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OATS AVENA SATIVA The meal of Oats boiled with vinegar and applied, takes away freckles and spots in the face, and other parts of the body. A cereal plant with a fibrous root, a hollow stalk growing to about three feet (90 cm), with long narrow green leaves and flowers in a loose inflorescence. Where to find it: A cultivated cereal. Flowering time.. Mid to late summer. Astrology: Not assigned to any planet. Medicinal uses: Oats fried with Bay salt and applied to the sides take away the pains of stitches and wind in the sides of the belly. A poultice made of the meal of Oats, and some Oil of Bay added, helps the itch and leprosy and also fistula of the fundament. Modern uses: Considered by modern herbalists to be a useful nervine tonic, which also exerts a beneficial effect on the musculature of the heart. The tincture available from herbalists is also used as a uterine tonic and anti-spasmodic. The dose is 10-30 drops in hot water. Taken as a gruel, Oatmeal is nutritious and easily digested by fever patients and those with gastro-intestinal inflammation. Homoeopaths prepare a tincture from the flowering plant as a remedy for arthritic conditions. |