How to drink oats to cleanse the body at home
The cereal has pronounced cleansing characteristics. It has a rejuvenating effect and restores normal metabolic processes. Using the product allows you to achieve a mild effect.
Oat hulls contain a lot of plant fiber. It has a gentle cleansing effect on the intestines, absorbing harmful substances. Cereal cleanses of waste and toxins, removes salts and excess cholesterol. The cereal also helps cleanse blood vessels, removing atherosclerotic plaques.
Oatmeal decoction removes sand from the kidneys, removes excess fluid, and is used to cleanse the liver. The product is also actively used for weight loss, as it improves metabolism.
Today there are many effective decoctions and infusions based on oatmeal. To get a quality product, you need to choose the right cereal and learn how to brew it.
Of no small importance is the need to reduce the harmful properties of phytin, which is present in cereals. This component can be destroyed by sprouting or soaking. It is best to keep oats in whey for 12-14 hours. You can also use a solution with lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.
Oats in whey
After the preparatory procedures, the oats must be thoroughly washed. However, it is not recommended to remove the husks, since they contain many valuable components.
Properties of oats
Oats are one of the most famous traditional medicines. Even doctors can confirm its positive effect on the body. Almost all parts of the plant are used for medicinal purposes. Straw is no exception. Our ancestors also took a medicinal infusion based on straw, which helped in the treatment of kidney diseases. After all, it is known that this plant has good
diuretic property.
Oats have a wide range of medicinal effects:
- helps the body with hepatitis and pancreatitis,
- improves the functioning of the liver and pancreas,
- removes toxins from the body,
- improves metabolism.
The vitamins and chemical elements contained in this plant have a positive effect on all human organs. Decoctions and infusions of oats are recommended for use in cases of dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system, for the treatment of endocrine and vascular diseases.
Oats have also proven beneficial in the treatment of diabetes; when taken regularly, they help lower sugar levels. It is also known to have a beneficial effect on the immune system. Preparations prepared from this plant ease the progression of colds, relieve coughing attacks, help lower the temperature, and promote good sweating.
Oats are also widely used in cosmetology. It improves the quality of skin, nails and hair.
But it is worth remembering that it is possible to achieve a positive result from the use of drugs containing oats only if they are used for a long time.
Oatmeal is a popular dish that is not only often included in baby food, but is also prescribed as part of many therapeutic diets. Children who start the day with oatmeal porridge have fewer colds.
How to prepare a healing remedy
Making a healing remedy based on oatmeal is quite simple. First of all, you need to choose the right raw materials. To make decoctions and infusions, you need to use unrefined cereal. It is important to choose raw materials that have not been treated against pests. The safer the growing conditions, the more useful the product.
It is best to buy the composition in specialized pharmacies. It can also be purchased from farmers or gardeners. Some specifically grow the crop for sale for medicinal purposes.
Oat tincture
To prepare a classic decoction, take 200 g of oatmeal per 1 liter of water. It is recommended to mix the grains with water and bring to a boil. Cook for 40 minutes over low heat. The procedure can be carried out for 2 hours. Then filter the product and mix with boiled water to obtain the original volume.
An equally useful composition is oat tincture. It's quite easy to do. To do this, mix the cereal with water in a ratio of 1:2. Leave for 16 hours in a warm place.
It is recommended to use the finished product 3 times a day. Children can be given 1 tablespoon of the substance. The tincture promotes the rapid elimination of toxic substances. It provides cleansing of the kidneys, liver, intestines, as well as other organs and systems.
Cooking recipes
Oats are one of those cereal crops that can effectively cleanse the human body and remove toxic compounds. Infusions and decoctions from this plant help with various ailments and pathologies. The culture is quite popular in folk medicine due to its high content of nutrients and microelements.
To implement the recipe you will need:
- oat grains - 200 g;
- water or milk - 1 l.
Cooking algorithm:
- Rinse the cereal seeds and allow excess liquid to drain.
- Pour clean grains with water or milk and boil for a couple of minutes.
- Remove the container from the stove and let it sit for half an hour.
- Strain the finished drink and squeeze out the cereal raw materials.
You can add a sweetener (for taste) or onion to a glass of broth. The spicy vegetable will help cope with coughs and colds.
Drinking this drink is recommended half an hour before meals. In order for the grain to provide more benefits to the decoction, you can pour the substance into a thermos and leave overnight. It is better to prepare the drink in the evening so that you can drink it the next day, and then prepare a fresh one.
For the decoction to be beneficial, it should be taken at regular intervals. The course of such treatment can last 60 days, then take a break for a month so that your body does not get used to it and does not mistake this drink for ordinary water.
Important!Before cooking, oats must be thoroughly washed. It is not recommended to peel it, because... it contains a large number of valuable components.
Infusion
You should prepare:
- oat grains - 1–2 cups;
- boiling water - 1 l.
Main stages:
- Rinse the cereal and leave it whole, without chopping;
- Pour boiling water over clean oats and leave for 20 minutes;
- Take the prepared drink 1/2 cup three times a day.
This infusion is very useful, since the grains have not been subjected to mechanical processing and all the beneficial properties of this cereal crop have been preserved.
Kissel
Required (for 4 servings):
- water - 0.7 l;
- oats - 85 g;
- dry rye sourdough – 0.3 tsp;
- salt - 0.2 tsp;
- rye bread - 10 g.
- Grind the oat grains in a coffee grinder until it becomes flour. The finer the grind, the more tender the jelly will be.
- Heat the water to room temperature and add flour to it, stirring well.
- Next, add the starter. But, if it’s not there, you can get by.
- Place the bread in the mixture, cover the container and leave it warm for a day.
- Stir the jelly well and strain.
- The resulting liquid must settle.
- Add the settled product back to the cake and filter again. This procedure should be repeated until the consistency of the cake is similar to wet sand.
- You should not throw away the cake; leave it in the refrigerator as a starter for the next portion of jelly.
- The strained jelly must be put on fire and brought to a temperature of 90°C, stirring constantly.
- While the drink is hot, add salt to it and stir.
- Pour the finished jelly into disposable containers. As it cools, it will look like jellied meat, and pouring it from a jug will be inconvenient.
- You can add a sweetener (honey or jam) to the finished dish and serve it as a snack or one meal. The consistency can be adjusted.
The recipe for steaming oats in a thermos can be considered one of the simplest, since you don’t need to stand at the stove for a long time and waste a lot of time. The difficulty in preparing the drink lies in grinding the oats. To do this you will need a coffee grinder, blender or any other chopper.
Ground oats will steam better and will maximally saturate the infusion with beneficial nutrients. Use a coarse, unrefined whole grain product. Sort out the grains in advance, clean them and measure out the required amount. The grain crop is prepared in a ratio of 1:10 with water. Depending on the volume of the thermos, adjust the number of grains.
Main ingredients:
- unrefined oats - 70 ml;
- water - 700 ml.
- Place oats in a coffee grinder and grind.
- Boil the water.
- Pour the ground cereal into a thermos and pour boiling water over it.
- Close the container tightly and leave to infuse for about 12 hours.
Before use, strain the infusion and, if necessary, reheat. The finished drink is drunk 250 ml 3 times a day before meals (30 minutes before). If desired, add sweetener to the finished drink. This can be jam or honey (1 tsp per glass of infusion).
How to drink correctly
Before you start consuming oats as a remedy, you must follow a preparatory diet for a week. It will reduce the load on the digestive system.
It consists of the following steps:
- It is necessary to remove from the menu everything fatty, smoked and spicy, as well as flour and sweets.
- Add vegetables, fruits and grains to your diet that contain large amounts of fiber and vitamins.
Recipes for jelly, which is made from oatmeal decoction, have a large number of beneficial properties due to their special composition:
- Fiber forms a mucous film that relieves inflammation on the walls of the stomach during gastritis and ulcers.
- Thanks to insulin, sugar levels decrease.
- Helps get rid of drug, alcohol and tobacco addiction.
- Contains vitamin B, which perfectly helps with various depressions.
- Tryptophan contained in oats helps build muscle mass.
- Soluble fiber helps remove salts from the body.
Oats are useful for any age group, for almost all diseases, especially for hypercholesterolemia.
Unprocessed grains contain more beneficial components, but are rarely used in the diet.
Oatmeal, flakes and oatmeal are more common.
The following dietary dishes are prepared from them.
Ingredients:
- 100 g oatmeal;
- 1 glass of water;
- 1 small apple;
- 1 tsp. honey;
- cinnamon - to taste.
Cook regular porridge for 10-15 minutes, add an apple cut into small strips, and after 2 minutes remove from heat. When serving, add honey and cinnamon.
In addition to other beneficial properties, apples actively reduce cholesterol (eating two fruits daily can reduce the level of harmful fat-like substances by 16%).
Cinnamon and honey improve metabolism. Thus, all components of the dish enhance and complement the cholesterol-lowering properties of oats.
Oatmeal jelly
Ingredients:
- 4 cups oatmeal (you can grind oatmeal);
- 2 liters of water.
First, pour water into the flour and leave for 10-12 hours. The liquid is stirred, filtered, boiled for 2-4 minutes, stirring constantly. Fresh berries and honey are added for taste.
Consume after meals. Kissel saturates, promotes weight loss and restores fat metabolism.
Oat tincture
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oat grains;
- 1 cup boiling water.
The washed grain is poured into a thermos and poured with boiling water. Infuse for a day, filter and drink a glass daily on an empty stomach. The course of treatment is two weeks. Brew the tincture every day.
This treatment reduces high cholesterol levels by 15%, restores metabolism, and makes your figure slimmer.
Pour the washed oats with water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 15 minutes. The decoction after straining is taken 1 time/day after meals. The course of treatment is 1 month.
Allows you to effectively reduce the content of fatty acids. Following a diet free of animal fats is mandatory.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oat grains;
- 1 liter of hot water;
- honey - to taste.
Pour hot water over the oats and cook over low heat until a quarter of the liquid has boiled away. Strain, add 1-2 tablespoons of honey. Drink 100 ml before each meal for 30 days.
This decoction acts as a tonic, reduces cholesterol levels, improves digestion, and reduces weight.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup oatmeal;
- 2 glasses of water;
- 200 ml of hawthorn juice;
- honey - to taste.
Prepare a decoction of the flakes for 10 minutes, filter, mix with hawthorn juice, add honey. Drink a glass in the morning before breakfast for three weeks.
This vitamin drink made from oats against cholesterol is an indispensable remedy for atherosclerosis. The action of the cereal components and the hawthorn vitamin complex join forces to restore lipid metabolism.
In case of persistent high cholesterol levels and advanced atherosclerosis, the doctor prescribes parallel use of medications from the group of fibrates, statins, or bile acid sequestrants. In this case, the oat diet becomes one of the elements of an integrated approach to treating the disease.
Adelina Pavlova
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Last updated: January 21, 2020
Oat protein is similar in amino acid composition to meat protein
Oatmeal, decoctions and jelly, thanks to a rich set of biologically active substances, have a preventive and therapeutic effect.
Effective and affordable method:
- Take oat grain and water in equal parts.
- Boil for 15 minutes, filter and add water to the original volume.
- Drink a warm glass on an empty stomach 2 hours before lunch and 2.5 hours after lunch.
The duration of treatment is several days, depending on the severity of the disease.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Pour 150 g of whole oat grains into a large bowl, 2 tbsp. l. lingonberry leaves and birch buds.
- Pour in 3 liters of water, leave to brew for 12 hours in a cool place, filter.
- In an enamel pan, prepare a decoction of 1 cup of chopped rose hips and 1 liter of water.
- Add 2 tbsp. l. corn silk and knotweed grass.
- The broth is steamed for 15 minutes, cooled, and filtered.
- The liquids are poured into one container and stored in the refrigerator.
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Drink a warm drink half an hour before each meal.
How does it cleanse the body?
Oats are a healthy remedy that helps cleanse salts. It helps remove toxins and toxic substances. The product is completely safe. Anyone can use it.
Whole grains help achieve maximum effect. Oatmeal does not have a pronounced cleansing effect. It is best to purchase grains at a pharmacy, since a product treated with chemicals can cause serious harm.
After using oatmeal broth, hazardous substances are eliminated naturally through the intestines. You need to properly prepare for cleansing procedures. To do this, you should follow these recommendations for 2 weeks:
- normalize sleep patterns;
- do exercises in the morning;
- exclude alcoholic drinks;
- Healthy food.
Effect on the body
The pronounced cleansing properties of the cereal are due to its composition. This product helps achieve the following results:
- saturate the body with vitamins and minerals;
- provide the body with fiber - when it swells in the stomach, it provides long-term saturation;
- speed up metabolic processes;
- remove harmful substances from the body.
Thanks to the use of oatmeal decoction, it is possible to achieve cleansing of the liver, kidneys, and blood vessels. The composition also helps remove harmful substances from the lungs and intestines.
Oats for liver cleansing - methods of use
There are a huge number of oat-based recipes that will cleanse the liver and improve the functioning of the entire gastrointestinal tract. All you have to do is find whole grains and choose the appropriate recipe.
- Oat decoction in water
This is the simplest recipe for cleansing the liver. To prepare the product for 100 g of grains, you need to take 1 liter of water:
- pour water over the oats and put on fire;
- after boiling, reduce the heat and cook the mixture for another 20 minutes;
- when the broth has cooled, you can add 2 tablespoons of honey to it and stir.
Drink 0.5 liters of decoction daily. It is not recommended to take the product for longer than two months.
- Infusion of ground oats
To prepare you need:
- Grind a handful of oats in a coffee grinder to make a powder;
- pour a liter of boiling water over the powder and close the lid;
- After 12 hours, strain the infusion through cheesecloth.
Take 0.5 liters of oat infusion daily for three months.
- Oatmeal jelly
How to cook:
- Pour half a glass of oats with a glass of still mineral water and leave to steep overnight;
- In the morning, strain the liquid and drink.
It is advisable not to combine oatmeal jelly with food.
The first positive results of cleaning will be noticeable within a week.
To enhance the beneficial properties of the cereal, you can mix it with other products - cranberry juice, apple juice, etc.
- Oatmeal broth with honey and lemon juice
Preparation:
- pour a handful of oats into 1 liter of boiling water and cook for 20 minutes;
- add as much water as it boils, cover with a lid and remove from heat;
- wrap the container with a towel so that the heat does not escape and leave the broth for another 3 hours;
- strain through cheesecloth;
- add the juice of half a lemon and a spoonful of honey.
Take the decoction daily, 1 glass three times a day before meals.
Contraindications
Before brewing cereal and using it for cleansing, you should familiarize yourself with the key contraindications. Restrictions include the following:
- heart diseases;
- pregnancy;
- kidney disease;
- cholelithiasis;
- kidney failure;
- celiac disease;
- intolerance to components;
- gastritis;
- cholecystitis;
- absence of gallbladder.
Oats have pronounced cleansing properties, helping to improve the functioning of the entire body. To achieve good results, you need to prepare a healthy decoction. It is important to take it correctly.
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