Avena Sativa (OAT STRAW)

AVENA SATIVA; GRAMINEAE

HISTORICAL USES

Used as a skin cleanser, for cataplasm, cough, to stimulate motor ganglia, for nervous prostration and prostatic irritation, for febrile diseases, heart muscles, urinary organs, and inflammatory cases and fevers, for chronic constipation, post labor to expel the placenta, for croup, to relieve craving for cigarettes and opium, as a nerve and uterine tonic, for arthritis, rheumatism, paralysis, liver infection and skin diseases, rickets, scrofula, kidney infections and stone attacks, as an

antidote for drug addiction, for alcoholism, diphtheria, dysentery, for nerve structure of sexual organs as in spermatorrhea, neurasthenia and impotence.

Oat straw is an ingredient in Dr. Christopher’s calcium formula. Dr. Christopher explained that the body needs calcium for nerve sheath, vein and artery walls, bones, teeth, etc. Most of our diets nowadays are deficient in calcium because of the denatured foods we eat, which have most of the calcium processed out of them. We also lack calcium because of the many inorganic sugars and starches, which we eat, the starches turning to sugar in the body. This sugar, which has had the calcium removed during processing, looks for chemical links to regain its calcium, and the calcium leaches out of the system. The result is weakened teeth, charlie horses, and general systemic weakness.

Inorganic calcium, which is derived from mineral sources in the earth that are not alive, cannot be assimilated into the body; it can be accepted but remains in the system to cause problems. Organic calcium, on the other hand, can easily be assimilated into the body and used to supply the important calcium need. Organic calcium can come from many plants, but the Calc formula of Dr. Christopher supplies it in an easily assimilable and trustworthy form.