Avena sativa
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
General
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.
Head
Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Male
Spermatorrhœa; impotency; after too much indulgence.
Female
Amenorrhœa and dysmenorrhœa, with weak circulation.
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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Avena sativa — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/avena-sativa. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.