Infusion of oats - a universal remedy for many ailments

Back in the ancient times, folk healers were well aware of the medicinal properties of oats and actively used these properties in the daily practice of treatment. On the healing properties of cereals, in due time, Hippocrates also pointed out. The seeds of the plant were used for mental and physical exhaustion, for gout, skin diseases, insomnia. Already in our time, researchers have discovered another important property of this cereal - porridge, infusions and decoctions of it can actively purify the body, removing salts, toxins, waste products and metabolic products.

Oats - one of the most useful food. It contains about 55% starch, 20% protein, 24% fiber and 11% fat. It is also rich in vitamins, namely: B1, B2, B6, vitamin E, vitamin K, carotene, pantothenic and nicotinic acids. Macro- and trace elements in it are larger than in any other cereals: many sulfur, iron, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, contain manganese, chromium, magnesium, zinc, iodine, fluorine, nickel, etc.

Oats are an indispensable product in dietary nutrition. When it is boiled, a mucous mass is formed that does not irritate the walls of the stomach. Slime is well absorbed, protects the stomach and regulates the activity of the intestine and with constipation, and with diarrhea. Infusion of oats It is recommended to use for cleaning the liver, with diabetes, as a diuretic and choleretic agent.

Decoction of green parts of the plant for its curative strength is not inferior to grains. Tincture of oats is a tonic. It is used as a remedy for mental overwork, insomnia, physical overstrain, neurasthenia, for increasing endurance and motor activity. The tincture is prepared as follows: grind the green plant in a meat grinder, fill it completely with a bottle, pour alcohol or vodka and insist for two or three weeks in a warm place. Shake the contents periodically. Then strain and take before meals 3-4 times a day, diluting 20-30 drops of tincture with one tablespoon of water.

Infusion of oats is useful not only for weakness and exhaustion. It helps in improving blood composition, to strengthen the nervous system, lungs, heart, and also for metabolism. You can cook the infusion of oats in a thermos. For this, the unpeeled oats are ground in a coffee grinder, then poured into a thermos and poured with steep boiling water (for each glass of boiling water - on a tablespoon of grain). After 12 hours of infusion, the infusion is filtered and it can be drunk instead of tea.

Very good helps the decoction of oats with allergies - it weakens the itching and helps to improve overall well-being. Immature cereal grains contribute to the increase in the body of the hormone testosterone, which, in turn, leads to increased sexuality. There is also the use of straw plants: it is included in some of the fees used in the treatment of diabetes. Many use baths from fresh straw for the treatment of joints.

Infusion of oats Helps to restore the health of many women who lost their blood a lot, if intestinal motility disrupted , when patients are rehabilitated in the postoperative period, and when natural immunity is restored.

An excellent anti-tuberculosis drug is ordinary oatmeal. Healing properties of porridge are explained by the increased content of silicon in it, which is harmful for Koch's bacillus (a microbacterium that causes tuberculosis). So in the fight against tuberculosis is not the last role played by eating oatmeal. And oatmeal kissel is used for lead poisoning along with other first aid facilities for patients.

Children up to 2 years of age, who are contraindicated in any medication based on herbs, are recommended mucous oats, which can be treated with bloating, diarrhea, rumbling in the abdomen and other gastrointestinal disorders.

Infusion of oats is applied and externally, as lotions and compresses. It helps to heal ulcers, deep wounds, relieves inflammation with hives and food allergies, softens the skin with eczema. In folk medicine often used the so-called "oat boltushku" in the treatment of stomach ulcers and various skin diseases.