Lac caninum
Dog's milk · Bitch’s milk, Dog's milk · Sarcode
Those who benefit most from Lac can. tend to lack self-confidence or feel self-contempt. Often restless and nervous, they may be highly sensitive to sensory stimulation. An active imagination and excitable nature combine to engender irrational fears that may develop into phobias. They may be prone to bouts of depression.
A typical symptom in those who respond to Lac can. is a feeling of “otherworldliness,” as if the self is floating just above or behind the body, or a sensation that is often described as “floating on air.”
Lac can. is used for irrational phobias and for acute sensory hypersensitivity. The remedy is also considered particularly effective for the throat, the nervous system, and the female reproductive system. In all conditions, symptoms tend to move from site to site around the afflicted area of the body.
Key symptoms
- pain that alternates from side to side
- fear of snakes
- great sensitivity
- lack of confidence
- swollen breasts before
- menstruation
- sensitivity to touch
Worse (aggravation)
- Morning; sinking spells every morning
- Touch; throat sensitive to touch with painful swallowing
- Swallowing; pain extends to ears on swallowing
- Symptoms shift and alternate from side to side
- During menstruation; sore throat and cough with menses
Better (amelioration)
- Lying down; feels as if floating when recumbent
- Cool open air ameliorates
- Alternation of sides brings temporary relief
Dog's Milk
This remedy is of undoubted value in certain form of sore throat and diphtheria, and rheumatism. Corresponds to a low-vitiated, non-feverish type of sickness. The keynote symptom is, erratic pains, alternating sides. Feels as if walking on air, or of not touching the bed when lying down. Great lassitude. Ozæna. Decided effect in drying up milk in women who cannot nurse the baby. Great weakness and prostration. Sinking spells every morning. Mastitis.
Mind
Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes. Despondent; thinks her disease incurable. Attacks of rage. Visions of snakes. Thinks himself of little consequence.
Head
Sensation of walking or floating in the air (Sticta). Pain first one side, then the other. Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting at height of attack of headache. Occipital pain, with shooting extending to forehead. Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed. Noises in ears. Reverberation of voice.
Nose
Coryza; one nostril stuffed up, the other free; alternate. Alæ nasi and corners of mouth cracked. Bones of nose sore to pressure. Bloody pus discharged.
Mouth
Tongue coated white with bright red edges; profuse salivation. Drooling in diphtheria. Cracking of jaw while eating (Nit ac; Rhus). Putrid taste increased by sweets.
Throat
Sensitive to touch. Painful swallowing; pain extends to ears. Sore throat and cough with menstruation. Tonsillitis and diphtheria symptoms change repeatedly from side to side. Shining glazed appearance of deposit, pearly-white or like pure white porcelain. Stiffness of neck and tongue. Throat feels burned raw. Tickling sensation causes constant cough. Sore throat beginning and ending with menses.
Female
Menses too early, profuse, flow in gushes. Breasts swollen; painful before (Calc c; Con; Puls) and better on appearance of menses. Mastitis; worse, least jar. Helps to dry up milk. Sinking at epigastrium. Sexual organs easily excited. Backache; spine very sensitive to touch or pressure. Galactorrhœa.
Extremities
Sciatica, right side. Legs feel numb and stiff, cramps in feet. Rheumatic pains in extremities and back, from one side to the other. Pain in arms to fingers. Burning in palms and soles.
Sleep
Dreams of snakes.
Modalities
Worse, morning of one day and in the evening of next. Better, cold, cold drinks.
Relationship
Compare: Lach; Con; Lac felinum-Cat's Milk--(ciliary neuralgia; eye symptoms, photophobia; asthenopia; dysmenorrhœa); Lac vaccinum-Cows' Milk--(headache, rheumatic pains, constipation); Lac vaccinum coagulatum-Curds--(nausea of pregnancy); Lactis vaccini floc--Cream--(diphtheria, leucorrhœa, menorrhagia, dysphagia); Lactic ac.
Dose
Thirtieth and the highest potencies.
History
A beginning in this remedy was made by Dr Nisip and after Reisig it was used by Bayard.
After Bayard's death Dr. Dyer gave me a vial of the 30 th potency, made by Reisig, from which the potencies have mostly been made.
All the milks should be potentized, they are our most excellent remedies, they are animal products and foods of early animal life and therefore correspond to the beginning of our innermost physical nature.
If we had full provings of monkey's, cow's, mate's and human milk they would be of great value. Lacdefloratumhas done excellent work, and so has this remedy. Lac caninum is in its beginnings yet, although it has made some marvelous cures, but many of its symptoms axe doubtful and it would take a century to confirm them.
Bitch's Milk.
Clinical
Arms, varicosis of. Breasts, painful. Chancre. Croup. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Epulis. Eyes, affections of. Gonorrhœa. Headache. Ichthyosis. Leucorrhœa. Neuralgia. Ovaries, affections of. Ranula. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Spinal irritation. Stomach, affections of. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of. Vaccinosis. Varicose veins. Warts.
Characteristics
Lac caninum is not a novelty in remedies. "Dioscorides, Rhasis, Pliny, and Sextus recommended it for the removal of the dead fœtus. Sammonicus and Sextus praise it in photophobia and otitis. Pliny claims that it cures ulceration of the internal os. It was considered an antidote to deadly poisons." (Quotation by Hering.) Hering adds that the remedy was revived by Reisig, of New York, who used it successfully in the treatment of diphtheria. After Reisig the remedy was used by Bayard and Swan, to whose indefatigable exertions we owe the present status of this medicine. Swan's potencies were prepared from Reisig's 17th. The …
Dogs (Milk.)
For nervous, restless, highly sensitive organisms. Symptoms erratic, pains constantly flying from one part to another (Kali bi., Puls.); changing from side to side every few hours or days. Very forgetful, absent-minded; makes purchases and walks away without them (Agnus, Anac., Caust., Nat.). In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones; omits final letter or letters in a word; cannot concentrate the mind to read or study; very nervous (Bov., Graph., Lach., Nat. c., Sep.). Despondent, hopeless; thinks her disease incurable; has not a friend living; nothing worth living for; could weep at any moment (Act., Aur., Cal., Lach.). Cross, irritable; child cries and screams all the time, especially at night (Jal., Nux, Psor.). Fears to be alone (Kali c.); of dying (Ars.); of becoming insane (Lil.); of falling down stairs (Bor.). Chronic "blue" condition; everything seems so dark that it can grow no darker (Lyc., Puls.). Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest provocation (Lil., Nit. …
Mouth and Throat
Sore throat, alternating sides, one side < one day, the other the next, and so forth.
Mouth and Throat
Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposits; chancres; and ulcers.
Female Sexual Organs
Breasts inflammed, painful, < by least jar, must hold them when stepping up or down stairs.
Generalities
Pains going from one part of the body to the other, especially alternating sides.
Generalities
Erratic pains, they fly from one part to another, especially change sides of the body.
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