{"id":646,"remedy_name":"Avena Sativa","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive function. \nLeading indications are nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and general weakness. Sleeplessness with \nnervous exhaustion and weakness. Chronic insomnia. Delirium tremens. \nDrug addictions. Bad effects of morphine or heroin addiction.  Addicted to cocaine, marijuana, nervines, \ntranquilizers or sedatives. Alcoholism. Insomnia due to drugs or alcohol.  Post-diphtheria paralysis. \nRheumatism of heart. \nColds and coryza.  Nervous palpitations. It is useful in nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, debility after \nexhausting diseases. Weakness of the mind when due to masturbation or sexual irregularities. \nNervous states of the female and male sexual systems. Nervo us tremors of the aged. Parkinson's disease, \nchorea and epilepsy.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Prostration of mind, mental exhaus tion, brain fag, with sleeplessness. Symptoms from mental or \nphysical overwork. Mental exertion aggravates.  Dullness, sluggishness. Difficulty of th inking and \ncomprehending. Inability to keep mind on any one subject. \nNervous exhaustion in brain workers, or from worry and anxiety. Difficult concentration from masturbation. \nBrain fatigue with sleeplessness. Morphine or heroin addiction. Alcoholism, dipsomania to help withdrawal. \nHypochondriasis. \nConstitutions - Nervous constitution. Prostration of mind, mental exhaus tion, brain fag, with sleeplessness. Symptoms from mental or \nphysical overwork. Mental exertion aggravates.  Dullness, sluggishness. Difficulty of th inking and \ncomprehending. Inability to keep mind on any one subject. \nNervous exhaustion in brain workers, or from worry and anxiety. Difficult concentration from masturbation. \nBrain fatigue with sleeplessness. Morphine or heroin addiction. Alcoholism, dipsomania to help withdrawal. \nHypochondriasis. \nConstitutions - Nervous constitution.","Head":"Nervous headache at menstrual period with burning at top of head. Occipital headache with phosphatic \nurine. Aching deep in brain. Vertex headache during menses. Nervous headache at menstrual period with burning at top of head. Occipital headache with phosphatic \nurine. Aching deep in brain. Vertex headache during menses.","Chest":"Inflammation of heart, carditis. Endocarditis. Rheumatic heart. Palpitations.","Urinary & Genital":"Disposition to masturbation. \nTroublesome erections, wanting. Seminal emissions  aggravates. Seminal emissions without erection. \nSpermatorrhea. Impo- tency after sexual excesses. Diminished sexual desire. \nNose - Coryza. Acute colds. Watery discharge. Rhinitis. Amenorrhea. Dysmenorrhea with weak circulation.","Extremities":"Numbness, as if paralyzed. Weak ness, twitching, trembling of hands. Strength of hand diminished. \nNumbness, insensibility. Paralytic weakness. Rheumatic pains.","Sleep":"Chronic insomnia, worse during convalescence. Sleeplessness after worry, mental exertion, after \ninfluenza, from weakness. Insomnia, aggravated by exh austion, alcohol. Sleeplessness in alcoholics, with \ndelirium tremens. \nUrine - Sediment, phosphates increased. \nCOMMENTS - Aven, is pre-eminently an anti-neurotic, quieting the nervous system to a remarkable degree. \nIts special sphere of action seems to be u pon the male sexual organs, regulating the functional irregulari ties \nof these parts perhaps as much as any remedy can. \nAven, is indicated in the sleeplessness of the weak and elderly. Also for children who are nervous and weak. \nIt is a most useful remedy in all cases of nervous exhaustion, general debility, nervous palpitation of the heart \ninsomnia inability to keep the mind fixed upon any one subject. More especially when any or all of these \ntroubles is apparently due to nocturnal emissions, masturbation, or sexual over activity. \nThis is a specific remedy for drug addiction, mainly heroin and morphine, but also tobacco, cocaine, marijuana \nand valium. Boericke noted it for alcohol addiction. \nIt is one of the most valuable means for overcoming morphine addiction. In most cases in which the habit has \nnot used more than four grains daily the opiate may be abruptly discontinued and even substituted without any \nserious results. \nIf a larger quantity than this amount has been taken for some time, it is better to g radually reduce the daily \ndose of morphine in the usual manner, simply prescribing the Avena in addition. The latter should be given in \nthe same dose, as a rule, regardless of the amount of morphine taken.  \nIn other words, it is not necessary to in crease the Avena as the opiate is withdrawn. When the quantity of \nmorphine has not exceeded four grains daily it should be stopped at once, as stated above and Avena given \nin its stead in fifteen-drop doses, four times a day in wine glassful of hot water. \nBy this method the disagreeable aftereffects will be much less than though the dose of morphine is gradually \nreduced and the patient will find life quite bearable, as a rule, at the end of a week.  \nAvena sativa should always be given in appreciable doses of the tincture. Fifteen drops three or four times a \nday, well diluted, will usually meet the case. It may be given in doses of from five to sixty drops in rare instances. \nIt should, however, never be given in larger quantities than twenty minims un less the pati ent is thoroughly \naccustomed to the remedy and has found the usual dose insufficient. \nOtherwise, there is danger of getting the physiological effect of the drug, which is pain at the base of the brain. \nWhen this symptom makes its appearance the medicine sh ould be discontinued for a day or two and then \ngiven in reduced doses. \nThere seems to be no danger whatever of forming the habit of taking this remedy, as it can be suddenly \nabandoned at any time without evil consequences, even when given in large quantiti es. In one case it was \nprescribed in sixty drop doses, night and morning, for one year and then abruptly stopped. Nothing was \nsubstituted, without bad effects. \nWhenever a quick action is desired and in all cases where Avena is given to overcome the morphin e habit, it \nshould be prepared in hot water. It is also a good plan to prescribe it in this fashion wherever indigestion \ncomplicates the case. \nAnshutz employed this drug in his private practice for a number of years with the most gratifying results. He \nhas very rarely found it to fail when indicated and on account of his high opinioii of the remedy he has taken \ngreat pleasure in thus bringing it prominently to the attention of the medical profession."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}