Blatta Orientalis
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. I, p. 290
Indian cockroach, AT. O. Orthoptera. Trituration of live insect.
Clinical
Asthma. Bronchitis. Phthisis.
Characteristics
Found accidentally to relieve asthma in a patient who took tea in which a beetle had been infused ; it has since proved to have a wide range in asthmatic cases (Ray, Horn. Recorder, 1890, p. 254 ; 1801, p. 193). In the acute attack it acts better in low potencies ; the higher being given in the more chronic stages. It is especially suited to corpulent people ; and to malarial cases ; cases < in rainy weather. Has saved cases in which suffocation was threatened by great accumulation of mucus. Useful in cases of bronchitis and phthisis where there is much d]r8apnoea.