Materia Medica
Avena Sativa
Common Oat
Common Oat Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive function. Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call for this remedy in rather material dosage. Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Rheumatism of heart. Colds. Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot water hourly for a few doses). Alcoholism. Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics. Bad effects of Morphine habit. Nervous states of many female troubles.
Mind
Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
Head
Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Female
Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea, with weak circulation.
Male
Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too much indulgence.
Extremities
Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. Strength of hand diminished.
Relationships
Compare: Alfalfa (General tonic similar to avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine).
Dose
Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, preferably in hot water.