Recommendation: Intestinal and bronchial inflammations, depressions, nervousness, stress, deshabituación of tobacco and drugs, asthenia
One knows that oats began to cultivate in the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea centuries before Jesus Christ. It was used by its excellent nutritious qualities. Greek and Roman they expanded its culture, and rooted strongly in the British islands.
Panícula of oats, with one detail espícula closed (left) and one espícula opened with a fertile flower (right). The active principle of the plant, the saponina, is in the cover of the grain and has a diurética, antidiarreico and analgesic action.
The oatmeal is specially recommendable for breakfast of small and young, contributes to great amounts of vitamins (To, B, PP and D) and minerals like calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.
It is a cereal of which their parts are used all: the grains like sémola and flour, and the straw by its mineral salts and vitamins. Very it is appreciated by the cattle dealers, because besides to destine itself to the human consumption, always it has served to feed domestic animals. In the last years the consumption of "flakes" of oats, mineral vitamin source is being increased and salts.
CHARACTERISTICS: As all the plants of the family of the gramíneas, form a long stem that it culminates in an ear, which contains the grain, like the wheat, the rice or the rye. It does not reach more of a meter of height, developing finísimos pecíolos in whose end the flowers grow, of two in two.
LOCATION: Its origin is not known, but probably it derives from the wild species that they abound in the Mediterranean coast. It only lives in earth destined to his culture, very humid.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: vitamins (To, B, PP. and D). The grain cover contains an alkaloid (trigonelina a quite high rate of saponina, the medicinal active principle of the plant. The stem straw) is rich in mineral salts, the same ones that the grain, and in vitamins To and D.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: Like food, its utililización is advisable whenever an additional contribution is needed (pregnant women, children, old in convalecencias). Their medicinal properties are diuréticas, antidiarreicos and antiálgicas.
HARVESTING: In summer, when the grain already is mature.
USES And APPLICATIONS: It began to cultivate itself like food for the animals, but with time it happened to consume it the man as soon as their extraordinary nutritious and power qualities were appraised, in addition to medicinal ones. This indicated its consumption as any other food (in form of bread, cakes, cream, soups. In England, they prepare jelly cooking starch of oats with water and they take it dusted with flour from oats, accompanied by milk or beer. The oatmeal commercialized years in the last, is a good resource for the infantile, single nutrition or mixed with milk. As diurético it is taken in decocción of whole grains (with crust) like antidiarreico, also in decocción, but without crust, since this one contains fiber. Emplasto of integral oats flour (with crust) mixed with a little vinegar in hot calms the pains muscular Is very useful in the backaches.
Farmacológica Action
- Fruits: remineralizante, vitaminic. Including endosperma: diurético, laxative. The extraida colloidal fraction of the fruits is demulcente.
- Sumidades: Diurético, tranquilizer. The present avenacósidos ones in the leaves have a fungicida action. Popularly one is used in derivativas therapies in form of emplastos like antiinflammatory (heat vehicle).
Indications
Anxiety, insomnia. Anemia, convalecencia. Constipation. States in which an increase of the diuresis is required: genitourinarias affections (cystitis, ureteritis, uretritis, pielonefritis, oliguria, urolitiasis), hiperazotemia, hiperuricemia, drop, arterial hypertension, edemas, overweight accompanied by retention of liquids.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Precaution/Poisonings
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
The use of diuréticos in patients of hypertension or cardiopathies, only must become by prescription and under medical checkup, given the possibility of appearance of a tensional descompensación or, if the potassium elimination is considerable, an involution of the effect of the cardiotónicos.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Decoción: A spoonful of dessert by cup. To boil 5 minutes. Three cups to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1, in alcohol of 25º): 15 to 30 drops, three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 20 to 60 drops, three times to the day.
External use:
- Decocción (fruits): 20 g/l., to boil 30 minutes. To apply in form of cataplasms
- colloidal oats Extract to 10%, in creams, gels, soaps or colloidal bath.
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