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Avena Sativa

Common Oat
10 sectionsBoericke · 8Clarke · 2

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Morphine

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

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.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

A vena 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. 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. 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.

An alkaloid, Avenin (Css H21 NOi18), has been isolated from oats. It is easily soluble in alcohol.

No clinical observations with this have been recorded.

Aviaire.

A preparation of chicken-tuberculosis introduced by Dr. Cartier and other homeopaths of

Mentals

Mind
Boericke

Inability to keep mind on any one subject.

Head

Head
Boericke

Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.

Female

Female
Boericke

Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea, with weak circulation.

Male

Male
Boericke

Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too much indulgence.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

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

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Alcoholism.
  • Cholera.
  • Debility.
  • Influenza.
  • Neurasthenia.
  • Opium habit.
  • Palpitation.

Sexual excess. Sleeplessness. Tuberculosis.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke

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

Posology

Dose
Boericke

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

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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