Therapeutical indications

Acetic acid. - Cancer of stomach, ulcerative gnawing pain at one spot in stomach with agony and depression, preventing sleep; severe burning pain in stomach and abdomen, vomiting of yellow, yeast-like matter, of blood; eyes sunken and surrounded by a dark circle; face pale and waxen; tongue pale and flabby.

Apis met - Is indicated in cancer of the breast, in which the induration has followed an old case of mastitis, and m which the pain is of a burning, stinging character. The characteristic urinary symptoms of the drug are the best indications for its use.

Arsen. alb. - Foul, destructive, easily bleeding and cancerous ulcers, with burning and corrosive pains in the interior of the affected parts; terrible darting and lancinating pains through them; burning discharges, which may be thick or thin; brown or black, extremely offensive: worse after midnight.
Aurum. - The womb is prolapsed and indurated; pain like that of a bruise, with shooting and drawing, and the mind constantly dwells on suicide. Cancer of the palate and nasal bones, or of the nose; pus greenish, ichorous, and putrid; cancer of stomach in last stage, when there are only few subjective symptoms.

Bellad. - Scirrhous indurations; cancerous ulcers burning when touched; black crust of blood in the bottom of the ulcer; pus scanty. Pains come and go suddently.

Carbo an. - Cachexia fully developed. Scirrhous cancer on the forehead; sudden and short aching from colloid cancer in the pit of the stomach, on taking a deep inspiration, clawing and griping in stomach, violent pressing in loins, small of back and thighs during menses, with chilliness and yawning; weak empty feeling in the pit of the stomach; it checks the putrid taste, the waterbrash, and contracting, spasmodic burning; scirrhous mammae with dirty bluish loose skin or red spots on skin, burning and drawing towards axilla; axillary glands indurated.

Causticwn. - Patient cannot bear the pressure of the clothes on the stomach; the lightest food or even the smallest quantity causes a violent lancinating pain in the stomach; scirrhous of the lips, with itching and soreness, which when ulcerated has a violent burning pain; pus bloody, or greenish, or corroding, or thin, watery, and yellow.

Chelidonium. - Old, spreading, putrid, carcinomatous ulcers; the pain in the stomach is of a gnawing or digging character; nausea, with sensation of heat in the stomach; burning in stomach.

Calcarea phos. - Ca.ncex in scrofulous constitutions.

Calcarea fluor. - Knot, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swelling on the jaw bone which is hard.

Chimaphila. - Tumors of the mammae, enlargements of lymphatic glands.

Clematis. - For softened scirrhous uteri, with corrosive leucorrhoea and lancinating pains.

Conium. - Bleeding of the ulcers, with a secretion of fetid ichor; a portion becomes gangrenous; concealed cancer of bone; cancerous swelling and induration of glands; cancer of the lips; spreading cancerous ulcers in the face; contractive spasmodic pains in the storhach; cancer and cancerous ulcers after contusion; burning stitches; stinging in the affected parts.

Condurango. - Is only efficacious in open cancer and cancerous ulcers, where it effectually moderates the severity of the pains. It does not act on scirrhous and indurated parts.


Ferrum phos. - An excellent alternate remedy for excessive pain in cancer.

Eucalyptus. - One of the best remedies for destroying the fetid odor of cancerous discharges, used internally and locally.

Galiurn. - Epithelioma, when the disease is slow in its progress, and where there are nodular deposits near the surface.

Graphites. - Hot and painful vagina; swelling of the lymphatic vessels and mucous follicles; the neck of the uterus is hard and swollen, with tuberculous nodes and cauliflower excrescences; great weight in the abdomen on rising, with fainting sort of weakness and aggravations of the pains, delaying menses, with aggravation of the pains shortly before and at the appearance of the menses; discharge of black,   lumpy, fetid blood; stitches   shooting through the abdomen as far as the thighs; burning and stitching pains; constipation; livid complexion; sad and anxious moods. Frequently useful in connection with ovarian diseases.

Hepar. - Corrosive pain in a cancerous ulcer, bleeding at the slightest touch; yellow skin and complexion; eruptions around the mouth, lips and chin, which are converted into cancerous ulcers, rapidly spreading; pressure and dull aching pain in the stomach after moderate eating; cancerous ulcer of the mammae, with stinging burning in the edges; pus, copious or scanty, smells like old cheese.

Hydrastis. - Recommended for all sorts of cancer, but it will only act as a regulator for the faulty nutrition, and thus exert a favourable influence in soft or encepha-loid cancer.

Iodide of Arsenic. - Swollen gland in the left axilla, size of a hen's egg, hard, and exuding a fluid which forms a hard, brown crust. The tumor is painful and sensitive to the touch; breast of the same side enlarged, indurated, and very sore. Yellow, bloody, and irritating leucorrhoea, with swelling of the labia.

lodium. - Uterine haemorrhage, after every stool, with cutting in the abdomen, and pains in the loins and small of the back; great weakness during the menses, particularly in going upstairs; long-lasting uterine haemorrhage; dwindling and falling away of the mammae; aggravated from external warmth; complete prostration of strength and general emaciation; violent vomiting, renewed by eating; pulsations in the pit of the stomach.

Kali phos. - Cancer, pain, offensive discharge and discoloration.

Kali sulph. - Epithelioma. Cancer on the skin near a mucous lining, with discharge of thin, yellow, serous, mattery secretions.

Kreosotum. - Shooting stitches in the vagina, burning and swelling of the external and internal labia; profuse discharge of dark congulated blood, or of a pungent bloody ichor, preceded by pain in the back; aggravation of the pains at night; fainting on rising from the bed; she always feels chilly at the menstrual period; complexion livid, disposition sad, irritable, cauliflower excrescences; wretched complexion, great debility, sleeplessness. Tightness of the pit of the stomach, cannot bear the weight of her clothing; painful hard place on the left side of her stomach.

Lachesis. - Melanosis, colloid, and encephaloid cancer; violent burning, gangrenous spots; cancer of the breast, with lancinating pains; the pit of the stomach very sensitive to touch; uterine cancer developing itself at the climacteric, or as a consequence of the change of life; the pains increase rapidly, until relieved by a profuse discharge of blood; violent pains, as if a knife were thrust through the abdomen, which has to be relieved from all pressure.


Lapis albtts. - Cancer as long as it has not opened based on scrofulosis.

Lycopod. - Swelling of the upper lip, with a large ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower one; vomiting of food, bile, coagulated blood, and pus; tension in the hypochondria as from a loop; great emaciation and internal debility.

Mercurius. - Cancerous ulcers, with a severe shooting and lancinating pain, not relieved by either hot or cold applications; spreading ulcers, spongy, readily bleeding, and extremely painful; unequal elevations and depressions in the floor of the ulcer; swelling of the whole or only the tip of the nose, accompanied by pain and inflammation followed by cancer; pus thin, ichorous, and acrid.

Mezereum. - Scirrhus ventriculi with burning, corroding pains; internal surface of the gastric mucous membrane feels raw, with sensation as if food remained for a long time undigested in the stomach, causing pressure and blood vomiting; hypochondriasis.

Murex. - Carcinoma uteri, with great depression of mind; pain in uterus as if wounded by a cutting instrument; lancinating, throbbing pains in uterus; acrid discharge, causing pudenda and thighs to swell and become raw, burning and itching; faintness and an "all-gone" feeling in epigastrium; deep hypochondriasis.

Natrum curb. - Induration of neck of womb, os uteri out of shape; pressing in hypogastrium towards genital organs, as if everything would come out; headache in sun and from mental labor; great nervousness and anxiety.

Nitric acid. - Pain and swelling of the submaxillary gland, with induration, ultimately becoming scirrhous; burning sensation in the stomach; mercurio-syphilitic taint; urine very offensive; aggravated after midnight; in uterine cancer sympathetic affection of the inguinal glands; violent cramp-like pains, as if the abdomen would burst, with constant eructations; violent pressing, as if everything would come out of the vulva, with pain from the back down the thighs.

Nux vom. - Ulcers with pale red, elevated edges; a painful, small scirrhous tumor on the forehead; vomiting of sour-smelling mucus and dark clotted blood.

Nuphar. - Several cases of cancer have been reported as cured by the use of this drug. Its use is empirical, and comes to us from the Indians.

Phosphorus. - Cutting pains through the abdomen, some-rimes with vomiting, painful to the touch, and when walking; belching up of large quantities of wind after dinner; frequent and profuse haemorrhages, pooring out freely, and then ceasing for some hours or days.

Phytolacca. - Scirrhus, especially mammae; cancer of lips and cancerous, ill conditioned ulcers of the face.

Sepia. - Suspicious tubercle on lip of a cartilaginous appearance, sometimes bleeding and having a scirrhous appearance, with a broad base; epithelial cancer of lip, with burning pain and a pricking as from a splinter of wood; complexion yellow and earthy; cancer of rectum; indurations, ulcerations, and congestion of the os and cervix uteri; cutting pains in abdomen and a pressure on uterus downward, as if everything would fall out; sinking sensation at pit of stomach.

Silicea. - Painful dryness of the nose; scirrhous induration of the upper lip and face; continuous nausea and vomiting, especially when drinking; sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach; melancholy; in uterine cancer discharge of blood between the regular periods, with repeated paroxysms of icy coldness over the whole body; fetid, brownish, purulent, ichorous leucorrhoea.

Staph. - Scurfy and burning painful lips with pain in the submaxillary glands, with or without swelling. Syphilis and mercurialization.

Thuja. - Sycosis; cauliflower excrescences; medullary and fungoid cancers.

Zincum. - Pewter-like hue of the face; scirrhous tumors in different parts of the body.