The great American cockroach, probably Kakerlac insignis. N. O. Orthoptera. Trituration of live insect with sacch. lact.
Clinical
Asthma. Dropsy. Jaundice.
Characteristics
*Blat. Amer. has been used as a remedy for dropsy, and has a popular reputation in jaundice. It was proved by Mure, and developed symptoms of jaundice, yellow sclerotics. Heat in urethra when urinating (showing a relation to *Cantharis). Pain shifting from back (right) to shoulder-blade.Acute pain in chest with want of breath (*B. orient.). General prostration and weariness on going upstairs.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica