Homoeopathy — Page 452
Lac Defloratum 452 symptoms of Lac Defloratum are also present. A single dose in high potency may cure the patient. I have seen diabetics getting better many times. Diabetes is not the kind of disease that must need continuous treatment for every patient. A suitable homoeopathic treatment can cure the diabetes completely, but in some patients the treatment may have to be continued. Some symptoms of diabetes may be present in a patient of Lac Defloratum even if he is not an established diabetic i. e. the frequent passage of thick urine and intense thirst. Homoeopathic remedies are related to specific groups of diseases. Once the basic symptoms of a disease are taken care of, other diseases with similar group of symptoms may also be cured. When a patient hates milk, or his symptoms become worse on taking milk, or he develops nausea, vomiting, headache, eructation and gas in the stomach etc; a single dose of Lac Defloratum CM can cure all these symptoms. At times, it may have to be repeated after a while. If two such doses, one after the other, do not benefit, it should be abandoned. If it is going to be effective, it is effective immediately, or not at all. When the first dose has offered some relief but the symptoms have recurred, a second dose may be tried but no more. The symptom complex of Lac Defloratum also includes the aftereffects of malaria , such as lack of blood (anaemia), swelling (oedema), symptoms of diabetes and weakness of the heart etc. Instead of trying to remember all the symptoms, one must remember that the nature of this remedy is very cold. The skin is very sensitive to cold. Whenever there is hypersensitivity to cold, and any of the symptoms pertaining to the heart, malaria or diabetes appear, then Lac Defloratum will most probably be found more useful in the treatment of all these diseases as well. I have no personal experience of using Lac Defloratum for the treatment of heart problems, so I cannot say for sure as to what potency would be ideal. However, while dealing with the heart, the treatment should be started in low potencies. If the patient starts getting better, this should be repeated and the potency should gradually be increased. The heart responds in a very slow and steady way; therefore, only low potencies are safe.