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.
When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore for a 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.
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.
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://r ehydrate.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.
