Geranium maculatum
Plant · Geraniaceae
Suited to patients prone to passive hemorrhage and atonic conditions of mucous membranes. The typical patient suffers from recurrent sick headaches, ulcerative tendencies in the stomach, and profuse bleeding from various orifices. Summer complaints, atonic ulcers, and weakened tissue states are characteristic of this remedy type.
Key symptoms
- Profuse hemorrhages from lungs and multiple organs
- Vomiting of blood with gastric ulceration
- Habitual sick headaches recurring periodically
- Giddiness with double vision, better closing eyes
- Chronic diarrhea with offensive mucus
- Menses too profuse; post-partum hemorrhage
- Catarrhal gastritis with passive hemorrhage and ulceration
- Constant urge to stool with inability to pass anything
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion and opening eyes aggravate dizziness and diplopia
- Eating worsens gastric symptoms
Better (amelioration)
- Closing eyes relieves giddiness and diplopia
Crane's-bill
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.
Wild Cranesbill. N. O. Geraniaceæ. Tincture and triturations of root. Infusion of the plant.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Diplopia. Dysentery. Hæmorrhages. Leucorrhœa. Stool, ineffectual urging to. Throat, sore.
Characteristics
There are two fragmentary provings of Geran. mac. one made with root preparations, one with infusion of the plant. The chief symptoms observed have been diplopia and other disorders of vision (these were observed by the prover of the decoction; the remaining symptoms resulted from the root preparation); and constant and ineffectual desire for stool. In the mother tinctures and lower attenuations it has been used successfully in cases of hæmorrhage from various parts─nose, stomach, lungs. Under the use of the drug the blood in hæmorrhages becomes darker, clots more easily, and is much less in quantity. The root contains both tannic and gallic acids. It has also been used for chronic diarrhœa and for leucorrhœa.
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