Lac materunumLac humanumLac defloratumLac delphinumLac equinumLac cameli

Lac caninumLac caprinumLac leoninumLac lupinumLac felinum

Prepared by: Lenka Maleckova1

“Projection of mammal milk into the situation of the mammal: homo sapiens.

Every proving and every Lac remedy given to a patient will give/cure symptoms

of the mammal Lac, which will be translations of the mammal’s original situation

and survival pattern, shaded and adapted to the human situation.

Man is domesticated (civilised) herd animal and its Lacs will have themes from

herds and domesticated animals.

The position of Lac humanum or maternum will be, in man, a very CENTRAL

ONE and always complementary to any other Lac prescribed in a human

being.” *)

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*) Homoeopathic Links – The materia medica of milk; The Lacs : A group analysis and signature view, Kees Dam, The Netherlands

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Nurturing

Food -problems with

Sex, sexual perversions

Love and affection

Depression

Separation

Nursing, caring

Falling, failing

Forsaken

Anxiety

Hormonal disturbances

Jealousy

Weak, milked down

Feeling dirty

Cleaning

Cold, chilly

Ungrounded, absent

Pains, sharp, alternating

Forgetful

Contact aggravates

Narrow places agg.

Inferior, unsure

Unfeeling, hard

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Remedy Psora Sycosis Syphilis Tubercular Cancer

Lac materunum

Lac humanum

Lac defloratum

Lac delphinum

Lac equinum

Lac cameli

Lac caninum

Lac caprinum

Lac leoninum

Lac lupinum

Lac felinum

Lac maternumMain themes:

• Lack of INCARNATION into this world

• Homesickness for astral world

• Deep unawareness of own identity

• Sensation of floating, out of body

sensation

• Unaware of his own boundaries

• Tendency to fainting, fear of fainting

• Day dreaming

• Awkwardness (bumping into things,

knocking things over, unobservant)

• Exhaustion, weakness, lack of courage

• Lack of joy in life, sadness

• Anxiety about life, fear facing the life alone

• Symbiotic relationship (parents, partner,

children)

• Lack of awareness of one’s surroundings

• Anger

• Desire to go out (not feeling well at home)

• Indifference

• Anticipation

• Aversion to intercourse, wants to be

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Physical symptoms:

• Headaches, migraines

• Vertigo, dizziness

• Empty feeling

• Flushes (during/after menopause;

from exertion)

• Hair loss, dry hair, grey hair

• Coldness of extremities

• Weak libido

• Skin eruptions: eczema, psoriasis,

molluscae

• Diarrhoea from anticipation

• Chilliness,; icy coldness to the bone

• Unrefreshed sleep; restless sleep,

shouting during sleep

• Hears voices

Lac humanumMain themes:

• Spaced out

• Detached

• Ailments from not having children

• Anxiety when in company

• Feels unfortunate

• Emotions suppressed by authority figure

(e.g. Teacher, parent, friends, etc.)

• Capriciousness

• Fear of failure in examinations

• Morbid impulses to play with fire

• Tendency to injure or hurt himself

• Thumb sucking or desire to have

something in the mouth

• Mistakes – oral, in writing, calculations,

time, orientation

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Physical symptoms:

• Very energetic / no energy

• Chronic digestive disturbances due to

malabsorbtion

• Head: Catharal discharges, migraine

• Nasal polyps

• Postnasal discharge, discharges white

and thick

• Obstruction of nostrils esp. one sided

on waking in the morning

• Bad breath

• Rickets

• Wriggling hands

• Desires: bacon, cream, eggs, tea

Generals:

• General sensitiveness, < slightest

touch

• ChillyCompare: Sepia, Nux-v, Staph (excessive

anger after contradiction), Carc, Puls

Lac defloratum

Main Themes:

• Need to be attractive

• Ailments from separation

• Need to belong to a community

• Feeling of being rejected by the community

• Forsaken

• Feeling needing to bare a lot of suffering

• Sense of injustice

• Depression, suicidal tendencies

• Dirty

• Irresolution

• Warmth amel.

• Frightful dreams

• Laziness

• Sadness during menses

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Physicals symptoms:

• Allergies

Throat and lung reactions

Intestinal reactions: bloating,

vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation,

distension of abdomen

Stool dry, hard, large, comes

out in balls

Migraines

• Diabetes

• Colitis

• Bad breath

• Rheumatic and neuralgic pains

esp. in the head

• Chilly

• Pale

• Leucorrhoea before or after

menses

• Vomiting in pregnancy

Lac defloratum

Case:

Female, 35 years

Presenting complaint: bloating, difficulty to lose weight, fear of snakes

Patient suffered with a lot of bloating, constipation with dry dark stool that was coming

out in balls. She suffered from bad breath. She could not lose weight.

She had a extreme phobia of snakes.

Emotionally patient felt often depressed and was crying a lot since she moved away

from her parents home and lived with her boyfriend. She was getting very upset

about her weight and appearance. All her ailments started when separated from

her family (mother) – either on going on a holiday or moving away from home.

Patient was treated with colitis allopathically in the past.

She also liked cows.

Patient was prescribed a split dose of Lac-d 200C and is doing really well on it since.

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Lac delphinumMain themes:

• Attraction to water

• Circles (“It feels like going round in

circles”)

• Clockwise

• Feeling calm in a danger

• Clairvoyance

• Communication

• Creative and artistic

• Love for animals

• Laughter and play, jesting

• Affectionate

• Groups

• Fear of robbers, when in crowd,

accidents

• Hiding

• Guilt with responsibility

• Family relationships, anxiety for

family

• Separation from close family

• Feeling of threat from outside

• Intrusion

• Feeling of lack of privacy

• Maternal instincts

Physical symptoms:

• Nose, sinuses – congestion

• Pharyngeal infections with painful lymph glands

• Eyes: photophobia, redness of eyes

• Cough, short, dry, tickling sensation in air

passages – greyish expectoration

• Weakness from sun exposure

• Digestive problems

• Diarrhoea, thin, dry stools, passed in small

quantities

• Painful haemorrhoids

• Frequent urging to urinate

• Pain in a big toe

• Left sided

• Acuteness of hearing even in sleep

• Desires: chocolate, cold drinks, ice cream

Dreams:

• Dreams of flying

Similar to Carc. and Phos11

Lac equinumMain themes:

• Irritable

• Organization

• Great passion for horses

• Desire to be of service

• Tendency to haste and hurry

• Depression, melancholy

• Disharmony in the family agg.

• Feeling of being trapped

• Constriction

• Desire to escape

• Rage

• Apathy

• Anxiety when anything is expected

of her

• Timid, shy

• Fear something, horrible, terrible will

happen

• Fuzzy, unfocused12

Physicals symptoms:

• Neurological problems

• Cramps in hands

• Cramps in legs

• Difficult respiration

• Nausea

• Heart problems

• Flatuance

• Weakness

Dreams:

• Of animals, horses

• Happy to be alive

• Lost opportunities

• Of friends

• Team work

Lac caninumMain Themes:

• Self-loathing as a result of abuse

• Forgetful

• Dependent victim

• Absentminded – cannot concentrate

• Lack of self-esteem

• Self destruction

• Disconnection

• Undertakes many things but preserves in

nothing

• Living in a conflict between the body and the

heart

• Restless

• Discouragement

• Aggressive attitude

• Failure

• Fear of abandonment

• Fear of animals (snakes, insects,...)

• Ailments from fall

• Ailments from smell of flowers

• Cannot bear slighted touch or jar

• Weakness

• Washing mania

• Mistakes - in spelling13

Physical symptoms:

• Throat, foreign body sensation of

• Sore throat, alternating sides

• Horse, changeable voice

• Constant inclination to blow nose

• Congenital deafness, pain in ears from cold and

wind or when swallowing

• Sleeplessness

• Obesity

• Inflammation of breasts (similar to Con)

• Vertigo, sensation of floating in the air

• Foul breath

• Ravenous appetite

• Nocturnal bedwetting

• Sexual organs easily excited from touch

• Flatus from vagina

• Leucorrhoea before menses

• Softening of bones, rickets

• Warts, Herpetic eruptions

• Tendency to uncover feet

• Desires: mustard, highly seasoned food, milk,

pungent things, hot drinks

• < warmth; > cold

• < wet weather

Dreams:

• Being pursued, shameful

• Urinating

Lac cameliMain themes:

• Feeling like a teenager

• Body image – distortion vs

confident with body image

• Anorexia vs. Overeating

• Defying and disrespect to

authority

• Problem focusing, concentration

difficult

• Irritability/vs. relaxed feeling

• Forgetful

• Serious

• Postponing, lazy

• Late to appointments without caring

• Busy

• Idea of magic

• Tired/ vs. Increased energy

Physical symptoms:

• Vertigo

During and after sun exposure

< light, noise, heat

• Nose and sinuses

Sneezing,

• Congestion, puffiness like allergic

reaction

• Eyes - puffy, sore, burning

• Skin – dry, flaking, pimples, itch,

Athlete's foot

• Leucorrhoea, menstrual

cramps

• Thirsty

Dreams:

• A lot of dreams

• Good dreams

• Dreams about X-partner

• High school

• Camels

• Egypt

• Taking care of baby

• Teeth falling

• Generals::

• < bending

• Hot, hot feet

• Perspiration

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Lac caprinumMain themes:

• Fear of being taken by surprise

• Fear of being jumped at

• Fright and fear of razor sharp

• Fear of being pointed at

• Fear of heart attack from fright

• Fears are overcome by being in HIGH

POSITON – social = SAFE

• Fear of loosing social position (= fear of

falling)

• Indifference

• Sexuality – fear of own sexual

impulses, perversions

• Suppression of sexual urges

• Anticipatory anxiety

• Jealousy

• Aggression

Generals:

• Chilly

• Sharp, stitching,

wondering pains

(provoking fright reaction)

• LEFT to right

Physical symptoms:

• Digestive disturbances

• Acne

• Cracking in joints

• Vertigo; > lying down

• Stiffness - neck

• Palpitations, < coffee, fright

• Fetid odour – axilla, genitals,

feet

• Chilly feet preventing sleep

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Lac leoninumMain themes:

• Strong anger that comes from grief or

wounded honour

• Anger from being blamed

• Strength increased during anger

• Sensitive to cruelties

• Truth sensitive to

• Problem with authority figures

• Desires respect, power

• Fear of loosing power

• Conflict between women and the

husbands – resulting in aggression

• Suspicious

• Rough and violent

• Egoistic

• Dictatorial

• Strikes at anybody who makes him angry

• Unsympathetic

• Forsaken

• Intuitive

• Moods changeable

• Sex desire increased

• > music

Physical symptoms:

• Menses painful

• Bladder burning

• Heavy feeling in abdomen; < before

menses

• Physical restlessness, must constantly be

on the move

• Tendency to wink

• Urticaria, > scratching, followed by

burning

Generals:

• Thirst, extreme

• Hot, flashes of heat

• > being fanned, in open air, at seaside

• < morning, > evenings

• < before menses

• > hunger

• Weakness, sluggishness 16

Lac lupinumMain themes:

• Perceptive

• Desire for deep friendships,

relationships

• Desire for danger

• Circles

• Desirer movement, dance, exercise

• Vivacious, lively

• Live in their bodies / body awareness

• Long for the nature

• Need to own themselves

• Good communicator

• Heightened and finely tuned senses

• Find the world much too left brained

Dreams:

• Danger in water

• Spirals and circles

• Holes in legs

• Mortality / Immortality

Physical symptoms:

• Migraines, headaches – especially above

eyes

• Extremities – pains in wrists, ankles and

feet

• PMS

• Hormonal problems

• Menstrual pain

• Cramping

• Breast swelling

• Food problems with

Generals:

• Left sided; right sided or alternating sides

• < at menses

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Lac felinumMind symptoms:• Need for freedom

• Independent

• Feeling of self-depreciation

• Feeling of falling down

• Dullness and chaotic feeling

• Desire for cleanness, orderliness

• Feeling of being worthless

• Desire to escape from reality, reality can be

boring

• Quality of life/living is important

• Curious, things have to be interesting

• Clairvoyant, intuitive

• Expressive, verbally and in mimic

• Indignation

• Colourful, tasteful clothing and jewellery

• Thinks in extremes, black and white, especially

on the emotional level when "attacked"

• Social and helpful, interested in people,

animals (cats) and nature

• Trusting people is important, prudent

• Sensitive to atmosphere, desire harmony

• Fear of pointed objects/ esp. towards the

eyes

Physical symptoms:

• Headaches

• Sinus problems

• Floating sensation

• Inflammation eyes; iridocyclitis

• Photophobia

• Nausea, eructation, acidity, anorexia

• Aversion milk, fat

• Desire milk, healthy clean food

• Abdominal cramps, flatuance, diarrhoea,

constipation

• Amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, flushes,

swelling mammae before menses

• Back pain, cramping

• Sleeplessness

• Allergy to cats

Compare to:

Causticum: More political idealism in a larger field

Thuja: Has more lack of identity

Muraticums: Same kind of caring for their children

and enviroment but less passionate

Lac caninum: Stronger sense of worthlessness and

more dependent.

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Bibliography:

Homeoepathic LINKS – The Materia Medica of Milk (Collected Articles)

Lacs in Homeopathy – Farokh J. Mater

Concordant Materia Medica – Franz Vermuelen

Wolf proving – Melissa Assilem

Homeopathic Proving of Lac Cameli Dromedari – Saeid Mushtagh, Laura

Buckle, John Margaritis

Clinical Observations of Children’s Remedies – Farokh J. Master

The Milks in homeopathy – Ab Straatman

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