Homoeopathy — Page 449
Lac Caninum 449 Diphtheria is associated with the jumping of the discomfort from one side to the other and then back to the first side again, Lac Caninum would be the most optimal treatment. Sometimes, even if Diphtheria has been cured, the patient is left with permanent paralysis of the muscles for swallowing. Lac Caninum is very useful in the treatment of this condition. In case somebody develops a heart problem after a cold or Diphtheria, Spigelia should be used first. It controls the sickness there and then. Some patients become unable to swallow due to the paralysis at the throat of the muscles for swallowing. In children, a similar condition can develop due to the weakness of the muscles rather than paralysis of the muscles. In this condition, Lac Caninum is very useful. Its beneficial effect however, is only on the paralysed muscles, and not on muscles weakened due to some other condition. Lac Caninum is also related to many diseases of women. There is pain over the uterus and both ovaries. Once the menstrual blood flows freely, most of the gynaecological troubles of the patient get better. In this respect, it is different from Cimicifuga in which as the menstrual bleeding flows freely, the ailments become aggravated. Lac Caninum is useful in the treatment of those ailments that persist throughout the month but disappear at the onset of menstrual bleeding. The throat trouble starts with the onset of the period and disappears at the end of it. This is a typical sign of Lac Caninum that must be kept in mind. In all the systems of medical treatments other than , such symptoms are not given much weight, but are considered imaginary and useless. However, in the field of , these odd symptoms do point to one homoeopathic remedy or another. Therefore, it is necessary to remember them. For example, irritation of the throat, starting before the onset of the periods is a sign of Magnesia Carb. This throat condition will not automatically get better on the cessation of the periods. Instead, it will have to be treated separately. The close relationship of the trouble of the throat and the periods is a special feature of Lac Caninum. In Calcarea Carb, like Cimicifuga, the ailments become worse at the onset of the free flow of the period. However, in Calcarea Carb, the ailment is related to the throat itself. It does not originate from the affliction of internal organs. In the case of Lac Caninum, the menstrual blood contains big clots as if containing the shreds of the lining of the uterus, like Kreosotum.