April 2016 Mulching heavily with straw helps keep the soil cooler. Black Cohosh An herb traditionally used for its soothing effect on the nervous system. Meet The Herbalist January 2020 Hi, so glad I found your site and this information on milky oat tincture, my oats are 4 inches tall and have been planning a milky oat tincture since last fall! Ingredients/Parts used: ArtemAvena sativa (tops) Other ingredients: neutral distilled spirits Extraction: 1:2 (full strength//not from concentrate//no water added). January 2018 Meet The Herb Farm Urban Gardening Yes, the tincture recipe you made is about 1:3 40%, which should be just fine. The farmer also told me that if i water it once a week,the size of the seeds will be bigger than on his farm which depends on rain. https://judithbrooksacupuncture.com/herbs-for-healing/milky-oats-avena-sativa June 2020 Another thing you could do is make your own; even if you can’t grow it yourself right now, you might be able to find someone else who’s growing it and will sell you some when it’s fresh, usually late spring or early fall. Suggested use: Quantity: 1 2. I appreciate the details ❤. Certainly appreciate your engagement. Is this normal? I read that you want mostly milky seeds (doesn’t have to be all) to harvest and tincture. Tonics Vata It seemed way too thick so I dumped the rest of the vodka in totaling 1 liter which I think is about 36 oz. Psychological First Aid The oats will be “milky” when the young unripe seeds have emerged but before they’re ripe (in other words, before they’re viable seeds). You may have already removed the seeds, depending how you harvested them. Seeds Milky Oats tincture must be made from fresh herbs–a tincture of dried herbs is just an oat tincture. Cancer or just under 4 1/2 cups and it still looks too thick. You just want to make sure that the plant matter is below the level of the liquid. Thanks so much! How To Use: Take 1/4 teaspoon … Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. 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Recipes April 2013 Yes, it’s fine to pour the whole shebang into the blender. I usually leave the pulp in the jar for about 2 months, there’s more info about this at the end of the blog post about weight-to-volume tincturing. I have missed the spring-window for planting; but will try to catch the autumn one…. Our oats tincture is available in retail and bulk sizes. I thought that info may be helpful to folks. The tincture i made and only got 3/4 of a liter tasted like baileys Irish cream. Often it’s sold by the 50 lb sack or other incredible amount that you will probably not be able to use, but both times I’ve had to go that route I was able to talk the nice person behind the desk into measuring me out less. That was neat, even with the crushed plants. I live in Northern California and the wild oats that grow in empty lots are either beginning their milky stage or ending it (only a couple of seeds per plant are milky). Planted in April (don’t remember date). So 12 liters of that would be yum,plus really good for me. 4. Since I can’t see it to give you a definite answer, I suggest experimenting a little; experience will teach you which weirdo jar contents are okay and which aren’t. What’s the best use for these dried milky oats? The main reason I recommend blending is that it’s hard to get the proportions right because the milky oats are so light and fluffy that they stick out! Remember that minerals are not soluble in alcohol, only in water. About sowing,have you thought of pre-germinating the seeds? PLEASE dont freeze it. It’s normal. Kevin that’s so exciting! Calendula 1/4 of an ounce a day seems like a lot of tincture to me. Generally speaking, plant oils and water-soluble constituents don’t dissolve in alcohol, so they tend to stick around, either as precipitate in the bottom of the jar, as a film on the surface, or as a gooey glob floating in the jar (you see this with slippery elm and marshmallow–it looks like snot–don’t tincture plants that do this, you’re not getting the good stuff). As far as critters getting my oat seeds after I plant them, I cover the planted oats with that cheap, hard plastic fencing and they can’t even dig the seeds out. Juliette Abigail Carr, Registered Herbalist (AHG), Why I Don’t Pick the Flowers: Leave the Spring Ephemerals Alone, Nettles, Burdock, & How to Make Tinctures That Actually Work and Don’t Taste Like Death | Old Ways Herbal, Garden Tip of the Month: Growing Milky Oats! I cover my wheat grass with 4-5mm of soil,so you could do this with oats and the critters wont see the seeds on the ground.Thanks for the answers! I’m curious because the farm that I’ve worked at has an oat patch every season that’s pretty thick by June. Tincturing December 2013 Growing Herbs I checked several areas in the bed and most are in the right phase, so I stripped them into a bag…harvested probably 2/3 of the crop which weighed in at almost 3 pounds of just the tops–will harvest the rest of the milky oats tomorrow and the oatstraw in a couple weeks maybe, not sure when is best. Mugwort After it sits for at least 6 weeks, you can strain your alcohol off and enjoy the many blessings of Milky Oats. Herbal Salves Plant your oats in a spot that is shady in early fall but sunny in late fall, like immediately north of your corn. Reishi ( Log Out /  this tincture is difficult to make well - requiring harvest of the fresh plant at just the right stage, usually lasting just a few days at peak potency. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Thanks! Good luck! ), and your own constitution. For small batches I recommend using a potato ricer, which you can buy for $10 at any kitchen store. You can tincture or use for tea, they just won’t have the same magic. Thanks! September 2015 Milky Oats are said to: Calm frayed nerves. Once I scared a fawn out of my oats, where her mother had hidden her for the day. I just strained the batch a few days ago and the tincture has since separated, dark olive colored liquid in the top three quarters of the mason jar with milky green matcha latte colored thicker seeming liquid below. make sure its food grade,not stuff treated for pools. Farming Food Plants May 2013 Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Awesome! Same with pregermination. I plant the watermelon starts right into the oats around the first week of June—easiest is just to use a dibble to make a little hole the size of the roots. I have heard 2 weeks – 2 months. Botanical Dyeing Poisonous Plants They’re a great choice to build resistance to daily stress and burnout. Milky Oats Tincture- 1 oz. Ecological Herbalism In women’s health we cherish oat for its properties as a mineral rejuvenator and protector against adrenal exhaustion–goodbye postpartum depression! Eco-printing Shen Tonics The whole plant is referred to as 'oatstraw.' In terms of dosage, there are a lot of different schools of thought, and it’s very very hard or impossible to give a standard dose for everyone who might take the tincture, since appropriate dosing is related to body weight, energetics, and the reason you’re taking the formula. Should I shake it up before using? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Once Ive waited the right amount of time,Im putting the pulp through my slow juicer,which is very powerfull to get the juice out. March 2015 Earth Healing I may have to resort to horsetail for my silica. You squeeze the oat tops and a thick milky substance comes out. Before planting oats, use a scuffle hoe or stirrup hoe to make the soil as level and fine as you can get it, even if the soil was recently tilled. The watermelon leaves grow like crazy and the oats don’t compete, but grass etc. Delightful article! Or does it have to be fresh? Milky Oats tincture. One thing I do to keep the seed-eaters away is hang old cd’s and bells from a long piece of twine across the field. January 2015 July 2014 It is a nurturing rejuvenator to the nervous system, stress response, and adrenal glands; the minerals your body needs for your heart, muscles, bones, and nerve transmission to work well; kidney and liver function; and it bestows a feeling of general well-being to those of us lucky enough to bask in its welcoming green glow. They’re still oats. Reciprocity May 2018 October 2016 Travel See my blog or any one of the excellent books on making herbal medicine if I’ve lost you here. If i start with 50/50 alcohol/water,is that high enough alcohol content? August 2020 Change ). What about dehydrating them for future use? Or should I just go ahead and compost them? Make another, maybe with dried or partially dried chickweed. November 2013 Microclimate Oats are kind of tall so you can use them to create interesting microclimates for early season crops. Doshas I’ve usually harvested oats by then, or I will be harvesting within the next week or two. 3. Also, the sunlight provides a light heating that speeds up the tincture brewing process–it’s much faster. If you’re lucky and the spring is long, you are likely to get a second cutting of Milky Oats in a few weeks. If you’re sowing a large area, walk across it gently to ensure good contact between the oats and the soil. First time I’ve grown them, and so far so good. Freezing is better but still not great, it will lessen the medicine still. Also really like the site in general, thanks! I made my tincture this past June, i have just pressed it and let it settle in the jars. You can try again for a fall crop, which is harder to time but still works. Digestion Wondering if the sediment holds some useful constituents or if the tincture should be decanted off? Rosemary You might consider putting it through the food processor first and freezing it in portions appropriate for tea, infused honey etc. would. For instance today I purchased several bottles cheaply but they said “Wild milky oat tincture”… In grain alcohol. I’m confused. Hello when I make milky oats tincture , I am always left with white sediment at the bottom that has precipitated out , is this still a useful part ? Holly cow, really, I heard that it was carcinogenic, I take weird things to like chlorine (MMS2) for infections that won’t budge & borax for muscular skeletal health but never heard that one. This brings me to 3 questions: 1. Curandismo I’ve been avoiding it altogether, will have to read up a bit more… Yes was glycerate & alcohol it says on bottle. I did end up adding a bit more alcohol to cover the ground milky oats (1:2.6 75%). I made the tincture…and it worked a little. October 2017 That will preserve it. I think in the end it really comes down to traditions, and different herbalists’ lineage of teachers. I just acquired some dried milky oats that I intended to tincture but after reading your blog decided not to. Check out their page – SocialKingMaker.com, I am after a silica supplement for I have had compulsive finger, biting, picking habit for 14 years. Plant-of-the-year Milky oats is great long term support for the person who is overwhelmed, taxed, burnt out, and chronically stressed. Blue Vervain Eleuthero milky oats is such special medicine. Weigh your plant matter, then put it in the blender with the appropriate amount of alcohol and water and grind away. I just made my first tincture ever. Sounds too high in silica to me, Silica needs to slowly build up in the system, Just taking horsetail untinctured feels like glass in the system…, ❤ I believe you should boost more Instagram followers with SocialKingMaker.com assist! Living With An Herbalist I’m not familiar with the brand you’re taking so I really can’t comment on how it’s made, but if you have concerns you could try another brand and see which you like better. Tea Blends That sounds like a great idea! Rhodiola I arrived at this site looking for guidance in tincturing the 5 pounds of fresh milky oats recently received from a local farmer. Both are extremely beneficial, carry the same amount of vitamins and can more or less be extracted the same way. Queen Anne's Lace Whether or not you can still do it this year depends on climate–where do you live? 1. Lammas Avoid this for the long-season Brassicas like cabbage and brussels sprouts because the oats will be cut down long before those crops are ready. Reduce inflammation . I often plant oats the day I plant peas or soon after; the minimum soil temperature for germination is 45 degrees F, and in the mid 50’s you start to get poor germination and you’re likely to run out of time to get your oats to the milky stage before hot weather hits. I definately feel akin with milky oat as a remedy but sometimes I just take a homeopathic silica in tissue salts as I don’t know if I can trust any of the milky oat tincture i’ve been buying from iherb to be the real deal. Autumn March 2016 Wheel Of The Year Plant your oats in a spot that is shady in early fall but sunny in late fall, like immediately north of your corn. May 2014 Preserving Water-Soluble Magic Beyond the Growing Season: Herbal Ice Cubes, Follow Old Ways Herbal: Juliette Abigail Carr, Registered Herbalist on WordPress.com. I have been brewing it fresh as a tea, but I am wondering about making a tincture of it to carry me through the winter. That’s if you’re making your medicine at something like 1:3 75% or so. Meadowsweet February 2016 Rose Plant Profile Educational Gardens Healer's Path Ayurveda To prep the bed by hand, turn the soil with a shovel, weeding as you go; when the soil is as turned as it’s going to get, follow instructions below. April 2020 To harvest the seeds, you can either slide your fist up the stalks to pull off just the seeds, or use pruners or a scythe to cut the oats just below where the seeds start (this is faster but higher impact). Oat descended from A. sterilis as a cross between wheat and barley, and spread as a weed from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. Anxiety Freezing kills so much good stuff within anything. September 2016 If the species is Avena sativa, then yes it’s the same. Julia Ross author of “The Mood Cure” mentions a study in which “tryptophan stopped obsessive birds from plucking themselves bare of their own feathers.” Perhaps supplementing tryptophan would be helpful. for fresh milky oats you want a high alcohol content, so most likely you shouldn’t be cutting your alochol with water unless you’re using grain alcohol. It’s much more likely to be mold or something microbial if you used a lower alcohol concentration than a high one. Wintergreen But they had 90% dried out by the time they reached me. Permaculture Thanks again! Events Can you make this tincture with dried milky oats? That being said, if you’re concerned about the safety of the tincture, don’t take it! You don’t have to bury the oats, they’ll germinate just fine on the surface as long as they are pressed into the soil. August 2016 How many of those mason jars full,should i make? That’s normal precipitate. It’s the constituents that didn’t dissolve in the menstruum. The milky sap inside the unripe wild oat seed is a nervous system trophorestorative, which means it nourishes and tones the nervous system, and helps to restore its function and vitality. I’m in 5b zone, here in southern coastal Maine. Herbalist Michael Moore referred to it as an ideal herb for those with “crispy critter syndrome.” You know the type. Here in Vermont, the climate is often too harsh to pregerminate very early spring seeds like oats. Holy Basil Podcast It’s a complicated tincture for your first time, so just know that almost every other herb you try will be less work than this was! I made a batch of milky oats tincture in August using your recipe and instructions. Milky Oats. Soak the seeds for 24 hours in water,depending on the time of year. Water Hemlock Renee Robinson,if you want a supplement just for silica,you should try diatomaceous earth. May 2019 Remember that minerals are not soluble in alcohol, only in water. Harvesting For the strongest most medicinally active preparation, the oat seeds should to be in milky stage. Can you use glycerin and no alcohol to make a milky oats tincture? I think of it as an in-and-out crop, like peas or radishes, in that it’s there and gone before my heavy hitter crops like corn and tomatoes are even a twinkle in the season’s eye. Herbal Energetics Most tinctures don’t have air bubbles at all, but tinctures made in the blender are a lot goopier. Good instincts on your improv! Blended with alcohol to make a tincture (using a ratio of one part herb to two parts alcohol), Milky Oats forms a vibrant, verdant green slurry of medicine. Feel free to contact me and I will get right back to you. That said, a reasonable dose to start at with a safe, long-term-use herb like oats is 1-2 dropperfuls 2-3 times per day for several days, then reduce by a dropperful at a time until you find the lowest effective dose. If you don’t have the right hoe you can use a hard rake, but then please get yourself a good hoe with your tax refund. Becoming An Herbalist Consider a scarecrow, bells, or old CD’s on strings to keep the birds out of the oats, although there’s a certain amount of seed that the seed-eaters will take as their due for their brethren who eat pest bugs, mice, rabbits, etc. again, please see the weight to volume tincture article for an in depth explanation of this. June 2017 Way to go Gina! These herbs are blended for their nutritional and mineral contents, which help to feed the nervous system, as well as their beneficial actions upon the nervous & adrenal systems. so you don’t have to thaw it all at once. The history of Oats. Milky Oats https://oldwaysherbal.com/2014/04/22/milky-oats-tincture-whats-the-secret It sure is a thick mixture. If it’s a small area, you can pat them down with your hands. Cleavers I know there are natural variations, and production methods also change things, but is there a rough guide to how much to take? They are direct seeded in place in the garden in rows. July 2018 For example, St Johns Wort turns red much faster and more vibrantly in a window than it does in a closet. Hello restful sleep, coping skills, and an end to feeling stretched too thin, exhausted, and sapped of vitality. Canine Nutrition The birds are going to eat some of your seeds, so really, spread them thick. Spring If there’s really a ton, it implies that your milky oats had a higher water content than expected and to use less alcohol next time around (or do 2 versions), but any herb that is also a good tea herb will have some amount of undissolved solute sitting at the bottom of the jar. Ethnobotany History Of Herbstalk Connection I usually add enough alcohol so the blender doesn’t kill itself and everything gets nice and smooth, pour it in the jar, then swish the rest of the alcohol through the empty blender cup to get any plant matter that stuck to the sides before pouring it in the jar, but I don’t really think it matters as long as you’re pulverizing the heck out of the milky oats. All writing and photos on this site are copyright Juliette Carr unless otherwise noted. August 2017 Nothing is as good as fresh, but freezing beats drying for this medicine if you can’t make medicine from all of it, since the latex is key. • Tincture (1:2): 20-40 drops three to four times per day. Deserts | milky oats tincture |milky oats is such special medicine. Lyme Certified: Cruelty Free, Vegan Sizes: 1oz amber bottle with dropper. Cannabis Community Cover Crop Oats make a great spring cover crop, so consider planting them in a spot that went weedy last year, or in an area new to cultivation. Violet February 2014 That should help lower the cost of the medicine and help you find a balance with how much medicine you’re taking. was concerned they were going to skip milky phase cuz we got some upper 80’s weather for most of a week, but high humidity perhaps saved the day, because when I squeezed them (had to squeeze rather hard, harder than I had thought) milky goodness came out ( July 7). That might explain it. Review of “Herbal ABC’s,” Dr. Sharol Tilgner’s new Herbal! Would appreciate your help. My veggies come out very dry from that,so Im sure I will get 95% of the goof stuff. Will this be ok? Growing/Care Oats are easy to grow and need little to no care. You can also take the tincture, but just be sure to look for milky oat tincture – this means that the oats were harvested at a time when the seed yields a milky substance when crushed. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! the plants cannot be shipped or stored, the medicine of milky oats must be captured from your own land and made at just the right moment of the season to store the milky green magic for the rest of the year. I am pretty sure that they are either A. barbata or A. fatua. Alternatively, I’m sure you can find another milky oats product online that will ship to your area. Good luck! I just tinctured my fresh milky oats this morning, but knew I was missing a step (blending) because I was thinking, “how am I going to get all the milky goodness out”?? Botanical Crafts “Milky” refers to the whitish goo (latex) that comes out of the fresh, unripe seed when you squeeze it. Climate Change Chinese Medicine Avena sativa is also considered to be a tropho-restorative, which is an herb that focuses on a specific organ in the body. January 2017 Urtication Local Plants Thanks. Social Justice November 2018 Well done! Best taken regularly over a period of time. Milky oats can help balance the endocrine system, and assist skin issues. We often suggest milky oat preparations (primarily tinctures – glycerin or alcohol based)) for those prone to anxiety, dealing with trauma, or overcoming addictions. Please see my article on tincture-making for an explanation of tincture ratios, alcohol percent, solubility, and a general how-to on the process. https://www.avenabotanicals.com/products/oats-liquid-extract The seed is harvested when it becomes milky. Experiment with what works for you. About Milky Oats: Every August, our gardeners hand harvest hundreds of pounds of fresh, green, milky oat seeds. If you didn’t till in the fall, know that you will most likely have to make a decision in March or April to either prep the bed by hand or wait until the ground dries out enough for the tiller–but then you’re gambling on the soil temperature for germination, which is often well into the high 50’s by the time the soil dries out, around here anyway. Milky Oat tops (Avena sativa) in organic vodka. Is the Milky Oat percentages above ok. 2. September 2014 Herbal Education ( Log Out /  Are you blending the milky oats WITH the alcohol? October 2015 This is where much of its nutritional and medicinal value lies. Medicinal Uses Check out the article on weight to volume tinctures, and on solubility. However, the light and heat also makes it more likely that mold will grow, so you have to balance those things. I know nothing beats fresh, but is freezing viable? Fungi 1. Herbal tincture: Fresh oat tops harvested in milky stage ( Avena sativa) Other Ingredients: Organic cane alcohol, organic raw apple cider vinegar. Oats are often used in farming as a cover crop and it’s one we use on the farm regularly. General Leave the greens standing so you can harvest oat straw later in the month (which you will harvest by cutting it down with pruners or a scythe, then dry for tea or tincture fresh at 1:2 75% for your future happiness and health–instructions on tincture-making here). It’s simply too cold here to put most seedlings in the ground that early because they can’t withstand the shock of freezing nights, although direct seeding of many crops works beautifully. Beltane 2. It also makes a stronger tincture, but you’ll still have a milky oats tincture even if you don’t use the blender. January 2013, All Samhain Yes, you can freeze it fresh just fine. You know it’s time when the white goo (latex) comes out of the seed when you squeeze it. Let me know if you have more questions! Hawthorn Many people make a lot of tinctures in the window and are happy with the results! April 2019 Thanks for that. How much should we take? Although oats do not contain gluten, they do have proteins with gluten-like … Hi there. Seasonal Cycles Milky oats are the oat tops that excrete a white sap during their milky stage, while oatstraw is the stem of the plant.
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