Comparison
Natrium muriaticum + Sepia
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The other chief components of the Carcinosin picture
come from the Natrum muriaticum and Sepia family. We see the fastidiousness and
a desire for salt indicative of Natrum muriaticum, < consolation (although
the opposite is as often present), sensitivity to sea air, desire for
chocolate, and aversion to fats and milk of both remedies. We see the love of
dancing of Sepia, as well as its childhood hyperactivity. Like both remedies,
it is very easily offended. Cancer has been called the great masquerader, and
so it is with its nosode. One often sees a symptom picture which is a perfect
example of, say, Tuberculinum-bovinum,
like case B.J.S. at the end of this article, but which has one or two symptoms that don't quite fit. As I have
indicated, these "sore thumb" symptoms, and the family history, often lead to the use of
Carcinosin.
Sometimes one sees a case which seems to have, for
example, a Phosphorus symptom group. Then a Sepia aspect and finally a Natrum
muriaticum set of symptoms. Knowing this remedy, one sees its aspect as the
unifying thread running through the case. Such an instance is patient C.D.,
whose case is quoted later on. Whitmont calls cancer, "The penalty for the unlived life," and Wilhelm Reich
referred to it as the end result of the "Carcinomatous Shrinking
Biopathy." Natrum muriaticum and Sepia reflect these tendencies perhaps
more than any other remedies, and it is significant that they should be so closely related to this nosode. The
tubercular and gonorrheal tendencies provide the groundwork or, perhaps more
accurately, the miasmatic sod upon which the poisonous seeds may germinate into the cancer miasm. It
is for this reason that Carcinosin has all
these remedies hinted at in its picture. Unless one has a clear feeling
for the essential process occurring in
Carcinosin, one will tend to be confused, because the remedy appears as one type then another, and then yet
another. Consider the disease itself, for a moment. Cancer may manifest in any
organ, and, as a result, show itself by a wide variety of symptoms. Yet what is
common to all cancers is unrestrained, chaotic growth, wherein the limitless
generative energy that animates the life of the body and its cells is freed
from the normal controls and results in the chaotic growth and spread of a
malignant and consuming tumor throughout the affected system. Here we begin to
see the process that underlies the
remedy.