Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
653.13.00
653.13.00 Geraniaceae
English: Geranium family; Cranesbills.
French: Geraniacees.
Genera: California, Erodium, Geranium, Hypseocharis, Monsonia, Pelargonium, Sarcocaulon.
Botany: ± 10 genera; 800 species; temperate; Erodium, Geranium and Pelargonium are distinguished by the number of stamens or anthers: five for Erodium, seven for Pelargonium and ten for Geranium; fruit resembles long bird-beaks, Geranium evokes the crane, Pelargonium the stork and Erodium the heron.
Introduction
They want to have a happy family together, where everyone is accepted and loved. They have a strong aversion to disharmony and quarrels. They like to do everything for a good atmosphere. They work hard, want a good income, like to do the housework. They have a tendency to give of themselves. It looks sometimes as if they do not have a life for themselves and they do not care about it.
Less obvious is their desire to be seen and respected for what they do. They like to be seen as unique and with special talents and insights. But they often lack the power and self-confidence to bring that side to the fore. They fear being excluded if they show their uniqueness, their desire to radiate. So they just adapt to what the rest of the group expects of them or to what they think others expect of them.
They often come from a broken family. Their parents were not happy together, had a lot of quarrels. They themselves often did not feel loved. It may be that they were adopted. Or they were the result of an adulterous relationship, so that the father could not really accept them as his.
Secrets in the family can give rise to discords, without the people knowing where they come from.
Mind
Desire for a happy family; domestic happiness.
Desire for a nice time with family and friends, to have work together.
Lost illusions; disillusioned.
Desire for meeting people, to make contacts, find love but often choose the wrong people.
Naïve openness.
Work much, hard, manual work.
Desire: exertion, activity, strength, effort, exertion.
Friendly.
Intertwined, fulfilling expectations.
General
Sensation: raw, burning.
Desire: vegetables.
Weather: chilly.
Body
Energy: exhaustion, weakness, lassitude, prostration, immobility, < exertion.
Discharge: haemorrhages.
Head: headache.
Eyes: lids inflammation.
Mouth: tongue pain.
Heart: disease.
Chest: breast pain, < before menses, cysts.
Rectum: diarrhoea, dysentery.
Urinary: ureter inflammation.
Female: menses copious, painful, bright red; menorrhagia, metrorrhagia.