Geranium Maculatum

Crane's-bill

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Habitual sick headaches. Profuse, hæmorrhages , pulmonary and from different organs. Vomiting of blood. Ulceration of stomach . Atonic and foul ulcers . Summer complaint.

Head

Giddiness, with diplopia; better, closing eyes. Ptosis and dilated pupils. Sick headache.

Mouth

Dry; tip of tongue burning. Pharyngitis.

Stomach

Catarrhal gastritis with profuse secretion, tendency to ulceration and passive hæmorrhage. Lessens the vomiting in gastric ulcer .

Stool

Constant desire to go to stool, with inability to pass anything for some time. Chronic diarrhœa, with offensive mucus. Constipation.

Female

Menses too profuse. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Sore nipples ( Eup arom ).

Relationship

Compare: Geranin 1x. Constant hawking and spitting in elderly people. Erodium -Hemlock-Stork's bill--(a popular hæmostatic in Russia, and especially used for metrorrhagia and menorrhagia); Hydrastinin; Cinch; Sabin .

Dose

Tincture, half-dram doses in gastric ulcer. Tincture, to third attenuation, as a general rule. Locally, in ulcers, it will destroy the pyogenic membrane.

Geranium Maculatum across the other classic books

Geranium Maculatum appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Geranium maculatum, Linn. Natural order , Geraniaceæ. Common name , Wild Cranesbill. Preparation , Tincture and triturations of the root. Authority. Dr. E. C. Beckwith's proving, doses (except "one powder of the 2d") not specified; Ohio Med. and Surg. Reporter, 4, 127. Slight pain in the occipital, low down. Fulness…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Wild Cranesbill. N. O. Geraniaceæ. Tincture and triturations of root. Infusion of the plant. Diarrhœa / Diplopia / Dysentery / Hæmorrhages / Leucorrhœa / Stool, ineffectual urging to / Throat, sore There are two fragmentary provings of Geran. mac. one made with root preparations, one with infusion of the plant. The…”

Geranium Maculatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Geranium Maculatum in 2 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

EYE - FULLNESS,sensation of
VISION - DIPLOPIA

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