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.–
Amenorrhśa and dysmenorrhśa, with weak circulation.
Male.–
Spermatorrhśa; 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.