Wheat is sweet, cool, heavy and unctuous. It helps the tissues adhere together, cures vata and pitta, and is vitalizing, aphrodisiac and stabilizing. Wheat - eating North Indians sometimes deride rice-eating South Indians for their relatively shorter, slighter stature, and South Indians often retort that while wheat creates brawn, rice creates brain, an estimation possibly derived from Ayurveda.
References:
Ayurveda Life Health and Longevity by Robert E. Svoboda - Penguin Books.
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