AVENA SATIVA

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

  • Amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, with weak circulation.

Male

  • Spermatorrhea; impotency; after too much indulgence.

Extremities

  • Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed. 
  • Strength of hand diminished.

Relationship

  • Compare: Alfalfa (General tonic similar to avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine).

Dose

  • Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, preferably in hot water.