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Food as Medicine Provides information on the medical benefits of certain types of foods including most common fruits and vegetables. by eating foods that are good for you, you can increase your bodys ability to heal its self as well as stave off disease. On this site you will find some of the most prevelent befits that can be had from eating a particlular food
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The benefits of Almonds - Almond soup is an excellent substitute for beef-tea for convalescents. It is made by simply blanching and pounding a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds with half a pint of milk, or vegetable stock.
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The benefits of Apple - It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief recommendation is that they “contain phosphorus.” They are generally very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and brain foods.
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The benefits of Asparagus - Asparagus is said to strengthen and develop the artistic faculties. It also calms palpitation of the heart.
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The benefits of Banana - The banana is invaluable in inflammation of all kinds. For this reason it is very useful in cases of typhoid fever, gastritis, peritonitis, etc., and may constitute the only food allowed for a time.
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The benefits of Barley - Barley is excellent food for the anæmic and nervous on account of its richness in iron and phosphoric acid.
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The benefits of Blackberry - Fresh blackberries are one of the most effectual cures for diarrhoea known.
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The benefits of Black Currant - Black currant tea is one of the oldest of old-fashioned remedies for sore throats and colds.
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The benefits of Brazil Nuts - Brazil nuts are excellent for constipation. They are also a good substitute for suet in puddings.
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The benefits of Beans peas and lentils - Beans, peas, and lentils are tabooed by the followers of Dr. Haig, the gout specialist, on account of the belief that they tend to increase the secretion of uric acid.
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The benefits of Beet - The red beet is useful in some diseases of the womb, while the white beet is good for the liver.
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The benefits of Cabbages - All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
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The benefits of Caraway Seed - Caraway seeds sharpen the vision, promote the secretion of milk, and are good against hysterical affections.
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The benefits of Carrot - Carrots are strongly antiseptic. They are said to be mentally invigorating and nerve restoring.
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The benefits of Celery - Celery is almost a specific for rheumatism, gout, and nervous indigestion. The most useful plants for this purpose are small, not too rapidly grown nor very highly manured.
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The benefits of Cresses - All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the brain.
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The benefits of Chestnut - Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak digestive powers.
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The benefits of Cinnamon - Cinnamon is a very old-fashioned remedy for soothing the pain of internal or unbroken cancer. One prescription is the following:
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The benefits of Cocoanut - Cocoanut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of all kinds.
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The benefits of Coffee - Coffee is a most powerful antiseptic, and therefore very useful as a disinfectant.
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The benefits of Dates - The nourishing properties of dates are well known. They are easily digested, and for this reason are often recommended to consumptive patients.
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The benefits of Elderberry - The elderberry has fallen into neglect of late years, owing to the lazy and disastrous modern habit of substituting the mineral drugs of the chemist for the home-made vegetable remedies of our grandmothers.
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The benefits of Figs - A “lump of figs” laid on the boil of King Hezekiah, as recorded in 2 Kings xx. 7, brought about that monarch’s recovery. The figs used were doubtless ripe figs, not the dried figs of our grocers.
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The benefits of Grapes - The special value of the grape lies in the fact that it is a very quick repairer of bodily waste, the grape sugar being taken immediately into the circulation without previous digestion.
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The benefits of Gooseberry - The juice of green gooseberries “cureth all inflammations,” while the red gooseberry is good for bilious subjects
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The benefits of Lavender - It is very much to be regretted that the nerve-soothing vegetable perfumes of our grandmothers have been superseded, for the most part, by the cheap mineral products of the laboratory.
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The benefits of Lemon - Lemons are invaluable in cases of gout, malaria, rheumatism, and scurvy.
They are also useful in fevers and liver complaints.
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The benefits of Lettuce - Lettuce is noted for its sedative properties, although these are not great in the large, highly-manured, commercial specimens.
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The benefits of Nettle - The tender tops of young nettles picked in the spring make a delicious vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach. They are excellent for sufferers from gout and skin eruptions.
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The benefits of Nuts - Nuts are the true substitute for flesh meat. They contain everything in the way of nourishment that meat contains, minus the poisonous constituents of the latter.
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The benefits of Oats - The oat is generally cited as the most nourishing of all the cereals, and a good nerve food. The fine oatmeal gruel of our grandmothers has gone almost entirely out of fashion, but its use might be revived with advantage.
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The benefits of Olives - The chief use of the olive, at least in this country, consists in the oil expressed from it. Unfortunately our so-called olive oil is generally cotton-seed oil.
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The benefits of Onions - The uses of the onion are many and varied. Fresh onion juice promotes perspiration, relieves constipation and bronchitis, induces sleep, is good for cases of scurvy and sufferers from lead colic.
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The benefits of Oranges - The orange possesses most of the virtues of the lemon, but in a modified form. But it has the advantage of being more palatable.
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The benefits of Parsley - Parsley is useful in cases of menstrual obstruction and diseases of the kidneys. The bruised leaves applied to the breasts of nursing mothers are said to cure painful lumps and threatened abscess.
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The benefits of Pears - The pear possesses most of the virtues of the apple. But, unlike the latter, it is credited with producing a constipating effect if eaten without its skin.
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The benefits of Pea Nuts - The pea nut—or monkey nut—is especially recommended as a cure for indigestion.
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The benefits of Pine-Apples - Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with great success
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The benefits of Pine Kernel - Pine kernels are recommended to those who find other nuts difficult to digest. They are the most easily digested of all the nuts.
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The benefits of Plums - The disfavour with which “stone fruits,” especially plums, are generally regarded owes its being to the fact that they are too often eaten when unripe. When ripe, they are as wholesome as any other fruit. Unripe they provoke choleraic diarrhoea.
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The benefits of Potatoes - The potato is a cheap and homely remedy against gout, scurvy, and rickets. Dr. Lambe tells how he cured a case of scurvy solely with raw potatoes.
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The benefits of Radishes - The radish is commonly cited as indigestible, but for all that it is commended by old writers as a potent remedy for stone.
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The benefits of Raspberry - Raspberries are excellent against the scurvy, and, like the blackberry, good for relaxed bowels.
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The benefits of Rice - The chief medicinal value of rice lies in the quickness with which it is digested. One authority says that “it can be taken four times a day and the patient still get twenty hours’ rest.”
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The benefits of Rhubarb - Rhubarb is a wholesome and cooling spring vegetable, and may well take the place of cooked fruit when the latter is scarce.
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The benefits of Sage - Sage is said to promote longevity, to quicken the senses and memory, and to strengthen the nerves.
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The benefits of Strawberries - The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
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The benefits of Spinach - Professor Bunge declared that iron should never be taken in its mineral form, but that those who are in need of an iron tonic should take it as it exists in vegetables and fruit.
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The benefits of Tomatoes - The tomato, according to an American physician, is one of the most powerful deobstruents (remover of disease particles, and opener of the natural channels of the body) of the materia medica.
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The benefits of Turnip - Turnips are anti-scorbutic.
An old remedy for chronic coughs was turnip juice boiled with sugar.
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The benefits of Thyme - The common garden thyme, used for flavouring, is credited with many virtues.
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The benefits of Walnuts - The walnut has been called vegetable arsenic because of its curative value in eczema. An oil obtained from the kernel has been found of great service when applied externally in cases of skin diseases.
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The benefits of Wheat - Whole wheat is a perfect food. In the form of white flour, however, it is an imperfect, unbalanced food, on account of its deprivation of the valuable phosphates which exist in the bran.
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