Lac Defloratum lac-d.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

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.

General

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

Related: Nat-m.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

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. 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.); intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness and obstinate constipation (Epig., Iris, Sang.); < noise, light, motion (Mag. m., Sil.); during menses (Kreos., Sep.); great prostration; > pressure, by bandaging head tightly (Arg. n., Puls.); copious, pale urine. Globus hystericus; sensation of a large ball rising from stomach to throat, causing sense of suffocation (Asaf., Kal.). Vomiting; incessant, no relation to eating; first of undigested food, intensely acid, then of bitter water; of pregnancy (Lac. ac., Psor.). Constipation: with ineffectual urging (Anac., Nux); faeces dry and hard (Bry., Sulph.); stool large, hard, great straining, lacerating anus; painful, extorting cries. A woman had taken 10 to 12 enemas daily, often passed 4 or 5 weeks without an evacuation, constipation of 15 years standing. Menses: delayed; suppressed, by putting hands in cold water (Con.); drinking a glass of milk will promptly suppress flow until next period (compare Phos.). Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep (Coc., Nit. ac.). Feels completely exhausted, whether she does anything or not; great fatigue when walking. Sensation: as if cold air was blowing on her, even while covered up; as if sheets were damp. Dropsy: from organic heart disease; from chronic liver complaint; far advanced albuminuria; following intermittent fever; Obesity; fatty degeneration.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Skimmed Milk (LAC DEFLORATUM)

General

A remedy for diseases with faulty nutrition; sick headaches, with profuse flow of urine during pain. Car sickness.

Head

Despondent. Pain begins in forehead to occiput, in morning on rising. Intense throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness, and obstinate constipation; worse, noise, light, motion, during menses, with great prostration, and better by pressure and bandaging head tightly.

Stool

Constipation. Stools hard, large, with great straining; painful, lacerating anus.

Relationship

Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhœa in infants. Whole body smells sour. Colic). Nat mur.

Dose

Sixth, to thirtieth potency and higher.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Loss of memory ; listlessness and disinclination for either bodily or mental exertion.
Depression of spirits ; don't care to live ; question as to quietest and most certain way of hastening one's death.
During conversation, headache and depression of spirits >.
Depression with crying and palpitation. θ Fainting spells.
Imagines that all her friends will die and that she must go to a convent. θ Fainting spells.
Does not want to see or talk to any one.
Can remember what has been read only by a strong effort of will.
Vacillation of mind.
Great despondency on account of the disease, is sure he is going to die in twenty-four hours.
Has no fear of death but is sure he is going to die.

Sensorium

Head light, with throbbing in temples.
Vertigo : on moving head from pillow : < lying down and especially turning while lying, obliging to sit up.
Head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to right side.
Faintness and nausea when stepping upon floor in morning.
At first a sharp pain at apex of heart, as though a knife was cutting up and down ; this lasts a few seconds and is followed by strange feeling in head ; forehead feels extremely heavy, with dull sensation over eyes, and considerable throbbing, most marked on each side of
head ; rest of head feels very light ; dimness of vision ; can only distinguish light, not objects ; at same time great loss of strength ; cannot stand, but falls backwards, and remains entirely unconscious for two or three minutes ; weakness passes off
gradually, and is followed by crying, palpitation of heart and great depression of spirits ; imagines that all her friends will soon die, and that she must go to a convent ; she can produce an attack at any time by extending arms high above head, or by pressure around waist ;
spells come on at 7.30 P. M. θ Fainting spells.

Inner head

Pain first in forehead, then extending to occiput, very intense, distracting and unbearable ; great photophobia, even to light of candle ; deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting, < by movement or sitting up ; very chilly, and
external heat does not > ; frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine. θ Sick headache.
After light breakfast, pain in forehead, with nausea ; very pale face, even lips looked white ; vomiting of ingesta and afterwards of mucus and bitter water ; deathly sick feeling in pit of stomach, < rising up in bed ; profuse urination every half hour ;
urine colorless as water ; great thirst ; intense throbbing pain in vertex. θ Headache.
After injury subject to distress in head ; severe pain in forehead just above eyes ; breath offensive ; appetite poor, nausea ; at times sleeps for hours during attack ; great distress across back ; urine dark and thick.
Nausea, and sometimes vomiting, which > ; pain in forehead as if head would burst, with blindness ; pain is > by bandaging head tightly ; < by light and noise ; constipation, stools large ; hands and feet cold. θ Hemicrania.
Periodical pain in forehead, as if head would burst, accompanied by violent efforts to vomit, and more rarely vomiting ; hands and feet cold ; diarrhœa alternating with constipation, the latter predominating ; loss of appetite ; smell or thought of food causes
nausea ; tongue moist, coated white ; thirstlessness ; always < at menstrual period ; menses scanty and accompanied with colic. θ Headache.
Attacks come every eight days ; during attack can neither eat nor drink, nor endure light or noise ; does not even like to speak ; great prostration, < during menstruation ; when pains subside, inflammation of tonsils appears ; tongue white and no relish for
food. θ Headache.
Throbbing frontal headache, nausea, vomiting and obstinate constipation ; especially in anemic women.
Severe frontal headache ; nausea and sometimes vomiting upon rising in morning, or from recumbent position at any time, or upon moving ; great constipation ; constant chilliness even when near fire ; urine profuse and watery, or scanty and
high colored ; intense pain throughout whole spinal column ; excessive thirst for large quantities ; great depression of spirits ; sudden prostration of strength at 5 P. M. ; skin color of red rose, with swelling of face, neck, arms and body, generally in morning and
during day and evening. θ Headache.
Severe pain over eyes, with intense throbbing in both temples ; eyes feel as if full of little stones ; eyeballs intensely painful, and on shutting eyes, pressure of lids increases pain ; edges of lids feel contracted, and convey sensation as of a narrow band drawn tightly
across eyeball ; pain over left hip ; constipation and profuse urination during paroxysms. θ Headache.
Dimness of vision, as of cloud before eyes ; profuse urination ; full feeling in head ; slight nausea at pit of stomach ; face pale ; feet cold ; coldness in back.
Pain commencing in and above inner end of right eyebrow ; before rising in morning ; soon after rising pain passed into eyeball ; < until afternoon, at which time it became unbearable ; < by walking and particularly by sitting down, though done carefully, also
by heat radiated from fire or stooping, > on pressure ; pressure on temples disclosed strong pulsation of artery ; pain ceased entirely at sunset and did not return till next day.
Intense pain at point of exit of supraorbital nerve, diffused thence over forehead ; attack commences with chill, quickened pulse, flushed face and discharges of wind from stomach.
Pains so severe that she would bury her eyes in her hands and press them into pillow. θ Sick headache.
Severe headache for years ; severe pain over eyes ; intense throbbing in temples.
General sore pain of head, produced by coughing.
Severe headache with a sensation as if top of her head was lifted off and was raised about five inches, and brains were coming out ; head feels very hot and motion increases pain ; face felt as if flesh was off bones and edges were separated and sticking out.
Pain first in forehead, extending through occiput, making her nearly frantic.
Intense headache in forehead and through head ; < in vertex, afterward head felt bruised.
In morning nausea and sensation of a round ball full of pain in centre of forehead.
Throbbing in temples.
American sick headache, with gastric symptoms.

Outer head

Head feels large as if growing externally.
Head heavy, falling to right side.
General sore pain of head produced by coughing.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of vision ; can only see lights, not objects ; preceding headache.
Sensation as if eyes were full of little stones. θ Headache.
Great photophobia, even candle light unbearable.
Intense vertigo when opening eyes while lying, < when raising up ; objects appeared to move swiftly fro left to r., at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every direction.
Great pain in eyes on first going into light, soon passed off ; on closing eyes on account of light, pain was felt in eyeballs as if from pressure of lids.
Pain in and above eyes.
On closing eyelids painful pressure as if lids were short laterally, causing sensation of band pressing upon balls.
Upper eyelids feel very heavy ; sleepy all day.
Pain in head, most marked over left eye and in temple, extending into eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation.

Smell and nose

Painful pressure or tightness at root of nose. θ Catarrh.

Upper face

Deathly paleness of face.
Wasted, thin and excessively sallow, with dark stains beneath eyes.
Sallow complexion with eczematous eruption.
Flushes of heat in left side of face.
Face, neck, arms and body generally flush color of a red rose, with swelling, but no itching or burning.
Sensation as if all flesh was off bones of face and edges were separated and sticking out.
Pimples on face and forehead. θ Irregular menses.

Teeth and gums

Grinding of teeth when asleep, with pain in stomach and head with vomiting.

Inner mouth

Mouth very dry.
Breath very offensive.
Mouth clammy and frothy, especially during conversation.

Palate and throat

Globus hystericus ; sensation of a large ball rising from a point about lower end of sternum to upper end of œsophagus, causing distressing sense of suffocation.
Sore throat < when swallowing ; slight, hacking cough.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Entire loss of appetite.
Great thirst for large quantities and often ; intense thirst.

Eating and drinking

Could not drink milk without its causing sick headache.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Sour eructation.
Nausea in morning.
Nausea from a recumbent position at any time during day or evening, or upon moving or rising in morning.
Deathly nausea, cannot vomit, with groans and cries and great distress, great restlessness with sensation of coldness ; although skin was hot, pulse was normal.
Nausea and vomiting and a sensation of deathly sickness, < from movement or rising up in bed.
Vomiting first of undigested food, intensely acid, then of bitter water and lastly of a brownish clot, which in water separated and looked like coffee grounds ; no smell ; bitter taste.
Incessant vomiting, which had no relation to her meals.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Violent pain in pit of stomach, seldom lower, brought on by fatigue.
A good deal of wind and acid stomach, no tenderness.
Dyspepsia.
Bloating in epigastric region, with attacks of asthma ; he could scarcely breathe ; hard pressive pain at about fourth cervical vertebra.

Hypochondria

Cramps in epigastric region.

Abdomen and loins

Abdomen sore and sensitive to touch.
Severe pain across umbilicus with headache.
Great fatigue from walking, on account of heaviness as of a stone in abdomen.
Constant pain in frontal region ; nausea in morning, deathly paleness of face on rising in morning ; aching pains in wrists and ankles ; puffy swelling under malleoli ; drawing pains, with heat, across lower abdomen and bearing down ; frequent, scanty, pale
urine ; pressive bearing down in both ovarian regions ; cannot bear pressure of arm or hand on abdomen ; slight yellowish leucorrhœa ; great lassitude and disinclination to exertion ; depression of spirits ; does not care to live ; questions as to quickest
and most certain mode of hastening one's death ; great fatigue from walking, on account of heaviness, as of a stone in abdomen.
Drawing pain across lower part of abdomen, with heat and pressing, bearing down in pelvic region, both sides ; cannot bear pressure of hand or arm on abdomen.
Flatulence.
Chronic gastro-enteritis, symptoms of chronic diarrhœa and vomiting.

Stools and rectum

Frontal headache ; deathly sickness, with or without vomiting ; pale face in morning, also lips and tips of fingers white ; coldness over whole body. θ Constipation.
Is generally constipated, and when it is most persistent very chilly ; cannot get warm.
Frequent but ineffectual urging to stool.
Constipation : with chronic headache ; most powerful purgatives were of no avail ; feces dry and hard ; diarrhœa ; stool large and hard, passed with great straining, lacerating anus, extorting cries and passing considerable
blood ; chronic.
Continual persistent constipation, > only by cathartics and enemas, with violent attacks of sick headache, pain first in forehead then extending to occiput, very intense, distracting and unbearable ; great photophobia, even to light of a
candle ; deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting < by movement or sitting up ; chilly, and external heat does not relieve her ; frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.

Urinary organs

Frequent but scanty urination.
Profuse, pale urine.
Albuminuria.
Constant pain in region of kidneys, passing around each side above hips to region of bladder, also downward from sacral region to gluteal, and from thence down back of thighs ; pain burning, not > in any position, < lying down.
Urine very dark and thick.
Urine very pale ; cannot retain it.
Urine comes away drop by drop, or else gushes out with a sensation of very hot water passing over parts ; wetting bed at night.

Female sexual organs

Pressive bearing down in ovarian region.
Drawing pain across uterine region, with heat and pressive bearing down in both ovarian regions ; cannot bear pressure of hand or arm on abdomen, intense distress in lower part of abdomen during menstruation, not > by any position ; violent inflammation in ileo-cecal region,
with intense pain, swelling, tenderness, fecal accumulation and violent vomiting.
Menses delayed a week with congestion of blood to head ; coldness of hands, nausea and vertigo ; flow commenced next morning after taking Lac defl., scanty with pain in back ; sensation of weight and dragging in left ovarian region.
After putting hands in cold water sudden suppression of menses ; pains all over, especially in head.
Irregular menstruation, sometimes very dark and scanty, sometimes colorless water.
Slight yellowish leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Morning sickness during pregnancy ; deathly sickness at stomach on waking ; vertigo and waterbrash on rising ; constipation.
Decrease in size of breasts.
Has never failed to bring back the milk in from twelve to twenty-four hours.
Diminished secretion of milk.

Respiration

Asthma so that he could scarcely breathe, accompanied by bloating in epigastric region.

Cough

Short, dry cough, with difficult expectoration of a small lump of mucus, which > cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Soreness of chest with great pressure.
Tuberculous deposit in apices of both lungs.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pressure around heart (not like grasping of Cactus), with dyspnœa and a feeling of certainty that he is going to die in 24 hours.
Sharp pain in apex of heart, as if a knife was cutting up and down ; this preceded a heaviness of head, dulness over eyes, throbbing in temples and palpitation of heart.
Palpitation of heart and flushes of heat, especially in left side of face and neck.

Neck and back

A symmetrical patch of herpetic eruption on each side of neck, itching and burning after scratching.
Hard, pressive pain at fourth cervical vertebra ; chills creeping along back between scapulæ.
Intense burning pain in small of back and sacrum, commencing in region of kidneys, passing around on both sides above hips into groins, also downward from renal region through gluteal region, down back part of thighs ; pain, burning, and > by
no position ; lying down.
Constant pain in small of back.

Upper limbs

Ends of fingers icy cold, rest of hand warm.

Lower limbs

Numbness and loss of sensation over outer and anterior surface of thighs.
Pains passing down under side of thighs to heels, and pains across top of feet as if bones were broken across instep ; pains would come on as soon as she stepped upon floor in morning, upon which she would be faint and nauseated and would have to lie down.
Weakness and aching in ankles, puffiness.
Skin thickened at edges of feet.

Limbs in general

Cold hands or feet during headache.
Aching pains in wrists and ankles.

Rest. position. motion

No position >, burning pain in urinary region.
Lying down : vertigo < ; severe frontal headache ; burning pain in urinary region <.
Sitting up : sick headache < ; deathly sick feeling in pit of stomach < ; nausea and vomiting.
Obliged to sit up : vertigo.
Sitting down : pain in eyeball <.
Cannot stand : falls backwards unconscious.
Motion : sick headache < ; headache ; pain in head <.
Disinclination to exertion.
Moving head from pillow ; vertigo.
Turning while lying : vertigo <.
Rising : in morning, deathly paleness.
Extending arms high above head : produces fainting spells.
Stepping upon floor ; faintness and nausea.
Walking : pain in eyeball < ; great fatigue.

Nerves

Great lassitude and disinclination to exertion.
Great restlessness and extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep at night.
Feels completely tired out and exhausted, whether she does anything or not ; great fatigue from walking.
Great loss of strength, commencing with a sharp, cutting pain in apex of heart ; forehead feels heavy, with a dull sensation over eyes and throbbing, principally in temples, rest of head feels light.

Sleep

Sleepy all day long.
Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep at night.

Time

Morning : when stepping upon floor, nausea and faintness ; nausea and vomiting ; headache ; before rising pain in eyebrow ; as of a round ball full of pain in centre of forehead ; deathly paleness.
During day : headache.
Afternoon : pain in eyebrow and eyeball <.
At 5 P. M. : sudden prostration of strength.
At 7.30 P. M. : fainting spells.
At 9 P. M. : hot fever.
Evening : headache.
Night : sleepless.

Temperature and weather

Sensation as if cold air was blowing on her, even while covered up warm.
External heat : does not > chilliness ; pain in eyeball <.
Cold water : putting hands in, sudden suppression of menses.

Fever

Hot fever 9 P. M., continues until near morning, wakes in profuse sweat, which stains linen yellow difficult to wash out.
Hectic fever ; malignant typhoid.
Sensation as if the sheets were damp.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodical pain : in forehead.
Every half hour : profuse urination.
Sunset : pain in eyeball ceases.
Every eight days : attacks of sick headache.
Menstrual period : colic.

Locality and direction

Right : tendency to fall to side ; pain in and above inner end of eyebrow ; head heavy, falls to side.
Left : pain over hip ; over eye ; flashes of heat in side of face ; sensation of weight and dragging in ovarian region.
From left to right : objects appear to move.

Sensations

As though a knife was cutting up and down through heart ; as if head would burst ; eyes feel as if full of little stones ; sensation in lids as of a narrow band drawn tightly across eyeball ; as of a cloud before eyes ; as if top of head was lifted
off ; as if flesh was off bones of face, and edges were separated and sticking out ; as of a ball of pain in centre of forehead ; head as if growing externally ; objects appear as if tossed up from below in every direction ; pain in eyes as if from pressure of
lids ; as if eyelids were short laterally, causing sensation as of a band pressing upon balls ; as of a large ball rising from a point about lower end of sternum to upper end of œsophagus ; as of a stone in abdomen ; as if bones were broken across instep ; as if
sheets were damp ; as if cold air was blowing on her.
Pain : first in forehead, then in occiput ; over left hip ; above inner end of right eyebrow ; in eyeball ; in stomach ; in region of kidney passing around each side above hips to region of bladder, also downward from sacral region to gluteal, and from
thence down back of thighs ; in back ; all over ; in small of back ; down under side of thighs to heels ; across top of feet.
Distracting, unbearable pain : in forehead and occiput.
Intense pain : throughout spinal column ; in eyeballs ; at point of exit of supraorbital nerve ; in forehead and through head.
Violent pain : in pit of stomach.
Severe pain : in forehead just above eyes ; in head ; across umbilicus.
Sharp pain : at apex of heart.
Great pain : in eyes.
Intense distress : in lower part of abdomen.
Throbbing : in temples ; in vertex.
Intense burning pain : in small of back and sacrum.
Burning pain : in urinary organs.
Cramps : in epigastric region.
Drawing pains with heat : across lower abdomen.
Aching pains : in wrists and ankles.
Sore pain : of head ; in throat.
Hard, pressive pain : at about fourth cervical vertebra.
Painful pressure : at root of nose.
Constant pain : in frontal region.
Periodical pain : in forehead.
Soreness : of abdomen ; of chest.
Pressive bearing down : in ovarian region ; in pelvic region.
Pressure : around heart.
Heaviness : of head.
Heavy feeling : in forehead.
Dull sensation : over eyes.
Itching : of eruption on neck.

Tissues

Perverted and deficient nutrition.
Loss of weight.
Obesity.
Dropsy : from organic heart disease ; from chronic liver complaint ; far advanced Bright's disease ; following intermittent fever.
Asthma ; emphysema ; pulmonary catarrh.
Obstinate neuralgia caused by derangement of abdominal organs, intestines and liver.
Fatty degeneration.
Diseases with faulty nutrition, in consequence of obscure subacute inflammation of stomach or intestines, followed by affections of the nervous centres.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen sensitive.
Pressure : around waist, produces fainting spells ; pain in eyeball > ; presses eyes into pillow with severe pain ; cannot bear it on abdomen.
Bandaging head tightly ; < pain.
After injury : subject to distress in head.

Skin

A symmetrical patch of herpetic eruption on each side of neck, itching and burning after scratching.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 13, dark hair, sick headache ; sciatica.
Girl, æt. 17, light hair, blue eyes, one to three attacks every week, suffering three years ; fainting spells.
Girl, æt. 18 ; irregular menstruation.
Woman, had been in habit of taking ten or twelve enemas every day, and often passed four or five weeks without action of bowels, suffering fifteen years ; chronic constipation.
Woman, small, slender, nervo-bilious, mother of four children, attacks came at least once a month, and for last two years every Saturday, suffering sixteen years ; hemicrania.
Man æt. 22, musician, strong, active ; chronic constipation.
Woman, æt. 29, tall, thin, mother of two children, light hair and blue eyes, suffering from youth ; headache.
Woman, æt. 30, nervo-sanguineous temperament, suffering two years ; headache.
Woman, æt. 32, small sized, mother of four children, suffering seven years ; headache.
Woman, æt. 40, attacks two or three times a week, lasting 12 to 24 hours, during which she is unable to do anything ; headache.
Woman, æt. 40, has been for several years subject to continual, persistent constipation, > only by cathartics and enemas ; violent sick headaches.
Man, æt. 49, at age of 21, fell from a roof and was carried home insensible, since then subject to spells, which, as he advanced in years, became more frequent, sometimes occurring every week ; headache.
Woman, æt. 71, very stout, suffering for some years ; headache.

Relations

Compare Lac can .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

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 drinking or using milk, and that milk is poison to them.

It is the work of the true physician to study cases and ascertain in each case what symptoms are observed after taking milk. These symptoms constitute a proving of it and it is the best kind of a proving as it is produced upon sensitive persons.

The writer has made it his duty to study each and every one of these cases until the image of the sickness produced by, milk has dawned upon him both from the individual symptoms and from a collective view.

Much can be learned by meditating upon the milk constitution some may think there is a difference of importance between milk skimmed and new milk, but for all practical purposes the skimmed milk is sufficient and cures the oversensitiveness to milk, if used in a high potency. It is useless in low potency.

It is a useful remedy as it may demonstrate to the unbeliever the wonderful power of the high potency. It has aggravation during the whole twenty-four hours; some cases manifest symptoms only during, the daytime, and amelioration comes with the going down of the sun - but this is uncommon.

The chronic milk subject is very cold and bloodless and cannot get warm even in a warm room and by warm clothing; she is so chilly and so sensitive to cold that she feels the air blowing on her in the room, as if she were fanned, even where there is no possible draft and others feel the room to be very warm.

She is very sensitive to wet weather. She is subject to neuralgic and rheumatic pains all over the body but more especially in the head. The pain in the head is better from cold, applications, but the pains elsewhere are better from heat. The sufferings are all worse by motion and better by rest; pains are better by pressure.

The bones are sore to touch. Great lassitude and even weakness, can endure no exertion. There is marked restlessness and she is unable to hold up after loss of sleep; extreme weariness from a short walk.

She looks and acts as though she had been suffering long or as if she were going into a decline. The skin all over the body is violently sensitive to cold objects and touch of cold sponge. There is marked periodicity in the nature of the remedy, most noticed in the recurrent headaches. This remedy has had a reputation for curing diabetes and this is not to be wondered at when it is known to have cured the weakness, anaemia and copious, watery urine and great thirst; also copious, dense urine.

Many invalids cured by this remedy have appeared to the writer much like the typical diabetic patient; but it can cure only where the peculiar symptoms agree. It will not cure simply when the common symptoms are present.

Let all observers faithfully and minutely study all patients who have an aversion to milk; all who have diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, sick headaches, eructations, foul stomach after drinking milk and in time the general idea of the milk sickness will be known.

It is a most useful and frequently needed remedy for infants and children who cannot take milk, not always as their specific remedy, but as one of the remedies that will help many infants to grow up some grow morbidly fat and others become lean when fed on milk.

It has been useful in dropsy from weak heart; from liver complaints and from suppressed malaria. People who drink milk habitually become anemic and catarrhal; fatty degeneration of muscles, of heart and liver. Malassimilation, is the most marked feature of milk poison.

The pains become violent in many parts; in the spinal cord; in eyeballs; in supra-orbital nerves; in forehead and through the head; in the stomach; in lower part of the abdomen. Many people are made sick by milk who use cream with safety and delight.

Lac defloratum is often the remedy for such patients and after a careful examination, their symptoms appear like the proving of skimmed milk.

Mind

Loss of memory, listlessness and aversion to mental work; sadness, desires death and meditates upon the easiest method of self-destruction; sadness with weeping and palpitation; aversion to seeing and talking to people; weakness and vacillating mind. He is sure he is going to die. She imagines that all her friends will die and, that she must go to a convent; a horror when in a small closet lest the door will be closed and she will suffocate.

She becomes faint and dizzy when raising her hands high to thread her needle; vertigo on turning in bed; on moving the head from the pillow; on opening the eyes when lying; in the act of lying down. Faintness and nausea when stepping upon the floor in the morning. Vertigo when reaching up with the hands; tendency to fall to the right when standing or walking.

Head

In sickly, pale, careworn women, when the headache is over the eyes and through the frontal region and the pain is violent; is better from, pressure and tight binding up, is better lying down in a dark room; is better from cold applications; is better from perfect rest; is worse from least motion, worse from light, noise, and conversation; when the headache comes on from drinking milk and is attended with copious, pale urine; with nausea and vomiting of food, mucus and bile.

Violent pain in occiput, vertex and sides of the head; marked pulsation in the head with all headaches; during the headaches the face is pale and cold. There is also marked congestion with heat of the head and flushed face; the headache often comes with marked periodicity though sometimes not with regularity. Weekly headaches are the most common.

Great soreness all over the head on jarring or coughing; sensation as if top of head was lifted off; pain first in the forehead extending to occiput, making her nearly frantic. Intense headache in forehead and through head, worse in vertex, afterwards head felt bruised.

With all the frontal headaches there is strong pulsation in temples. It has cured many violent, periodical, sick-headaches, that have been present since childhood and said to be inherited. During these violent headaches there is sometimes a sensation as though the head were expanding; it has cured headaches that come before and after menses. Morning sickness during pregnancy.

Eyes

Dim vision before the headaches; can only see light, not objects sensation as if eyes were full of stones; extreme photophobia; dull pain in eyes, worse in left, even while lids are closed; better by cold applications, better by closing eyes, in a dark room; drawing pain in eyes when reading, could only read a few minutes at a time; great pain in eyes on first going into the light; pain in and above eyes, worse by heat and motion. Lids feel heavy, sleepy and dry. Pain most marked over left eye with lachrymation.

Painful pressure or tightness at the root of the nose.

Face

Deathly paleness of the face; wasted, thin and excessively sallow, with dark stains beneath the eyes. Sallow complexion with eczema. Flushes of heat in left side of face; sensation as if flesh was off the bones of the face, and edges were separated and sticking out.

Grinding teeth during sleep, with pain in stomach and head, with vomiting.

Taste insipid, sour; month dry; breath offensive; mouth clammy and frothy, especially during conversation.

Globus hystericus; sore throat, worse when swallowing. The mucous membrane of the throat is very pale.

Stomach

Entire loss of appetite; great thirst for large quantities of water eructations empty or sour; distension from gas; nausea after drinking cold water in the evening, worse after lying down; nausea from a recumbent position or from motion or on rising in the morning; deathly nausea, but cannot vomit, with groans and cries of great distress; great restlessness and sensation of coldness although the skin was hot and pulse normal.

Vomiting, first of undigested food intensely acid, then of bitter water and, lastly, of a brownish clot which in water separated and looked like coffee grounds. Incessant vomiting which has no relation to her meals; vomiting of bile, with headaches; violent pain in stomach. It is a very useful remedy for vomiting in pregnancy in women who loath milk. Cramping in the stomach.

Chronic gastro-enteritis with chronic diarrhoea and vomiting; tenderness of abdomen; flatulence and distension. Heaviness and feeling of stone in abdomen. Severe pain across the umbilicus, with headache.

Chronic constipation where rectum seems paralyzed and injections and cathartics have failed; the stool is large, hard and difficult; after prolonged straining the stool recedes. It has cured after Silica failed. Constipation in very chilly patients; constipation with periodical headaches and vomiting, frequent but ineffectual urging to stool; diarrhoea from drinking milk.

Urines

Frequent scanty urination; profuse, pale, watery urine with headache; urine very dark, and thick; a lbuminous urine . It cured involuntary urinations when walking in cold air, or when riding on horseback. It cured a lack of sensation when the bladder was full.

Genitals

It cured a yellow-brown leucorrhoea, worse before and after menses it cured a profuse yellow leucorrhoea. Bearing down in ovarian region menses too. late and scanty; menses too late, pale and watery. Pain in back and ovarian region during menses; sudden suppression of menses after putting hands in cold water; pains all over, especially in head; when the milk is diminished or fails it is of great service. The breasts are dwindling.

Chest

Asthma with bloating of stomach; cardiac dyspnoea.

Short, dry cough; worse in a cold room or in cold air.

Soreness of chest with oppression; rheumatic pains in chest in cold, damp weather; tubercular deposits in apices of both lungs.

Pressure in the region of the heart with dyspnoea and a feeling that he must die; cutting as with a knife apex of the heart. Pulsation of the heart and flashes of heat in the left side of face and neck ; palpitation from least exertion or excitement.

Heat up and down the back and across from shoulder to shoulder; extreme sensitiveness of back to cold sponge. Herpes on side and neck; itching and burning after scratching; hard pressive pain at fourth cervical vertebra; chills creeping along back between scapulae; intense burning pain in small of back and sacrum; constant pain in small of back.

Ends of fingers icy cold - rest of hand warm; numbness and loss of sensation over outer and anterior surface of thighs; pain pressing down sciatic nerve and heel; morning on rising, with nausea and faintness; weakness and aching in the swollen ankles. Skin thickened on edges of foot; feet cold as ice. Aching pains in wrists and ankles cold hands and feet during headache.

Great restlessness; extreme and protracted suffering from loss of sleep at night; sleepy all day; extreme insomnia.

Fever at 9 A.M., until morning; wakes in profuse sweat, which stains linen yellow. Hectic fever. Sensation as if sheets were damp.

The skin is so very sensitive to the touch of a cold hand or sponge that the prover could bathe only in very warm water. The skin is cold and pale and veins look blue and very prominent. Herpetic eruptions; itching of the skin; burning, after scratching.