Materia Medica
Avena Sativa
Common Oat
Has a elective action on brain and nervous system, favorably infuencing their nutritive function. Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the mor- phine habit call for this remedy in rather material dos- ge. Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. ' Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, 115 epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Rheumatism of
Mind
Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
Head
Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phos- phatic urine.
Male
Spermatorrhoea ; impotency; after too much indulgence.
Female
Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhcea, with weak circulation.
Heart
Colds. Alcoholism. Sleeplessness, especially oi alcoholics. Bad effects of Morphine habit. Nervous states of many female troulles.
Extremities
Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. Strength of hand diminished.
Relationships
Compare: Alfalfa. (General tonic similar to avend -- also in scanty and suppressed urine.)
Dose
Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, prefei- ably in hot water.