Platanus.
Platanus acerifolia (“the tree commonly grown in and about London as
P. occidentalis.”–Treas. of Bot.). N. O. Platanaceć (of the Urtical alliance).
Tincture of young shoots.Clinical.─
Cataract. Ichthyosis.
Characteristics.─
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 Children) 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
Ř 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.]® 2000
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