Blatta orientalis was found accidentally to relieve asthma and has since been proved to have a wide range in asthmatic cases. It is especially suited to corpulent people, and to malarial cases, and cases worse in rainy weather.

Mephitis (skunk) was given to a woman who could hardly get her breath and this helped her. Mephitis has been partly proved in 30th potency and caused distressing irritation of the throat, choking while drinking and talking and stinging and blurring of the eyes.