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Mammal or Lac remedies – cured cases by Emily McAteer, Ireland
In this article I am going to present some Mammal or Lac
remedies and demonstrate their use through some
cured cases.
I am a small animal vet so my discussion is based on my
experience with dogs and cats.
excellent work and so has this remedy. Lac Caninum is at
its beginnings yet, although it has made some marvellous
cures, but many of its symptoms are doubtful and it
would take a century to confirm them.” How right he was.
What he called the doubtful symptoms were confirmed
and it is “a most excellent remedy.”
and are therefore soft and cuddly. Mammals, similarly to
birds, are warm blooded. They can generate their own internal
heat. This means they can live in diverse environments.
They exhibit adaptations such as shivering in the cold and
panting in the heat to maintain their body temperature.
Mammals suckle their young. If their babies do not feed,
Over the years I have got to know patients that need
these remedies and have found them to be endearing,
very loving and highly complex. They give me a warm
fuzzy feeling, but they also have their dark side.
they perish. The need to suckle, be fed and held close is
Lacs as we call them are remedies made from Milk and
paramount for all remedies of this group.
therefore from Mammals. There are other remedies
made from mammalian tissues. There is fur e.g. Dama
dama (fallow deer), blood e.g. Sanguis Ursa Arctos
Over a hundred years ago when Kent wrote about Lac
Caninum he said:
(brown bear) and urine e.g. Tiger’s. There is some debate
as to whether these remedies bring the same sensation to
a case as the remedies made from milk, in my opinion
“All the milks should be potentised. They are our most
they all seem to share common features.
excellent remedies. They are animal products and foods
of early animal life and therefore correspond to the
beginning of our innermost physical nature. If we had full
provings of monkey’s, cow’s, mare’s and human milk it
would be of great value. Lac Defloratum has done
To state the obvious, mammals are animals. They share
the common themes as remedies from the animal
kingdom such as snakes, insects, birds and spiders.
Where they differ is in the fact that mammals have fur
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