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Carcinosinum (Carc.)

Carcinosinum (Carc.) appears in 1,731 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 119 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 153 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The emphasis lies on the rubrics on children, on ailments from external influences, on anxiety and fear, along with sensitivity, anger, and pedantry. The overall picture is of a person who adapted early, endured a great deal, and set his own feelings aside, but who beneath this composure remains sensitive, ready to perform, and inwardly unreconciled.

Adaptation and self-denial

The core lies in subordination. The rubrics show a child who wants to please everyone and, with increasing age, tends more and more toward adaptation and self-denial. The child especially wants to satisfy the father and the parents, does not perceive its own needs, and puts them aside. The same attitude speaks from the adult: he endures everything that is asked of him, and the single-remedy rubric "Endurance – everything" hits the pattern exactly. He does not burden others, does not make trouble for himself, and must not be angry; rebellion is absent, as is the ability to confront. A lack of aggression goes back to the fear of loss of love ("Aggression – lack of – loss of love, fear of, from"). One can see in this a learned bond in which the love of others is paid for with the surrender of one's own will. The rubric in which needs are set aside fits here: "Needs – putting aside, own".

Responsibility and performance

The adaptation is joined by a sense of duty. The repertory records responsibility taken on at too young an age, and ailments from excessive expectations of the parents. The person is perfectionist and too self-critical, fastidious about work, order, cleanliness, and punctuality; he blames himself for everything that goes wrong in his life and fears making mistakes. He is explicitly very gifted, intelligent, and artistic, and yet he fears too much responsibility as well as for his career. Exhaustion from overwork belongs to the picture as a matter of course, as does the feeling that life has so far been a long, hard struggle: "Life – struggle, life has been (so far) a long, hard".

Mortification, pressure, and suppressed anger

A large group of rubrics describes what this picture produces. Ailments follow humiliation and punishment, harsh, rough upbringing with a long history of excessive supervision, abuse in childhood, and rape, with the image of the perpetrator constantly recurring. Anger follows humiliation, but it is not experienced; even one's own anger is feared. A mildness that masks violence and a latent, hidden aggression stand alongside, and in children the tendency to destroy things in anger. The rubric "Delusions – martyr, that he is a" can be read as the self-image of a person who has made his suffering into a role. The delusion of being defenseless and unable to defend oneself follows ("Delusions – defenseless, being, cannot defend himself"), and feelings are easily suppressed.

Weeping, emotional responsiveness, and sense of beauty

Weeping is inhibited: one rubric names weeping as difficult, another the person who never weeps ("Weeping – never, weeps"). At the same time the person weeps when seeing others hurt, and after humiliation. The sensitivity is directed to music, rhythm, art, and disorder. The remedy stands for a pronounced sense of rhythm, a feeling for flowers and beautiful things, and love of nature, the sea, music, thunderstorms, and stormy weather. Cruelty, on the other hand, whether on television as murder or as surgery, is unbearable. Love itself can become overflowing, directed to all of humanity, while the person himself expects no love. That he finds consolation in loving, kind words fits this picture.

Grief, death, and cancer

Grief is a supporting factor in the rubrics. Recorded are grief that undermines the constitution, the death of loved ones, one death after another, the long nursing care of loved ones, and hair loss from grief. Here rubrics appear in which cancer is the background: fear of death from cancer, anxiety with pain connected with cancer, and a tendency to suicide in cancer or cancer in the family. The sadness alternates with vigor and physical energy, improves during thunderstorms, and sets in with sad stories.

Body, tics, and restlessness

The tension seeks outlets through the body. Recorded are tics, also bizarre ones, in children a gentle tapping with the fingertips on the skull, biting the fingertips, and pulling off the skin around the nails. The delusions concern the body: hands and feet do not belong to him, the body is cleaned out. Alongside stands a need for change, for travel and adventure, and a developmental delay which, according to the repertory, can appear after vaccination.

Summary

Carc. shows a person who holds together through adaptation, fulfillment of duty, and forbearance what was imposed on him from early on. Behind this attitude lie hidden anger, a suppressed longing, and a sensitivity to beauty, music, and nature that he scarcely permits himself. Where the pressure lasts too long or a loss breaks the defense, it makes its way through grief, fear, and bodily signs. The picture remains that of a person who has learned to overlook himself.

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