Get rid of vitamin B deficiency...

Vitamin B is a common deficiency seen in all age groups.
Wash parboiled or raw rice well and discard the water.add drinking water to the washed rice and leave it for 5min. Using your hand wash the rice well. Decant the water into a container. This water is rich in vitamin B1 (thiamine). Compared to B complex vitamins this rice water supplement is easily absorbed by the body. Most of the organic forms of the vitamin that is those from natural sources, are easily absorbed rather than synthetic vitamins. one can observe that more % of vitamin is eliminated in urine (yellow colour!) rather than being absorbed.
People who eat raw rice (  a disorder called Pica) or those who have ulceration /wound in mouth may be deficient in Vitamin B1. Such people may also feel themselves weak, tired and may suffer from back pain. Drinking this rice washed solution will supply Vitamin B1 to the body in adequate amounts and we can see a difference in just 5 days.

Solar eclipse myth and facts…. It is claimed that if a pregnant woman goes out during an eclipse, her baby will be born with a cleft lip

Solar eclipse myth and facts…. It is claimed that if a pregnant woman goes out during an eclipse, her baby will be born with a cleft lip

For long I was academically busy that I couldn’t update my blog. One of my students called me last week and wanted some interesting matter on eclipse to be uploaded. So I decided to have this week’s blog update as solar eclipse myth and the logical scientific reasons behind.

Solar eclipse means moon in between sun and earth. In villages, they place a pestle (called ulakkai in tamil) upright on the ground during eclipse time. The pestle has iron on both ends and made of wood. This is kept upright and is found to stand upright due to the magnetic pull during eclipse which lasts only few minutes. The people watch the pestle fall off and take this as an indication for the completion time of eclipse. At the time of this eclipse the magnetic pull is very very powerful and also it is during these few seconds or minutes that highly powerful UV rays reach the earth.

UV rays are well – known to cause genetic mutations particularly at the time of foetal development. It is claimed that if a pregnant woman goes out during an eclipse, her baby will be born with a cleft lip. This is because the UV rays and magnetic effect can affected the child particularly during the first 6months of pregnancy. The transfer of magnetic power is aided through iron materials like knife, hair clips, iron rod, tools, machinery, etc. Pregnant women who use kitchen tools or carry such iron rods/materials are likely to face problems of cleft lip children.

Though there are sparse genetic research in these aspects (owing to short span of time of eclipse) it is always better to be precautious !. There are research papers pointing out UV rays to produce genetic mutation and a causative factor for cleft lips.  (MJ Dixon - ‎2011, SS Kohli - ‎2012). University of Iowa researchers and collaborators have identified new genetic mutations that likely cause the common form of cleft lip and palate.