Composition and useful properties of oats
Grain composition:
- starch - about 60 percent;
- fat - about 5-8 percent;
- proteins - there are a lot of them, 10-18 percent. This means that the oats occupy an honorable second place (after buckwheat) by their number;
- amino acids: tryptophan and lysine. They are indispensable for the human body;
- essential oils;
- gum;
- vitamins: K, B1, B2, B6, carotene;
- acids: pantothenic and nicotinic;
- such elements as: magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, chromium, iron, manganese, nickel, zinc, fluorine, iodine, etc.;
- sulfur.
Oats are distinguished by the fact that the percentage of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and B vitamins is optimized in it. As an example, if the oat is included in the diet, the rhythm of cardiac activity is restored. This can be explained by the fact that B complex vitamins occupy the main place in the process of performing the functioning of the human nervous system.
Such a "slow" energy provides the organism with starch of oats. This greatly helps to avoid a sharp jump in blood sugar, so it is especially recommended for diabetes. Oat contains the protein necessary for the human body. It is needed for tissue repair and growth. Fiber, which dissolves with constant consumption in food, very effectively lowers the level of testosterone in the blood of a person, and yet it protects the cardiovascular system. If we talk about minerals, vitamins, they take a direct part in the metabolism of the body, reducing the risk of many diseases.
Oatmeal and oat flakes are a remedy for a chronic inflammatory process. Very often oat flour is used during acute inflammations associated with the gastrointestinal tract. It is also a diet for the convalescents. If you have been ill, or are sick with asthenia or anemia, then any homeopathic doctor will advise you essences from oats as a restorative. And even the green grass of oats is not inferior to the grains in its medicinal properties. Infusion of this herb is an antipyretic, diuretic and diaphoretic.
Oats are very important component for the metabolism of blood and nervous tissue, nails, hair, bones, cartilage. Silicon contained in oats prevents hair loss. Hammer, erucic and oxalic organic acids are also present in its composition.
This herb certainly improves the hard work of the pancreas and liver. And it has a positive effect on the absorption of fat in our intestines. Also take part in the metabolism of fat polyphenols. They are typical for oats. This, in fact, biologically active substances. In oats (or rather, its grains), scientists have found such an amazing enzyme that acts like an amylase. Amylase is an enzyme that produces the pancreas. It promotes the assimilation of carbohydrates. Also in oats, there are available thyreostatins. These are substances that have a direct effect on the activity of the thyroid gland.
Very often with anemia, decoctions of oats and oatmeal are used (for diseases that have arisen because of insufficient absorption of iron into the blood, as well as in chronic diseases of the stomach).
To cleanse the body, it will do the best (first for the liver). Purification and treatment of the liver should be done only after cleaning the intestines. It is important to do this in such a sequence, because otherwise the toxins that are released from the liver get into the intestine, which is slagged, and already from there - into the blood, which in the end will cause poisoning of the whole organism. The main task of the liver is detoxification, that is, the metabolism of toxic substances into, in fact, harmless.
The most basic prescription for ovarian liver treatment
Two glasses of raw grain of oats are poured in three liters of ordinary water and cooked for 3 hours (until the broth boils down to the glass). Drink once a day for a month.
It is absolutely clear that every day you need to boil the broth, since the effect in the opposite case simply will not be.
A more complex variant of the recipe for treating the liver with oats
It is necessary for him: kidneys and leaves of birch, a little dogrose and sporis, oats, leaves of cowberry.
The first stage of preparation. We fall asleep a glass of oats in a saucepan, adding three tablespoons of cowberry, then - two tablespoons of a mixture of buds and birch leaves. Fill all this with four liters of water. Leave for a day.
Second phase. This time we are preparing the second component of the mixture. We need one glass of dog rose (his berries). Grind them, pour one glass of water, then add two tablespoons of spore. Put it all boil for about 20 minutes.
After all this, the broth is insisted for about an hour, then filter. And in a day, when the first part is ready, we add it to this one.
That mixture, which turned out in the end, you should drink half an hour before eating, of course, pre-heating. The first day - drink 50 g, the second - 100, in all subsequent - 150 g. In order to heal the liver, it is necessary to drink this mix for ten days.
During the reception of this mixture, you must completely abandon alcohol and meat.
Oat paste
We buy oats in the husk, we fall asleep in a saucepan. Next - pour cold water. We put all this on a weak fire. Oat should not boil, but only steam. After the oats are boiled, it is necessary to leave it for four hours to insist ...
Decoction, which turned out, is drunk several times a day.