Forest geranium, blood-red geranium, swamp geranium have practically the same medicinal properties. All of them have anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, astringent, pain-relieving, hemostatic effects. Herbs, flowers, and roots are used for medicinal purposes. They treat malignant neoplasms, bone fractures, gastritis, enteritis, diseases of the upper respiratory tract, food poisoning, dysentery, insomnia, epilepsy, rheumatism and gout, angina pectoris and tachycardia, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, angina, anal and genital fistulas, pustular skin lesions. A decoction of herbs is used to wash the head from alopecia - severe hair loss. Geranium can dissolve kidney and bladder stones. It is used internally in the treatment of malignant neoplasms, bone fractures, epilepsy, diseases of the upper respiratory tract, fever, gastritis, enteritis, food poisoning, dysentery, profuse and long-lasting menstruation and hemorrhoidal bleeding, urolithiasis, rheumatism, gout, heart diseases, externally in the treatment of purulent wounds, ulcers, abscesses, rheumatic pains in joints, anal and genital fistulas, angina, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, white hair, hair loss. Sometimes a water infusion of geranium is prescribed by doctors for internal bleeding. In traditional medicine, it is used as an infusion and decoction for insomnia, epilepsy, fever, rheumatism, against diarrhea, bleeding in women's diseases, eczema, toothache, scabies. Geranium powder stops bleeding. In Tibetan medicine, they are used to treat eye diseases, including blema. Geranium preparations have an antitoxic effect against snake venom, which confirms their use by Chinese doctors for snake bites.