Indian cockroach. *N. 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, *Hom. Recorder, 1890, p. 254, 1891, 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 worse 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 dyspnoea.
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