The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from tissue taken from cancer of the human mammary gland.
In early cases of mammary carcinoma, and in breast-tumours and suspicious fibromas in the context of other anti-homotoxic therapy (see Neoplasm phases), as an intermediate injection with catalysts, quinones and preparations of the carbonyl groups etc.
The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed cancerous laryngeal tissue.
The indications are as for Carcinosin. Protracted hoarseness without obvious or- ganic cause. Laryngitis of speakers and singers.
Carcinoma Hepatis Metastasis – Nosode of Cancer of the Liver
The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed human liver-cancer tissue.
Liver damage and pre-cancerous conditions of the liver. May also be used as an in- termediate injection in various kinds of impregnation and degeneration phases. Also in early cases of cancer with a tendency to metastasis.
The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed tissue of in- testinal cancer.
Carcinoma Coli is used in pre-cancerous states of the tissue concerned, or accord- ing to the Law of Similars in similar indications, e.g. in carcinoma uteri. However, the Carcinoma Coli nosode can also be used in cancer of the large intestine itself, isopathically, in which case violent reactions may occur.
The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from material obtained during sur- gery: excised bronchial carcioma.
For auxiliary/additional therapy in bronchial carcinoma (particularly post-opera- tive); chronic bronchitis and smoker’s catarrh (in this connection bronchial carcino- ma should not be over-looked).
The attenuations are prepared from Carbolic acid (Phenol), C6H5OH, MW: 94.1.
Septic ulcers in stomatitis. Foul-smelling discharges. Acid dyspepsia. Hypereme- sis. Ulcer and cancer of the stomach. Diarrhoea with mucus and blood, pungent and foul-smelling. Rhagades, copious perspiration, prostration, itching eczema. Nephrot- ic syndrome. Neuralgias.
The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Phenolum (Acidum car- bolicum), published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for acidum carbolicum: inflammations; suppuration and ulceration of the skin, the oral mucosae, the pharynx, and the gastrointestinal tract; geriatric pruritus.
The attenuations are prepared from well-burnt charcoal from red Beech or Birch wood.
Carbo Vegetabilis, wood charcoal, is well-known as a general absorbent and detoxifying remedy, with which numerous poisons, e.g. alkaloids, but also albumin etc. can be antidoted. A similar detoxifying action may be seen in the homoeopathic preparation of charcoal, even though here it is not simply a question of adsorption of the toxins, but as in all homoeopathic remedies, a question of stimulating the major defensive system. When Carbo Vegetabilis is given in homoeopathic potency and di- lution, these adsorption factors obviously no longer play a direct part; it seems rather that, by means of the dynamisation of Carbo Vegetabilis, especially in the highest potencies, defence mechanisms with specific adsorptive action on poisons are acti-
vated, such as e.g. the reticulo-endothelial, which is well-known for its storage mechanisms.
Thus Carbo Vegetabilis is homoeopathically indicated when severe toxic states are present, i.e. when states of exhaustion arise as a consquence of toxic overloading in some serious disease, no matter whether it be a heart disease, apoplexy, typhus, whooping cough, asthma, emphysema, ulceration of the lower leg, or some other symptom. In such cases, Carbo Vegetabilis in a suitable potency (experience shows that high potencies work best here), can save lives; this has been shown again and again. There is a special leading symptom, which is icy coldness of the skin in col- lapse, of the body also, and yet a desire for fresh air, such as may appear in cases of incipient respiratory paralysis. These patients, no matter whether it is asthma, weak heart, or collapse of some other origin, e.g. even after accidents, often lie there un- covered and appear to feel well, even demanding air, although the weakness in ciru- clation is obviously only being worsend by it. In such sick people or accident-vic- tims the autonomic centres of the mid-brain and the bone-marrow are almost ex- hausted. The breath is cold, the pulse ceases or is thready, and cold sweat breaks out on the limbs, as in Veratrum Album. A bluish discolouration of the skin may also occur similar to terminal cyanosis, a result of weakness in circulation and exhaustion of the sympathetic nervous system with consequent stagnation of arterial blood and inability to satisfy the need for oxygen through respiration, e.g. also in asthmatic at- tack. Ecchymoses and bruises are also possible. Despite this extinguishing of his vital warmth, the patient still constantly craves for cool air and must be fanned; he is right on the brink of ultimate physical exhaustion. In such cases, e.g. when severe in- fectious diseases such as typhus etc. are present, haemorrhages may also occur from the gums, intestines and mucosa. However, these are not the decisive factor in the prescription of Carbo Vegetabilis, but the Hippocratic countenance, the exhaustion, the collapse, from all of which the patient can often surprisingly be rescued by Carbo Vegetabilis.
There are other states of collapse, e.g. post-operative or after implantation of fresh cells, or in shock-symptoms of any and every kind, where Carbo Vegetabilis is called for quickly, and even more obviously in combination with Veratrum Album; indeed one could describe this combination of Carbo Vegetabilis and Veratrum Album, par- enterally administered, as the homoeopathic circulatory injection. So long as the body’s powers of resistance are still capable of arousal, this will often be achieved with Carbo Vegetabilis and one will witness the recovery of patients whose situation was otherwise clearly hopeless, and this even in cases of collapse and lowered vital- ity, in asthma, whooping cough, accidents etc.
It is an astonishing thing that such a deep-reaching homoeopathic remedy, and one which is virtually fail-safe, is no longer in use in general medicine. It may be that for many colleagues the high potencies (12X, 30X) are a stumbling-block, and it is these which must be used in such cases. In spite of this, it is precisely in such cases that one can demonstrate the value of the higher potencies, with the same results re- peatedly occurring on the same indication.
Carbo Vegetabilis has a considerable number of other symptoms which have noth- ing to do with collapse, such as degenerative, spongy gums which bleed on touch or when sucked and which separate from the teeth, as one finds in periodonitis. Carbo Vegetabilis will also have a beneficial effect in a sensation of weakness in the stom- ach, lined with hyperacidity and heartburn, especially in cases where Pulsatilla is not effective. Flatulence is characteristic of Carbo Vegetabilis, especially when it occurs in the epigastrium. Carbo Vegetabilis will also be beneficial for burning in the stom- ach, such as one finds in neoplasm phases or in a pre-cancerous state. It will likewise be beneficial in laryngitis and hoarseness, which is worse in moist air and occurs mainly in the evenings; by contrast, hoarseness in the mornings will be helped by Causticum. In bronchitis and asthma in elderly people with an exhausted constitu- tion Carbo Vegetabilis is often a life-saver, e.g. also in incipient or full-blown pul- monary oedema. It is only natural that Carbo Vegetabilis should offer excellent as- sistance in bronchial asthma, especially in status asthmaticus, where it is best pre- scribed along with Sulphur and Bryonia.
Carbo Vegetabilis should be used in asthma if there is rattling respiration and the patient cannot raise the mucus, and also, as already mentioned, in pulmonary oede- ma. It will also often relieve burning, as from glowing coals, with a sensation of tiredness on the chest, in the stomach and in other organs.
Apart from cold breath and cold, damp skin, cold knees are also symptomatic of Carbo Vegetabilis, especially at night, causing the patient to wake.
The Carbo Vegetabilis patient cannot tolerate alcohol which causes dyspeptic symptoms. Aphthous glossitis, often so difficult to relieve, is likewise an indication for Carbo Vegetabilis, also protruding haemorrhoids, bluish and knotted. Carbo Veg- etabilis has also done good work in ulceration of the lower leg.
A good alternating remedy to use with Carbo Vegetabilis is China, which is like- wise a remedy for weakness, though better indicated in chronic states.
Carbo Vegetabilis is one of the remedies which offers the possibility of classical experimental demonstration of the action of high potencies with proof, especially in cases which can no longer be reached by orthodox therapy: the most serious cases of exhaustion and collapse. When the situation appears hopeless, when death from cir- culatory failure is obviously only a matter of minutes away, when stimulants no longer have any effect, even in cases of a general nature with no obvious indications for Carbo Vegetabilis, then let one more attempt be made with this great polychrest, whose effects are often so incredible as to cause the medically-trained practitioner embarrassment when telling of them.
The Carbo Vegetabilis effect really spurs us on to further attempts to explain the working of the high potencies through untiring research, even though so far only hy- pothetical explanations exist which are not sufficient to explain the experimental re- sults. However, the impossibility so far of a precise explanation is in no way an ob- stacle to the use of such highly effective preparations in high potency, for the results achieved with high potencies of Carbo Vegetabilis in suitable cases are clear for all to see.
If we now categorise the symptoms of Carbo Vegetabilis once more, the following remedy-picture emerges:
The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Carbo vegetabilis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for carbo vegetabilis: varicose veins; inflammations of the respiratory passages; hoarseness; insufficiency of digestive organs accompanied by flatulence; mucosal bleeding; cardiac and circulatory insufficiency.
The mother tincture is prepared from the dried ripe fruits of the plant, Capsicum annuum L., which is a native of Central America. N.O. Solanaceae.
The essential indications are:
Ulcerative glossitis. Aphthae. Pharyngitis, blood-red mucosa, raw sensation, con- striction, aggravated by not swallowing. Tonsillitis, mastoiditis. Acute otitis media. Malaria, great chilliness. Chronic urethritis.
Capsicum is said to be a remedy for home-sickness, which is of course difficult to objectify. The mood is irritable and changeable, alternating between laughing and crying. With this, great restlessness and excessive busyness, also anxiety.
Further indications of Capsicum are:
A strange symptom, which may lead one to Capsicum in many cases is that of feverish states, in which great thirst occurs mostly only in the preceding chilly stage, but is lacking during the heat.
There are also rheumatic pains in the joints with creaking, groaning and cracking of the joints, and clamping pains and stiffness of various joints, especially the knee and ankle. These pains are especially marked on first movement. (cf. Rhus Toxico- dendron).
Neuralgias of a stabbing or tearing kind in various parts of the body, particularly in the region of the arm and the sciatic nerve.
The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Capsicum annuum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for capsicum: mastoiditis; purulent otitis media; mucosal inflammations of the mouth, pharynx, gastrointestinal tract, urinary bladder, and urethra.
The attenuations are prepared from the careful dried, if possible undamaged in- sect, Lytta vesicatoria Fabricius. N.O. Meloideae.
Cantharis exhibits a few characteristics symptoms, which principally affect the mucosa of the genito-urinary organs. Here Cantharis brings about violent inflamma- tions with states of irritation, and similar symptoms in the mucosa of the gastro-in- testinal tract and respiratory organs, and in the serous membranes, (haemorrhagic in- flammations). As a consquence of the toxic action objects appear yellow. Addition- ally however there is a powerful action on the nervous and vascular systems and the perception of burning, especially in the mucosa, such as burning in the mouth, phar- ynx and stomach, possibly linked with colics, violent thirst and discharge of white or pale reddish tough mucus, like scrapings from the intestines, streaked with blood. Burning pains in the ovaries and peritonitis with burning pains, and also burning and stinging in the larynx, burning in the chest and in the skin in erysipelas, are charac- teristic of Cantharis. Cantharis can have a beneficial effect on chronic bronchitis with difficulty in raising the mucus, if Kali Bichromicum does not help and there are possibly urinary symptoms (Nash).
In the throat there may be a sensation of cramping constriction, such as is found in hydrophobia, just as the urinary symptoms are frequently accompanied by cramp- ing, spastic contraction, linked with continuous violent urging to urinate. The urine is only passed in drops and the patient has the sensation of molten lead passing down the urethra, linked with violent burning and pains persisting afterwards, ex- tending possibly as far as the sacrum.
Formerly poisoning with Cantharis was frequent, because the Spanish fly was used as an aphrodisiac to arouse the sexual drive. Thus Cantharis is indicated in gonorrhoea with violent irritation and erections, also in purulent and bloody dis- charge from urethra and vagina. Cantharis is also especially useful in cases where – as was formerly general practice – the catarrhs of the urethra or the gonorrhoea were driven back by injections into the upper areas of the genito-urinary tract: an unnatu- ral form of treatment.
In women there is nymphomania with severe symptoms of bladder irritation, and there are also dark-coloured, early and copious menses. Additionally Cantharis can be used to promote the expulsion of moles, etc.
The skin symptoms also reveal Cantharis to be a useful remedy in vesicular erup- tions, above all after burns, when blisters form on a yellowish base, and also in her- pes zoster, although here other substances such as Ranunculus, Rhus Tox., Mez- ereum and others have a more rapid and deeper-reaching action. Cantharis may also be indicated in infected blisters.
The throat-pains of Cantharis are important, occurring as they do in connection with paralysis and the inability to swallow solids, and especially water in rabies (hy- drophobia) and in bulbar palsy. Here Cantharis can be an important symptomatical- ly effective remedy, at least reducing these symptoms. (Otherwise use Medulla ob-
longata sarcode.) Also in the symptom-picture of Cantharis are inflammations like erysipelas with vesicles on the skin, above all on the face, hands, arms and chest, itching and burning strongly and showing increased discharge.
Cantharis characteristically illustrates the Reversal rule of large and small doses. Whilst the lower potencies, given when there is irritation of the genito-urinary tract, may produce violent aggravations, the medium and higher potencies (in accordance with the Reversal effect) have a calming and healing action. So reports Dr. Orlowski (Berlin), who had developed a procedure for curing premature ejaculation, involving cautery of the colliculus seminalis of the urethra with subsequent silver nitrate cautery. Severe bleeding always occurred, which he was able to stop quickly with Cantharis 6X, having previously experienced the most serious complications, day and night every time, because of persistent haemorrhaging. Cantharis is also spe- cially indicated in haematuria, (also in intestinal bleeding with passing of mucous shreds), so that it is an important remedy in renal calculi with haematuria, and in ir- ritative conditions in the genito-urinary tract.
If we summarise the main symptoms of Cantharis, the following typical remedy- picture results:
The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Lytta vesicatoria, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cantharis: acute inflammations of the mucosae, the urinary organs, the reproductive organs, the gastrointestinal tract, and the skin with formation of blisters; effusions in cavities of the body.
The attenuations are prepared from D-camphor, C10H16O, MW: 152.2, which is ob- tained from Cinnamomum camphora T. Nees et Eberm. N.O. Lauraceae.
The essential indications are:
Initially abortive cure in influenza. Main remedy for cholera. Violent fever with subsequent prostration. Irritation of the bladder. Cramps and neuralgias.
Camphor serves as an antidote for a wide variety of remedy-aggravations.
Typical Camphora symptoms are burning pains in the gullet and stomach, retching and vomiting, and effects on the circulation. These are seen first of all in slowing of the pulse, pallor of the skin and lowering of the body temperature; later there is a re- action, with quickening of the heart-beat and raising of the body temperature. With this there are heat and flushing of the face and palpitation in the carotid arteries.
Camphora is also indicated at the beginning of colds, e.g. in acute fluent coryza with increased discharge of watery mucus from the nose, with or without sneezing. However, it is also indicated in congestive coryza and catarrhal irritations of the la- ryngeal and tracheal mucosa, with short dry coughs and constriction of the chest.
Camphora is always indicated when death threatens through rapid depression of neural activity or of pulmonary or cardiac activity, e.g. in drowning. In such situa- tions of collapse it is on a par with Carbo Vegetabilis.
Camphora also has a reputation in bladder problems arising from the abuse of Spanish-fly blisters. Such bladder symptoms would otherwise indicate prostate dis- ease. There is frequent urging to pass urine, the urination being painful and difficult, the urine passing drop by drop with burning pains. There is also urging from holding the urine, and tenesmus of the sphincter vesicae.
A rare symptom may be mentioned: that the bladder is pressed out over the pubic bone, rather as if a rupture had occurred.
The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Camphora, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for camphora: common cold; syncopal attacks.
