Health Benefits: Rice

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Rice is a marvelous complete food, the dietary staple of the East and until the advent of rice milling, it was eaten unpolished.

With the new white rice came a disastrous epidemic of beriberi, a disease of the brain and nervous system. that spread like wildfire round the Eastern world.
Beriberi is caused by the deficiency of B vitamin, thiamin, in which the rice-polishings are rich, so white rice today is sometimes parboiled or converted by a process of steaming to drive some of the vitamins back into the grain.


Plain boiled brown rice is a universal folk remedy for diarrhea, as is the water in which rice is boiled, which is also recommended for fevers.
It seems to have a beneficial effect on the entire intestinal tract, soothing and cleansing it.
A regime of plain, boiled, unsalted rice is warmly recommended by French doctors for lowering the blood pressure.
To this can be added a puree of apples.


Rice should be washed in running water before cooking, but never soaked, since vital minerals and vitamins leach out with the dirt.