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.
