The class of vertebrate animals known as mammals includes those with hair or fur, specialized teeth, three minute bones within the ear, the presence of a neocortex region in the brain, endothermic or warm blooded bodies, and others. Mammals produce milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species, and specialized skin glands in monotremes that seep or ooze milk.
Most mammals give birth to live young but some, like monotremes, lay eggs. The brain controls the endothermic and circulatory systems, including a four chambered heart.
The number of species that are classified as mammals ranges from about 5500 to about 46 orders and 1200 genera, including the human species.
Some of the most significant homoeopathic drugs made from mammals are listed below.
CARBO ANIMALIS—Animal charcoal, made from burned oxhide. Carbo animalis is especially suited to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins are enlarged, skin is blue, stitches remain after pleurisy, nursing women are weak, and all the secretions are foul.
CASTROR EQUICastor equi, which is made from a horse’s thumb nail, has a specific action on the breasts and is used as a treatment for mastitis in nursing mothers who have cracked and ulcerated nipples that are too tender to touch. It also relieves pain in the right tibia and coccyx and thickens the skin and epithelium. It also causes nails to become brittle and fall off.
CASTOREUMCastoreum, a great remedy for hysteria, is made from the dried follicles of Castor fiber, a beaver that can be found in Russia and America.
CERVUS CAMPESTRISBrazilian deer. Fresh skin covered in Brazilian deer hair; taste of doughy bread; numbness in the arm and legs on which the patient is lying; frequent pain in the left buttock and thigh; mottled face; coppery taste with heat in the throat while taking the medication; drowsiness and yawning after sleep.
FEL TAURIObstruction of the gall ducts, jaundice, increased duodenal secretion, emulsification of fats, and increased peristaltic action of the intestines are all treated with this substance, which is obtained from the gall bladder of the Oxgal animal. It also treats disordered digestion, diarrhea, and pain in the nape of the neck.
HIPPOMANES.The symptoms include increased sexual desire, prostatitis, drawing pain in the testicles, icy coldness in the stomach, sprained sensation in the wrist, and chorea. It is made from a sticky, mucoid substance with a urinous odor floating in the amniotic fluid of mares. It is also discovered attached to the membrane of the foetal organ of mares in the last month of pregnancy.
LAC CANNINUM—Dog’s milk, a blood-disordering remedy that also affects the kidneys, rectum, spleen, liver, and other solid organs through fatty degeneration of the liver, spleen, kidneys, and other solid organs. The main symptom of this remedy is erratic pain that alternates sides and feels like you’re walking on air or that your bed isn’t touching it when you’re lying down.
There is a high level of sexuality and sensuality. They are mischievous. They will delude, deceive, and lie to prevent a fall and loss of social position. There is a vulnerable feeling on their part. Fear is the marked feature. Fear of being taken by surprise with no chance of escape, fear of falling, fear of being blamed, fear of losing social position.
LAC FELINUM-Cat’s milk. Dysmenorrhea. Morbid conscientiousness, very little fault appeared a crime. Eye symptoms include ciliary neuralgia, photophobia, and asthenopia.
LAC HUMANUM—Human breast milk. Used to treat addictions and eating disorders. Conjunctivitis. Breast disorders. Swollen breasts before menstruation. Sadness during menstruation. Body weight changes easily. Hormone imbalance. Premenstrual syndrome. Indifference to everything. Lack of feeling. Mood swings. More sensitive senses. Flushes of heat upward.
LAC VACCINUMCow’s milk is a well-known remedy for rheumatism, which causes all of the body’s joints, particularly the knees, to feel weak and helpless, similar to when you’re half-intoxicated. Rheumatism also causes obstinate constipation and a headache that feels like it’s spreading throughout your body.
MEPHITES—Poisonous fluid secreted by anal glands present in Mephitis mephitica, an animal about the size of a cat.Spasmodic and whooping cough. Few paroxysms during the day, but many at night. Vomiting after eating. Violent spasmodic cough, worse at night. Sudden contraction of the glottis, when drinking or talking. Food that doesn’t go down right. Asthma that feels like inhaling sulphur. Mentally the person is highly excited and full of fantasies.
MOSCHUS—Musk from musk deer.A treatment for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc. Coldness. Tension in the muscles, skin, and mind. Imaginary suffering. Uncontrollable laughter. The characteristic condition is made worse by cold. There is a great sensitivity to air. There is a lot of nervous trembling.
ORCHITINUMSexual weakness following ovariotomy. Senile deterioration. Prepared from sheep testicular extract.
PULMO VULPISStrong, sonorous bubbling rales, persistent shortness of breath that triggers an asthma attack at the slightest motion, fresh lung of a wolf or fox.
SPHINGURUSThe most obvious symptoms include hair loss, especially hair from the whiskers, pain in the jaw joint and zygoma, itching of the pubic area after drinking tea, awkward speech, and nausea at the sight of food. Tree porcupine. Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.
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