Volume 108 Number 2
76 AJHM Summer 2015
Cornelia Richardson-Boedler, NMD, MA
Cherry Plum (fear of losing control), Rock Rose (terror).
The Bach flowers Olive and Centaury, both for exhaustion,
protect from depletion during chemotherapy. All three
therapeutic avenues, homeopathy, allopathy, and Bach
flower therapy may be used concurrently in a given case.
Treatment Regimen
The recommended regimen
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is as follows: Two pills of
Colocynthis
30c are given under the tongue twice per day
for five to seven days. After an interval of two weeks, the
same regimen is repeated. The patient again waits two
weeks and repeats the course of
Colocynthis,
after which
the overgrowth should be assessed. Additional dosing
may be necessary—always with the same regimen and
two week interval—until the growth is gone.
On the days of
Colocynthis
use, the additional
employment of
Rescue Remedy
or other chosen Bach
flowers is most crucial, though the flowers should be
given daily until well. They are taken as follows: One
drop from the stock bottle is put in a glass (or bottle)
of water, which is sipped four times per day. Up to six
remedies total, one drop from each, may be added to the
glass of water.
Isodes can be given in the middle of the two-week
interval between intake of the homeopathicmedicine. For
example, five days of intake of
Colocynthis
are followed
by intake of the isode seven days later. Another seven
days later, the course of
Colocynthis
resumes. Generally,
isodes may be prepared every two weeks (30c potency)
or once a month (200c potency). One drop suffices for
the isode dose, though dosing may be (slightly) altered
by the prescriber.
Cases
Case 1: A Carcinoid Tumor
A thirty nine year-old mother of two children consulted
me on May 23
rd
, 2003. Her symptoms were panic attacks,
anxiety about travel, dizziness, nausea, sleeplessness.
After
Theridion curassavicum, Conium maculatum
and
Aconitum napellus,
which all gave benefit,
Moschus mos-
chiferus
(30c, 200c) was curative. Bach flower remedies
were also taken.
After a trip to Mexico, she underwent allopathic treat-
ment for
Giardia
infection. Shortly thereafter, in early
November 2005, she learned that a benign, small, carcinoid
tumor was present in her rectum. She also had inflamed in-
ternal hemorrhoids as well as colitis-like symptoms, pass-
ing some blood and mucus. She was urged by her medical
doctors to have the tumor removed, out of concern it could
turn cancerous. Upon my recommendation, she agreed to
try homeopathy prior to the surgery. She took
Colocynthis
30c, two pills twice daily for five days; she was to wait two
weeks and repeat the regimen. Bach flowers, to be taken
throughout the treatment period, were
Rescue Remedy
and
for exhaustion,
Olive.
The rectal surgery was performed with the intent to re-
move the carcinoid cells in the identified location. I was
informed on December 16
th
, 2005, of the results of the
surgery and biopsy—no trace of the carcinoid cells or of
cancerous cells had been found.
Case 2: A Liver Tumor and Abnormal
Nodules in Lung
A repair technician for printers and computers who had
been exposed in his work to ink (potentially carcinogen-
ic)
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and other chemical substances, suffered a malignant
colorectal tumor, which was removed in May of 2008. He
was fifty-seven years of age. The tumor (Stage III) was
“poorly formed, with fingers.” In early 2009, a painless
malignant liver tumor was discovered. The diagnosis was
metastasized adenocarcinoma with extensive necrosis
consistent with colorectal primary tumor. Surgery, which
would entail the removal of 10% of his liver, and chemo-
therapy were the suggested allopathic treatments. He re-
jected this course.
On February 23
rd
, 2009, he was prescribed
Colocynthis
30c, two pills twice daily for five days; he was to wait two
weeks and then repeat the same regimen. The whole se-
quence could be repeated a few times under supervision.
He was also prescribed Bach flowers
(Crab Apple, Agri-
mony, Vine).
He was to inform me of the test results gained
at the hospital.
About two weeks after this prescription, he was in-
structed by letter to prepare his blood isode (30c). Two
drops twice daily for three days were prescribed, to be
taken during the middle of the two-week interval between
the courses of
Colocynthis.
Metastases by the blood route
would thus be prevented. However, he had objections to
working with blood. Instead, on March 23, 2009, he was
prescribed the remedy
Loxosceles reclusa
200c for restora-
tion of affected liver tissue, to be taken regularly during the
middle of the two-week interval, preceded and followed by
two days of
Rescue Remedy.
On May 9
th
, 2009, I learned that the tumor’s growth had
slowed considerably. His hospital doctor’s new progno-
sis was: “The tumor will overtake the liver in five years.”
His initial comment had been: “You have six months to
live.” By this date, May 9
th
, the patient had undergone a
few courses (each with five days of intake) of
Colocynthis
and had taken three doses of
Loxosceles reclusa.
Labora-
tory studies determined the carcinogenic lesion, which had
grown from 0.0 to 2.2 cm in the first ninety days, grew
only from 2.2 to 2.5 cm in the second ninety days (during
which time he had begun using homeopathy). In addition,
abnormal nodules, which had previously been detected in
his lungs, had disappeared.
For several weeks prior to these results, I had not been
able to supervise the patient’s response to
Colocynthis,
as
routine appointments were not made. I had sent him a let-
ter at the end of April discouraging further unsupervised in-
take of this remedy (though I had not yet seen aggravations
