Lac caninum
autorstwa H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
We find Lac caninum useful in rheumatic throat symptoms affecting the whole mucous surface of eyes and nose and throat; in inflammatory types all through body, with the great tendency for pains to shift from side to side and from below upward, and finally affecting the heart.
In sciatica compare: Curare, Graphites, Gnaphalium, Kali bi., Iris, Lachesis, Phytolacca, Tellurium.
EYES
Sensitive to light.
Burning in eyes.
UPPER EYELIDS VERY HEAVY, CAN SCARCELY KEEP THEM OPEN.
Agglutination of left eyelids.
THROAT
PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE OF THROAT IN REGION OF TONSIL.
SORENESS OF THROAT BEGINNING AS A TICKLING SENSATION, CAUSING CONSTANT SWALLOWING, WITH THE SENSATION OF A LUMP, WHEN IT SUDDENLY SHIFTS TO THE OTHER SIDE; IT CONSTANTLY ALTERNATES SIDES.
HEART
Terrible dyspnœa immediately after sleep, compelling him to be lifted upright, with violent exertion to get breath; sharp pain in region of heart with each attack.
Breathing laboured.
Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying down.
Sharp incisive pain between scapulæ going through to sternum with a sense of pressure and constriction.
PULSE QUICK, FULL AND STRONG WITH PAIN IN CHEST.
Pulse weak and rapid.
NECK AND BACK
Neck stiff.
Wandering pains in nape with stiffness.
Intense pain across supersacral region extends to nates and down right sciatic nerve.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
AFTER EXPOSURE TO DRAFTS IN EVENING SUDDEN VIOLENT PAINS IN RIGHT SHOULDER PREVENTING RAISING ARM, SENSATION AS IF DISLOCATED.
Neuralgic pain in one, then the other, shoulder.
Partial paralysis of left arm; when attempting to raise arm, is seized with a sharp pain in arm below shoulder.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Articular rheumatism in right hip and knee joint, < in hip, < moving; smarting lancinating pains in joints and lumbar region; swelling of joints, < touch of bedclothes, alternating from one side to the other.
RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LEFT HIP AND SCIATIC NERVE.
WANDERING PAINS IN NAPE OF NECK WITH STIFFNESS.
PAINS IN ONE SHOULDER, THEN THE OTHER, THEN BACK AGAIN.
INTENSE UNBEARABLE PAIN ACROSS SUPERSACRAL REGION. BRUISED PAIN IN SOLES OF FEET, STIFFNESS OF ANKLES, KNEE AND HIP JOINT; PAINS MOVING UPWARD; SENSATION AS OF A DULL PLUG PUSHING IN ANKLE JOINT < FROM HEAT AND LEAST MOTION.
ALTERNATING FROM JOINT TO JOINT AND SIDE TO SIDE.
NUMBNESS, PRINCIPALLY IN ANKLES, < WHILE QUIET, SWELLING, VEINS DISTENDED, > BY EXTREME HEAT.
AGGRAVATIONS
WHILE QUIET.
HEAT.
LEAST MOTION.
LEAST TOUCH OF BEDCLOTHES.
AMELIORATIONS
EXTREME HEAT.
CONCOMITANTS
WHEN WALKING SEEMS TO BE WALKING ON AIR.
THROAT VERY SORE.
THROAT SYMPTOMS CHANGE FROM SIDE TO SIDE.
RHEUMATIC PAINS WANDER FROM SIDE TO SIDE AND FROM BELOW UPWARD.
ERRATIC TYPE OF SYMPTOMS, CONSTANTLY FLYING FROM ONE PART TO ANOTHER.