{"id":667,"remedy_name":"Blatta Orientalis","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Blattaorientalis was found accidentally to relieve asthma in a patient who took tea in which \na cockroach had been infused. More effective in low potencies for acute attacks, the higher potencies being \ngiven in the more chronic stages. \nAsthma, especially when associated with bronc hitis (after Ars., when it is insufficient). Acts best in stout and \ncorpulent patients. Much pus-like yellow mucus. Threatened suffocation threatened by great accumulation \nof mucus. \nAsthmatic fits at night, coughs during the day with slight expectoration and hurried breathing. \nBronchitis and tuberculosis, with short - nessofbreath. Cough withdyspnea  in bron chitis and tuberculosis. \nChronic bronchitis. Colds that bring on bronchitis with fever, may develop into asthma. Emaciation.","modalities":"Worse from dust. Worse during the rain. Worse winter  \nCOMMENTS - Asthma with a lot of mu cus and rattling, yellow brown phlegm (Nat -s.). Bronchitis with yellow \nmucus, difficulty breathing. Keynote wor se dust (Sil.), sensitivity to dust (Poth.), especially in dry climates. \nGreat oppression of the chest, \u201cas if a weight or a heaviness on the chest,\u201d with asthma. \u201cFeeble lungs,\u201d totally \ninability to expectorate the thick, yellow mucus (Hydr.). \nEasier breathing with head bend forward or supporting head with elbows while sitting. Must sit up in bed. Loud, \ncoarse wheezing, like a saw through pinewood. Spasmodic, debilitatingcoughs.Greatfearof suffocation and \ndying. Lack of ambition to live, great weariness in this remedy. \nClammy, cold sweat. General swelling of the body. Tends to stooped shoulders, bar rel-chest. Bronchial \nspasms. Locked jaws. Unconsciousness. \nUsed in tuberculosis epidemics, especially the last stages. Characteristic lung weakness, the doctor would \nhave to put their ear next to the person's mouth to hear the case (Stann.).  \nAggravated at 9:00 p.m. (Cham., Bell.). \nDr. Ray recorded a case, one of the first for this remedy, in which a man had a 25 -year history of severe \nasthma cured with Blatta. He was emaciated, had nightly attacks, troublesome cough and very frothy mucus. \nWorse lying down. Stooped shoulders and a stiff neck. Despaired, feeble, could not expectorate, speechless, \nso weak he could not talk (Stann.). \nAnshutz recorded 4 cases concernin g the use of Blatta. The first, \u201cA young man, aged thirty -four, had been \nsuffering from asthma for some years. He was invariably worse during the rains and the winter and chronic \nbronchitis was almost a constant accompani ment. He tried allopathic and lots  of patent drugs with only \ntemporary amelioration of the trouble. At last in November, 1888, he came to my office.  \n\u201cOn examination of his chest I found there was a chronic bronchitis. He said that slight difficulty of breathing \nwith hacking cough used to t rouble him every night, besides a cold would be followed by a severe attack of \nasthma, so its periodicity of recurrence was irregular. 1 treated him with Ipecac, Arsenicum alb., etc. The first-\nnamed medicine did him the most good, but he never got entirely well. \n\u201cIn July, 1889 I put him under tincture Blatta orientalis 3x, drop doses, three or four times daily. Under its use \nhe began to improve steadily and had only two or three attacks of asthmatic fits since he used this drug, which \nwere promptly relieved by the same drug in lx potency. \n\u201cEuphrasia off. was prescribed for his cold whenever he had it. He is free from all trouble for the last year and \n \n \na half. His general condition is so much changed that there is no apprehension of the recurrence of his former \nillness.\u201d \nThe second case, \u201cA shoemaker, aged forty-two, robust constitution, has been suffering with asthma for three \nor four years. He came to my office on the 6th of November, 1890. He had been getting asthmatic fits almost \nevery night since October  last. Dur ing the day a troublesome cough comes with slight expectoration and \nhurried breathing, \nmade him unable to attend his business. \n\u201cTincture Blatta orientalis lx, one drop doses, six times daily, was given. The very first day he perceived the \ngood effect of the medicine and continued the same for a month, when he got well and discontinued the \nmedicine. He has been keeping well ever since.\u201d \nAnshutz's third case concerned \u201cA gentle man, the keeper of a common shop, aged forty -four, belonging to a \nvillage, had been suffering from asthma for the last eight years and had always been under treatment of native \nkabiraj (medical men). In June, he came to the city and I was called to see him on the 14th of June to treat him \nfor his asthma. The day previous he had an attack, for which he took no medicine. Each of his attacks usually \nlasted four or five days. \n\u201cI gave him Blatta orientalis 1 x trituration., one grain every two hours and left him six such powders to be taken \nduring the day. He took them and felt bet ter the next day. He stayed here two or three days more and when \nwell he wanted to proceed home, which was some couple of hundred miles. \n\u201cHe took with him two drachm phials of Blatta orientalis, one of lx and the other of 3x trituration. He continued \nthe 3x, one grain doses, two or three times daily, for a month and discontinued afterward. He had no more \nasthmatic fits. \n\u201cIn January last, 1891,1 had a letter from him, thanking me for his recovery and asking for some of the same \nmedicine for a friend of his, who had been suffering from asthma. The friend of his who used the same drug, \nBlatta orientalis, was equally benefited.\u201d \nThe fourth case, \u201cMrs. Datta, a thin lady, aged thirty -eight, mother of several children, had been exposed to \ncold, which brought on an  attack of bronchitis with fever. This in the course of a fortnight, developed into a \nregular fit of asthma. \n\u201cShe was all this time treated by an old school physician, but when the husband of the lady saw that she was \ndaily getting worse and a new disease crept in, he made up his mind to change the treatment, I was called to \nsee her in the morning of the 8th of June, 1890. \n\u201cShe became very much emaciated, could not take any food, had fever with acute bronchitis, hurried \nrespiration, difficulty of breathing,  this she was complaining of bit terly, owing to which she could not lie down \nin bed, but had to sit up day and night. There was a prolonged fit of spasmodic cough at short intervals with \nslight expectoration, but these coughing fits would make her almost breathless. \n\u201cThis was the first time I prescribed Blatta orientalis lx in a case of asthma with fever and acute bronchitis. It \nanswered my purpose well. She had only ten powders during the day and passed a comparatively better night. \n\u201cNext morning when I saw her she was better except the coughing fits, which were continuing as before. The \nsame medicine was repeated. On the 10th of June she had no asthmatic trouble at night, but there was not \nmuch improvement in her cough, Ant-t. and Bry. were needed to complete the cure.\u201d","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Anxiety about health. Anxiety about health.","Chest":"Chronic inflammation of bronchial tubes. \nConstitutions - Obesity, suited to corpulent people. Malarial cases and cases worse in rainy weather. \nAsthmatic constitutions. Severe chronic asthma. Shortness of breath. Difficult breathing, better from expectoration. \nSuffocation from great ac cumulation of mucus.  Purulent tough, vis cid, yellow mucus. Cough with \ndyspnea. Pneumonia. Bronchitis and tuberculosis. Spasmodic cough at  short intervals with slight \nexpectoration.","Extremities":"Weakness in hollow of knee."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}