Oat

Clinical Notes. Helps patients wean off morphine, caffeine, tobacco, opium Treatment usually long-term Topical=anti-inflammatory, soothing, cooling Infusion extracts minerals Bath=put oats in sock or muslin bag & add to bath, steep, wring sock a few times before getting in bath

Action and Therapy. Oatmeal water is sometimes useful to dilute “baby foods” and milk when children are not well nourished and suffering from summer diarrhoeal disorders. It is also used as a demulcent drink in diarrhea and dysentery of adults.

Therapy. It will be found directly serviceable in paralysis and wasting disease of the aged, in nerve tremors, and especially in chorea and in paralysis agitans. It has been beneficial in epilepsy. In the convalescence of prostrating disease, and during the asthenic or later stages of inflammatory and exanthematous disease and diphtheria, it is as important as quinine and strychnia, and certainly as reliable.

Physiological Action. Its selective influence is directly upon the brain and upon the nutritive functions of the organism, increasing nerve force and improving the nutrition of the entire system. The influence of a single full dose is promptly felt, similar to the influence of any active stimulant, but more permanent. It is a stimulant, sedative and direct nutritive tonic, apparently restoring the wasted elements of nerve force.