Blatta orientalis Anhang
Is said to
have been introduced into the materia medica when a man's asthma miraculously
improved and he later found a cockroach had fallen into his teapot. There was a
proving in Mumbai in 1995 by Dr Munjal Thakar.
The
cockroach is a flightless insect that runs very fast. Ancient insects virtually
unchanged in millions of years and are extremely hardy. They can survive
radiation doses 100 times those fatal to humans. They can live without
food for a month
and without water for a fortnight. If one's head is cut off it continues to
live and only dies from a lack of water and food up to ten days later. They are
pests causing damage and contamination to food äs well
as
consuming it and they have a very disagreeable odour. Cockroaches contain
similar allergens to shellfish and their body parts in the air can cause
asthma.
The
strengest feature of the cockroach remedy is a sense of indifference and a
numbness that was felt throughout. Provers felt they were less likely to get
angry or upset and there was a lack of feeling to friends and family members.
They felt
physically numb and there was also a lack of facial expression.
The provers
did not want to talk or interact with other people and were extremely irritable,
acting with irritation and anger to anyone who tried to interact with them.
They are abrupt and curt but with a feeling of remorse.
Blatta finds
transformation and freedom through work and particularly through professional
Status and respect. They want to excel in what they do and to be a good person,
not so much for its own sake but for the respect and even the
veneration
that it will bring them. This will give them not only worth and Status but also
identity. They are prevented from achieving this because they tend to use
underhand or at least less than admirable methods to attain their ends and they
feel incredibly guilty and remorseful about this.
They feel
bad and dirty and this is something that they cannot escape. The more they
strive to achieve an honourable place the more they have to use dishonourable
means.
Work and professional
Status are very important. They want very much to be noticed, respected and
honoured for their work. They want to wear fine clothes and look good so that
they look professional and are admired and respected. They desire to be adored
and praised but especially in their professional capacity and they show a
reciprocal respect and veneration to their teachers. They show a degree of
professional jealousy and are prepared to be argumentative
and
underhand in order to be noticed. Part of this comes out of a feeling of
lacking identity and there is a striving to find their identity, particularly
professional identity.
There is a
desire to be a good person and remorse that they are not. They use deception
and the tricks of the trade in order to enhance their professional position,
but they feel very badly about it.
Sexually
they can be numb and indifferent. However, they can also be completely
overwhelmed by sex and particularly by perverse dimensions of sex which are a
feature of all the Insect remedies.
There can
be a sudden sexual excitement with a desire to talk in a vulgar way and a fear
that he would lose control and do something terrible to his girlfriend in a
sexual way. There was losing control of his sexual thoughts and saying
things he
had not meant to say. Along with this is a sense of being dirty or bad and
great remorse and guilt. There is a very peculiar sexual symptom with sudden
sexual desire and a feeling both emotional and physical of already having had
sex and having ejaculated.
The feeling
of being bad and dirty is widespread and applies both physically and
emotionally. The tongue and skin can be described as dirty. And there is an
overwhelming feeling of guilt.
It is
important to them that things are done in a systematic and organized way. They
had to do things right away, could not put them off and could not rest and laze
around until everything had been properly done.
The remedy
is very sensitive to cold and < damp and cold and particularly form the
mouldy smells of autumn. Taking cold leads to deep bronchitis.
The
oppression of the chest is severe and exhausting. The cough is hacking and
unproductive and leads to complete exhaustion and profuse cold perspiration
without being able to clear the lungs. The patient has to be propped up as
lying down
would lead to suffocation. They also feel suffocated by clothing, bed clothes
and being indoors.
Although
very sensitive to cold the patient is very hot and is said to radiate heat.
They want to throw off bedclothes, be fanned, undressed, go outside and take a
cold bath. Pains are generally burning in nature.
The patient,
like the insect, is photophobic and needs to close the eyes in sunlight. They
are also nocturnal: feeling sleepy during the day and alert at night.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum