# Lac Caninum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  the  milk  of  a  dog  (Canis  lupus  familiaris ),  typically  collected  under. controlled conditions and prepared for homeopathic use through serial dilution and succussion to. eliminate any biological hazards and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  psychological,  neurological,. musculoskeletal,  respiratory,  mucous  membrane,  and  gynecological  disorders,  particularly. those involving alternating symptoms, low self-esteem, and inflammatory conditions. It is noted for. symptoms such as alternating-sided pains, throat soreness, self-deprecation, and mastitis, often. aggravated by cold, touch, or menses, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or emotional reassurance. Modern Context: Indicated for psychological conditions (e.g., low self-esteem, anxiety disorders),. neurological  conditions  (e.g.,  migraines,  neuralgia),  musculoskeletal  conditions  (e.g.,. fibromyalgia, arthritis), respiratory conditions (e.g., pharyngitis, tonsillitis), mucous membrane. conditions (e.g.,  conjunctivitis,  vaginitis),  and  gynecological  conditions (e.g.,  mastitis,. dysmenorrhea).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  alternating. symptoms,  self-deprecation,  sore  throat,  burning  pains,  or  breast  tenderness,  typically. exacerbated by cold, touch, or menses, and often seen in individuals with chronic inflammatory or. emotional  distress  conditions.  The  remedy  is  particularly  relevant  for  those  with  a  sensitive,. insecure  constitution,  often  presenting  with  psychological  symptoms  like  self-doubt  or  fear  of. failure alongside physical symptoms like alternating joint pains or throat inflammation, commonly. observed  in  patients  with  generalized  anxiety  disorder,  fibromyalgia,  or  recurrent  tonsillitis. triggered by emotional stress, cold exposure, or hormonal changes.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), touch, menses, emotional stress, motion, night,. solitude, swallowing, light, cold damp weather, exertion, morning. Lac caninum (Canine Milk) 1195.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Alternation of moods.
- Mental symptoms worse before menses.
- Fixed ideas.
- Feels weak, nerves out 
of order.
- Paroxysms of nervousness.
- Very nervous, easily startled.
- Oversensitive, can't bear anything to 
touch her.
- Very restless, cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read, wants to leave everything as soon as it is 
begun.
- Absentminded.
- Very forgetful, makes mistakes in writing, speaking.
- Makes purchases and walks away 
without them.
- Pessimism.
- Severe hopelessness.
- Despondent.
- Want of self-confidence.
- Self loathing, especially of the body.
- Feeling of disgust and horror.
- Fits of weeping two or three times a day.
- Depression, doubts ability and success.
- Thinks himself of little consequence.
- Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing.
- Feels she is not herself.
- Feels that ev erything she says is a lie, that she is full of strange, peculiar feelings.
- Imagines that he wears someone else's nose.
- Desire for company, light.
- Hysteria, delusions, fears.
- Hysteria at height of sexual orgasm.
- Cross and irritable, with headache.
- Hatred.
- Insolent.
- Intense hatefulness.
- Attacks of rage, cursing and 
swearing at the slightest provocation.
- Child cross and irritable, screams all the time, especially at night, will not 
be pacified in any way.
- Anxiety about health.
- Fear of disease, of tuberculosis, heart disease, heart attacks, dy ing.
- Fears she will 
become unable to perform her duties.
- Fear of going insane because of tormenting thoughts.
- Fear of fainting, 
of falling down the stairs.
- Fears to be alone.
- Fear of snakes (Calc., Lach.).
- Delusions while sitting and thinking Delusions, dreams of snakes,  vermin, insects, spiders.
- Sees big eyes 
and creeping things.
- Sees faces, worse in the dark.
- D elusion that the air surrounding her is full of hovering 
spirits.
- Delusion that she wears someone else's nose.
- Delusions of having a horrible disease, that her whole 
body is filled with pus.
- Alternation of moods.
- Mental symptoms worse before menses.
- Fixed ideas.
- Feels weak, nerves out 
of order.
- Paroxysms of nervousness.
- Very nervous, easily startled.
- Oversensitive, can't bear anything to 
touch her.
- Very restless, cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read, wants to leave everything as soon as it is 
begun.
- Absentminded.
- Very forgetful, makes mistakes in writing, speaking.
- Makes purchases and walks away 
without them.
- Pessimism.
- Severe hopelessness.
- Despondent.
- Want of self-confidence.
- Self loathing, especially of the body.
- Feeling of disgust and horror.
- Fits of weeping two or three times a day.
- Depression, doubts ability and success.
- Thinks himself of little consequence.
- Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing.
- Feels she is not herself.
- Feels that ev erything she says is a lie, that she is full of strange, peculiar feelings.
- Imagines that he wears someone else's nose.
- Desire for company, light.
- Hysteria, delusions, fears.
- Hysteria at height of sexual orgasm.
- Cross and irritable, with headache.
- Hatred.
- Insolent.
- Intense hatefulness.
- Attacks of rage, cursing and 
swearing at the slightest provocation.
- Child cross and irritable, screams all the time, especially at night, will not 
be pacified in any way.
- Anxiety about health.
- Fear of disease, of tuberculosis, heart disease, heart attacks, dy ing.
- Fears she will 
become unable to perform her duties.
- Fear of going insane because of tormenting thoughts.
- Fear of fainting, 
of falling down the stairs.
- Fears to be alone.
- Fear of snakes (Calc., Lach.).
- Delusions while sitting and thinking Delusions, dreams of snakes,  vermin, insects, spiders.
- Sees big eyes 
and creeping things.
- Sees faces, worse in the dark.
- D elusion that the air surrounding her is full of hovering 
spirits.
- Delusion that she wears someone else's nose.
- Delusions of having a horrible disease, that her whole 
body is filled with pus.

### Vertigo
- Dizzy sensation with slight nausea.
- Sensation of walking or floating in air (Stict.).
- Waking at night 
with sensation as if bed were in motion.
- Vertigo before menses.
- Vision - Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting at height of attack of headache.
- Sensation of a film before eyes.
- Tendency in retina to retain the impression of objects and colors,  or the old image is projected into the 
next.
- Difficulty in distinguishing objects.
- Colored spots before the eyes.
- Difficulty in reading, letters run 
together, page doesn't look clear.
- COMMENTS - Hering stated that “Di- oscorides, Rhasis, Pliny and Sextus recommended it for the removal of 
the dead fetus.” Hering added that the remedy was revived by Dr.
- Reisig of New York, who used it successfully 
in the treatment of diphtheria.
- After Dr.
- Reisig, the remedy was used by Bayard and Swan.
- Swan's potencies 
were prepared from Reisig's 17c.
- Lac-c.
- was one of the major remedies for the diphtheria epidemics in the United States.
- Diphtheria with fetid 
discharges.
- Diphtheria paralysis.
- For the affects of diphtheria.
- Glistening, inflamed membranes, particularly of 
the throat.
- Glistening, ulcerated tonsils.
- Tonsillitis.
- Swollen mucus follicles, covered with cream -colored mucus.
- Glossy 
throat, may have white patches on the tonsil s.
- Sore throats, worse on the left, alternates sides.
- Sensitive, 
externally and internally (Hep.).
- Difficult swallowing, sharp pain that shoots to the ear (Phyt.).
- Tickling sensation 
in the throat or a lump in the throat.
- Corners of the mouth and alae nasi are cracked.
- Hay fever and sinusitis where the discharges alternate.
- Ozaena.
- Discharges of the upper palate.
- Bloody pus discharges several times a day.
- Crusts, under which gray 
matter forms.
- Bones of the nose are sore to pressure.
- Hormonal and breast prob lems.
- Premen strual syndrome with irritability, impulsive ness.
- Premenstrual 
syndrome with swollen, hypersensitive breasts, so sensitive the clothes cannot touch the breasts (Calc., Con.).
- Hysteria, especially before menses, can get violent (Lach.).
- Crying  and weeping spells.
- Sore throats and 
headaches before menses.
- Menses ameliorate symptoms.
- Ovarian cysts (Thuj.).
- After a rupture or surgery of an ovarian cyst, cysts appear on other side.
- Breast cancer 
after surgery that metastasized to the other breast.
- Mastitis, worse least motion (Bry.).
- Hypersensitive nipples in nursing mothers, cannot continue nursing.
- More milk in one breast than the other, or 
pain in one breast while the baby nurses the other.
- For condi tions causing milk to dry up, or to dry up mil k.
- Lack of milk (Urt-u.).
- Restless, nervous and prostration.
- Vertigo (Con., Phos., Cocc, Asar.).
- Sensation of lightness or levitation, 
seemed to walk on air (Asar., Calc.), as if they are floating up off the bed.
- Makes mistakes in writing and 
speaking, poor memory.
- Periodic symptoms, worse in the morning of one day and in the afternoon of the next.
- Generally left sided, but 
will often move to the right.
- Alternating sides.
- Worse after sleep (Lach.).
- Very sensitive to the cold and cold 
wind, but better cold applications, worse heat.
- Desire milk and spicy foods.
- The modality “alternation of sides” once led Clarke to the cure of an eczematous condition of the eyelids in a 
child.
- The child's aunt, who brought her to him, causally remarked that it often left one s ide entirely and went 
to the other and then back again.
- Lac-c.
- cleared it up in a very short time.
- E.
- T.
- Balch asked for advice in the case of Maud, age 10, a brunette of healthy parents.
- She had fallen forward 
and hurt her chest while playing one and a half years earlier.
- Nothing was thought of it at the time, but when brought to Dr.
- Balch, she was pale, emaciated, capricious, with 
no desire for play.
- Her sleep was disturbed by frightful dreams.
- During the day, piteously begged her mother to take her, she was 
so afraid.
- She felt as though snakes were on her back.
- In response to advice, Balch gave one dose of Lac -c.
- 50,000c.
- dry, and in twenty -four hours the child became more lively and cheerful and very soon all abnormal 
sensations disappeared.

### Head
- Headache with blurred vision, nausea and vomiting.
- Sick headaches.
- Headaches that alternates 
sides.
- Headaches over left eye on first awaking.
- Oc cipital pain with shooting extending to forehead.
- Migraines.
- Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed.
- Severe pressure on brain.
- Pains and 
throbbing in temples.
- Constant noise in head.
- Head very sore and itches almost all the time.
- Sore pimp les on 
scalp, discharging and forming scabs.
- Headache with blurred vision, nausea and vomiting.
- Sick headaches.
- Headaches that alternates 
sides.
- Headaches over left eye on first awaking.
- Oc cipital pain with shooting extending to forehead.
- Migraines.
- Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed.
- Severe pressure on brain.
- Pains and 
throbbing in temples.
- Constant noise in head.
- Head very sore and itches almost all the time.
- Sore pimp les on 
scalp, discharging and forming scabs.

### Eyes
- Dark brown ring under eyes.
- Eyes dull and lusterless.
- Eyes sensitive to light, cold air.
- Heaviness in 
eyeballs, with outward pressure.
- Eyes slightly swollen, profuse lachrymation with catarrh.
- Eyes watery and 
discharging.
- Agglutination of eyelids.
- Sharp pain in back of socket or right eye.
- Int ense darting pain around 
left eye.
- Upper eyelids very heavy, can scarcely keep eyes open, very sleepy.

### Ears
- Ear infections that alternates from ear to ear.
- Green odorless discharge.
- Sensation as if ears were 
full.
- Intense pain in right ear.
- Very sharp pain in right middle ear, must cover ear when walk ing in wind.
- Wakened at night by aching pains in the ear of  the side she is lying on.
- Noises in ears.
- Reverberation of 
voice, as if speaking in a large empty room.
- Ringing in the right ear, buzzing at night.
- Sounds seems very 
far off.
- Deafness from hereditary syphilis.

### Face
- Burning, flushing of face.
- Face very red, and then suddenly pale.
- Pale, careworn, anxious.
- Marked 
pallor of face.
- Swollen, she can hardly see in the morning.
- Neuralgic pains, worse talk ing.
- eating or slight 
touch, followed by numbness.
- Cracking of jaw while eating (Nit -ac.
- Rhus-t.).
- Swelling of submaxillary glands.
- Swelling of parotid passes from right to left.

### Mouth
- Mouth very dry without thirst.
- Putrid taste increased by sweets.
- Breath very offensive, putrid.
- Profuse 
salivation, slightly viscid, ran from mouth during sleep.
- Mouth constantly full of mucus, constant inclination to 
swallow, which causes pain.
- Drooling in diphtheria.
- Roof of mouth sore with blisters.
- Fetor.
- Acute ulceration 
and follicular stomatitis, aphthous and gangrenous.
- Nursing sore mouth.
- Noma.
- Jaw cracks while eating (Nit-
ac, Rhus-t.).
- Dry and peeling lips.
- Scurvy.
- Stutters when talking fast, has to speak slowly.
- Nose - Fluids escape through nose, while drinking.
- Profuse, purulent nasal dis charge at night.
- Discharge 
acrid, nose and lips raw.
- Watery discharge, followed by dry sensation in nose.
- Coryza, one nostril stuffed 
 
 
up, the other free, alternating sides.
- Stuffed feeling in nose and throat.
- Bones of nose sore to pressure.
- Coryza 
with discharge of thick white mucus.
- Fluent c atarrh from tubal nasal discharge like gonorrhea, staining 
pillow greenish yel low.
- Discharge of bloody pus.
- Nosebleed when speaking or swallowing.
- Nosebleeds at 
night, only from right nostril.
- Alae nasi and corners of mouth cracked.
- Smell of flowers seems to send chill over 
her.
- Perspiration - Bathed in warm sweat, about face, neck and hands.
- Clammy sweat all over.
- Copious sweat of 
rank smell.
- Exhausting sweat after sleep, at night.

### Throat
- Sore throat, from constant incli nation to swallow saliva.
- Painful swal lowing, pain extends to ears.
- Sore throat and cough with menstruation.
- Sensitive to touch.
- Swelling of throat, worse after sleep.
- Throat cold, 
feels burned raw.
- Sensation as if throat were closing  and he would choke.
- Shining glazed appearance of 
deposit,pearly-white or like white porcelain.
- Throat glistens like fish scales.
- Uvula coated.
- White ulcers on 
tonsils.
- Both tonsils swollen and covered with spots of exudation.
- Tonsils swollen as almost to  close throat.
- Tonsillitis, diphtheria, symptoms change repeatedly from side to side.
- Larynx sensitive to pressure.
- Lac caninum 
Lump in throat.
- Wakes with mouth and throat painfully dry.
- Throat feels stiff as a board.
- Pricking sensation in 
throat.
- Tickling sensation causes constant cough.
- Hoarseness during menses.
- Tongue - Dryness of tip of tongue.
- Tongue, swollen, cold, stiff, looks patched.
- Tongue coated white with bright 
red edges, profuse salivation.
- Tongue coated whitish gray.
- brown, yellow.

### Chest
- Sore throat or tonsillar swelling, with a sensation of rawness or burning, resembling.
- pharyngitis or tonsillitis, worse with cold, swallowing, or menses.
- Lac caninum (Canine Milk) 1194.
- Hoarseness or throat irritation, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,.
- resembling laryngitis, aggravated by talking or cold air.
- Cough or throat tickling, with a sensation of dryness or irritation, resembling allergic.
- rhinitis, worse with cold or night.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory or chilly.
- states.
- Mucous Membrane:.
- Conjunctivitis or eye irritation, with a sensation of burning or redness, resembling.
- allergic conjunctivitis, worse with cold, light, or menses.
- Nasal discharge or stuffiness, with a tendency to alternate sides, resembling allergic.
- rhinitis, aggravated by cold or damp weather.
- Vaginal irritation or discharge, with a sensation of burning or soreness, resembling.
- vaginitis, worse with cold or menses.
- Tendency to mucous membrane hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory.
- or hormonal states.
- Gynecological:.
- Mastitis or breast tenderness, with a sensation of burning or swelling, resembling.
- mastitis, worse with cold, touch, or menses.
- Painful  menses  or  dysmenorrhea,  with  a  sensation  of  cramping  or  burning,.
- resembling primary dysmenorrhea, aggravated by cold, menses, or rest.
- Irregular menses or leucorrhea, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,.
- resembling hormonal imbalance, worse with emotional stress or menses.
- Tendency to gynecological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in hormonal or chilly.
- states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach tender and bloated.
- Coldness in stomach.
- Burning in epigastric region, feeling of a weight 
and pressure of a stone in stomach.
- Weak, sinking feeling at stomach -pit, with nausea, on waking.
- Gnawing, 
hungry feeling, not better eating.
- Severe throbbing in region of solar plexus.
- Nausea on waking, with headache.
- Nausea at beginning of diphtheria.
- Nausea better by belchings of wind.
- Sudden, incessant vomiting of all food.
- Frequent attacks of severe vomiting.
- Vomiting of offensive, dark green mucus.
- Teeth - Pain in left upper molars, coming from left temple through left ear.
- Teeth sensitive to cold water.
- Teeth 
loose, caused by defective nutrition and exposure.
- Gums swollen, ulcerated, retracted, bleeding.
- Temperature - Chilly feeling lasting all day.
- Internal chilliness with external warmth.
- Fever and chills for a few 
days, up and down every few hours.
- Heat alternating with chill.
- Intense fever on waking, with perspiration.
- Exhausting sweats after sleep.
- Wakes at night in cold perspiration with fearful foreboding.
- Extreme heat in abdomen.
- Abdomen very swollen and hard.
- Abdomen very sensitive, can't bear it touched.
- Bearing -down pains in 
abdomen.
- Pressure from within outwards, as if contents of abdomen would be forced outwards.
- Severe 
shooting pains in abdomen.
- Severe burning, in right hypochondriac and iliac region.
- Griping colic with shifting 
of flatulence and diarrhea, followed by continuous rectal pain.
- Feeling of tension in left groin, does not want to 
walk or stand.
- Great hunger for large quantities, cannot satisfy her hunger.
- No appetite.
- Considerable thirst.
- Drinks 
little and often.
- Pain in throat better warm or cold drinks.
- Aversion to liquids, water, anything sweet, fat, greasy 
food.
- Desire for highly seasoned foods, salt, pepper, mustard, pungent things.
- Desires warm drinks, whiskey.
- Craves milk and drinks much of it, aggravates.
- Thought of milk makes sick, during sick headache.

### Urinary & Genital
- Right spermatic cord, low down, sore to touch.
- Red, smooth, glistening, cauliflower -like chancre on 
prepuce, left side of frenum, penis greatly swollen.
- Buboes and chancres.
- Gonorrheal with intermittent pain s 
in the urethra.
- When gonorrhea is better, nasal catarrh sets in.
- Marked sexual desire.
- Menses too early, profuse.
- Menses scanty at first with pain in left ovary.
- Menses flow in gushes.
- Dysmenorrhea, abdomen sensitive even to weight of cloth ing.
- Membranous dysmenorrhea, pain in left groin.
- Leuconhea all day, but none at night, even after taking a long walk.
- Foul sme ll from genitals.
- Intense painful 
soreness of vulva.
- Itching of vulva.
- Herpes.
- Raw and bad smelling sores between labia and thighs.
- Sexual 
organs easily excited.
- Flatus from vagina.
- Bearing down pains as if everything would fall out through va gina.
- Sharp pains in ovaries, alternating sides.
- Pain in left ovarian region.
- Heat in ovarian and uterine region.
- Retroverted uterus.
- Very severe after pains, shooting down into thighs.

### Extremities
- Alternating  joint  pains  or  stiffness,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  burning,.
- resembling fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis, worse with cold, motion, menses, or.
- morning.
- Muscle soreness or cramps, with a tendency to shift locations, resembling myofascial.
- pain syndrome, aggravated by cold, touch, or rest.
- Weakness in limbs or trembling, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling myalgia,.
- worse with cold or exertion.
- Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory or.
- hormonal states.
- Respiratory:.
- Sore throat or tonsillar swelling, with a sensation of rawness or burning, resembling.
- pharyngitis or tonsillitis, worse with cold, swallowing, or menses.
- Lac caninum (Canine Milk) 1194.
- Hoarseness or throat irritation, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,.
- resembling laryngitis, aggravated by talking or cold air.
- Cough or throat tickling, with a sensation of dryness or irritation, resembling allergic.
- rhinitis, worse with cold or night.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory or chilly.
- states.
- Mucous Membrane:.
- Conjunctivitis or eye irritation, with a sensation of burning or redness, resembling.
- allergic conjunctivitis, worse with cold, light, or menses.
- Nasal discharge or stuffiness, with a tendency to alternate sides, resembling allergic.
- rhinitis, aggravated by cold or damp weather.
- Vaginal irritation or discharge, with a sensation of burning or soreness, resembling.
- vaginitis, worse with cold or menses.
- Tendency to mucous membrane hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory.
- or hormonal states.
- Gynecological:.
- Mastitis or breast tenderness, with a sensation of burning or swelling, resembling.
- mastitis, worse with cold, touch, or menses.
- Painful  menses  or  dysmenorrhea,  with  a  sensation  of  cramping  or  burning,.
- resembling primary dysmenorrhea, aggravated by cold, menses, or rest.
- Irregular menses or leucorrhea, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,.
- resembling hormonal imbalance, worse with emotional stress or menses.
- Tendency to gynecological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in hormonal or chilly.
- states.

### Neck & Back
- Backache, nearly all day between scapula, worse after becoming warm.
- Cold creeping down bac k.
- Spine aches from base of brain to coccyx.
- Spine very sensitive to touch or pressure.
- Sharp neu ralgic pain 
under right scapula.
- Lameness and cutting pain under left scapula, worse turning in bed.
- Stiffness of neck.
- Aching in neck, wants to bend head forwards.
- Breasts - Breasts seem very full.
- Breasts swollen, painful before menses  (Calc., Con., Kali-c., Puls.), and 
better on appearance of menses.
- Breasts sensitive to touch, pressure.
- Breasts sore when going 
up or down stairs, during menses.
- Mastitis, worse from the least movement.
- Breasts very painful with sharp, 
darting pain in right ovarian region.
- Constant pain in breasts, nipples.
- Breasts feel as if full of hard lumps.
- Breasts tumors and cancer.
- Tumors re -appear in opposite breast after being surgica lly removed.
- Knots and 
cakes in breasts, after miscarriage.
- Galactorrhea.
- Loss of milk while nursing without any known cause.
- Milk 
scanty.
- Dries up the breast-milk.
- Causations - Result of fall.
- Diphtheria.

### Skin
- Dry, hot skin.
- Pimples between lip and chin.
- Herpetic eruption in both axilla.
- Ichthyosis with bran like 
desquamation of skin.
- Very small blotches like fleabites.
- Shining, glazed and red appearance of ulcers on 
shin and wrist.
- Crusts on skin, grayish yellow matter formed underneath 
and squeezed out.

### Sleep
- Great desire to sleep.
- Sleeplessness from emotional strain, with entire nervous debility, crying.
- Can't 
find any comfortable position in bed.
- Cries out and talks in sleep.
- Dreams of snakes.
- Dreams of urinating, of 
going on a journey.
- Wakes at night with a sensation as if bed were in motion.
- Symptoms worse after sleep.