Quickest Way To Stop Diarrhoea..!
When someone gets Diarrhoea, sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder
why anyone has to suffer.
Of all the ingredients here, the most potent is Rice, but not in the usual
form we eat it in, and neither would rice porridge work
too well.
The secret is in rice water.
This is already known in this region. Ask your maids --
Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.
My Malaysian relatives know about it.
My mother knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to
farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought along his wife Aly
and his granddaughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with very bad
gastroenteritis. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It was slow
to work..
Mother boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two
1.5L bottles of rice water.
I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so
primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before.
To my surprise, it worked, and they were even able to go out for dinner the
next day. Both were exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making
them well again. Well, lucky it worked, I thought to myself.
I was discussing this some years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK
Hospital . She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the
notable pediatrician teaches.
I was shocked and made some comment how could he?
It was common knowledge so what had he to do with it?
Many months later, I regretted laughing at it.
Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel, who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have
forgotten, either National Health Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever..
regarded me seriously when I brought up the topic like it was good fun. She
said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had presented a paper on it at some
conference after he had done clinical trials.
Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all
doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives
of 2 million African babies by this method.
I am impressed.
It is rice water and not rice, that does the trick. I have found it
effective again and again.
THE EXACT RECIPE
You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large saucepan with lots of
water. Like three or four large glasses.
Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve
the ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying
pan or basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary. This gives the
patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure himself or herself
sooner.
When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it.
You have to tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts
from throat to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it.
If you take rice, it stays in the stomach.
If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine.
But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your
small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.
How does it work?
Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know.
Read the article by going to this site:
http://rehydrate.org/dd/dd06.htm#page2
It is good to pass on the news to everyone you know because the complaint
is so common and people suffer unnecessarily.
You would be doing your friends a great favour to relieve them of their
misery when the occasion arises.
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