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Wheat Chapati
It is round flat bread
native to the Indian subcontinent
made from stone-ground wholemeal
flour and water that is combined
into dough.
Nutritious
Chapati prepared from hard and heavy variety of
wheat provides good nutrition than soft wheat.
Wheat Nashashta
(starch)
Cold and dry Dessicative,
astringent,
Wound healing,
Hemostatic
It is used in the treatment of chest diseases viz. dry
cough, chest pain, tuberculosis; its paste with
saffron is applied on blemishes. It is used with dry
fruits in the form of hareera
to strengthen the brain.
Its paste prepared with egg white used in the
treatment of conjunctivitis.
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Oryza sativa
(Rice)
Hot and dry Nutritious
It provides balanced nutrition. It can be cooked with
milk to increase its nutritional value and also to
reduce its dryness. White rice has some detergent
property. For this purpose, rice is soaked in water
for few hours then it is rubbed with hands so that the
constituents responsible for detergent activity can be
taken in water. This water when used for washing
the face serves as an effective catalyst in the process
of vanishing blemishes and whitening of face. Due
to its astringent property it heals wounds when used
as a dusting powder.
Ibn Sina (2007), Al
Razi (1991), Ibn al
Baitar (1999) and
Majoosi (2010)
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15 Cereals and Grains as Functional Food in Unani System of Medicine