Help with Pancreatic Cancer

[Raymond Kughen]

I have just lost a friend to this and another one has just informed me
that he has pancreatic cancer.

Is there actual help out there somewhere?

Thank You

Ray Kughen

[Rochelle]

Sorry to hear about your friend.

Homeopathy can help to alleviate symptoms and give a better quality of in a
patient with cancer.

I don't know where your friend lives but getting in touch with a
professional homeopath may be a way forward.

There is also a Dr A U Ramakrishnan who has written a book on Homeopathy and
Cancer and has a protocol that has been very successful with some forms of
cancer. His website is http://www.drramakrishnan.com/

Regards
Rochelle

Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Jean Doherty]

Has anyone any experience of using the Cadmium salts as talked about by Dr Grimmer. Dr A U Ramakrishnan's protocols are backed up by excellent statistics but takes a person who does not get abstracted or distracted easily to comply . , Jean

[Jean Doherty]

In 2 people I manage to get in the odd dose of Cadmium Sulph 1m . It the best i can do to contribute and it has to be very easy as they are not really compliant I wish I could do more but in one at least when he has that far away look, tired, depressed, and not with us I perceive a lift in spirits. I just in this situation ask him to open his mouth. The other I believe has taken it occasionally himself but I really believe more care is needed. However one hopes. I have watched others recently trusting their oncologists completely all the way to the inevitable end.
I suppose its a choice of some sort!!, Jean

[Ruby]

Jean,
Sometimes help with Material Dose Choline (even Phosphidyl Choline) which helps with the brain, B Vitamins, Fish Oil EFA's, Amino Acids which help build and regulate neurotransmitters....... These things along with the BiChemic Phosp tissue salts which help the brain - may help the brain to reregulate itself to become more "with us".... and be able to more fully participate in their healing. I've found that people in this condition "can't think", they're exhausted, and want others to do it for them.... it's probably just part of the symptom picture. (They were probably nutritionally deficient prior to coming down with this condition, and so need nutritional support even more than usual)
Hope this is helpful.
Jennifer

[Jean Doherty]

Dear Jennifer, supplied a lot of information about nutrition. Part of the problem is being overwhelmed and not being able to take anything more on board. Unfortunately the dieticians available through the oncology units are to my mind worse than useless but as part of system listened to.
The one closest to me I have supplied with supplements. The others do not want to know. One resorts to wishing well from a distance , Jean

[DCR]

Thus far the dieticians at any oncology group that I have met (to date - but I still have hope) have been a MAJOR problem - and not only doing nothing to help - but actually speeding decline, more symptoms, and death (recommending artificial sweeteners and grocery store vitamins is only one in a long list of dreadful things they do). Most oncology offices are geared to putting the individual into an 'overload' or 'overwhelm' situation, with a great deal of fear - lots of appointments - lots of waiting in waiting rooms with panic and deterioration in every seat. Most often when they come in in 'overwhelm' it seems they are overwhelmed with fear and anxiety - rather than in the doing of something positive.

Thus far, when I've had a client come with diagnosis (and usually lots of 'treatments' for) cancer such as liver of pancreas - I give them plenty of 'to do's' that make them feel in charge. Diet changes, detox, yoga classes (breathing class if available), diary, Bach Flower remedies, etc. I almost never give a homeopathic remedy at the onset since the case is usually a jumble from the drugs, surgeries and radiation - and when they know the remedy will be chosen in a month (or so) they know I have confidence they will live that long - something their oncologists don't seem to share.

[Dale Moss]

Hi, Jean
Dr. Ramakrishnan's method looks more complicated then it really is. If the patient can see the regimen as part of a healing ritual that they perform for themselves, they usually get on board very quickly.
Problems can arise when there is pressure from family & friends to do "real" medicine, or if the patient has some obstacle to believing that they deserve to heal. Or if they experience such good results that they decide that if a little alternative medicine helps, a lot will help even more -- and they go for every therapy out there, losing focus as a result.
Peace,
Dale

[Jean Doherty]

Yea , a lot of skill needed to bring on board . I just sadly not got it in several instances recently. Thankfully the closest one seems well at moment. I suppose the best advertisement is keeping well oneself , Thanks Jean.

[Sarvadaman Oberoi]

Dear Raymond,
Cancer is a difficult disease. Homeopathy could help.
See extracts.

Regards.

Sarvadaman Oberoi
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Sohna Road, Gurgaon 122018 Haryana INDIA
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EXTRACTS

HYDRASTIS for cancer of the stomach, pancreas, and upper intestinal tract. (Dr AU Ramakrishnan) – use of Carcinosinum etc in Ramakrishnan protocol.
Calcarea arsenicosa - relieves some of the pain of cancer of pancreas ( Blackwood AL, Boericke W, Clarke JH)
Conium maculatum - tumors of the pancreas (gland) (Geukens A)
GRIMMER A. H., Homoeopathic Treatment of Cancer [1st Indian Ed.] (gm2)

"PHOSPHORUS: Poorly known, this remedy can clearly act with success before the tumoral phase when the degeneration of a glands and its nuclei is yet hardly delineated. Phosphorus has first a selective action on the higher tissues in contrast to Silicea, its complementary, which presents an efficacy for interstitial tissues. It is especially in hepatic and pancreatic cancer that Phosphorus appears. Although of secondary importance, it is worthy of attention."
GRIMMER A. H., The Collected Works (gm1)

"Calcarea arsenicosa: Consists of symptoms of the two components of which the remedy is composed. It meets those cases where pathology tends to ultimate in the liver and pancreas, hence, cancer in the pancreas and cirrhosis of the liver with hypertrophy."

"Ceanothus -3 cancer of spleen, liver and pancreas"
HERING C., Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica (hr1)

Calcarea arsenicosa

"- Cancer of pancreas, when there is burning pain. "
JONES E. G., Cancer : Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment (jne1)

Iodium

In cancer with rapid emaciation, canine hunger, feels hungry all the time, feels relieved by eating, feels worse in a warm room, you should prescribe tincture iodine 6th X dilution. Dose, ten drops in a little water once in two hours. It is the remedy for cancer of the pancreas.

Cancer of the pancreas

Scirrhus cancer is the most common form of the disease and it is apt to occur at middle age. The head is first affected and pressure upon the bile duct may cause Jaundice.

Symptoms.

Sometimes a deep tumor may be felt in the pyloric region when the head is largely involved. There will be symptoms of indigestion - vomiting and diarrhea. A neuralgic pain of a paroxysmal character is felt in the pyloric belt with fatty greasy stools. There is progressive emaciation, with gradual loss of strength and the cancer cachexia. Jaundice is sometimes present. Ascites may develop when the portal vein is compressed.

Treatment.

For the symptoms of indigestion give nux vomica second decimal three tablets once in three hours. Burgess' double sulphide tablets one after each meal and at bedtime. For the pain tincture Colocynth should be given. Add ten drops to six ounces of water and give a teaspoonful once in two hours. To act upon the diseased growth we have one remedy that is especially indicated; it is iodine. Give tincture iodine sixth decimal dilution, ten drops in a little water once in two hours.
LILIENTHAL S., Homoeopathic Therapeutics (ll1)

Silicea terra

Fatty degeneration or cancer of pancreas; suppuration of salivary glands; canine hunger with nervous, irritable persons; aversion to warm cooked food, disgust for meat; sour eructations; nausea with violent palpitations; induration of pylorus; clothing across abdomen feels too tight; stools contain undigested food, with great exhaustion, but painless.
SCHROYENS F., Synthesis [original English version] [9th Ed.] (sys1)

Cadmium iodatum

Abdomen

ABDOMEN - CANCER - Colon; transverse

ABDOMEN - CANCER - Intestines

ABDOMEN - CANCER - Liver

ABDOMEN - CANCER - Pancreas

ABDOMEN - CANCER - Spleen
YASGUR J., Homeopathic Dictionary (ygj1)

Gerson therapy

a method of cancer treatment developed by German born physician Max Gerson (1881-1959). In advance of conventional medicine, Gerson advocated a healthy diet and the elimination of toxins. He prohibited smoking, alcohol, animal fat, smoked and pickled foods. His suggested diet included an abundance of fruits, carrot juice, vegetables (13 glasses of freshly squeezed vegetable and fruit juices, one glass consumed every hour) and foods containing Vitamin C, fiber and beta-carotene. He also advocated coffee enemas. His method of treatment evolved out of his successful results with treating skin tuberculosis through low-salt dietary management. A Cancer Therapy (M. Gerson, 1958)

Gerson first used his diet for cancer in 1928. Another important aspect of his approach concerned the balance of potassium and sodium in the body. He sought to eliminate dietary sodium and replace it with potassium, thereby altering the internal environment which supported the tumor.

Other cancer therapies flourished, two of the more popular being those of Contreras and Hoxsey. Ernesto Contreras used laetrile, a modified vegan diet, proteolytic enzymes and antioxidant supplements. The latter primarily relied on botanical agents—the Hoxsey Formula—to combat cancer. See Harry Hoxsey's You Don't Have to Die (1956). The Hoxsey formula has been in use for nearly 100 years and consists of potassium iodide, licorice root, red clover flowers, burdock root, stillingia root, berberis root, poke root, cascara amarga or sagrada, prickly ash bark, and buckthorn bark.

Another doctor, albeit lesser known, William D. Kelley, dds, publicly offered his method ('Kelley ecology') after he used it to recover from his own metastatic pancreatic cancer. In principle, it is basically like the Gerson treatment except with a greater reliance on pancreatic enzymes. Actor Steve McQueen tried Kelley's method when he developed cancer, but he ultimately succumbed. Kelley wrote One Answer to Cancer: An Ecological Approach to the Successful Treatment of Malignancy (1969). A New York physician, Nicholas Gonzalez, championed Kelley's work and blended it with his own theories about typology, namely sympathetic types and parasympathetic types (One Man Alone: An Investigation of Nutrition, Cancer, and William Donald Kelley, 1987).

L. Burton, G. Naessens, E. Revici, S. L. K. Csatary, G.H. Earp-Thomas, R. Burzynski, and Wm. B. Coley (1862-1936) are other personalities of significance within the anti-cancer movement. Iscador, an injectable preparation from the mistletoe plant, is a popular anti-cancer agent in Europe. See Coley's toxins, Essiac.

See James P. Carter's interesting Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives (1992).
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From the temple of homoeopathy

My experience with three masters

Munjal thakkar, india

Some other cases from dr. dey's practice

Case of cancer

A 60-year-old homoeopath who had cancer at the head of the pancreas, underwent Choledochojejunostomy fifteen days ago. Over the last two to three months, the colour of the urine had been gradually darkening and this was accompanied by a rise in his temperature. He finally developed obstructive jaundice and underwent an operation. In spite of the surgery, the urine colour remained unchanged. Along with this he also had flatulence, eructations and passing of flatus. Passing flatus gave relief. He suffered from lack of appetite. There was pain in the right hypochondrium and along the line of the incision. He also had a burning sensation in the abdomen. He was passing mucoid stools like a thin, narrow ribbon, initially black, now white in colour. He had burning of the soles of the feet and had to keep his feet out of the covers, even in winter. Pruritis due to jaundice. He had hot flushes in the abdomen, ameliorated by uncovering the abdomen.

Past History - Otorrhoea in childhood treated by homoeopathy. Tetanus from a wound twenty years ago.

Family History: Father had cancer, brother died of jaundice.

He himself was hot-blooded and fond of cold.

Dreams: Traveling and danger due to water, jungle.

Sleep: Disturbed in catnaps. Position: on his back.

Thirst: Scanty.

Sweat: Axillae, chest and head, which aggravated his symptoms.

Stool: Regular but dysenteric tendency. Now he has a normal stool but with intolerant urging. His stool was black tarry after palliative surgery.

Urine: Yellowish - deep yellow with occasional burning, not offensive.

Desires: Chilies, salty food, fried food (2), warm food, ghee, butter.

Aversions: Sweets, fruits.

Mind: Fear thunderstorms. Fears dogs.

He has a mild nature. If angry he suppresses his anger. He wants to be alone if sad and depressed.

4.2.97

INV - USG 1 cbd abruptly obstructed in region of head of pancreas.

Gall Bladder distorted, wall regular.

19.2.97

Biopsy from Ampulla. Conclusion: Adenocarcinoma.

ERCP features suggest neoplasm.

CBD is dilated and distal part show irregular filling defect extending up to ampulla.

17.2.97

LFT (Liver function test)

T. Bil 5.4 mg %, D. Bil 4 mg %, I. Bil 1.6 mg %. SGOT 237. SGPT 476.

Observation/Examination: Jaundice + Pale anaemic.

Pulse 100/min. Tongue: moist coated white. Oedema of feet and legs. Urine scanty, yellow. Heart: Normal. Liver: 3 1/2 fingers palpable, no ascites.

Weight: 59 KG

Blood pressure: 120/70 mmhg

Drug History: Various homoopathic drugs by other physician.

First prescription on:

23.3.97

Calcarea arsenicosa LM2 BD for twelve days

Motivation: Patient had profuse perspiration. Palpitation on least exertion.

(This prescription was made to relieve present symptoms only.)

29.3.97

Jaundice better, urine lighter.

For a evening rise of temperature patient took China sulphuricum 30C, one dose by himself for fever with rigor.

Blood pressure: 120/80 mmhg Pulse 84/min

Prescription: Natrium sulphuricum LM3, OD for twelve days, followed by LM5

OD for twelve days.

From April 97 to May 97 was put on ascending potency of Natrium sulphuricum. Each potency given for sixteen days before going to next higher potency.

21.6.97

Observation/Examination:

Liver better, occasionally pain beneath scar, urine occasionally yellow

Pulse 80/min, Jaundice minimal.

Weight: 59 KG. Tongue-moist, slight coating of tongue.

Natrium sulphuricum LM10 DD for sixteen days.

7.7.97

Alk. Phos 581 (UPTO 300), SGPT 69 (5-40 14/L), Hb 10.78%, ESR 35.

Natrium sulphuricum LM11, BD for sixteen days then Natrium sulphuricum LM12

BD for sixteen days.

21.7.97

Liver: one finger palpable, slight tenderness, icteris present

Pulse: 80/min

Weight: 59 kg

Blood pressure: 150/80 mmhg

Natrium sulphuricum LM15 BD for sixteen days.

14.8.97

T. Bill 0.5 mg %, SGPT 37 IU/L, Alk. Phos 278 IU/L.

Natrium sulphuricum LM16 - LM17 BD for sixteen days.

1.10.97

When the interview had been taken, the patient was leading a normal, routine life and continued to take Natrium sulphuricum LM20.

Discussion

Jaundice improved because of surgery.

General condition improved home treatment.

A case with predominant Sycotic miasma.

All prominent symptoms of case covered by Natrium sulphuricum, which is a grand anti-sycotic.
Quinquennial Homoeopathic International Congress (~Quinq_Hom_Int_Con)

Transactions of the eighth congress : July 17 to 22, 1911 - Volume I

The medical treatment of malignant disease

By Dr. Le Hunte Cooper

In June, 1906, I received a letter from Dr. Whiting, of Bishop Stortford, saying that the he was anxious for me to see a man W. R., suffering from an abdominal tumour, whom the local allopaths had given up. They had sent him up to University College Hospital where he was seen by Mr.-, who found a cancerous tumour growing from the region of the pancreas. He was informed that the disease had so far advanced that that nothing could be done for him, and his vitality had become so impaired that death on the operating table would certainly result, if surgical measures were employed. He therefore returned home and had made all arrangements for quitting this world, when Dr. Whiting first saw him.

On the 22nd June, 1906, he was brought to me, in spite of the most strenuous opposition from his former medical advisers. I ascertained that he had been a brewer's drayman, and was 35 years of age, that his health had been good till February of the same year, when he had an attack of influenza which laid him up for a week. He then returned to work, but cutting abdominal pains developed, together with yellow vomit. The bowels, he said, seemed to become blocked when the pain was present.

Dyspepsia was diagnosed, and old school treatment employed without any relief. He steadily lost flesh and became progressively weaker, till one day the above-mentioned growth was discovered. Two stone in weight had been lost in the previous tow months, and his appearance, when I saw him, was hopeless in the extreme. He presented all the signs of advanced cachexia, with sunken cheeks, sallow skin, and such extreme weakness that he could hardly stand, and had to be supported when walking. He complained of constant dragging in the epigastrium when on his legs, and occasional darting pains were also present in the same region, especially when the stomach was empty. When lying still at night, or when sitting, he was free from pain, though turning in bed would bring it on. The bowels acted daily, with formed white motions, and his tongue was white-coated. Present weight to stone d12 Ibs. (his former weight having been 13 stone). There had been no vomiting for the the last five weeks. On examination, I found a large hard tumour free from all signs of fluctuation and occupying the entire epigastric region. It projected anteriorly from the abdominal wall, and gave a dull note over its entire surface on percussion; inspiration and expiration produced but little movement in it. The liver and stomach were of normal size. He stated that the lump had increased with great rapidity in the last month. I prescribed Ornith. Um. 0, and the man returned to Bishop Stortford.

June 30th. Dr. Whiting reported that the man was more cheerful, is spite of the fact that the tumour was larger and more prominent, measuring 51/2 inches vertically, and projecting 31/2 inches vertically, and projecting 3/4 inch anteriorly, its lower margin being 1/2 inch above the umbilicus. Over an oval surface in its centre the skin had become reddened, and dragging pain was felt in this region, though the abdomen as a whole was less tender. No mention was made of any special reaction having followed the dose, though I subsequently learnt that marked exacerbation of the pain had occurred temporarily. Not knowing this, I ventured to give another dose of Orn. Um. ø A.

July 4th. I received a telephone message to say that the tumour was pointing in two places. The man was suffering great pain, and only passing half a paint of pint of urine a day. For the pain I prescribed Euphorbia 3x to be given every two hours but only if very severe, and also a poultice of Slippery Elm.

July 15th (by letter). Tumour now raised in the centre 3/4 inch, it is purplish-red, at this spot, with two yellowish, pustular heads, each 1/4 inch in diameter. Severe drawing pain is felt in the tumour, with rumbling flatus in the bowels, and the patient, and the patient lies on the back with his knees drawn up. The faeces are now brown in colour, and vomiting of yellow matter, streaked with blood, occurred yesterday. Though drinking much water, the amount of urine passed still only drinking much water, the amount of urine passed is still only 1/2 pint daily. Thickly coated tongue. Strength maintained. Later, since writing the tumour has discharged a quantity of brown matter, which by the microscope, is seen to consist of leucocytes, blood and epithelium. Every mouthful of food causes acute abdominal pain.

I telegraphed directions for Nutrient Enemata to be administered, and a little peptonized milk by the mouth, if tolerated.

July 10th (by letter). The tumour, though discharging thick matter, is larger, projecting downwards below the umbilicus of the right side, and upwards towards the heart of the left. Nevertheless, the man feels hungry and looks better, and is now almost free from pain. Bowels acting twice a day. Orn. Um. ø A.

July 17th (by letter). Discharge profuse and slimy, but the tumour is extending upwards and can be traced as high as the seventh rib. The general condition is encouraging. Orn. Um. 0 A.

July 23rd (by letter). "The growth of the tumour seems to be arrested again, and he has so far gained strength that he can travel to town." He accordingly came to see me on.

July 30th, the I found the growth no longer projecting anteriorly, though it still occupied the greater part of the epigastric region. To my surprise I found it still quite hard, with no sign of fluctuation, and neither probing or pressure brought any more discharge. In other words, it presented no signs of being a simple abscess, as I thought at one time it might have been.

The patient declared himself as feeling altogether, and very hungry. He said he was quite prepared to take some more single doses, though he complained that "each of the earlier powders doubled him up with intense pain."

After this he had two more doses of Ornith. Um. ø A.. at intervals of about ten days.

August 17th I heard that he was putting on flesh, that the last dose had been followed by considerable pain, and that the bowels had been relaxed two days after the dose. The tumour was discharging very little, and had remained much the same in size.

August 27th. Dr. Whiting wrote to say that the man had walked a mile to his house without fatigue. He stated "that the last powder taken on the 20th had not worked him so much." Two fresh openings had appeared and discharged, and the tumour was now softer and smaller.

September Ist. It was reported that very little tumour could now be felt. His weight was, strange to say, 9 stone 51/2 lbs., a loss of II lbs, since June, though he was feeling so much better. No change was made in the remedy which was continued at intervals, when indicated. He had gained 5 - ibs. in weight by September 19th, and by the 13th October he was reported as able to eat anything. On the 3rd December his weight reached II stone 2 lbs.

December 19th. He came up to town. I found him a changed man. He had filled out considerably, could walk well and weighed Ii stone 6 Ibs. He still felt some epigastric pain, and I found one sinus still discharging slightly, the site of the former other openings being marked by scars. Some induration was present over the epigastrium, but the tumour itself had quite gone.

In spite of a pyrexial attack in June, 1909, during which his temperature rose to 106°, he regained his usual weight of 13 stone early in the same year, and has enjoyed splendid health ever since.

The Clinical Research Laboratories report on the discharge from this tumour is not without interest, and was as follows: "It consists of leucocytes for the most part, but there are a larger number of epithelial cells present, which might quite well come from a malignant growth."

On November 23rd, 1090, Mr. F.F. , aged 54, active, dark and below the average stature, came to me complaining of a lump which he had discovered two or three months before, in the right iliac region. He said he could only detect it when lying on his left on his life side, and that it was more noticeable sometimes than at others. He had adopted Fletcher's diet recently, and this he thought had made the bowels more constipated.

His family history was distinctly unfavourable, his mother having suffered from gall stones and died of cancer. His maternal grand-mother also died of cancer, as did his sister, it being situated in the liver in the latter case. On examination, I found a distinct nodular thickening of the caecum which was, as he had said, moveable. I felt it, as he had done, more readily when he was in the left lateral position, with the legs drawn up. He admitted to losing flesh lately, but said that he had weighed himself. I prescribed Carcin. 200/1.4.7 Pulv. xiv. J every night.

Instead of returning to me, however, he felt so much better that he stayed away three months, and returned on February 22nd, saying that the bowels acted as though a purgative had been taken, after commencing the medicine, and that they had been more natural since.

This improved action of the bowels, which, as I have explained in previous papers, is indicative that the right remedy has been chosen decided me in giving a unit dose of the same. Carcin. 200.

The patient returned a fortnight later, on March Ist, to say that he had been off to see Dr. Furnival who found a growth obstructing the caecum, and advised immediate operation. Mr. Dudley Wright also saw him and confirmed this diagnosis, as did Mr. Pepper. I had previously found Ornithogal. Um. Act well on this portion of the intestine, hence I gave him a unit dose of this Orn. Um. 0 A.

March 8th. He said no effect was noticeable till three days after the dose, when he had pain up and down the right side of the abdomen, and some headache. The bowels also acted more freely, with large, formed actions. He now had a constant feeling of discomfort in the affected area with some fullness and heat, but no throbbing. After this, I gave him two unit doses of Carcinosin at intervals, and he reported on.

March 21st that he had been steadily gaining weight, being now 8 stone II lbs.

I had found a gradual, though slight, lessening in the size of the tumour during this time. The two medicines above mentioned were given again at varying intervals after this.

May 23rd. His weight had reached 9 stone I Ib., and he reported that he had been to see Mr. Furnival who could not find any tumour now at all.

However, it was there, nevertheless, though being small and very moveable, it could not always be detected.

I need not give further details of this case, except to say that he had, besides the above-mentioned remedies, Iris T. and Polyanth. Tab.

October 5th.Mr. Dudley Wright examined him, and wrote to me saying that "he found a very remarkable diminution on the size of the tumour." Nevertheless, I had difficulty in dealing with what was left of it. Ruta Grav., Catalpa Big., Iris T. and Ocim. Can. Were given at various times when specially indicated, as well as the remedies originally mentioned, without any appreciable diminution in its size.

April 6th, 1911, the condition was as follows. There had remained for some time a nodule shaped like a partially flattened marble, it was freely moveable, and tender to touch, and the patient was frequently conscious of discomfort in its neighbourhood. All the original thickening of the caecum had, however, now quite disappeared.

As I have already explained, this marble had proved most obstinate hitherto, and I had begun to regard its further reduction as impossible, considering that it had been reduced to an inert nodule which might be ignored. One day, however, I fortunately elicited the fact that the patient's son was tubercular. This showed a possible family taint, and as it is my practice to attack such a taint when discovered, especially when the progress of a case is "hanging -fire," I gave a unit dose of Tuber. K. 200.

The patient later informed me that he felt some constitutional disturbance, in the form of headache and general malaise, three days after the dose, but there was nothing else of note. After this, I gave a few more doses of the same remedy at varying intervals, its former situation. The general health of this patient when I saw him a few days ago was excellent, his weight had reached 9 stone 21/2 Ibs., and I expect to bid him good-bye very shortly with every reasonable belief that he will never be troubled by the same malady again.

As that most invaluable of remedies, Ornithogalum Umbellatum was mainly responsible for the recovery of the two cases I have reported, I should have liked to describe another case of "cancer of the pylorus," or shall I say rather "apparent cancer of the pylorus" in a lady, which was diagnosed as such by Dr. Mitchell Bruce, and which made an excellent recovery by its aid. I also wished to detail a case of apparent sarcoma growing from the sacrum, and blocking up the rectum in a young man, which was given up by the University College Hospital, who also recovered by medicinal treatment alone. One's time, however, is so seriously curtailed, that I must leave these to some future occasion and pass on to what I consider is a matter of the greatest importance, viz., the action of Ruta Graveolens in the treatment of carcinoma affecting the lower bowel. We, as homoeopaths, avoid as far as possible associating any one remedy with any one disease, we all realize that it is the patient and not the disease we are treating, and if we lose sight of this fact our efforts are very liable to end in failure. But, in the course of time, certain remedies must stand out more prominently in connection with the treatment of certain diseased states than others, as, for example, Bryonia and Rhus in rheumatism, though this relative value depends upon many factors connected with the particular case which is under treatment. Such a connection between a drug and a diseased state when discovered should on no account be ignored, for it necessarily must prove of great assistance in the future, provided that it is never regarded as a specific in every case in which such a diseased state manifests itself. In face, its proper place must be assigned, and its special indications considered, before it can be employed with any justifiable hope of success.

It is only reasonable to suppose that a very large number of remedies may act beneficially in cancer, but certain of them stand out more prominently than others, and it is above all essential that we should , as far as possible, apportion their individual spheres of influence, and ascertain their particular indications. I recognized, when I first commenced to treat malignant disease, that this was a matter of the very first importance, but it presented very great difficulties, for one had no provings of remedies carried to such a length as actual tumour-production to help one. It, however, seemed to me that very considerable assistance might be gained by investigation the specificity of seat of action of each individual remedy, and I have since convinced myself that it is by such an action that these remedies produce their local eliminative effects. If one admits such a specificity of seat of action, and I doubt if anyone can deny this, then it is only reasonable to suppose that such an action may, in many instances, take the form of a stimulation of the healthy cells of the particular organ acted upon. Such a stimulation would naturally strengthen the normal cells to oppose disease processes in their neighborhood, and so tend to the elimination of such process when present.