Lacs in Homeopathy Anhängsel
[Aisling Murray]
Common Themes in the Lacs
Dependence and independence; nurturing and lack of nurturing; a feeling
of having suffered wrong and the suppression of natural instincts in order to
be able to harmonize with the group to which one needs to belong. Each milk
medicine will express these themes in its own way.
The primary function of mammal milks is to nurture the vulnerable, dependent
baby. It’s not only a food but also encompasses the child’s need to grow,
thrive and be strong.
When things go wrong here for the mother and baby, it can lead to issues
with food that can manifest throughout the life of the child and on to adult life.
There is also a theme of bonding between mother and baby and the part
that holding the baby plays in the theme is also significant; it produces
wholeness and integration into the world.
The remedy pictures represent all the things that can go wrong in the
lactation period.
When the milk is sparse or bad, the baby can fail to thrive, resulting
in arrested growth.
Can have aversion to/</>/craving for milk. First food that a baby
has and it can be the first food that causes nausea, contributing to the theme
of loathing of self and life.
When the baby doesn’t get enough milk it can lead to feelings of lack,
poverty consciousness and jealousy.
When the bonding between the mother and baby is not fulfilling for the
baby this can result in feelings of separateness, forsakenness, isolation and
estrangement. All relationships may suffer into later life, leading to the
inability to bear touch and intimacy. Can be cause to fear of narrow or
confined spaces. When the holding (=
support and carrying) of the baby is unsuccessful, in some way it can
induce feelings of being let down, or falling to pieces and fear of falling.
Lack of trust, stemming from a possible lack of bonding or warmth from
the mother. There’s lack of trust in life and in the patient herself and this
comes from the lack of feeling of security, occurring during the bonding in
lactation.
Mother’s milk allows growth and grounding, so there can be a sense of
disconnection and lack of grounding and themes of needing to escape the body,
because they feel imprisoned in it.
Chilly (lack of vital heat/support/security). Fear of sharp objects or a
sharp and critical tongue.
Suicidal tendencies; eating disorders (under and overeating);
cleaning/washing compulsions;
Themes: indifference or lack of feeling; forgetting, mistakes (writing,
dyslexia, speaking); sexuality increased or decreased.
Lac Asinum
Donkeys have a great sense of self-preservation, hence they will not do
anything that puts them in danger. That is why donkeys are called stubborn, but
this is the result of misinterpretating their
behaviour.
The donkey that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, is symbolic of
the spiritual kingdom of God. The Messiah riding upon a donkey offers
forgiveness and peace with God, whereas Christ mounted upon a horse implies
judgment and war.
In time, the donkey became a symbol of those reluctant to believe the
Gospel story, including St. Thomas, the Doubter, St. Anthony of Padua, losing
his patience with an unbeliever, and declaring that it would be easier to get a
wild ass to worship the Sacrament than to convince him of the truth. To the
surprise of the people, a wild ass did approach the Sacrament and kneel
worshipfully before it. Many who saw this miracle converted, and the kneeling
donkey became an attribute of this saint. The donkey was the lawn tractor/wheel
barrow in old Ireland.
Themes in the Remedy:
* Stupidity and Stubbornness
* Ignorance, darkness, idiocy
* Humility and Kindness - a
little foolish but obedient
* Curse and Punishment - in
mythology the person who is punished is turned into a donkey
* Indecisiveness
* Helplessness and Desertion
* Others seem spiteful,
unfair, ruthless
* Feelings of being an
innocent, passive, defenceless martyr; a tragic, passive witness
Physical Symptoms:
* Pains and sensations around
the head and eyes (blindfold)
* Pins and needles - paralysis
of the head, face and trunk
* Swelling, oedema, sweat
* Right-sided
* Stamina - wellbeing, fitness
* < exertion and heat
* Dizziness
* Muscle spasm
* Heat sensations - face,
eyes, stomach
* Epigastric
pain and rumbling
* Hot flushes with a need to
breathe in deeply
Dreams
* Children, pregnancy, water, working, others mocking, knives/murder
Donkey hairs were widely believed to cure a number of ailments, and were
often worn in a charm around the neck, to guard against whooping-cough,
toothache, fits, and to ease teething pains in babies. Riding a donkey was also
believed effective (rider facing the donkey’s tail). Riding a donkey was
sometimes used as a preventative for toothache, measles and other children’s
complaints. One cure for whooping-cough and ague stated that the patient should
be passed under a donkey and over its back either 3 or 9x; the trick of feeding
an animal some of the patient’s hair to transfer the illness was also used with
donkeys. The donkey was also used to help cure the complaints of other animals;
letting a black donkey run with mares in a field was thought to stop the mares
miscarrying.
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