Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.42.14
633.42.14 Avena sativa
English: Common Oat; Oatstraw.
French: Avoine.
Mind
Hesitating in sexual affairs from a fear of sexual transmitted diseases.
Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility.
A morphine habit calls for this remedy in rather material dosage.
Alcoholism.
Inability to keep their mind on any one subject.
Mental or physical overwork.
Melancholia, peevishness, vagaries of thought.
Worries, cares.
Masturbation.
Sexual excesses.
Hysterical.
Colour preference: 12 till 14 AB.
General
Localisation: jenn mo 12; tou mo 11.
Time: < June.
Aversion: food, loss of appetite.
Food: << alcohol; <, morphine.
Sleep: sleepless, < alcoholics, < worry, mental exertion, < masturbation, < sexual indulgence.
Body
Energy: exhaustion; debility after exhausting diseases.
Nervous: tremors of the aged; chorea; Parkinson’s disease, paralysis agitans, epilepsy; paralysis after diphtheria; neurasthenia, brain fag, nervous debility.
Head: headache, nervous, burning, vertex, base of brain, < menses; occipital headache.
Nose: coryza, colds.
Lungs: tuberculosis.
Heart: rheumatism; weak circulation; palpitation, nervous; pulse irregular, < digestion, < convalescence, < nervous debility, < exhaustion; endocarditis.
Abdomen: flatulence.
Rectum: constipation.
Urinary: phosphate increased.
Male: spermatorrhoea; impotency, < masturbation, < too much indulgence, < newly married men.
Female: amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea.
Limbs: numb; as if paralysed; weak hand; arthritis.
Skin: exanthema; leprosy, itch, fistule.