Oats a Nordic (Avena Sativa)

Flowers
There is nothing more alike serenity than the oats inflorescence. The superabundance of nature or maybe the heavenly grace seems to descend to the level of an oats field in blossom. It is a unique image, but only seen directly and not and not in a photograph or a movie which in the case of oats cannot say much. It’s something between white and blond, hard to understand even for a soul tormented or troubled by who knows what mysteries of the world or the infinite interior universe. The oats flower heals only by seeing it, the oats field cures even if you sink in it like in a miraculous lake. The mattress made from oats flowers and straw just like the pillow made from oats flowers and straw heals not only the body but also the mind. The oats flower is a true constellation of little ears that pour peace and strength, from June till August.

Leaves
Sharp, husky, slightly fleshy, the oats leaves are oblong braids, a fluttering of raw green, of sprout diluted in the faltering air of the field in full summer.

Stem
Erect and still flexible, over 1.5 m tall, the oats stem unites a lot of things. Secret juices traverse it going from the leaves to the flowers.

Seeds
Having a stringy aspect, the seeds are through tradition a symbol of energy. Because of this reason, the best food for horses has always been the one made of oats seeds. Any fiery stud has surely eaten in his own time a significant quantity of oats. This could also be said differently – any horse that has not eaten oats is most surely a jade.

Scientific and common name
Old European plant, the oats is named in Latin Avena Sativa. The name itself means a lot. In daily speech oats is also called white oats.

Medicinal products
Part from the roots which look like moustaches, everything is used from the oats plant. Even in form of straw or chaff, the oats has medicinal importance. From the green stems and green leaves juice, decoction and oats soup is prepared. Oats grains have significant medicinal effects. According to old practices, the oats grains contribute to the health and the fertility of the woman. This way, in the popular Anglo-Saxon practices, oats was one of the five plants that could bring back a woman’s fertility, the other plants being ginger, wheat, rose and garden cress. For medicinal therapies decoctions, flour, macerations, tinctures, oats milk and oats flakes are prepared. It is well known that oats nourishes, maintains and toughens up the skin. The oats preparations contribute to the good functioning of the thyroid gland and of the entire endocrine system. Oats tincture fights off insomnia. The same effects are also produced by the mattress and pillow filled with straw, chaff and oats leaves as well as oats wickerwork. Extremely well known, already included in the folklore, is the life giving properties of the oats decoction. Not only horses receive unsuspected strengths consuming oats, but people as well. Oats flakes, a typical food for breakfast, produce beneficial effects in pains like renal, respiratory, digestive and hepatic diseases. Oats flakes are part of the diet of diabetics. They are altogether a good gastric dressing. The infusion of oats grains gives good results in anemia, asthenia, lack of food craving, hypertension. The specialists think that a portion of maximum two cups of oats flakes per day is sufficient to benefit from the energizing and healthy effects of the oats. About oats bread, Plinius the Old said that “this bread, from which we live, contains almost countless remedies”.

Usual dishes
The main preparation (semi preparation) from oats grains are the flakes. Easy to introduce and combine in the daily menu, easy to eat and fast to digger, flakes can be eaten by the ones who have to abide a strict diet as well as the ones who wish to improve and diversify their menu. Flour obtained from oats grains has uppermost medicinal and digestive properties. Other preparations (semi preparations) are semolina and pearl barley. The experience of the Nordics in oats consumption shows that it’s benefic for the organism in the winter, oats being an especially necessary nutritional supplement in a period when the organism is under natural, active and persistent stress factors. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recommended oats decoction after acute febrile illnesses, in convalescences, the oats being counted even in those times as a sure way of fortifying the body.

Contraindications
Calming and fortifying the oats doesn’t have toxic effects. It cans sometimes produce trouble at the level of the skin or at the level of digestive tract activity.

Who can use oats?
On the first hand women since oats contributes to the fortifying of the feminine genital organs. Oats will not hurt men in any way either causing them a surplus of energy, so something more than relaxation and will to live.

Active principles
It has been observed that the whole range of products based on green or dried oats, grains, straw and chaff determine the same effects of tranquility and equilibrium at the physical and psychical level. The main component specific to the oats is avenin. Apart from this oats also contain seven mineral substances , carotene, vitamins B1, B2, PP, A, D, starch, saponin glucose, lecithin, enzymes, oils, protides, calcium salts, carbohydrates and even an hormonal principle similar to folliculin. Considering the rich components, oats is similar to garlic. From all cereals oats has the biggest quantity of proteins.

The impulse
Research and medicinal practices have proved that oats has positive effects not only in case of sterility, but also impotence. It is known the fact that the oats preparations contribute to the equilibrium of the endocrine system and other systems with complex and refined activity in the organism.