Buddhist medicine

BUDDHIST MEDICINE
Siddartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, attained universal understanding while eating brown rice and meditating under a tree in north India. In his teaching, he emphasized the psychological and medicinal value of a diet that avoided extremes. Eating brown rice, especially softly prepared rice, he said, gives many healthful blessings:

It confers ten things on him:
Life and beauty, ease and strength;
It dispels hunger, thirst, and wind.
It cleanses the bladder, it digests food;
This medicine is praised by the Well-Farer.
Source: I. B. . Horner, translator, The Book of the Discipline (Vinaya-pitaka), Vol. IV (London: 1951), p. 302.

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