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Avena sativa

The Medical Genius · Stacy Jones

Open remedy: Aven.

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SECTION 104.

OATS.

Ordinary Dose

Adult, 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls of Con. Tinc. Avena Sativa, 3 or 4 times a day, in hot water to insure speedy action; in cold water on going to bed. Child, see Section 56, B. If the dose should prove too strong, causing pain at the base of the brain, a cup of coffee will relieve.

Avena, in doses of 5 to 10 drops of adults, taken before meals, affords wonderful relief in Brain Fag, and Nervous debility. In the usual dose it has been found very efficacious in the treatment of Chronic Insanity - Sleeplessness - Epilepsy - Hysteria - St. Vitus' Dance - Coldness of the extremities - Shaking palsy - Paralysis.

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