• Asthma usually in the obese, with much dyspnoea, rattling mucous
• Worse exertion, ascending
• Worse damp, rainy weather

Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Indian cockroach
Family: Orthroptera
Prover: Dr D.N. Ray of Calcutta
Duration of Action: Short acting

Introduction and History: Blatta orientalis was found accidentally to relieve asthma in a patient who took tea in which a cockroach had being infused. In an acute attack it acts much better in lower potencies, the higher being given in more chronic stages.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared by triturating live insects with sugar of milk.

Constitution and Physiognomy: Obesity. It is especially suited to corpulent people and to malarial cases, worse in rainy weather. Asthmatic constitutions.

Ailments From: Rainy weather.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology): Patient has anxiety about health.

Important Characteristic Features

(1) Asthma

(i) There are asthmatic attacks with shortness of breath, worse at night.

(ii) Feeling of suffocation from great accumulation of mucous.

(iii) Cough with purulent, tough, viscid, yellow expectoration, which
ameliorates.

(2) Knee: There is weakness in the hollow of the knee.

Characteristic Particular Guiding Symptoms

Asthma: It is a remedy for asthma especially associated with bronchitis. It acts best in stout and corpulent patients. There is much pus-like mucous; suffocation threatened by accumulation of mucous. It is useful in cases of bronchitis and tuberculosis where there is much shortness of breath. Cough with dyspnoea in bronchitis and tuberculosis.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Bronchitis, Obesity, Tuberculosis.