AVENA SATIVA - Tincture of fresh plant in flower.

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS
Avena sativa
Oat.
N.O. Graminae.
Tincture of fresh plant in flower.
An alkaloid, Avenin (C56 H21 NO18), has been isolated from oats. It is easily soluble in alcohol. No clinical observations with this have been recorded.
The essential features
We can prescribe this remedy in mother tincture on the following indications, until we find a case that improves dramatically under the tincture. From then onwards we can select more refined information and indications in order to be able to prescribe in a truly homeopathic way. It is perhaps worth trying Avena sativa in cases of sexual neurasthenia, in older people, where such remedies as Onosmodium, Selenium, Kali-phos., Natr-phos. etc have been prescribed without effect.
Avena Sativa is said to improve the nutrition of brain and nervous system. It may be of some service perhaps in nervous exhaustion, sexual debility; debility after exhausting diseases. Nervous tremors of the aged. Inability to keep the mind fixed on any one subject especially when due to masturbation. Bad effects of morphine habit. Insomnia.
Avena has been used empirically in substantial doses (5 to 15 drops of the tincture, preferably in hot water) in a large number of cases of nerve weakness. The leading indications are: Irregularities of the male sexual system. Nervous exhaustion. General debility. Nervous palpitation. Insomnia. Inability to keep the mind fixed on any one subject, especially when due to masturbation or sexual irregularities.
In the text it says: "It is most valuable in enabling a patient to overcome the morphine habit. It appears to exert the same kind of soothing action, without creating a habit of its own. When not more than four grains of morphine have been taken daily it may be discontinued abruptly, 15 drops of Avena in a wineglass of hot water being given four times a day instead." Such information of course has to be taken with suspicion and reservation but nonetheless may be tried in practice when the occasion arises.
The only symptom that has been observed to be caused by it is a pain at the base of the brain from 20-drop doses.
A tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. Influenza. Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics. Nervous states of many female troubles.
Generalities
Genitalia - male
Spermatorrhoea: impotency; after too much indulgence.
Relationship
Compare: Alfalfa. (General tonic similar to Avena -also in scanty and suppressed urine.)
Clinical
Debility. Influenza. Sexual neurasthenia. Exhaustion from morphine habit. Sexual excess. Sleeplessness.
Dosage
From 1x to the highest.

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