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Head:

• Various headaches: Sick headache: heavy head in morning on waking, > moving about. Throbbing, after meals, > wrapping tightly up. (See stomach). Deep – in headaches, constriction and tightness of brain. Supra-orbital (right) thumping. Occipital, maddening, < night. (Apoplectic tendency).
• Effects of head injury.

Ears:

• Inflammation of wall of meatus. Intractable suppurative otitis or abscess.

Eyes:

• Blinking of eyes. Twitching of lids; left lid. Corneal ulcer.Retinal hemorrhage, diabetes.

Nose:

• Recurrent colds; infantile. Recurrent sinusitis. Chronic catarrh. Discharge yellow, excoriating. Epistaxis.

Face:

• Tawny, cafe-au-lait. Earthy, muddy. Wearied look. Forehead blackish or looks as if scorched. Withered dried look, like hide. Cracked commissures, with a hard gland (Cund failing). Painful acne. Herpes on upper lips and nose. Numerous moles (Hippoz.), mother had cancer. Facial paralysis.

Mouth:

• Stomatitis; recurring; in children; glossitis. Ulcers.
• Teeth: Decayed, hollow. Grinding of teeth during sleep. Toothache, general.

Throat:

• Pain < warm drinks, empty (not of food) swallowing, > cold drinks. Pharyngitis. Sensation of lump. Recurrent tonsillitis. After tonsillectomy.

Stomach:

• Desires: fat, fat meat, fat bacon, bacon rind, eggs, chocolate, soups, butter, milk, salt, sweets, sugar, fruits, liquors, cold food, highly seasoned food.
• Averse to: fat, salt, milk, eggs, meat, fat.
• Indigestion, flatus accumulation in stomach and bowels, with cachexia. Heartburn, with sick headache; with severe frontal headache; spiced food intolerance; recurrent stomatitis. Bulimia nervosa. Vomiting; cyclic; from anticipation; bilious, with headache; alternate with diarrhea. Ulcer in.
• Apprehension / linking in stomach (also Carc-adenostum, Scir. has worms in addition), a cancer trait.

Abdomen:

• Liver pains; pain in right hypochondrium, bitter taste, bilious vomiting, debility, Chel. insufficient, wells up bile, heartburn, right side meteoric, constantly belching, offensive flatus, great prostration after stools, sick headache, cancerous family. Cirrhosis of liver, hereditary. Tremendous sinking at navel (Scir.).
  
• Excessive flatulence; great accumulation in stomach and bowels.
• Colic > bending double (Coloc.), warm drinks, pressure. Burning pains like fire in ascending colon. Vague pains in abdomen, < 4-6 pm, chronic colitis, ulcerative colitis, enteroptosis, h/o bronchitis and pneumonia, weakness and emaciation, suspected malignancy. Pain, peritoneal nodes and ascites, ovarian cancer. (Intussusception).

Rectum:

• Prolapse. Constriction. Worms (Scir.). Bleeding piles; during childbed, Coll. palliates, cancer in family. Constipation, sans urging. ‘Cancer is often preceded by constipation.’   Anal abscess after jaundice (which was managed somehow by Merc. and Sulph.). Cancer. Fistula (which is probably related to cancer). Condylomata; burning, and burning piles, arthritic pains (finished by Nit-ac.).
• Diarrhea: chronic mucous or muco-membranous colitis; mucus diarrhea, mother had bone T.B.

Urinary:

• Children: bed-wetting, indicated remedies failing; nephritis. Burning in urethra, prolonged after urination. Circumcision abscess, burning (Anthr.), mother and sister had required Carc.
  
• Diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus, hereditary. Nephritis; interstitial.

Female:

• Leucorrhea, offensive.
• Menses: dark, clotted, offensive, painful. (Menorrhagia).
• Increased sexual desire. Disposition to masturbate. Uterine bleeding after sex. Endometriosis (cp. Thyr.). Fibroids. Ovarian cysts. Sterility. Uterine cancer, palliative. After hysterectomy.
• Mammae: Violent tension, swelling and tenderness before menses. Fibroadenomas. Chronic mastitis. Abscess (Lach. insufficient), mother and brother had required Carc. Cancer, great pain and induration. Tumors of mammae, has gastric ulcer also, family h/o pneumonia, T.B. meningitis, insanity and eczema.Ca breast. Retraction of nipples.

Respiratory:

• (Bronchial) Asthma; of infants; from dust; after fright, migraine, pneumonia (Streptoc.); pertussis; alternating with eczema (Thyr.; worse 10 am and in damp air (Nat-m.). Cough, < cold air; warm room; dressing; undressing; yawing. Whooping cough; persistent.
• Burning in chest; from loss of sleep nursing sick, (Cocc. failing). Desire to take deep breath (Ign.).Recurrent bronchitis or pneumonia; chronic pneumonia, Burning with vomiting, tonsils and adenoids swollen (or excised), like Streptoc. (which however is not cachectic).

Heart:

• Sense of constriction > sighing (Ign.). Throbbing. Weak heart; even a short walk exhausts. Palpitation < 2-6 pm, violent. “Can feel the heart and hear it on lying down.”
• Bad heart; child’s mother was Nat-m. patient.

Locomotor:

• Back: dragging pain; burning, in cervical spondylitis. Burning palms and soles (Sulph.). Warts on soles. Varices of legs with purple points. Ganglion. Twitchings.
• Rheumatism, < violent, but > slow motion, cancer cachexy. Arthritis deformans (Dys.).Osteo-arthritis.

Sleep:

• “Cancer is often preceded by bad sleep.” Troubled sleep of children: cry day and night; sleep in knee-chest position (Calc-p., Lyc., Med., Phos., Sep., Tub.) or on back with hands above head (Med., Puls.); nightmares, after fright (surgery etc.); insomnia, mother cancerous. Sleepless: till 1 a.m. Unrefreshing sleep.
• Dreams: of journey, looking for someone, mishaps, murder, work, robbers.

Skin:

• Harsh; like hide or dead leather.
• Eruptions; itching or stringing-itching < night, water, sweat, at seaside, > cold applications. Eczema; allergic, alternating with asthma; alternating sides; from anticipation; from bath in chlorated water; dry, in a lead worker after suppression of scabies; infantile, depraved heredity (diabetes, T.B., cancer, skins, hearts etc.).Pustular eruptions; elder sister had leukemia.
• Metabolic or neuro-skins (Aster.). Corns. Boils; multiple; alternating sides. Molluscum contagiosum. Lichen planus. Neurodermatitis. Psoriasis. Moles. Ganglion. Gangrene.
• Slow healing of wounds. Abscesses; of injection; of circumcision; one sloughing abscess among painful, burning, purplish eruptions; in various places. Reduces incidence of keloid scars if given pre-operatively to patients undergoing plastic surgery.
• Leprosy. Leucoderma (all nosodes).

Thermic:

• Recurrent attacks of high fever; after vaccination (Echi., Maland.), also acidosis after removal of tonsils and adenoids (parents diabetic).
• Rheumatic fevers. PUO. “May prove useful in glandular fevers (infective mononucleosis) (like Felds.).They are generally very slow to clear up.” (and probably in AIDS too).
• Also, no fever for a long time.

Relations:

• An offspring of Sulph. and Tub., it helps all polychrests and nosodes, as also Anthr., Hippz., Ins., Streptoc., Thuj. when they prove insufficient.
• Complementaries: Ars., Ars-i., Ast-r., Con., Cund., DNA., Hydr., Bufo., Cup., Foll., Graph., Ign., lod., Lap-a., Lyc., Med., Mag-c., Nat-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Phos., Phyt., Psor., Puls., Rad-br., Sang., Sep., Sulph., Syph. (cancer and syphilis are related), Thuj., Tub., X-ray.
  
• Similar: Maland. (minus greasy skin and plus depraved history; a low state of vegetation; said to clear up the remnants of cancerous deposits; Carc., is the Maland. of malignancy), Thuj., Bowel nosode cognate Dys. (Syc. is cognate to Med., Morb. and Streptoc.), Graph.
  
• “Pineal gland (Pin-g.). is the Aconite of cancer, where constitutional remedy seldom helps” – Balfour.
• Guilty conscience group: Ambr., Aur-m., Carc., Coff., Cycl., Ferr-m., Lac-c., Lac-d., Mag-c., Nat-c., Nat-m., Puls., Sil., Zinc.
  
• Counterpart: DNA. (Knowledge hunter, Hemorrhage, Bipolarity, < unusual responsibility, rigid conscience, refined, F/h of grave illnesses).
• Suggested Trios:

1. Bry.-Nat-m.-Carc.             2. Sep.-Nat-m.-Carc.

3. Bry. – Tub.-Carc. 4. Calc-f.-Con.-Carc.

5. Streptoc.- Thuj.-Carc.        6. Ars.-Lyc.-Carc.

7. Nat-c.-Stront-c.-Carc.

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