Paddy
(Oryza Sativa L.)

Tribe: Poaceae (Gramineae)
Crude Name: Cement oryzae (beans, rice), Fructus Germinatus oryzae (lining of the seed), Radix oryzae (rice roots).

Description
Many varieties of rice grown in paddy fields and in fields, to a height of 1200 m above sea level. Shrub, this season trunked wet, high 50 cm-1, 5 m. Stems erect, soft, segmented, hollow, coarse, green color. Single ribbon-shaped leaves 15-20 cm long, 2 cm wide reach, if palpable rough, sharp edge, the edge of the flat, parallel to the bone, green. Panicle-shaped compound interest. The fruit of stone fruit, stems straggling in, after the old green to yellow. Seeds hard, oval, white or red.
Grains of rice that has been separated from the stalks is called grain, and the outer skin is removed is called rice. When rice is cooked, hence its name to the rice, which is the main food for most Indonesian people. Generally, white rice, although there is a red rice. Grain stalks after it is taken and dried in the sun to dry, called the straw.
Rice is including this grass family grown from the seeds directly or through the nursery first.

Nature and Usefulness
The roots are warm and sweet, nutritious eliminate sweat, kills worms (anthelmintic), and as an antidote to poison. Seed membrane (epidermis) is sweet, neutral and enter the spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacious to maintain the stomach, strengthens the spleen, increased appetite, and antineuritis. Nutritious rice starch as a skin softener, the facilitator of urine, and cooling.

Chemical content
Beans contain carbohydrates, dextrin, xylan, phytin, glutelin, enzyme (phytase, lypase, diatase), and vitamin B1.

Portion used
Membrane beans, seeds, stems, and roots dried in the sun until dry seed membranes.


How to use
Membranes seeds (rice bran) as much as 10-15 g or 15-20 g or 15-20 g of boiled roots, and water is drunk.
For external use only, finely milled rice with other ingredients, for local consumption. Straw burned, then added water. The mix is good for washing hair.