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1. Oatmeal water is useful to dilute "baby foods" when young are not well nourished and suffering from summer diarrhoeal disorders. It is also used as a demulcent drink in diarrhea and dysentery of adults.

2. Oatmeal gruel, not indicated in diabetes melitus or amylaceous indigestion, is an excellent and easily digested food, in convalescence from exhaustive illness. A paste, made by moistening a small quantity of oatmeal, held in the hands, with water, will soften, roughened skin of the palms and fingers; and also remove the odor of some substances.

3. Tincture of Avena is a mild stimulant and nerve tonic. It is regarded by many as a remedy of some importance for nervous debility and for affections bordering closely upon nervous prostration. It seemingly acts well in the exhaustion following typhoid and other low fevers and is thought to hasten convalescence, particularly where there is mush nervous involvement and enfeebled action of the heart. It may be given to relieve spasms of the neck of the bladder; and in some cases of relapsing rheumatism..or the debility underling the rheumatic diathese, so that the patient is less affected by meteorologic influences. ..Chief value as a medicine is to energize in nervous exhaustion with or without spasms. It is useful in headache from exhaustion or overwork, or the nervous headache of menstruation

There is so-called nervous dyspepsia, atonicity, in fact of the entire gastrointestinal tract. There is heart feebleness with some irregularity; there is cool skin and cool or cold extremities; there is melancholia, irritability, peevishness, vagaries of thought, morbid desires and fancies, usually accompanied with autotoxemia which demands persistent elimination. In sexual neurasthenia it is the remedy par excellence.