Platanus

Platanus acerifolia (" the tree commonly grown in and about London as P. occidentalis." — Treas, ofBoL). N. O. Platanaceae (of the Urtical alliance). Tincture of young shoots. OIlalOAl.-«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, 5J, "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 f 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.]