Rice water

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Rice water is the suspension of starch obtained by draining boiled rice or by boiling rice until it completely dissolves into the water. This 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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  1. ^ John Milner Fothergill, Food for the Invalid: The Convalescent, the Dyspeptic, and the Gouty, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xl2M1uC9W8oC&pg=PA32 
  2. ^ HB Wong (July 1981), "Rice water in treatment of infantile gastroenteritis", The Lancet 11 (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. http://books.google.com/books?id=ud8KAAAAIAAJ&q=Kanjivellam&dq=Kanjivellam&pgis=1. "... he was satisfied with mere boiled rice-water (Kanjivellam)" 


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