How to boil oats?
Many people know about the health benefits of oats. To use it for medicinal purposes, you need to properly prepare various remedies from this cereal and know how to use decoctions wisely.
The benefits of decoction
Oats as a food and remedy have been accompanying mankind since ancient times. Its positive effect on the human body stems from the rich composition of the grains.
It contains simple sugars, antioxidants, organic acids. This cereal has a high content of various vitamins, including B vitamins, as well as such important substances as phosphorus, magnesium, iodine and various macro- and microelements.
For oatmeal broth, unpeeled grains of this cereal crop are used, since it is the shell that is filled with a large amount of valuable substances. When brewed, they turn into a liquid, which, when consumed by a person, has a healing effect.
Trace elements and mineral salts normalize metabolic processes in the body. He gets the vitamins he needs.
- Thanks to the use of a decoction, the digestive tract begins to work in a clear mode.
- Problems associated with diseases such as hepatitis and pancreatitis are compensated.
- The decoction cleanses the liver and treats various diseases of this organ.
- In interaction with other components, the decoction is used as a cough remedy. Promotes the removal of mucus.
- Helps overcome smoking addiction.
- Removes inflammatory processes occurring in the body.
- Removes excess mucus from the intestines.
- Improves the work of the pancreas.
- It normalizes the state of the blood.
- A decoction of oats is used to lower the temperature during a cold. Contributes to the speedy exit from such diseases.
- Tones the body. Helps normalize sleep and mood.
Contraindications and harm
Oatmeal is a natural remedy and, at first glance, has no prohibitions on use. However, it should be noted that there are certain limitations in this regard. The obstacles to using this remedy are:
- intolerance of the body to the components of the decoction;
- increased acidity of the stomach;
- inflammation of the gallbladder and biliary tract;
- severe diabetes mellitus;
- the presence of stones in the gallbladder;
- absence of the gallbladder due to surgery;
- period of pregnancy.
Caution should be exercised when using oatmeal decoction if the body suffers from heart failure and kidney disease.
It is not recommended to take decoction treatment without consulting a specialist. If a diagnosis of the state of health is not carried out, a person sometimes simply does not know about the existing contraindications, and self-healing games can lead to undesirable consequences.
But you also need to keep in mind that prolonged use of such a remedy leads to an insufficient content of salts in the body. Therefore, the course of treatment should be limited.
How to drink?
A decoction of oats is used as a tea for treatment. It is advised to drink it in small sips before meals. You should not rush into the process of use.
As for the volume and number of doses per day, it depends on the specific prescription and the advice of the doctor.
It is desirable that the broth is always fresh. Then he will not have time to lose his healing properties, and even more so turn sour. The course averages two months, after which it requires a break. It takes from one month to six months. Then it makes sense to drink oatmeal broth again.
Preparation for medicinal purposes
Recipes for brewing oats are quite diverse. It can be boiled and steamed in a thermos. Both one and the other will be correct. There are different recipes for liver health alone.
You can, for example, take one hundred grams of whole grain oats and pour water (one liter). Put on a small fire and wait until it boils. After that, set the temperature of the burner to the minimum values, holding the oatmeal broth on it for another twenty minutes. At the end of the process, close the pan, wrap it in a warm cloth and wait until the resulting liquid has cooled to room temperature.
To prepare a remedy for the treatment of the liver in a thermos, a glass of grain (unrefined) should be thoroughly rinsed with running water and ground. Pour boiling water over the flour in a thermos at the rate of a liter of boiling water per tablespoon of ground grains. Withstand from twelve to twenty-four hours. Consume three times a day before meals.
To cleanse the liver, you can take a glass of oat grains, rinse them in cold water, then pour a liter of boiling water over it and cook over low heat for sixty minutes. Part of the liquid will boil away during the cooking process. Therefore, closer to the end of the process, you need to add the missing water to the broth.
What happened, pour into a thermos and wait three hours. Separate the grains, and add honey to the remaining liquid (one tablespoon is enough).Pour in the juice from half a lemon. Take a glass of decoction half an hour before meals for a month.
To lower the level of cholesterol produced by the liver and improve its general condition, you can prepare an infusion of water with knotweed. Take two hundred grams of grain, fifty grams of knotweed, one hundred grams of birch buds and lingonberry leaves. Pour all this with warm water (boiled) and stand for twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile, brew a rosehip drink (in a liter of water), bringing to a boil and leaving for a day. Heat the infusion of oats and cook for an hour. Then cool, pass through a sieve to separate the liquid from the cooked grains, and mix with the rosehip broth.
Drink half a glass for four weeks twice a year.
A decoction of cereal will help get rid of coughs and colds. Such a tool can be prepared for a child. It is necessary to brew the grain with the husk. Take a glass of this product, rinse and pour a liter of milk. Put on fire and cook on the smallest fire for an hour. Wait until it cools down a bit and strain.
Instead of other drinks, this decoction is given to the baby four times a day. You need to use it for this period. (If you do not have time, then the drink will still go bad).
Although this is not the only prescription for cough. You can take one and a half glasses of oats and two liters of milk. Cook on low heat for three hours. At the end of preparation, the drink should acquire a yellow tint. When used, you can add honey and butter. Take half a glass at a time.
There are serious diseases that can be overcome by following specific recipes.
With pancreatitis
With such a disease, oat grains should be separated from the husk and spoiled specimens should be methodically set aside.Pour high-quality ones with half-cooled boiled water and leave warm for several days so that they germinate. What happened must be washed and dried, and then ground in a coffee grinder. A tablespoon of powder can be diluted with a glass of water, and then boiled for two to three minutes. Three hours later, you can drink at one time.
For the pancreas
For other diseases of the pancreas, as well as the stomach, oats can be brewed in other ways.
From oats you need to make flour. Take a teaspoon of this remedy and add a glass of water to the container with it. Cook for thirty minutes on a small burner. In the meantime, brew a cup of motherwort from a pharmacy bag. Mix both liquids before use. You can also add a drop of tea tree oil to this mixture.
Drink on an empty stomach three hours before meals. The course should be continued for at least a month.
Oat milk will improve the condition of the pancreas and stomach. Rinse half a glass of dry grains, pour one and a half liters of water. Wait until it boils, and cook for another forty minutes over low heat.
Mash the grains in a saucepan with a wooden crusher. After that, cook for another thirty minutes. Leave the resulting mixture to cool, and then strain through a sieve. You should get a white decoction with a consistency like milk.
Drink half a glass three times a day before meals for four weeks.
To cleanse the body
To rid the body of toxins, a glass of whole grain oats at night should be poured with a couple of liters of warm water. Strain in the morning, drink one glass twice a day. This remedy is also suitable for children, but a quarter of a glass of broth at a time is enough for them.
Another way: take two hundred grams of such grains and pour a liter of water, boil for an hour on low heat, strain and drink half a glass four to five times a day.
For the kidneys
For kidney diseases, oatmeal can be used. You can prepare the basis for preparing the tincture in the summer, when the plant is still juicy. Chop the grass. Pour into a half-liter jar and pour high-quality vodka.
After that, you need to withstand the product for three weeks in a dark room, inaccessible to children. After that, shake the jar well and pass through the filter. Take twenty to thirty drops three times a day.
The intricacies of the process of brewing oats are described in detail in the video below.