Broken rice may be used as food or in alcoholic beverages. Rice flour, a product of final milling, is used in various mixes. The bran is used as livestock feed. Rice hulls are used for fuel, insulation, and in some manufacturing processes. Folk medicine practitioners use rice seeds to treat breast cancer, stomach and abdominal ailments, diarrhea and dysentery, fever, jaundice, nausea, psoriasis and other skin ailments.
Boiled rice is used as a poultice on infected sores in the East Indies.
The root is considered an astringent. The lye from charred stems is used as a shampoo.