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Lac Caninum

30C / 200C / 1MLac Can

Dog's Milk · "The Alternating Side Remedy"

lac-c.PolychrestAnimalUncommonPsoric

🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for erratic, shifting pains and inflammatory conditions of the throat and breasts.

📖 Boericke writes:

Dog's Milk

This remedy is of undoubted value in certain form 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.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are forgetful, despondent, and prone to feelings of low self-worth, often experiencing physical symptoms that alternate sides.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

The keynote symptom is, erratic pains, alternating sides.

introduction

Great weakness and prostration.

introduction

Visions of snakes.

mind

Cracking of jaw while eating (Nit ac; Rhus).

mouth

Tonsillitis and diphtheria symptoms change repeatedly from side to side.

throat

Helps to dry up milk.

female

Galactorrhoea.

female

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for mental states involving deep despondency, forgetfulness, and irrational fears.

Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes.

Despondent; thinks her disease incurable.

Attacks of rage.

Visions of snakes.

Thinks himself of little consequence.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

30C

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Conium Maculatum →Lachesis Mutus →Lactis Vaccini Flos

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Lac Caninum is listed in 125 rubrics across 17 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 24 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System25 Mind24 Throat19 Locomotor System12 Nervous System10 Head8 Modalities4 Nose4 Stomach4 Respiratory System3 Tongue3 Fever3 Circulatory System2 Skin1 Face1 Generalities1 Mouth1

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