Homoeopathy — Page 447
Lac Caninum 447 LAC CANINUM 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 Syphlinium 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. Bayards, on proving, found the extreme usefulness of this medicine. After their death, Dr. Dyer pursued their course. After him, Dr. Kent took over the use of this medicine, which he used successfully on a vast array 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 potency 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 made to express certain illnesses. If such ailments already 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 the 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,