Geranium Maculatum

(OranesbiU.)

BOTABICAL Desckiption This plant is also known by the names of CraneslDill, Geraniiira, Spotted Geranium, Alum root, Crowfoot, etc. It has d perennial, horizontal, thick, rough, knobhy and fleshy root, witli short fibres, and sends up annually one or more erect, angular, or round, retroversely pubescent, herbaceous, dicholomous stems, from one to two feet high, and of a grayish green color. The leaves are spreading, hairy, palmate, with three, five or seven deeply cleft lobes, two leaves at each fork; tlie lobes are cuneiform and entire at the base, inclscly serrate above.

The radical-leaves are on hi ng petioles, erect and lerate ; the leaves at the top are opposite and subsesslle, and those at tlie middle of the stem are opposite, petiolate, and generally reflesed. The stipules are linear or lanceolate. The flowers are large and generally purple, mostly in pairs, on unequal pedicles, sometimes umbelled at the ends of the peduncles.

Officinal Pbepabations. — Tincture or trituration of the root.

Analogues. — Qallie anid, Tannic acid, Samamelia, FlttmbuTn, Ratanhia, Bheum.

[The tincture should be made with water and alcohol, equal parts. It contains 136 grs. of Tannic acid and 130 grs. of Gallic acid in 7,000 ^rs. of the root.]

(No prmitiffs.) ° Abnormal discharges from mucous surfaces, after the inflam

mation has subsided. ° Catarrhal ozcena; (used topically), ° Intestinal catarrh, chronic; (internally'). 'Leiicorrhoaa, vaginal; (topically). " Hfemorrhages from ulcerated surfaces.

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GKAPHALIOM rOLTCEPHALUM. 331

' Gonorrhoea and gleet; (as an injection.)

" Diabetes and Briglit's disease.

° Aphthous stomatitis and mercurial eahvation.

° All morbid flaxes connected with relaxation and debility,

{Bafinesque.) ° HtemoiThage from the kidneys ; equal to Gallic acid. {^Hale.) ° Catarrhal secretion, profuse, from the mucous membrane of

the fauces and posterior nares. " Chronic diarrhcea and dysentery.

[When used for tlie aliove named conditions it must be used in material doBea, generally topically as well as internally, because the drug would cause sucli disease by its secondary action. Its (opposite) primary effects would call for the liigli attenuations. (Hale.)]