Oryza sativa L.
- Family: Poaceae
- Vernacular names: Nellu, നെല്ല് (Malayalam), Paddy plant (English), Dhanya (Sanskrit), Dhan (Hindi), Nellu (Tamil)
- Distribution: Widely cultivated
- Description: Herbs. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate, scabrid; sheath ciliate along the margins. Panicles 10-25 cm long, lax. Spikelets 7-10 mm long, oblong, greenish-white. Glumes reduced. Grains oblong, tightly enclosed by the lemma and palea.
- Habit: Herb
- Habitat: Cultivated
- Flowering & Fruiting: September-June
- Parts used: Seeds
- Properties & Uses: Grain is oleagenous, tonic, fattening and diuretic. Rice is used variously in sick diet. Malted rice is used as a peptic, carminative and tonic. Grain has long been considered to exercise pectoral virtue and useful for persons troubled with lung disease and spitting of blood, as in pulmonary consumption. Boiled rice is very useful in disorganized digestion, in bowel derangements and in diarrhoea. Rice water is soothing, nourishing drink in febrile diseases and inflammatory states of the intestines. Husk of the grain is considered anti-dysenteric.
- Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani,
- Traditional Uses:Roasted grain mixed with an equal amount of palm sugar is prescribed in Strychnos poisoning.
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