Lac caninum Anhängsel

Dogs evolved from wolves who are part of the canoidea family. Thought to have first been domesticated in the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia.

They are pack animals, with one leader. To ancient civilisations the dog was associated with death/afterlife. The ancient Egyptians worshiped the dog-headed God of Death - Anubis.

The Old Testament scorns the dog as “unclean”. Islam associates the dog with all that is utterly vile in creation = symbol of greed and gluttony. Ambiguity arises with the more common perception of dog as man’s best friend. The alchemists used the analogy of the dog devoured by the wolf for the purification of gold by antimony, the penultimate stage of the “Great Work”.

Themes in the Remedy

* Dogs

* Disconnection/hovering

* Restlessness and anxiety/guilt

* Self destruction

* Failure

* Sensitivity

* Low self esteem - thinks that whatever she says is a lie

* Hypersensitive amounting to hysteria

* Forgetful

* Aggression and rage

* Fears and excitement (fainting/falling/snakes/spiders/insects/ghosts)

* Constant desire to wash hands

* Hypochondria and fear of disease

* Dependent victim

Physical Symptoms:

* Warm patients

* Alternating sides

* Ravenous appetite

* Des pungent things (pepper) and salt

* > Cold applications

* < before and during menses

* Parts glistening/shining

* Vertigo/“As if floating in the air“

* Genital organs easily excited from touch

* Painful, swollen breasts before menses

Clarke: “This remedy represents a state in which the organism does not have the resources to absorb and contain stress and teeters on the brink of collapse”. Anger and rage directed at the self.

They can be introverted, exhibit excessive daydreaming and can seem as if in a daze.

Active type: great sensitivity.

Passive type: hysteria.

[M.L. Tyler]

All drugs of very special and unique action, are easily studied, and well worth learning. Polychrests (= "the common drugs of many uses") serve us ordinarily; and when we have mastered Sulph. Sep. Lyc. Calc. Nux-v. etc., etc.

But the less universally-useful drugs, of very peculiar and distinctive features, are less frequently, yet amazingly helpful. Once mastered, they come in brilliantly every time, and make prescribing an excitement and a delight. Generally they do not "work out", unless for one who has mastered the secret, that the best work is done with a few of the "strange, rate and peculiar symptoms", fitting the case, rather than with a host of somewhat indefinite general symptoms, which, if politely given precedence, will often only suggest severe al remedies of the polychrest type, and perhaps completely miss the one brilliant and indispensable.

But, we must hark back to our subject, the peculiarities of Lac-c.: Fears and terrifying imaginations (snakes) loom tremendously. The tissues it can severely annoy and successfully comfort are: skin [ulcerations red and glistening on mucous membranes (throat as in diphtheria, where it has been found prophylactic as well as specifically curative), gland troubles, nerve troubles and mental troubles.

The Lac-c. throat is very sensitive to external touch (Lach.), as well as internally-terribly sensitive. If feels as if it were closing/wants to keep the mouth open, lest he should choke. Swallowing is difficult-almost impossible,

yet with constant inclination to swallow, when pains shoot up into ears (Phyt.). Feeling of a lump in throat which goes down swallowing, only to return (Ign.). The worst pain is when swallowing solids. Throat feels dry, husky,

“As if scalded”. Lac-c, is not only one of the great remedies of diphtheria, but of syphilis when that attacks the throat; the throat has a shiny, glazed, red appearance, or characteristic patches, that "look like white china".

Pain: fly about/change from side to side and back again. Pain may be neuralgic/rheumatic/ovarian.

Boger: (Synopsis) gives its special regions as "NERVES/THROAT/female generative organs“. It not only affects the ovaries, but inflames and conjests the uterus, whose haemorrhages are bright and stringy. (dark and stringy = Croc.) They come in gushes, but and clot easily. "Its sore throats are apt to begin and end with menstruation“. Mammae: full, lumpy, sensitive to the least jar, very painful and must be supported when going up and down stairs. . . required to dry up milk". In this, and in its sensitiveness to jar, it reminds one of Bell.

Lac-c. is an uneasy sleeper. Cannot get a comfortable position. "There is no way she can put her hands that they do not bother her: falls asleep, at last, on her face".

ALLEN sums up more of its characteristic. For nervous, restless, highly sensitive organisms.

Very forgetful, absentminded, makes purchases and walks away without them.

In writing, uses too many words and not the right ones: omits letters or words: cannot concentrate to read or study.

Despondent, hopeless: nothing worth living for: her disease is hopeless: has not a friend in the world. Could weep. Cross and irritable: child cries and screams all the time (at night). Attacks of rage; cursing and swearing. Intense "ugliness".

Coryza: one nostril stopped up, the other free and discharging these alternate. Discharge acrid: nose and upper lip raw.

Cant eat enough to satisfy; as hungry after meals as before.

„As if breath would leave her“ when lying down, must get up and walk.

When walking, seems to be walking on air: when lying, does not seem to touch the bed.

Intense, unbearable aching of spine: aches from base of brain to coccyx. Very sensitive to touch and pressure.

His other important points, we have already indicated.

"Like Lach. and many other well-known polychrests in the Materia Medica, this remedy met most violent opposition from ignorance and prejudice. it was for years looked upon as one of the novelties or delusions of

those who believed in and used the dynamic remedy; yet its wonderful therapeutic powers have slowly but surely overcome every obstacle.

It was successfully used by Dioscorides/Rhasis in ancient times. Sammonicus and Sectus praise it in photophobia, otitis and other affections of the eye and ear. Pliny claimed that it cured ulceration of the internal os.

It was then used as an antidote to many deadly poisons.

The use of the remedy was revived by Reisig, of New York, who, while travelling in Europe, heard it lauded as a remedy for throat diseases, and on his return used it successfully in an epidemic of malignant diphtheria.

Reisig potentized it to the C 17. from which the potencies of Swan and Fincke were prepared. The profession is indebted to the fatigueable labour of Swan for its provings, which were made from the C 30, C 200 and

higher. The provings of this remedy have placed it among the polychrests of our school and verified and confirmed the clinical accuracies of the observers of ancient times.

Dr. Allen gives striking cases of its power even in what we have ventured to call "Chronic Diphtheria".

NASH tells that he had thought it disgraceful to try to foist dogs milk on the profession, as a remedy, but after accumulated evidence, he tried it on a case of rheuma wandering from joint to joint, that had resisted Plus.,

and where it not only wandered, but crossed to and fro, in the manner of Lac-c. And the case cured very quickly. Then a case of scarlatina with side-to-side-and-back pains and throat trouble, and again Lac-c. scored over

Rhus-t., which had seemed indicated. Then a bad case to tonsillitis, choking and struggling in effort to swallow, where alternate sides were worse, and again Lac-c. cured within 36 hours.

He got 3 clerks in a store to prove it: in C 200, taken two-hourly. They all got sore throats, one with patches on both tonsils.

Nash finds it especially useful not only for the inflammatory affections that alternate sides; but also for breasts and throats that get sore at every menstrual period: and also in mastitis, the great indication being, they

cannot bear a jar; has to hold them up stepping and going down stairs.

KENT: All the milks should be potentized, they are out most excellent remedies, they are animal products and foods of early animal life, and therefore correspond to the beginnings of our innermost physical nature.

If we had provings of monkeys, cows mares and human milk, they would be of great value. Lac-d. has done excellent work and so has Lac-c. Lac-c. is in its beginnings yet, although it has made some marvellous cures . . .

It is deep acting and long-acting; the provers felt its symptoms for years after the proving was made. It abounds in nervous symptoms . . . The mental symptoms are prolonged and distressing. It makes ulcers very red, and

has cured such ulcers: ulcers are dry, glistening, as if covered with epithelium. An important remedy in complaints following badly treated diphtheria, in paralysis and other conditions dating back to diphtheria . . .

oversensitive violently hysterical, and causes all sorts of strange and apparently impossible symptoms. For example, a woman lay in bed with fingers abducted, and would go wild if they touched each other: not < from hard pressure, but she would scream if they touched . . . This state is difficult to cure outside Lac-c. and Lach.

A strange and peculiar vertigo: as if floating in mid-air, or not touching the bed . . .

Then, the changing sides: in throats, rheumatic affections, headaches and neuralgias . . . Ambulating erysipelas attacks first one side, then the other, then back again . . . inflammation sore throats do the same.

Full of imaginations, and harassing, tormenting thoughts. No reality in the things that be: thinks that everything she says is a lie. (Alum.) . . . she is not herself, and her properties not her own, „As if wearing somebody

elses nose“. And so on: we have already emphasized most of the points. Putrid mouth. Wherever there is mucous membrane, there will be exudate: a grey, fuzzy coating, like that piling up on the tongue . . . We have already

given the characteristic symptoms of throat, mammae, etc.

BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.

Swallowing very difficult, painful, almost impossible.

Soreness of throat begins with a tickling sensation, which causes constant cough; then a sensation of a lump on one side, causing constant deglutition; this condition entirely ceases, only to commence on the opposite

side, and often alternates, again returning to its first condition; these sore throats are very apt to begin and end with the menses.

Tonsils inflamed and very sore, red and shining, almost closing throat; dryness of fauces and throat; swelling of submaxillary glands.

Diphtheritic membrane white like china; mucous membrane of throat glistening as if varnished; membranes leave one side and go to the other repeatedly. Desire for warm drinks, which may return through the nose.

Post-diphtheritic paralysis.

Serviceable in almost all cases where it is required to dry up milk.

When walking seems to be walking on air: when lying does not seem to touch the bed.

Erratic disposition of symptoms: pains constantly flying from one part to another.

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