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PAEDIATRIC PRACTICE
Dr. M. A. USMANI
Carcinosin is a nosode of very grave disease as cancer. Its use in paediatrics fills one with
forebodings. But it’s the greatness of homeopathy that it transforms deadly poisons and
fatal extracts of diseases, such as cancer and tuberculosis, into most benevolent curative
agents. The same trepidation must have been felt when these were first used for little
children and infants. In fact they turned out to be great friends of children, and a potent
tool in the hand of the pediatrician. He finds that these agents rectify childhood anomalies
and growth problems. It is owing to these benefits that these nosodes are being used now
in daily practice with impunity. Sometimes it is one of these nosodes that is the sole
medicine prescribed in a case to the end. We used to use Tuberculinum for the insomniac
and hyperactive children, when Cypripedium or Coffea, for example, did not produce
desired effects. Now we can use Carcinosin for this pediatric complaint, with satisfactory
results. In sleeplessness after vaccination, Carcinosin vies conspicuously with Thuja.
Incidentally, in the rubric of Burnett’s Vaccinosis, Carcinosin stands out in black letters
with Malandrinum, Vaccinum, Tuberculinum, Thuja and Variolinum. In the nightmare
of children Carcinosin is a ‘must think’ remedy.
• Like Sulphur he has intellectual bend of mind. Like him he is keen to be able to
read alphabets.
• Like Sulphur he is precocious. And intelligent.
• Like Sulphur he has religious bent of mind.
• Like Sulphur he bears a responsible look. One finds him imbued in the feeling of
earnestness. (Medorrhinum, irresponsible)
• Like Sulphur he is conscientious about trifles.
He is a depressed child; frightened on seeing cruelties, which may create in him a want of
confidence.
• Capricious and hyperactive
• Fastidiousness
• Seeking consolation and appreciation
• Fearful
• Excitable, and also dull, sometimes.
• Obstinate and screaming.
• Even a short nap refreshes: an irritable, crying child gets up frolicking and happy
after a short nap.
• Biting finger-nails.
• Sympathetic and compassionate.
• Crying, weeping mood, tearful.
• Weeping in sympathy with others.
• Weeping telling her own sickness.
• Seeker of appreciation; it creates impetus in him.
• Reprimand disturbs him to the core, and puts him off the track.
The Carcinosin child will be found in two hues: intelligent and sharp like Sulphur; and
also, at time, a dull retarded look, with many physical and genetic drawbacks. So, we
find, Carcinosin indicated in such imperfections as:
• Autistic child.
• Mongol child
• Dwarfish children.
• Weak, puny look.
• Birth-marks (Naevi); and a crop of moles.
• Tendency to keloid formation.
• Diseases like Hemophilia, and
• Thalassemia
• Adenoid vegetation.
• Hypertrophy of tonsils and other glands.
• Children’s asthma and other permanent catarrhal conditions.
• Intestinal worm infestation.
• Ailments from abuse
• Ill health dating back to whooping cough or pneumonia.
• Tendency to inflammatory diseases.
• Cyclic vomiting of infants.
• Anorexic child; (here Tuberculinum vies with Carcinosin).
Like all nosodes, Carcinosin should not be prescribed for the ‘frank’ pathologic
symptoms of the relevant pathology. That means that the nosodes are medicines for the
relevant diatheses, and not the actual pathology. As I’ve elsewhere said that the diathesis
is full of symptoms, and the pathology has paucity of them.