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JONATHAN HARDY ¦ LAC HUMANUM | LAC LUPINUM SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY 43
ADDICTION ¦ EATING | HEROIN
JONATHAN HARDY
studied zoology at Oxford and
then medicine at Southampton
University. Since 1986, he has been
working both in private practice
and in the National Health Service
as a homeopath.
Together with a team of expe-
rienced acupuncturists, chiroprac-
tors, and psychotherapists, he
runs an interdisciplinary clinic. Hardy is a fellow of the
Faculty of Homeopathy in Britain and a member of its
International Teaching Group. He gives seminars both in
the UK and abroad.
Contact: Dr Jonathan Hardy, The Homeopathic Clinic in
13a North Street, Havant Hampshire, UK. PO9 1PW. Phone:
0044 23 9247 1757.
Specific remedy themes
• Awareness of danger
• Intruders
• Saving others
• Sociability
Remedy rubrics
• Delusions: depending, everything is depending on him (2)
(Protecting the household when she was only eight years old!)
• Dreams: intruders, sees (2) (Not her exact experience but she
says she must protect the household “if anyone comes into
the house”)
• Dreams: animals of, bears (5)
• Dreams: saving others (6)
• Discontented: others, with (6) (She was very critical of her
mother)
• Disoriented with everything (13)
• Sociability (14)
• Dreams: danger: escaping from a (19)
• Dreams: water: dangerous (20)
• Chaotic (73)
Prescription: The remedy is Lac lupinum, wolf’s milk.
Nancy Herrick has given us a wonderful proving of Lac lupinum.2
A number of themes in the proving which this case demon-
strates include:
• Sociability
• Awareness of danger but unafraid – even relishing it
• Chaotic
What is most interesting when she talks of animals is her love
of community, working well in a group and hierarchy. Most
telling is then how she spontaneously jumps to speaking of
herself and her own life in the school where she works and
how she likes there to be harmony and community spirit. This
identification with the source is crucial, especially when it hap-
pens in a spontaneous and often unconscious way. When she
speaks of horses it is the aspect of being in a group which
she emphasizes. When patients name an animal it may be
their remedy but often it is not – in any case it is what they
emphasize as important to them about the creature which is
of interest to us.
Prescription: Lac lupinum 1M, single dose
FOLLOW-UP AFTER THREE WEEKS
The cravings have gone.
Very good.
It’s a relief.
How have you been?
OK.
When did the cravings go?
After I had the remedy. Is that what it was for?
It is for everything, but especially for that.
Yes, the cravings for heroin went. I haven’t used any and I
haven’t wanted any.
Anything else you have noticed since taking it?
I have started to calm down again. I have had more energy.
And that feeling freezing cold all the time?
Yes, that’s gone.
And the craving for warmth and satisfaction and comfort?
It’s all better. Yes, the cravings are an awful lot better and I
have warmed up
Very good.
I am waking up before the alarm, whereas before I was sleeping
through my alarm regularly. I am more organized. I am getting the
kids to school on time. I feel an awful lot better. I am adjusting
to life without heroin.
Comments: I kept in touch with this patient for seven years
since she first came. She has been well, living a normal life and
she has remained off heroin.
2 Nancy Herrick, “Animal Mind, Human Voices – Provings of Eight New Animal
Remedies“, Narayana Publishers