Lac Caninum

▲   GENERAL

General

Lac Caninum is of undoubted value in certain forms of sore throat and diphtheria, and rheumatism. Corresponds to a low-vitiated, non-feverish type of sickness. The keynote symptom is Erratic pains, alternating sides. Feels as if walking on air, or of not touching the bed when lying down. Great lassitude. Ozaena. Decided effect in drying up milk in women who cannot nurse the baby. Great weakness and prostration. Sinking spells every morning. Mastitis.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, morning of one day and in the evening of next.

Better

BETTER, cold, cold drinks.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Lachesis ^Lach.; CONG.; Lac Felinum ^{Lac Felinum} - Cat’s Milk - (ciliary neuralgia; eye symptoms, photophobia; Asthenopia; dysmenorrhoea); Lac Vaccinum ^{Lac Vaccinum} - Cow’s Milk - (headache, rheumatic pains, constipation); Lac vaccinum coagulatum - Curds - (nausea of pregnancy); Lactic vaccini floc - Cream - (diphtheria, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, dysphagia); Lactic Acid. ^Lactic-ac.

▲   MIND

Mind

Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes

Despondent; thinks her disease incurable

Attacks of rage

Visions of snakes

Thinks himself of little consequence.

Behaviour; shrieking; in children

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people; faces; in the dark

Desires, wants

company

death

Excitement

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear; of death

fear; of fainting

frightened easily; starting, startled

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

When lying down; as if feet were going up; he did not touch the bed

While walking; sensation of gliding in the air, as if feet did not touch the ground, while walking

▲   HEAD

Head

Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed

Noises in ears

Reverberation of voice.

Headache

Sensation of walking or floating in the air ( Sticta Pulmonaria ^Sticta.) Pain first on one side, then the other

Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting at height of attack of headache

Occipital pain, with shooting extending to forehead

Pain, headache

in forehead

in forehead; night; after midnight

in forehead; alternating from side to side

in forehead; pulsating

in forehead; above eyes

alternating sides

while sewing

back of head (occiput)

morning

morning; on waking

turning eyes; turning eyes upward

extending to other parts; forehead

sides; one side; alternating from one to the other

temples

alternating with heat in sides of head

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

as if brain bound up

stitching, sudden, sharp; back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

Vision

Blurred

▲   EARS

Ear

Discharges from ear; gluey, sticky; green

Hearing

Sounds seem distant

▲   FACE

Face

Expression; anxious

Skin; discoloration; red; alternating with paleness

▲   NOSE

Nose

Alae nasi and corners of mouth cracked

Bones of nose sore to pressure

Bloody pus discharged.

Coldness

Discharge from nose

night

greenish

thick

white

Liquids come out through nose on attempting to swallow

Discharge

Coryza; one nostril stuffed up, the other free; alternate

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; alternating sides

running, wet

alternating sides

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Drooling in diphtheria

Cracking of jaw while eating ( nit)

Saliva

Dryness; morning; on waking

Tongue

Tongue coated white with bright red edges; profuse salivation

Taste

ac; Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) Putrid taste increased by sweets.

Taste; food does not taste salty enough; food only tastes natural

▲   THROAT

Throat

Sensitive to touch

Painful swallowing; pain extends to ears

Sore throat and cough with menstruation

Tonsillitis and diphtheria symptoms change repeatedly from side to side

shining glazed appearance of deposit, Pearly-white or like pure white porcelain

Stiffness of neck and tongue

Throat feels burned raw

Tickling sensation causes constant cough

Sore throat beginning and ending with menses.

Choking, constricting

Dryness

Glazed appearance

Inflammation; tonsils

Membrane, exudation, diphtheria, etc.

left

alternating sides

pearly

white

Pain

swallowing; on swallowing

burning

sore; alternating sides

sore; during period

Paralysis; after diphtheria

Swallowing; impossible

Swelling; tonsils

▲   CHEST

Chest

Pain

sore, bruised; breast

sore, bruised; breast; going up and down stairs

Respiration

Snoring

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain

neck

neck; wandering pain

Back

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting

dorsal (shoulder level); between shoulder blades

spine; extending to breast bone

Pulsating; lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); constant

urination; involuntary, incontinence; night, bed wetting

Stomach

desires, cravings; alcoholic drinks; whisky

desires, cravings; salt things

desires, cravings; warm drinks

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Copious

Scanty

Womb

Female

inflammation; womb

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; womb; extending upward

Genitals

breasts swollen; painful before (Calc Carb ^Calc)

Mastitis; Worse, least jar

helps to dry up milk

Sinking at epigastrium

Sexual organs easily excited

Backache; spine very sensitive to touch or pressure

Galactorrhoea.

Female

pain; ovaries; alternating sides

pain; ovaries; extending to other parts; one to the other

Menses

Menses too early, profuse, Flow in gushes

C.; Conium Mac ^Con.; Pulsatilla ^Puls.) and better on appearance of menses

Female

period; frequent

period; membranous

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Sciatica, right-side

Legs feel numb and stiff, cramps in feet

Rheumatic pains in extremities and back, from one side to the other

Pain in arms to fingers

Burning in palms and soles.

Coldness

lower limbs

lower limbs; leg

Pain

alternating sides

wandering, shifting

joints; wandering

upper limbs; alternating sides

shoulder; alternating shoulders

lower limbs; sciatica (pain radiating from back along back of thigh); alternating sides

hip; alternating from hip to hip

knee; wandering pain; from one knee to the other

Skin; warts; fingers

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Dreams of snakes.

Generalities

Pain; wandering

Symptoms not symmetrical; alternating sides

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