The Poor Man's Gruel

Rice porridge used to be for the poor, it was served in times of food shortages and famine.

Present day sees many rich and powerful resorting to porridge as a mean to ward off ill health, due to excess rich food.

One natural diarrhea treatment that is simple to prepare and highly effective is rice water. This simple diarrhea treatment not only helps to stop diarrhea, but also to rehydrate the person who is suffering from diarrhea and losing body fluids.



How to prepare the very simple life saving gruel? In a small pot add ½ cup rice, wash then fill the pot with about ¾ water. Bring it to a full boil.

Mothers in traditional Asian societies knew how to stop diarrhea with rice water since ancient times.

The use of rice-water for oral rehydration in the management of acute gastroenteritis was pioneered by a local professor, and this led to a new and highly cost-effective approach to diarrhoeal diseases in the developing world.

One explanation could be that starch-like sugars tend to draw less fluid out of the body and into the gut compared with a similar amount of simple sugar such as glucose.