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Saccharum Lactis

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Saccharum Lactis · Milk Sugar (Lactose) · "The Milk Sugar Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the kidneys and nervous system, producing icy-cold neuralgic pains and significant emotional instability.
📖 Clarke writes:
Milk-sugar. Lactose. C12H22O11.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Acts on the kidneys with great diuretic powers
Indicated in renal dropsy and renal inactivity
Acts best in cases where albuminuria is absent
Causes profuse diuresis in infants
Causes sensations of both coldness and heat
Fine cold pains and pains passing in all directions
Temperament & Physical Profile
Patients who cannot take Saccharum lactis without inconvenience
Skin sensitive to touch as in inflammatory rheumatism
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Mental excitement (WORSE by)
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Eyes ache and feel weak
Sight fails; eyes tire very easily
Sensation of extreme cold passing in a fine line from centre of pubes to a point two or three inches above
Cold pains are a keynote
Excessively cold neuralgic pain in cartilage of both ears (right worse), with tingling as if frost-bitten
Rubbing with difficulty restores warmth
Lancinating, neuralgic pains in forehead, occiput, extending from region above ears down through ears into muscles of neck, and in both eyes
Pains are icy cold, as if produced by an extremely fine ice-cold needle
Pains WORSE by least breath of air
Symptoms WORSE before a storm
Symptoms WORSE in damp room or basement
Symptoms WORSE morning and evening
Symptoms WORSE by blue and yellow colours
Symptoms WORSE by exertion
Symptoms BETTER by warmth of fire
Symptoms BETTER by red colour
Symptoms BETTER after 4 p.m.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Icy-cold neuralgic pains, as if produced by an extremely fine ice-cold needle.
Clarke
Sensation of extreme cold passing in a fine line from the center of the pubes upward.
Clarke
Great fear of death during paroxysms of heart pain at night.
Clarke
Sensation as if it were only by a great effort that she kept herself together.
Clarke
Symptoms are significantly worse before a storm and in damp rooms or basements.
Clarke
All symptoms are ameliorated after 4 p.m.
Clarke
Stool preceded by shooting pains across the abdomen, relieved by the stool.
Clarke
Creeping, itching, and crawling sensation around the anus.
Clarke
Symptoms aggravated by blue and yellow colors, and improved by red.
Clarke
Constant pain under the left breast, worse when bending forward.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for extreme nervousness, fear of death, melancholy, and a feeling of being unable to hold oneself together.
Sensation as if it were only by a great effort that she kept together.
Loses her way in well-known streets.
Imagines: that there is a large hole in her back just above sacrum
that her mother wants to kill her
that some one is behind her.
Extremely nervous, jumps from her seat at least unusual noise.
Was taken suddenly with fear and trembling of whole body, as from fright.
Longing and melancholy as if homesick, with oppressed breathing.
Her heart aches as if it would burst, yet she cannot weep.
Great fear of death during paroxysm of pain in heart at night.
Inclined to be sarcastic and fault-finding.
Cross and fault-finding, could not speak a pleasant word to any one.
Hysteria in evening, laughing and crying, jumping up and lying down, but could not stand, fell to r. side.
Laziness.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Storm
pains
Better from
Fire
pains
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Picricum Acidum
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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