Spectrum of Homeopathy 2014-2, Cancer

Declan Hammond writes in the current issue of SPECTRUM: “Regardless of the prognosis given, or how unlikely this outcome might be medically, as soon as the word ‘cancer’ is mentioned, the patient’s mind turns to their own mortality.” It is not only the patient who is confronted with the reality of their mortality, but also doctors, family and friends. Cancer treatment is therefore not merely a medical matter but also a human and personal challenge.

SPECTRUM Cancer presents an impressive range of treatment options, giving us renewed courage to face this formidable challenge. Jean‑Lionel Bagot uses homeopathy to treat the various side effects of conventional cancer treatment, thus forging links with conventional medical care. Anne Schadde focuses on the process of inner transformation. Sujit Chatterjee and Sunirmal Sarkar concentrate on the current symptoms presented by the patient. When treating cancer, Alok and Aditya Pareek rigorously follow Hahnemann’s precepts for the treatment of chronic disease. For Dietmar Payrhuber and Christiane Kernstock, the key indicators pointing to the homeopathic remedy are the psychodynamics, personality and central themes in the life of the cancer patient.

A series of case histories from very different types of cancer documents the efficacy of homeopathy even in apparently hopeless situations. Yet Jens Wurster, drawing on 15 years’ experience of inpatient homeopathic cancer treatment at the Swiss Clinic Santa Croce, makes it clear that this is not the rule. He realistically describes his personal development towards an individual, stage‑appropriate approach, free of theoretical baggage. Wurster often uses acute or organotropic remedies as the starting point before proceeding to the constitutional level.

Many of the authors in this issue write in a similarly pragmatic style, encouraging above all those colleagues who have not yet felt confident enough to treat cancer patients in their own practices. There is scarcely another diagnosis for which there are so many different possible methods of homeopathic treatment. Precisely because there is no standard homeopathic treatment – although there are established indications for certain types of cancer – this issue of SPECTRUM offers a raft of suggestions so that each homeopath can discover their own individual approach to the matter.

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