Lac caninum
Remedy of alternating sides — symptoms change from side to side. Sore throat and rheumatism alternate left and right daily. Sensation of floating in air. Self-contempt, feels dirty and disgusting.
Source
Prepared from the milk of a lactating bitch, potentised.
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Keynote Symptoms
Alternating sides is the hallmark — sore throat, ovarian pain, headache, sciatica all alternate left-right-left. Sensation of floating or walking on air. Intense self-contempt and self-loathing — feels worthless, dirty, disgusting. Diphtheria with alternating sides. Breast symptoms — engorgement, pain during nursing.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Self-contempt — feels worthless, dirty, ugly, repulsive. Fears snakes and disease. Forgetful — cannot remember what they just read. Imagines they are looked down upon. Fears losing reason. Despair of recovery. Cannot bear to be alone but dreads company. Very nervous and restless.
General Symptoms
Symptoms alternate sides regularly. Worse from touch, jar, morning on waking. Better from cold drinks, open air.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache alternating sides. Supraorbital neuralgia, right then left. Floating sensation.
Throat
Sore throat alternating sides — left one day, right the next. Shiny, glazed, diphtheritic membrane. Pain extends to ears. Constant desire to swallow.
Female Genitalia
Breast pain — cannot bear touch of clothing. Engorgement during nursing. Galactorrhea. Ovarian pain alternating sides. Menses too early, too profuse.
Extremities
Sciatica alternating sides. Rheumatic pains, alternating. Sensation of floating or walking on air.
Skin
Hypersensitiveness. Cannot bear anything touching throat or neck.
Sleep & Dreams
Restless sleep. Dreams of snakes. Wakes unrefreshed.
Modalities
Better From
Cold drinks, open air, rest
Worse From
Touch, jar, morning on waking, during menses, after sleep
Constitutional Type
Nervous, hypersensitive individuals with self-loathing. Nursing mothers with breast problems. Those with symptoms that alternate sides predictably.
Clinical Indications
Sore throat (alternating sides), diphtheria, breast pain during nursing, self-contempt, sciatica (alternating), rheumatism (alternating), floating sensations
Comparative Materia Medica
Lachesis has left-sided sore throat. Lycopodium has right-sided sore throat. Lac caninum alternates. Pulsatilla also has changeable symptoms but is milder and weepy. Syphilinum also has self-contempt (OCD/contamination).
Safety Information
Not well established.
Dog's milk is non-toxic. No material substance remains above 12C. Safe in all potentised forms.
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