AVENA SATIVA
Common Oat
Has a selective motion on intelligence and worried system, favorably influencing their nutritive function.
Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine dependancy name for this treatment in alternatively cloth dosage. Best tonic for debility after arduous diseases. Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Rheumatism of heart. Colds. Acute coryza (20 drop doses in warm water hourly for a few doses). Alcoholism. Sleeplessness, in particular of alcoholics. Bad results of Morphine habit. Nervous states of many woman troubles.
Mind.–Inability to maintain thought on any one subject.
Head.–Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at pinnacle of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Female.–Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea, with vulnerable circulation.
Male.–Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too an awful lot indulgence.
Extremities.–Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. Strength of hand diminished.
Relationship.–Compare: Alfalfa (General tonic comparable to avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine).
Dose.–Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, ideally in warm water.