Botanical Index No. 748

Oats

avena sativa

Medicinal Actions

Antidepressant, Antiinflammatory, Antiprostaglandin, Antiviral, Cardiotonic, Digestive, Diuretic, Fungicide, Hepatoprotective, Hypocholesterolemic, Hypouricemic, Immunostimulant, Osteoprotectant, Sedative, Thymoleptic, Tonic

Primary Conditions Treated

Enterosis Fatigue Flu Frostbite Fungus Gastrosis Gout Hepatosis Herpes High Cholesterol High Triglycerides Hyperactivity Hypertonia Immunodepression Impetigo Impotence Infection Inflammation Insomnia Itch Morphinism Multiple Sclerosis Mycosis Nephrosis Nervousness Neurasthenia Nicotinism Old Age Ophthalmia Poison Ivy Pulmonosis Rheumatism Seborrhea Senility Shingles Sore Throat Stress UTI Virus Wart balance menstrual cycle dysmenorrhea osteoporosis Emollient Nervine Addiction Anxiety Arthrosis Atherosclerosis Atonia Cardiopathy Cholecystosis Colitis Constipation Cough Cystosis Debility Depression Dermatosis Diabetes Diarrhea Dysmenorrhea Dyspepsia Eczema

General Dosage

3 g oat bran soluble fiber/day; 100 g oat bran/day for 3 weeks; 1 tbsp oats/cup water several ×/day; 3 g grass/0.25 liter, several ×/day or before retiring; 3 g herb/250 ml water; 100 g herb in bath; 1–2 tbsp fresh herb; 2–3 g dry herb; 2.5 g dry herb/cup boiling water; 6–2 ml liquid seed extract; 0.5–1 dropper tincture or concentrated extract 2–3 ×/day; 3–5 ml oat tincture 3 ×/day.

Safety & Contraindications

Class 1. None known. “Hazards and/or side effects not known for proper therapeutic dosages”. Like most cereals, oats might be avoided by celiacs. Recent new data suggest that oats maybe are okay for celiacs.

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