Lac vaccinum defloratum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · 1915 (expanded editions through 1931)

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

REGION

NUTRITION.
BLOOD.
Heart.
Head (Left).
Thigh (Outer).

WORSE

COLD: Least draft. Wet. Hands in cold water.
Milk.
Loss of sleep.
Weekly.

BETTER

Rest.
Pressure of bandage.
Exhaustion

. Despondency. Vertigo, < lying on l. side. Blind then throbbing frontal headache, with much pale urine. Migraine. Photophobia. Painless swelling of face. Pale, sickly look. Anæmia. Averse to milk. Nausea. Sour vomiting. Dry, large, painful stools. Amenorrhœa. Boring, sore pain in kidneys. Polyuria, < during pain. Scanty flow of milk. Always chilly. Cold finger-tips. Skin is super-sensitive to cold. Given to restore milk.

Related: Nat-m.

Lac vaccinum defloratum across the other classic books

Lac vaccinum defloratum appears in 9 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Skimmed Milk. The successful treatment of Diabetes and Bright's Disease with skim milk, by Donkin, was the hint which led Dr. Swan to potentize and prove it. Every symptom given has been verified in the cure of the sick. Diseases with faulty and defective nutrition with reflex affections of nervous centers…”
Allen (Nosodes) — The specialized source record — nosode provings gathered beyond the brief entries in general materia medicas.
“(Skimmed Cow's Milk) Characteristics : Diseases with faulty and defective nutrition with reflex affections of nervous centres. Despondent ; does not care to live ; has no fear of death but is sure he is going to die. American sick headache : begins in forehead, extending to occiput, in morning on rising (Bry.) …”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Skimmed Milk (LAC DEFLORATUM) A remedy for diseases with faulty nutrition; sick headaches, with profuse flow of urine during pain. Car sickness . Despondent. Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in morning on rising. Intense throbbing , with nausea, vomiting, blindness, and obstinate constipation; worse, noise, light…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“WIND, DRAFT OR AIR, blowing on part, thro' a hole, etc., as of”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Skimmed Milk (cow's). Dilution. Anæmia / Appendicitis / Asthma / Bright's disease / Constipation / Diabetes / Dropsy / Fainting spells / Headache / Heart, affections of / Lactation, defective / Leucorrhœa / Menses, suppressed / Obesity / Sciatica "The idea of potentising skimmed milk originated with Swan upon reading…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Cow's milk skimmed. The idea of potentising skimmed milk originated with Swan upon reading Doukin's Skim Milk Treatment for Diabetes and Bright's Disease. The first proving was made by a lady in New York, in whose case the headache with nausea and constipation were strongly marked. A subsequent, more extensive proving…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The untrained mind naturally rebels at the idea of giving skimmed milk to sick people as a remedy, 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 cannot drink milk. They say they are made sick by…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: skimmed milk. Great prostration (Ars., Camph., Kali-P.) (A.). Sick headache relieved by a profuse flow of urine (Gels.) (N.). Pain begins in the forehead and extends to the occiput, in the morning on rising (Bry.) (A.). DIM VISION, BEFORE HEADACHE (Gels., Hyos., Iris, Kali-B., Nat-M., Podo., Psor., Sep…”

Lac vaccinum defloratum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lac vaccinum defloratum in 278 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (65), STOMACH (29), EXTREMITIES (22), MIND (21), GENERALITIES (17).

URINE - COPIOUS - increased - headache, - with
STOMACH - AVERSION to - milk
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - pulsating
STOMACH - INDIGESTION (Includes Complaints After Substances Not Otherwise Described)
GENERALITIES - FOOD - milk - agg.
STOOL - DRY
STOOL - LARGE
HEAD - PAIN, - coughing, - on
HEAD - PULSATING,beating,throbbing - Forehead
URINE - ALBUMINOUS
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - difficult stool
STOOL - HARD
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - extending to - downward - to heel
FACE - HEAT - flashes - left
MIND - DELUSIONS, - dead, - persons, - all her friends are dead and she must go to a convent
VERTIGO - CLOSING eyes,on - amel. - lying,while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - morning - rising,on
EYE - BAND around the eyeballs,sensation of
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - suppressed - cold - water,putting hands in

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