Materia Medica
Geranium Maculatum
Crane's-ill
Crane's-bill Habitual sick headaches. Profuse, haemorrhages, 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 haemorrhage. Lessens the vomiting in gastric ulcer.
Stool
Constant desire to go to stool, with inability to pass anything for some time. Chronic diarrhoea, with offensive mucus. Constipation.
Female
Menses too profuse. Post-partum haemorrhage. Sore nipples (Eup arom).
Relationships
Compare: Geranin 1x. Constant hawking and spitting in elderly people. Erodium-Hemlock-Stork's bill--(a popular haemostatic 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.