : No, not anymore.

D : You did previously?

P : Yes.

HP : she always wanted to be a man.

P : I still want. If I could come home, and all the housework is done, I will go working from tomorrow on.

D : You mean the problem is when you go working as a woman and you come home you still have to do your housework.

P : Yes, although he always helped e, even more than other men will do. But it is too much.

D : Is that the reason why you want to be a man?

P : Yes, I would like to help my wife.

D : It would be no problem if your husband stays at home and does the housework, so that you could go working and you don't have to do anything when you come home in the evening?

P : Yes. Although, I would never do that kind of work anymore. I will never accept a job in that direction.

D : Maybe in the future?

P : No, no, no, never that kind of work. I would like to have a job that interests me, for example, in nature, but not the kind or work I did previously.

D : Is it difficult for you to have a boss above you?

P : Yes, I am rather a boss myself.

D : You could hardly bear when they said something when you were at home?

P : I always had it my own way. I was not allowed to, but I always did.

D : You are also a little bit obstinate. When you had something in mind, did you do it that way?

P : Yes.

This is important. Carcinosinum people are known as sensitive people, sensitive children, but at the same time they can be very obstinate. It is the same in this case, she said, "I always did what I wanted to do". But on the other hand there was the big suppression. Her father was a very dictatorial man, and she was fearful of her father until she was married. She said, "I always did what I wanted to do", but it is not really true. She was a little bit suppressed by this very dictatorial father. She went to a boarding school until she was 18 years old man there they were also very dictatorial. It is important. That is also one of the things we know of Carcinosinum. If they are suppressed as a child, if they have a dictatorial father or mother, they can not show their feelings because they are so sensitive.

D : Were you also a boss at school?

P : No, not a boss, but I did my own will. I will not command other people. It is still so at home, for example, I plan things and I say to my husband, "We will do this and that and that". I don't think it is commanding other people, anyway, that's the way I feel it.

D : But what kind of child were you? You said you were a child who did his own will?

P : Yes.

D : Were you shy?

P : Yes. Very shy.

D : Although you did your own will?

P : Yes, I didn't like if somebody said to me, "We will do this or that".

D : You rather liked to play alone

P : Yes.

D : Until what age? You said you went to a boarding school.

P : Yes, I went to a boarding school at the age of 12.

D : Where you also shy there?

P : No. I liked company to do some nasty things.

D : In fact, you were not really the nice little girl?

P : No.

D : But not either the naughty girl?

P : No.

D : You were not a leader?

P : no.

D : Were you anxious as a child?

P : No.

D : It also appeared later?

P : Yes.

D : The first time you came here you told me something about the fear of accidents. Can you give me an example!

P : I don't like to drive a car, I still don't. If it is possible I will take the bicycle. I am afraid in the car, although we never had a severe accident.

D : You are afraid in the car?

P : Yes, I always keep an eye on everything what happens.

D : That is strange, although nothing ever happened?

P : Well yes, a very little car accident. But I already had it at that time. But i hated the journeys as a child. My parents went to Italy or Spain on holidays and I hated that. I can write a book about it.

D : What did you hate? Did you get ill in the car?

P : No, my sister did, but I didn't. But always something happened, for example, a blow out, a little crash, traffic jam, a thunderstorm.

D : You remember everything?

P : Yes, I do.

D : You don't like travelling?

P : I like to be somewhere, but I don't like the travelling. I like to go on holiday, but I don't like the travelling.

D : You are afraid something might happen?

P : Yes.

D : But you enjoy it when you are somewhere?

P : Oh yes.

D : When they would say, you may stay her for another fortnight, it is no problem for you?

P : No. Or if it could be like in science fiction films, so that you can beam over to somewhere. That would be ideal for me.

Also remarkable in Carcinosinum is the desire to travel, but it is not here. "Desire to travel" is really the desire to travel, but in this case the patient likes to be there, like with beaming up. They put you there, you don't have to travel.

D : You never had other anxieties, except for speaking engagements?

P : Yes, that's what I said at the beginning of the consultation, I am not going to deliver a lecture. I would like to talk, for example here, because I know you and my husband. I also would like to do it before a group which I don't known very well, but not when they put me there and say, "Now, you have to deliver a lecture".

D : Then you are nervous?

P : Yes.

D : Very nervous?

P : Yes, I start perspiring and stammering.

D : Previously, were you nervous before you had to do something, or when you had to go somewhere?

P : Not at the moment. But I was previously.

D : Was it bad? Did you have problems with the nerves?

P : When we went out?

D : No, when you had to go to a party or a lecture?

P : Oh yes. I was really reluctant to go. I still go, but I avoid it as much as possible. We decided together what I will do. What I don't like to do, I don't do. Previously, I thought I had to, but at the moment I think I don't have to and them I won't go.

D : You had a severe education at home?

P : Yes.

D : Very severe?

P : Yes, very severe.

D : Do you suffer from it?

P : No, I think it had to be that way. I don't suffer from it. In fact, I have never been rebellious against my father.

D : Because you didn't dare?

P : Yes, and also because I thought it was senseless. I tried it a few times, but it was really senseless.

D : Were you afraid of your father?

P : Yes.

D : Until what age were you afraid of your father.

P : Until I married.

D : Was it over when you were married?

P : In fact, not. At the moment I am not afraid of him anymore. But the first years I came here, I was afraid of him. I thought I did what I wanted, but in fact I did what they expected of me. I was working, I earned quite a lot of money, my house was tip top, I was always well dressed.

HP : At the moment she dare to say her idea.

This is also a point of Carcinosinum. Most of the children are not tidy, but if they are very tidy, it is a symptom. Also Carcinosinum can have that. you can add it in the rubric "conscientious about trifles". And there is another rubric "fastidious". We will talk about it later. One of the author says that they have to do everything perfectly, because it is expected of them. For example, her father expects she does it very well, and therefore she does. That is an explanation, but I myself am not so very sure about that explanation in general. Is that the reason why Carcinosinum is a perfectionist? I don't know.

HP : But at that moment she swallowed it and shut up.

D : Now, you dare to say your opinion.

P : Yes, there are still quite a lot of discussions, I don't mind very much if he gets angry. It's his problem.

D : Previously, you didn't dare to say your opinion to other people?

P : No, not easily.

D : You were shy, unsure?

P : I was always afraid I wouldn't be accepted. I never did something special.

D : Do you suffer from the talk of other people behind your back?

P : Yes, previously, I did.

D : Very much?

P : Yes, very much. I even cried because of that. We joined a football club for several years. Suddenly, I heard from the women that they found me a strange person, they didn't accept me, that I was talking about other things than they were. I thought it was not like that, but when I heard it I was a little bit shocked. But at the moment I don't mind at all, because I have nothing in common with these women.

D : Previously you thought, "I am wrong, I make mistakes".

P : Not that I was wrong, but maybe that I had different thoughts. At that time I thought it was very terrible, but not anymore. Now I have quite a lot of contacts with whom I have quite a lot of things in common.

D : Do you feel the need to see quite a lot of people?

P : No. I need people who can understand me, to whom I can talk.

D : When you go somewhere you have easily contact with other people?

P : Yes, it has never been a problem.

D : Not even with strangers?

P : No.

D : But you rather like to go along with people whom you know? Not with everybody.

P : Yes, in fact it doesn't interest me. I think it is terrible. At the moment I follow a course of environment, and nature co-ordination. But the group is different. I thought there would be only people who are concerned about nature, who are interested in the preservation of nature, but it seemed that there are people who have the purpose to find a job in that kind of direction. Then, I am a little bit disappointed. It is not so that I think I am a very good person. But I have problems with persons who think I am different.

D : You like nature very much?

P : Yes, at the moment. Previously, I always loved animals. Very much.

D : Also as a child?

P : Yes, also.

D : All kinds of animals?

P : Yes, except spiders.

Another symptom of Carcinosinum is the love for animals. IF you know a child that especially loves animals, but that is not so sympathetic towards other people, you can think of Carcinosinum. You can also think of Aethusa concerning this symptom, but Carcinosinum is also a remedy that has the love for animals. In this patient there is also some sympathy for other people.

D : Not only dogs and cats?

P : No, beetles, birds, and even worms. There were boys who were pretending they were eating them and then I got angry.

D : You never teased animals?

P : No.

D : You really did mind when other people did?

P : Yes, I was fighting for that.

D : You are very sensitive for animals, but less for people?

P : Apparently.

D : As a child when someone was teasing another child you would intervene?

P : No, regretfully, I would help tearing him.

D : But you defended animals because they were weaker. But are you a person who would go striking for them?

P : I will go to demonstrations, but I will not be in the front. I will devote myself to it and collect signatures and so on.

D : There are people who say they like nature, but who will do very little for it. But you will do something for it.

P : Yes, I spend all my free time for it, and I have quite a lot of free time.

D : You really like nature?

P : Yes.

D : Do you also like to watch it on television?

P : Yes, documentaries of nature, reading books about nature. Something that I haven's done for years. I started reading books by myself.

D : You haven't read books for years?

Another symptom for Carcinosinum is a passion to read. A lot of children read, but now it is more a symptom, because all the children in Belgium are watching television or videos all the time. But if a child is reading real books, no comic strips or adventures, but all kinds of books, then think of Carcinosinum. Like this child, and we have seen it several times, even in summer during the holidays, they are sitting in the sun or under the tree and they are reading books the whole day, the whole week.

D : Did you read books as a child?

P : Yes, as a child I read quite a lot of books, like the books of Jules Verne.

D : Really romantic or fantastic things?

P : No, all kinds of books, detectives, criminals, novels, espionage, books about the war, or information books. Everything I could get, I read.

D : Also during the summer?

P : Yes, while lying in the sun.

D : Instead of going for a walk you were reading?

P : Yes, on the beach.

D : On your own?

P : Yes.

D : You were not a sportive child?

P : No. Not even now.

D : You did some fitness for a while?

P : Yes, I did. I thought I liked it very much. We persisted for quite a long time, for about 1 1/2 year. We did it twice a week. When I started doing it I would yawn, yawn, yawn and I was very tired afterwards. My husband said he felt well afterwards, but I was very tired.

D : When you were doing the fitness you didn't feel well?

P : No. I was yawning.

HP : As soon as she did some warming ups she started yawning.

D : You are not interested in sport?

P : No, I don't think so.

D : Did you like contests previously, in school for example?

P : No. Although I joined them, because I was very well in running. The teacher in gymnastics asked me and therefore I joined the contest. Until I started smoking.

HP : She even ran a contest with 4 or 5 hamburgers in her stomach.

P : Yes, I was 16 years old. My friend made some sandwiches with hamburger, salad, ketchup and pickles. It tasted very well and I ate 5 of these sandwiches. Then I had to run 1300 metres and I ended up in the eleventh position.

D : So you were a person with capacities.

It is important to notice that most Carcinosinum patients are not fat people, they are rather thin people, although they eat a lot. You can think of Tuberculinum and so on, but also of Carcinosinum. They eat quite a lot of fat things and they are thin. First, I thought Carcinosinum people were people who liked to do some sport, but now I have other ideas concerning that matter. I do not think they like sport. They do not like sport, they like to read, to listen music and dance, but not pursuing sports. But I want the confirmation of other homoeopaths concerning that matter.

D : Do you like music?

P : Not particularly.

Most Carcinosinum people like music.

P : When I am working and my husband puts on the radio I ask him to put on the headphone, because I think it is annoying, a noise.

D : You like it to be quiet in the house.

What about dancing?

P : Not particularly. Only in the very late hours, if we still have some courage, then we are doing very well. I will never do the first dance.

HP : We have followed a dance course for a few years. We didn't know how to dance and therefore we wanted to learn it.

D : You didn't like it very much. You didn't go to the dance course with pleasure?

P : No, we did so many things at that time. I thought it had to be like that. I have been educated in the army, we had to go to parties very often and I couldn't dance and therefore I wanted to learn it.

D : But you never liked it very much?

P : Bo, I won't go back there again.

Most of Carcinosinum patients like to dance.

D : You also said you were sensitive to violence. Is this towards animals or towards other things?

P : Towards everything. I think it is terrible. I can't bear it.

D : Is it only the news on the television?

P : Only the real life. For example, they may behead 50 people or rape a woman, I don't mind. That is only film. But if I see it on the news I think it is very terrible. My husband says I better not watch the news.

D : How do you react?

P : I think it is horrible if you see that nobody does something about it. In fact, I get angry because nothing is going to happen to stop it. I can't do much about it myself.

D : You mean about the injustice?

P : Yes, and hunger. When I see it I become ill and angry. It is an injustice that there are people with an abundance of food, or who waste food.

D : But you will not do anything to join an action group?

P : Oh yes.

D : So you will not just sit and do nothing?

P : At the moment no, but previously I wouldn't have done anything.

D : Do you think you are sympathetic?

P : Only with my husband or with my brother, but very little with other people.

D : No other people?

P : For example, an aunt of mine has cancer and has an invalid child. She is in the hospital now. I think it is very terrible, but I will not do anything about it. I will not go there and help her.

D : But do you sympathize with her?

P : I often think of her.

D : If you see a beggar in the street, what do you do?

P : I will not pass him without giving some money.

D : You can't be indifferent to such a situation?

P : No.

D : If you are confronted with it do you feel something?

P : Yes. Let me put it this way, if I see something that touches me I will not be indifferent to it. I try to do something about it. But when I don't see it, I don't do anything about it. I know there is so much injustice in the world and there are so many invalids, but as long as I don't see it it is all right. But if tomorrow there would be a child before my door I will take it in my home. Also a dog, a cat, an old man, an invalid I would take care of them. My husband would have to resist it, because I would bite off more than I could chew.

D : You also did something for the sanctuary of animals?

P : You don't know it yet, we extended our family, we have a shepherd. One of the 60 animals of the sanctuary. If it depended on me I would have taken them all home.

So you see the love for animals. She was working in a sanctuary and now the sanctuary was closed and she would take all the animals with her.

D : Another point was the hurriedness.

P : Yes, it is better.

D : You couldn't sit still for one minute previously. You always had to be busy. Is it better now?

P : Yes. It was very strong. For example, when I had finished my work, I was doing something for the next day. Because the next day something else would happen. I was busy from the morning until the evening. I don't know what I was doing the whole day.

D : It was worse before your menstruation?

P : Yes.

D : So, active. Also more irritable?

P : No, I had quite a lot of energy. I don't have it anymore. It is better at the moment. Sometimes I am surprised I have my menstruation. Previously, I knew very well I would get it. I might have become more quiet in all these things.

D : Another point was your bad memory? What about it? Is it better or not?

P : No, I still have my little booklet. But I only write down things like going to the supermarket to bring this and that, hang out the washing, but I don't have to write down that I have to go to the course.

D : You also had difficulties in remembering names of people?

P : I still have. I think it is not important. Even when I think I have to remember that name I will forget it.

D : Do you still have periods you are weeping and feeling sad,

P : That was quite a long time ago. I can't explain it. In fact, it is unbelievable. I don't have headache anymore, I don't have colds, I am not tired anymore, I feel like doing so many things. And I really do many things. Previously, I also felt like doing many things, but I didn't do anything I am not sad anymore.

D : Previously, when you were sad, did you have to be alone?

P : Yes, on my own. I wanted to be left alone.

With Carcinosinum you have "consolation aggr." But you can also have "consolation amel.". It is important. You can have the two.

D : Did you have to weep quite a long time?

P : In fact, not. I wept, and then it was over. And I sat somewhere.

D : When you were angry, could it last for quite a long time?

P : Yes. Rather a long time.

D : It wasn't over after a few hours?

P : Oh yes. In fact I didn't sulk. I never did. Well, I was grumbling, holding a litany of woes, and so on. And then it was over. The next day I regretted it very much.

D : The next day you regretted. Could you take the first step?

P : Yes, I could. I had to because I kicked my dog very hard. I became very ill because of that.

D : You could get very angry at your dog. Why? Because he did something wrong?

P : yes, because he was barking. I already told him 10 times he had to be quiet, that was too much for me. Then something else went wrong and so I started grumbling at my dog.

D : Was it because of the barking?

P : No, in fact I didn't know. That was too much for me. Then I was exploding. Also at my husband.

It is very important, she could be very angry at her dog and beat him almost to death. That's another thing of Carcinosinum. You have contradictory symptoms. You have to add it in the rubric "contradictory and alternating symptoms".

D : Could you also be so furious with other people?

P : No, only with my husband.

D : Somewhere else you were a nice girl.

She could be very spiteful against her husband, not outside of the family. I also have the impression that Carcinosinum people are not so spiteful people, like this woman she could be spiteful in her family, especially against her husband. She has no children, so we don't know about that, but also against her dog.

D : Romantic by nature?

P : Yes.

D : Can you also watch a romantic film, or is there too much kitch in it?

P : No, I don't care much about it.

D : Rather the romantic type than the realistic type?

P : But I can be very touched by a film.

HP : She can let her drag by a film.

D : Do you suffer from it afterwards?

P : No, only at that moment, but not afterwards. I will not remember films, or horrible films. Only at that moment I think it is terrible and I will sit up because of the tension. In fact, it's a relaxation for me.

The symptoms "horrible things affect her profoundly" is typical for Carcinosinum. But I think it is more the sensitiveness they have. Like here, she is very sensitive to romantic films and there is feeling in it. It must not always be the horrible things. I think they are sensitive to things in general.

D : Previously, you dreamt about your examination?

P : Yes.

D : Did it occur frequently?

P : Yes, it still does.

D : Do you have nightmares?

P : Yes. Always the fear that I can't do things. A kind of fear of failure, and I still have it at the moment.

D : Does it still appear?

P : I don't think it is so terrible. It is less than previously.

But it occurs sometimes.

D : You also had a dream about making love?

P : Yes, it also appears at the moment.

HP : Then I have a very agreeable night.

D : So, you also have pleasant dreams.

That is something I noticed in one patient, you known the symptom in children "disposition to masturbation" : Carcinosinum is one of the big remedies with Medorrhinum. Also in this case there was really an aversion to sex. Her husband couldn't touch her. It was terrible. She was dreaming about having sex with him. It is very strange. It goes to the subconscious and there is again the sexual thing. My impression is that most of Carcinosinum people are rather sexual; rather, not very strong. If the sex is not expressed you see masturbation, in this person it came in the dreams.

P : At the moment we don't have problems with it anymore. Previously, I was too tired for it.

D : You said you have a German shepherd, but you don't have children. Do you think you are too old for children now?

P : No, I don't think I am too old for them.

D : But you don't feel the need to have children of your own?

P : It is so difficult. There are so many invalids, and if I would like to have children of my own I would like to do it properly. And I thought I could not do it.

D : Because you didn't have time for it?

P : I didn't have the time for it. I was always too busy, my husband is nearly never at home because of his job. I wouldn't like to educate them by myself. I think you can't educate children perfectly.

D : No, you can't. Are you such a perfectionist?

P : Yes, I think so.

D : Everything has to be perfect with you?

P : Yes. That was very strong. And it still is.

HP : It is less than before. Now, she dares to leave the dust.

P : Yes, because I am occupied with the nature organisation and the bird sanctuary, then I don't have the time for it.

D : But if you were really a perfectionist, you would do it as well.

P : I still do. You may have a look in my house.

D : But not so strongly, as your husband says.

P : Previously, I was sweeping dust 10 times, even if there was no dust. I did it every week.

HP : Now, she sweeps the dust. Previously, she would have swept the dust four or five times, so that all the dust is gone. But now, she has become more relaxed. Now, she would take the floor cloth and clean only in the middle, but she has to wash the floor every day.

D : Previously, you told me that you liked the sun. Is it still the same?

P : It is, but lately I heard quite a lot about the ozone, now it is less, but I will sit in the warmth. I still like the warmth, it can't be too hot for me. I think the worst thing is the coldness. The sun doesn't have to shine, but it has to be warm, I don't like cold weather. I can't bear the coldness.

D : So you are really chilly?

P : Yes.

D : Do you have cold feet?

P : And cold hands.

D : Do you have a lot of problems with your teeth?

P : These are false teeth.

D : Since when do you have those teeth?

P : When I was 22 years old. We knew each other only shortly.

D : Were your teeth so bad?

P : If a mother went to the dentist with her children the way it had to be, well that was my mother. We were there every half a year for a check up, every cavity was filled up. But when I was 16 years old I already had 3 or 4 false teeth.

D : But as a child you also had quite a lot of problems?

P : Yes, I think so.

D : Do your nails break easily?

P : No.

D : Do you bite your nails?

P : At the sides.

D : What do you mean by "at the sides?"

P : The flesh. I don't bite my nails.

D : You mean, the little skins.

"Hangnails", Carcinosinum is an addition. They can also have "biting nails", you can also add it there, but they have more those hangnails, as the patient just told us.

D : Do you have moles?

P : No, here a little one on my knee. You can hardly see it. When I have a brown skin then it is a little bit darker.

D : Does it have a dark colour?

P : No, it's only a little bit darker.

D : Light brown, coffee colour.

P : No, coffee with milk.

She said it herself, coffee with milk. It is typical a Carcinosinum thing. But Foubister said you do not need that symptom to give Carcinosinum. He said that most of his patients did not have this "café au lait" moles, they don't have blue sclerae and he gave Carcinosinum with result. So you do not need this thing to give Carcinosinum.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : I think there was this conflict with her father, who was very dictatorial and she was afraid of him. She wanted to fight against him, but she could not. I think it was good that she was in that boarding school, so that she did not have a lot of contact with her father.

Question : Is 'making plans' a symptom for Carcinosinum?"

D : I do not know. But there is a strong anticipation. It is not really the same, but the idea is there.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : I do not know. She is the first patient I have who has this strong sense of responsibility about nature and injustice. I do not know if it is typical for Carcinosinum, but maybe we will see it in other cases. But I didn't add it.

Question : "Which were the first remedies you gave?"

D : The first remedies I gave in different potencies were Nux vomica and the second Sepia.

Question : "Is this love of nature typical for Carcinosinum?"

D : During the seminar it was confirmed that the love of nature is one of the big keynotes of Carcinosinum.

CASE3

Pain in left shoulder, inflammation in shoulder

Woman, 49 years old

Dr. smits tinus

Carcinosinum

Case

It is about a woman, born in 1940 She has three children.

D : What is the problem?

P : I have always pain in the left shoulder and I am very limited in movements. I can do very little. The last years I have constantly inflammations.

D : In the left shoulder?

P : Yes.

D : For how long have you suffered from the shoulder?

P : For about 12 years.

D : Has the pain always been in the left shoulder?

P : No. I also had pain in the right shoulder. It started in the right shoulder, then left, then again right and now in the left shoulder. In the right shoulder I don't have pain anymore since I had the chemotherapy. But at that moment I already had pain in the left shoulder, and the family doctor wanted to start with injections in the left shoulder. He already gave me injections in the right shoulder. But I didn't want it myself, because I am very against those injections. I think it is terrible, but he said that there was no other solution. I had very much pain. Something had to happen. Two days in a row he gave me injections in the right shoulder. Then he wanted to send me to the physiotherapist. I have been there for years and years. But it was a disaster. The pain came back a few hours after the therapy. Therefore I said something has to happen and he said, "Well, you can start with a chemotherapy." It is alright with the right shoulder, but on the left side the pain went on. I didn't suffer anymore from the right shoulder.

D : X-Rays have been taken of the shoulder and the neck?

P : Yes, the family doctor said that everything was all right, but I felt sure that something was wrong. As a child I always suffered from a stiff neck, it appeared at the most strange movements, so that I thought I got it because of a certain movement. But I didn't move at all at those moments. Then I thought it was because of the weather, but even in the middle of the summer I got a stiff neck. Then I went to another doctor. He saw on the X-rays that those vertebraes were not in the right place. He also told me that I had a car accident, but it was not true. Then he said, "After a few treatments I can tell you if I can help you or not". But in the meantime, I have been there for about 8 times. But it didn't help. The terrible pain remained. At the end I had to go back to the family doctor again. Then, I stopped that treatment.

D : The pain aggravated when you made a movement?

P : The pain was always there. One day the pain was less, but the other day it was so strong that I put two fingers in the shoulder, or I started knocking. That also decreased the pain. In fact, it became a habit to hold the shoulder. The children said, "Do you have pain again?" I wasn't conscious that I was doing that so often. When I was sitting behind my sewing machine (I am a sewing-woman by profession) I didn't have pain.

D : You also had trembles of the muscles?

P : Yes. It was a very funny feeling. Then it started to tremble very much and it went on for a while and then it went away. I also suffered quite much from twinkling fingers in my left hand and a numb feeling in the forefinger and the thumb and the tip of the finger, so that I didn't feel anything at all when I had to put a thread into the needle.

D : Theses are your complaints. Then, we analyze your character, your being. Can you tell the most important things?

P : I left quite insecure in many aspects. For example, I didn't dare to go somewhere with the car on my own, I didn't dare. My husband and my children didn't allow me to go alone with the car either, because they said it was too dangerous when I had to make a sudden movement. Also, when I sat next to my husband in the car I was always watching him and thinking, "Now, he has to brake". And I was braking as much as he did. The pain was quire a big handicap for me. Therefore, I did quite a lot of things in a very different way, and react very differently.

D : Are you a perfectionist by character?

P : Very much.

D : In everything, or only in your work, or in your household?

P : At the beginning when we were married, I was a perfectionist. But as soon as the children were born, I wasn't anymore. In my work I am also a perfectionist. I like it a little bit neat, but it is all right if there are a few things in the room.

The fastidiousness in Carcinosinum is very characteristic. They can be very fastidious in their work, what they make. But they can rather be untidy in their house, not arrange their affairs. But if it concerns something that expresses their personality, it must be perfect. It is not like Arsenicum. They must have all the things in their place. The Carcinosinum patient is doing something it must be perfect, while he has a great lack of confidence. If he makes something, it must be good, so that there is no reproach to make. I can't say that Carcinosinum-people are always well-dressed. There is not that kind of fastidiousness like in Arsenicum.

P : I always say, "If you do something, do it good, otherwise don't start it." Or stop halfway. Then I think try it another way.

D : Therefore you are a rather sensitive person.

P : At certain moments I get a nervous feeling in the abdomen and I can't explain where it comes from. At that moment I am very nervous. Then I feel that one of the members of the family will come with a problem. I don't know what is going to happen, but I have that feeling especially with the eldest. I know it very well, I have the same feeling with my husband and my youngest, but stronger with the eldest.

D : Do you also dream about things that haven't happen yet?

P : I do. Indeed, I had a dream which I couldn't get rid of, and I said to my husband, "Look, it was that kind of situation." Later that week, I heard it on the radio. I didn't think of it, unless someone else told me, "In fact you could have known that the color of the car, and so you know who owned the car." And I said, "No, that was such a funny color. We don't have a car in the family with such a colour. Then the car was parked outside under the lantern. I looked outside, and the car had that kind of colour because of the light.

P:This is the only case I found with prophetic dreams and clairvoyance. I don't know if Carcinosinum is characteristic for that.

D : Do you suffer from that?

P : Yes, it is only for a while. And I don't have the feeling I am really dizzy. I observe the surrounding very well.

D : What kind of feeling do you have?

P : Light, I don't have to sit down at all. It is very difficult to describe.

D : Can you tell me something about your appetite?

P : In the morning I eat very little. Often it happens that I don't eat at all in the morning when I get up, but only at 10 : o'clock. At noon, always 2 slices of whole-meal bread with a cup of chocolate milk or a cup of coffee or orange juice and in the evening usually a warm meal.

D : What do you like to eat very much?

P : Chinese and Indian, in fact highly seasoned food. I like it very much;

D : Do you like pepper?

P : Yes, less salt, but I like pepper. And quite a lot of spices, especially fresh, but if there are no fresh spices, dried spices.

D : Do you react to the sea?

P : I like it very much.

D : Does it do something to you?

P : Yes, I feel quite relaxed at the sea.

D : What does to nature do?

P : It also makes me relaxed. It doesn't matter what kind of season it is.

D : Do you really see things in the nature, do you enjoy a landscape or a flower?

P : Yes.

D : When do you have the greatest energy?

P : In the evening.

D : You are a real evening person?

P : Yes. I can do my work in the morning, I can start immediately in the morning, but I have the most energy in the evening. And my husband is a real morning person. So in the beginning of our marriage there were quite a lot of problems. In the meantime, it is all right. He needs more sleep than I do. He goes to bed earlier. If I don't feel like going to bed, it is all right for him, but it took quite a few years before we knew a solution for this problem.

D : Are you sympathetic? Do you sympathize with the suffer of other people, or do you keep a distance?

P : I am involved. But typical is that many persons come to me with a problem, and the strange thing is I only listen. Then I think, "Did I understand it well?" At the end they say, "Thanks for your advice", but then I think, "I didn't give any advice at all, because I can't give any advice at all.

D : If people appeal to you, how, do you react?

P : I am ready for them. Once it went too far. Since then, I am very aware about it and I try to say, "No" at certain moments. Because I already say, "Yes", before I realise myself what I say.

D : Do you like to be on time at your appointments?

P : I like to be in time, it might happen that I am late because of the circumstances, like a traffic jam, or when other things went wrong, but then I don't feel well at all.

D : Are you in a hurry when you have an appointment?

P : Sometimes I am, sometimes I am not. It depends.

D : Do you like fruit?

P : Yes.

D : What kind of fruit?

P : Usually, I eat apples.

D : What kind of apples?

P : Sweet sour apples.

D : A hard or a soft apple?

P : Not too hard, but also not too soft.

Until now, which remedy could you give? It is one of the remedies we have to consider for the alternating states.

Which other remedy do we have to consider?

Pepper, highly seasoned food.

Answer : Medorrhinum

D : Yes, only Medorrhinum is not known for the alternating side. She has a really clear alternation, the inflammation of the shoulder and pain started at one side, two years later at the other side, two years later the other side again. It changed four times. It is a good symptom.

We also have to consider Lac caninum and Medorrhinum also.

But we will see.

D : Do you like music?

P : Yes, I like the kind of music in your waiting room very much, I think it is a kind of music for sitting down and listen to it. I also like dancing music, and then it is very terrible if you have to sit down.

D : Do you like to dance?

P : Yes, very much.

D : Does the music affect you?

P : Yes.

D : Do you weep from music?

P : I don't do it, but I could.

D : You stop it?

P : Yes.

D : Do you like reading?

P : Yes, very much.

D : Do you read quite a lot?

P : Yes, if I have a chance to read, yes. I have to leave books, otherwise I will read them at once.

D : Do you like to travel?

P : Yes.

D : Do you like to travel a long distance, for example, Indonesia, if you could afford it?

P : Yes.

D : Did you travel quite a lot?

P : Not particularly a long distance. My mother was from Vienna, when the children were younger we went to Spain, Costa del sol, Ibiza, also Italy, Yugoslavia, England.

D : How is your sleep?

P : Different ways. Sometimes I can fall asleep very well, but sometimes I lay awake for half a night.

D : In general, are you a good or a bad sleeper?

P : When I fall asleep halfway the night and they don't wake me up, then I still lay in bed at 12:00 o'clock at noon. Then I can sleep very well. But not at certain moments.

D : How was it in the past? Were there periods that you slept very badly?

P : Yes. And that was always one week before the menstruation.

Then I slept very badly.

D : Why do you sleep so badly?

P : In fact, I don't feel sleepy. I go to bed, but I don't feel sleepy, I have to get up. Sometimes there were things wrongs with the children at school, then I went upstairs and when I was lying down I started thinking about that. Or I started thinking about a very simple problem, for example, sewing a dress or things like that, I was wondering how I would do this and so on. Also thinking about the sequence, what will I do first. Well, I was thinking about the most different things, or about an article I read in the paper, or something that happened at the course. I was also thinking about certain attitudes, how people would react in a certain situation. If someone reacted in a different way, I was thinking, "How is it possible?" At 4:00 o'clock, or half past five, I get out of bed and go downstairs to read. Usually, my husband wakes up and comes downstairs to look what is going on, but he has to get up early in the morning, then I think, "Well, I will stay in bed". When I fall asleep at five o'clock and I get up at 8:00 o'clock in the morning, then I don't suffer from it or think, "Well, now I slept too little".

D : Can you sleep during the day?

P : No, I will never do.

D : On what side do you sleep?

P : At the beginning on the right side, with drawn up knees, then I lay for a while on my back, and then I turn again on the right side.

D : So, especially on the right side?

P : Yes.

D : Are there things on television which you can't see?

P : yes, there are certain programs which I don't like, for example, I don't like pop-music at all. Consciously, I don't watch. There are some programmes which I detest, which hurt.

D : Can you see horror-films, or an operation?

P : Yes, very well.

D : How do you feel in a crowd?

P : Not well.

D : What kind of feeling do you have? An anxious feeling, or a restless feeling?

P : Rather restless. If there are too many people, I suffer from it.

D : No problems in taking an elevator?

P : I take the elevator when I am alone. But if there are other people in the elevator, I will not take the elevator. Then I take the stairs.

D : What scares you?

P : It is a very small place. All the people stand so close to you. I don't think, "What will happen if the elevator stops between the different floors?"

D : What about your menstruation?

P : Lately, it is very irregular. I went to the family doctor for it, and I said that it might have something to do with the menopause. Then he took a sample and he said, "No, it has nothing to do with the menopause."

D : How was the menstruation previously?

P : Precisely on time.

D : Did you have complaints before the menstruation?

P : No, except that I couldn't sleep.

D : No other complaints?

P : But I didn't suffer from the sleeplessness.

D : You were not irritable, or sad?

P : No.

D : Painful breast?

P : Yes. I suffered from it for quite a long time. Not anymore. That was every 28 days, and they came so precisely on time that I knew exactly when I would get the menstruation. But lately, I got it the 5th of September, it started very slowly, three or four days, the it came through the way I was used to, and in that way it went away again. But it lasted for 19 days. The next menstruation I got on October, 9. This time it lasted 11 days. It also happened that I got my menstruation at home, but when we went on holiday, I got it again after two or three days driving. Then we stayed for 3 weeks in Spain, and on the way back I got it again.

D : What about the sexual energy?

P : Very different.

D : How has it been in general? Do you really need sex or not?

P : It depends what you mean by "sex". If you mean "just making love", I like it, but not the coitus. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't.

D : What about diseases in the family?

P : My sister died at the age of 38 of Hodgkin's disease. Grandmother of father's side had a breast cancer. A brother of my father has diabetes. My sister used a certain medicine for the Hodgkin's disease and at the end she got a diabetes as well. Previously, I had an infection of the pancreas. Two brothers of me were very sensitive to bronchitis when they were little. My father has a kind of asthma and bladder cancer. My mother suffers very much from her shoulder. She can hardly lift her arm. Just before holidays she got a pacemaker, that is typical for my mother's side. They all suffer from their heart.

I forgot to say, she has blue sclerae. Now we will see the reaction.

D : On September 18, I gave you a remedy and tell me, how did you react.

P : Well, it was a miracle. I let the tablet melt under the tongue in the evening. The next day, by the noon, I realised I had pain in my shoulder, but at the moment I had pain I realised that I didn't suffer from it the whole forenoon. At that moment I thought, "That is impossible, such a quick reaction." The next day, on Thursday, it was exactly the same. I only felt the pain at four o'clock. Then, I wrote it down. The pain lasted for half an hour. That went on for four days. And then I was really without pain. And it is still so. Only in the morning it is a little bit stiff, because of sleeping in a certain position.

D : An you had pain for twelve years?

P : Yes.

D : What percent of the pain is gone?

P : I really don't fee anything. I must say, "The pain is gone, without doubt".

D : When you do a certain movement...

P : Yes, for example, when I do an unexpected movement, when I am busy and very hurried, and when I want to open the door, and miss the door-handle then I get a certain hit in my shoulder, then I have pain again. Also when the safety-belt in a car is struck and I pull again, then I get the blow also in my shoulder.

D : Further you don't have the constant pain anymore?

P : No. I was used to iron with my right hand, and then I had to switch over a few times to the left hand, but last week when I was ironing I was astonished that I ironed with my right hand the whole time.

D : You couldn't go shopping for quite a long time?

P : No, but I can at the moment.

D : And it went well?

P : Yes, I can't push the shopping car, because they are so heavy and so unmanageable, because the basket always want to go into another direction, and I couldn't manage it. My husband and my children went shopping. A fortnight ago I though by myself, "Well, it's time I go shopping again and I will try." And it was no problem. I am really enthusiastic.

Question : "..." (not understandable)

D : Yes, I think it is a good Carcinosinum symptom, affectionate. She needs affection. They are rather communicative. I also have one patient who is very loquacious. I think they like communicating and have a good contact with people. There is something I want to say about the thirst of Carcinosinum. In a lot of papers you read about the thirst, or cold drinks, I can't say it is typical for Carcinosinum. I have some patients who are completely thirstless and other who are very thirsty. Some people like cold drinks, some like warm drinks. I do not think it is a very good symptom for Carcinosinum.

Question : "..." (not understandable)

D : I do not know. I did not ask so much about the love of nature. I always ask if they see things in nature, for example, if they see the flowers, the insects. In children it is very typical they play with insects. They seek for worms, and flies and put them in bottles and so on.

CASE4

Complaints after vaccination

Boy, 6 years old

Dr. smits tinus

Carcinosinum

Case

This case is about a boy, born in 1983. I perspired quite a lot before I found the remedy. The mother almost phoned me every week. After 1 year, I gave Carcinosinum, and for three months she did not phone me.

D : How did he react to the remedy?

MP : He got a fever. He had a fever at that moment, but the next day it was more than 39°.

D : Can you describe his behaviour more precisely?

MP : Suddenly, he started to kick and to bite.

D : When did he do that?

MP : After disappointments.

D : When you forbid him to do something?

MP : Yes.

D : He could really scorn?

MP : Yes, terrible. And more than that. I don't know where he got it from, I don't know. Sometimes it was without a reason. It was for a very little thing.

D : Then, he spoke a language that you were ashamed of.

MP : Yes.

D : In my report I wrote down : he is very short tempered, can't tolerate anything or very little, and becomes angry immediately, beating, kicking, sometimes even biting. He doesn't tolerate contradiction. He was also anxious.

MP : Yes, regularly very terrible.

D : How do you mean?

MP : He got in a panic. He is very anxious from construction machines. He really gets in a panic. Also for motors, hard noise. Or noises that he didn't recognise. In the evening he woke up and was wet all over because of the perspiration.

At a certain moment he threw his bears and lovables out of bed. He took the sheets and the covers from his bed. He wouldn't listen at such moments, everything had to come off his bed. He was very furious.

D : It became stronger after Tuberculinum?

MP : Yes.

D : In June he got Carcinosinum?

MP : No, in April, 25.

D : Oh yes. It was notable that the white of the eyes was very blue. He did not react to Tuberculinum, Phosphorus, Belladonna, although the violence in his behaviour was very characteristic. Did he also scream in hi sleep?

MP : Yes, he did. He was half asleep. He woke up weeping. But according to us he was only half awake. He was screaming.

D : What about his behaviour at school. He did not function the way other boys behave.

MP : No, he was very closed, very retired. He did not play in the playground, he just stood aside, because they pushed him down and they hurt him very much. So, he thought, that won't happen a second time.

D : Afraid of pain?

MP : I don't know if he is afraid of pain. Because sometimes I think, it hurts very much, but it doesn't affect him at all. I think rather inner pain. I also think, disappointing, not belonging to the group, he found himself excluded. It will not always be like that, but he feels it.

D : Was he the black scapegoat at school?

MP : With the teacher, not with the children.

I don't know how it is at the moment with the next teacher, I think it is a bit better. But I think he felt it that way. Maybe it was not so strong as he thought, but...

D : He could go on talking about things of the past?

MP : Yes, he remembered them very well, he couldn't let them go. Things that have happened, he kept them in his memory. Because they happened that way. Then he closed himself, he did not loose anything.

D : During the year we treated him, he became more and more closed. The problems with his behaviour became stronger.

MP : Yes.

D : How did he react to television?

MP : He watches television very little, but the moments he watches television, he could be very sympathetic.

D : Is he sympathetic by nature?

MP : Yes, I think so.

D : For example, when another child weeps?

MP : Yes, then he goes to console them. If the child doesn't want it, then he just simply stays with the child. One child wants to be touched, the other child doesn't want to be touched. But then he says, "I will just stay with him". I think he also wants it this way. But, he also does it with other children. He can hardly bare if other children are sad.

D : What about other things on television, not sympathetic things, but exciting things, things that impress a person?

MP : In fact, he doesn't watch them, because we don't watch television either.

D : Could he suffer from it, when he watched television?

MP : No, I don't think so. But if things happened at a certain moment and they were not explained to him, he could suffer from them at night. At the moment that he could express them, when things were explained, when thing were worked out, then he wouldn't suffer anymore. But at the moment it was very strong.

He never watches television alone. One of us is always watching together with him.

D : Is he a perfectionist?

MP : Yes.

D : How do you mean?

MP : If he does something, it has to be precisely. I don't mean everything has to lie very precisely on his table, but when he does a work, it has to be finished precisely. If it doesn't succeed he might get angry.

D : What is his relation to nature?

MP : There is a strong relationship. He likes it very much. He can also enjoy it. In fact, he sees everything, lying on the grass, watching the sky, he likes it very much.

D : What about insects?

MP : He likes them very much. He watches everything very closely

D : What about animals?

MP : He also likes them very much.

Also cuddling with the cat and other animals. In fact, he likes them all.

D : What about reading for him?

MP : He likes it very much.

D : You also said, "We have the impression that he doesn't do some things because he is afraid he can't do those things?"

MP : Yes, afraid that he can't do things properly. But it is less. In fact, it is not remarkable anymore. But indeed, that's true. Afraid he would do things wrong, a kind of anxiety of failure. But it is gone.

D : Yes, he doesn't have it anymore, but he had it previously. Is he easily offended?

MP : Yes, previously also. He was affected by the slightest thing.

D : He was very hot-tempered?

MP : Yes.

D : What about his appetite?

MP : Previously, very bad. When I regard it over a period from September the previous year until April, it was really bad. He didn't eat much at all. Sometimes, I thought, his appetite is better again, but in fact he didn't eat much that period. But at the moment it is very good. Since Carcinosinum it became better gradually.

D : What did he like very much.

MP : Chocolate. But now also less. He likes it not so much as previously. Then he ate it very, very much, if he was allowed to, at least.

D : Are there other things he likes very much?

MP : No.

D : Did he like fat?

MP : No, well, whipped cream is also fat. He likes that very much and he still likes it.

D : Hearty things, like pepper, mustard?

MP : No.

D : Does he like eggs?

MP : Yes.

D : Fruit?

MP : Yes. He likes it as well.

D : In what position does he sleep?

MP : In all kinds of position.

Previously, often on his abdomen. After the Phosphorus he slept in a different way. He may lay on his side, on his abdomen.

D : On the left or the right side?

MP : When he falls asleep he lies on the left side, and also half on the right side.

D : Is he nauseous in the car?

MP : No, never.

D : How does he react to music?

MP : He always liked it. Since he got a middle ear infection, he discovered that he couldn't hear anymore. Not children's music, but classical music.

D : How does he react to excitements, for example, Saint Nicolas, Christmas and so on? Is he restless?

MP : It was always different. Last year, he expressed himself very little externally, but internally he is very excited. About that period he woke up at night, weeping, and said he had been dreaming. I think he was a little bit excited. Also for example, when he had his birthday last summer, he expressed it more. He is more lively, he expresses it, it doesn't to inside.

D : Do you think that he was restless before Carcinosinum?

MP : Sometimes, not always.

D : Does he like to be cuddled?

MP : Yes, he always did.

D : Is he pig-headed?

MP : Oh yes.

D : What about his concentration?

MP : Good.

D : No problems with his sleep?

MP : Only during the period he was ill. But not at the moment, and in fact not during the first four years of his life either.

D : Further, there is cancer in the family. On which side?

MP : On both sides. My mother, his father and his sister.

D : Have they died from cancer?

MP : My mother has. His father also. His sister not yet.

D : We gave the boy Carcinosinum, XM K in April. What happened?

MP : When he was taking it, I saw that something was changing. A few days later it went better. Then, we saw an improvement. A few weeks later he got the outburst.

D : Can you described the outburst?

MP : We were sitting at table. It was about a little thing, he started kicking and beating. He went off his chair, went to his father, because he said something, and then he came to me and the same happened to me. At a certain moment he had a breakdown, closed himself and started to cry very much. It lasted quite a long time, I didn't touch him, because I thought he might not accept it at that moment. At a certain moment he came out of the situation, he came to me and I put him on my lap and he started to cry again. I had the idea that there was quite a lot of things coming out.

D : How did it go afterwards?

MP : I had the impression that he let it loose, he let it come out of him. He expresses himself more. Previously, he closed himself and I saw that he was sad in some way. The tears wouldn't come, because he closed himself. Since then, he expresses himself very well. If there is something wrong, the tears come out, he can still beat, but it is different. That is in fact since the Carcinosinum.

D : Afterwards, did he get another kind of outburst?

MP : Yes, but not so strong. Even during holiday, everything came out, and he started crying. But not since July.

D : So, there is quite a difference in his behaviour?

MP : Yes, really. He can do much more, he is more lively, cheerful. Previously, he couldn't. He expresses himself much more.

D : Before the Carcinosinum he was not really cheerful?

MP : No, there might be a day, that he is better But no really.

D : Did you have the impression that he was dissatisfied?

MP : He was not happy. There was something wrong with him. And he didn't express it.

D : Do you have the impression that he is the kind of person he has to be at the moment?

MP : Yes. At the moment he is nearly the same as we knew him the first four years, the way he really is or dares to be. He is more open towards people. He is more spontaneous. It might happen that he has some difficult periods, but in general he moves freely. He doesn't walk in a hunched way anymore over the playground. He goes in every corner. Now, he jumps and goes around.

D : He doesn't sit in a corner anymore as before?

MP : No. Now, he can play again. He is still in the same school, but it is another teacher. For two years he had a nursery teacher. According to us, he couldn't get along with her. Now he has another teacher, she is different. She is positive, let the child be a child, give it the freedom it needs.

D : But further he hasn't been ill the last time?

MP : No, only in June he was ill. He didn't get a remedy for that. He remained ill, and then I phoned you. You advised me to give him Echinaforce and he recovered rather quickly. Afterwards he went well without being sick anymore. Before he was constantly ill, also that coughing. He started coughing. He coughed before, but it aggravated. The second day of the holidays he didn't cough anymore. Since then he didn't cough anymore. It went away spontaneously.

D : Now, the problem is solved.

The problem with this boy started in August 1987 after a vaccination on DITEPER (diphtheria, tetanus, polio) and mumps, measles, rubella. At the same time in one arm DITEPER and in the other arm MMR. Then he became sick.

CASE5

Cancer in family history

Dr. degroote philip

Carcinosinum

Case

Carcinosinum is an interesting remedy. What I will tell you is pure practice, but also some reflection about my experience within the practice.

Carcinosinum is a nosode. The morning of a nosode is, that it comes from a pathological tissue of a human being or an animal organism. On the other hand we have quite a lot of remedies which are from animals or people, and we call it a "sarcode". This means "a healthy relevant of a healthy animal or person". For example, Calcarea carbonica. Lac caninum, Lachesis and many others are pieces of healthy, living organisms.

I will tell you, in fact, Carcinosinum is better known since 1950, because of doctor Donald Foubister and Doctor L. Templeton who have made a study of it. Before them there was only Kent, Burnett and Clarke who have experiences with this remedy. It is a very special remedy for us, because approximately all the symptoms we have are clinical symptoms.

Everyone received an extraction of Carcinosinum and we will see, if there is a "T" after the symptom it comes from "Templeton". Templeton has made the real provings of Carcinosinum, but you will see all the other symptoms which are not followed by "T" are real clinical symptoms. It means that they are coming from the clinic. If there is a "F", it comes from "Foubister", it is a symptom of a child hat has had the influence of Carcinosinum during pregnancy because the mother was suffering from cancer, or a symptom of one of his clinical cases.

We must conclude that most of the symptoms are clinical and not so much are from the pathogenesis. That is something we are not used to in Homeopathy because normally most of the symptoms come from the pathogenesis.

It was Foubister who came on the idea to have more information about Carcinosinum, because among his patients he had some children whose mother suffered from cancer during pregnancy. He recognised some features in those children. I will tell you which those remarkable features were. They will have blue sclerotics, a café au lait complexion, and numerous moles. Much of them suffered from insomnia. This was the beginning of the idea. It is curious, such a child whose mother died from cancer during pregnancy and he was looking in his practice to find not he same children, but to find children or people who have the same appearance of the children whose mother were suffering from cancer during pregnancy and he gave the remedy Carcinosinum. He was stupefied by the good result he had. Afterwards he had quite a lot of cases with a good result with Carcinosinum and he was looking what was behind. And so he came to the family story of people who need Carcinosinum and he saw that in the family history there was cancer or leukemia, or tuberculosis, pernicious anaemia.

Among my patients I have a case of such a child whose mother has had a real bad cancer during pregnancy and died after-wards. I will show you this video first, because it is very interesting to see what Foubister saw and there are very much symptoms in the child which are Carcinosinum symptoms and a lot of them are new. I recognised some of them immediately in other Carcinosinum patients. Therefore I think it is interesting to see.

D : When were you born?

P : On May 11, 1977.

D : At the moment you were born, there was something special, namely, your mother was severely ill. Your mother was born in 1939. In fact, she was 38 years old when you were born. At that time she lived with your father in the South of France, but because she was ill, she went on holiday in Belgium and in the hospital they diagnosed that there was a severe calcification of the bones, another doctor said that there was a cancer of the bones, disseminated everywhere. The definite diagnosis was put in February 1977. That was three months before you were born. The disease developed rather quickly, the last months of the pregnancy your mother suffered quite a lot from liquid in the stomach, which has to be extracted every day or every two days with a trycard, for the pain she got morphine. At the end of the pregnancy they decided to do a Ceasar delivery and that was about two weeks before the normal delivery date, because there was very little movements of you in the abdomen or your mother. Then they intervened very quickly, and they were astonished that they saw a boy of 3 kilo. That was a very nice birth-weight. Afterwards, you have been raised with the bottle. You didn't get breast-feeding. Your mother died of her disease when you were 3 months old. The first year you were raised by your father and an aunt. When you father remarried one year later, you were taken in by a normal family, and now you have a brother who is two years younger than you are. You are twelve years old and your brother is ten years old. The first years there were no particular things concerning your health.

FP : He was very healthy.

D : He was very healthy, he was not a nuisance, he was rather an easy boy. He didn't have particular problems, he slept well, he ate well, he was agreeable, lovable. He got his teeth at a normal age. He started talking at a normal age, not too early, not too late.

D : When did he start walking?

FP : About 1 year.

D : It was remarkable that for quite a long time he had very little hair at the occiput. Could you show it? (The patient shows it on the video) Until he was seven years old it was very clear to see that he had very little hair, now you don't see anything of it, but he has very thin hair.

No particular childhood diseases when he was little, but he had the chicken pox when he was four years old and he got the measles two years ago, when his brother had the measles. In fact, he is a very normal child. In the family of the father there are no characteristics, except that the mother was asthmatic and the father died of a heart attack. How old was he then?

FP : About 70 years old.

D : The mother of Pascal died at the age of 38. Her mother also died very early, but we don't know the exact reason. The grandfather was 80 years old when he died.

FP : And very strong.

D : The mother of Pascal was the fourteenth of fifteen children. That was a very big family. She was almost the youngest. Nearly all the other brothers and sisters are still alive, except a brother who died at the age of 20 because of tuberculosis. What is characteristic for your son?

FP : At school he is known as a very nice boy, who is very restful, also at home. He is rather helpful, he can help very much if we ask him, but also if we don't ask him.

P : He is very dependable.

FP : Also on me.

D : He likes you to be around?

FP : Yes, and he likes to be caressed.

D : He also likes to sit on your lap. HE likes affection very much. He's nice boy, helpful for younger children, weaker children, animals. What kind of animals do you prefer?

P : Dogs.

D : He can get along very well with everybody. In school they often say that they don't known who he is?

FP : Sometimes he is a little bit closed. Maybe not on purpose, but that is his character.

D : He is like a hidden diamond. He has a very good character. He will not show easily his emotions. He will not weep easily.

FP : No, that's quite a long time ago.

D : You can't say he will react emotionally to this or that?

FP : No.

D : Not even when he is reprimanded, or when he sees a sad film.

FP : He likes to watch sad films, I don't like him to watch that kind of films, but he likes them. He also likes cartoons.

D : He likes to watch television very much?

FP : Yes, a little bit too much, according to me.

D : Does he read thick books?

FP : No.

D : He rather reads strips, or short stories, but not thick books. It is remarkable that he is rather a playful boy at school.

FP : Yes.

D : What do you think about your work?

P : I'm rather easily satisfied.

D : If you can finish your work quickly, you will finish it quickly instead of slowly?

P : Yes.

D : So that you can play with your friends, that is much more fun. It is remarkable if he has to do something, or in his homework for school he is not so punctual. It is all right, but he can do better. But he himself is satisfied.

So, he likes to watch television, and previously he like swimming. Is he anxious of certain things?

P : Yes, of nightmares.

D : What happens during the nightmares?

P : I can hardly explain it.

D : When you are dreaming something is appearing, but you don't know what, as you told me before. You don't like it very much. You don't wake up from it, but afterwards these are not nice remembrances.

As a child he said that he was afraid of crocodiles, but afterwards it didn't appear again.

FP : No, it is better.

D : He is not easily worried about the closest family, or he does not express it this way. He is not anxious of coming home when someone is ill, or will become ill.

FP : No.

D : Does the weather have an influence on him?

FP : No, I don't think so.

D : Is there a kind of weather he prefers?

P : Yes, windy weather.

D : What do you like to do if there is quite a lot of wind?

P : Walking in the wind.

D : What do you think about a thunderstorm?

P : I like to watch the lightning.

D : Can you watch it for a long time?

P : Yes.

D : Do you enjoy the lightning?

P : Not really enjoying, but I am thinking at that moment.

D : About what?

P : About quite a lot of things.

D : About what do you think most of?

P : About the school.

D : What do you think about school?

P : About my friends.

D : You have very nice friends, or are there boys you don't like?

P : I like them all very much.

D : He went to school, but before he went to the primary school he could already read.

FP : Yes, his godmother taught him to read when he was in nursery school. Then, he went to the primary school, but he was a very playful boy, so that it would be better to send him back to the nursery class.

D : Being playful is a rather strong symptom in this boy?

FP : Yes.

D : He does not have certain tics, like blinking with the eyes, biting nails and so on.

FP : no.

D : He likes music very much?

P : I like to sing very much.

D : What about dancing?

P : No, not particularly.

D : You can also play certain instruments?

P : I learned to play 3 kinds of flutes during 6 years.

D : At school?

P : Yes. Also the trumpet.

D : You are not easily angry? Previously, he could be angry sometimes, slamming the door and so on.

FP : Yes, but that's quite a long time ago.

D : He is rather dependable, and if things don't work he likes to be consoled. It is remarkable that he could bite someone suddenly when he was a child. Especially, when you took him too long with you he started biting off literally. In the sense of, "Leave me alone". That was during a period from 1 to 3 years old. He does things suddenly, for example, in the first nursery school, when he was 4 years old, he had so much energy so that he would jump on someone, rather in a playful way, and then the children were frightened. Usually, he jumped on children who were stronger than himself, he would never jump on weak children.

D : Are you also easily frightened?

P : Yes.

D : What do you feel when you are frightened?

P : A kind of trembling in my stomach.

D : Where?

P : Here (points at his stomach).

D : What kind of trembling is this?

P : A kind of contraction.

D : When he becomes ill, he becomes ill suddenly, but he is very quickly cured.

FP : yes, for example, he had a running nose yesterday evening, and today it is already gone.

D : As a child he was easily ill, especially when he ate rapidly, then he had an indigestion, and then you could see beforehand that he would become ill. How did it go?

P : My right ear started to become red.

D : A little while later you started to vomit and everything became better. Are there things you like to eat or to drink very much or which you don't like to eat or drink?

P : French fries.

D : What else?

P : Meat. At home I like to eat spaghetti.

D : What do you like on your bread and butter?

P : Choco.

D : But for the rest, he eats everything.

FP : Yes.

D : He eats regularly.

D : Is he thirsty or thirstless?

FP : A little bit thirsty. In fact, we eat very little salt, therefore he is not so thirsty.

D : He has very good teeth. He has very little complaints with his teeth.

FP : No. Some teeth are filled.

D : In general, is he warm-blooded or cold-blooded?

FP : He likes it rather a little bit too warm.

D : What do you mean : that he rather likes the warmth or the cold,

FP : He is easily too warm.

D : For example, as a child, he went barefoot in the snow, even without being well dressed. He didn't get complaints from it?

FP : No.

FP : The digestion is normal, the stool is regular. Usually, he has to go to the toilet after dinner.

D : What is the position of his sleep. How was it when he was a little child?

FP : At the beginning he slept on his abdomen. He usually slept whit this knee under his abdomen until he was 2 or 3 years old.

D : Do you have other dreams.

P : Sometimes I dream I am flying, on the other hand they are normal dreams.

D : He needs quite a lot of sleep.

FP : Yes, at ten o'clock he becomes very tired. He can't stay up. Since 6 months it is very difficult for him to get out of bed in the morning.

D : He is rather a small boy.

FP : Yes.

D : I just measured him and he measures 1 m 38,5. His weight is 38 kg. When I look at the curve, it is the lowest curve, concerning his weight as well as his height. For his twelve years old he is rather a small boy. His brother is a little bit taller.

FP : Not yet, but it won't take quite a long time anymore.

D : His brother is not the smallest of the school. But he is. Then, we will look at the skin (shows the skin on the video).

So, that was the child. The conclusion is that we don't recognise the typical appearance of Foubister. There is no insomnia at the first years of life, there are not so much moles or naevi, he has not the blue sclerotics, it is failing here.

But on the other hand we have quite a lot of symptoms of Carcinosinum in this case too, for example, the affectionate symptom, he is very sensitive, he is helpful for little children, he likes to watch television. I think the addiction to television is a symptom you find often in Carcinosinum. I will give you other examples, the dream of flying, I met several times in Carcinosinum. He has never had a homeopathic remedy until now, he has a good health, has much energy, I am treating his father and i know that this child is a kind of Carcinosinum-type, but he has never had a homeopathic remedy. The dwarfishness is also a typical symptom for Carcinosinum. The sensitiveness to warmth is also typical, Carcinosinum is more warm-blooded than cold-blooded. He will not cry easily. He does not show his emotions, that is also known for Carcinosinum. He likes thunderstorm, he likes music. We already heard this in the forenoon, that a child can bite, maybe that is a new symptom of Carcinosinum. Maybe it is a tic and not really the desire to bite the nails, but when he is too much caressed he want to bite. I don't have other patients with this symptom. The typical head-knee position in sleeping. The desire for chocolate is very prominent. He also has a desire for ice-cream.

New symptoms which are very interesting to look for Carcinosinum are he likes to watch television, he likes to play, he is not the serious child that can concentrate in school, the scanty hair at the occiput, maybe we can find this also in other patients, but in this case it is rather typical. Also very typical was that the mother, and also the doctors had the impression that the child was dead in the uterus. If someone is telling you that symptom it may point to Carcinosinum. Something very typical of the mind of Carcinosinum is that he has a very little own personality. That is typical for all the nosodes; they rather adapt things of other people, and make them to themselves. But they don't have a real personality. He is also untidy, (this forenoon they also said that Carcinosinum could be very untidy). He likes walking in windy weather like Tuberculinum, and Argentum nitricum. Also known for Carcinosinum is the paroxysm before sickness, here the paroxysm of energy. He has an impulse to do something, for example, to attack a child, and the fear that is felt in the stomach, is a symptom that is known for Carcinosinum. He says "anxiety", the fear used as a symptom when the fear is felt as a constriction in the stomach region. When the patient is telling you this, you may use the rubric, "fear felt in stomach". When they say, "When I am not feeling easy, and i feel something in my stomach", it is more anxiety felt in the stomach. That is really what Foubister said, that is really Carcinosinum. The real fear in one second going down to the stomach is not known for Carcinosinum.

I recognise some symptoms that are typical Carcinosinum that I met in other patients, like, dreams of flying, lack of personality, untidiness, walking in windy weather, because Tuberculinum also has that symptom, because there is a reliability between the nosodes.

Now, I will talk a little bit more about how you can detect Carcinosinum.

First, there is the appearance and the facies I already talked about. It is only very suggestive when you see blue sclerotics, or moles, or acne or tics, like blinking with his eyes, tapping with his fist on his head, biting nails and so on.

Then there is the family history. In the family anamnesis you may find cancer and so on.

Foubister found a trial of symptoms in the early personal history, for example :

-these chest symptoms : in the first 2 or 3 years of life you can find a severe whooping cough or a bad pneumonia. When you find a severe illness at the beginning of life, it can be Carcinosinum.

-alimentary symptoms : a bad dyspepsia, an indigestion gastro-enteritis, peptic ulcers, disposition to ulcers is very strong in the family, diarrhoea, vomiting, it is also a good remedy for cyclical vomiting, diarrhoea in infancy or childhood, chronic, hepatitis, worms and constipation, especially in children.

-insomnia.

Some clinical hints from Dr. Imbrechts : sometimes an absence of the childhood diseases can be noticed during childhood, or contrary there were childhood diseases at the older age.

There can also be a previous or acute mononucleosis infectiosa or frequent infective disease can also be a strong indication.

Carcinosinum is also an important remedy for children with a history of domination or excessive parental control. When there is too much control of the environment on the child it can suffer and bring out the disease, because I think the child has no resistance to the influence of other people. It undergoes it, it is more the symptom of the infant that it undergoes too much the domination of the environment than the strong power of the environment. It is a weakness of the child.

Foubister also tells us something about the seaside, the sleep-position, the appetite. Sometimes you have an aversion or desire for salt, milk, eggs and so on. You can find it in the same person, whether he had an aversion or a desire for it. Foubister also tells us if good remedies do not act, you must look for miasmathical symptoms, the picture of Carcinosinum, and you can prescribe it with good result.

Now, we come to some general symptoms. He is not very well tolerating the warmth, ill effects after vaccinations, also prominent are the contradictory and alternating states, for example, the woman with the shoulder pain of this forenoon, changing from side to side, and I also see that it is crosswise : right side upper, let side lower.

The desire and aversion to food is also a contradictory symptom that we find in the food symptoms. Also prominent is lack of reaction, and we find not only evening amel., but mostly in the readings there is evening and night agg.

Concerning the mental symptoms. We detect them in a different way from the pathogenesis and the clinical symptoms.

The psoric symptoms are the following :

The Carcinosinum person is a very vulnerable person. That is expressed in his over-sensitiveness to reprimands, noise, music. We can conclude that everything is affecting him on the emotional level profoundly. So, beautiful music can make him cry, he's easily affected by sad stories. There is a craving for affection! When on the emotional level, there is a stress or a conflict situation, it will make him ill, for example :

-ailments from fright - fear - rudeness...

-ailments from a long history of domination or excessive parental control

-ailments from prolonged unhappiness, due to other people influence (for example : a prolonged fear in a child from domination by a sadistic father).

He will project the vulnerability in his surrounding and that will create an anticipation in a very great degree. It is going higher than anticipation in other persons, because it's out of reality. For example, he can have an anxiety for wind, because he is very impressed by the violence of the wind. He can get goose flesh from it.

He also has anxiety about others, for example, especially the family, because he is protected by the family. He has not the same protection in the company of other people.

There is also anxiety, fear of animals (dogs), crowd, dark, narrow places.

These symptoms are more psoric, because his vulnerability , his state and his reaction to project it is the outside world.

When he can equilibrate himself, equilibrate his emotions we call is sycosis and then the next symptoms are characteristic for Carcinosinum :

-Affectionate, sympathy

-Excessive sense of duty, to control himself to do everything well.

He is industrious, he is fastidious, because he can not stand that he is reproached. That affects him too deeply.

When he feels emotionally down, he can charge himself by others or by emotion.

-Craves affection - propensity for caresses - impelled to touch everything - music ameliorates - cheerful when it thunders and at lightning’s - passion to read.

-Desire for dancing (then he is in motion), desire to travel. When the child is sleepless, it must be rocked, (so also the motion)

When he feels very well, there is a clairvoyance or precocity of the mind.

The syphilitic reaction is not interesting.

-He is destructing himself. There is an irritability towards everybody. Irritability because forgetful. Anger over his mistakes.

-Suicidal disposition.

CASE6

Mononucleosis

( kissing disease ) Girl, 19 years old

Dr. peters rob

Carcinosinum

Case

I will start this first video halfway, because the first part of the video is well-known stuff. Let's see if we can get some more information.

It concerns a girl of 19 years old and she got mononucleosis in October 1987. She had the following complaints : tired, listless, and she couldn't study very well. She said that after October 1987 she was quite well, but tired. In October 1988 she got examinations and they were quite heavy. Then, she blocked. She said she couldn't study anymore. It looked like an Anacardium state. Anyway, she couldn't study anymore and she stayed in that state. She went to a doctor who does complex Homoeopathy, but he couldn't cure her. Then, there was the coincidence that she was moving from the house where my assistant was going to live in. My assistant is very enthusiastic about Homoeopathy and she recommended me to go there. I was very lucky. I heard the diagnosis of mononucleosis and I thought right away about Carcinosinum and therefore I started to ask about Carcinosinum.

She had a concentration weakness, she was tired, she had complaints about the abdomen, she had an acne in the face, and sweaty hands. She said, "I'm well, when my hands are cold. When I don't feel well, my hands are sweaty". She also complained about stitching in the chest while running, and with exertions. She also complained she was too fat. She wanted to be less fat.

In the family story you will find an ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) from her grandmother. There is carcinoma (It is a cancer that begins in skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs. ) from the grandfather and from another grandmother. Her father has a hypertension.

She had two childhood diseases : the measles and rubella.

she likes eating very much, she likes candies and cookies. She has an aversion to fat and she says that she likes sweets more than salt. She has an aversion to pea-soup. I think it is because there is some lard in it, if it is a proper pea soup. That lard is weak and jelly.

D : What kind of sweets do you prefer?

P : I like them all.

D : Which are you fond of most?

P : Nothing particular.

D : Do you like eggs?

P : Yes, sometimes.

D : You are not really fond of it?

P : No, not really. Sometimes I like to eat an egg with salt.

D : How does the egg have to be prepared?

P : It doesn't matter. Boiled or fried.

D : Do you like milk?

P : Yes. At the moment I drink it every evening, because I had some white spots on my nails, but they are gone at the moment.

D : Since when did you start drinking milk?

P : Since I stopped drinking coffee.

She said she had white spots on her nails and they disappeared after the remedy. You know the rubric on page 981 and 1191 : "Discoloration of the nails". There are remedies, like Alumina, Arsenicum, Nitricum acidum, Phosphoricum acidum, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Tuberculinum.

spots : Alum., ars., nit-ac., sep., Sil., sulph.

SPOTTED nails : Alum., ars., nit-ac., ph-ac., sep., Sil., sulph., tub.

Perhaps one of these remedies will come out later, but I don't know.

D : When did you stop drinking coffee?

P : Since I took those tablets.

D : So, the white spots on your nails have disappeared since you got those tablets and since you started to drink milk.

P : Yes.

D : Can you tell me something about what kind of person you are? At that time you told me some characteristics which I found remarkable.

P : I am a serious person.

D : What do you mean?

P : When I promise something I will do it. Concerning the study, I want to study everything.

D : You wanted to be the best?

P : It's not really being the best, but I wanted to do everything perfect. I don't need to be the best of the class, but I must know I did everything I could, just for myself.

D : You want to do everything that is possible.

P : Yes, I used to do it previously, but since my illness, I can't do it anymore.

D : You also said that you were more precise previously than at the moment? You were very precise in all kinds of things?

P : Yes, that's right.

D : Could you give an example?

P : Yes, for example, while studying I wanted to learn everything. But at the moment I leave out some parts.

D : At the moment you an even watch a little bit television?

P : Yes.

D : Do you think that something else has changed since you got the remedy?

P : No.

D : Do you think that you are mentally different than before the remedy.

P : Yes, I can do more. I feel well.

D : But that is concerning your energy.

P : Yes.

D : But I mean, have you changed mentally? Do you regard the people, the world from a different point of view?

P : Yes, more positive. But lately, only positive things have happened. For example, I got my driving licence.

D : Oh beautiful. This gives you a kind of self-confidence, of course.

P : Yes. I also got a hob. Now, I can do it easily and do things I want to do.

D : So you applied for a job and you have been engaged?

P : Yes.

D : Beautiful, my congratulations.

There were things you couldn't tolerate. Maybe it was so during the period you got the mononucleosis. But also before, there were some things you couldn't tolerate at all. At that time I asked you, "What kind of things makes you upset?" Do you still remember?

P : Yes. Let me see.

When I asked her this in the first consultation (this consultation is three months later), she started crying. And she told about her parents.

P : I can't tell it very well.

It is better at the moment.

D : When your parents were angry with you, you got upset.

P : Upset? Well, I didn't like it.

D : Does it concern lately or a period when you were little?

P : Yes.

D : Can you describe what kind of people your parent are?

P : Nice people.

She says, "Nice parents". But at the first consultation she said that she had troubles with her father, that he was quite a dominating man. I got her father at the consultation a few months after she came, as most fathers and mothers do. First, they send their children and then they come themselves. He was a straight Sulphur-man. He responded very well to Sulphur. He came for hypertension and he was very anxious about his hypertension, so that he stopped all his exercises, like running and sporting. He didn't dare to do any other things like that. Afterwards, I explained him that it is very good to do some sports.

He was quite a closed man, a dominating man and I can imagine she had troubles with her father.

P : They are not really severe, but they have some rule which I will obey. I am not the kind of person who will come one hour later when I agreed to come home at 2:00 o'clock. They don't have much rules for me, but I know what I am allowed to do and what I am not allowed to do.

D : How was it previously?

P : I think they were a little bit more severe.

D : Can you described more precisely what you mean by "severe"? For one person "severe" is "very severe" and for another person "severe" is "a little bit severe". Could you give an example of reactions of your parents? I mean the kind of situations you had difficulties with.

P : For example, to be at home at a certain time. They really didn't say, "You have to be at home at that time." But I knew myself I had to be at home at that time, and I was home at that time. They would not punish me for being late. They are not that kind of people. They don't punish. They were a little bit angry, and that was for me a kind of punishment.

When her parents are angry she feels it as a punishment. Her father expresses his anger by saying nothing. She is telling she is the same person as he is. When she is angry she is doing the same. I found it very obvious that is it difficult for her to give an answer to these questions. She is not telling easily about those situations. It seems she is quite reluctant about that.

D : When they gave you some remarks, it affected you very much?

P : Yes.

D : Which remarks affected you most? Those from your mother or your father?

P : From my father.

D : Can you remember situations when they said something to you that affected you very deeply.

P : Not really by saying things. But you can feel it if somebody doesn't like it, and you can see it by the expression of the face. Not by saying, "Now, I am angry with you". But you felt it by the atmosphere.

D : So they let you know in a silent way?

P : Yes.

D : Especially your father?

P : Yes.

D : How was your personal attitude towards your father when you were a little girl? What kind of feelings did you have towards your father?

P : Sometimes I had a conflict with him.

D : In what way are you the same?

P : Well, I am a serious person and when I am angry I often don't say anything, but I let people see I am angry.

D : You know you are quite mighty in doing so?

P : Yes. I look very cross and that is what he does as well. You can't attain much with it.

D : Precisely. How do you react to horrible things on television, or horrible situations?

P : I don't watch thrillers.

D : Why not?

P : I think it is creepy. All that blood, I know it is film, but anyway.

D : Are there other things you can't tolerate at all?

P : Anything that is creepy, when somebody is killed, I don't like to watch that kind of things.

D : I asked you, "What is the worst thing that might happen to you?" Can you remember I asked you that question?

P : No.

D : Well, I wrote down, "I think it is terrible when I am overstrained". Can you tell me what you mean?

P : That everything is too much. You get upset by the slightest thing that happens. I had that kind of feeling after the first period of my examinations.

D : What happened with you?

P : At a certain moment I had to post a letter and I had to collect some stamps, but they wouldn't come out. I was really upset, because I wanted to post that letter that evening, but I couldn't because the stamps wouldn't come out. Then, I started crying and crying. I didn't know myself what happened to me.

At a very strange moment I started crying, I cried much more than necessary.

D : What were you thinking of at that moment?

P : Now, I'm overstrained.

D : Did you ever think you might get insane?

P : No.

D : It was not that bad?

P : No.

D : "Overstrained" means to you that you lose your control, but not that you are insane.

It seems there is a fear of losing control.

D : I also asked you, "At what time of the day do you feel best?" I mean, especially after the mononucleosis, there were times of the day you felt well?

P : Yes, in the evening. That has always been so.

D : In the evening you flourish completely?

P : Yes.

D : What about the sleep during that period,

P : I would sleep very badly. Especially, when I needed quite a lot of rest, I couldn't sleep.

D : What was the problem : You couldn't fall asleep or you couldn't sleep through?

P : I couldn't fall asleep. At least I lay 2 hours awake. I tried everything, counting sheep, drinking milk and so on. But nothing helped. At the moment I sleep very well.

D : Did you have problems with sleeping as a child?

P : Yes.

D : Do you remember how old you were?

P : According to me, I always had.

D : Since you were a child you had problems in falling asleep?

P : Yes.

D : Does this mean that you sleep well since a short period,

P : Yes.

D : Are you afraid of animals?

P : Yes.

D : What kind of animals?

P : Spiders and mice.

That is what we heard this morning : "Fear of spiders".

D : Do you have other anxieties?

P : No, I don't known.

D : What about the fear of dark?

P : No.

D : You never head a fear of dark?

P : No.

D : Not even when you were a child?

P : No.

D : What about narrow places?

P : No.

CASE7

Weakness

Woman, 32 years old

Dr. peters rob

Carcinosinum

Case

This video is about a woman of 32 years old. She is a social worker. When she was 16 years old she had a mononucleosis. Since then she stayed tired. About 15 years she is tired. The things she complained most of were that she couldn't concentrate and that her memory was very had. She also complained that she was weeping without any cause. She said she couldn't understand, because she also had some good days. But it was very changing. She said that her state could change every day or every hour. It was going up and down. She also complained about headache and a kind of a floating feeling. She had a tension in the face and very weak legs. She woke up in the night from coldness. She had very little self-confidence and she was depressed and had an anticipation fear for answering the telephone. There was also a tendency to eat a lot, a kind of bulimia. From the period she got the mononucleosis until now she always had swollen glands in the throat.

P : I was chronically tired. Then I had some complaints. I had a kind of tiredness of the muscles, very tired legs, a weak body and in the morning a stiff face.

D : You got a stiff feeling in the face?

P : Yes.

D : Concerning the tiredness certain parts of your body were tired?

P : Yes. Especially the legs, the lower legs.

D : What other part of the body.

P : The face.

D : These were the two main complaints?

P : Yes.

D : Do you already have this since the mononucleosis?

When you look in the extraction of Carcinosinum, you see there is stiffness of the lower jaws. I don't known if this is proved by Templeton. I don't know if you can put the symptom that she is describing under this symptom.

P : In fact, yes.

D : You didn't have it every day?

P : No. But often, especially when I was very tired. Then it was expressed especially in the face and the lower legs.

D : Where you tired at a certain time of the day?

P : Yes, especially in the afternoon and late in the evening.

D : Where you tired until you went to bed or was there an amelioration?

P : Yes, when we had our evening meal, I was a little bit better.

D : Do you have other complaints?

P : I often suffered from a sore throat and swollen lymph glands. Regularly, I saw the family doctor. I got antibiotics a few times. But at the end I wasn't allowed to take antibiotics anymore. I also have a mania for eating.

D : You had a kind of fits of eating sweets, chocolate, but also salt?

P : Yes.

D : Was it during the day or at night?

P : Only during the day,, not at night.

D : You told me about the complaints before you came to me. What is the next complaint you want to talk about?

P : I was easily cold.

D : Your whole body?

P : Yes, my whole body.

D : In bed at night?

P : Yes.

D : You were so cold that you woke up from it?

P : Yes.

D : Did you wake up at a certain hour of the night?

P : Well, in the morning, about 5:00 or 6:00 o'clock.

D : I wrote down that you woke up from the cold in the morning.

P : Yes.

D : Something else, you said you were depressed. Can you tell me something more about it? How did it go usually?

P : I'm not always depressed, but I have depressed periods. Then I stayed home, I didn't dare to go outside, because I didn't look well. I didn't dare to do some things, for example, I had a kind of fear of the telephone. I didn't dare use the telephone, and that is very annoying, because in my work I have to telephone very much.

D : What were you afraid of?

P : I was afraid I couldn't remember things that were said, but also things I had to say myself. I wrote things down, but anyhow. It often happened, "What shall I say" or "When someone asks me something I don't know the answer." Then I start doubting about myself.

D : Did such a kind of situation ever happen?

P : No.

D : In fact, everything went all right?

P : Yes.

D : But it was a kind of anticipation. A fear that something was expected of you?

P : Yes.

D : What else? You had difficulties in remembering things?

P : Yes, I had difficulties with my concentration.

D : Names and numbers.

Did you ever notice that you were dyslexic (Dyslexic : A learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading. ) ?

P : No.

D : You don't write words wrong?

P : No.

D : Did you write down some more things?

"Dyslexia" is a symptom for Carcinosinum, as i wrote down in my notes. It comes from MIKLIN, a compendium about Carcinosinum.

P : I feel better when the sun is shining and I don't feel well when the weather is bad.

D : What do you mean by "bad weather?"

P : Blowing, rain, a kind of depressing weather.

D : Do you suffer from it?

P : Yes.

D : What do you notice?

P : I work less, I sit down. But when the sun is shining I feel more cheerful, everything goes better.

D : Do you think it is still the same?

P : Well, I must tell you, we haven't had that kind of weather yet.

D : You can't say there is a difference between now and before you came to me?

P : I didn't notice anything about the influence of the weather.

D : Also because you said that the weather hasn't been bad for quite a long time.

P : Yes.

D : What kind of child were you?

P : I was a shy girl. I didn't like playing outside very much. I was very much on my own.

She likes to be alone, likes to be on herself. She did not tell me about reading. Her imagination was very big.

D : You didn't play with friends?

P : I had friends, but not really a close friend.

D : Were you afraid of being alone,

P : Yes. I was afraid of the dark.

D : What else?

P : I was afraid in the elevator and in small places.

"Fear of narrow places".

D : You had a fear of high places?

P : Yes.

D : Afraid of animals?

P : No.

D : Of dogs?

P : No.

D : As a child you were afraid of diseases?

P : I was afraid of dying.

D : How do you react when there is a thunderstorm?

P : I am afraid of a thunderstorm.

D : What about water?

P : I'm not so fond of water, but I conquered the fear.

D : How was your reaction towards strangers?

P : I was a shy person. As a child I wouldn't go to strangers spontaneously.

D : How could your parents describe you as a child?

Would they describe you as a reluctant child?

P : I don't think so.

D : You could easily make contact?

P : Yes. I could play very much and I had a very great imagination.

No, I was not a reluctant child.

D : Did you have particular hobbies as a child?

P : I was very creative. I always wanted to make things out of wood. I was also very interested in animals.

D : You like it very much.

P : Yes. That fear of animals doesn't count for me.

D : How did you react to music as a child?

P : I never had a course in music, but the last year I have followed a course in piano.

D : What about listening to music?

P : Yes, I like listening to music. At the time my father had a record player.

D : Did you feel the need to dance to the music?

P : No.

D : You don't like dancing?

P : No.

D : Can you remember that you are different before the menstruation?

P : Yes, irritable. Then, I am a kind of workaholic.

D : You feel more active before the menstruation?

P : Yes.

D : Did you ever have the tendency to steal something out of a shop before your menstruation?

P : No.

I asked this question, because "kleptomania" is also mentioned in literature.

D : Do you think that the period before your menstruation is annoying?

P : On one hand I find the rumblings in the abdomen annoying, these are complaints. But on the other hand, I make use of the zest for work.

D : You plan it, for example, if the house has to be cleaned you do it before your menstruation?

P : Yes. I plan everything before the menstruation, like meetings, or when I have to concentrate very much.

D : Concerning your youth : you described your father as someone who couldn't take off his hands of women, he had some girl-friends. Your parents were divorced?

P : yes.

D : How old were you then?

P : I was 11 years old.

D : How did this affect you?

P : It was not funny. That is logical. I had to stay with my mother, but I didn't want to. I had a very annoying relationship with my mother.

D : What was wrong with the relationship?

P : She was not a friend for me. I was irritated by her behaviour. That became very strong when she was divorced. I didn't like it at all.

D : Could you described your mother? What kind of person was your mother?

P : She tries to get attention in many different ways. She exploits at the cost of her children. If something went wrong, or she had a misfortune she blamed me for it. I can't understand that she blames her own children, but she will become the victim. She pities herself.

D : How do you react in such a situation?

P : I never made a situation out of it. I protected her, although we had some quarrels, but not in the sense of a scene, so that people thought, "Maybe she is right".

D : How was it towards your father?

P : I don't agree at all.

Her mother hurt her a lot, but she did not drop her mother. She stayed in that situation. She did not give comments. She knows what happened, but she was not angry with her mother openly.

D : Are you a person who is home-bounded?

P : Yes. I like to go away, but I feel well at home.

D : You are not a globe-trotter?

P : No.

D : As a child when your mother reproached you about so many things, did you start crying or did you just swallow it? How did you react emotionally?

P : I don't think I start crying.

D : You worked it out in silence?

P : Yes, I had some friends or older friends at the beginning of our marriage, and often I went to them to tell my story. That was sufficient.

D : I also wrote down that you have a very strong sense of duty?

P : I will keep my appointment, even if I feel bad. I always want to be in time.

D : Do you mean exact in time?

P : I even want to be earlier than that.

Concerning the fastidiousness of those people I think they don't want to do it for themselves, but they are afraid of the criticism of other people.

D : do you do this because you are afraid of the criticism of other people?

P : No, I think it has to be that way. It disturbs me a lot if people themselves come too late.

D : In that respect you are very precise?

P : yes.

D : In your house you are also so precise?

P : No.

D : It might be a little bit untidy in your home?

P : Yes.

D : Did you have other diseases as a child?

P : Mononucleosis. Also the mumps and the chicken pox.

D : No heart deviation?

P : No.

D : Do you have spots on your body? Freckles or other things?

P : No.

The previous video the girl had a nice big brown spot on the right cheek. It was a café au lait spot. But this woman has not got any.

D : Aphthae in the mouth?

P : No.

D : What about the stool?

P : It's normal.

D : Headache?

P : Yes, I suffer from it.

D : What kind of headache is it?

P : It's above on my head. I have the impression as if the content is moving. When I move, it's not a nice feeling.

D : A feeling as if it moves in your head. And you feel it when you move?

P : Yes.

D : Is there a spot on your head where you feel it most? Is it in the front, the occiput, on the right or the left side?

P : Above on my head, in the front.

D : There is no difference between left and right?

P : I don't know.

D : When do you have that headache?

Does it appear suddenly?

P : Often it is a consequence of the tiredness and after great exertions. In difficult conversations I have to exert myself very much. It costs me a lot of energy.

D : Intensive talking gives you a tired feeling and as a consequence you get a headache?

P : Yes.

D : Does the headache disappear spontaneously or do you have to take something?

P : No, very rarely I take something. Usually, it goes away spontaneously.

D : If the headache is very strong what do you like to do?

P : I take an aspirin and go to bed.

D : Did you suffer from the headache lately?

P : Yes, I have it regularly.

D : How often is "regularly?"

P : Well, not so often, once in two weeks.

D : Has the frequency changed since you took the remedy?

P : Yes. It is less.

D : I want to know what you like to eat? You like to eat a piece of chocolate, but what do you like else?

P : Meat.

D : What kind of meat?

P : Fillet of beef. It may not be fat. Rather salty and spiced.

D : Do you like eggs?

P : Yes, not too much.

D : Fruit?

P : Yes, normal.

D : Milk?

P : No.

D : Highly seasoned food?

P : Yes.

D : You are also fond of soup, chocolate, especially bitter chocolate with nuts.

P : Yes.

D : Sour things?

P : No.

d : Is there any food you don't tolerate?

P : No.

D : You can tolerate everything?

P : Yes.

D : Besides fat and milk are there other things you don't like?

P : Particular vegetables.

D : What kind of vegetables?

P : Brussels sprouts.

D : Carsickness?

P : Yes, especially as a child.

D : Leucorrhoea?

P : Yes, white, lumpy.

D : When do you get sensitive breasts?

P : A week before the menstruation, the left one.

D : Did you ever have problems with your voice?

P : No.

D : Did you ever have asthma?

P : No.

D : Bronchitis?

P : No.

D : Coughing?

P : No.

D : Did you ever have problems with breast-feeding after the pregnancy?

P : No.

D : It went all right?

P : Yes.

D : Did you ever have inflammation of the breasts?

P : No.

D : What about your nails? Nails of the toe? No calcification of the nails?

P : No.

D : Did you ever have warts previously?

P : Yes, a few. I think once or tow times.

D : On your hands?

P : Yes, on the thumb

D : You sleep well?

P : Yes.

D : In what position do you sleep usually?

P : On my left side and on my abdomen.

D : Once you suffered from you back?

P : Yes.

D : Can you tell me something about it?

P : It starts in my back gradually. I feel it beforehand. That's a warning. Then I know that I have to be very careful. I have to bend down properly, may not lift heavy things and so on. Once I suffered from my back while changing a bicycle seat. The only thing that helps is to lie flat.

D : Where do you lie flat on? On the floor?

P : If I have to be very careful I just lie on the floor of the living.

D : Do you lie comfortable?

P : Yes.

She is going to lie on a flat surface, in particular on a hard surface. I thought it was a Natrum muriaticum state.

D : With the sleep I forgot to ask you if you dream a lot?

P : Yes.

D : About what do you dream?

P : I have very nice dreams. I always play the main role in it.

D : What kind of dreams?

P : I can't remember them. But they are very nice dream. I can stop dreaming, wake up and think, "I will go on dreaming in a minute."

D : You can stop dreaming, wake up and go on dreaming?

There is a rubric on page 1239, "dreams of long past events", just below it says that they can wake up and go on with the same dream. I found it remarkable.

P : Yes.

D : We find this in our literature, but your remedy is not there.

P : I don't mind dreaming. I can exert myself to think of a story and start dreaming.

There are some more things. Her mother has had tuberculosis. There is no cancer in the family.

D : You got the remedy in May, 1989.

P : My reaction on the remedy was that I slept for 2, 3 days. After that I felt better during 6, 7 weeks.

D : We repeated the remedy, but after that your reaction was not so spectacular as after the first time?

P : Now, I am 40 - 50% better as concerning my tiredness. I had no nausea and vertigo anymore.

D : Depression?

P : Not anymore.

D : Coldness during the night?

P : No, not anymore.

D : Stiffness neck?

P : No, not anymore.

D : In July you told me that you were mentally better and not so tired anymore.

P : Yes.

D : You had still the eating attacks?

P : Yes, but not so frequent anymore.

D : Heaviness in the legs?

P : Better, but sometimes it is still there.

D : You could sleep better?

P : Yes.

D : So, we will see how things go on. Thank you for this conversation.

CASE8

Cancer of mammae

Woman, 46 years old

Dr. smits tinus

Carcinosinum

Case

This is a case about cancer. For me it was not a difficult case, after 5 minutes I found the remedy. Only by looking at her face I thought of Carcinosinum. She had very blue sclerae and she was blinking with the eyelids.

She had an amputation of the left breast. She came to me when she had metastasis in the liver.

D : I saw you the first time on March 20, 1989. Can you tell me about your complaints?

P : I just finished a very heavy chemotherapy cure which started in November. After the chemotherapy cure I realised that I needed some support besides the chemotherapy and what they did to me in the hospital. I had the feeling I had to do something myself to become healthy again. It was a kind of searching. And so I came to you.

D : Two years ago you had a breast amputation of the left side?

P : Yes. It all started with a complete amputation, and afterwards I got a chemotherapy cure. That was once a month and it lasted half a year.

D : You also had three positive axillary glands?

P : Yes. That was the reason why I had to follow a chemotherapy cure.

D : In November 1988...

P : After three months I went for a check up with the internist and the surgeon. The surgeon said I didn't have to come anymore and the internist found out that something was wrong with my blood. He thought about the liver or the gallbladder. Then, I went under the scanner and they found a tumor in the liver.

D : Was it one tumor?

P : Two. The only treatment he could propose was again a chemotherapy cure. They started the cure at the beginning of November, every two weeks, as strong as possible, and it lasted until the end of March. I tolerated the treatment very well. Afterwards I went to another clinic to talk with another doctor about this problem. He said that I had the best treatment they could give me. If I would have gone to that hospital they would have proposed the same treatment. But he pointed out that the situation was very serious. He said that they couldn't cure me. At that moment the scanner showed that the tumor had decreased fro 50%. The only thing they could do was to keep it that way.

D : They didn't say they could let the whole tumor disappear?

P : No, they never promised me.

In fact, he clearly said that with this treatment the maximum was obtained. He only proposed to take some medicines. At that time I was about 46 years old. They didn't know if it would have an effect or not. But I took those medicines, two tablets a day.

D : Then you came here in March. We analysed your character. Could you tell me something about it?

P : Maybe, you can ask me some questions.

D : When do you have the most energy? Are you a morning person or an evening person?

P : An evening person.

D : Is there a clear amelioration in the evening?

P : I feel well in the morning, but I don't burst with energy. I an only start slowly.

D : What about the evening?

P : In the evening I have very much energy. I don't get tired in the evening.

D : Are you active in the evening?

P : Yes. In the winter it might be less.

D : Is there cancer in the family?

P : Yes, at my father's side. My father died of cancer at the age of 40. He had four sisters, three of them also died of cancer at the age of 40 or 50 years old. A brother of him also died of cancer. I think I have the constitution of my father.

D : Are you anxious?

P : Yes.

D : Of what?

P : Things that might happen, for example, car accidents with my husband and children. I am very worried.

D : Were you anxious as a child?

P : Yes. I was scared to loose my father or mother. I had those kind of anxieties.

D : Do you sympathize with the sufferings of other people, or do you keep a distance?

P : Yes? I sympathize.

D : What about the sensitiveness to music?

P : It can affect me.

D : Can you cry?

P : Well, I don't cry, but it affects me.

D : Do you like dancing?

P : Yes.

D : Do you enjoy it or do you really like to dance?

P : It's a kind of expression.

D : What about reading?

P : I like it. I mean to read consciously. I don't read to read. When I have time to read I choose consciously what I want to read.

D : What about travelling?

P : Yes, I like it.

D : Do you like to travel far away?

P : Yes. I like adventures. It doesn't have to be planned beforehand.

D : How is your sleep?

P : I sleep very well.

D : In what position do you sleep?

P : On my side.

D : On the right or the left side?

P : At the beginning on the right side.

D : Do you perspire at night?

P : At times.

D : Also before the chemotherapy?

P : Yes.

D : Can you sleep during the the day?

P : Not lately anymore. I did during the period of the chemotherapy. That was a very special period. I had to divide my energy very well and I rested very much. But now, I don't feel the need to sleep during the day anymore.

D : Did you previously?

P : Yes, I could sit down and doze off suddenly.

D : Five or ten minutes?

P : Yes.

D : How did you feel afterwards?

P : It put me right.

D : Are you untidy or fastidious?

P : Untidy.

D : In everything?

P : No. I am untidy in things which I don't find important.

D : If you have to make something...

P : It has to be finished very quickly.

D : The quality doesn't play a role?

P : No, but it has to be what I expected.

I like to paint, especially an aquarelle which is ready in a minute.

D : You would not paint in oils?

P : No.

D : You don't have the the patience for it?

P : No.

D : Are you really impatient?

P : Yes, maybe.

D : What about your appetite?

P : I have a very good appetite.

D : What do you like very much?

P : Sweet things. I also like fat things, but not anymore.

I like a fat piece of bacon, but I would not like it anymore. In fact, I like everything.

D : Do you like hearty things?

P : Yes.

D : Do you take highly seasoned food?

P : Yes.

D : What about sweets?

P : I like them very much. Especially, bonbons, chocolate?

D : Do you prefer meat to fish?

P : Fish.

D : What about the thirst?

P : I have a need to drink.

D : Warm or cold drinks?

P : Cold drinks.

D : What about the stool?

P : It is irregular easily. I easily get constipation as soon as my daily pattern is broken. But if I stick to my daily rhythm it is all right. When I am travelling it gores wrong.

D : Do you ever have diarrhoea?

P : No. Only when I am nervous or worried.

D : Then I gave you a remedy, and how did it go afterwards?

I gave her Carcinosinum 10 M on March 20, 1989. Now, we will see the result.

P : I went on holiday for two weeks. When I came back I only felt well.

D : Your energy has increased?

P : Yes, my energy came back completely. I liked working in the garden, but I noticed that I easily became warm and started perspiring. Because of the operation I got edema in the arm.

While working in the garden I notice that the arm starts swelling and it hinders me. But in fact, I have very much energy.

D : You feel very well?

P : I'm not tired anymore.

D : Were you tired before?

P : Yes. Before I was easily tired.

D : That improved quite a lot?

P : Yes.

D : Afterwards you continued with the chemotherapy, every two weeks a light chemotherapy cure.

P : Yes, in the hospital they call it a "curettage". I get it every two weeks. I don't known what kind of medicines they give me. But I don't get side effects. I can tolerate them very well. I am very excited the day I have to go to the hospital for the chemotherapy, because they confront me with the blood results of the previous time.

D : How did it go with the blood results?

P : Each time the liver function and the activity of the tumor are controlled. The liver functions are normal again, and the tumor activity was 1100 in November (when they discovered the tumor) and has decreased until 170 at the moment. I asked them not to tell me theses results every two weeks, because I kept thinking, "Will it be 170 or 165?" I asked them to keep an eye on it and when it increases they will surely tell me, but I don't want them to tell me the little differences.

D : Before they told you that it was impossible to attain a tumor activity below 500?

P : Yes.

D : It was the maximum that was attainable for you?

P : Yes.

D : In May in was 500, in July 168, in August 178 and the last time it was 170.

P : But that is already a month ago.

D : Have other things changed?

P : No, I think I am very healthy.

D : Previously, did you also perspire with exertions?

P : Yes, when I got the first chemotherapy cure I was in menopause. Up to then the menstruation was very regular. But with the first chemotherapy cure the menstruation stopped. They told me that the menstruation wouldn't come back, because of my age. But it came back and it was regular for about one year. Then I got the next chemotherapy, and the menstruation stopped definitely.

I blame the perspiration to the menopause. I also got flushes of heat during a certain period, but I don't suffer from them anymore.

I didn't change anything in the treatment of the hospital. She went on with the chemotherapy. I let cancer patients follow their hospital treatment. She proposed now to follow a stronger chemotherapy cure and I said that it was not good. Then, she didn't do it. Her energy is very good at the moment, but with a stronger cure the energy will go down.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : The activity of the tumor is very low now. I think, she has a good chance to survive. She has had metastasis of the liver for 1 year and she has a very good energy.

I also gave her a high dose of vitamins C, 12 grams a day.

CASE9

Chronic coryza

Boy, 10 years old

Dr. geukens alfons

Carcinosinum

Case

Consultation of June, 10, 1987)

(Remark : the important symptoms that indicate the remedy are underlined)

D : He came the first time in October 1981. Until February 1987 (that is about 5 1/2 years) I can't say that I ever gave a remedy on which he reacted spectacularly. I gave a remedy for a cold, and it went better for a while, but I could never give a remedy on which he reacted spectacularly.

Do you agree?

FP : Yes, that's right.

D : Since 1981, maybe earlier, he suffered from green-yellow discharges from the nose.

FP : Yes, it has been treated with antibiotics. That is the reason why we started with Homoeopathy. We wanted to get rid of all the antibiotics.

D : As a child he regularly suffered from infections of the nose.

FP : Also from a sore throat.

D : At the first consultation you said that he suffered quite a lot from green-yellow discharges from the nose.

At the next consultation he had a severe cough with pain in the throat. He got a wart on the foot-sole. Afterwards, he came back for the green discharges from the nose. Then, he came back for fever with crusts in the nose and green discharges from the nose.

FP : The same story will occur more often, the swollen lips, and also the warts, since he started swimming.

D : Then, regularly he had infections of the middle ear, and pain in the auditory canal with stitches.

He got warts on the foot-sole, because of swimming. There were green discharges with blood and again green touch mucus from the nose.

FP : Yes. The same story always occurs again.

D : At night, vomiting with fever. In the meantime it is 1985. Again there were green discharges. He had an obstructed nose and a swelling under the eye-lids.

FP : Then, he got mononucleosis.

D : He had a sore throat and a kind of vertigo while walking. He became ill again. In December of 1985 he was in bed for a whole week with pain in the muscles.

FP : Probably, it concerns the mononucleosis.

D : Indeed, he had an infectious mononucleosis. He has been ill for quite a long time. How long?

FP : For about 6 or 7 months, he didn't feel well at all.

D : For months and months.

FP : Yes, there was no spirit in him at all. But the last year he feels well.

D : All right. But, at the moment we are talking about that particular period.

FP : Yes, that was at the end of 1985, at the beginning of 1986.

D : Then, he started coughing again.

Anyway, it was quite along history of the mononucleosis until he came back with the following symptoms : a tendency to vomit, abdominal pain, dizziness, easily too warm, perspiring very much, a kind of dizziness from stooping and glands in the neck which were swollen and hurt slightly. He was lying on the cough for the whole day. He also dreamt of falling. Then I gave Thuja and all the warts disappeared, but a few months later he started suffering from dizziness again, especially while sitting, after eating, and while walking. He was coughing again. He had broken and swollen lips. He came back and we discovered his remedy, that was in February 1987. He suffered from pain in the right ear, now and then stitches, headache, dry lips, a dry mouth with thirst, he was very listless, dizzy while getting upright, he had a restless sleep, a nose obstruction, stitches in the right breast, a swollen face, no appetite at all, and 37°C fever. He was rather a sympathetic person. I think he liked sour things?

P : No, not sour things.

D : All right then. He doesn't want to be consoled. He likes animals very much, excessively. He has a passion to read. He reads quite a lot. He's afraid of horror things on television. He has little skins at the margin of his nails. He likes sweets things, and highly-seasoned food. He doesn't like fat, butter, eggs and fruit. But he also likes milk, doesn't he?

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P : Yes.

D : I gave you a remedy, but you may not mention the name of the remedy. I gave it in 200 K. You also had a bad odour from the mouth. You reacted rather well to that remedy. The whole situation improved rather quickly until June 8, 1987. That was last week. You said, "The same situation appears again as in February." You also remarked, "It occurs when he has to take examinations".

FP : Yes, tomorrow he has to take an examination.

D : The examination period starts and he relapses with the same symptomatology, namely, headache, becoming pale, coughing, dizziness, strong abdominal pain with a kind of diarrhoea. He had a very bad odour from the mouth. I repeated the remedy in M potency. How soon did you become better after the remedy? You were here on Friday.

P : I was better the next day. On Monday I was almost cured.

FP : Yes, he didn't have class on Monday, but he went outside. He was rather well. Yesterday, he went on a school-journey. Yesterday evening he was a little bit cold. The two of us went out eating and he was sitting a little bit too close to the window and then he became a little bit cold, and got a toothache. Also today, he feels rather well.

D : So, we can say that he reacted rather quickly, namely within one day. All the complaints were gone, the headache, the dizziness, the coughing.

FP : Yes, there is still one more thing to say. He has had problems with dyslexia (Dyslexic : A learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading.) for quite a long time and he still has.

Sometimes he switches words and so on. My wife keeps an eye on him, better than I do. He also has reading problems. And when he has to take an examination of a course which he doesn't know very well, he becomes nervous. At the moment he starts reading very well; and then he likes it much more. But apparently, there is still some stress.

D : He's rather nervous, there is an anticipation fear, and he becomes ill before the examinations. That is what you noticed yourself.

Second, it is remarkable that he has a passion for animals, but apparently not for people.

FP : It depends on which people.

FP : He has quite a great affection for certain people, for example, his grandfather, but he has no affection for his grandmother at all.

D : He's worried about his grandfather. Anxiously-worried?

FP : Yes, if something would happen to his grandfather, we would have quite a lot of problems with him.

D : More specifically, it concerns the father of your wife.

FP : That's right.

That is the only person he has a great affection for. Also for his mother, he likes his mother very much, his father less.

D : What kind of animals does he like?

FP : His dog.

P : At home I have 15 parakeets, a dog, a water turtle, a guinea pig, and a canary. I had gold-fishes, a rabbit, and a hamster.

I think that 's all.

D : Anyway, he likes animals very much.

FP : Yes.

At the moment he can digest when one of his parakeets dies, but previously, it had to be buried with a cross. Sometimes it had to be put on conserving water. At the moment there are still quite a lot of parakeets on the ceiling. In that way he resembles his mother. My wife also likes animals very much;

D : Does he bite his nails?

FP : Yes, now less than previously. Now, he has long nails, but he still fumbles at his nails.

D : But previously he bit his nails.

FP : Yes, they were completely gone. Now, he has nails.

D : Is he afraid of a thunderstorm?

FP : No.

P : Previously, I was.

D : Not anymore?

P : No.

D : What about the lightning?

P : I'm not afraid of it.

D : Do you watch it?

P : Yes, usually I do.

D : What do you mean?

FP : He goes to the window and wants to watch it. Other children run away, but he doesn't. He wants to look at it. It is typical that he likes spectacular things very much. For example, I have to go to all the motorcar races and rallies. He prefers to see them getting smashed. He knows all the drivers. I don't even know these pilots, but he does.

D : So, he likes spectacular things very much?

FP : Yes. I don't know why he's so interested.

D : Is he a child that likes to be consoled or not?

FP : Well, I can't say he doesn't like to be consoled, but he can't tolerate reprimands. When I say that everything has to be cleaned up, he starts weeping easily. He's rather sensitive.

D : Then he becomes angry, he starts weeping easily.

FP : Yes, he becomes angry at himself, because he knows that he doesn't have to become angry at his father. Then he has to go upstairs.

D : He weeps easily on reprimands?

FP : Yes.

D : Do you like dancing?

P : No.

D : Do you like music?

P : Well, it depends on what kind of music. I don't like old-fashioned, dancing music.

D : What kind of music do you like?

P : Popmusic.

FP : And instrument music.

D : Does he put on the radio at home?

FP : Yes, regularly he puts on the headphone and listens to music. Also, he watches music programs on the television.

D : So, regularly he listens to music.

FP : Yes.

D : Do you think that the family or his mother caressed him too excessively?

FP : yes, maybe, but nevertheless he's rather independent. For example, this morning I had to go to the hospital with my father in law and he had to take care of himself. His clock rings at 8 o'clock, he gets up himself, he warms up some milk, drinks it and goes to school.

D : Does he always drink warm milk?

FP : Yes.

D : Never cold milk.

P : Sometimes, but then I put some chocolate powder in it.

D : But usually you drink warm milk?

P : Yes.

D : Is it white milk or chocolate milk?

P : No, white milk.

FP : He wants to be independent. For example, this morning his grandmother phoned to say that she would come to take care of him and to bring him to school, but he didn't want it.

All this happened within half a year.

For example, he went to the bank to take his saving money. He didn't want me to go inside with him, but I did, because I wanted to know how he all managed it. He wants to be very independent.

D : Do you think he has a sense of duty?

FP : No.

D : Is he precise in everything?

FP : No.

D : Rather an untidy boy?

FP : Yes, in that way he resembles his mother very much. They are identically the same. Both read very, very much. But they are really untidy.

D : So, he has a passion to read?

FP : Yes.

D : A kind of bibliophile?

FP : He has to read, because he was a little bit backward in reading.

d : He likes to read spontaneously?

FP : Yes. Now, he can read rather well. Fortunately, we noticed it in time.

D : Is he afraid of certain things, except of examinations?

FP : No. He's not afraid of the dark. He sleeps alone in the loft in the dark.

D : Of narrow places?

FP : No.

D : But he's afraid for the health of his grandfather?

P : Yes.

FP : Yes, tomorrow, he goes on holiday. But he doesn't like it.

D : What about crowded streets?

P : I don't like it. I rather want to be somewhere where it is quiet. I don't like the crowd.

D : Are you afraid of dogs?

P : No.

D : Of any other animal?

D : No.

D : Can you watch something horrible on television?

P : Hardly.

FP : If he sees some blood or someone with a sword in a film, he runs away.

D : Is he always busy?

FP : In fact, I must admire him. He's all alone. There are no children in the neighbourhood and he is always busy.

D : Is he in a good mood when he wakes up?

FP : Yes, he's not often in a bad mood.

D : But rather obstinate?

FP : Yes, sometimes. He has his own will.

D : Do you sleep well?

P : Lately, I do.

D : Do you like to travel?

P : Yes, very much.

D : What do you mean?

P : Especially with the aeroplane, and with the car.

D : But you like to go away?

P : Yes.

D : What do you mean? Are you a kind of adventurer?

P : Yes, I like to go to funfairs and on holidays.

FP : Then he sees new things.

D : He wants to see nee things. It has to be new?

FP : Well, he likes to learn new situations, and new tings. Also on television he's interested in several things.

D : What do you like to eat very much?

P : Hamburgers.

FP : That's quite a problem when we go on holiday. You can't stay with him in a hotel, because he always wants his hamburgers.

D : What else?

FP : With quite a lot of ketchup on it.

P : I don't like French fries very much.

D : But highly seasoned food?

P : Yes.

FP : And very spiced meat.

D : What else?

FP : Mayonnaise.

P : An popsicles.

D : Ice cream.

P : No, only popsicles.

FP : Yes, those things with frozen water in it.

D : Not ice cream, but popsicles.

He's rather fastidious in his eating.

FP : Yes, therefore we can't go with him anywhere. He never ate potatoes. He doesn't eat vegetables, for example, green cabbages and so on. There was a period he ate salad like a rabbit, but that period is over. According to me he eats too few vegetables.

P : Concerning the vegetables, I like raw cauliflower, and raw red cabbages.

FP : No boiled vegetables, only raw.

D : Only raw vegetables, like raw tomatoes?

P : No, no tomatoes.

FP : Radishes.

P : Not when they are too strong. Also cucumber.

D : Pickles?

P : No.

D : Just raw cucumber.

P : Yes.

D : Concerning the sweet things, what do you like?

P : Almost all kinds of sweets?

D : But which do you prefer?

P : Mars, raider and so on.

D : These are chocolate?

P : Not really chocolate, but chocolate filled with certain things.

D : Do you like chocolate?

P : I don't like a piece of bitter chocolate. It has to be chocolate filled with something.

FP : He also drinks quite a lot.

D : Yes, just a moment. We'll come to that in a minute.

D : So, all kinds of sweets. Are there other things you like very much, or things you don't like at all?

P : Yes, I don't like Brussels sprouts at all, and boiled red cabbages.

D : So, no boiled vegetables.

FP : Also no potatoes.

D : Here I wrote down that you don't like eggs, fruit and fat.

P : No.

FP : he cuts all the fat off his meat.

D : Are you thirsty?

P : Yes.

D : Do you drink with long draughts?

P : Yes.

D : Does he prefer cold or warm drinks?

FP : Cold drinks.

P : From the refrigerator?

P : In the summer when it is very hot I prefer very cold drinks.

D : Do you have moles somewhere?

P : Yes, quite a lot on my hands and my arms.

D : Yes, you have several brown spots, but also some café-au-lait spots, as we call them. Do you also have some on your body?

P : I don't know.

D : Will you take off your clothes? (Patient takes off his clothes)

FP : Yes, now I see, there are quite a lot on his body.

D : You never noticed it?

FP : No, I never have.

D : Turn around. Wait, I must put it on video. All right. You can put on your clothes again. May I see the white of your eyes? There is clearly blue sclerae in the eyes. Yes, all right.

He's rather hairy;

FP : Oh yes, he is for his age. Look, he already has a moustache.

D : How is the position of the sleep?

P : On my abdomen or curled up.

D : On which side?

P : On the right and the left side.

D : Sometimes you also sleep on the abdomen?

P : Yes.

D : Is the stool normal,

P : Yes.

D : Can you easily tolerate the cold?

FP : I think so.

D : So, we can say he is a boy who likes spectacular things.

FP : Yes.

D : He's rather active boy, but on the other hand he can read for hours.

FP : He plays in competition, but he is not the kind of person who wants to be the best. He's not a struggler.

D : Concerning the family history, where did your parents and grandparents die of?

FP : My parents are still alive, they are both 80 years old.

D : What about the parents of his mother?

FP : They are both 65 years old. They are very well, they are never ill.

D : This is an only child and his mother is a teacher?

FP : Yes.

D : All right. I observed if from many different aspects. It is very interesting we found the remedy, because he got the mononucleosis.

FP : I hope he will be all right.

D : If there is something wrong, we only have to repeat the remedy. It was remarkable that you noticed that he relapses when he has to take examinations.

Feedback (October 22, 1989)

D : In the meantime it is 1989. I made a video of you 2 years ago, in 1987. It is remarkable that since March 1988 you were coughing for one whole week, only during the day, and with expectorations. You had no fever, you got the remedy on March 11 and the problem disappeared. You came back on July 6. You were coughing especially at night; it was a heavy and hollow cough. You could sleep, but your mother woke up from it. You were already coughing for ten days. The remedy was repeated in 10M potency and the cough disappeared very quickly. On November 29, 1988 he had cracked lips, glands in the neck, he was not very active, and quickly tired. He had abdominal pain and nausea. Again he was listless and tired. The remedy was repeated in 10M potency and the case was solved. Up to now the remedy solved all your problems.

Now, I want to ask you some more questions. Concerning the family history, is there cancer in the family?

MP : Yes, my grandmother had.

D : Did you mention it previously?

MP : Yes, I did. It concerns the grandmother at mother's side.

D : It's not mentioned in this file.

MP : Maybe, it is in my file.

D : Previously, we talked a little bit about suppression. What do you mean? According to you he has been suppressed as a child and he always let himself he suppressed. I mean, it concerns the relationship with his father. It is not meant as a criticism, but only to show how he reacted in such situations as a child, how he felt? But apparently, it was a big problem.

P : I can't tolerate it if they belittle (make (someone or something) seem unimportant. make (someone or something) seem unimportant. ) me.

D : Yes, I understand. But does it happen often?

P : Yes.

MP : Yes, since he was a little boy.

d : Can you tell me something more about it?

MP : My husband never bothered about him. When my son wanted to help his father he started shouting at him, "You are a dummy, you don't known anything about it". Also when something went wrong in school he always said, "I was the first of the class and you don't know anything, and you are lazy"...and things like that. He was always criticizing him. Although the boy wanted to help in his own way, but he could never do things right for my husband.

D : How did he react in that situation?

MP : My son went away, he started crying, he sat somewhere all alone, reading a book, a watching television, he closes himself.

It has been this way all these years. And I think that played an important role for his dyslexia. He always wanted to read very well. I remember when he was in the first school-year he wept because he said "The thing I like to do most, I can't." At school they didn't want to understand his problem, and the PMS-centre (centre for psychological, medical and social problems) always denied it. I thought he had dyslexia, but everybody denied it. I tried to find another reason. I thought, maybe it's because of his eyes, maybe he's lazy, or maybe he can't, but although he was rather intelligent he should know it. I think it impressed him very much. Only when he was in the fourth school-year he got assistance.

D : So we can conclude that he has been suppressed, not physically mistreated, but emotionally.

MP : Yes, indeed.

D : In fact, a kind of humiliation. Although he reacted very little.

MP : Yes.

I think he didn't have to try. Then he would have been hit.

D : Yes, but some characters don't tolerate it and react, but he closes himself and let himself suppress. This contributed to his dyslexia, as you already said, but also to the development of his disease, because he's sensitive to suppressions and therefore he got an infectious mononucleosis. At the moment he is all right.

MP : Yes, he is.

D : I repeated the remedy several times with very good results.

MP : But at the moment he reacts much more. When my husband criticizes him he reacts by saying. "Look at yourself". Previously, he would never have said things like that.

D : At the moment he can stick up for himself.

MP : This does not make the situation easier. Maybe, it does for him, I don't know. I can't judge about that. But it causes quite a lot of trouble at home.

D : I think you feel much better when you can stick up for yourself or react, instead of sitting in a corner like a beaten dog.

P : Yes, I feel much better.

MP : For example, last week there were some problems. My son said, "Now, it's enough, I'll go away". At that moment he wanted to run away. Of course, that doesn't solve the problem either.

D : All right. That's all I need to know. Thank you.

Differential diagnosis with other remedies

Dr. kokelenberg guy

Carcinosinum

Carcinosinum is an under-prescribed remedy. I think about once or twice a week you can find a Carcinosinum picture. It is important to recognise.

One of the things that strike is the fact that they are not easily satisfied. They are rather critical persons. They like to make little remarks and corrections, like an old schoolteacher.

They are irritated by trifles, for example, when they go to sleep. They will be disturbed by little things, by little noises far away, some light, wrinkled bed clothes and so on. These things disturb a Carcinosinum person and make his sleepless.

One of the reasons for his sleeplessness is precisely that he is very attentive to little details. In this way he resembles Nux vomica, who has approximately the same problem. They have an exaggerated love for precision.

For example, if you are lost in a city and you ask a Carcinosinum person to tell you which way to go, he will describe it in a way that you will be even more confused. He will describe it as if you have a map there, in every detail. He loses himself in details.

For example, in their wallets the ten thousand notes are always folded in the same way. By these little details you will notice that he is a perfectionist.

In their clothing they will never wear red socks with a blue shirt. In this way he resemble a little bit Arsenicum, who has the same love for order and precision. We known that he is fastidious. It was one of the remedies of fastidiousness. However, the fastidiousness in Arsenicum is somewhat different. Arsenicum wants order out of insecurity.

One of the reasons of Carcinosinum to be fastidious and to love order is the fact that usually he had very demanding parents, Jehovah's witnesses or a military father or a dogmatic mother. It does not only concern parents, but also partners. These parents or partners are very moralising, they are very ethical. He tries to pleases that person, to do what the other person wants him to do. But he can not accomplish this wish to be perfect. This is the struggle he is in. He wants to be perfect and he notices that he can't be perfect.

This is the reason he has the fear of failure. He has the fear of failure of Lycopodium. He had the delusion he will never reach his destination. Carcinosinum has something similar. He wants to be perfect and he can not.

He needs the love and the approbation of the other person, like Pulsatilla.

The desire to be perfect in Carcinosinum is because he wants to please his parents, his partner and so on.

This is totally different in Arsenicum, for example, who has the love of order like Carcinosinum but for another reason. Arsenicum is insecure and his want for security makes that he is fastidious. When everything is in order he knows beforehand what is going to happen. That is why Arsenicum is very orderly, tidy, neat.

Nux vomica is fastidious too, but in Nux vomica there are no feelings involved. He does not want to please the other person. He wants to be perfect, because of his ambition. He wants to be the best. He is a hard person, more hard than Carcinosinum, who is usually not a hard person. They resemble a lot, Pulsatilla, Phosphorus, Staphisagria and so on.

Pulsatilla is fastidious and at first I wondered, I did not like the fact that Pulsatilla is a fastidious person. A fastidious person is someone who is very wanting. A difficult kind of person and usually Pulsatilla persons are not so difficult. But the problem is, Pulsatilla wants a lot of their partners. The symptom "fastidious" addition "Pulsatilla" comes from Gallavardin. In his book he noticed that Pulsatilla is difficult for their partners. They have a forsaken feeling, they want to be loved, cared for, and in this tiny little symptom they are very fastidious. Further on, I don't think that Pulsatilla is so fastidious.

Silicea is also in the rubric "fastidious". But in Silicea it is the love of detail, but without being very difficult for others. Silicea has "yielding disposition". If you ask for their opinion they will tell you their opinion, they have a very strong opinion about everything, but if you discuss with them, they will submit. They will say, "OK, you have another opinion, it is very valuable, I'm sorry." But inside they will continue their own ideas. They maybe even stubborn, obstinate, and they will continue their way of thinking, but they will submit. They will be like Pulsatilla. Silicea is a chronic Pulsatilla. There is something about those two remedies. They are complimentary.

Also Platina is fastidious. They are very demanding. They don't take into account the feeling of the other person. In fact they are very certain, the way they think is the best. They are haughty. You will not find that haughtiness in Carcinosinum.

Carcinosinum also has the fear of failure. That's why the remedy is in "ailments from anticipation". They become sick anticipating an event, because they want to be perfect and they know that it is not probable that they will be perfect. That's the way they are in ailments from anticipation. It is something like Lycopodium, like Argentum nitricum, like Silicea.

It is something that infects their soul after a while, they become infected by that fear of failure, and anticipating.

The anticipation and the irritation by trifles are the two main reasons of sleeplessness in Carcinosinum.

Later on in life or very soon as a child they will have anxiety fits. Very soon in the life of a child, you will notice that they have a very important responsibility. They will have the responsibility of a grown-up. They will have an anxiety about the health and the well-being of their relatives, of their family, of their friends, which is not common for a child that young. This is one of the reasons why Carcinosinum is precocious. It means that they have in some way an earlier development. But only in this aspect, they will have grown-up feelings about their relatives, their responsibility. It is like Aurum who has that feeling not having done his duty.

In fact, a Carcinosinum when he grows up he will remain sympathetic, sensitive about others, trying to please others, trying to do good. And it may lead him into depression. In that depression he will react like Aurum. He will be better by music, and he will have suicidal thoughts, just like Aurum. They are very alike in that way.

The anxiety fits can have an appearance of a phobia, for example, claustrophobia, phobia for water, phobia for all kinds of things. It is an anxiety without reason. It is as you can say an existential anxiety, a neurosis. The reason for the neurosis in Carcinosinum is precisely the responsibility. They have a sense of responsibility that weighs tons.

Don't get the false impression that they are very serious, depressed people. No, they are very lively persons, very sensitive persons, they love music, they love to sing, they love to dance, alone or with a partner, they are very romantic, very sentimental, very sensitive to overwhelming things. For example, they can stand before a waterfall and get chills, just by seeing the immense power of the waterfall. Or for example, in a airport, an aeroplane that is landing, they will watch it and will get tear in their eyes, just by seeing it. Or a parade, Olympic Games, and orchestra. They are very sensitive to overwhelming, important things with many people. They get goose-flesh from it, or chills, or they will weep, "weeping from music" is an addition for Carcinosinum. They like to watch a lightning and a thunderstorm. It is the same thing.

But pay attention, don't ignore Carcinosinum if they don't have precisely that symptom, because they have the symptom "contradictory and alternating states". For example, you can find that Carcinosinum has a desire for chocolate, and in my experience, for bitter chocolate, not milk chocolate, but he may have an aggravation or an aversion for it. Don't depend on the local symptoms alone, because they may have the two. In fact they also have a yielding kind of character. It lasts a long time before they have their own character. There will be a time in their life, and it will precisely that time of their life that the anxiety-fits come out, where they may have a crisis. They do not want to be dependent anymore of the demanding parents or partners and they will begin to fight against it to overcome the influence of the other person, or may be a religion, or a sect, or something like that. They will get into a fight to overcome it. But the fight will come later on in life, not at the age of twenty or twenty-five years, but at the age of thirty-five, forty years. And the fight will be very severe. In this fight anxiety and depression will come out. But if they overcome the depression they are a totally different kind of person. If you could see them at the moment when they have overcome the influence of the other they may be very alike to Tuberculinum : They love to travel, to do strange things, they love exotic food, they learn strange languages, they love to hear music that is very exotic, they reads books about travels and go to India. They become totally different kind of persons.

They have a big imagination. That is one of the reasons why Carcinosinum is in children who can not concentrate themselves. They have problems with their study. That is because of their day-dreaming, they love to day-dream, they like to build air-castles. They cannot concentrate for a long time, they can concentrate, but not for a long time. They want to know everything about life. That is the problem. It is like Aethusa and Baryta carbonica but for a different reason.

Later on you will notice that they are forgetful. They will forget little things, not important things. When they go shopping they will forget little things. Or in household affairs they will forget little things and they will be very angry about it. Angry at themselves, because they have forgotten to do something. In this they are very alike to Nitricum acidum who has the same symptom, anger at his own mistakes. And Staphisagria, very, very often you will find that Pulsatilla, Staphisagria, Phosphorus, Argentum nitricum are remedies that are very complementary or alike Carcinosinum. It will not be easy to differentiate those remedies, you will be confused. You will give Argentum nitricum, or Phosphorus, or Pulsatilla or Staphisagria and the patient will be better for a while. But he will relapse, other symptoms will come out and you will give another complementary remedy. But it will never really solve the problem. Then, one time you think of Carcinosinum, and you give Carcinosinum, the whole thing is cleared. That is one of the indications of a nosode. There are other indications. It is not always so that another remedy is needed.

I have a few cases which are Carcinosinum and didn't need any other remedy. Carcinosinum can be the simillimum of the patient. But it is rare.

During their life and it has something to do with the anxiety, some strange talents, gifts may come out, for example, clairvoyance. At a certain moment of their life they will have clairvoyance Mostly, they will have clairvoyance in their dream, not knowing about it, because they wake in the morning and when you ask them about their dream, they won't know it. They were away and they had a dream they don't remember. But later on in life, they will recognise a certain situation and they will say, "I have lived that situation, but I don't know when". And they will know before the thing happens what will happen. This is clairvoyance. In this they are like Sulphur, and Phosphorus and other remedies that have clairvoyance.

My opinion about one of the aspects of precocity of Carcinosinum. You know that they begin to masturbate very soon, their sexuality is very early developing in life. It is responsibility that makes them grow up sooner. It is as if the hormones start sooner. But don't be mistaken about it, don't think that Carcinosinum are people who are grown-ups at 8 years, no. They are grown-ups in a certain aspect of their personality. They will be naive for the rest of their lives. Until the moment that they stop the influence of the others and change. The childish behaviour, then the naivety will go. That childishness of Carcinosinum is something you will see in emotions. Very soon they will start to masturbate, but love will come very late. Love is something totally different. Also in the physical aspect you will remark that they are persons who are thumb-sucking, even in adults. They will be sucking their thumb, for example, in the sleep, or they may have ticks. Or there may be other aspects of childish behaviour in adult people, for example, nail-biting. You will very frequently find nail-biting in adult Carcinosinum people. You will also find enuresis, urination during sleep very late in life. At the age of twelve, fourteen years enuresis may still be a problem.

About the depression of Carcinosinum : they are closed up. They won't talk about it, they don't like any fuss about it, and leave me alone, no consolation please and I don't want to talk, I don't want to see anybody, I work it out myself. Because the depression has come, because they want to overcome the influence of others, they don't want others to influence them in their depression. That's why Carcinosinum is in "consolation agg.". They love people, and they are very open and sympathetic and sentimental, but when the depression has come, they don't want anybody to interfere with. They are a bit like Sepia. And the depression will be very deep. It may lead to suicide, like Aurum. It is a very serious problem. But one little light may shine when you put on music. Even in the depression, music will ameliorate, just like Aurum.

Carcinosinum people are very sympathetic towards other persons, relatives. Here, I want to differentiate some remedies with sympathy towards others.

For example, Causticum is a very important remedy with sympathy towards others. Causticum has a feeling of justice. He doesn't support injustice done to others or to himself. It is in the rubric "full of cares about others", anxiety about others", like Cocculus and other remedies. One of the reasons is the fact that Causticum has the fear that something will happen, just like Phosphorus. But in Causticum it is an intellectual fear. He is thinking about all the things that could happen. Therefore he has that fear, whereas in Phosphorus it is a feeling. It is just like that, he doesn't think about it, he suddenly gets the information that something might happen. It is a kind of clairvoyance in Phosphorus. In Causticum it is more on an intellectual plane. One of the other reasons for Causticum is the fact that he forgets everything. He always has the feeling that he has forgotten something. Those are the people who go on and check twice, three times if the door is closed, or if they switched off the lights and so on. A Causticum patient will weep out of sympathy. You will find him in "weeps out of sympathy with others". You are not helped when somebody weeps with you. It is very sympathetic, and it is nice and friendly, but you are not helped.

Another personality is Natrum muriaticum who also is sympathetic towards others, but in Natrum muriaticum they will not weep out of sympathy with others and they will not pity others, because they hate to be pitied themselves, because they are people who are very sensitive to things others do to them. They know very well what it means to be hurt. They are very sensible to being hurt. They have the symptom "dwells about things happened to them years ago". You know Natrum muriaticum is a patient who comes out of the door and there is the neighbour at the other side. Every morning he says, "Good morning", and the neighbour says, "Good morning". And then he goes to work. One morning that neighbour is not very attentive and is thinking about something totally different and doesn't see the Natrum muriaticum person saying, "Good morning" and he just goes on. That is something what the Natrum muriaticum character will feel as a mortification. He will brood about it, what is happening, why didn't he say "good morning", did I do something wrong. And he will dwell about it for days and days, because he knows he is very sensitive to those kind of little things, he will have sympathy towards others. But not like Causticum, he will really help. They can remain cool. They feel they have a sentiment, they try to help, but they will practically help the patient. They will not weep with the patient, for example. They are not overwhelmed by the feelings of the others, as for example, Phosphorus could have or Causticum.

Phosphorus on the other hand is another sympathetic remedy. But Phosphorus is a totally different kind of personality, they should be compared with chameleons. They overtake the sentiment of the other person. He takes over the characteristics of the environment he is in. Phosphorus has not protective shield. They have not a thick skin. That is why every sentiment and everything from the outer world goes very deep inside. In Phosphorus it is not so much the desire to help, as for example, in Carcinosinum. In Carcinosinum, there is really the desire to help. They get energy by helping others. In Phosphorus it is not the case. In Phosphorus it is more the capability to put oneself to the skin of the other. He totally adapts himself to it. But in Phosphorus they not only adapt themselves to the feeling of the others, they will adapt themselves to everything. They will adapt themselves to the clothing of the other, to the lifestyle of the others. They even take over words others use. He will adapt himself to the way of speaking of somebody else. He will try to do the same thing. That's the way Phosphorus is sympathetic . He gets the feeling of the other, it is not to help, but he simply gets it. It's a sort of identification of the other. IN this he may resemble Alumina. It may seem strange, but Alumina does exactly the same thing. Don't forget they have the confusion of identify. The confusion of identity in alumina is because they totally adapt themselves to others. But in alumina it is because of the confusion, in Phosphorus it is because of the lack of a thick skin, the lack of a shield.

Then we have another sympathetic type, it is Pulsatilla. In Pulsatilla the price she has to pay to get the love of the other is sympathy. If she pays with sympathy she will get love. If she doesn't get love she feels forsaken and isolated, alone. That's why they act with sympathy, because they know they have to. If they don't they will have a forsaken feeling, because they think the other will desert him. It is something like Argentum nitricum. He has that too.

Then there is Natrum carbonicum. It is a difficult remedy to find. Because they do not have that kind of stable feelings, they have an aversion to certain persons and they have an enormous sympathy to others. You will find them in both rubrics. You will find them in "reserved" and "desire to talk to someone" and "sympathy" and so on. They have both feelings. The way he reacts to somebody depends on little things, on details. He is conscientious about trifles. They pay attention to little things, therefore they have the sympathy or an aversion and it may change.

Further on, they are very alike Natrum muriaticum. All the Natrums have a kind of sensitiveness.

CASE 11

Cases

Severe cough

Boy, 7 years old

Dr. gaublomme kris

Carcinosinum

Case

I would like to show this case just in order to let you think of Carcinosinum not only in chronic cases, but also in acute cases. This is an acute case.

D : You were here last Sunday. Now, it is Friday, five days later. What was the problem with the boy?

MP : He had to cough very severely.

I saw the boy five days before this recording on a weekend duty. He was not a patient of mine. He had Calcarea carbonica before, because of the perspiration on the head, a chronic respiratory pathology, coughing. He reacted on Calcarea every time, but he relapsed very easily. He came back that weekend, and he was coughing like mad. He was coughing quite severely, two or three times underlined. That was a problem. Now, he comes back for a check up after five days.

MP : Sometimes, it appeared as if he had to vomit from coughing. But he didn't.

D : He was coughing very severely?

MP : Yes, very severely. He also had thick green discharges from the nose. When he lay down, he had to cough very severely.

D : Especially while lying down?

P : Yes.

D : Especially in the morning and in the evening in bed?

P : Yes.

D : Not in the middle of the night?

P : No.

D : It was also bad after exertion?

P : Yes.

Do you notice anything?

He is playing with everything that is lying on the table, he is playing with the car, and handling the microphone wire. He is doing things all the time. He is restless. And he does more things, as you will see soon.

D : Previously, he didn't feel so terrible?

MP : No, he wasn't ill.

D : But you were worried?

MP : Yes, he had a pneumonia at the end of August this year. At the beginning of September he has been hospitalized for 10 days.

We went to the hospital in X, but they sent us to the hospital in Y for further examinations. They didn't do anything in the hospital. That little spot on the lung will disappear by itself.

D : He had a spot on his lung?

MP : Yes, on the left lung.

D : Did he get antibiotics?

MP : Yes, in the hospital in X he got antibiotics.

D : did he get other medicines?

MP : No. Only antibiotics.

He came in treatment for chronic bronchitis. Recently, he had a severe pneumonia. This is quite a bit of pathology in a young child.

D : At that time he was very sick?

MP : Yes, he vomited blood.

D : Was it pure blood or mucus with a little bit of blood?

MP : The first time it was quite a lot of mucus. But the next day it was bright blood.

D : Did he get a disease of that kind previously?

MP : As a baby he suffered quite a lot of bronchitis. He was only 7 months old when it started. When he was two years old his adenoids were removed, half a year later they removed his tonsils. In 1984 I came here the first time and since then it has improved quite a lot, until a few months ago. Then it started again.

D : He suffered again and he has been hospitalised. Did he get other problems besides the bronchial tubes?

MP : In fact, not.

Is there anything you observe about the behaviour of the child? Is he attentive? Does he care about what is going on? He does not give a damn. He is just playing in his own little world. He has a car, a desk, that is all he is interested in. He got his mouth open the whole time. He is picking his nose. Does this make you think of any remedy?

Answer : "Baryta carbonica".

Answer : "Bufo"

MP : No, it only concerned the bronchial tubes. It also seemed as if his nose was obstructed constantly. He never sits with his mouth closed, he always breaths with his mouth open.

D : It is perceptible when he is ill?

MP : Yes, then he looks very pale. But he is not quiet. He must be very ill if he becomes quiet. But he looks very pale.

D : He is still active?

MP : Yes, and he can eat very well. Even when he has a severe cold he eats very well.

D : What about the thirst?

MP : He drinks more when he is ill.

D : Does he drink with small or long draughts?

MP : With long draughts. Always cold drinks.

D : From the refrigerator?

MP : Yes.

D : Does it have to be from the refrigerator?

MP : Yes.

Again we notice the desire for cold drinks.

D : When he is really ill he becomes quiet. Does he lie down?

MP : Yes. He lies down and he doesn't want to eat. When I see that he doesn't feel, well, he perspires very much.

D : Where?

MP : On his forehead and on his back.

This was a reason for thinking of Calcarea carbonica, chronic pulmonary infections in a young child with sweaty hands.

Calcarea carbonica is the first remedy you think of.

D : Last Sunday he was not that terrible. I examined him, he had a red ear on the right side, and had some rattling on his chest. I gave him remedy and how did he react?

MP : In fact, he reacted very well. The next day he was a complete different boy. That night he hardly coughed.

D : He hardly coughed that same night?

MP : Yes. As soon as we got home I gave him a spoonful. He went to bed and he hardly coughed that night.

D : It was a spectacular improvement concerning the cough.

Afterwards, the mother tells that when she repeated Calcarea, he also reacted concerning his cough, but always later, after 2, 3 or 4 days. But now, he reacted immediately.

MP : The discharges were still the same, but since today they are not so tight and not so green anymore.

D : Have other things changed during these five days?

MP : He perspires less.

D : Does he drink less?

MP : Yes.

D : At the moment he is normal again?

MP : Yes.

D : Can you tell me something about his normal behaviour?

MP : He is an active, he eats quite a lot.

D : What do you mean by "active"?

MP : he can't sit still. He always wants to play outside. He is very active. He can't play very well inside. He always wants to go outside.

"Better in open air", that is very clear in this boy. He is very active, even a little bit restless, which puzzled me a little bit for Calcarea. Calcarea can be quite restless, of course. It is bold type. I thought, there was still something about that child. It was a little bit funny during the consultation.

MIND, RESTLESSNESS, nervousness

D : Does he have a good appetite?

MP : Yes, he eats very well.

D : What does he prefer to eat?

MP : Warm meals. Although, he doesn't always like the vegetables. He likes soup, potatoes, and meat. He likes some vegetables, but not much.

D : He prefers soup to vegetables?

MP : Yes. And he also prefers potatoes with meat, and no vegetables.

D : But he likes soup?

MP : Yes, he likes all kinds of soup.

D : He will never say "no" to soup?

MP : No, never.

He will never say "no" to soup. Every soup is OK We heard it before and therefore we payed attention to it. Also in this child we find a quite strong desire for soup.

D : Is there something else he likes very much.

MP : Yes, chocolate. When we eat slices of bread he always wants to eat chocolate or choco with them.

D : Chocolate strands?

MP : No. Only chocolate and choco. That's the only thing he eats with his slices of bread, and nothing else.

P : Yes. Jam.

D : What else does he like?

MP : French fries.

He likes French fries. Is this a desire? No, in Belgium it is not a desire. It is a national miasm.

D : What else?

MP : Nothing else. He can't be alone. He can play, but someone has to be in the neighbourhood. He needs someone to play with.

D : Has this always been so?

MP : Yes. He likes to play, but someone else has to join him.

In this respect the child is quite different from what we saw so far. Until now we heard about children that withdraw themselves, that play by themselves and read books. He needs company very badly. He always wants to play with someone. Never by himself. You think this was not a Carcinosinum child, but I think the reaction was too prompt to doubt about the prescription. He is different in this respect.

D : Is he a sensitive child?

MP : Yes. He takes something to heart very easily if something happens at school, at home. He is also scolded very easily.

D : He is easily scolded when you reprimand him?

MP : Yes. Afterwards, he always comes back to ask what, why, how, and so on. He can't let it go. He has to talk about it afterwards.

D : Can you console him, cheer him up?

MP : Yes, I can.

D : Is he untidy or neat?

MP : He is rather neat.

D : In what respect?

MP : Concerning the school. For example, if they ask something to take to school he insists on it. Because they asked him something he wants to do it. In that respect he is very precise. But not concerning his toys. He does not always tidy up his playroom. According to him, things that have to happen, must happen. He really insists on it.

He is very strict in his school books, but he does not care very much about his toys. They can be upside down all over the place, he does not mind. Why this difference?

I think it has to do with what a colleague said yesterday. They are fastidious, they take care of their stuff, because they do not want to cause any reason for any one to complain about it.

They want to please. They want to be nice. That is the reason why everything has to be good-looking and nice, just not to disturb the others. It is not because they care so much. You can confuse this symptoms with other remedies.

D : Are there things he is anxious about?

MP : In fact, he is anxious that he will fail in other people's eyes. He is always afraid he will do something that is not good. For example, if you ask him something and he doesn't it well, he is afraid for the reaction.

D : Does he have other characteristics?

Do you have other children?

MP : yes, I have another son.

D : What is remarkable in this boy compared to the other?

MP : He is really dependent on us, on his brother. He always needs someone to be with him. His brother doesn't. He rather likes to be alone. He always wants to please. Even if my other son doesn't want to play with him, he always will do something nice for him, so that the other son will admit.

The mother tells us again. He tries to be good, tries to be nice for the other. He always wants to please.

MP : I always say to him, "If he doesn't want to, leave him alone. "But he will take it to heart.

D : Does he sympathize with the suffering of other people?

MP : Yes. Very much. For example, last week his brother fell with his bicycle and there was blood all over. He cried as loud as his brother. First, I thought, he was injured as well. He really sympathizes with his brother, or mother or father.

Here, you have the overlapping of two causative factors with this little accident. First, there is the sympathy he feels for his brother, second he sees blood all over the place. He can't stand that. He is sensitive to horrible things, to blood also. It looks awful.

MP : Sometimes, he sympathizes with the children of his class, but that is different. When something has happened, he has to tell it. He also thinks it is terrible when he may not play with the other children of the class. That's the way children are among each other. When he must not play with the other children, he will tell me 4 or 5 times that evening. He keeps repeating, "I was not allowed to... "and" I also want to..." and so on.

D : How does he react to music?

MP : He likes it. He tries to sing along.

D : A particular kind of music?

MP : Usually, children songs and cassettes with stories.

D : Bot pop-music?

MP : No, no.

D : Sitting still is a problem for him?

MP : Yes, he can't sit still.

D : For example, here in the consultation room, if he can't play, he wants to go outside.

MP : Yes. He can't even sit still to watch television. It's all right for a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes, but if a cartoon lasts too long, it doesn't interest him anymore. He rather likes to play outside, or being busy actively.

D : He sleeps well?

MP : Yes, he sleeps very well.

D : No problem?

MP : No.

D : Stool is normal?

MP : Yes.

D : Are there certain things he is afraid of?

MP : No. During the period of Saint Nicolas he is afraid of Black Peter. In fact, he is not really afraid.

D : When the wind is blowing or when there is a thunderstorm, do you notice anything particular?

MP : No. In fact, he doesn't react.

D : Does he weep easily?

MP : Yes

D : When?

MP : When he has pain, or when he is sad. He weeps easily. Also when he thinks there is an injustice. If he is scolded wrongly, he can weep for it.

D : If he gets comments wrongly?

MP : Yes.

D : A kind of feeling of : "They are not right with me, it's always me, I'm the scapegoat".

Yesterday a colleague told us about this scapegoat thing.

MP : My other son is very quiet, but he always does naughty things, so that I have to scold him. Therefore I have to call his name more than the one of his brother. And he notices it himself. I know he is right, but I can't scold my other son, if he doesn't to anything.

D : There is something else. Would you please look to the door, boy?

I as having a quick look at him during the consultation. He had this beautiful café au lait discoloration in his neck. It gave me a kick. Then I heard about the chocolate, the soup, the desires and I became more and more convinced that Carcinosinum was definitely to be considered.

I got more excited as the consultation went on. At the end I inquired if there was anything wrong in the family. And I assure you there was. His mother's mother has diabetes, her sister died from cancer. A niece of his father had tuberculosis. There was tuberculosis and cancer all over the family.

This together with what we saw, the café au lait spot and the desires, I thought I do have to the prescription and have to give Carcinosinum, with a good effect.

Concerning the case I would like to discuss the follow up. Five days after the remedy he came for a check up and everything was all right. He came back, 1 months later and he had some dandruff, white scales on the head.

What would you do in such a situation?.

Wait. That is the difficulty where the patients shift from one doctor to another. He was prescribed another remedy, he got Thuja. And he relapsed he came back 10 days alter and had a fever again, he had a headache, he had a fever of 39.5° C, he was coughing. Then he saw a third doctor. The doctor on duty repeated Carcinosinum and again he reacted well. Every thing disappeared again, including the dandruff.

A while later he came back with swollen tonsils, then he was prescribed Baryta muriatica. I think this is a problem. There is a question about long-term case management in this child. That is a difficulty. For me that is the most difficult thing in Homoeopathy. And we all have to learn a lot in this respect. It is even more tricky than prescribing a remedy. As long as Carcinosinum does something we can't go away from the remedy. There can be a Bufo, a Baryta carbonica behind it. As long as Carcinosinum works we should not touch it. We all have to watch out what we are doing because we all make mistakes.

CASE12

Chronic sinusitis, headache

Woman, 35 years old

Dr. gaublomme kris

Carcinosinum

Case

This woman is 35 years old. She is a widow. Her first husband died and she lived together with another man for quite a few years. She has two children, a boy and a girl.

I happened to know her when I started as a general practitioner about 10 years ago. I remember her quite well. We were working in a group practice and one day we had a meeting during noon-time, the bell rang and she came in. I left the room and saw her downstairs. I said, "I'm sorry, we are having a meeting at the moment. We don't have time to discuss or to see anybody. Could you please come back in half an hour." She turned her back, slammed the door and two days later I got a letter from her which really knocked me off my socks. It was so sharp, so insulting, so criticising. I really didn't feel well for a week after. I wrote her a letter back saying that if it was her purpose to really hurt me, she did a great job.

That was the idea I had of the woman. Afterwards she came to this place for homoeopathic treatment, she was sent by my former colleague for chronic sinusitis with green discharges. Also some other pathology which we will run in soon.

She came with headache, as if her head would bursts, heavy pressing pain in the forehead about the eyes as if her skull would blow apart, worse from noise, her hair was painful on touch. She was mentally a lot worse when she was taking a rest. She was much better when she was working. She had to be busy. She couldn't watch television. If she did she was ironing in the meantime or doing games with her children. She always did three things at a time. She had pain in the face and her appetite was quite considerable, mainly with the headache. She had frequent colds. She had tension and distension in the abdomen and quite often a pain in the right fossa. She had a feeling as if she was giving birth to a child. Everything was pressing down so much. She couldn't stand cold at all. It gave her blue nails.

The first thing in the morning was to turn on the radio and listen to music. She loved dancing. She was quite constipated and it was quite common for her to have stool once a fortnight. She went to the toilet once in two weeks. Can you imagine any distension in this woman? IF you don't, try it yourself. Don't have stools for two weeks, and tell me whether you are distended or not. She had several inflammations. Her sex life was awful. She really had an aversion. She did aerobic dancing, swimming, jogging twice a week. She felt pretty tired and had an unrefreshed sleep. She like sour pretty much, chocolate as well. She slept on the left side. If you are in a homoeopathic practice for a year or so and you hear this story, it is quite obvious what you prescribe.

Yes, she went home with Sepia. She did pretty well on it. I thought, we are fed up with Carcinosinum, let me show you a Sepia case this time. After the Sepia there was so much discharge from her nose, thick mucus for a whole week without really feeling sick. There was a discharge from the vagina as well, the leucorrhoea came out gushing. She had some headache for a while, just for a night, but it became better spontaneously. Her urine started smelling quite strongly. As we know, if the patient gets another symptom of the remedy after you gave it, that is a kind of proving. That is a good sign. So I was quite happy with the Sepia.

Then she was all right for a while and I had to repeat Sepia after four months and then once again five months later. The real bad sinusitis had disappeared. It didn't come back. But still she was having the problems in her abdomen, pain and a distended feeling. The constipation didn't go away. It went away sometimes, then it came back. Then she went to another homoeopathy who live near her place and who had been here in the centre for a training. She went there, he gave her some Sac lac and then occasionally she got Carbo animalis. After two or three months she phoned me again and she said, "I don't think this is going to work". I don't feel any better. Could you take me again. "I thought I was going to solve this problem".

I gave her Sepia again. But the miracle didn't happen. Some months later she came back with the sinusitis. She had some white spots on the skin, depigmentation spots, and still the distended abdomen, the constipation. Occasionally, she said something about the weird pain in the right lower abdomen, in the region of her ovary which extended upwards to the iliacus. That sound familiar to me. Moreover she told me that she seemed to be so awkward lately, she dropped everything she got in her hands. These were two key-notes that made me think of Bovista. She got Bovista. The pain she had below disappeared. But at that time she also had another pain under the ribs and that one didn't disappear. So I only got rid of half a problem. I thought, "Well, what is this. Maybe there is some local problem with her liver or so". She was still constipated. He beginning of the stool was hard and the next part was more flat, thin. She couldn't bear any clothing around her waist. I repeated Bovista first, but it didn't work. Afterwards, I gave Chelidonium. Then the pain under the ribs disappeared, but she got the pain in the lower abdomen again. So I said, "This doesn't make sense. We can go on for ages." Then, she got stitching pains in her side. In May of this year she came back with the same kind of problems. The recording was made one month later, but we will comment on the consultation of May.

D : Again pain in the right inguinal region, distended abdomen, two or three days before you had stool. The stool came every 5 to 10 days Previously, there was blood with the stool, but there isn't any at the moment. At night you woke up because of the pain. You couldn't wear pants or a safely belt. The eyes and fingers were rather swollen in the morning. You had some vesicles on your fingers, vesicles on your foot-sole, and on the rim of the feet, which dried up and became crusts. You broke them open to get rid of them and that was painful. Water and moisture was coming out. As long as they were not open they were itching. These problems were stronger with warm weather, especially during the summer.

But that was not the first time?

P : No.

D : Since when did you have this?

P : Since 1974. And nobody has solved this problem.

That was another thing that puzzled me. Neither allopathic treatment or my former remedy Sepia ever touched this eruption on her foot, itching blisters on foot-sale and eventually on the hands too. She still had them. she had it for fourteen years.

D : I asked you if you liked ice-cream? The answer was "yes" without any doubt.

P : Yes, definitely.

D : It is no problem to eat two or three ice-creams a day.

You even said, "I could skip my warm real for an ice-cream".

Do you reckon we can take this for a desire? Do you think this is a desire? Of course, it is. She likes to eat two or three ice-creams a day. She skips her meal and has an ice-cream instead.

D : You also liked chocolate very much?

P : Yes, a packet of 400 gr. a day.

400 gramm of chocolate a day. Do you think that is a desire? Perhaps we can give it one underline pro 100 gr. a day. That will make it four times underlined.

D : Are you somebody who is rather sympathetic to other?

P : Yes.

D : A little bit, rather?

P : Yes, easily.

D : If there was a thunderstorm you wouldn't hide under bed, on the contrary?

P : No, I went for a walk. I went looking at the thunderstorm.

D : Why?

P : I like it. I think it is nice, it is mysterious.

D : Does it impress you?

P : Yes.

D : You also like to eat cheese?

P : Yes.

D : Do you like eggs, salt, chocolate, ice-cream?

P : Yes.

D : You can't tolerate the heat?

P : No.

D : But not the cold either?

P : No, not at all.

Up to now we haven't seen any chilly Carcinosinum. She is rather chilly. She can't stand the heat, but she is not fond of the cold either. She can't stand it.

D : What about milk?

P : I don't like it.

D : Can you drink it?

P : No, I drink it this way. (She pinches he nose). And by preference a glass of water immediately afterwards, so that I don't taste it anymore.

D : Why do you drink it?

P : I don't drink it. Previously, I drank it, because I had to.

D : You have an aversion for it since you were little?

P : Previously, I was a member of the milk club. There I had to drink so much milk and I did with a lot of pleasure. But at a certain moment I started to detest it and I only drank milk if I had to. Since I left my parents' house I don't drink milk anymore.

D : That's quite a long time?

P : Yes.

D : If you drink something you want it either very cold, or very hot?

P : Yes. I like a soft drink with ice cubes and when I drink tea it must be very hot.

D : Do you eat those ice cubes?

P : Yes.

Do you remember the boy who liked the icicles. She is liking ice-cubes.

D : When you are at the sea you suffer less from swollen eyes?

P : Yes. In general, I feel much better.

D : When you have troubles and you go on holiday...

P : that's glorious. Then I calm down.

D : You are a person who is rather conscientious, who allows oneself very little faults, deficiencies?

P : Yes.

D : You have depigmentation?

P : Yes. I have depigmentation.

She works as a secretary at some place. She told me that she wants everything quite perfect, everything has to be in order, everything has to be all right or she doesn't go home. She is like Calcarea in this respect. You can really trust her as a secretary. You can be very sure that everything is fine. She is very conscientious.

P : Also on the inside of my thighs and on my knees. If I have an injury or a scratch I get depigmentation.

D : These were arguments enough to give you again a remedy. You got the remedy a month ago. How did you react?

P : First of all, I got swollen glands in the neck. I reacted very quickly, about four days afterwards. And I got a rough voice. Then I got pain in the left ear.

D : Especially in the left ear. Not in the right ear?

P : No, that was negligible. It was a kind of reaction. In the right ear there as a kind of tickling.

D : Was it a stitching pain?

P : Yes, a stitching pain that came very suddenly.

When I was cooking, or writing I had to put my finger on my ear and then it disappeared. I didn't have a constant pain in the ear.

D : Did it disappear quickly?

P : Yes. It disappeared quickly.

Then I got a severe sore throat.

D : Afterwards, or at the same time?

P : No, it all came in the sequence I'm telling you.

D : When you got a sore throat did you still have the stitching in the ear?

P : Yes. I still had them. The sore throat came afterwards.

D : Can you tell me something about your sore throat?

P : It got a feeling as if I would get an inflammation of the throat.

D : In the middle?

P : There (points to the sides of the larynx).

D : Burning?

P : Yes, burning. I suffered from it when I drank cold or warm drinks.

D : Also while eating?

P : Less while eating. If I ate some sour or spied things, then I suffered more from a sore throat.

D : From cold as well as from warm drinks?

P : Yes, I suffered from it. It lasted a while.

D : How long?

P : About three days.

D : The, it was one week later.

P : I started to get pain in the abdomen on the right side. The symptoms you just mentioned were back.

D : The pain below in the right inguinal region or the stitching pain in the region of the liver?

P : No, the pain in the right inguinal region. Then, I was in a panic and wanted to phone you. But I didn't, because I thought it is a reaction to the remedy;

Then I had stool. The first stool hurt very much. It was a real lump and my skin was torn and the rest of the stool was normal. It was no diarrhoea as I usually had.

D : It was not the same as before. The rest of the stool was not flat?

P : No.

D : Normal?

P : Yes. Shortly afterwards, I got a reaction on my eyes. The eye corners started to itch. I got swollen eyelids.

D : That was afterwards?

P : Yes, about 4 or 5 days afterwards. I also had to sneeze and I got bleeding gums.

These symptoms always came when she was going to have a sinusitis. It always started with itching at the inside to her eyes, sneezing. Soon after that she had a sinusitis. All these symptoms, one after another came the first week after the remedy. It is beautiful.

P : The gums bled very strongly, not only while cleaning the teeth, but also in between. Suddenly, I tasted blood in my mouth.

D : Without any reason?

P : Yes.

Then I got eruptions in my face, really pustules, not black-heads. In the meantime, I thought I got rid of my cold, but in fact, it came through strongly. In the meantime, it went away; But afterwards I got it gain, the itching in the corners of the eyes, the swollen eyelids, sneezing and pain at the bronchial tubes. It was a kind of dry cough, it was the same cough I got when I had tuberculosis.

She had active tuberculosis twice in her life, at the age of 5 and 15. She was treated for that allopathically. After the remedy she starts having the same cough.

What do you think when you hear this?

I think the remedy is working very deeply. It is getting down to when she was 5 and 15 years old, this within one week, or 10 days at most. The remedy is really working deeply.

P : I don't really have to cough, but it is a dry cough. Then, at that moment I got in a panic. My boss entered my room and said, "You have a very unhealthy cough". But I said, "No, no, I just have a cold'. But I was scared.

Do you think she is loveable? I like her. I really enjoy it when she pays me a visit. She is not the woman anymore I knew ten years ago, which is due to the remedy. The partner she had years ago, was suppressing he children quite heavily. She didn't know for a while. Then she found out. She kicked him out right away. He left the same day. She made him pack his clothes and kicked him out. She is really decided. She knows what she wants and she does not allow him to fool with her children. After the guy left she was by herself for a while. She met another person and started a new relationship. Since then she was doing a lot better. The relationship she had before was really suppressive.

P : At the moment I have to clear my throat, but it is not really that dry cough. Concerning my stool, it goes a little bit better, but it is not normal yet. It might happen that I don't have stool for four days, then I have stool two days after each other, the I don't have stool for about 6 days.

D : But not 10 days without stool?

P : No, I got rid of that. When I didn't have stool for one week, 6 days, then the first part is hard and I have pain again. Particularly, I get pain in the inguinal region. Further, I don't have pain except when the stool is formed and a day before the stool.

D : It has to do with your intestines?

P : Yes. Absolutely. At the moment I feel well.

D : Better than previously?

P : Yes.

D : In what sense?

P : I am stronger. I can cope much more. I mean, physically. For example, to drag a sack potatoes of 5 kilo was very difficult for me, but I don't have problems with it anymore.

D : 5 Kilo? You had difficulties with it?

P : Yes. Then I really had to drag the sack.

Also concerning the power of endurance.

D : How do you notice it?

P : I'm much more active. I can do many more things. I can also tolerate the warmth now. Previously, I couldn't. I could sit down somewhere. Now, I jut go on doing my housework. I can go on ironing and things like that.

D : Previously, you had to take a break?

P : Yes, I really had to say, "I will stop here, I will continue the rest tomorrow." But at the moment I just go on.

D : That's good news. In what other respect do you notice it?

P : I'm more quiet at the moment. I'm not so hot-tempered anymore. I don't scream so much. Now, I just say, "It will happen this way, and if it doesn't you will see the consequences." Previously, I started screaming and yelling if I had to tell something. I was wondering how I would teach my children the responsibility, but I couldn't tell them in a normal way. The more I was thinking about it, the more I started screaming. Now, I understand that the children don't remember 5% of what I said at that time.

D : What about the sense of responsibility?

P : I still have it. Now, when we are sitting at the table I say to my children, "Listen, I have something to say", and then I start telling.

D : What about your job.

P : I am much more quiet as well.

D : Less tense?

P : Yes.

When I haven't finished my work I say, "Not ready, all right, tomorrow there will be another day".

D : Previously, it had to be finished?

P : Yes, I worked overtime, unpaid, but it had to be finished.

She goes on like this and tells a story about her job. She works with a computer. When the computer was broken she used to work like hell to catch up with the work. Now, she doesn't anymore. She says, if there is something wrong with the computer I just ask the person who is responsible and say, "By next week I want a new program and all the data must be given in. If this is not done, you will see the work piling up like this and it is not going to change until your job is done". That's all. And she only tells him once, she is not going to repeat it. She doesn't fuss about it, she doesn't get angry, she just tells him what he has to do.

What she reached was a real balance in her live and a real peace within her job, her children. Her daughter is sitting next to her, she doesn't mind telling all these things, she doesn't mind telling about her person, her life, she is not hiding anything. She is open. She enjoys the way she is doing now.

I gave the remedy in May. I didn't hear from her anymore. But I phoned her last night to make sure I could show the video, that she didn't have a relapse. But she said she is still doing quite fine.

The video was interesting to show, because of the likeness with Sepia, which is certainly another remedy to differentiate with Carcinosinum for the desires, the kind of behaviour, as I told in the beginning, the spitefulness, and the way she looks also. The dark complexion, the dark eyes, the dark hair, you could quite easy confound her with Sepia. As we saw, Sepia only did part of the work but never worked as deeply as Carcinosinum.

Question : "What happened to the eruption on her foot-sole?"

D : The eruptions disappeared for the first time ever. Slowly, they disappeared, but at the end they were completely gone. "Itching blisters" is also something Carcinosinum must have on the foot-soles and the fingers.

CASE13

Rheumatic pains, constipation, palpitation

Woman, 50 years old

Dr. geukens alfons

Carcinosinum

Case

March 1989

A : What kind of medicines do you take?

P : 10 mg Lysanxia in the evening and Dytenzide every morning.

A : Dytenzide on tablet a day and Lysanxia one tablet of 10 mg in the evening.

P : Yes, I also take Inderal, I had to take three tablets, but I only take two, in the morning and in the evening.

A : 10 mg?

P : Yes. I also drink a special kind of tea every 8 to 10 days. I loose weight by drinking that tea. When I drink this tea I can go to the toilet, but I don't drink it too much. I don't know if I may continue drinking this tea? It is only a herb-tea.

A : Yes, that's all right.

These are the medicines you take? The doctor also wanted to give you Naprosyne?

P : Yes, I take Naprosyne when I have very much pain.

A : But what is your main problem?

P : I suffer from hypertension, and I have very strong heart palpitations. Two times a year I have a cardiogram taken, because I think there is something wrong with my heart. But it is not true. Last time the doctor said it was not an angina pectoris, but he has to keep an eye on me. In 1972 they did a hysterectomy.

A : Why?

P : Because I had inflammations constantly. I have five children. Had a very severe bleeding and I nearly died. The afterbirth got stuck. It started bleeding.

She has one backward child. Do you remember this Baryta carbonica child, a fat child that didn't talk at all? It's her child.

P : My youngest child was only 5 months old when I was pregnant again. Afterwards, I got two other children.

A : Did you get a bleeding?

P : No, everything was all right. We had five children, we didn't want any other children, but the doctor didn't want to prescribe the contraceptive pill, because he was a rather conservative doctor. He told me that if we had sexual intercourse on certain days, there would be no problem. But I got another child. Then, he prescribed the pill. But I couldn't tolerate it. I always got inflammations. I had to go to the gynaecologist and the only thing he could do was to take everything away.

A : Do you mean inflammations of the uterus?

P : Yes.

A : With leucorrhoea?

P : And blood.

A : Afterwards they removed the uterus?

P : Yes.

A : Were you ill before 1972?

P : No, never.

A : What happened after 1972?

P : I was better than before. The inflammations were gone. Everything was better. After the youngest child was born I suffered from hypertension and oedema. I have been treated for hypertension since then. I always got injections for...

A : Flushes of heat?

P : Yes.

A : Did you have flushes of heat?

P : Very much.

A : Did they also remove the ovaries?

P : Yes. The effect of the injections ceased after three weeks. I had to get another injection. But they always had to inject male hormones. I got violet hair, and then the doctor started with female hormones. At the moment I can't live without an injection for one year. When I get the injection the hurriedness disappears. I feel it. I have it very strongly. I always thought there is something wrong with my heart. That's the problem up to now.

A : What about the rheumatic pains,

P : They are better when I get the injections.

She says, "When I get the injection the hurriedness and the flushes of heat disappear." Which is the remedy?

P : The doctor always wanted to give me injections, but I don't want it. Then he says, "All right, then you have to suffer." I said, "All right, I will." But when I have too much pain I take two tablets of Naprosyne and the pain goes away. As soon as I get the injection I feel much better. Three weeks after the injection I start having pain in my breasts. Then I am very tense as if I must have my menstruation and I have very much pain. Further, I feel fine. I says, "I will not get any other injection, but I can't live without it." Then, I am so hurried. I always think there is something wrong with my heart, although my heart lies here. When the doctor took the cardiogram the last time he said that I got cramps at the big heartmuscle. But is this possible?

A : That might be.

Do you think that you are in a hurry in general?

P : Yes. I'm always in a hurry with my daughter, and my husband is at home for about 10 years. He is angry when I say, "The persons whose husband is working the whole day must be very happy people. I'm never on my own'. The only thing I wish is to be at home, alone, I don't need a radio.

A : You want it to be quiet at home.

P : Yes. I don't care about sitting at home. When I can go away with the bus for one day, I don't feel anything.

A : After the birth of your last child you started suffering from hypertension?

P : Yes.

A : And oedema?

P : Yes.

A : On the other hand you are suffering from the consequences of the hysterectomy at the moment, because of the fact that you have those flushes of heat.

Where do those flushes of heat start?

P : I feel them beforehand. It starts with a hurriedness, I start perspiring, I get a very red head, but it doesn't last a long time. When the effect of the injection has ceased I have to put my feet out of the covers 7 or 8 times a night, so that I cool down. When I have cooled down, it is gone.

A : Do you put your feet out of the covers?

P : yes, that's my first reaction.

When it doesn't go away, I have to put away the covers. Three or four winters ago I had a very severe cold. I have been hospitalized for pleurisy. I got about 20 injections. They took X-rays of the lungs, and they discovered that I had a spot on my lung.

A : Is there any tuberculosis in the family?

P : No.

Four years ago, I have been hospitalized for one week. They examined me completely. They ordered a special kind of injection in X, but it didn't work. But then they concluded that I might have had tuberculosis when I was a very young child. But, I don't know anything about it. The post is as large as a coin. But the spot has dried up, it is very hard. Only this winter I didn't get a cold.

A : Do you like to travel?

P : I don't have the opportunity. I can only go away for one day. In the beginning I had five little children, my husband got one accident after the other. I didn't have money for travelling. Previously, we had a shop, it was impossible. Now, the children are grow up, my husband doesn't like to travel, he wants to stay at home with his pigeons. I have to take care of my mother, she will be 92 years old soon. I have other sisters and brothers, but I have to take care of my mother because I live very near to her, and because I am the youngest, as they say. Otherwise, I would have gone to Spain. I wanted to go away.

Do you have prepositions?

Answer : "Pulsatilla?"

A : Yes, she is sensitive, quiet.

P : I don't care much about sex since I have been operated. My husband always says, "You don't love me." But that's not true. I love him very much, I don't want another man. I really don't care anything about sex, only when I got the injection. A few days after the injection I want to have sexual intercourse, but otherwise I don't like it.

A : Previously, you did?

P : Yes. Previously, I was normal.

A : What are your hobby's?

P : Knitting, crocheting, making things.

A : Do you like the sun?

P : Yes, but not lying in the sun.

A : Why not?

P : I don't get brown. I become very red. I get burnt instead of getting brown. There fore I don't care much about lying in the sun.

A : On which side do you sleep?

P : On my left side. But usually, flat on my back, with drawn up knees. I don't lie on a pillow, but on a roll. I put it in my neck, and from here on I lie flat with my knees drawn up. But I will never lie on my right side, but always with my knees drawn up. My husband always says that it is cold in the winter with these drawn up knees. The doctor discovered the rheumatism by taking blood. My father has it as well.

A : Since when are you constipated?

P : I always suffered from it. Even before the operation.

A : When do you suffer from constipation?

P : I feel I have to got to the toilet, but I can't. My husband says that I should take a book and read when I sit on the toilet. But I can't concentrate. I just sit there, doing efforts to go to the toilet, but it doesn't help. Often, I take Glycerine suppositories.

A : How old were you when the constipation started?

P : I already had a few children.

A : You were married?

P : Yes.

A : How does your stool look?

P : Sometimes it's very hard. When I can't go to the toilet for about two or three days, I feel tense and I have to drink a cup of tea. Afterwards, I go two or three days after each other. Then, I'm constipated again.

A : What about your appetite?

P : It's very good. I eat very little. I can eat more, but I don't.

A : Why not?

P : Previously, I weighed more than 100 kilo. At my father's side they are very fat people, they all weight more than 100 kilo. But I don't want it. When you put on weight, you want to loose it again, and then you have difficulties with it. In the morning I eat two little slices of bread with jam. I will never eat more. When I'm hungry about 10:00 o'clock, I eat another slice of bread. I can eat six slices of bread in the morning, but I don't.

A : What do you like to eat very much?

P : I eat everything.

A : No preferences.

P : No.

A : What don't you like to eat?

P : Very little or nothing.

I can eat everything.

A : Nobody eats everything.

P : Well, I don't know.

A : Are there certain foods that you don't tolerate?

P : Yes, mussels. When I have to eat them, I will. But I can't eat them.

A : Why not?

P : I don't like them. I like red cabbages very much, but I still bring them up after three days. I also like a herring and onions, but I bring them up as well.

Pulsatilla. Aggravation from red cabbages and onions is Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla and Sulphuricum acidum are complementary. She does not tolerate the.

P : My nose is always obstructed on the left side. Last week I went to the doctor and here I have on thick vein, and there is a swelling above that eye. But it doesn't hurt.

A : It is only swollen?

P : Yes, and it is a vein. I don't know if you can see it at the moment?

A : No, I can't.

P : My feet and my hands swollen. But when I take that little pill I start urinating much more. When I don't take that little pill, I can't urinate for a whole day. I have been taken these pills for years.

A : Do you weep easily?

P : No. But I get a lump in my throat.

There goes our Pulsatilla. She does not weep easily. I don't think there will be a Pulsatilla who will tell you this.

A : Do you suffer from a lump in your throat regularly?

P : Only when I am really worried. I'm very much worried when there is something wrong with my children. My eldest son is a police-man, he has a wife, they are happy, they have three children in three years but she can not tidy up her house. When I get there I want to help. Sometimes I ask if I can do something. The youngest is born in February, they wanted to have three children in three years, they are married for 9 years. I want to help but I may not. I tell my other daughter. Although I often say, "These are happy people who can be so untidy".

A : Are there other things that you don't tolerate except onions and cabbages?

P : I tolerate them, but I bring them up.

A : You don't like mussels at all?

P : If I have to eat them, I will eat them.

A : Why don't you like it?

P : It disgusts me. Further, I eat everything. Of course, I prefer one thing to another.

A : but you prefer sweets, because you always eat jam.

P : Although, I never eat sugar, like pralines. Sometimes when I'm watching television I take a piece of chocolate, while knitting. But I try to avoid it because they contain too much calories.

A : Of what disease did your parents die?

P : My father died of diabetes. My mother is still alive.

A : What about the aunts and the uncles?

P : Two aunts at mother's side died of cancer. But they were not so young anymore. The aunts and uncles at father's side have become rather old. But my father was only 62 years old. He had a calcification in the head. My sister also suffers quite a lot. She is like my father. She also suffers from a hypertension, oedema. She has very swollen legs, but I don't.

A : Can you tolerate the warmth inside easily? Do you think you are rather chilly?

P : No, I rather tolerate the cold than the warmth.

A : What do you mean?

P : For example, I will never wear more than I usually wear. I will never wear a bodice. I don't like the bright sun. There are people who can lie in the sun for hours and hours. But I can't. I avoid the sun as much as possible.

A : What about the butter?

P : I take margarine.

A : You don't take butter?

P : No.

A : You don't take it because of your health?

P : I like it very much.

A : Do you eat rich food like fat?

P : No.

A : Do you like it? The white of the meat?

P : Yes, I prefer bacon to beefsteak.

A : When it is fried very hard.

P : No, no, it is not fried very hard. I eat it very seldom, every two months. When I eat bacon I have to watch out or I eat more than half a pound.

A : Do you like bacon?

P : Yes.

A : Do you like milk?

P : I take milk in my coffee.

A : Otherwise you don't drink milk?

P : No.

A : You don't like it?

P : Yes.

A : But you don't drink milk?

P : No. But I can't drink black coffee.

Who thinks about another remedy?

Don't you think we have to change the muriaticum in carbonicum. It could be better. No? Do you think that this a Natrum muriaticum woman? Don't you think we have more chance with Natrum carbonicum.

She can not tolerate the sun, aversion milk, and aversion sex. Does anyone propose. Natrum carbonicum? No? All right.

A : In fact, you like to eat fat.

P : For example, I will eat the fat of a cutlet, but I will leave the lean part.

A : Are there certain things you are afraid of?

P : I was always afraid something might happen to my husband or to my children. I always think, if I and my husband have to die what would happen to my daughter? Or if my husband has to die, what would happen to me and my daughter?

What about Phosphorus?

A Do you have fear of heights?

P : I don't like it.

A : Do you have a clear fear of heights.

P : When I'm upstairs and one of my grandchildren is with me, I can't tolerate that they will lean against the window. I can already see them falling, I see them lying downstairs. I feel it, I hold them tightly, because I think they could fall.

A : But you don't suffer from it yourself?

P : No. If my husband is away, and he stays away too long, then I'm always worried and think, "My husband has got a car accident, he lies in a hospital somewhere. "That's my first reaction, because he never stays away too long. It also happened that I telephoned when he stayed away too long. I don't think he would go drinking a beer somewhere, he doesn't do it. I'm scared when he stays away too long.

A : What about a thunderstorm?

P : I'm not afraid of it.

Another preposition is Baryta carbonica.

A : What about the lightning?

P : No, I'm not afraid of it.

A : Do you watch it?

P : No. I will not lie under the covers when there is a thunderstorm.

A : Do you read?

P : Only the papers.

But a book doesn't interest me.

A : Where do the flushes of heat appear first?

P : Usually, I feel that my heart starts beating more quickly. Then the flushes go up to the head.

A : It starts on the breast?

P : Yes.

A : The heart palpitations or the heat?

P : No, the flushes of heat start in the face.

A : Can you sit quietly at the table when you are eating?

P : I stay at the table until everybody has finished, but I would like to have finished the washing up.

A : So, you mean that you are a person who is hurried,

P : Yes, rather. When I go away with the bus for one day I want the house to be cleaned, the table to be cleared, and the beds to be made, these three things have to be done before I go away. When I'm away the whole day, I can't tolerate that my bed hasn't been made when I come home, I'm just hurried. I don't know where it comes from.

A : Are you tired?

P : No.

A : Do you suffer from aphthae in the mouth?

P : I got some last week.

A : Do you suffer from them regularly?

P : Not regularly, but sometimes.

A : All right.

Preposition : "Kali carbonicum".

Because of the flushes of heat with palpitation.

Proposition : "Sanguinaria".

Because of the hot feet, she uncovers them.

What did I give? Sulphuricum acidum? You know Sulphuricum acidum in cancers of the uterus, chronic inflammations with cancers of the uterus.

I think everybody gives Carcinosinum.

FEEDBACK (May 1989)

A : We know the medicines you took.

P : I only take 2,5 mg of Lysanxia, First, it was 10 mg, then 5 mg and now only 2,5 mg.

A : What about the Dytenzide?

P : I took it every morning.

A : One tablet a day. Indoral 2 tablets a day. Then you also took Naprosyne when you had pain.

P : But I didn't take it anymore.

A : You also drank tea?

P : I haven't drunk it, except last week. Then I drank one cup of tea.

A : What did you feel immediately after the remedy?

P : A very severe headache.

A : Where did you have headache?

P : Here and at the occiput. But I didn't take anything for it.

A : How long did the headache last?

P : About 4 or 5 days.

A : The man problem was hypertension, oedema, heart palpitations, and constipation, and also hurriedness.

What about the heart palpitations?

P : These are gone at the moment.

A : Since when have they gone?

P : Some days after I took the remedy.

A : What about the constipation?

P : It's also gone. About the same period.

A : What about the hurriedness?

P : It's also gone. I'm a completely different person at the moment.

A : Your nose was also obstructed on the left side?

P : Yes.

A : What about it?

P : I think it is better. You don't pay much attention to it. When it is obstructed you say it is because of the weather or the warmth.

A : What about the varicose vein?

P : That's still the same.

A : But it doesn't hurt?

P : No.

I said it is impossible, I was very excited, but I did not believe, because she was drinking coffee all the time, it can be. By stopping the coffee you get headache, but maybe the other symptoms are better, why not. I said, I must wait and see.

Feedback (October)

P : On September 27, I had the same as the first time, the hurriedness, the heart palpitations, I was completely upset.

A : Why?

P : I don't know.

I telephoned you and I got a remedy.

A : How was the reaction to that remedy?

P : I am all right again. At the moment I don't have the heart palpitations anymore. But I still have the flushes of heat very strong sometimes. But I didn't have it after the first remedy.

A : Has it been away for quite a long time?

P : Yes, about four months.

A : But they haven't gone at the moment?

P : No.

A : But the anxieties and the heart palpitations have disappeared?

P : Yes.

A : So you reacted very quickly to the remedy?

P : Yes.

A : What about the stool?

P : When I have to go to the toilet, and I can't go immediately, then I can't go the whole day. The next day I have problems with it. For example, last week, I put a Glycerine suppository, and then I can go to the toilet. But in fact, the stool should come normally. And it did after the first remedy. Then I could go every morning at 8:00 o'clock.

A : Although there were a few days that you couldn't go to the toilet?

P : Yes.

A : But at the moment it is not constantly like before?

P : No. Previously, I couldn't go to the toilet for about 3 or 4 days.

A : What about the rheumatic pains?

P : I don't have them anymore.

I had pain in the shoulder blades, but I don't have pain anymore.

A : How is the blood pressure at the moment?

P : I had it taken last week, it was 140/85 mmHg.

I gave her Carcinosinum 10M and I repeated it a week ago. I think, but I'm not 100% sure, if this really Carcinosinum. She was doing well for four months. I gave the remedy again, and she did well, but not so well as she did when she took the remedy the first time. I'm still doubting, but the reaction was astonishing

Another preposition : "Sabadilla".

CASE14

Sleeplessness

Boy, 3 1/2 years old

Dr. de baets piet

Carcinosinum

case

Introduction

I hope to give you a deeper insight in the remedy of Carcinosinum. It concerns a record made three years after the cure. (At that time I didn't dispose of a video.)

I bring this video because :

1. it concerns a very rare disease in a child : a terrible sleeplessness during 3 1/2 years, from birth on. Tranquillizers didn't help at all.

2. A second reason why I bring this video is because it gives a very condensed information on Carcinosinum and all the facets of the remedy are touched.

3. There is also a didactic reason, because all the known facets of Carcinosinum we know from literature are confirmed here and are even made clearer.

In this case you will see what dr. Schmidt of Geneve called "sleeplessness in children". In this tape you will see "why" this child is sleepless.

Dr. Paschero of Argentina mentions Carcinosinum in the rubric "precocity". This tape will also show you how this child is "precocious".

Dr. Foubister is talking about "cyclical vomiting". This tape will give you information about the circumstances in which cyclical vomiting is occurring. He also says something about the relationship of Carcinosinum with childhood diseases.

The main reason why this child came to me was that since the chicken pox he has had a chronic cough for seven months. There were days he was very well. At the moment of the consultation the cough was not there.

At the end of the case you will find a paper with two parts.

1. In the first part you will find six symptoms on which I based my prescription.

2. In the second part you will find additional rubrics an sub-rubrics that can be distilled from this case and that I permitted myself to add to the Repertory.

The video-consultation (april 22, 1988)

D : I gave him a remedy on January 26, 1987 because of an otitis. But you came for a complete other problem in August 1985. Can you tell something about it?

MP : In fact, that was a very serious problem. It started the last day in the maternity department and he didn't sleep well. The first days he slept well until the last night. The nurse on duty stayed with him for 2 hours, but she couldn't calm him down. He was weeping and was restless. And it lasted for quite a long time. He got breast feeding, and at first they thought, the breast feeding would be the cause. But afterwards we tried with thick and thin milk, we tried everything. Also, staying up late, putting him to bed early. He didn't sleep.

FP : There were periods he slept. During the day he slept about 3 or 4 hours and that was enough. And also during the night. He slept only for about 3 hours, and that was sufficient. After 3 hours sleep he would like to stay awake for about 3 hours.

D : Did he get something for his sleeplessness?

MP : Originally, he didn't. But afterwards it became worse. At a certain moment he started vomiting from tiredness. At first they didn't notice that it was because of that. He has been hospitalized in February 1984 for the first time.

D : He was three months old?

MP : No, three years old.

D : So, it lasted for three years?

MP : Yes, uninterruptedly.

D : So, sleeplessness in a child from birth on, until he was 3 years old, uninterruptedly?

MP : Yes. He was hospitalized and they though the might have had a kind of infection. He got antibiotics. He was in the hospital for about 10 days. Then, he came home, and next July he started vomiting again. When he started vomiting he couldn't stop. He got a medicine again, we noticed it earlier and so he could stay at home.

D : You saw it beforehand?

FP : yes.

D : How could you notice it?

FP : He became upset.

MP : He talks like a lawyer. He was always talking. A characteristic of him was that he played very little. He was constantly busy, but mentally. He didn't play physically. When he was 2 years old he knew all the letters, all the printed letters. When he was better he didn't ask for it. He forgot it for a moment. When he was very little he was constantly busy mentally, asking questions and so on. He hardly played.

D : The construction of his sentences also changed when he became ill? He started using words like, by the way, therefore, and so on. Rather difficult construction?

MP : Yes, he was talking like an adult. That was a moment when he was very much mentally busy.

FP : A little bit exaggerated for his age.

MP : He calmed down with Eusaprim and he became better.

D : But the sleeplessness didn't improve?

MP : No, no, it was still the same.

FP : He got also ATARAX for it.

MP : It improved a little bit. But he still slept less than a normal child and he had to take that medicine every evening.

In October he was hospitalized again. In the meantime we moved to another house with a large garden, because we thought he might change when the circumstances changed. But it helped very little or nothing. We told the doctor that we couldn't hold it that way, we relieved one another, but in fact, we didn't sleep. Then, he took a medicine every evening, also to save us. That was liveable. But we wanted to stop it the moment we were on holiday. But the moment he didn't got the medicine it was the same problem the next night.

FP : We had to get up 10 times a night. He couldn't fall asleep again.

MP : We tried everything.

D : In 3 1:2 years he didn't sleep?

FP : Well, he did a few hours. At night he was awake and wanted to play a few hours.

MP : During the day he was too tired to play. Sometimes I had to carry him to school.

FP : During the day he wouldn't be fresh, because he slept too little at night.

It concerns sleeplessness in children form birth on, until the age of 3 1/2 years old. The parents have to get up about 10 times a night.

The second reason the parents are consulting me, is the chronic cough since the chicken pox.

D : A second problem appeared recently. In November 1987 he got chicken pox, since then he started to cough. Also, especially in the evening, and the morning, sometimes at night.

On August 12, 1985 I gave one dose of a remedy. How did he react?

MP : He reacted immediately. He slept the night through.

D : Until now?

MP : He still sleeps the night through.

D : Now, it is three years later. Did he ever have problems in sleeping since then?

FP : He never became a great sleeper, but he sleeps on one ear and when you enter his room he awakens.

The mother is telling that there were no more problems afterwards. There were problems, but of another kind. The child received in the three years after Carcinosinum three times Pulsatilla, it's a typical Pulsatilla child. Even the father is Pulsatilla, the mother is Sepia. Each time he was very well. But the main problem, the sleeplessness, never occurred again, bot even the cough did ever come again. But when Pulsatilla was necessary there was always a combination of cough and sleeplessness, but not at the same level.

D : Did his character change by the dose I gave him?

MP : He plays much more. He can be busy much more. He is more normal, it might be because of the age.

D : He is more a child?

MP : Yes.

It was a child that could not play. He was always busy his mind. He couldn't relax himself in a physical way. Although he was only two years old he was already reading. He was looking into the newspapers and he was trying to identify the letters, the different types of letters. He couldn't play at all. I suggest to make a new addition in "play, indisposition to". You can add Carcinosinum : afterwards the child started to play, he never did before.

MP : He is still a child that asks quite a lot of questions and wants to know everything, but he can play much more outside with other children. Previously, he couldn't.

FP : It might be because of the age or because he goes to the nursery class. But on the other hand he still has his character, being busy with books, more than other children. Less than other children he can tolerate physical exertions.

D : He hasn't been ill for more than 1 1/2 years. Then he got an inflammation of the ear. I gave him Pulsatilla and he was doing well for about one year.

It is very useful to illuminate the background of the remedy. I would like you to tell me something about the character of your son. Especially, the way he was when he was a baby. Could you tell me something about it?

Up to now you told me the following : In fact, he is rather busy, he talks like a lawyer, like an adult. Mentally, he is very much busy. When it becomes too much, he starts vomiting.

Here we see the connection between the cyclical vomiting and his mental overexertion. When his mind is working too much, he starts vomiting. Once he starts vomiting he can't stop anymore. Once he starts vomiting he has to go to the hospital for rehydration.

FP : When it happens he wants to lie in our bed. Then I sleep in his bed and he sleeps with my wife. He is more quiet when he sleep with someone. When he is a little bit too much excited, because of a certain circumstance, he sleeps too little, we know it beforehand and we don't let it come that far anymore. But if we would let him get excited he might start vomiting again, we don't know. We solve this problem by letting him sleep with someone and then he calms down. When he sleeps normally at night, he is better.

In the depth we see the remedy Pulsatilla : He needs company and he is very quiet in the bed of his father or his mother. You will see that the parents are very smart. His father is an engineer in a coca cola company, and his mother studied chemistry. They are very mental persons. They followed their child very well. By the disease of their child they become more human. Some people need to have a child that is very ill or to get up 10 times a night to leave this mental level and to reflect a little bit.

MP : His bed has bee in our room for months. He also slept with me.

D : Can you tell me something else about his character?

According to Dr. Pladys Pulsatilla is the remedy of the Oedipus complex. The connection with the mother is very strong. In this case it is not so strong, but he always likes to lie in the bed of his mother.

FP Physically, he is less busy than other boys, but more mentally and he is dreaming. He is a little bit slow in his movements.

MP : He enjoys himself very much when he's playing with the train, but he enjoys himself even more when he watches other children playing.

D : He is interested?

MP : Yes, in everything.

D : He also has a very quick mind?

MP : Yes. He notices everything very well.

FP : At the moment he is in the first school-year.

D : I also see that he is rather a perfectionist.

MP : He is not really a perfectionist in the meaning that everything has to be in order, but rather in the way of asking questions, and knowing things.

I think you can add Carcinosinum in the rubric "inquisitive". We always think of Sulphur. Sulphur is always asking, and asking. (His last question is, "Who made God?") This child, even at this young age is asking and asking again, and you even can't give him a half answer. He is griping you and wants a clear answer to the question, but while Sulphur wants to know everything on a metaphysical level, he stays on a more rational level.

MP : We had to answer precisely. Otherwise, he didn't agree.

We always had to talk to him like to an adult. He kept asking until he knew what was going on. They way he was previously, I thought that he would be very nervous when he would be in the first school-year, in the sense of, "I must do my homework and so on." But I must say, he is completely different. IN fact we even don't know that he is in the first school-year.

D : Was he anxious?

MP : When he woke up at night, he was afraid of the dark. We often had to put on the light.

D : Can he be alone?

FP : No.

MP : Now, it is a little bit better.

This is a Pulsatilla layer.

MP : He often needs someone to play with.

D : When he is ill he wants his mother?

MP : Yes, and when he is playing he needs someone to play with. Now, he is a little bit older, and he knows that he must play alone.

FP : HE never sleeps with his door closed. Not only because of the dark, but also to have some contact.

MP : Not only because he is afraid, but he also likes company.

D : Does he weep at night?

MP : Not anymore.

D : Nightmares?

MP : Not anymore. Previously, he was dreaming aloud and was screaming.

Before Carcinosinum was given, he had nightmares very, very frequently. It was remarkable that his uncle who is a friend of mine, had the same picture, he also had nightmares until the age of seven. There was the same mental precocity. Instead of sleeplessness he had somnambulism. In point 9 of the second part of the annexed page I put a question-mark after : "Somnambulism, mental overexcitement, overexertion from?" I would like to know if this could be confirmed. If this uncle should have come to me, at the time when he had all these nightmare, I would have given him Carcinosinum. There was a lot of cancer in the family. From both sides grandparents died of lung cancer. The whole picture of Carcinosinum is there. We have to think of Carcinosinum in a case of somnambulism in a child when the child is too much mentally busy during the day.

Question : "You gave Pulsatilla in an acute state. Did you ever give Carcinosinum in an acute state?"

D : No. I only gave Carcinosinum once, because the whole picture of Carcinosinum was there. Afterwards, in this case I only saw Pulsatilla symptoms, so I couldn't give Carcinosinum at all.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : The clear Pulsatilla symptoms were : he could not stay alone in his room, even when he was playing, someone had to be in the room. He could not sleep alone. He needs somebody in the room, for example, his little sister, who is not mentioned in this video tape. He preferred to sleep with his mother. This is the first criterion for Pulsatilla.

The clinical picture : hearing impaired, deafness, he ha a glue ear, several time she had an otitis, even before Carcinosinum was given. One year later he developed an otitis that cured perfectly with Pulsatilla. I think it was a clear Pulsatilla picture, he was not so mentally overstimulated as we see in Carcinosinum. He was just a sweet boy. He was not mentally overexcited. With the knowledge I had at that moment I couldn't give anything else but Pulsatilla.

There was also another symptom. He couldn't bear the warmth. Also Carcinosinum has this. He likes to be carried by his mother. On this video tape he is sitting on his chair. But I remember, each time when he came he was sitting on the lap of his mother. For me that is also a typical picture of Pulsatilla.

Another reason to give Pulsatilla was that the father is also Pulsatilla. He had problems with the genital tract. He had a hydrocele, he had problems during the coitus and so. He did very well on this remedy. I saw the father before the child. I think there was a clear picture of Pulsatilla.

MP : Until he was 6, 7 years old he didn't sleep as well. Well, he did sleep, but he had nightmares and was walking during his sleep.

Now the mother is talking about her brother.

D : I must say that the father of the father of the mother had lung cancer, the father of the mother of the mother also, the brother of the father of the father had a cancer of the base of the tongue. The brother of the father of the mother had a cancer of the vocal cords. So on both sides there is a certain burden that is responsible for the situation of the sleeplessness where this boy is suffering from. Together with this picture it lead me to the remedy that cured him very well.

Concerning the question about Pulsatilla. There was also a very striking symptom, namely salivation during sleep. There you also find Pulsatilla. He already had salivation during sleep when he was a baby and this symptoms disappeared with Pulsatilla.

I was very excited, that a child with a sleeplessness of 3 1/2 years with a waking rhythm of 10 times a night, recovered definitely with one dose of Carcinosinum 200 K and that the chronic cough that was occurring after the chicken pox came back once again and then disappeared completely.

D : His constitutional remedy came upwards, and so we could cure him. It was a very nice illustration. I thought it was necessary to take it on video. Thank you very much for coming and I hope he will be all right for quite a long time.

Comment

Without theorizing I would like to give some comment on this case. In the following point you see the different symptoms on which I based my prescription.

1. The first symptom is "sleeplessness in children". It is addition from Schmidt and Metzger.

In the second part I added "mental overexcitement, overexertion from".

There were nightmares because he had a mind that was too active as we saw in the case. He takes too much impressions so that he couldn't sleep.

2. The second symptom is "fastidiousness". Schmidt and Stephenson mentioned it. Here we can say that he is so fastidious that he wants a clear answer on all the questions he's asking. He's very inquisitive.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : It's not a metaphysical thinking. It's more mentally. When he is looking at constructions, he wants to know how these things are build. It's more rational, not so metaphysical like in Sulphur. Everything has to be in its place, like Arsenicum. When he's occupied with too much details, his brains gets overstrained and he starts to vomit.

3. That leads us to the third symptom, vomiting, cyclical, mentioned by Foubister. You can add "from overfatigue". When he's mentally overfatigued he starts vomiting (see the second part of the annexed page).

4. The fourth symptom is "precocity". Paschero and also the Cahiers Hahnemanniens of Lyon mentioned it.

He is precocious on the sexual sphere. He starts to masturbate very early. Very young children, even if they are only 2 years old see that a woman is pregnant.

He was very precocious in reading. As a two year old child he could already distinguish the letters, the A from the B and from the C. It's a game for him. That's his kind of playing. His playing with words.

5. The fifth symptom concerns the family history. There is cancer on both sides, the grandfathers of both sides.

6. The sixth symptom is the eye discoloration blue (porcelain). I didn't mention it on the tape, but he had porcelain sclerae. It comes from Stephenson.

7. You will find the seventh symptom in the second part of point IV. He talks like an adult. Carcinosinum is a person who jumped over a stage in life. He has not really been a child. He is born like an adult and is talking like an adult. Even his mother is saying. "He's talking like a lawyer". For a child of 3 1:2 years old he's talking like a lawyer. He's using very long and complex sentences and using words like 'by the way, therefore, and so on". Only when he becomes sick he talks like that. He's also precocious. But the moment he becomes sick he's mentally ten years older. He's talking like an adult. For me, this is the reason why I added it in my Repertory.

8. The eighth symptom concerns the childhood diseases. We know from literature that Carcinosinum has a relationship with childhood diseases. Some children never have measles, chicken pox and so on. In literature we know we have to think of Carcinosinum. When you do not have a childhood disease properly, or when a childhood disease is sticking, you have effects afterwards, or you have a prolonged whooping cough, mentioned by Foubister, or ailments from, or mononucleosis. This is also a childhood disease after which you can have effects and since which the child has never been well. Then you have to think on Carcinosinum. Therefore, I added another rubric "cough, never well since chicken-pox"

9. The ninth symptom concerns "somnambulism, mental overexcitement from?" It's an extrapolation of what has occurred in the family and it had to be confirmed. That is the reason why I put a question mark.

10. On regarding the tape I added symptom 10, "Play indisposition to in a child". As they say he is more interested in mental work, in mental playing than in physical playing. It's a man who likes computer games, a little bit like Bufo.

11. I also added symptom 11 "the inquisitiveness". He wants to know everything of everything. But not on the metaphysical level like Sulphur, but more on a rational level.

Question : "Did he change mentally after Carcinosinum?"

D : He was completely asocial. He didn't like other children. In the school he was always sitting apart. He was never in the group. He became more social after Carcinosinum, and even more social after Pulsatilla, because he had a certain anxiety in the group. But now he's functioning very well.

Question : "In the Repertory p. 783 you find 'cough, chicken pox, after' : Antimonium crudum. Could it be an Antimonium crudum child?"

D : Antimonium crudum has more romanticism. It's the child who is looking to the moon and who is telling stories. It doesn't fit with this kind of child. He's not romantic at all. I would think of Antimonium crudum if this child also has warts and digestive problems. It's more the Romeo and Julia mentality. That's Antimonium crudum.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : He was a master of the words. He didn't make mistakes at all. He only started to vomit when he was talking too much, but his speech stayed very well and clear.

CASE14

Acute abdominal pain

Girl, 6 years old

Dr. scheepers leon

Carcinosinum

Case

The first case concerns a young girl, she was born on March 9, 1983. She had a coryza, and minor diseases quite frequently. On November 26, 1986 she came in consultation with an acute abdominal pain.

D : On Wednesday evening she came with an acute abdominal pain. She had 38.9°C fever, and was restless. Which symptoms did she have?

MP : She was complaining of abdominal pain in general, especially while coughing, on the right side. She had the tendency to vomit. At night she got fever and she didn't have appetite.

D : When did it start?

MP : On Monday.

D : So, she has been ill for two days. Two days she didn't have any appetite at all.

MP : No.

D : What about the stool?

MP : On Monday morning she had stool, but not ever since.

D : On Monday morning she had stool for the last time.

She was constipated since two days. She came to consultation, it was a walk-consultation, it means that people can come without making an appointment. It's possible that quite a lot of people are sitting there. It was quite an acute case, very dangerous in some way, because it looked in the direction of an appendicitis. She came on Wednesday evening and she has been constipated since Monday, so for two days she was constipated.

D : On Wednesday evening she didn't have stool yet.

How did she behave? Was she active? Was she playing?

MP : She was very restless. She wanted to lie on the cough, or sit in the cough. Sometimes she showed some interest in toys, but when she wanted to play, she couldn't. Then she lay down again.

D : In what position did she lie on the cough?

MP : On the left side with draw up knees.

It's quite important to ask this question on which side she is lying. We will see it further on. She was lying on the left side.

D : What did she complained of?

MP : Of abdominal pain.

D : Where did she have the abdominal pain?

MP : It was a general pain, but she had pain on the right side, especially while coughing.

D : She had to lie with draw up knees. She was tired and listless. At that moment she didn't have stool for two days.

Are there other symptoms?

MP : No, not particularly.

D : Further, we can't say much about her.

D : Further, we can't say much about her.

The last time she was rather well. For quite a long time she didn't suffer at all. Some periods she easily got a cold. It was quite a long ago she was ill. On Wednesday evening we gave an acute remedy. She got Bryonia. But it didn't help much.

I gave Bryonia on Wednesday evening, but it was a very bad prescription. It was an acute situation, many people were still waiting in the waiting room. I was a little bit hurried. It was three years ago. Now, three years later I wouldn't prescribe Bryonia anymore, but from the things we know until now, why can you say that Bryonia was a bad prescription.

She was lying on the left side, and not on the right side. There was no pressure amel. In a Bryonia case they will lie on the right side.

What else?

There was no rest amel. The child was not lying very quiet, but on the contrary she was walking around, but then again she was lying, because she was too tired, but she was not always lying quietly. I don't know if it is already said on the video, but she always wanted her mother on her side. There was not at all "disturbed, aversion to being". Do you know the rubric? Bryonia and Gelsemium are there.

MIND,DISTURBED, averse to being : Bry., gels.

There was not at all a sign of irritability, not at all. So, Bryonia was a very bad prescription on Wednesday evening.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : Two weeks ago I an acute case of appendicitis and that was Bryonia. It was an appendicitis case with 26.000 leukocytes. It was a very severe case.

D : On Friday morning you came back. In fact, there hasn't changed much. She didn't have stool yet. She was still listless and dependent and was really ill. In the meantime we took blood and we came to the following results :

Leukocytes : 15.900.

Sedimentation increased to 30.

There was a clear picture of appendicitis. On Friday morning we started questioning again. Can you tell me something more about the child?

In fact we don't have a diagnosis, because we are not sure whether it is an acute appendicitis or not. You can call it what you want, but she had been constipated for four days, she vomited on Tuesday, she had nausea, and she had fever, not very high (not higher than 39°C). That's what we often see in appendicitis. It's more a fever of 38 or 38.5°C. and there is the pain in the right fossa iliaca. I think it was at least a subacute appendicitis.

D : what about her character? Is she rather orderly or untidy concerning her toys and so on?

MP : She is very fastidious.

D : Very fastidious? Could you explain this a little bit more?

How do you notice it?

MP : All her toys have to be in the right place, everything must be in the right sequence.

D : also concerning her clothing?

MP : Yes. Her clothes always have to be nice on a chair or in the laundry basket.

D : It has to be immediately in the laundry basket. She does it herself? Did she always do it?

MP : Yes. From the moment she could dress and undress herself alone. It has been said that she had to do it that way, and automatically she did it correctly from that moment on. Also when she was toilet-trained, the pot had to be cleaned immediately.

D : Even at that age?

MP : Oh yes.

D : How did she explain it to you she wanted it that way when she couldn't talk yet?

MP : She was pointing to it, or she pulled at my skirt.

Sometimes it is very difficult to know if a child of three years old is fastidious or not. But in fact it is not difficult at all. In this case it is very clear, when she is doing all her toys in the right place and the right sequence. I think this child is quite fastidious. I think we can take the rubric "fastidious".

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : This video has been recorded later. Almost all my video's have.

There was a stitching pain. But in the beginning it was only when she was coughing. On Friday morning when she came back the abdominal pain was more constantly.

D : What else can you tell me about her?

MP : She is rather cheerful. But she is rather shy with persons she knows very superficially. After an hour it is over. But she is rather shy.

D : When you reprimand her does she react sensitive to it? Does she weep easily or is she offended easily?

MP : In fact, she does not weep easily, but she feels very guilty and then she says, "I won't do it again, and I will be a good girl!". She realises immediately she did something wrong.

D : She realises immediately she did something wrong?

MP : Yes, and afterwards she wants to make it up.

D : Does she react to music or noise?

MP : She reacts to music very much. She likes to listen to music and starts dancing immediately and she asks me to dance with her.

d : she asks you to dance with her?

MP : Oh yes, she likes it very much, and she enjoys it very much.

D : Also when she was very little?

MP : Yes, even when she could only make some noises, and when the radio was on, she was dancing to the music.

D : Does he ask herself to put on music?

MP : No, she doesn't. We have a guitar and then she asks if she may touch the guitar. But she doesn't as to put on the radio. But she asks me to sing some songs.

D : Is she obstinate?

MP : Sometimes.

D : Is she afraid of certain things?

MP : For quite a long time she has been afraid of water. She wanted to go in bath, but the moment I had to wash her hair she wouldn't allow it.

D : Is she afraid of motors, of cars?

MP : Yes, everything that makes noises. She was afraid of a vacuum cleaner when she was very little.

We can see that she was a very sensitive child. She was afraid of noises, very common noises in our society. She was very conscious. Ailments after reproaches, she is a very sensitive child.

MP : It is much better at the moment.

FP : She remembers very well.

D : What does she do?

FP : Once she sees something she remembers it very well.

D : What about a thunderstorm and lightning?

MP : She is not afraid of it.

D : Does she go to the window to look at the lightning?

MP : She says, "Look, what's that?" Then I say, "It's a lightning." I try to explain it. But she is not afraid of it.

D : She is interested in it?

MP : Yes.

D : She is not afraid. She would rather go to the window to have a look an show some interest?

MP : Yes.

D : Are there other things in general?

MP : She likes to go to school very much. She was only 2 1/2 years old and she asked herself if she could go to go to school, although we didn't intend to send her to school so early. But she asked it herself.

D : Are there certain things she likes to eat very much?

MP : Tomatoes.

FP : Chocolate.

MP : Yes, that's rather sweet.

D : But does she like it?

MP : Yes, yes.

D : Does she ask for it?

MP : That's the only sweet thing she eats. When I give her a biscuit to school, she brings it back home.

D : But she likes chocolate?

MP : Yes, that's the only thing she likes.

FP : But she doesn't like vegetables. Everything that is prepared with vegetables, she doesn't like, only raw vegetables. She likes to eat raw carrots, but when they are grated she doesn't them them. She would eat all kinds of raw vegetables, but when they are boiled she doesn't eat them.

D : Does she have an aversion for other things?

MP : No.

D : How is the stool in general?

MP : Normal, twice a day.

D : No problem with the urine?

MP : No.

D : Concerning the sleep, what can you say?

MP : Normal, except the last days.

D : What about the position of the sleep when she was very little?

MP : She slept on her abdomen.

D : What about the legs?

MP : They were drawn up.

D : How?

MP : In fact, she was sleeping on her knees.

D : She was sleeping with her knees on her chest, and with her behind upwards?

MP : Yes.

D : Does she still do it sometimes?

MP : No. At the moment she rather prefer to sleep on her back.

She had the elbow-pectoral position. We know that we can not use if for a child younger than one year old; because it's quite common that a child is sleeping in that position. But when a child is doing it always, in this video I didn't ask for it quite strong, but I wrote it in my papers, and she always sleeps in that position. When a child is always sleeping in the elbow-pectoral position, even when it is younger than one year I think we can use it. We can take it and make a note of it. But when a child is sleeping in a elbow-pectoral position now and the, well, I think, every child is sleeping in elbow-pectoral position now and then. When a child is older than one year, 1 1/2 or 2 years old, and then sleeping in a elbow-pectoral position, then it is a quite strong symptom.

D : Is she perspiring?

MP : Not particularly?

D : All right. That was on Friday. November 28. Then we prescribed a remedy in a 200 K and you came back on Friday evening, the same day, but not much had changed. We examined the case again. Concerning the family, we can say the following. The grandmother of the mother had a cancer of the mouth, two aunts and an uncle of the mother have died of cancer of the stomach. We prescribed the same remedy, but in M potency, she took three times a spoonful, on Friday evening two times and on Saturday morning the third time.

I prescribed as you all know, because it is clear. Carcinosinum 200 K on Friday morning, because of the next symptoms :

-fastidiousness

-timidity. In the rubric "timidity" on page 89 you have to add Carcinosinum on p. 89, Lachesis and Sabadilla. You have to underline Carbo vegetabilis two times.

-reproaches, ailments after

-sensitive child.

-music amel. and dancing amel.

-desire chocolate.

-position elbow-pectoral.

-there was cancer in the family.

-blue sclerae (observation symptom)

-cheerful with thunder and lightening (this symptom is not so clear, but I think we can use it in this case)

On Friday morning, November 28 I prescribed Carcinosinum 200K, but in the evening they came back and nothing had changed. That's difficult, what do I have to do now? I felt quite sure of my prescription and I repeated in a 1000K thinking of what Foubister said in his papers. He says to give Carcinosinum in a 30K, 200K and 1000K directly. It's necessary in order to have the effect of Carcinosinum. Maybe in this case the 200K was not strong enough to break open the case, but I have quite a lot of cases where only a 200K was sufficient to clear the case. But not in this case. I had to give a 1000K on Friday evening.

D : After she took a third spoonful, she got stool. Maybe you can tell it yourself?

MP : The first time it was very little stool. Then she started to eat, she had a very good appetite, she was eating constantly until the afternoon. And she went to the toilet for about 3 or 4 times. Then she started playing, in fact she became hyper-active. Then the problem was solved.

Even with nosodes we can cure very acute cases, some people were saying that acute cases could not be cured with Carcinosinum. I think it is possible. With nosodes like, Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum, Syphilinum, Carcinosinum we can cure very acute cases.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : I read in the papers I have about Carcinosinum but I can't tell you who is telling that. But in fact I think it is not so important, because it's always one symptom of a case, and you are using quite a lot of other symptoms to prescribe Carcinosinum. But I think knee-elbow position is quite common in young children.

For me it is not so important. It's also a question whether you can use "cheerful with thunder and lightening". Maybe when she is older you can use it very strongly. But now it is now yet very strong.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : I don't agree. I don't think that it's so uncommon that a child younger than one year is sleeping now and then on knee-elbow position. I don't think it's so uncommon.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : When a child is sleeping in knee-elbow position now and then, and is sleeping now and then on the back, and now and then on the right side, and now and then on the abdomen, then we have to use all of them. I think it is not so important.

What does Ananda say about this discussion?

Ananda says (she has the most experiences about babies) it's an important symptom. You can't use the symptom when it sleeps now and then in that position, but regularly.

CASE15

Phobia

Woman, 23 years old

Dr. scheepers leon

Carcinosinum

Case

It concerns a woman born on May 6, 1966. She complains of phobia.

D : You came here the first time on August 13, 1986. There were different complaints. But the main complaint was heart palpitations. You suffered from quite a lot of other things daily. Maybe you can tell something about it yourself? Concerning the phobia? Maybe it's difficult to repeat it, but I will help you?

P : I thought that everything around me was filthy. Everything disgusted me. Everything had to be extremely neat. I didn't dare to visit some people.

D : Because you thought it was too filthy with those people?

P : Yes.

D : You were afraid you would get an infection?

P : Yes.

D : What did you do to avoid this filthiness? How did you do this in your own house? Where you constantly cleaning the house?

P : Yes. I was cleaning and when I touched something filthy I washed my hands two or three times. I felt myself filthy.

D : You washed your hand several times a day?

P : Yes, very much.

D : More than ten time a day?

P : Absolutely.

When I put on my coat, or when I touched the dog, I washed my hands constantly.

D : You were constantly washing your hands?

P : Yes.

D : Was it only washing your hands with water, or did you also use soap?

P : Yes, quite a lot of soap. And not only my hands, but also my arms, because I thought they could also become filthy.

MP : Sometimes it was so bad that her arms were red up to there.

D : Because of the scrubbing?

MP : Yes.

D : Did she scrub it with a bristle?

MP : No, but with quite a lot of soap and with very hot water. It seemed as if everything was burnt. Between the fingers everything was white.

D : When did it start for the first time?

P : I was just married. We had new furniture and I was at home the whole day. Maybe because I was bored. Then I started to clean and to clean the house. First, it was the furniture, and later the house, and then myself.

D : It's good that you can see it yourself. It is good that you can analyze your situation the way how it started.

P : It was a kind of perfection. I was at home the whole day and everything had to be very clean. When someone was coming unexpectedly they had to see that everything was very, very clean. Everything had to be all right.

D : So that they could not reproach you that you sit there the whole day doing nothing.

When you went away for a while you controlled everything?

P : Maybe, it was because of the nerves. Maybe I got it from my husband. He had it from his work. And I always saw him doing this, and because of the nerves I started doing the same thing.

D : When you went somewhere you were always thinking, "Did I close everything, the gas, the windows, and so on". That kind of perfection. Especially, when you had to go somewhere very quickly. Then you lost your mind completely. Could you tell something about it?

P : Maybe, because of the nerves. Because I had to be there at that time. It was as if I got a black out. I was wondering what do I have to do at the moment. I was looking at the light. I wasn't sure of myself anymore. Then I was staring for about 10 minutes and I didn't know anything.

D : You were often staring and thinking, "Is this all right?" For minutes and minutes.

MP : Yes, she was really staring.

P : When I was nervous I was staring very much.

MP : For example, during the period she was unemployed she had to go the municipality house for her stamp. She had quite a lot of time, but she didn't get ready in time. Because she wanted to leave everything in a perfect state.

D : She was in a panic?

MP : Yes, and she couldn't get in time there.

D : During that period I had to write quite a lot of notes saying that you were ill, because you couldn't get in time there.

But there was a panic in yourself. Everything had to be all right, in a perfect state.

MP : When she had to go the municipality house for the stamp at ten o'clock for example, she couldn't get ready by that time. At a quarter to six she was taking a shower in order to get ready.

D : That feeling of filthiness went very far. When you had been in a public place, for example, the metro or the bus, and when you came home, you had to wash, yourself completely, or really washing the hands.

MP : There was even a period that she didn't want to take the bus or the metro.

D : There was a period that it really was so bad. I remember that you said, "When I took the metro I have to wash my hands immediately".

MP : yes.

D : That was the same after the stool. It even occurred that you washed yourself completely?

P : Yes. There was a time that I didn't dare to go to the toilet, and I took off my clothes. Because I thought everything would become filthy. And afterwards I had to wash myself.

D : So you went to the toilet without any clothes so that they couldn't get dirty. So, at a foreign place you didn't go to the toilet at all. You were holding it.

MP : Yes.

D : Because of the idea, "That toilet might be dirty, I might get an infection". But also because of the fact that you couldn't wash yourself completely afterwards. When you were on a visit with your grandmother, she was living very near to you, you went home to go to the toilet.

MP : Yes.

D : Previously, it was typical that you were very shy. You are less shy at the moment. You are still a little bit shy, especially when it concerns a video recording. But I think, one year ago you would never have done it. Never.

P : No, at the moment I can talk about it. Now, it is pas. At that time I thought I would never get out of this situation.

MP : There was also a period that I was not allowed to touch her.

P : Yes.

D : Concerning the heart palpitations we can remark that you had attacks of paroxysmal tachycardia for which they injected you with Isoptine and you also took Isoptine in the form of tablets. Sometimes these heart palpitations were really bad. You suffered quite a lot from a sore throat as a child, and inflammations of the ear. There was also a streptococcal infection in the blood. Because of the inflammations of the ear in her youth her hearing decreased. In 1976 the heart palpitations started and in 1978 she had a streptococcal infection of the blood. She had a very severe infection of the kidneys and had quite a lot of pain in the kidneys, which have been treated with penicillin injections. You are born on May 6, 1966.

Her father has belittled her very much, previously in the meaning of, "Keep your mouth shut, you don't know anything about it." The parents are divorced when you were 17 years old. You didn't have a happy youth concerning your father. What kind of remembrances do you have yourself?

P : Not so happy.

D : How do you feel when you think about that period?

P : A little bit sad.

D : Now, it is over.

P : Yes.

D : About a year ago you had a real depression. Did you like to be consoled at such moments, or do you want to be left alone?

P : I think I liked to be consoled.

D : Concerning your food. What kind of things do you like to eat?

Sweets?

P : Yes.

D : Especially during that period.

MP : Yes, especially during that period, but not at the moment anymore.

D : Now, she has to watch her weight, now she has company.

In that period it was so strong, that you were only hungry for sweets. Do you still remember it?

You liked sweets very, very much.

The stool is normal at the moment, also previously. You could go to the toilet easily. You could easily urinate. The sleep was also normal previously.

MP : At certain moments she could lose her urine.

P : Yes, even when I was in a shop.

MP : She couldn't control it. She was carrying sanitary towels everywhere because she was afraid she would loose her urine.

D : Concerning the distasteful things. I also wrote drown that you didn't eat cheese at the beginning. It smelled nasty. The same with fish, you found it very distasteful, you couldn't see it lying in the shop.

Then, you also had an experience in the mountain. Once you went on a holiday to the mountains for a fortnight. Can you remember what happened at that moment? You became ill. You went skiing. Do you remember what happened to you? You fainted away?

P : Yes.

D : You had to stop at that time?

P : I think I got some pills for it.

D : You were more in the hotel than skiing.

P : I was ill the whole time.

D : That was the first and the only time you went to the mountains up to last year?

P : Yes.

D : AT that time you could only ski for two days and for the rest of the days you had to stay at the hotel. You were so dizzy at that moment. You fainted. Did you also have headache?

P : Yes.

D : You were really ill.

Anyway, because of this information I gave you a remedy on August 13, 1986 in 200 K potency.

Maybe we can see which rubrics we are looking for in the Repertory in this case.

Are there some prepositions?

We are not looking for the remedy, we are looking for the rubrics.

"Always washing her hands" on page 1224.

"Washing always her hands" on page 92.

"Fear of infection" on page 45.

"Fear of consumption" on page 43.

"Delusion that everything is dirty" page 24.

"Delusion, contaminates everything she touches" page 23.

Maybe she thinks that she is contaminating the things she is touching. In this case she is afraid she will be contaminated by things she touched.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : Nothing particular happened between father and daughter.

Only there was a bad relationship between father and mother.

She felt very deserted. She had a forsaken feeling. It was not more than that. She was not hit by her father, or things like that. In fact, the father was never at home. He was somewhere else. She had not really a grief about it. I asked her in my consultation. She only had a forsaken feeling during the period of 1983, 1984, and in the year before. She had the impression that she was alone on the world.

There is not a big grief, she is quite timid, bashful. Now, she is better. The video was taken in 1987, but still she is coming with her mother. She is not coming alone.

There is another rubric we can use.

I think "disgust" is not strong enough for what is going on there. I think "disgust" is a child that doesn't want to eat what comes on the table. In this case I think it is a little bit stronger.

I think there is one more rubric you can use for it. What is she doing all the time? Always washing her hands. How do we call this?

She is always doing the same act.

Answer : "Ringing the hands?"

D : No, it's not ringing the hands. Ringing the hands is something quite different. She is always doing the same act.

Answer : "Fixed ideas?"

D : No, no. It is a rubric you can use in the Repertory.

It's "monomania".

She had a complaint since 1984. She was always washing her hands, since she got married in 1984. She got married quite young, at 18 years. She said she was bored and did not know quite well what to do, and then she was fixed upon dirty in her house and she started to clean everything. It became worse and worse. She does no eat cheese, because she thinks it is too filthy, she does not eat fish, because it is too filthy. Afterwards, we will hear that when she had to pass a fish shop she was crossing the street going to the other side, so that she did not have to walk too close to the shop, because she was smelling the bad smell of the fish. When she is in a public place and is returning home she was washing herself completely, because she was afraid she was dirty, by being in a public place or being touched by other people or by instruments an so on.

She had palpitations. The frequency of the palpitations was irregular. It could be 2 or 3 times a month. It could be ten times a month and it started very suddenly.

Which rubrics can we use for the palpitations? The palpitations come suddenly in attacks and they are very, very heavy. On page 877 there is "palpitation sudden', "palpitation paroxysmal" on page 876 and there is palpitation tumultuous" on page 877.

It was not clearly said that she had a forsaken feeling, a forsaken feeling by her father who left her mother. They separate in 1983. Before the separation there was a period of quite a lot of difficulties in the family. She had the feeling of being alone on the world. Which rubric can we use for this? "Forsaken feeling" is not enough for the forsaken feeling this woman had. "Delusion feels alone on the world". In fact, maybe it was not a delusion for her, it was reality, she was very alone on the world. Which other rubric can we use? "Forsaken feeling, sensation of isolation" on page 49.

There was quite a long history of domination. She was dominated by her father. It is not so clear in this video. It is a remake and she is still quite timid. It's difficult to get out good information, but the information I got was quite a domination of long history by her father through the years. Her father was quite a dominating person.

We already have some rubrics.

Then there is a very strong desire for sweets. But in general she had no appetite, except for sweets.

There is another strong element she mentioned in the video.

She had problems with urination. It was urination involuntary, it occurred while sneezing, coughing. We can use all these rubrics.

But there was one other quite strong element in this case.

"Anticipation". Yes there are so many remedies that have anticipation.

But I mean, there was another strong element we can use?

Answer : Vertigo?

D : When?"

Answer : "Vertigo in the mountains".

I will give you some additions. I must say, when I prescribed the remedy I didn't have the additions either.

"Washing always her hands" on page 92. There is Arsenicum album (Vithoulkas), Curare (Kent), Lac caninum, Medorrhinum (once underline), Mercurius (Vithoulkas), Natrum muriaticum (Vithoulkas), Psorinum (uncleanliness), Pulsatilla (uncleanliness), Sepia and Sulphur (uncleanliness).

In the rubric "monomania" on page 67 you must add "monomania of property". You can add Silicea, Sulphur and Syphilinum.

There was another strong thing. In Belgium when you are not working you have to go to the municipality house every day to get a stamp on you card, and she had to be there at ten o'clock. She got up at a quarter to six, to wash herself and to do all kinds of things. Even then she didn't get there in time. She was always too late. Which rubric can you use for that?

I used the rubric on page 88, "time passes too quickly".

Question : "I think it is not correct."

D : I think it is correct. I think it is up to you to think it is not correct.

She had no sense of the time. But the time was going so quickly for her that finally she was too late. In fact, she didn't do anything. She told it on the video.

Question : "...?" (not understandable)

D : In fact we don't need it, but it is interesting to see the rubric and to see it afterwards.

On page 33 "delusion time seems earlier".

These are all the rubrics I used to prescribe the remedy.

Are there any preposition for the remedy?

Answer : "Coca"

D : Why.

Answer : "...?" (not understandable)

D : That's right. The remedy I prescribed was Coca and when we take Boericke on page 216 we see that under the rubric "head". "Fainting fit from climbing mountains." Under the rubric "stomach" there is "no appetite but for sweets". We have to ad Coca in the rubric "washing, always her hands".

Coca is what we call a mountaineer's remedy. They are very bad when they come in the mountain. That was a very strong symptom in this woman. She was in the mountains only once for skiing during two weeks, and she was lying in her bed, because she was feeling too bad.

It's a remedy of palpitations. It's in the rubric "palpitations sudden" and "palpitations paroxysmal" and in the mountains they can have palpitations, dyspnoea, fear and insomnia and they can also have palpitations when travelling with the aeroplane. The people who are living big altitudes in South America are eating the leaves of Coca all day long.

By eating this they are able to do the exercise, the things on such a high altitude. There are mental symptoms of timidity, bashful. There you find Coca in the third degree. They are very timid and they don't feel at ease in society. They are looking to be alone, they can have the feeling of being deserted. When you go back to the rubric "forsaken feeling", "delusion deserted", you find Coca. They are quite melancholic, and they always want to wash their hands. An important symptom is also that the menstrual flow is more at night. They wake up from it and then the flow starts.

CASE16

Chronic allergy trembling hands when writing

Man, 33 years old

Dr. van hootegem henk

Carcinosinum

Case

This case I will present is the case of a young man of 33 years old. He's married and has two children. I saw him the first time in 1984. He has two important complaints.

First, he has a chronic allergy. He will explain what kind of symptoms he exactly had.

Second, he has problems when writing. He is trembling when he wants to write. He has a kind of writer's cramp.

I will give you some information beforehand. His father died of lung cancer, and his mother die of intestinal cancer. All the sisters of his mother died of cancer.

I will tell his desires beforehand, because he doesn't say it on the video. He desires sweets very much (three underlined), he's a chilly person, and he sleeps on his abdomen. That's the general information.

I show this video because it is interesting to show you how he functions psychologically. Several remedies will come into your mind when you hear the psychology.

D : Do you remember when you cam the first time?

P : I think it was in 1984.

D : Yes, you came for allergy. Can you tell me shortly what you were suffering from at that time?

P : It was as if I had a cold constantly. My nose was running, I had a sore throat and I was sneezing quite a lot.

D : So, a running nose, a sore throat and sneezing. But you also had swollen glands and mucus.

P : Yes, mucus that dried up.

D : When you came here the first time how long id you already suffer from it?

P : I can't say it exactly. I came here in 1984, and in 1977 I served the army and that time I already went to an ear-nose-throat specialist, because my glands were often swollen.

D : Did you take medicines for it previously?

P : I had a sore throat in 1977 and then I went to see the specialist. He did some tests and he said it was because of an allergy.

D : Did you suffer from it the whole year through, winter and summer?

P : The sneezing became worse in the summer. In the winter I thought, it was because I had a cold.

Until now he only gives common information. But up to now you can observe something in his behaviour. What kind of things do you observe in his behaviour?

Answer : "He's very precise in answering."

D : Yes, but on the other hand he forgot quite a lot of things. He forgot when it started, when he came the first time, how long he suffered from the allergy. But he tries to say it exactly;

There is another thing. He talks very hastily and nervously.

He's sitting on the edge of his chair and he is nervous. You could say it is because of the video, but he's always like that I mean, every consultation I saw him he was so nervous. He tries to answer very quickly and hastily.

D : Didn't you suffer from it during the winter?

P : I might suffer from it. but it was not so remarkable, because I thought I had a little cold.

D : You think it started about 1977. Then, you were about 20 years old. Now, you are 33 years old.

That was the first problem.

P : Now, I don't suffer from it anymore.

D : You also suffered from heart palpitations at that time. Do you remember?

P : Yes.

In 1987 I gave him a remedy and I saw him back in 1988, four years later, and the allergy had disappeared completely. It never came back, only slightly. The allergy was better for 90%. But the trembling or the writer's cramp didn't improve at all. You see him in this situation now.

P : Sometimes I still have some heart palpitations, but I really don't suffer from it.

D : But what do you suffer from at the moment? What is your main problem?

P : My main problem is the trembling.

D : Could you tell me something about that trembling?

P : When I have to write something, it's a disaster. I can' control the movements very well. It is worse, especially when I know that people are watching. I can write beautifully, when I am at ease. But then I can't write quickly. It's really trembling. I can't control it. I can't draw a straight line, for example, when drawing graphics.

D : Does it only occur when writing?

You see it's a trembling when he's writing. He says it is worse when people are looking at him. There is another thing. He speaks hastily. He said to me that when he was in the first year of school, he had to take lessons in speech-training. He had problems with stammering.

If you take all these symptoms in consideration, there is a trembling when writing, he has a hasty speech which leads sometimes to stammering, he's also hasty in his movement, which remedy do you think of?

Answer : "Mercurius?"

D : Yes, because of the higher mentioned elements.

P : I also tremble when I have to eat soup. It's more remarkable with soup, because the soup is on the spoon and I tremble more.

D : So you tremble while writing, eating soup. Do you tremble in other circumstances?

P : No, as far as I know I don't.

D : But it is worse when people are watching.

P : Yes. Sometimes it also occurs when I am talking to people and when I lean with my hand against something, then I have to change my position because I think that people will notice that I'm trembling.

D : Is it only trembling or do you also have cramps in your fingers?

P : No, it's only trembling.

D : You never had a painful, cramp feeling in the fingers?

P : Regularly, I relax everything. Maybe it is a kind of a tic. I do the same thing with my neck. I move my neck and relax it, it does very well.

When it was only a writer's cramp, which remedy do we have to think of? Which is the well-known remedy for writer's cramp in piano players, or violin players?

Answer : "Magnesia phosphorica".

D : Yes. You find it in the rubric "cramps, hands, while writing" and "pain hands while writing." But he says that actually it's not a cramp, but more a trembling. It's not only while writing, but also when eating soup.

D : Can you tell me something more about the trembling? When do you tremble? How do you tremble and so on?

P : It is most remarkable when I am writing. When I do carpenter's work, it is not so remarkable, because I am hammering with the hammer. Then I'm rather quick. But it is more remarkable while writing.

D : What is your job.

P : I'm a warehouse-clerk. I receive the merchandise, and control the invoices. It's a kind of manual labour and writing labour.

D : Do you have to write a lot?

P : yes, rather.

D : For how long do you suffer from the trembling?

P : I can't say precisely. But I remember, previously at school...

You see, we always have to find a reason why something starts.

If we were thinking of Magnesia phosphorica, it would be a cramp because of overuse. For example, a writer who writes ten hours a day, or a piano-player who plays eight hours a day. That's the reason of the cramp in these cases. That's more in favour of Magnesia phosphorica. But this man writes only during his work and is only writing a few hours a day. It's not because of this overuse. Also, it began already when he was a young child in school. So there must be another reason. Now, I investigate further if something happened during that period.

P : I could never quite very beautifully. But I notice it, well in fact I can't tell you exactly when it really started.

D : But you know that in school you already couldn't write beautifully.

P : Yes. In the drawing-lesson when I had to draw something straight, or with a special kind of pen when I had to make letters, I had to hold it with my right hand to make the curls, otherwise I couldn't make those letters properly. It occurred already the three last years I went to school.

D : You are left handed?

P : Yes.

I can write better with my right hand, but it doesn't go so quickly.

D : You don't tremble with your right hand?

P : No, I don't.

D : Not at all?

P : No.

D : Only with your left hand?

P : Yes.

Originally, I am left-handed, but in the first school-year, they tried to make me write with my right hand. But they stopped it because of the results. I was writing with my right hand but I didn't think about what I was writing.

There is already one interesting element coming up. He says, that originally he was left-handed, but they tried to make him right-handed, in the first year, but after a couple of months they saw that the results were bad. Then they said, "All right you can write with your left hand". But maybe at this moment something happened with him, because even now he writes differently with the right hand than with the left hand. The strange thing is that he trembles more with the left hand then with the right hand. But with the right hand he writes very slowly. You see there is a kind of suppression of his natural instinct to write with a certain hand.

D : How long did they try to make you to write with your right hand?

P : I can't remember. Maybe one trimester, but I don't know.

D : So your results became worse.

But it is particular, that you write better with your right hand than with your left hand at the moment?

P : Yes, although I never learned to write with my right hand, except during that short period. But it is particular that I write better with my right hand.

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D : That is still your main problem. Do you have other problems?

¨P : No, but a while ago, I had problems in getting up early in the morning. But I think it was normal because our baby woke us up regularly. So, I can't say, whether I sleep better at the moment or not.

D : Do you have other problems?

P : I think it is a problem for me that I bottle up my emotions. I can't say to people that it has to be this way, or that way. I would rather like to do it myself, than saying to other people, "Would you do it this way or that way?"

D : Could you give an example?

P : For example, when I had a good conversation with one of my fellows at noon and in the afternoon he doesn't put something in his place in the warehouse, although he knows very well it has to be put in its place I would rather say, "All right, I will put it in its place in a minute." I know, I must exercise in saying. "Well, come back, you have to put it in its right place". That is a problem.

D : Could you give some other examples?

P : At home I can express my anger better than with strangers. To my wife I can say, "I prefer it this way or that way". I succeed in saying such things at home, although I can talk very well with strangers.

D : Did it ever happened that you really got angry at your work?

P : Yes, once. It concerned a truck driver, he had to fill out the hours. How did it go exactly? He didn't want to stay with the freight. I said, "You have to stay with your freight, if there is some control..." and so on. But he didn't want to stay with the freight. He said all kinds of things, I don't remember what. But at that moment I told him my opinion about him. At the moment I told him I felt myself trembling, but afterwards I felt a little bit relieved.

He says he has a problem to express his anger at his work. He give an example. He says that it goes better at home. The way he's saying it does not convince me. Do you really know this person at the moment? You really don't know how he really is, you don't know his history.

Further, you will see what his main problem in life actually was.

D : Did you just tell him?

P : No, I was really angry, it was more screaming.

D : You were trembling?

P : Yes, because of the emotions, I think.

Now, you have another symptom. He says that he's trembling when he's angry. In the Repertory this is again a symptom for Mercurius and for several other remedies.

D : Are there other people you often get angry at?

P : Maybe at my father, because I was not allowed to continue my study.

D : Could you tell me something about it?

P : My eldest sister finished her studies as a licentiate in chemistry. The moment I was studying in X, my eldest brother was studying for civil engineer and my twin-brother was studying pharmacy and I wanted to become a dietician.

D : So your twin-brother was studying pharmaceutics?

P : Yes. He was in the second year, he was already in X, because I did a special year somewhere else. Before the partial examinations in January, my father said to me that I had to stop my studies, because there was no money. Afterwards I regretted it very much and often I say, "I wish I hadn't stopped my studies".

D : But did your father say it only to you?

P : Yes, only to me. Because the others already finished one or more years.

D : Did your father say you had to stop?

P : Yes. He said that I didn't have to stop, but I couldn't go on because there was no money. At that time I didn't think of a loan or things like that, I just said, "All right, I will stop". These studies were rather difficult, but I can not tell it at the moment because I didn't finish the studies. If I would have known my wife at that moment, I might have continued. I didn't have support from anyone, or someone who said, "Try to get some money there or there, but go on with your studies".

D : What did you do then?

P : I just stopped and I applied to do my military service earlier, otherwise I had to wait too long.

He is a twin-brother. He has another brother who is a civil engineer and his twin-brother is a pharmacist, but this man has no special diploma. He wanted to become a dietician. The moment he started with his studies his father said, "You have to stop, because we don't have enough money to pay your studies. "His twin-brother could go on studying and become a pharmacist. But he had to stop. You have to imagine what this means for him. Do you see how he reacts to these things?

Yes, he's laughing. But he didn't react at all, ten years ago. His father said to him that he had to stop and he said, "All right, I stop, because there is no money. "My twin-brother can go on studying. That is normal.

It is strange. You see that he did not react as an aggressive or assertive man at that time. He said, if I would have been married at that time my wife would resist. But he himself didn't have the force to resist and he just agreed with his father. In this crucial part of his life you see how he is as a character. You see how easily he can be suppressed. You see the whole line in his life. In the beginning his instinct to write with the left hand was suppressed, and later on he could not study what he wanted, his father decided for him. There is a long history of domination.

P : Maybe I had to ask someone of the politics, but that is not my character. If I would have finished these studies where would I be working now. But that is only a supposition.

D : When you think about it, do you get angry?

P : Yes, I feel sad, angry. I don't know how to express it. I feel something, but I can't express it exactly.

D : When you were a child, how was the relationship with your twin-brother.

P : He has always been a dominating person. When his toys were broken he broke mine as well.

You see even as ac child his brother was abusing him. When the toys of his twin-brother were broken his brother also broke his toys, because he was so hatred. Do you notice that when he is telling the story he's even laughing. He is not angry at his brother. Even now, his brother who is a pharmacist comes to him to pay him a visit. Then his brother is making a big bluff, about what he's earning, about his holidays here and there. He's just sitting there and smiling, and saying "Oh yes, that's interesting." It's amazing he's not angry. If you see how much he's abused, first by his brother, then by his father who said, "You have to stop your studies," and he did, he keeps on smiling. In this character you can imagine he can get some tics, or outlets. I mean, now you can understand more clearly the trembling while writing.

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Question : "Were they identical twins?"

D : I don't know if they are identical twins.

Try to translate this whole history in the language of the Repertory.

"Ailments from suppressed anger". I think this is the basic cause.

Now, you see, if you would have given Magnesia phosphorica it would not help, because what we know from Magnesia phosphorica, is that it has the writer's cramp, but it does not have the suppressed anger.

Question : "Is there maybe no anger at all in this patient?"

D : Sometimes there is anger. But you can say it is suppressed anger.

He said that sometimes he has to control himself and then he starts to tremble. At home there are some moments that he can react. He can shout at his wife and slam the door.

P : In the primary school we always sat in the same class. If I would have a twin, I would never do it. I would separate the twin.

D : You were always together.

P : Yes, and usually we were sitting next to each other. This resulted in the fact that I took it very easy. He did the work and I copied it. Only concerning this point it is very stupid they put us together.

D : Your brother was the leader?

P : Yes, he was the leader.

You see how he talks about his brother. He says, "My brother was a dominating figure, he as stronger and smarter than I was". He just accepted it. you don't find any element in him that he wants to prove that the is as good as his brother. "Yes", he says, "from the beginning my brother was smarter, and stronger. It's just like that".

There is a difference. You can have people who are suppressed, but who want to fight. Because of the suppression they want to prove that they did not deserve that suppression. Because of the suppression they start to fight, they become very ambitious and aggressive. Then you think of other remedies. He is suppressed and he doe not react to this suppression. He just developed physical symptom, like the trembling and the heart palpitations.

D : Did your father react differently to your brother than to you?

P : As a child I can't remember it very well. But when my brother was studying, we didn't have much money at home, my father would have given the last penny to my brother. At that time I was working and my brother was studying and my father borrowed some money from me to give it to my brother as pocket-money.

But as a child I don't remember who was his favourite child.

D : How is the relationship with your brother now?

P : It is a very weak relationship. We see each other very seldom. Normally, he's a pharmacist, but he does all kinds of things, except being a pharmacist.

When he talks about his brother he is not aggressive. You don't see any hate in him.

P : At the moment he does assurances, and if we see him he talks about assurances the whole evening.

D : Is there a good understanding with him? Do you like him to visit you?

P : I wished he didn't come. I mean, he's welcome, but he only talks about money, and assurances and I make so much money and so on.

D : Do you think he tries to bluff?

P : It seems so. But in reality it is the opposite.

I asked him directly if his brother tries to bluff? And he says, "No". He says, "It seems like that, but he doesn't." Actually, you see how sweet he is.

---- today ---

P : He earns quite a lot of money, but he can't keep money. He bluffs quite a lot, but in reality he's not the way he presents himself. He is more the kind of my father. If he would come somewhere, you would think, "That must be a rich man". But in fact, he was nothing. My brother is exactly the same. He presents himself better than he is. He is always wearing a nice suit, drives a big car and he tries to feel comfortable. I don't know if he wants to make me angry this way, but in reality it is different.

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D : Have you ever been angry at our brother?

P : Yes, it happened regularly. Usually, when we were older, not as children. As a child he broke my toys, but when we were older there was some fighting because he couldn't control his money. He had to redo his ear, but from the money he borrowed from my parents he went on holiday. He got the money to pay his room and so on. But then we received a greeting card, "I'm sorry I didn't succeed, but I'm in Yugoslavia". At that moment I was very angry.

D : How do you react in such situations?

P : I just said to him, "Well, that's not nice of you. Why don't you let us know you didn't succeed, why do you have to go on a holiday?" He answered me "I want to enjoy my life as well." But I was not really angry.

I will tell you the other symptoms.

He also told me he perspired very much at night.

He is rather a fastidious person, especially in his work. He wants to do his work very well.

He must urinate very frequently.

He had two styes in his eyes for one year.

This is all the information I have.

On which symptoms do we base the prescription?

Answer : "Suppressed anger?"

D : Yes, suppressed anger, styes in his eyes.

There is a lot of cancer in the family and there is a element of domination, he's easily offended, he's fastidious, you would think of Carcinosinum.

Carcinosinum is know as a remedy for suppression, for domination by one of the parents.

Question : "How is his sexual life?"

D : he said it was normal. He is satisfied with his marriage. He finds it a satisfying relationship. He has no fantasies, no obsession with sexual things, and I believe him.

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Question : "Can we take 'yielding disposition'?"

D : Yes, absolutely. "Yielding disposition", is an appropriate rubric, of course.

Don't you think there are a lot of Mercurius symptoms, like trembling while writing, stammering speech when he was young, perspiration at night, trembling from anger, anger that he tries to control is also Mercurius.

Which is the remedy?

It's a simple case, the Staphisagria.

The first remedy I gave was Carcinosinum. That's the reason why I presented this case. He reacted to Carcinosinum, strange enough. His allergy disappeared completely, for five years (from 1984 until now) with one dose Carcinosinum. I waited the whole time, but his trembling did not disappear. After four years I repeated Carcinosinum again, and there was no reaction. So, I thought it must be another remedy. I didn't wait another four years, but only three months. I think, with this history it must be Staphisagria.

I start thinking of it, when he told me that he was left-handed and they tried to make him right-handed. That's typical Staphisagria. Now, it is only 3 months after Staphisagria and the reaction on Staphisagria is NOT clear. So, I will wait further, because I'm very convinced of it.

Also mentally, you could think of Carcinosinum, there are some elements for Carcinosinum, but he does not have other keynotes to confirm it. He has no physical Carcinosinum symptoms to confirm it, I mean he has no naevi, he has no blue sclerotics, not an extreme desire for chocolate, he did not have the typical sleep position as a child, and no problems with childhood diseases.

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Remark

Dr. geukens alfons

Concerning the Staphisagria case of Dr. Henk van Hootegem Carcinosinum was given 4 years ago and indeed you see that the hay fever disappeared, but the patient is not cured yet; he is still trembling. What does this mean? I told you about the case where I gave Nux vomica and the hay fever disappeared, but in the meantime he developed hypertension. It means that we didn't give the right prescription at the right moment.

At the moment we are in the beginning of Homoeopathy. There was a time where they were with more people than we are at the moment. We have to redo everything and a put all the information into practice. It means that up to now we don't have so many experienced homoeopaths compared with the time of Kent, who was practising Homoeopathy for about 40 years, not alone, but with many doctors together and in very acute cases.

The first thing is to try to find a remedy that fits with the personality of a person, to try to understand the person who is sitting in front of you, not because of the symptoms, but because of the personality. I know even they did not always have the knowledge of certain remedies. We have to try to find out what kind of personality this person has.

Second, we are teaching, but we don't have so much experience. It means that we must be very careful. When we are teaching about Carcinosinum, I'm sure that many people will prescribe Carcinosinum next week, and the week after, but after two months they will be disappointed, because many patients were prescribed Carcinosinum wrongly. You must also be careful to put symptoms of other remedies upon the shoulder of Carcinosinum. Dr. Van Hootegem could have said, "Do you see how beautiful this Carcinosinum case is? He's cured". The patient was a sweet man and so on and so on. But no one can make a differential diagnosis between Staphisagria and Carcinosinum. It's impossible. This patient could have been presented as a Carcinosinum patient. There is a lot to do and we must be very, very careful with our teaching.

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Some homoeopaths who think they are good homoeopaths tell us something and we swallow it. This is putting us on the wrong leg. I remember very well, and afterwards I was very angry, when people told me that in very acute cases you could never give a remedy coming from a metal. Only, a remedy coming from a vegetable origin can be given in acute cases. For one year I have missed quite a lot of Belladonna chronic cases, until I went to Vithoulkas who said, "Forget this." He also said, "Forget that this is a nosode. Try to see the symptoms and to understand the personality. That is pure Homoeopathy. The rest is theorizing."

I remember when I was teaching about a Ptelea case, it concerned a hepatitis, I showed this case and people said, "But no, you can't take the intolerance of fat, you can't take 'vomiting after fat' in this case." I said, "Why not?" They said, "Because it is a hepatitis." I said, "If I did not take this symptom I could never find Ptelea as a remedy".

We are too much theorizing. We must be humble. Homoeopathy is very simple, you only have to find the remedy. The principle is very simple, but we can make it very complicated so that no one knows what we have to prescribe in some cases. What kind of symptoms are we looking for?" Theorizing, theorizing. If we change, we have to go the right way, try to cure, and try to be honest.

How often people tell me they went to teachers who have been theorizing about God, and after five years they could not prescribe a remedy, but they were studying very hard. Then, they met Vithoulkas and the way he prescribed and then they say, "Oh my God, I know, I can prescribe", only by trying to feel and to study, without theorizing. I think that is very important. The principle is very simple.

A symptom is a symptom. And if the symptom is there we have to take it. We can not leave symptoms away. It's an expression of the patient. In children we have to look. Its behaviour means something. The dark appearance of Carcinosinum means something.

The white complexion, the leucophlegmatic complexion of Calcarea means something. It's the expression of the internal energy.

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CASE17

Addendum carcinosinum

Carcinosinum

New information

Dr. guido mortelmans

The most important publication of last year was of Foubister himself.

In this book "Tutorials on Homoeopathy" there are some chapters about Carcinosin. It was his last publication about Carcinosin, because he died last year. There is not so much new information, but he stresses some important points.

1. The full "Carcinosin appearance" of the blue sclerotics, café-au-lait complexion and black macules is rare. So don't wait to prescribed the remedy because you don't see the Carcinosin appearance.

2. Carcinosin has a strong desire for affection. We also see that in Pulsatilla and Phosphorus children. But these children are more open than Carcinosin. And you don't notice this strong need for affection very easily.

3. After effects of head injury.

4. Post-menopausal illness.

5. Carcinosin has a lot of food cravings and aversions. At one time there can be an aversion and at another time a craving. This is not so uncommon in children.

Foubister gives a big list of related remedies :

Alumina, Arsenicum album, Arsenicum iodatum, Bellis perennis, Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea phosphorica, Dysenteric co, Graphites, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Natrum muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, Nitricum acidum, Opium, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Thuja and Tuberculinum.

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In his book he also talks about the other Carcinosins. Carcinosin Adeno stom in chronic hepatitis, Carcinosin Lung in recurrent bronchitis, Carcinosin breast in chronic cystic mastitis and Carcinosin Bowel Co. in many cases of rectal and anal conditions and cases of dysmenorrhoea. Several authors report strong aggravations after this remedy in cancer patients. Foubister also once saw a very strong aggravation with one of these nosodes in a cancer patient and thereafter said that it was forbidden to prescribe Carcinosin in cancer patients. The last years he changed his point of view and also prescribed Carcinosin in cancer patients. But the experience is to prescribe Carcinosin in these cases an not one of the other Carcinosins, who have a stronger aggravation.

Foubister also recommends Scirrhinum in the treatment of threadworms, when there are some indications.

Jonathan Shore gave a lecture on Carcinosin in the United States. He mentions that he doesn't know the "essence" of Carcinosin. Till today I think nobody has found a clear "essence" of the remedy. He also found out that Carcinosin people feel a strong connection with the suffering both of individuals and the planet as a whole. This is really a strong keynote. Tinus Smits mentioned it in our seminar and it is confirmed by several other homeopaths.

Carcinosin can be very fastidious. But they not only need order in their personal life, they also want order in the world.

Important is that in Many of his Carcinosin patients Shore sees a desire for vinegar. No other source mentions this desire, so we have to be careful before we add this symptom. Also some of the other food cravings added by this author are not found in other publications. So it is dangerous to add these symptoms.

He also mentions the periodicity of Carcinosin : symptoms that appear every seven days.

Shore didn't see the blue sclerotics and the typical "café au lait complexion" in Carcinosin.

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Vithoulkas pictures Carcinosin people as vital, social and expressive people. There can be much irritability and outbursts of passion. When they become sicker they can develop a need for order and program. When they are fastidious, the emphasis is more on order than on small details. So Carcinosin people can also be very outward going.

In our Center in Hechtel I don't see a lot of outgoing Carcinosin patients who are full of passion. Most are introverted and closed. But Carcinosin can have passions. And the greatest passion is maybe the love of nature and the love for animals.

These persons become easily involved in things as Greenpeace etc.

But they are also very sensitive to the negative and positive behaviour of other people. One of the biggest themes in Carcinosin people is the desire for harmony : they want harmony not only in their family but also in the whole world.

Another keynote I find in a lot of Carcinosin people is their tremendous desire to read ; not scientific books but takes and novels.

Some other remarks by myself :

1. Don't prescribe the remedy on the food desires or aversions. Carcinosin has a lot of desires and aversions and in every patient you will find desires or aversions of Carcinosin. The strongest desires are chocolate and soup. But in our society a lot of people like chocolate, so it is dangerous to prescribe on that.

2. You don't need the Carcinosin complexion and the birthmarks to prescribe the remedy.

3. In almost every family there are cancer patients and nowadays most of the people don't know anymore if there was tuberculosis in the family. The absence of childhood diseases is a strong keynote (but ask about vaccinations).

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4. Prescribe Carcinosin on the mental picture and not on some physical keynotes.

5. The fastidiousness and the anticipation are seen very frequent.

6. Carcinosin patients very often have a history of suppression on the emotional level.

Differential diagnosis.

The most difficult differential diagnosis is with Medorrhinum.

A lot of keynotes and symptoms are the same :

*evening amel.

*sea side amel.

*desire sweet, fat and fruit

*sleep on abdomen, knee-elbow

*sleeplessness in children

*masturbation in children

*recurrent infections from a very young age

*loves music and dancing

*sympathetic

*love for animals

*passionate

*ailments from anticipation

So how can we differentiate these children?

Carcinosin children mostly are not so violent. And a lot of them have a passion to read and are fastidious. Carcinosin people mostly have a greater need to control their passion and they have a strong feeling of responsibility.

Extra

The differential diagnosis for desire for chocolate is which remedy? Which other remedy likes chocolate a lot?

Carcinosinum.

And highly seasoned food?

Also Carcinosinum.

Besides Sepia officinalis has a desire for sour things, often an aversion to fat. As far as the desires are concerned the differential diagnosis between Sepia officinalis and Carcinosinum is not easy, because often both have the same appearance. But Carcinosinum has a real strong desire for fat, while Sepia officinalis rather has an aversion and a desire for ice cream is stronger in Carcinosinum than in Sepia officinalis.

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