Super Food of Uttarakhand - 100% Pahari Gahat / Kulath / Kulthi / Horse Gram

Pahari Kultihi or Pahari gahat, popularly known as Horse Gram is a super food, harvested from the foothills of Uttrakhand. Horse gram has the highest calcium content among pulses and is one of the richest vegetarian sources of protein.
Pahari gahat is well recognized by the folk/alternative/traditional medicine as a potential therapeutic agent to treat kidney stones, urinary diseases, piles, common cold, throat infection, fever etc. Water in which gahat is soaked is taken by people suffering from kidney stones in the belief that this dissolves the crystals.