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By Joy Lucas RSHom.
I see quite a large number of children in my practice and an alarming
number turn out to be Carcinosin.
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, untidiness, 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.
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