{"id":2160,"date":"2013-05-10T05:12:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2013-06-30T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:41:23","slug":"oat-straw-avena-sativa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Oat straw ~ Avena sativa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oat straw\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Latin name<\/em>: Avena sativa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Family<\/em>: Gramineae<\/p>\n

Part used<\/em>: whole plant, including leaves and stem; oat seeds are used as well<\/p>\n

Habitat<\/em>: crop land<\/p>\n

Main constituents<\/em>: straw: saponins, flavonoids, starch, alkaloids (trigonelline, avenine), steroids, calcium, iron, B vitamins; seeds: avenins, flavones, avenacosides, vitamin E, silicon source (Khalsa)<\/p>\n

Energetics<\/em>: sweet, moistening<\/p>\n

Main herbal actions<\/em>: diuretic, nerve tonic, antidepressant, antispasmodic; seeds: antidepressant, thymoleptic, cardiac tonic, sedative<\/p>\n

Minor herbal actions<\/em>: rejuvenate<\/p>\n

Main medicinal uses<\/em>: rheumatic conditions, fluid retention, shingles, herpes infection<\/p>\n

Main medicinal uses<\/em> attributed to oat straw, but probably milky oat seed: addictions (such as tobacco-milky oat seed might be more appropriate), insomnia, depression, nervous debility and exhaustion<\/p>\n

Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: generally weakened constitutions, dry, irritated skin, eczema, urinary congestion<\/p>\n

Preparations<\/em>: liquid extracts, tinctures, tea, powder<\/p>\n

Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n

Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n

Sources<\/em>: http:\/\/www.libertynatural.com\/database\/lh93.htm<\/a>; Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth; <\/span>Wren, R.C. Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Encyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/em> Historically, the properties and actions of seed and straw have probably become overlapped. Straw is mainly a bone and joint remedy, while green milky seed is sedative.<\/p>\n

Module 3<\/span><\/h2>\n

High silicon content<\/p>\n

Bone Healing<\/p>\n

Milky seed of the oat is used for Neurotroporestorative – usually used as tincture.\u00c2\u00a0 KP doesn’t use it, but some herbalist swear by it.<\/p>\n

Tinctures – alcohol – is not a good choice for nerves because it suppresses the nervous system – counterproductive.<\/p>\n

This is where “sowing your wild oats” comes from.\u00c2\u00a0 Slightly aphrodisiac.Milky Oats is better decocted. It doesn’t need to be tinctured.\u00c2\u00a0 Best fresh.\u00c2\u00a0 Not good dried, as it loses its …<\/p>\n

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Oat straw Latin name: Avena sativa Family: Gramineae Part used: whole plant, including leaves and stem; oat seeds are used as well Habitat: crop land Main constituents: straw: saponins, flavonoids, starch, alkaloids (trigonelline, avenine), steroids, calcium, iron, B vitamins; seeds: avenins, flavones, avenacosides, vitamin E, silicon source (Khalsa) Energetics: sweet, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,70,291,41,512,177,52,76,78,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidepressant","category-antispasmodic","category-cardio-tonic","category-diuretic","category-module-3","category-moistening","category-nerve","category-sedative-properties","category-sweet","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}