Platanus

      Platanus acerifolia (“the tree commonly grown in and about London as P. occidentalis. *”Trees. Of Bot.). *N.O. Platanaceae (of the Urtica 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 O was given (five drops nigh and morning) for a number of months, “with very evident improvement in the nutrition of the child’s lenses.” Burnett names the remedy *Platina occ., but his tincture was made from the London tree, which is *Platina acer. It sheds its bark annually, which was the signature of its skin action.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica