Milky Oats: Nature’s Nourishing Milk
Milky Oats are harvested in the milky (immature) seed stage of the oat plant. Each seed pod is filled with a nutrient dense milky white substance that comes out when squeezed between your finger tips.
This milky sap is a moistening demulcent and is calming as well as nourishing for an exhausted nervous system.
Milky Oats have trophorestorative properties and help repair a damaged autonomic and enteric (gastrointestinal) nervous system.
Herbal Actions: Organ Affinities:
Nerve Trophorestorative Nervous System
Gentle Relaxant Skin, Connective Tissue
Demulcent. Muscular
Nutritive
Indicated when there is stress, nervousness, dryness, tension, and weakness. For those who tend to overwork themselves and “burn the candle at both ends” and need gentle nourishment to the nervous system, tissues, and overall vitality.
Contraindications:
Use with caution and consult your doctor if you suffer from celiac disease or have a latex allergy.
Soul Creations Tincture Ingredients: Fresh Milky Oat seed pods, 95% Everclear, spring water. (1:9)
Directions: Tinctures should be taken orally. Dilute 1-3 dropperfuls of tincture in a small amount of water and drink. Tinctures can be taken without dilution but are more palatable with added water.
Fresh Milky Oats Tincture
Resources:
Pacheco, L. (n.d.). Oats (Avena sativa). Herbrally.com. https://www.herbrally.com/monographs/oats.
Poppum, S. (n.d.). Materia Medica Monthly. EvolutionaryHerbalism.com. https://members.evolutionaryherbalism.com/members/mmm/materia-medica/milkyoats/.
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