🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
📚Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad Materia Medica:
This homeopathic remedy profile is compiled directly from the authoritative Materia Medica lectures of Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra), former head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and a renowned homeopath. It presents clinical insights, comparative analysis, and potency guidelines.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Lac Caninum is prepared from the milk of a female dog.
For this very
reason, most people scorn it and hate to even touch it.
Yet, other
medicines like Psorinum and Syph linium are prepared from much
more loathsome and dangerous materials.
Dog’s milk converted into homoeopathic form becomes a purely clean
remedy.
One must not hesitate to use it.
Initially, Dr.
Reisig and Dr.
Baya rds, on provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces., found the extreme
usefulness of this medicine.
After their death, Dr.
Dyer pursued their
course.
After him, Dr.
Kent took ov er the use of this medicine, which
he used successfully on a vast arra y of diseases.
Its most prominent
feature is mental anguish and mental confusion .
The nerves
become extremely excitable.
It is in the nature of dogs that they jump
around imaginary objects and start barking.
Probably, that is the
background of storywriters’ claims that the dogs can see ghosts and
spirits.
The above-mentioned doctors did not have any background of
this sort of knowledge.
However, when the homoeopathic potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration.
was prepared from this milk, it was found on proving that a person
given Lac Caninum starts seeing imaginary things (hallucinations) and
feels as if those things will jump over him and endanger him.
This is
in the nature of the dog and through the supply of her milk, the human
mind and the nervous system can be ma de to express certain illnesses.
If such ailments alread y exist, the homoeopathic form of the canine
milk has the capability to cure them.
This medicine has significant mental symptoms.
It also affects the
glands.
It takes care of the enlarged glands .
When the glands
become inflamed, the overlying skin becomes shiny but unattractive
and tense.
Lac Caninum cures such wounds.
In Lac Caninum, the skin is extremely sensitive , more prominent in
women as a result of which they keep their fingers spread apart.
If by
chance, one finger happens to touch th e other, they scream.
Even the
lightest touch of a cloth is unbearable.
This kind of hypersensitivity is
also found in Lachesis.
Sometimes, these two medicines can be used
in the place of the other.
Another factor common to both Lachesis and
Lac Caninum is that their feelings become very sharp and they are
scared of even imaginary things.
In spite of these commonalities,
there 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 and 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 blurred.
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.
There is great difficulty
in breathing, while eating and drin king becomes almost impossible.
Diphtherinum 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
Diphtheria 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 paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. 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 should be used first.
It controls the
sickness there and then.
Some patients 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 ovaries.
Once the menstrual blood flows
freely, most of the gynaecological troubles of the patient get better.
In
this respect, it is different from Cimicifuga 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 treatments 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
MagnesiaCarb.
This throat condition 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 Carb, like
Cimicifuga, the ailments become worse at the onset of the 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.
Menstruation 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
📋 Remedy Stats
🏷️ Category📚 HMTA Homeopathy
🧬 MiasmSyphilitic Miasm
🌡️ TemperamentNeutral
🕒 AggravationNeutral/Anytime
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📚Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homoeopathy: Like Cures Like (English Rendering of Lectures delivered on MTA International). Compiled exclusively in accordance with the clinical insights and Materia Medica of Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra).
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
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