carcinosin children
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 12:37 pm
I am not sure who was offering some information regarding this but I thought
I would off you my thoughts.
I see quite a large number of children in my practice and an alarming number
turn out to be Carcinosin - maybe Rochelle would also like to write
something about this as I guess it is high on her prescriptions as well.
I think this high number has a lot to do with the socio/political lifestyles
of many families in Britain, i.e. class and all that goes with it.
Carcinosin is very much a middle and upper class remedy. It is often said we
are a nation of Nat Mur's (stiff upper lip and surrounded by sea salt as we
are, and all that), so you can begin to see the pattern emerging of the need
to prescribe this remedy often.
I am only giving this as a background to understand a bit more about
Carcinosin as it is a remedy often allied to Nat Mur. In fact you could make
a triangle of Natrum Mur - Staphysagria - Phosphorous and put Carcinosin in
the middle.
Carcinosin is multi-miasmatic and a lot depends on what other influences are
inherited in the child. These influences would obviously make it lean more
towards sycotic, syphilitic, psoric tendencies.
Suppression is at the heart of Carcinosin - this can be a physical
suppression such as an early skin condition. I will stick my neck out and
say that many middle class and upper class parents cannot tolerate the idea
of their kids having a yukky skin condition so they will be whipped off to
the allopaths in no time at all and the suppression begins.
Aligned with the physical suppression is the emotional - love is given in a
very controlled way, perhaps nannies are involved, the parents hardly ever
really see their kids, they are given love in a materialistic manner, i.e.
lots of toys, they need to be seen and not heard, too many strict rules
about what they mustn't do. This latter has a lot to do with mess, dirt,
untidyness, running around (all the things that kids SHOULD BE, but they
mustn't be), which brings us back to the intolerance of a skin condition - a
sense of disgust. So the children develop a life full of order and
fastidiousness. Control.
The child is thus taught not to be dependent on the parents, they have to
become self sufficient and controlled (the stiff upper lip).
Another aspect is the parents often have huge expectations of their
children. Emotions have been suppressed but they are expected to develop
intellectually instead. Intellectual without being truly artistic. So in
this sense the child becomes a hard worker at school and big achievers. Very
serious in their work and quite reserved.
Yet another form of control is all their normal childhood fears are
suppressed - remember how fearful a phosphorus child would be and imagine
all that suppressed and what might evolve out of this.
Control, order and duty is what is taught and so the children develop along
those lines and by the time puberty arrives the damage has been well and
truly done and this is an age where disease states begin to emerge, if they
haven't already. Sexual awareness is often the first to start causing
problems.
When love isn't given freely to a child then self worth hardly has a chance
to develop - so you might have someone who becomes entirely subservient, a
martyr even, totally controlled by a sense of duty. Feelings of blackness
and gloom - but not in the Aurum sense because underneath you often feel
that there is a really nice person trying to get out but they have a deep
sense of sadness about them.
If control is seen to be the key then you will witness ritualistic states,
fastidiousness, miserly and suspicious.
If some fear remains, say with a tubercular influence you will have people
who need to be stimulated all the time, want to travel, become addictive
maybe, even addicted to sexual matters.
With a psoric influence you are more likely to get total indecision, an
inability to commit to anything, apathetic states, and loads of allergies
are present - this is often how they come to Homeopathy.
Well, I am sure you get the picture and I hope this is of use.
Regards, Joy Lucas
I would off you my thoughts.
I see quite a large number of children in my practice and an alarming number
turn out to be Carcinosin - maybe Rochelle would also like to write
something about this as I guess it is high on her prescriptions as well.
I think this high number has a lot to do with the socio/political lifestyles
of many families in Britain, i.e. class and all that goes with it.
Carcinosin is very much a middle and upper class remedy. It is often said we
are a nation of Nat Mur's (stiff upper lip and surrounded by sea salt as we
are, and all that), so you can begin to see the pattern emerging of the need
to prescribe this remedy often.
I am only giving this as a background to understand a bit more about
Carcinosin as it is a remedy often allied to Nat Mur. In fact you could make
a triangle of Natrum Mur - Staphysagria - Phosphorous and put Carcinosin in
the middle.
Carcinosin is multi-miasmatic and a lot depends on what other influences are
inherited in the child. These influences would obviously make it lean more
towards sycotic, syphilitic, psoric tendencies.
Suppression is at the heart of Carcinosin - this can be a physical
suppression such as an early skin condition. I will stick my neck out and
say that many middle class and upper class parents cannot tolerate the idea
of their kids having a yukky skin condition so they will be whipped off to
the allopaths in no time at all and the suppression begins.
Aligned with the physical suppression is the emotional - love is given in a
very controlled way, perhaps nannies are involved, the parents hardly ever
really see their kids, they are given love in a materialistic manner, i.e.
lots of toys, they need to be seen and not heard, too many strict rules
about what they mustn't do. This latter has a lot to do with mess, dirt,
untidyness, running around (all the things that kids SHOULD BE, but they
mustn't be), which brings us back to the intolerance of a skin condition - a
sense of disgust. So the children develop a life full of order and
fastidiousness. Control.
The child is thus taught not to be dependent on the parents, they have to
become self sufficient and controlled (the stiff upper lip).
Another aspect is the parents often have huge expectations of their
children. Emotions have been suppressed but they are expected to develop
intellectually instead. Intellectual without being truly artistic. So in
this sense the child becomes a hard worker at school and big achievers. Very
serious in their work and quite reserved.
Yet another form of control is all their normal childhood fears are
suppressed - remember how fearful a phosphorus child would be and imagine
all that suppressed and what might evolve out of this.
Control, order and duty is what is taught and so the children develop along
those lines and by the time puberty arrives the damage has been well and
truly done and this is an age where disease states begin to emerge, if they
haven't already. Sexual awareness is often the first to start causing
problems.
When love isn't given freely to a child then self worth hardly has a chance
to develop - so you might have someone who becomes entirely subservient, a
martyr even, totally controlled by a sense of duty. Feelings of blackness
and gloom - but not in the Aurum sense because underneath you often feel
that there is a really nice person trying to get out but they have a deep
sense of sadness about them.
If control is seen to be the key then you will witness ritualistic states,
fastidiousness, miserly and suspicious.
If some fear remains, say with a tubercular influence you will have people
who need to be stimulated all the time, want to travel, become addictive
maybe, even addicted to sexual matters.
With a psoric influence you are more likely to get total indecision, an
inability to commit to anything, apathetic states, and loads of allergies
are present - this is often how they come to Homeopathy.
Well, I am sure you get the picture and I hope this is of use.
Regards, Joy Lucas