Rice water

For the type of diarrhea, see cholera.

Rice water is the suspension of starch obtained by draining boiled rice or by boiling rice until it completely dissolves into the water. It may be used as a weak gruel for invalids.[1] It is especially effective in the treatment of diarrhea such as that arising in cholera or gastroenteritis.[2][3]

Kanjivellam is Malayalam word for the water (vellam) drained from boiled rice (kanji).[4]

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References

  1. ↑ John Milner Fothergill, Food for the Invalid: The Convalescent, the Dyspeptic, and the Gouty
  2. ↑ HB Wong (11 July 1981), "Rice water in treatment of infantile gastroenteritis", The Lancet 318 (8237): 102–3, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(81)90462-1, PMID 6113434
  3. ↑ Gore SM, Fontaine O, Pierce NF. (1992), "Impact of rice based oral rehydration solution on stool output and duration of diarrhoea: meta analysis of 13 clinical trials", British Medical Journal (304): 287–291
  4. ↑ Money, N.; G. V. I. Sama (1977). The History of St. Mary's Tope: The Origin, Development and Spread of St. Mary's Tope, the Catholic Brahmin Colony, Tiruchi. Caussanel Publishing House (Brothers of the Sacred Heart). p. 198. ... he was satisfied with mere boiled rice-water (Kanjivellam)