The article deals with the healing qualities of oats and useful guidelines on how to use them when dealing with health problems.

1. Oat tea is advisable for people suffering from lung diseases to facilitate expectoration.
   
2. Mix the straw with oak bark treat excessive foot sweating or simply reduce foot sweating.
   Hot compresses of the decoction should be placed around your kidney area to relieve pain caused by nephrolith and ease the excretion of stones out of your body.
   Or you can simply use hot straw instead of the decoction to place around the bad area when dealing with nephrolith.
   
3. Oat grains and products made of them - groats, flour and flakes - are used in food.
   However, they have healing qualities, as well, and can be used to treat various health problems.
   Grains contain starch.
   Hot water converts the starch into mucilage, which has emollient and demulcent action.
   In addition, it binds the tissue that is damaged.
   As a result, oat gruel is advisable for people with damaged gastric mucosa.
   Grains are used to treat insomnia and incontinence of urine at night.
   
4. Mix 2 tablespoons of oat grains, 2 tablespoons of dill fruits and a tablespoon of hawthorn fruits.
   Infuse the mix of the herbs with half a liter of boiling water and continue to boil the tincture on a small fire for half an hour.
   Leave the decoction to brew for 4 hours and decant it.
   Divide the decoction into equal parts and drink them within a day to treat insomnia.
   You should drink the remedy half an hour before meal.
   
5. Mix the decoction made of oat grains with honey to strengthen body weakened by a disease.
   
6. An infusion made of grains is used to improve the function of the heart and bile secretion.
   In addition, it has diuretic action.
   
7. Juice fresh tops and sprouted grains, and use the juice as a great remedy to strengthen body weakened by grippe and cold.
   Moreover, you can use the remedy to deal with insomnia and neurosis.
   
8. Masks made of oat flour or flakes are used to improve the condition of aging skin.
   
9. Grains contain protein avenin, which might cause health problems for people suffering from celiac disease.
   

Some nations use oat grains, while others - tops of the new plants, tops collected during the initial stage of opening of panicles and grains harvested in milk stage of ripeness.
Grains of milk stage are used to make homeopathic remedies.
Oat straw and chaff are used in alternative medicine, as well.