*Know ur trees/plant species* *Urocholoa Ramosa (new name*..local names…Sama, Choti Kangni, etc.
It is an ancient (more than 7000 years old) easy to grow, very invasive but most nutritious millet with many salient features:
1. Found and grown round the world as well as South India, hardy, easy to grow millet with immense potential to heal our body.
2. It grows in very short period compared to other millets ie in 75 days helping more crop cycles in a year.
3. The seed looks like a kid’s toy top and has brown colour on top hence called *Brown Top millet.*
4. It heals our digestive tract from mouth to rectum. ie constipation, piles, indigestion, heart burn, fissures, heart burn,etc.
5. Besides healing the entire digestive tract, it works on diabetes, heart health, bones, skin, etc ie entire body simultaneously.
5. Very important factor bcos of high in fibre it needs good soaking of nearly 10 hours reqd before cooking to enable digestion.
Therapatic value of this nutritional grain is immense to incorporate in our daily life as food.
It is listed as one of the positive millets in the five positive millets called *Siridhanya* by *Padmashree Dr Khader Vali* (He is instrumental in bringing back millets into our dining table)