Milk Remedies
This is the first volume of my Clinical Materia Medica. There is a specific reason why I decided to write this book on milks. Homeopathically speaking, these remedies have undeniable similarities, and not only in terms of what we call local symptoms: somatic manifestations that are sometimes superficial and sometimes less so.
The similarities with regard to the most significant vulnerabilities, which I define as the fundamental themes of the remedies, as well as other purely behavioural and clinical traits, are striking. Equally evident are the similarities between remedies that not only all come from the same animal kingdom, all from mammals and all from “substances” that are almost identical in chemical composition and function: the milk. The first and only food of every baby animal, different in each species to ensure its development in the time necessary and specific to each mammal: whether a predator, prey or domestic animal.
However, this substance, together with its biochemistry, also represents the bond between mother and child. It is a vital element symbolising continuity after development in the womb. It is an element that interprets the first detachment, an epoch-making step towards individuality, both in the first days of life and at the beginning of weaning.
How interesting it is that humans are the only ones who continue to feed on it even after that time!
Special thanks to Giovanni Marotta for the introduction to the book.
Natural history, materia medica, clinical cases with long follow-up and authorised by the patient, repertory additions, differential diagnosis. Summary of the fundamental themes, characteristics, coherent groups of symptoms, motifs, pathologies and syndromes successfully treated in my personal case history for the following remedies.:
1) Lac caninum
2) Lac felinum
3) Lac vaccinum defloratum
4) Lac equinum
5) Lac ovinum
6) Lac caprinum
7) La suis
8) Lac asinum
9) Lac lupinum
10) Lac leoninum
11) Lac loxodonta africana
12) Lac delphinum
13) Lac glama
14) Lac humanum