1, oats for the grass plants, "Materia Medica" called sparrow wheat, wild wheat. Oats are not easy to peel, so it is called skin oats, is a low-sugar, high-nutrition, high-energy food. Oats are sweet and flat in nature. It can benefit the spleen, nourish the heart and astringent sweat.
2, oats have high nutritional value. It can be used for weak self-sweating, night sweating or tuberculosis patients. Decoction of soup, or "pounded and peeled as noodles and steamed food and cakes." (Salvation Materia Medica). Oats are hardy, drought-resistant, very adaptable to the soil, and can self-seed and reproduce.
3, oats are rich in dietary fiber, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, conducive to defecation, low calorie, low glycemic index, lipid and glucose, but also one of the high-grade supplements in poor areas is indispensable dry food.