Seriously the oat with its drooping husks and slender stalks are a familiar power food and breakfast cereal. However, in making tea we use oat straw or the whole plant, dried and chopped not just the crushed grain.
Oat straw
Oatstraw tea is a full body tonic to strengthen immunity and build energy. It can help stabilize your thyroid function, regulate blood sugar, reduce cholesterol levels, and bathe the nervous system in nutrients for health and harmony. It is a sweet and wholesome tea with lots of antioxidant power, antibiotic properties and it acts as an antidepressant.
Use this tea to combat fatigue and exhaustion and also, anxiety. Oatstraw is especially useful when recovering from an illness and helps to build up a natural resistance to disease.
This plant tea helps to ease arthritis, bursitis, and rheumatism.
Vitamins A, D, and E; zinc; and silicon in oat straw aid in skin health.
Drink up!!!