Health Benefits of Organic Navara Rice





 Palakkad is popularly known as the Gateway to Kerala. Pallakad is dotted with hillocks, valleys, rivers, forests, mountains streams, dams and irrigation projects. It is also the rice-bowl of Kerala and the land of Organic Navara rice. Other than Palakkad, Navara also grows in neighbouring districts which have the same soil type and climatic conditions.

Organic Navara rice has an important place in the Ayurvedic system of treatment and is used, alone or in combination with other herbs to treat many diseases. The rice is of two kinds, the white glumed (husked) and black glumed. Organic navara rice is now available atonline in best organic shops in ChennaiOrganic grocery store in India.

The rice has a wide range of benefits;

1. Boiled Navara is a good weaning food for infants, particularly those with low weight. Both made by adding Navara rice to meat is recommended to pregnant women as it increases the weight of the foetus. Cooked with milk and herbs, it can treat the internal wounds.

2. Organic Navara rice bran oil is used for a wide range of aches and painful conditions like the cervical spondylosis, low back ache, paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis.

3. Ayurvedic doctors effectively use Navara rice paste, lepanam, to treat psoriasis. The paste is also an excellent remedy for skin lesions.

4. Rice gruel made of Navara is considered beneficial in preventing various diseases and is also considered a safe food for diabetics.

Navara is used in Navarakizhi, a specialty treatment from Kerala’s traditional medicine used for curing neuromuscular disorders.

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Navarakizhi Ayurvedic Treatment

The rice cooked in a decoction of the herb, Sida (Sida rectusa. Lin), to which milk has been added, makes the body supple, removes stiffness of joints, cleanses the body channels, and improves blood circulation.

It is traditionally consumed as a replenishing drink, called karkidakakanji, and is effective in curing fatigue.

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karkidakakanji — Marunnu kanji recipe

In today’s health conscious world market, Organic Navara rice can plays a dominant role if marketing channels open up to farmers who have preserved Navara rice against all adversity.

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