Lac Defloratum (HMT)

Lac Caninum 448there are definite differences be tween the two. A patient of Lac Caninum cannot be left alone, whil e the patient of Lachesis likes solitude. The ailments of Lachesis get aggravated after sleep and move from the left to the right.

Mental and psychological symptoms: A prominent feature of Lac Caninum is that while walking the patie nt feels as if he is floating in the air. He believes that whatever he is saying is a total lie and considers himself to be a liar. One specific symptom of a Lac Caninum patient is that he believe s that the nose he has on his face belongs to somebody else, or that his body is not his own, or as if somebody else is talking instead of himself. Lac Caninum is also useful in the treatment of joint pains . The fleeting muscle pains migrate from one place to another like a quick jump-over. The pains are less in cold weather. A beneficial response to cold is also seen in Ledum🌿 LedumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla is of a hot nature while Ledum is not. Howeve r, joint pains belonging to both respond very well to cold application to the extent that the patient would like to put ice in the water to make it colder and then dip his feet.

Joint pains associated with Ledum begin in the lower part of the body and then migrate upwards. In Lac Caninum, there is extreme sensitivity to light and noise. While reading, vision becomes slightly bl urred. Sounds appear to be coming from a far off distance. Nearby sounds also feel as if they are moving away. This condition is specific to Lac Caninum. Lac Caninum is one of the best remedies for Diphtheria , especially when associated with the pain migr ating from one tonsil to the other and then to the first one again and so on. Diphtheria used to be a very common disease and its treatment wa s also very difficult. But now, preventive vaccination has enabled us to overcome this disease. In third world countries, however the sic kness still persists. It is a very dangerous disease, associated with greyish deposits in the throat, which become thicker layer over layer with deposits of more material, so much so that it can block the ai r passage.

Clinical Observations

There is great difficulty in breathing, while eating and drin king becomes almost impossible. Diphtherinum🌿 DiphtherinumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. has been prepared from the toxic matter of Diphtheria. It should first be given in potency 200 and then gradually increased. For further details, please refer to the chapter on Diphtherinum. If Lac Caninum 449Diphtheria is associated with the ju mping of the discomfort from one side to the other and then back to the first side again, Lac Caninum would be the most optimal treatment . Sometimes, even if Diphtheria has been cured, the patient is left with permanent paralysis of the muscles for swallowing . Lac Caninum is very useful in the treatment of this condition. In case somebody develops a heart problem after a cold or Diphtheria, Spigelia🌿 SpigeliaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. should be used first. It controls the sickness there and then.

Some patie nts become unable to swallow due to the paralysis at the throat of the muscles for swallowing. In children, a similar condition can deve lop due to the w eakness of the muscles rather than paralysis of th e muscles. In this condition, Lac Caninum is very useful. Its benefici al effect however, is only on the paralysed muscles, and not on musc les weakened due to some other condition. Lac Caninum is also related to ma ny diseases of women. There is pain over the uterus and both ovari es. Once the menstrual blood flows freely, most of the gynaecological troubles of the patient get better. In this respect, it is different from Cimicifuga🌿 CimicifugaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in which as the menstrual bleeding flows freely, the ailments become aggravated. Lac Caninum is useful in the treatment of those ailments that persist throughout the month but disappear at the onset of menstrual bleeding.

The throat trouble starts with the onset of the period and disappears at the end of it. This is a typical sign of Lac Caninum that mu st be kept in mind. In all the systems of medical trea tments other than homoeopathy, such symptoms are not given much weig ht, but are considered imaginary and useless. However, in th e field of homoeopathy, these odd symptoms do point to one homoe opathic remedy or another. Therefore, it is necessary to remember them. For example, irritation of the throat, starting before the on set of the periods is a sign of Magnesia🌿 MagnesiaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Carb. This throat conditio n will not automatically get better on the cessation of the periods. Inst ead, it will have to be treated separately. The close relationship of the trouble of th e throat and the periods is a special feature of L ac Caninum.

In Calcarea🌿 CalcareaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Carb, like Cimicifuga, the ailments become worse at the onset of th e free flow of the period. However, in Calcarea Ca rb, the ailment is related to the throat itself. It does not originate from the affliction of internal organs. In the case of Lac Caninum, the me nstrual blood contains big clots as if containing the shreds of the lining of the uterus, like Kreosotum🌿 KreosotumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.. Lac Caninum 450Menstruation starts rather early and is plentiful. There is soreness over the mammary glands before me nstruation or during lactation. They get inflamed. To stop lactation for any reason , Pulsatilla and Lac Caninum combined, are very useful because in this respect, they are similar to each other. Potency: 30 or above. Lac Defloratum 451LAC DEFLORATUM

Lac Defloratum is said to have be en prepared from skimmed milk. I do not agree with this statement. I be lieve that the milk will still have some fat particles in spite of being apparently skimmed. The milk definitely becomes dilute after the re moval of fat, but, a little bit of fat must remain. Based on the homoeopa thic view, if the medicine is prepared from ordinary milk, it should have the same features as that prepared from skimmed milk because of the residual amount of fat in it. Lac Defloratum is very us eful in children who are allergic to milk . They cannot digest milk and instead they develop diarrhoea. Most often, one dose of Lac Defloratum CM may prove effective, so much so that they will not ge t the allergy again. Sometimes, the allergy may partially remain, or it may not re spond to the treatment after some time.

Detailed Symptomatology

Lac Defloratum is of a cold nature, while Lac Caninum is of a hot nature. The patient of Lac Deflorat um is very cool minded. He feels cold even while clad in warm cl othing in hot weather. Blowing lightly on the face will make him feel cold. This kind of strong feeling for the cold is different from that associated with Arnica, Lachesis and Psorinum. The patient feels extremely cold all over. He is sensitive to the even the draft of cold air and will start suffering from rheumatic symptoms. He hurts all over the body, but more so over the head. This pain is not the result of any infection but is rheumatic in nature. There is pain along the course of the nerves on the face and the head. If the patient feels extremely cold, Lac Defloratum must be kept in mind for his treatment. The symptoms become relieved with warmth.

However, the patient will never feel warm enough; he st ays cold. The symptoms become relieved with rest and local pressure. The skin is very sensitive, as in many other homoeopathic remedies. The hypersensitivity of the skin is due to the irritability of the ne rves, but in Lac De floratum, it is due to the sensitivity towards the cold. Lac Defloratum has mostly been overlooked in the treatment of diabetes , even though its singular use can cure the diabetic, if other Lac Defloratum 452symptoms of Lac Defloratum are also present. A si ngle dose in high potency may cure the patient. I ha ve seen diabetics getting better many times. Diabetes is not the kind of disease that must need continuous treatment for every patient. A suitable homoeopathic treatment can cure the diabetes comp letely, but in some patients the treatment may have to be continued.

Some symptoms of diabetes may be present in a patient of Lac De floratum even if he is not an established diabetic i.e. the frequent passage of thick urine and intense thirst. Homoeopathic remedies are related to specific groups of diseases. Once the basic symptoms of a disease are taken care of, other diseases with similar group of symptoms may also be cured. When a patient hates milk, or his symptoms become worse on taking milk, or he develops nausea, vomiti ng, headache, eructation and gas in the stomach etc; a single dose of Lac Defloratum CM can cure all these symptoms. At times, it may have to be repeated after a while. If two such doses, one after the other, do not benefit, it should be abandoned. If it is going to be effect ive, it is effective immediately, or not at all. When the first dos e has offered some relief but the symptoms have recurred, a second dose may be tried but no more.

The symptom complex of Lac Defloratum also includes the aftereffects of malaria , such as lack of blood (anaemia), swelling (oedema), symptoms of diabetes and weakness of the heart etc. Instead of trying to remember all the symptoms, one must remember that the nature of this remedy is very cold. The skin is very sensitive to cold. Whenever there is hypers ensitivity to cold, and any of the symptoms pertaining to the heart, ma laria or diabetes appear, then Lac Defloratum will most probably be f ound more useful in the treatment of all these diseases as well. I have no personal experience of using Lac Defloratum for the treatment of heart problems, so I cannot say for sure as to what potency would be ideal. However, while dealing with the heart, the treatment should be started in low potencies.

If the patient starts getting better, this should be repeated and the potency should gradually be increased. The heart responds in a very slow and steady way; therefore, only low potencies are safe. Lac Defloratum 453The Lac Defloratum patient loses his memory and avoids intellectual work. This medicine is also useful in the treatment of fatty degeneration of the heart and the liver . This condition is commonly found in alcoholics but may be found in people who consume too much fat. Streaks of fat start depositing in the liver, which gradually increase with age. Th e affected part of the liver loses its function and cannot produce chemical secretions in the required amount. The usefulness of this re medy in the treatment of fatty degeneration shows that it dispels the bad effect s of fatty disease.

Further Indications

A Lac Defloratum patient is usually very sad. He wishes to die and looks for a simple straightforward way to achieve it. He is not aggressive. He is sad, with no sign of explosion. He wants an easy way to die without much trouble. Pe rhaps the poet Ghalib was also of Lac Defloratum disposition. He said: “I wish somebody would sing to me in such a beautiful and enchanting way, with the voice having the speed and radiance of lightning so that I may die without any discomfort”. What a lovely death! Alas, he did not get such a singer to solve his problem. The patient of Lac Defloratum feel s dizzy even on raising his arm. His dizziness is like that of Conium. In Conium, the patient feels dizzy on lying down or closing his eyes, while the bed spins around him. In Lac Defloratum too, the si tuation is somewhat similar, while in Lac Caninum, the patient feels dizzy while walking, and he finds the entire world swinging around him.

He finds himself in a fantasyland. Similarily a patient of Cannabis has his own imaginary world, in which he feels like he is flying or floating in the air. Its prominent sign is that perception of the passage of time is affected. Sometimes the passage of time seems to flow rapidly, while in the state of grief and sorrow, time stands still for him. There is a kind of strange situation in Lac Defloratum time is prolonged with the feeling of joy, whereas normally, a good time passes away rapidly. The mind of a Lac Defloratum patient is not focused on something in particular but goes astray. He trusts nothing. In Lac Defloratum there is one particular characteristic that the women suffer from headache before and after the periods. The headache occupies the nape of the n eck, the forehead and the temples.

Yellowish offensive leucorrhoeal discharge, before and after the periods, is also a soli d sign of Lac Defloratum. Once both these Lac Defloratum 454symptoms are present, the treatment becomes very easy. Lac Defloratum is also useful in the treatment of vomiting during pregnancy. When a female patient with a co ld body who has a tendency towards being overweight develops diabetes, Lac Defloratum may be a possible treatment for her. If a woman delivers an overweight child, while on normal food intake, it may very well be that her diabetes may be passed on to the child. If she is of a cold constitution, and her body remains cold then Lac Defloratum can offer a complete cure. Therefore, it must be used without any delay as soon as the diagnosis is made. Obese ladies with the f eeling of cold all over and who are unable to digest milk will find this medicine very useful.

It will also cure the vomiting during pregnancy in any woman who does not have a natural distaste for milk, but in pre gnancy is unable to digest it. All the symptoms pertaining to the st omach dysfunctions result from the inability to digest milk. If the indi gestion is due to not being able to digest milk or due to fatty food, the commonly used remedy is Pulsatilla. The nature of Pulsatilla is very hot, while that of Lac Defloratum is very cold and this is the main distinguishing factor between the two. A patient of Lac Defloratum has extreme photophobia . He feels a gritty sensation in the eyes. The vision is blurred. A patient of Lac Defloratum grinds his teeth at night. The grinding of the teeth may also be due to an in festation with worm s or due to the swelling of the gums. Similarly, st omach upset and the indigestibility of the milk can also result in grinding of the teeth even in the absence of worm infestation.

These three po ssibilities must be kept in mind. In the presence of worms, the chil d develops a severe itch over the nose, and the margins of the nose as well as the margins of the lips become yellowish. The second sympto m is that the patient feels very hungry. Both these symptoms can be best treated with Cina, while Sabadilla is also very useful. The third symptom of Lac Defloratum is nausea , however there is no vomiting, except very rarely. In this respect, it is somewhat similar to Ipecac but in Ipecac the vomiting is relatively more frequent.