Platanus

Sycamore-Buttonwood

• ▸Tarsal tumors.
• ▸Apply the tincture.
• ▸Both acute and old neglected cases, where destruction of tissue occurred and cicatricial contraction caused marked deformity of lid, restored to practically normal conditions.
• ▸Acts best in children.
• ▸Must be used for some time.
• ▸Ichtyosis.

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 R 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. ]