Rice Bran
| Rice Bran in TCM:Explore the properties of Rice Bran according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Temperature: neutral
Channels: Not available
Flavors: sweet
Special Properties:
clears damp
In terms of Chinese nutrition rice bran is sweet in flavor and neutral in temperature. It helps to resolve dampness.
Rice bran may help with mild edema in legs and feet, and it contains high levels of vitamin b which may help with symptoms of beriberi (swelling caused by vitamin b deficiency). Rice bran may also help to lower cholesterol. Rice bran is removed when brown rice is milled to produce white rice.
To treat hypertension and high cholesterol add rice bran to a grain dish every day for at least 2 months.[2]
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