Remedial Qualities of Common Fruits
A table giving the remedial qualities of the common fruits and vegetables is herewith appended: —
Celery for any form of rheumatism and nervous dyspepsia.
Lettuce for insomnia.
Water-cress for scurvy.
Onions are almost the best nervine known. Use for insomnia, for coughs and colds, and as a complexion curer. Eaten every other day, they soon have a clearing and whitening effect on the complexion.
Spinach for gravel.
Asparagus to induce perspiration.
Carrots for suffering from asthma.
Turnips for nervous disorders and for scurvy.
Raw beef proves of great benefit to persons of frail constitution, and to those suffering from consumption. It is chopped fine, seasoned with salt, and heated by placing it in a dish in hot water. It assimilates rapidly and affords the best nourishment.
Eggs contain a large amount of nutriment in a compact quickly available form. Beaten up raw with sugar they are used to clear and strengthen the voice. With sugar and lemon juice the beaten white of egg is used to relieve hoarseness.
Cranberries for erysipelas are used externally as well as internally.
Cranberries eaten raw are one of the finest tonics and appetizers known.
In cases of yellow or typhoid fever, cranberries are almost indispensable as a tonic and to assist in clearing the system of the harmful bacteria.
For some forms of dyspepsia there is no more simple and effective remedy than raw cranberries. Carry a supply in the pocket and eat them frequently during the day. They will cure headache as well.
People who are subject to biliousness will find that with cranberries a part of each day’s food they will be free from such attacks.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening, cleansing, healing and nourishing.
Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for purifying the blood and toning up the system.
Sour oranges are highly recommended for rheumatism.
Watermelon for epilepsy and for yellow fever.
Lemons for feverish thirst in sickness, biliousness, low fevers, rheumatism, colds, coughs, liver complaints, etc.
Blackberries for diarrhoea.
Tomatoes are a powerful aperient for the liver, a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and for indigestion.
Tomatoes are invaluable in all conditions in which the use of calomel is indicated.
Figs are aperient and wholesome. They are said to be valuable as a food for those suffering from cancer. They are used externally as well as internally.
Bananas are useful as a food for those suffering from chronic diarrhoea.
Pie-plant is wholesome and aperient; is excellent for rheumatic sufferers and useful for purifying the blood.
Peanuts for indigestion. They are especially recommended for corpulent diabetes. Peanuts are made into a wholesome and nutritious soup, are browned and used as a coffee, are eaten as a relish simply baked, or are prepared and served as salted almonds.
Apples are useful in nervous dyspepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal and vitalizing; they aid digestion, clear the voice, correct the acidity of the stomach, are valuable in rheumatism, insomnia, and liver trouble. An apple contains as much nutriment as a potato, in a pleasanter, more wholesome form.
Grapes dissolve and dislodge gravel and calculi, and bring the stomach and bowels to a healthy condition.
Ripe pineapples have been put upon the list of foods especially healthful for persons troubled with indigestion, the juice being especially valuable in such cases. Shred with a silver fork, and reject all the indigestible core. The juice of a ripe pineapple is an almost invaluable remedy for diphtheria, the acid seeming to dissolve the strangling growth in the throat.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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A distinguished physician once said that if his patients would make a practice of eating a couple of good oranges every morning before breakfast, from February until June, his practice would be gone. The medicinal effect of pure fruit acids is excellent upon the physical system.
Source: The Housekeeper’s Friend: A Practical Cookbook