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Blatta Orientalis

Indian Cockroach
10 sectionsBoericke · 2Clarke · 8

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • dyspnoea

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Indian Cockroach

A remedy for asthma. Especially when associated with bronchitis. Indicated after arsenic when this is insufficient.

Cough with dyspnoea in bronchitis and phthisis. Acts best in stout and corpulent patients. Much pus-like mucus.

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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

Contact with the caterpillars or the emanations from a nest of them causes

intense irritation, and hard, large, areola-formed tubercles, with a red areola, so thick as to leave

hardly any space between. Sometimes they are linear-formed; most marked near joints. Sensation

as if a foreign body were under the skin. Itching of whole body. Itching, evenings; not relieved

by anything. In one victim it caused frequent waking at night, and dreams that his arms were

being cauterised, and arrows thrust into the muscles. Burning heat of skin. In one case, that of a

boy who shook a large number of the caterpillars from a tree into his naked breast, it caused an

itching so severe that the boy had to run home for assistance; then fever, somnolency, delirium,

and finally death ensued.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

Sudden sensation through all his limbs as if he would be attacked with

apoplexy.—Violent and extremely painful cramps in the muscles of the limbs and

face.—Faintness while vomiting.—Limbs cold; cold sweat over whole body.

Bombyx Processionea.

  • Procession Moth.
  • N.
  • O.
  • Lepidoptera.
  • Tincture of live caterpillars.

Head

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Head feeling very light and hollow, with deep frontal headache and great faintness.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Sparks before eyes alternating with obscuration of vision.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.—Troublesome dryness in mouth and throat —Violent burning and

scraping in throat.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Teeth and gums very sore.—Tongue: white coat; thick yellow coat showing marks of

teeth.—Taste: flat; coppery; unnatural, of all food; lost.

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Unquenchable thirst.—Sudden desire to vomit; no nausea between

attacks.—Vomited twenty times in three hours.—Frightful pain in stomach.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool
Clarke

A profuse diarrhoea of blood, and of the mucous lining of the intestines.—Watery

evacuations.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Chilliness along spine with frequent hot flashes of fever—Disposition to yawn and

stretch when chilly.—Face hot and flushed with severe frontal headache.—Hands hot and

dry.—Waking at midnight two different nights in a profuse perspiration.

Boletus Satanas.

  • N.
  • O.
  • Fungi.
  • Trituration.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Lowest potencies during an attack. After the spasm, for the remaining cough, use the higher. Stop with improvement to prevent return of aggravation.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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