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Saccharum Lactis
30CSacch-lSaccharum Lactis · Milk Sugar (Lactose) · "The Milk Sugar Remedy"
OtherCommonPsoric
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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 Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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