Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
643.14.10
643.14.10 Platanus occidentalis
Names: Platanus acerifolia. Platanus vulgaris.
English: Sycamore buttonwood; London plane tree.
Culture: a prominent tree in the square of many small villages in the Mediterranean.
Introduction
The theme is that of a protector of a village, a kind of mayor, official or unofficial. It looks very much like the Fagales. The difference is that it is more on a personal level, like friends in a small village.
Mind
Protector of the village, natural mayor.
Wants to give everyone in the village respect, food, a house and a happy family, to be good.
Aversion disharmony, fight, quarrels in the village.
General
Sensation: stabbing.
Time: < 1 pm.
Body
Eyes: blind, double cataract, << fall; lenses gradually silted up; eyelid nodules, cysts, scars, deformity, chalazia, meibomian cyst, steatoma, hordeolum, tarsal tumours.
Skin: ichthyosis; psoriasis.