Other names and synonyms
platan.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Platanus acerifolia ( the tree commonly grown in and about London as P. occidentalis. Treas. of вot. N. O. Platanaceae (of the Urtical alliance). Tincture of young shoots.
Nosology
Cataract. Ichthyosis.
Typical features
Burnett has recorded (Dis. of Skin) a case of ichthyosis in an aged lady, in which Platanus caused considerable improvement in the condition of the skin. Another case (Delicate сhildren) was that of a girl, 5 1/2, of the coal-black variety of the strumous, her forehead low and projecting, who was blind from double cataract due to the shock of a fall in the first instance, the lenses having gradually silted up. In this case Platanus Ø was given (five drops night and morning) for a number of months, with very evident improvement in the nutrition of the child s lenses. Burnett names the remedy Plat occ.; but his tincture was made from the London tree, which is Plat. acer. It sheds its bark annually, which was the signature of its skin action.