Lacs

From the Book

A Search for a deeper understanding and the themes of the most frequently used Lac remedies. Expanded with pathogenesis, natural history, provings and clinical cases.

This new book by Farokh J. Master is compiled from his seminars where he talked about the Lac remedies. It contains the full seminar text, including the 500 Powerpoint slides. The text is then edited and expanded with more information and cases.

The remedies being discussed are: Lac humanum, Lac equinum, Lac delphinum, Lac caprinum, Lac leoninum, Lac caninum, Lac felinum, Lac vac defloratum, and Lac lupinum.

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Author

Farokh Master, MD

(1957 -     )

Dr. Farokh Master was born on February 24th 1957, in Mumbai, India.

He studied homeopathy at the L.C.E.H.(Goldmedallist) and M.D.(Hom.) (University of Rajasthan) Dr. Master practices classical homeopathy full time since 1980. He has taught since 1980 in India, UK, USA, Canada, Norway, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Germany.

He is affiliated with the Hahnemann College of Homoeopathy (UK, Canada), London College of Homoeopathy (UK), Norks Akademi for Natumedisin (Oslo), Small Poland Homoeopathic Physicians Associations (Krakow), Magyar Homoeopata Orvosi Egyesulet (Budapest), Osterrichische Gesellschaft fur Homoeopathische Medizin (Vienna).

He is professor of Homeopathic Materia Medica at the Homeopathic Medical College in Bombay. He has authored over 30 books on various homeopathic subjects. Dr. Master is the editor of Homoeopathic Heritage, India. He is also a member of the Central Council of Homoeopathy, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Government of India.

His most important publications are:

• Mysterious Thuja
• Mr. Lycopodium.
• Lactose Intolerance
• Tumours and Homoeopathy
• The Fascinating Fungi.
• Cervical Spondylosis.
• St. Ignatius Bean
• Tuberculines and Tubercular Miasm
• Practical Clinical Neurology.
• Agitated Argentums.
• The Bedside Organon of Medicine.
• Homoeopathic Dictionary of Dreams
• The Web Spinners.
• Naja Naja Naja
• Snakes in Homoeopathic Grass.
• Cross References of the Mind.
• Perceiving the Rubrics of the Mind.
• Suppressed Staphysagria.
• State of Mind That Affects the Foetus.
• Clinical Observations of Children's remedies

In the fall of 2000 Dr. Master presented two weekend seminars in the United States, one on Cancer and one on Pediatric Care. WholeHealthNow is offering complete sets of audio tapes of both seminars. Click on this link for more information: Farokh Master Seminar tapes.

RECENT US SEMINARS

Dr. Master presented two more US seminars in March and April, 2003, covering Management of Acute Disease, the Significance of Dreams, and Translating the Language of the Patient into the Language of the Repertory. WholeHealthNow is happy to provide the PowerPoint files from several of his presentations along with several audio files that can be integrated into your RADAR software.

Farokh Master Seminars - Powerpoint Files and audio files for RADAR.

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Reviews

From
THE HOMEOPATH
Reviewed by Mary English

Farokh Master founded the Homoeopathic Health Clinic in Bombay, where he still works; he has gained hands-on experience of the remedies that he writes about in his new book. He is medically trained, and through his work in the Bombay Clinic he comes across a wide range of pathology that we in the UK rarely see.

I recently met him during a teaching weekend in Bath, and he came across as a friendly, sincere individual, whose homeopathic knowledge is extensive.

So far, so good. The book, which discusses 12 Lac remedies, is largely based on a PowerPoint demonstration that Dr Master shows, as part of his lectures, to homeopathic students all over the world. Around 80 pages are devoted to this demonstration, but in my opinion it doesn't carry over well in the form of a printed medium.

Although it may well be very good as a teaching aid, PowerPoint leaves much to be desired when presented in the flat, two dimensions of the printed page.

The whole book took two days, on and off, to read from cover-to-cover. It is full of very new and interesting information. Take, for instance, the proving of goat's milk - Lac caprinum. The remedy shares many features of the astrological sign of Capricorn.

One prominent feature of the star sign is that people born under its influence tend to take some time to achieve success in life. This same quality can be seen in the first proving, done in 1996 by Kees Dam and Yvonne Lassauw:

"In the proving I also saw that the person wants a high position. Such a high position that nobody can come above you and you are the only one who is in control (this is the most safe position for him)...

"People dreamt of going upstairs, on the roof, on the terrace, on the highest peak of the house because they thought it was the safest place. In another way we can also explain that a high social position is just as safe and you have to keep up to that at every cost because it is life saving.

"In Lac caprinum, to come to a high post, or high position, is not out of ambition or love of power, but it arises from insecurity. The person wants security because there is a threat."

There is no shortage of such information in this publication. Farokh covers the themes of the remedies, and he compares them to each other, sometimes adding information from his own cases.

He also explores remedy relationships of the various 'milks'. He examines the origins of the remedies, and stresses the necessity of studying the physiology of the reproductive tract if we are to truly understand them. For example, he characterizes menstruation as a "disappointment", which is a new slant on the subject:

"But then, if there is no fertilization, the corpus luteum degenerates, and also the build up in the uterus the stromal tissue, the glands, the blood vessels which had multiplied and were enlarged (ready to receive the ovum) is 'disappointed' at the level of the uterine cavity. Then on the 20th day the membranes of the endometrium are shredded because the influence of hormones no longer exists: this is menstruation

"So one theme that has a very strong presence in most of the Lacs that of disappointment If you look in the repertory, however, you will see that not a single Lac remedy is mentioned in the rubric 'Mind, Ailments from, Disappointment' - or, indeed, in any of its sub-rubrics. However in practice we have seen enough Lac patients who have disappointment"

Continuing with this theme of disappointment, Dr Master shows us that many of the Lacs can be found, "in the rubric 'Abuse, ailments from"'. He then goes on to describe how some animals have been 'abused' by domestication to make them adjust to our society.

He then discusses the physiology of the mammary glands. I got a little rankled when I read: "Breasts are nothing but modified sweat glands that produce milk". I would have preferred the word 'nothing' to not have been used: - I'm sure any mother who has breast-fed her child will agree with me there!

Further discussion centres on what sort of pathology the Lacs are useful for, with especial emphasis on Freud's ideas of psychosexual development.

One slight problem with the book is a linguistic one: - I found it distracting to read a passage, and then be stopped by the grammar, punctuation or spelling. I like to be able to read words that flow. This didn't flow, it plopped.

What is needed is the careful eye of an editor, or at least a proofreader who has English as a first language. On the other hand though, I'm sure I couldn't write anything in another language, least of all more than 30 publications in English, which is what Farokh Master has achieved to date.

By way of an afterthought, I must mention that during the week I was reviewing the book, I came across a case of Lac humanum in my practice. Having just read the book made it much easier for me to see the prescription. (Only time will tell if the prescription was correct!)

So, if you know nothing about the Lacs, this book might be a good introduction, as it covers the basics all in one volume. If you are rusty, maybe now is the time to refresh your knowledge.

Reprinted with permission from the Society of Homeopaths

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Contents

Seminar Text Belonging to the Powerpoint Presentation -- 1-1
Introducing Lac Remedies -- 2-40
Powerpoint Presentation Slides -- 41-120
More Details and presented Cases -- 121-121

Lac Humanum -- 122-125
Lac Equinum -- 126-129
Lac Delphinum -- 130-136
Lac Caprinum -- 137-140
Lac Leoninum -- 141-155
Lac Caninum -- 156-171
Lac Felinum -- 172-175
Lac Vaccinum Defloratum -- 176-185
Lac Lupinum -- 186-194

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