Avenae stramentum

Avenae stramentum, also called oat straw, the particularly soft straw of the oat.

Commission E-monograph: externally for inflammatory and seborrheic skin diseases, as a bath additive, especially with itching.

Empirical medicine: externally: adjuvant in weeping dermatoses, atopic eczema, sunburns.

as green oat tea: strengthening and invigoration of the excretory function - in combination with nettle leaves, lady's mantle herb, raspberry leaves as diuretic in rheumatism and gout, also for lowering elevated uric acid levels

Avenae stramentum contains silicic acid (in the ashes 55 to 75%), flavonoids and triterpene saponins.

Oatstraw has antiphlogistic, astringent and antipruritic effects.

Oat straw is used for the treatment of inflammatory and seborrheic skin diseases, weeping dermatoses and atopic eczema

100 g of the drug for a full bath.

There are no known adverse effects.

There are no known contraindications. However, full baths are generally not recommended in cases of extensive weeping dermatoses, febrile diseases or relevant heart failure.

The use of oat straw has two disadvantages. Oat straw has a sometimes very unpleasant odour as a preparation and, as a raw extract, consists of a dark black liquid; this can lead to discolouration of the bathtub.

The seed oat was chosen as the medicinal plant of the year 2017.

1. Schilcher H (2016) Leitfaden Phytotherapie, Urban & Fischer Verlag München, p. 148 f.
2. https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/hafer.php
3. Wenigmann M. (2017) Phytotherapy medicinal drugs, phytopharmaceuticals, application. Urban & Fischer, pp. 117-118