JAII- (AVENA SATIVA LINN.)- A PROMISING CEREAL

Ayurveda emphasizes on preventive aspects rather than curative. Ayurveda has got three fold management of all diseases viz., Ahara (diet), Vihara (exercise) and Aushada (drug). A properly selected diet and diet plan plays a critical importance in the management of any disease. There is a surge of oat cereal in market. Oat is a yavak, which is decribed under kudhanya varga in samhitas and nighantus. This papers reviews the botanical description of Jaii, its uses, action, pharmacological activities along with whole cultivation practices. REFERANCES 1. Handbook of Agriculture, 4th edition .Publised by DIPA (Directorate of information and Publication of Agricuture), ICAR,PUSA, New Delhi, 2008, 886-890 2. Bhavprakash ; Bhavprakash Nighantu, (commentary by Dr.K.C.Chunekar & Dr. G.S.Pandey), Chaukhambha Bharati Academy, Reprint 2002,667 3. Sushruta; Sushruta Samhita commentary by Ambika Dutt Shastri; Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sansthan, Reprint 2007, 68. 4. Ross. Ivan S; Medicinal Plants of the world,Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses, Vol 3, Humana Press; 2005 5. A. Vogel. Avena sativa L. Oats. A. Vogel Plant Encyclopaedia. [Online] http://www.avogel.ca/en/plant-encyclopaedia/avena_sativa.php. 6. Ben-erik-van-wyk; Food Plants of the World, ,1st edition, Briza publications, South Africa2005, 80 7. Misri,B., R.N.Choubey and S.K.Gupta, Performance of some new Oat strains for fodder production in Kashmir Himalaya. Oat Newsletter,1984, 35. 8. Encyclopedia of World Medicinal Plants, Volume 1, Regecy publications, 2006, 260 9. Katie M Queenan,Maria L Stewart,Kristen N Smith, William Thomas,R Gary Fulcher,and Joanne L Slavin , Concentrated oat β-glucan, a fermentable fiber, lowers serum cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic adults in a randomized controlled trial. www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/fprender.fcgi 10. Czerwiński J, Bartnikowska E, Leontowicz H, Lange E, Leontowicz M, Katrich E, Trakhtenberg S, Gorinstein S., Oat (Avena sativa L.) and amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) meals positively affect plasma lipid profile in rats fed cholesterol-containing diets. Department of Physiology Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw Agricultural University, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed 11. Connor J, Connor T, Marshall PB, Reid A, Turnbull MJ. J Pharm Pharmacol. The pharmacology of Avena sativa. 1975 Feb;27(2):92-8 // www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed 12. , Colleoni-Sirghie et al., Molecular Weight Distribution of (1→3)(1→4)-β-Glucan Affects Pasting Properties of Flour from Oat Lines with High and Typical Amounts of β-Glucan, 2003 http://www.aaccnet.org/cerealchemistry/freearticle/CCHEM-84-5-0471.pdf 13 Van Horn et al., 1988; Shinnick et al., 1991, Cholesterol lowering effects in Hamsters of β-glucan enriched barley fraction dehulled whole barley,ricebran and oat bran and their combinations.( http://www.aaccnet.org/cerealchemistry/backissues/1993/70_435.pdf.