Raw oats: medicinal properties and contraindications, methods of preparation

Sowing campaign oats is an annual cereal plant, its grains, both purified and untreated, have undoubted healing properties, can be used in raw and cooked form. In folk healing, other parts of the plant are used - young stems, as well as straw. Traditional medicine also recognizes the beneficial effect of this cereal on the human body, but warns of some contraindications.

Oatmeal is rich in many important trace elements, vitamins, mineral compounds, in addition to the main components important to the human body, such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins. In addition, it includes the essential sulfur-containing amino acid methionine, which plays an important role in the synthesis of proteins, phospholipids, adrenaline. Starchy elements, polysaccharides, ethers, plant sterols and glycosides are also present in the grains.

Unpeeled oats doubly usefulAfter all, in the shell of the grains there is fiber, which acts as a sorbent and cleans the tissues of organs from toxins and other harmful substances. It also contains biotin and other vitamin B substances that maintain the skin and nervous system in a healthy state. In the composition there is starch, which improves digestion, positively affecting the walls of the stomach and intestines.

For therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of many ailments, porridge from whole grains and oat decoction is recommended. It is important that the plant is grown in an environmentally friendly environment, then the benefits of it will be maximum. Essential is also how well the healing drug is prepared.

Most often, for the treatment and prevention of various diseases, a decoction is used, on the basis of which a useful kissel or kvass can be prepared.

The effect of this valuable drink on the body versatile.

• In case of gastric ulcer and oat inflammation, it exhibits its enveloping healing properties - turning into a kind of jelly, it covers the mucous tissues of the walls of the organ, improving their condition.
• The healing qualities of the plant help to remove any kind of toxins and heavy metal salts, so oat dishes are applicable for intoxication as a result of food poisoning, for restoring the liver parenchyma, after radio and chemotherapy, for tumor diseases.
• With kidney stones, the grass removes excess fluid, thereby eliminating edema.
• Insulin contained in the composition of oat seeds, allows you to maintain a stable level of sugar in the blood of patients with diabetes.
• For colds, diseases of the respiratory system, infectious viral ailments, the decoction is used as an antipyretic and diaphoretic medicine.
• Oatmeal drink can be considered an anti-depressant, it has a calming, sedative and relaxing effect on the nerve endings.
• The presence of tryptophan helps to increase and strengthen the muscles. With injuries and injuries, accelerated regeneration of muscle tissue occurs.
• Due to the presence of beta-glucan, drinking grains reduces the concentration of cholesterol, which helps to improve the condition of the vessels and the work of the heart muscle.

It has also been proven that a seed-based drink reduces dependence on harmful addictions such as alcohol abuse, smoking and drug addiction. This is due to skopoletina contained in the grains. In addition, regular intake makes it possible to rejuvenate the body, lose weight, slow down the development of oncological diseases.

Contraindications to the use of unrefined oats, first of all, is hypersensitivity to its composition and individual components. In other cases, the grass cannot cause significant damage to health.

Despite this, any dishes and decoction of this plant should be applied with extreme caution to those who have the following violations:

• renal failure;
• the presence of stones in the gallbladder or the absence of this body as a result of the operation;
• increased acidity of gastric juice;
• disorders of the cardiovascular system;
• chronic liver disease associated with its structural changes.

To prepare the infusion or decoction, which will become the basis of the desired drink, first of all you need to take care to split the phytin - this component represents a certain harm to the body. Phytic acid can excrete beneficial trace elements, suppress fermentation, which is why digestion suffers, and phosphorus is not absorbed.

To avoid this, you must either prepare drinks from pre-germinated grains, or ferment oats.

Consider the most popular recipes for cooking oats.

• You can germinate seeds, soaking them with water for 12 hours, then spread the grains on the gauze and wait for them to open. Boil is not necessary, you just have to grind them in a blender, adding water. If there is no sensitivity to honey, add one spoon to the resulting drink. Half a cup is drunk on an empty stomach in the morning, the rest - during the day. This remedy can be used for disorders of the nervous system, after chemotherapy, for recovery from a serious illness, surgery, and physical exhaustion.
• Fermented oats are cooked in the evening - A glass of grains with husks is poured with whey left over after cooking homemade curd, it is taken twice as much as the seeds will swell. Instead, you can use diluted water lemon juice or a weak solution of apple cider vinegar. In a warm place oats should stand for at least 12 hours, then rinse the grains without removing the casing (through a sieve), and cook over low heat for a couple of hours. After that, the drink is topped up with water to one liter. Take the need to eat half a glass.

With various health problems, you can enrich these really healthy drinks with other ingredients:

• to enhance immunity in the period of seasonal epidemics mixed with dogrose infusion;
• with hypertension - with a decoction of hawthorn;
• for smoking cessation decoction is made with the addition of barley grains, millet and rye;
• in violation of cardiac function add crushed rhizomes of elecampane in oatmeal broth and bring to a boil;
• in diseases associated with fever, fever, cook unpeeled oats better in milk with the addition of raisins and a small amount of natural honey from the fresh crop.

Purified oats can improve the condition and functioning of internal organs, but its effect will not be as effective as in the case of using grains with shells.

On the properties of unrefined oats, see the following video.