The Homoeopathic Heritage- Journal review

Namita S BHMS MD(Hom)

Theme: Homoeopathy in cancer

EDITOR IN CHIEF : Dr.Farokh.J.Master

EDITOR :Dr.Pritha Mehra
Vol 33, No.2, February 2008                                                                                                             

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS

• Subrata Kumar Banerjea
• Miranda Castro
• Ajit Kulkarni
• Farokh .J.Master
• Robin Murphy
• D.P.Rastogi
• Frederik Schroyens
• Jeremy Sherr
• Luc De Schepper
• P.K.Sudhir
• Praful Vijayakar

Printed and published by Mr.Kuldeep Jain for B.Jain Publishers (P) Ltd                                                                 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Homoeopathy in cancer – Farokh.J.Master

FACE JOURNAL
Cancer – Malignant Tumors- Ajit Singh

• METHODOLOGY
  Valuable Homoeopathic Offerings to Cancer Treatment- Rashmin Deshmukh
• Homoeopathy-Prohibitions,Preventions or Mere Cautions – Shiv Dua
• Homoeopathy:All In The Mind – Vatsalya Sharma
• Cancer And The 50 Millesimal Potencies – Ramanlal.P.Patel
• Foundations in Modern Medicine ,Part-5 & Part -6 – Kanjaksha Ghosh

MATERIA MEDICA
Focus on Achillea Millefolium-Versatile Herb – Joe A Lewis

REPERTORY
Fastidiousness and its Relation with Homoeopathy – Biswajit Basu

CLINICAL
Homoeopathy for Behavioural Problem in Children – Anuradha V.Chavan

RESEARCH
Search for Potential Anticancer Agents:Evaluation of Anticancer Activity of Solvent Evaporated Residue of Mother Tinctures of Some Homoeopathic Medicines – Soma Samanta,Bikash Debanath,P.K.Tarafdar,A.U.De and Taru Jha

CASE STUDY
My Most Unforgettable case (Nymphomania) – P.S.Krishnamurthy

NEWS & EVENTS
Various seminars

QUERIES ANSWERED

FILLER – The Importance of  Symptoms

REGULARS

• Book Club
• Book Review

HOMOEOPATHY IN CANCER
Cancer comes under the category of chronic diseases.Definition of chronic disease is that ‘ it is a derangement of the vital force with an insidious onset and a gradual progress during which the vital force offers imperfect resistance so that the disease if not treated adequately , eventually ends with the death of the patient.’

The derangement occurs first at the general level and the eventual expression- the neoplasm may occur at the local level.The individual susceptibility will predispose the individual to the disease proper in general , while the weakness or the sensitivity of a particular part/ viscus/ system will lead to localization of disease in particular. The derangement proceeds from functional to structural level.

CANCER REMEDIES
Cancer is not inherited but only the disposition.Syphilitic and tuberculous diathesis are two important states that precede malignancy.

General: cit-ac, Hydr-ac,Cinnm,Con-mac,Hoang-nan,Hydrastis,Kali-perm,Thuja

• Breast cancer:Asterias rubens,carbo animalis, hydrastis,phytolacca
• Gastric cancer: Carbolic acidum,salisilic acidum,ars-alb,cundurango,geranium mac,hydrastis,ornithogalum,papaya vulgaris.
• Cancer-liver:Cholesterinum
• Cancer-pancreas:calcarea arsenicum
• Cancer-tongue:Kalium cyanatum
• Carcinoma:Arsenicum bromatum

LOCAL CANCER REMEDIES:

• Testicles:A urum metallicum
• Scrotum: Fuligo ligni
• Skin: Scrophularia nodosa, Cundurango,Gal aparine,Ars,thuja,Cinn, petroleum,Kalium arsenicum,radium bromatum
• Periosteum: Symphytum
• Lymphatic glands: Carbo animalis
• Glands in general: Scrophularia nodosa
• Face: Thuja
• Tongue: Kalium cyanatum
• Pylorus & duodenum: Ornithogalum
• Uterus: Aurum muriaticum natronatum
• Breast: Asterias rubens,conium maculatum
• Prostate: Conium, sabal serrulata.

CONCLUSION:
In fact, no remedy is specific in any disease in homoeopathy.The real specific is a remedy selected as per mental, miasmatic,physical causation etc,at all levels at an early stage of the disease when prognosis is favourable.In terminal cases where prognosis is unfavourable the disease effect and suffering should be palliated by an acute remedy selected on the acute totality of the particular part affected.