Lac vaccinum defloratum: Skimmed Cow's Milk.

- VERMEULEN Frans
Lactation
Lac-d.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
[Lord Chesterfield]
Signs
Lac vaccinum defloratum. Skimmed Cow's Milk.
CLASSIFICATION The mammalian order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, derives its name from Gr artios, even in number, and daktylos, finger or toe. The name refers to a skeletal structure in which the third and fourth digit form a symmetrical pair and the hindfoot bears an even number of digits. This, as well as the structure of the ankle bone, distinguishes the artiodactyls from the odd-toed ungulates [Perissodactyla] such as the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, and some extinct species. The large and medium-size artiodactyls, all herbivores, are distributed among nine families or tribes: pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, giraffes and okapi, deer, pronghorn, and bovids. The bovids [Bovidae] - the largest and most successful family/tribe - include cattle, sheep, goats, and antelope. The genus Bos contains such bovine mammals as ox, bull, banteng, yak, gaur, and cow. All modern domestic cattle are believed to belong to the species Bos taurus [European breeds] or Bos indicus [zebu breeds] or to be crosses of these two. Wild animals that are closely related to cattle include the American bison, the water buffalo, and the large spiral-horned antelopes, such as the eland.
EVOLUTION "The artiodactyls were a distinct group by the end of the Eocene epoch [36.6 million years ago]. They demonstrated skill at adapted to environmental changes during the Oligocene epoch, which ended about 23.7 million years ago, and have remained prominent ever since. The 150 living species of the order are widely distributed. ... The value of these mammals to man has always been great. They provide food in the form of meat and milk as well as clothing in the form of hides and wool, and in parts of the world camels are still used for transportation. The evolutionary success of the artiodactyls may be attributed to certain adaptations of skeletal structures for swift flight and to the ability of members of the order to swallow food quickly and, in many cases, regurgitate it and chew it later."1
FEATURES Antlers and horns are found in many members of the order. Bovids of both sexes often have horns, which are not regenerated if lost. Hair of fur, the latter sometimes beautifully coloured or patterned, covers the bodies of all members of the order except the hippopotamuses. Advanced members of the order can bolt their food and then regurgitate and chew it, or ruminate, at a time of their choosing, such as when a threat from predators has passed. Most of these ruminants, who graze a variety of vegetation, have evolved a complex stomach containing four parts. Swallowed food passes from one part, the rumen, back into the mouth for complete mastication and is then swallowed again, after which it passes through the other three chambers, specialized for the digestion of a largely cellulose diet. Courtship among artiodactyls may be more or less elaborate, often beginning with the male sniffing the female's urine, perhaps to determine if she is in heat. Gestation periods range from 4 to 14 months. Single births are the rule. Reliance on milk lasts at least a few months. Some species have limited ranges, but others travel widely, frequently in seasonal migrations. Many species form herds, usually as protection from predators. Predation takes its heaviest toll among the young, the old, and the sick. Older members of the herd lead the way to food, water, and breeding sites. In general the herd consists of females, their offspring, and the older dominant males as guardians. 2
ORIGINS "All of the today's cattle probably developed from a subspecies of the now extinct auroch or urus [Bos primigenius]. These animals originated in Asia, then spread into Europe and North Africa. They were hunted for food by primitive man, and the Stone Age peoples painted the auroch on the walls at the caves at Lascaux, France. The last one died in 1627. These wild cattle were probably the first animals that were domesticated for agricultural purposes. Evidence of the domestication of oxen has been found in the Swiss lake dwellings of the Neolithic Age, and domesticated cattle also existed in Egypt and Babylonia, going back further than 3500 BC. After domestication, cattle were used for food and milk and as beasts of burden."3 Remains of domesticated cattle dating to 6500 BC have been found in Turkey and other sites in the Near East. Archaeologists have found cow's milk in cooking pots at an Iron Age settlement in the Western Isles of Scotland; the discovery suggests that as long as 2500 years ago Scots could have farmed cows for milk. It is generally accepted that the domestication of cattle followed sheep, goats, pigs and dogs.
BREEDS "Today, most cattle have been selectively bred for various parts of the world and for various uses. The Holstein and the Jersey, for example, have been bred for producing milk, while the black Angus was bred primarily for beef. Some breeds, such as the Red Poll, were bred to produce both milk and beef. The Texas longhorn came from a line of cattle that was brought to America by the Spanish, and it was suited to the sparse grazing on the semiarid lands of the American Southwest. The humped Brahman or zebu is from India, and has been used extensively in the southeastern United States to breed cattle that will do well in hot, humid conditions. In its native India, the zebu is used mostly for milk and as a beast of burden, but the flesh is not eaten. The Italian Chianina is the oldest, largest, and heaviest breed of cattle, dating back to the Tuscans, who bred it for sacrificial purposes. Although a present move to produce lean, low-fat meat may become an important force in the cattle industry, the trend in the past has been toward producing a meat with lots of fat in the tissue. Most cattle in the United States is bred on the range or in pastures, and is then confined for fattening before it is sold. This practice is carried to the extreme in Japan, where the so-called Kobe cattle are fattened on beer and massaged in such a way that the meat is more marbled with fat."4
MILK Although man has made extensive use of milk from mammals since recorded history, its use is by no means universal. Many American Indians, Africans and Asians of all sorts cannot digest milk properly, which is due to lactose intolerance. People originating in northern Europe, on the other hand, usually retain full intestinal lactase activity into adult life. Further, some adults consider the idea of drinking milk to be repulsive. Dairy farming and processing has been for many years an important industry in Europe and America. Although the term milk almost implicates the cow, cow's milk may not be the best for human consumption. Goat's milk is both richer and easier to digest than cow's milk, and asses' milk is closer to that of humans. Compared to cow's milk, goat's milk has less protein, smaller fat globules, a little more calcium and vitamin A, and nearly ten times the amount of fluorine. Sheep's and goat's milk was the favourite milk of the Romans, who descended from shepherds and sometimes mixed it with wine. Much of the milk consumed in India comes from the buffalo, an animal that is widely milked in other parts of Asia as well as in parts of Africa. Camel's milk is frequently used by the Arabs and by other nomadic peoples of the desert. In Tibet, the yak fills the need. In Lapland, the reindeer gives a rich milk, which contains three times as much protein as cows' milk and seven times as much fat. The earliest and perhaps the most extensive use of milk, however, was on the Eurasian steppes, where the horse was all-important for transportation, meat, and milk. Mare's milk is still used to some extent - and is even brewed into a spirited beverage called kumiss in Mongolia and among other nomadic peoples of Asia. [Kumiss is also made from camel's milk.]5
COW'S MILK Human beings are the only species to drink milk of other species, and the only species to drink milk beyond infancy. In the early 1800s the average dairy cow produced less than 1,500 litres of milk annually. With advances in animal nutrition and selective breeding, one cow now produces an average of 6,500 litres of milk a year, with some cows producing up to 10,000 litres. Whole milk contains 3-4% fat, while low-fat milk contains 1-2% fat and skim milk less than 0.5% fat. In the United States the fortification of skim milk and low-fat milk with vitamin A is required by law. Low-fat and skim milk, however, should not be given to children under two years of age because they supply too much protein, potassium and sodium. Once promoted as the 'perfect food', milk is essentially an emulsion of fat and protein in water, along with dissolved carbohydrate [lactose], minerals, and vitamins. Cow's milk is an excellent source of protein because it contains all the essential amino acids. Its mineral content includes calcium and phosphorus in an ideal ratio which is required for calcium utilization for normal skeletal development. In addition, milk contains B vitamins as well as small amounts of vitamins A, C, and D. Commercial cow's milk is commonly enriched with vitamins A and D before sale. Cow's milk cannot be considered a good substitute for human milk. Compared to mother's milk, cow's milk is deficient in vitamins A, B1, C and E; its mineral content is three times that of mother's milk and contained in different proportions, and it has more protein and bigger fat globules, which are unsuited to human babies. [Whole cow's milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves who double their weight in 45 days and grow to 300 pounds within a year. Human infants take about 180 days to double their birth weight.] Milk is low in vitamin C [which is destroyed by pasteurisation], iron and copper, and is increasingly considered to be a polluted food, containing residues of pesticides, hormones, DDT, steroids and antibiotics. It is also a common allergen. 6 Milk and other dairy products are very susceptible to developing off-flavours, which are absorbed from the food ingested by the cow and from the odours in its surroundings. Chemical changes can also take place through contact with metals [such as copper] or exposure to sunlight or strong fluorescent light.
LACTOSE Cow's milk contains lactose [milk sugar]. Lactose is broken down by the enzyme lactase [into glucose and galactose], which is produced in the intestine of infants. Infants who do not produce lactase develop lactose intolerance, a condition in which a variety of gastrointestinal problems arise. Lactose intolerance also commonly develops after weaning or with advancing age, when many individuals cease producing lactase. Also, the type of lactose in cow's milk [alpha lactose] does not encourage the growth of intestinal flora in babies as does the lactose contained in mother's milk [beta lactose]. Lactose intolerance is common among many populations. Frank Oski, M.D. , states in his book Don't Drink Your Milk! that the majority of the world's adult population is lactose intolerant because "between the age of one and a half and four years most individuals gradually lose the lactase activity in their small intestine. This appears to be a normal process that accompanies maturation.... Most people do it. All animals do it. It reflects the fact that nature never intended lactose-containing foods, such as milk, to be consumed after the normal weaning period." "Clearly all infants must drink milk. The fact that so many adults cannot seems to be related to the tendency for nature to abandon mechanisms that are not needed. It was not until the relatively recent introduction of dairy herding and the ability to 'borrow' milk from another group of mammals that the survival advantage of preserving lactase became evident. But why would it be advantageous to drink cow's milk? After all, most of the human beings in the history of the world did. And further, why was it just the white or light skinned humans who retained this knack while the pigmented people tended to lose it? Some students of evolution feel that white skin is a fairly recent innovation, perhaps not more than 20,000 or 30,000 years old. It clearly has to do with the Northward migration of early man to cold and relatively sunless areas when skins and clothing became available. Fair skin allows the production of vitamin D from sunlight more readily than does dark skin. However, when only the face was exposed to sunlight that area of fair skin was insufficient to provide the vitamin D from sunlight. If dietary and sunlight sources were poorly available, the ability to use the abundant calcium in cow's milk would give a survival advantage to humans who could digest that milk. This seems to be the only logical explanation for fair skinned humans having a high degree of lactose tolerance when compared to dark skinned people. How does this break down? Certain racial groups, namely blacks are up to 90% lactose intolerant as adults. Caucasians are 20 to 40% lactose intolerant. Orientals are midway between the above two groups. Diarrhoea, gas and abdominal cramps are the results of substantial milk intake in such persons. Most American Indians cannot tolerate milk. The milk industry admits that lactose intolerance plays intestinal havoc with as many as 50 million Americans."7
CANCER Women who drink cow's milk run a far greater risk of contracting breast cancer than those who do not, according to research by nutritional scientists, published in the May 1997-issue of the journal Good Medicine. The researchers claim that breast cancer is caused by two contaminants present in cow's milk, oestrogen - pregnant cows have high oestrogen levels, which filter into the milk - and a growth-promoting peptide known as IGF-I; both substances encourage breast cancer cells to multiply. The American dairy industry has attacked the findings as 'totally baseless' and discarded the study as propaganda for veganism. Evidence regarding carcinogenic properties of milk is conflicting. In a 1986 French case control study, drinking milk per se did not predispose to breast cancer, but there was a link to eating large quantities of high fat cheese and high fat milk. A 1985 study by Dr. Garland of the University of California at San Diego came to the conclusion that milk prevents cancer, notably colon cancer. "His analysis of the diets of 2000 men over a twenty-year period found that daily drinkers of about two and a half glasses of milk had decidedly healthier colons and about one third the colon cancer risk of those who shunned milk but otherwise ate similar foods. He, like many other researchers, credit's milk's high calcium and vitamin D. His co-investigator, Dr. Richard B. Shekelle, however, says it has not been ascertained what in milk cuts colon cancer risk. Bolstering the case further is a 1987 report of a massive study by the Aussies, who have high colon cancer rates. They, too, found that both men and women who drank less than 600 millilitres of milk a week were more likely to develop colorectal cancer."8
DIABETES Reading Donkin's 'Skim Milk Treatment for Diabetes and Bright's Disease' gave Swan the idea of conducting a proving with potentized skimmed cow's milk. Donkin reported successful use of skim milk in the crude form in the treatment of diabetes, albuminuria and other renal affections. More than 100 years later, a 1992 Finnish study suggests that certain children may be vulnerable to type 1 diabetes later in life after exposure to cow's milk while very young. This link had been suspected because populations with high rates of milk consumption, such as the Finns and the Canadians, also have high rates of diabetes. Previous research had already suggested that children exposed to the insulin which can naturally be contained in cow's milk may develop antibodies to insulin. However, evidence to support the theory is not conclusive and there is just as much evidence against it.
ALLERGIES The primary type of protein in cow's milk is casein. Cow's milk has 20 times as much casein as human milk. The high levels of casein in cow's milk are difficult for humans to assimilate and may cause allergies. Allergies caused by cow's milk are common, with symptoms falling into three types of reactions: skin reactions [itchy red rash; urticaria; eczema; swelling of lips, mouth, tongue, face or throat], stomach and intestinal reactions [abdominal pain and bloating; diarrhoea; vomiting; flatulence; cramps], and nose, throat and lung reactions [runny nose; sneezing; watery, itchy eyes; coughing; dyspnoea; wheezing respiration].
EFFECTS "Antiinfectious agents in milk fat help stamp out gastrointestinal diseases, esp. childhood diarrhoea. A major United States study of about 1200 children, aged one to sixteen, discovered that children who drank only low-fat milk were five times more likely to have acute gastrointestinal illnesses than those drinking whole milk. The researcher, Dr. James S. Koopman, at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, blames about 14% of all cases of medically treated gastrointestinal illness on low-fat milk consumption; at worst risk, he says, are one- to two-years olds. In fact, other research confirms that chronic diarrhoea in young children drinking skim milk is quickly cured by restoring milk fat."9 Skim milk or low-fat milk, stirs up the mental energy instead of putting it to sleep. This is thought to be caused by the fact that milk lowers the brain levels of the essential amino acid tryptophan. Whole milk, because of the fat content, on the other hand, tends to drag the brain's mental acuity down. Milk also has its drawbacks: it is a prime suspect in cases of food intolerances linked with certain bowel disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome. 10
SYMBOLISM The cow personifies the Great Mother and all moon goddesses in their nourishing aspect. She is the productive power of the earth and the maternal instinct. Scandinavian myths tell that the primordial cow sprang from the ice and by licking the ice produced the first man. In Vedic literature the black cow played a part in funeral rites, whilst the white was a symbol of illumination. Its image is everywhere one of happiness and patience. "Cows were often given the task of guiding the souls of the dead. Cows were brought to the bedsides of the dying who, with their last reserves of strength, clutched the creature's tail. The corpse was then taken to the funeral pyre on a cart drawn by cows and followed by a black cow. The latter was sacrificed, its flesh laid on the corpse and both laid on the pyre, carefully wrapped in the victim's hide. The pyre was lighted and the mourners chanted a hymn begging the cow to rise up with the deceased along the Milky Way to the kingdom of the blessed."11
SCAPEGOAT In many cultures public scapegoats serve to expel embodied evils. A black cow not uncommonly acts as the vehicle which carries away the collected demons or ills of a whole community. "When cholera rages among the Bhars, Mallans, and Kurmis of India, they take a goat or a buffalo - in either case the animal must be female, and as black as possible - then having tied some grain, cloves, and red lead in a yellow cloth on its back they turn it out of the village. The animal is conducted beyond the boundary and not allowed to return. Amongst the Dinkas, a pastoral people of the White Nile, each family possesses a sacred cow. When the country is threatened with war, famine, or any other public calamity, the chiefs of the village require a particular family to surrender their sacred cow to serve as a scapegoat. The animal is driven by the women to the brink of the river and across it to the other bank, there to wander in the wilderness and fall a prey to ravening beasts. Then the women return in silence and without looking behind them; were they to cast a backward glance, they imagine that the ceremony would have no effect."12
CHRISTIANITY Among sacrificial animals, the bovines were the pure victims, which must perforce lead a life of chastity, even as Christ by his very nature did in his life on earth. "The first Christian commentators and symbolists recognized various symbols of the Redeemer in each different form of bovine offered as sacrifice in the ancient religion of Israel. The calf, image of Christ - 'Vitulus Christus', as the Archbishop of Mainz, Rabanus Maurus, wrote in the 9th century - represents the Saviour as a victim free from sin, because its youth makes it is a virgin animal, and also because the conditions of its sacrifice, specified in the Book of Numbers, require that it be without spot or blemish. ... In telling us of the apostasy of the Hebrews at the foot of Mount Sinai, as they turned away from Yahweh to prostrate themselves before the sacred calf of the country of Canaan, the book of Exodus made this animal one of the symbols of the spirit of evil. The calf of cast gold, this 'golden god', became in fact the image of the 'demon of riches' in Christian symbolism. And at times the golden calf does not represent cupidity but simply idolatry, in remembrance of the apostasy of Israel. ... The thoughtless frolicking of the young calves and heifers in the pastures was regarded by the ancient masters of spiritual life as a symbol of dizzy recklessness, 'the impulsiveness that throws youth in the path of violent passions.' From another angle, the cow was at times taken as the symbol of lack of intelligence, of stupidity; and when seen walking after a bull who refuses the yoke, it is the symbol of the soul that follows blindly the instigators of schisms and heresies, which rebel against the yoke of the Church. It has also been one of the signs for abject passions."13
PROVINGS •• [1] Swan - 3 provers [1 male, 2 female], 1871-72; method: 15c [Fincke] in drop doses every hour; 'after nine hours there was aggravation'; the second female prover, Dr. Laura Morgan - the prover who provided most of the mind symptoms of Lac caninum - took 200c, manner not stated. A Graduate of the Allopathic College in New York, Laura Morgan was converted to homoeopathy by making this proving! Swan adds 8 cured cases.
•• [2] R. Sankaran - 13 provers; method: single dose of 30c, after one week followed by single dose of 200c. "Participants were given one powder in 30c potency, and instructed to note down their dreams. Nobody except the person who selected the drug knew what was being proved. After one week, the proving was discussed, participants were told the name of the drug, and given one powder in the 200c potency to study the proving effects further."14
[1-2] Encyclopaedia Britannica. [3-5] Livingston, Guide to Edible Plants and Animals. [6] Sharon, Nutrients A to Z. [7] Kradjian, The Milk Letter: A message to my patients; website. [8-10] Carper, The Food Pharmacy. [11] Chevalier and Gheerbrant, Dictionary of Symbols. [12] Fraser, The Golden Bough. [13] Charbonneau-Lassay, The Bestiary of Christ. [14] Sankaran, Provings.
Affinity
NUTRITION. BLOOD. Heart. Head [left].
Modalities
Worse: COLD [least draft; wet; hands in cold water]. Milk. Loss of sleep. Weekly. During pregnancy. Morning. Rising. Noise. Light. Motion. During menses.
Better: Rest. Pressure of bandage. Warmth. Lying down in a dark room. Profuse flow of urine.
Main symptoms
M Fear of narrow places; door of toilet [etc.] cannot be closed.
M Sadness [related to headaches] > conversation.
Depression of spirits; don't care to live; questions as to quietest and most certain way to hastening one's death. [cured case Swan]
• "She had been depressed for quite some time now. 'I don't know why I feel depressed and what is the exact feeling. I have no desire to live, I do not care to live and I am not happy to live. During this spell of depression if I am able to weep, I feel better but tears do not come. I have to make a lot of effort to divert my mind from such depressive thoughts. Recently when I felt depressed I just locked my house and went to my in-law's house. There we all talked with each other and I felt better. I am not able to describe the basic feeling directly but it is how you feel when someone has died. I feel like that. I have no desire to live, but don't have the courage to jump from the window, to burn myself or sleep on the railway track. I can adopt the simplest method like consuming sleeping pills."1
M Convent.
• "Imagines that all her friends will die and that she must go to a convent." [cured case Swan]
M Feeling to be left alone, neglected by friends and community.
Fear of being rejected by the community.
Feeling of being separated from the mother.
• "There is a feeling that they have to do a lot for the community, to work hard physically for others in order to be accepted. There is a theme of losing their dear ones, esp. the mother, and a theme of adopted children who have been separated from their mother earlier on, and feel forsaken." [Sankaran]
M Low self-confidence.
Feeling fat, ugly, dark, dirty.
Feeling suppressed, of no importance, having no voice.
Being forced to do things. [Sankaran]
G Very CHILLY, even "skin supersensitive to cold."
• "Constantly cold, so that she looked blue, her hands and cheeks felt cold as if dead; during the day she wore a shawl and sat near a fire, which failed to warm her. She was wakened in the night by feeling cold." [Swan]
• "Felt cold and chilly inside the body, as though it was filled with ice." [Allen]
G < Touching COLD things. SENSATION of COLD wind; sensation of air, as if fanned. G Intense thirst. • "Insatiable thirst for cold water, a second gobletful being required as soon as the first had been drunk." [Swan's prover 1, on C15]. • "Great thirst, wants to drink continually, but little at a time." [Swan's prover 2, C200]. G Aversion to MILK. Allergy to MILK. [colds, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, itching eruptions] G Complications of PREGNANCY. [obstinate vomiting; constipation with ineffectual urging; severe headaches with frequent and profuse urination; renal colic; rheumatic pains; gall bladder colic] P HEADACHE. Forehead, pulsating, extending to occiput. Weekly. During menses. From constipation. And Nausea; vomiting; frequent urination; icy coldness all through body. And Increased appetite and thirst. Preceded by DIM VISION. < Noise; light; motion; drinking milk. > Pressure; binding up head; lying down; dark room; cold applications; talking.
P Headache alternating with tonsillitis. [Clarke]
P Sensation of BALL arising from stomach to throat = sensation of suffocation.
P Extreme CONSTIPATION.
Ineffectual urging; stool dry and hard; with lacerated anus; stool painful, extorting cries.
P Problems with breast-feeding: milk absent or disappearing.
Decrease in size of breasts.
• "Decrease in the size of the breasts, which after the proving resumed their original size and firmness." [Allen]
Source: H.C. Allen, The Materia Medica of the Nosodes.
[1] Panchal, I do not care to live: A case of Lac defloratum; HL 1/01.
Rubrics
Mind
Aversion to company, avoids the sight of people [2]. Conversation > [1]. Presentiment of death, predicts the time [2]. Fear of narrow places [2], of suffocation [1]. Restlessness, from loss of sleep [1].
Vertigo
Closing eyes while lying > [2/1]. Objects seem to move to the right [2]. On reaching up with the hands [1]. On turning in bed [1].
Head
Sensation as if top of head was lifted off, raised about five inches and brains were coming out [1*]. Pain, morning, comes and goes with the sun [1], while constipated [2], > darkness [2], after drinking milk [1], with toothache [1].
Eye
Sensation of a band around eyeball [1]. Pain, on first going into the light [1*]. Sensation as if eyes were full of little stones [1].
Vision
Dim, before headache [2].
Nose
Sneezing when immersing hands in water [1].
Mouth
Froth, foam from mouth while talking [2].
Stomach
Appetite, increased during headache [1]. Nausea, at thought of food [1*]. Thirst, during headache [2].
Abdomen
Pain, cramping, after milk [2].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, after milk [1].
Bladder
Urination, frequent during headache [2]; involuntary when in a hurry [1/1].
Kidneys
Pain, burning, while lying [1/1].
Chest
Milk, complaints after weaning [1].
Limbs
Coldness of hands and feet during headache [1*]. Pain, bones of instep of feet as if broken, in morning on rising [1*].
Sleep
Sleeplessness from thirst [1*].
Dreams
Missing the train [1; Lac-c.].
Generals
Leaning, inclination to lean continually to the right side [1*].
* Repertory additions [H.C. Allen].
Food
Aversion: [3]: Milk.
Desire: [1]: Water.
Worse: [3]: Milk.

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