Lac vaccinum
Cow's milk · Sarcode
Lac Vaccinum is suited to persons intolerant of milk, presenting with headaches, biliousness, and constipation after consuming it. The remedy is notable for symptoms appearing on both sides simultaneously. Children who drink much milk after their teeth are grown may become very liable to colds.
Key symptoms
- Headache, biliousness, and constipation from milk intolerance
- Symptoms appear on both sides simultaneously unlike Lac caninum which alternates
- Great thirst with excessive flow of urine suggesting diabetes
- Short rheumatic pains in knees and ankles on walking with fetid flatus
- Flat white ulcers on tongue covered with white slimy mucus extending to cheeks
- Brown greasy crusts especially in corners of mouth like butter-sores
- Fullness of head as if too large and heavy
- Vertigo
- Eructations and passing of much flatus
Worse (aggravation)
- Drinking or consuming milk
Better (amelioration)
- External pressure on stomach (contractive pain better)
- Sleep
Cow's milk. Dilution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Blindness. Diabetes. Headache. Milk, intolerance of. Rheumatism. Sternum, pains in. Tongue, ulcers on.
Characteristics
Lac vac. was proved by J, C. Boardman, of Trenton, New jersey (H. W., xix. 402). Swan's 200th potency was used. I have given the symptoms in the Schema. To these might be added the effects of milk on persons intolerant of it. The headaches, biliousness, and constipation frequently induced by milk are well known. The headaches were well brought out in the proving. Milk frequently aggravates rheumatism; and Burnett has observed that children who drink much milk after their teeth are grown become very liable to colds. The keynote of Lac can. is alternation of sides; in Lac vac. the symptoms appeared both sides simultaneously. The great thirst and excessive flow of urine suggest diabetes. Swan gives a brief proving (H. P., ix. 252) and some cures. The cures were: (1) Short rheumatic pains in knee and ankles on walking; passing fetid flatus. …
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