Avena-sativa
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1993 Jul / Aug Vol II No 4.
Dr Tarkas P I.
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Acts on the brain and nerves disturbing depressingly their nutrition, and later, general nutrition. Hence a tonic par excellence for nervous exhaustion, fatigue. Also a sedative. Asthenic stage or after stage of convalescence, infection or exanthematous diseases.
Make up: Brain workers. Persons oppressed by tension, cares, and worries. Addicts (of alcohol, opium, morphine and tobacco) Onanists and indulges in sex. Broken down by acute diseases. Aged (declining, shaky, tottering, failing vegetative functions). Neurotics.
Weakness. Cerebral asthenia (brain fag). Neuroaesthenia. Asthenic (i.e. later) stage of infections, inflammatory or eruptive (feeble development of exanthema) diseases, or during convalescence thereof. (e.g. cholera, influenza TB, diptheria). Nervous exhaustion from : addictions, sexual excesses, brain work, worry, anxiety, oldage (with wasting), exhausting diseases. - Lameness, especially of hands.
Paresis. Local, paralysis after diptheria. Nerve tremors or paralysis agitans, of aged, of onanists or convalescents.
Numbness of limbs as if paralysed
Chorea
Hysteria
Epilepsy
Emaciation: pthisical of aged.
Melancholia.
Peevishness. Lack of concentration (Alet). Vagaries of thought (or fancies). Loss of
initiative; of the will to get well and resume ones work (Dr. Bach).
Nervous headaches. Occipital pain. Burning of vertex (Menstrual). Brain fag (Lec).
Incipient colds. Acute coryza.
Torpor of digestive functions. Troubles in precordium during ingestion (Lyc);
gastro-cardiac syndromes (Pseudo-angina pectoris, hysterical angina pectoris or splenic
flexure syndrome). Nervous dyspepsia (Alet, Alf)
Phosphaturia (Alf, Aspar, Lec)
Spermatorrhoea. Functional irregularities (like impotency, i.e. sexual neuresthenia) after
onanism, excess or of young weds.
Nervous states or hysterical manifestations of uterine and or ovarian disorders.
Dysmenorrhoea or amenorrhoea (due to feeble circulation).
Cardiac weakness. Nervous palpitation and irritation (arrhythmia), worse during (colon)
digestion, from nervous debility and exhaustion, or during convalescence.
Rheumatic heart. Cardio-neurosis. Insomnia; from nervousness; of aged; of addicts (also
after withdrawal; of onanists; of alcoholics, bordering on delirium tremens.
Relationships: Represents the depressive stage of Lec. Oat contains plenty of Silica, prized by us (in its dynamic form) as a great back bone builder. Malnutrition is more pronounced in Alet, Alf, Lec and mental - nervous traumas are exclusive to Lec.