Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

The throat is ameliorated by cold or warm drinking, and aggravated by empty swallowing. It isindicated especially in a glazed, shiny, red appearance of the throat like The diphtheriticmembrane is also white like silver. Lac-c. has cured most alternating cases, with patches first on theright tonsil, then on the left. Membranous croup. Wherever there is mucous membrane there will beexudate, a gray, fuzzy coating, like that piling up on the tongue. I once cured with Lac c. a chronicaffection in which the whole buccal cavity had a white exudate without inflammation or ulceration, anapparent infiltration which dipped down everywhere extending under the tongue. It was white andsilvery, looking as if a mouthful of carbolic acid had been swallowed, and the mouth was so sensitivethat the patient could not swallow anything but milk.The abdomen is full of distress. Pressive pain in the pelvis; acute pain in left groin. Constanturging to urinate. Irritable bladder.The female sexual organs furnish a mass of symptoms. Severe pain in the region of the rightovary, ameliorated by the flow of bright red blood. is again somewhat like These pains takealternate sides. also has pain in the ovaries ameliorated by the flow; she never feels well exceptwhen menstruating; hysterical at all other times but well at the menstrual period, is Membranous dysmenorrhoea is another example of the exudative tendency of Lac. c. Sore throatbeginning and ending with the menstrual period. has sore throat before the menstrualperiod and has cured painful throat when menstruating.Escape of gas from the vagina. The fermentation of mucus and other substances in the bladdercausing the escape of gas when urinating is found only under the urine flows with a loudnoise. It is not uncommon for a child to break wind when urinating, and the urine is passed with agurgling noise; this is cured by Much trouble with the mammae; they feel as if they wouldsuppurate. When a mother has lost her infant and it is necessary to dry up the milk, Lac-c. and are the best remedies for this purpose, when no symptoms are present. They will do it speedily. TheLac c. patient is imaginative and sensitive to pain and her surroundings, hyperaesthesia and touchiness. will be called for in the constitution.Rheumatism with swelling of the lower extremities, especially when it affects the limbsalternately; aggravated by motion and heat, . Pains in the limbs as if beaten.Rheumatic swellings of joints.LAC VACCINUM DEFLORATUM [lac-d] [Kent’s]The untrained mind naturally rebels at the idea of giving skimmed milk to sick people as aremedy, but when potentized like any other substance it becomes one of the most useful remedies.Every physician has seen a few cases in his practice; men, women and children who cannotdrink milk. They say they are made sick by drinking or using milk, and that milk is poison to them.It is the work of the true physician to study cases and ascertain in each case what symptoms areobserved after taking milk. These symptoms constitute a proving of it and it is the best kind of aproving as it is produced upon sensitive persons.The writer has made it his duty to study each and every one of these cases until the image of thesickness produced by milk both from the individual symptoms and from acollective view.Much can be learned by meditating upon the milk constitution; some may think there is adifference of importance between milk skimmed and new milk, but for all practical purposes theskimmed milk is sufficient and cures the oversensitiveness to milk, if used in a high potency. It isuseless in low potency.It is a useful remedy as it may demonstrate to the unbeliever the wonderful power of the highpotency. It has aggravation during the whole twenty-four hours; some cases manifest symptoms onlyduring the day time, and amelioration comes with the going down of the sun---but this is uncommon.The chronic milk subject is very cold and bloodless and cannot get warm even in a warm roomand by warm clothing; she is so chilly and so sensitive to cold that she feels the air blowing on her inthe room as if she were fanned, even where there is no possible draft and others feel the room to bevery warm. She is very sensitive to wet weather. She is subject to neuralgic and rheumatic pains allover the body but more especially in the head. The pain in the head is better from cold applications, butthe pains elsewhere are better from heat. The suffering are all worse by motion and better by rest; painsare better by pressure.The bones are sore to touch. Great lassitude and even weakness, can endure to exertion. There ismarked restlessness and she is unable to hold up after loss of sleep; extreme weariness from a shortwalk. She looks and acts as though she had been suffering long or as if she were going into a decline.The skin all over the body is violently sensitive to cold objects and touch of cold sponge. There is