Volume 108 Number21
74 AJHM Summer 2015
Abstract:
The homeopathic plant remedy
Colocynthis
is demonstrated in two case reports here presented to effectively
treat cancer of the liver and carcinoid rectal growth. In a third case, the effects of patient-made isodes in chronic diarrhea
and multiple myeloma are discussed. Broader applicability of these healing agents in cancerous conditions is suggested.
The remedy
Loxosceles reclusa
is recommended for patients seeking transplantation after surgical loss. The bite of this
spider is known to cause a delayed hypersensitivity in victims, similar to that which occurs in patients rejecting organ
transplantation. Hence, the homeopathic preparation acts preventively.
Key words
:
Colocynthis,
isode,
Loxosceles reclusa,
cancer, myeloma, transplants
Cornelia Richardson-Boedler, NMD, MA
Colocynthis, Loxosceles reclusa and Patient-
made Isodes in Cancer: Case Reports
Case Studies
T
reatment of cancer is challenging in both allopathic
and homeopathic medicine. In homeopathy, some en-
couraging success has been documented historically and
more recently. The manner of preparation and adminis-
tration of remedies has varied. British physician James
Compton Burnett (1840-1901) used various potencies and
tinctures, often prescribing Thuja occidentalis 30c.
1
Ameri-
can physician Eli G. Jones (1850-1933) utilized low po-
tencies, tinctures (as with Colocynthis in cancer of pylo-
rus) and other material preparations.
2
In the present day,
the 200c potency is often used. For example, Carcinosin
200c is employed by the Indian physician Ramakrishnan,
who tends to administer it with a plussing method.
3
Dif-
ferent methods of potentization as well as the effects of
certain plants in homeopathic cancer treatment have been
analyzed.
4,5
The historical use of Carcinosin, the cancer
nosode, has been viewed in light of the remedy’s analogous
relationship with the plant remedy Colocynthis (Citrullus
colocynthis).
5
In my treatment of patients with overgrowths
(neoplasms), including cancer, I have found
Colocynthis
(30c), patient-made isodes and the Bach flower remedies
developed by the English physician Edward Bach (1886-
1936) to be pillars of therapy.
Colocynthis
Colocynthis
has been shown to have features very
similar to
Carcinosin,
such as certain times of aggravation,
modalities (pains better pressure and warmth), and
causations (indignation).
6
Carcinosin
is prepared from
cancerous tissue; its plant analogue, therefore, is accredited
with an affinity for and ability to address the cancerous
growth itself, which is marked by a dynamic repetitive cell
division that is disproportionate to the surrounding cellular
structures (similar to the plant’s production of the pumpkin-
like poisonous fruits, from which the remedy is gained).
5
It is thought that cancer may result from suppression of
emotional conflicts, with subsequent despair and feelings
of personal worthlessness.
7
Colocynthis
treats symptoms
caused by psychological suppression; it treats the strong
pains of abdominal colic (from disturbing emotions, as does
Chamomilla
),
8
intestinal ulcerous conditions, and tumors.
5
Samuel Hahnemann noted its use in symptoms derived
from vexation (violent colic), indignation, embitterment
or from an “internal, gnawing” mortification over injustice
received or observed.
9
Yet, in the cases we present here
Colocynthi
s
successfully treated a carcinoid tumor in a female, when
a psychological causation was unclear (case 1), slowed the
growth of a malignant liver tumor in a male exposed to
chemicals, who lacked psychological complaints (case 2)
and flattened a fatty tumor (lipoma) in a “carefree” dog.
Similarly, in these and other cases (author’s practice), the
physical keynotes of
Colocynthis
were not noted.
The distinct pains of
Colocynthis
had once guided the
nineteenth century physician James Grant Gilchrist in his
treatment of a hard, elastic, coconut-sized ovarian tumor.
1
The pains, felt in the region of the right ovary, were sharp
and stabbing, better from bending double and the patient
walked bent over with the hand on the right side (pains
better pressure). Repeated dosing with
Colocynthis
200c
or higher potencies over a period of five months achieved
cure. His colleague Dunham cured a similar case with the
remedy.
1
According to Constantine Hering,
Colocynthis
is
“indicated in some cases of very painful cancer.”
10
In
this function, it was not known by Samuel Hahnemann,
who first proved the remedy using the dried attenuated
toxic pulp of the fruit. Provers developed specific pains
of cutting, pinching, grasping, clawing, throbbing and
