AVENA SATIVA

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Homeopathy medicine Avena Sativa from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…

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.–Amenorrhœa and dysmenorrhœa, with weak circulation.

Male.–Spermatorrhœa; 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.

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William Boericke
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.