THoughts on fellow with cancer

[Rosemary C Hyde PhD]

Hi, Carol.
Did you tell us at some point what kind of cancer this fellow has?
The weeping amel and weeping from music bring up Ign, Dig, and Graph.
Ign and Dig don't have much action with cancers, but Graph does, and it's one of only a few remedies with cancer in old scars. You implied in your

[Dale Moss]

Hi, Carol
I was thinking along Rosemary's lines regarding Bellis-p., which, like Arnica, would tend to behave as if its "armor" had not been pierced. It's not known for tumors arising from head injuries, but it is for breast tumors from injuries or blows.
Dr. Ramakrishnan considers the major remedies for brain tumors to be: Apis, Aethusa, Plumbum, Plb-iod., and Zincum. He thinks Spongia is almost a specific for tumors arising from blood vessel walls (angiomas) and for meningiomas. Conium is one he recommends for tumors arising from nerve sheaths, and members of the Baryta family for patients showing signs of dementia as the result of a brain tumor (not your patient!).
Brain tumor cases are exceedingly difficult to treat, however, because compliance is a real problem, particularly in the more advanced tumors. These patients often have difficulty remembering what they're supposed to do -- they need a strong support system in place to help.
Peace,
Dale

[Carol Orr]

grade 2 astrocytoma. Don't really know what kind of cancer that is. But i am
appreciating the thoughts of you all. I like the graphites...i didn't know
that about cancers arising from scars. He said that after the injury to his
head...he really didn't think his parents cared about him since they didn't
faun over him or take him to doctors. And that ruta suggestion...i read about
those studies of ruta and brain tumors...don't know what to think about that.

I looked up astrocytoma 2...2 is a slow growing glioma involving tissue. I
wonder what is actually happening...the tissue is hardening into a tumor?

[Rosemary Hyde]

Hi, Carol.

These tumors are very difficult to remove surgically, because they have
tentacles that extend into healthy brain tissue. The potential symptoms from
them can be devastating, because of the involvement of wide areas of brain
tissue. To the extent that surgical removal is realistically possible in
this case, that could be a first line of defense. The question is always how
much the person would suffer from the brain damage caused by the surgery as
opposed to the brain damage from the tumor -- difficult choice fraught with
uncertainty.

Dr. Ramakrishnan has had very good results with brain tumors of this type
using his plussing method and alternating Carc with Plb-i. It's a tissue
specific approach rather than a totality approach... somewhat
controversial, of course. Unless the total picture is unmistakeably clear
for one of the other remedies, I'd be inclined to use a tissue-specific
remedy as the starting point.

[muthu kumar]

There is nothing wrong with tissue-specific approach.. when bodily
pathology has progressed to this extent mostly we will find only one-
sided diseases...the pathology so takes over the system that it will
be difficult to get truly individualizing symptoms. But if
individualizing symptoms are present then we need to give
those...else we end up doing palliation...

as usual gather all the symptoms and decide what are good for
prescribing - based on the context- if there are some
individualizing symptoms amongst a majority of pathological those
individualizing gain more importance...otherwise if all you can get
are pathological- then that would be the base for prescription...

I was also thinking of Kali-iod for this case... Plumb-iod might be
a good one too..
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[Carol Orr]

I can get a plump iod at 8x, 12x or 30c. I have 200 carc. and maybe one
tablet at lm carc. otherwise in last couple of years...my source has trouble
getting that unless from europe tho they might have a secret stash. any
recommendations for potency? I'm guessing the lower doses would be okay
everyday in water doses.. He just went through his last week of chemo for a
while ..so now would be a good time to start. but i told him last week to take
the arnica 30c in water for a week. In the meantime i'm going to go look up
the plumb iod. to see what the mentals are. Unless someone knows..offhand....

carol

[Rosemary Hyde]

Hi, Carol.

It's probably not a wonderful idea to use something like Plb-i, which is a
moderately toxic substance, in low x potencies.

Just a thought. Rosemary