All these useful substances we can get by eating oats for food as a part of various dishes, including as a dietary food for those who have had severe illnesses. However, in some countries of the world, for example, in England, oatmeal is traditional morning food. And this is not accidental, because oatmeal is one of the most caloric croup, so it does not bad satisfy the body's need for vital energy. In Russia, too, has its own traditional dish of oats - it's oatmeal, which has long been cooked in Russian villages. In oatmeal, filled with cold boiled water, put a small amount of yeast or a piece of rye bread and leave to wander for a day, after wrapping the dishes with jelly in a thick cloth to keep the heat. When the kissel is fermented, you need to carefully drain the liquid part and bring it to a boil. This will be our oatmeal jelly. When the oat jelly cools, it turns into a dense mass, which can be cut with a knife. Unlike English oatmeal, this dish was considered a delicacy, and it was from here that the Russian folk tales arose about the word "kiselnye shores".
Oats have long been used not only in cooking, but also in medicine. Even in ancient Greece (and in many other countries), doctors used oats to treat their patients. This knowledge was passed down from generation to generation, and today in folk medicine there are a huge number of recipes from a variety of diseases, which include oats. At the same time, practically everything that oats and oatmeal and flakes can produce, oat grains (often unpeeled), oat flour, oatmeal, green oats grass and even oat straw are used. Oats are often used in the treatment in the form of a mucous broth, prepared from cereals or grains on water, without salt and sugar.
And such an application, again, is not accidental. Owing to its chemical composition, oats improve the work of many internal organs and is useful in diseases such as diabetes mellitus (because it has a positive effect on the pancreas), diseases of the cardiovascular system (because it lowers blood cholesterol), asthenia, anemia ( this disease is otherwise called anemia, and it is associated with a lack of iron in the human blood, and oats, as already mentioned, contain a sufficient amount of this chemical element).
Mucous decoctions of oats and oatmeal gruel are used to treat various ailments associated with the gastrointestinal tract, for example, with constipation, diarrhea, food poisoning, as well as acute inflammations such as ulcers. Such broths saturate the body with the necessary substances, but do not injure the irritated walls of the intestine and stomach.
A variety of decoctions and infusions of oats are also used to treat diseases of the respiratory system, even such serious ones as bronchial asthma and tuberculosis, and also as a cough remedy.
Among the chemical elements contained in oats, there is also calcium, which is needed for the strength of our cartilage and bones, which is an excellent prevention of various fractures and injuries, as well as a disease such as osteoporosis. Also, oats are also useful for joint diseases, for example, with arthritis it is recommended to drink half a glass of infusion three times a day before meals from chopped oat straw (the infusion is prepared at the rate of 1 spoon of straw per 1 cup of boiling water, insists half an hour).
However, oats are necessary not only to maintain our internal health, but also to maintain our external beauty, because the silicon contained in it contributes to the health of hair and nails.
If you have dry, flaky skin, then in this case you can recommend a decoction of unpeeled oat grains as a mask, and as a lotion. As a mask for oily skin use a mixture of oatmeal and yogurt (in equal amounts). From the same fiber, masks are made for the fading skin. In addition, the same decoction of unpeeled oat grains is used to treat eczema, diathesis and inflammatory skin diseases.
The curative properties of oats are so wide that it is used for various disorders associated with the nervous system, such as fatigue and insomnia. Here oats are usually used in the form of an alcohol tincture of fresh herbs of oats taken on 20-30 drops dissolved in water 3-4 times a day. From the same green grass oats folk healers made infusion, used as a means to combat smoking.
Now you know everything about the medicinal properties of oats broth.