Is Homeopathy Safe?
- Mary at The Reiki Place
- 4 days ago
- 10 min read
My Homeopath Recommended Homeopathic Carcinosin. Should I take it?
If you have been recommended Carcinosin, or any other "dodgy" remedy by a homeopath and you are nervous about taking it, this article is for you. However, I don't blame you for asking yourself if homeopathy is safe. If you have had a full and proper consultation or evaluation with a classically trained homeopath and he or she has recommended Carcinosin for you following due diligence analysis of your case, I hope to convince you that it is indeed safe to take it and it might be the most effective medicine you ever take.
Carcinosin in homeopathy is called a nosode. A nosode is a homeopathic remedy made from a pathogen, in this case cancer. Carcinosin is an energetically powerful remedy, just like the disease itself, and it acts deeply for a variety of conditions ranging from autism, ADD, allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases as well as many other conditions - when it is accurately recommended for a given individual. It is sometimes the remedy of choice for someone with strong perfectionist tendencies. I should follow that statement immediately with the fact that not all perfectionists will resonate to Carcinosin. In homeopathy we look for resonance between the energy signature of a substance and the unique energy of an individual. So first I will talk about perfectionism and how it resonates with Carcinosin along with other characteristics typical in this remedy. In the second half of the article I talk about Carcinosin itself, how it is made, and compare it with the measles vaccine in terms of how much of the original substance is actually present in the remedy. I include links to 2 case studies (not my own for purposes of credibility) in which Carcinosin was effective. Finally I talk about my own case and how a nosode remedy helped me overcome severe allergies.
The Perfectionist Trap
The need to produce something perfect or become something perfect is behind the reason many people don’t even try to become something wonderful or try to improve their lives.
A friend I know loves to play the piano but she never plays because when she plays a piece she always makes mistakes. I asked why that matters if she never has to play for anyone but herself and she said “When I can’t play perfectly I feel that I am not good enough.” So she denies herself the joy of playing the piano. By contrast, another friend played the cello in his college orchestra. He was not the best cellist, not the first chair, but he had a blast in college orchestra and made a lot of friends.
The first friend responded beautifully to Carcinosin. The second responded to something else.
Holistically, the need for perfection is a trait that underpins many diseases. Perfectionism creates a high stress lifestyle that lacks joy. And high stress leads to disease. The first way it shows up physically is called hypertension (too much tension). The other name for hypertension is high blood pressure. That’s often the number one first prescription that most people receive from their doctors aside from anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills - none of which would be needed if a person were able to adopt a stress free lifestyle or, more accurately, a stress free state of mind. Physically, it’s our reaction to the trigger and not the trigger itself that causes our blood pressure to rise, the veins in our head to throb, and adrenaline and cortisol to pump into our blood stream.
You Don't Need to be Perfect to be Perfectly Lovable
We often seek perfection not for own sakes, but in order to please others - because we want them to like us or because we don’t feel loved or because we feel less than. We unconsciously believe that if we could just be perfect, then we would be perfectly lovable and perfectly worthy and then we would be perfectly happy. As though happiness comes from outside. Which is doesn’t. It comes from inside. Rather than feeling loved, what happens more commonly is that we become overwhelmed and worn out. Overwhelmed with stress, the need to please, to do the “right” thing, the worry of what people must think of us. This leads to high anxiety. I have written much about the connection between anxiety, migraines and digestive health like this article.
The Cancer Miasm in Homeopathy
In homeopathy, we talk about miasms. A miasm in an underlying tendency towards specific health conditions. Often it’s linked to genetics or epigenetics (family culture). Homeopathy works on the principle of like cures like. We look for a remedy that resonates with the symptoms a person is experiencing and we call this the simillimum (same) or constitutional remedy. The constitutional remedy acts at the symptomatic level. Treatment at the miasmatic level goes deeper and clears a layer that we might call a disposition towards certain diseases. For example, auto-immune diseases often require miasmatic treatment. Superficially treating just the symptoms of autoimmune disease rarely works. One of the identified miasms, which should not be hard to fathom in this day and age, is the cancer miasm. You can resonate to the cancer miasm without having cancer but we often find the same characteristics in people who do have cancer. In current vernacular people call themselves people pleasers - meaning they put everyone else's well-being above their own. When we couple this tendency with the perfectionist character we are in cancer miasm territory. Below are a few of the other primary characteristics that define the cancer miasm:
Perfectionist
Need to please others to the point of self sacrifice
High anxiety
Inability to manage stress - always stressed out
Feels continuously overwhelmed - there is always much to do
Low self worth
Strong sense of responsibility towards other people
The remedy for those with the cancer miasm is Carcinosin. After taking Carcinosin, people feel less stressed, better able to sleep, willing to accept imperfection not just relating to themselves but relating to other people. Relationships improve but the self sacrifice subsides. People are able to create healthy boundaries and maintain them without fear of being disliked. Life in general becomes less stressful even though the only thing that really changed was their attitude towards it.
Here is a case study* of a woman who experienced a deep shift after taking Carcinosin. I chose it because it illustrates beautifully the above personality type as well as the versatility of this remedy to address many chronic conditions. If you read it, pay attention not just to the physical improvements but also to the emotional improvements that occurred for the woman in this case study.
Fear of Homeopathy is Understandable
When a remedy like Carcinosin is recommended by a homeopath, people immediately ask the question - is homeopathy safe? People are afraid it will give them cancer. Homeopathy helps your body rebalance itself at its energetic center, and this results in a stronger immune system. The immune system plays an important role in detecting and eliminating many abnormal or early cancerous cells (immunosurveillance). However, once the abnormal cells take hold they spread (metastasize). This energy of overwhelming the body's natural cell development is a keynote in the cancer miasm. People who have the cancer miasm often have a strong feeling of being overwhelmed by life itself or having subjected themselves to the will of others - often narcissists, just as the cells of the body have allowed themselves to be dominated by narcissistic cancer cells. Like cures like.
Honesty and Full Disclosure
In days gone by homeopaths didn’t tell people what they were being given, but these days everyone wants to know and everyone wants to look it up. So we tell them and then some people walk away and say Homeopathy is not for them because they are afraid to take the remedy.
I recently mentored a fellow homeopath who was treating a little boy with both eczema and asthma. These are deep seated conditions that, in his case, required treatment at the miasmatic level. The remedy that fit him best was Carcinosin but his mother was afraid to give it. So the boy was not treated. Which saddened us because we both know that a substance in homeopathic potency is extremely safe. Homeopathy is a safe and gentle alternative medicine that is not just gentle but also effective.
The chances are high that Carcinosin would have supported his body healing itself of asthma and allergies and he would have been able to throw away his inhaler. The link below is a case* very similar to my friend's client - a sensitive young male with asthma and allergies - with a successful outcome following the use of Carcinosin. If you read it, note the hereditary tendency mentioned by the homeopath and the sensitivity of the boy, which is typical of the cancer miasm.
Is Homeopathy Safe?
So I thought I’d do a little analysis and compare homeopathy to the measles vaccine. Vaccines are made from the disease they are designed to protect you from and we inject them directly into the bloodstream of our children and ourselves - often without question - because our doctors tell us to do so. But when our homeopath recommends a pathogen, some people resist. So let's take a close look at just how much of that pathogen is in a vaccine versus a homeopathic remedy.
Homeopathy is diluted (with distilled water) beyond the point where molecules of the original substance are present. A 12C potency is diluted 1024 times. That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. That’s a lot. For reference a trillion has12 zeros.
Mathematically a 12C potency has the probability of containing 0.6 of a particle of the original substance - that’s not even one whole molecule. Tap water has many more contaminants than that. Carcinosin is often given as a 30C which is diluted more times - to be precise - 1060 times. That's 60 zeros. Above a 12C potency scientists are not able to detect any molecules of the substance at all - not even part of one. By contrast, the measles vaccine contains “1,000 infectious units - an extremely small absolute quantity of material in a single dose…yet still a countable number of intact biological particles. This is many orders of magnitude above the molecular vanishing point discussed with 12C homeopathic dilutions.” [from Grok AI quoting 25 sources]
In other words the measles vaccine has detectable amounts of the measles pathogen but the homeopathic remedy Carcinosin has no detectable amounts of the cancer pathogen. The quote is from Grok AI, which I used to verify my research.
Water Has Memory
Water has the ability to retain an energetic signature. And it is this energetic signature that operates in homeopathic remedies. Homeopathy is an energy medicine, not a chemical or herbal medicine - not a drug or a pharmaceutical. It is not the substance that makes you better but the energy of the substance resonating to your diseased state - the "memory" that is retained in the water dilution. Like cures like. The energy of a cancer cell resonates to the energy of a person exhibiting characteristics of the Cancer miasm.
Cancer - the Disease of the Modern Age
Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases of our age. I believe its due to our high stress lifestyle, the poor quality of our food, and genetics. 100-200 years ago some common diseases were tuberculosis and syphilis. These are two more of the miasms that have been identified in homeopathy. Homeopaths believe that the cancer miasm has arisen genetically in the family lineage following suppression of tuberculosis, syphilis and other diseases using modern medicines, such as antibiotics. Suppression of disease always leads to deeper disease in the end and it operates through the generational passing of DNA. This was written about over 200 years ago by Samuel Hahnemann in his book Chronic Diseases. The idea has been expanded by many modern homeopaths of high standing such as J.H. Allen, Rajan Sankaran and Luc De Schepper in his book Hahnemann Revisited.
The depth and breadth of miasmatic theory is voluminous but I will just concisely sum up the scope of it by quoting Grok AI again in response to my research on this topic:
"Donald Foubister (mid-20th-century British homeopath, Dean of the Faculty of Homeopathy, the main figure who developed the modern Carcinosin picture) observed that Carcinosin was often indicated not only when there was a family history of cancer, but also when there was a strong family history of tuberculosis, diabetes, or pernicious anemia — or a combination of these. Many later writers repeat this: a parent or grandparent with TB is considered a classic confirmatory sign for the cancer miasm even when the patient themselves never had tuberculosis."
My Miasm is Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is also called consumption. It’s a disease affecting the lungs and was one of the deadliest diseases of the industrial age of the early 1900s in Britain. My own case is a classic example of the definition of miasms given above specifically with respect to the inherited tendency. I have never had tuberculosis but my mother contracted TB some years before I was born and was hospitalized for a whole year. Incidentally, she died of cancer. I fit the characteristics for the tubercular miasm (which includes extreme restlessness in mind, body and spirit), and also tested false positive for tuberculosis. I was prescribed Tuberculinum, made from the tubercular tissue of a cow. I took it once a week for several months. Following that protocol, which was guided by my own homeopath, all my allergies cleared up. I was once highly allergic to dust, pollen and cats. For years and years I survived on a daily dose of antihistamines and desperately avoided cats. Today I pass through the pollen dusting of the deep south in early spring without hardly a sneeze and I recently spent several hours in a cat café, petting cats without so much as a tear in my eye or a tickle in my throat - something that would have been impossible prior to the Tuberculinum protocol. Interestingly, I didn't seek the help of a homeopath specifically for allergies, but for sciatica - which also improved. But that's how homeopathy works, it supports all of you - not just one part of you. If you have been asking yourself the quesiton: Is homeopathy safe? I hope this article has shed some light for you and encouraged you take the remedy your homeopath has recommended. When you bring a positive attitude to your own healing process, that helps too!
Homeopathic nosodes, such as carcinosin and tuberculinum, should only be taken following the recommendation of a classically trained homeopath, such as myself, following a full and proper evaluation. If you are interested in a consultation you can learn more or book that here.
To avoid misunderstandings, I want to add that Carcinosin is not being put forward as a cure for cancer, although it may be recommended by a homeopath for some people who have cancer. There may be quite a difference in the energy signature of a person with characteristics listed above and an individual who actually has cancer. In actual cases of cancer I have often found that something else works better based on individual case-taking.
*Case studies are taken from the website hpathy.com which is a well-established and highly reputable resource for homeopathy. If you are interested in learning more about homeopathy I encourage researching on sites like this rather than sites that are supported by mainstream medicine such as webmd, mayoclinic, clevelandclinic and countless others which do not understand or support homeopathy, and sites like wikipedia that intentionally skew the narrative on certain topics, including this one.
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