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Chapati of barley
(barley bread)
Cold and dry Nutritious
It is less nutritious than wheat chapati
and causes
flatulence.
Barley sattu
Cold and dry Nutritious
It is less nutritious than chapatti; stops bilious
diarrhoea. For hot temperament persons, barley sattu
is more preferable than wheat sattu.
Nevertheless it
produces more gasses.
Ibn Sina (2007), Al
Razi (1991), Ibn al
Baitar (1999),
Majoosi (2010),
Ansari et al. (2018),
Zaman et al. (2013)
and Bashir and
Akhtar (2018)
5
Pennisetum glaucum
(millet)
Cold and dry Nutritious,
diuretic,
emmenaogogue
and abortifacient
It produces dryness and cause constipation. Its
nutrition is less than rice and wheat. It has diuretic
effect and produces viscous humour. Millet bread is
not easily digested but if flour of peeled millet
dough is prepared with wheat bran water and
consumed with some oil, more valuable and forms
good quality of blood as well as maintains the body
in healthy state. It provides strength to the body and
increases sexual power. Its hareera
and sattu
is
effective in vomiting caused by bile and black bile.
It acts as diuretic, emmenaogogue and abortifacient;
effective in ascites. Its hot fomentation is found to
be efficient in inflammatory pains and piles as it
dissolves swelling; pain and discomfort caused by
flatulence.
Ibn Sina (2007), Al
Razi (1991), Ibn al
Baitar (1999),
Majoosi (2010) and
Ghani (2011)
Table 15.2 (continued)
S. No. Cereals and grains
Temperament Properties
Methods of therapeutic uses
References
S. A. A. Makbul et al.