Homoeopathy — Page 453
Lac Defloratum 453 The Lac Defloratum patient loses his memory and avoids intellectual work. This medicine is also useful in the treatment of fatty degeneration of the heart and the liver. This condition is commonly found in alcoholics but may be found in people who consume too much fat. Streaks of fat start depositing in the liver, which gradually increase with age. The affected part of the liver loses its function and cannot produce chemical secretions in the required amount. The usefulness of this remedy in the treatment of fatty degeneration shows that it dispels the bad effects of fatty disease. A Lac Defloratum patient is usually very sad. He wishes to die and looks for a simple straightforward way to achieve it. He is not aggressive. He is sad, with no sign of explosion. He wants an easy way to die without much trouble. Perhaps the poet Ghalib was also of Lac Defloratum disposition. He said: “I wish somebody would sing to me in such a beautiful and enchanting way, with the voice having the speed and radiance of lightning so that I may die without any discomfort”. What a lovely death! Alas, he did not get such a singer to solve his problem. The patient of Lac Defloratum feels dizzy even on raising his arm. His dizziness is like that of Conium. In Conium, the patient feels dizzy on lying down or closing his eyes, while the bed spins around him. In Lac Defloratum too, the situation is somewhat similar, while in Lac Caninum, the patient feels dizzy while walking, and he finds the entire world swinging around him. He finds himself in a fantasyland. Similarily a patient of Cannabis has his own imaginary world, in which he feels like he is flying or floating in the air. Its prominent sign is that perception of the passage of time is affected. Sometimes the passage of time seems to flow rapidly, while in the state of grief and sorrow, time stands still for him. There is a kind of strange situation in Lac Defloratum time is prolonged with the feeling of joy, whereas normally, a good time passes away rapidly. The mind of a Lac Defloratum patient is not focused on something in particular but goes astray. He trusts nothing. In Lac Defloratum there is one particular characteristic that the women suffer from headache before and after the periods. The headache occupies the nape of the neck, the forehead and the temples. Yellowish offensive leucorrhoeal discharge, before and after the periods, is also a solid sign of Lac Defloratum. Once both these