Medicinal properties

      Medicinal Action                                      Uses

1. Light and digestible food                   : for those in whom there is any tendency to diarrhoea or dysentery.

2. Ricewater

(Decoction of rice)                                : recommended in the Pharmacopceia of India as an excellent demulcent, refrigerant drink in febrile and inflammatory diseases, and in dysuria and similar affections.

3. Finely powdered rice flour                : Erysipelas, burns, scalds etc 

Uses of rice

• Rice is primarily a high energy food.
• Rice bran one of the by-products of rice milling is used as cattle and poultry feed.
• Rice hulls can be used in manufacturing insulation materials, cement and card board and as litter in poultry production.
• Rice straw can be used as cattle feed as well as litter during winter reason.
• Rice straw forms a substrate for mushroom production.
• Straw is also used as roofing