Fig

This fruit is soft, easily digested, and corrective of strumous disease." The large blue fig may be grown in England, in the milder parts and under a warm wall. The fresh figs were rarely seen at one time outside of the large "high-class" fruit shops, but for the last year or two I have seen them peddled in the streets of London like apples and oranges, due in season.

Green figs (not unripe) were commonly eaten by Roman gladiators, which is surely a sufficient tribute to the fruit's strength-giving qualities.

While dried figs contain a lot of sugar, about 60%. It is thought that that was the reason why Plato advised Greek athletes to eat many figs, it also contain a lot of vitamins and it is said that humans could live on figs alone. It is a very healthy fruit and you can consume as much of them as you like.

The best way of preparing dried figs for eating is to wash them very quickly in warm water, and steam for twenty minutes or until tender.

Coconut

Coconut is an old and very efficacious remedy for intestinal worms of all kinds. A tablespoonful of freshly-ground coconut should be taken at breakfast until the cure is complete. The dessicated coconut is useless for curative purposes.

Coconut water has important clinical applications such as treating renal disorders and in the production of clinical dextran and can be taken as a health and refreshing drink as it’s a natural isotonic beverage that contains more potassium than the most sports and energy drinks sold commercially in the market.

Coconut Meat gives a lasting boost of energy to the body because of its high protein content.

Olive

Olive is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae. Pure olive oil is pale and a greenish yellow.

A simple test for purity is to use, the suspected sample for oiling floors or furniture. If pure, it will leave a beautiful polish minus grease. But if it contains cotton-seed oil, part of it will evaporate, leaving the gummy portion behind.

When pure olive oil is shaken in a half-filled bottle, the bubbles formed thereby rapidly disappear, but if the sample is adulterated the bubbles continue some time before they burst.

If equal volumes of strong nitric acid (this may be obtained from any chemist) and olive oil are mixed together and shaken in a flask the resulting product has a greenish or orange tinge which remains unchanged after standing for ten minutes. But if cotton-seed oil is present, the mixture is reddish in colour, and becomes brown or black on standing.

Olive oil is slightly laxative, and therefore useful to sufferers from constipation. It is also an excellent vermifuge.

Olive oil has been used with great success in the treatment of gall stones. Dr. Rosenberg reported that of twenty-one cases treated by "the ingestion of a considerable quantity of olive oil, only two failed of complete recovery."

Pear

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. In an old recipe book I found the following tribute to Bergamot pears. The writer says: "I had for some years been afflicted with the usual symptoms of the stone in the bladder, when meeting with Dr. Lobb's "Treatise of Dissolvents for the Stone and Gravel," I was induced on his recommendation to try Bergamot pears, a dozen or more every day with the rind, when in less than a week I observed a large red flake in my urine, which, on a slight touch, crumbled into the finest powder, and this was the same for several succeeding days. It is ten years since I made the experiment, and I have been quite free from any complaints of that nature ever since. The pears were of the small sort and full of knots."

One diverse feature of the pear in addition the shape is the soft texture. This soft skin is the result of the starch which converts into sugar after being picked from a tree to ripen.

Onion

Onions are noted for their nerve-soothing properties. They are also beautifiers of the complexion. But moderation must be observed in their use or they are apt to disagree. Not everyone can digest onions, although I believe them to be more easily digested raw than cooked.
 

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. It is also excellent for bee and wasp stings.

A raw onion may be rubbed on unbroken chilblains with good results. If broken, the onion should be roasted. The heart of a roasted onion placed in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.

Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried. Culpeper, the ancient herbalist, says that they "draw corruption unto them." It is possibly for this reason that the Vedanta forbids them to devout Hindoos.

Kiwi

Kiwi fruits are rich in many Vitamins, flavonoids and minerals. In particular, they contain a high amount of Vitamin C (more than oranges), as much potassium as bananas and a good amount of beta-carotene.

Studies in Italy, though, performed on 6-7 year old children, have also demonstrated additional health benefits to the respiratory tract. In particular, children that were fed 5-7 portions a week of citrus and kiwifruits had 44% less probability wheezing compared to children eating less than once a week.

Shortness of breath was reduced by 32%,night time cough by 27%, severe wheeze by 41%, chronic cough by 25%, and runny nose by 28%. This results is not only traceable to the content in Vitamin C or Potassium, but in substances which are still largely unknown contained in kiwi fruit.

These substances are most likely flavonoids that help protect our cells from oxidative damage, and are therefore considered very helpful in protecting our DNA from mutations and damage.

The health benefits of kiwi are :

• Prevents Asthma
• Prevents wheezing and coughing, especially in children
• Protects our DNA from mutations
• Provides a healthy amount of antioxidants and vitamins
• Helps prevent colon cancer thanks to a high fiber content

Noni

The Noni fruit is most commonly found in places like the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, India and Philippines.

It has been known as a folk medicine that the Polynesians have been using for over 2,000. They can be used for both topical and internal applications.

The Noni fruit is currently used by the locals in Hawaii for control diseases such as heart diseases, chronic disorders and abnormal growths.

The Noni can be beneficial when a low dosage of the Noni juice is given to reduce the DNA that adducts by 30 percent of the heart, 41 percents in the lungs and 80 percent in the kidneys. Researchers are giving dosages to rats and then the results being so great they have been administered to humans. The results were favorable.

The Noni fruit is an antioxidant and it can clear out your blood and protect you against colds, flu and other bacteria. Noni fruits are high in potassium and can aid in preventing degenerative diseases. The Noni fruit is not a common fruit and it is not something you are likely to find in your local supermarket. You may be able to find Noni fruit online or in a specialty store.

Beet

The beet itself before it is canned for a more appetizing treat is blood red and looks like tennis ball that has been beaten by the racket one too many times. Beets date back to the days of Ancient Rome, the Gladiators believe that the color of the beets were the cause of their power. The folklore goes that beets were good for the blood because they were red and it eaten the beets would improve the Gladiator's strength.

It is also said that beets are a blood strengthening herb that act as an oxidant that can clear the blood of anything bad. It also replenishes the blood with minerals and natural sugars. The nutritional health benefit of the beet is that they are very high in carbs and very low in fat. The also have sodium, iron, calcium and magnesium as well as fiber. They also have Vitamin C and A, they are said to be very good for pregnant women because it may lower the risk of the baby having Spina Bifida and other defects.

Beets also can be made into beet juice and can be used in powered forms. Researches in Hungary believe that the beet sin powered from can slow down the growth of tumors. That research is still primitive and must be confirmed and studied a little more. Beets are also said to be very beneficial for cancer patients as well.

Orange

You have been told many times that oranges are good for you because they have a Vitamin C.

Which is true but there are many other forms of health benefits. Oranges are very full of Vitamin C but in addition to that there are other vitamins called citrus limonoids. These limonoids help fight certain cancers such as mouth, skin, lung, breast, and stomach and colon cancers in animals.

Researchers are looking for ways to incorporate those studies into helping humans.

Oranges are a great source of iron and they help keep your cholesterol low. Oranges are a good source of calcium that is great for your bones, with Vitamin C and milk as an extra and important source of Calcium can help protect your bones from breaking.

The main source of Vitamin C, oranges can help fight off bacteria and prevent colds and the flu. The Vitamin C is a great way to fight off airborne germs during the winter months. There are many different forms of Vitamin C, which are the actual orange and orange tablets.

Cranberry

Cranberries are actually a type of acidic berries that are rich in vitamin C and believed to contain excellent infection fighting properties.

A source of pythochemicals known as condensed tannins; these berries are powerful antioxidant with anti-inflammatory effect. The good news about tannins is the fact that cooking could not destroy it. Although most of us only know that cranberries are good for urinary tract infection, studies have also showed that there are other benefits of this humble fruit. Scientists now believe that this same fruit can help ward off health problems like ulcer and gum problems.

Benefits of Cranberries :

• Improve the body's circulatory system.
• A daily glass of cranberry juice will treat diseases like cystitis.
• Provide relief for asthma patients.
• Condensed tannins in cranberries can inhibit the oxidation of bad cholesterol and as a result protects body against atheroscelrosis.
• Tannins are also considered an important contributor to a healthy heart.
• Acts as bactericide and affects the acidity of the urine. In effect, it disrupts the development of kidney stone formation.

The Uses of Cranberries :

1. Asthma Attack
   To overcome an asthma attack, cranberries can be used. Crush the berries, boil it in distilled water and skin. This is effective relief from an attack since the berries contain active ingredients similar to drugs prescribed by your doctors to control asthma.
2. Urinary Tract Infection
   As known, the juice has been long known to treat this disease. This is because the juice reduce the number of bacteria adhering to the body's urinary tract lining. A study among elderly patients suggested a 50% reduction of infection among patients who drank 300 ml of cranberry juice everyday for over 6 months. A daily portion of cranberries would also help in treating the disease.
3. Reduces Cholesterol
   Laboratory results have also shown that cranberry extract reduces the oxidation of "bad cholesterol". This helps promote healthy heart.
4. Prevent Ulcers
   New studies have shown the ability of this fruit has the ability to prevent peptic ulcer by inhibiting the adhesion of bacteria to certain parts of the stomach.
5. Anti-Aging
   An exciting new research has shown that cranberries could help protect the brain from neurological damage.

Chestnut

Chestnuts are often eaten over Christmas. In the past they were a stable food source. They have a number of benefits and can be cooked in different ways.

Chestnuts are found in a spiny case which are often found fallen from the tree on the ground nearby. The chestnut itself has two skins. The outer skin or husk is hard and brown, while the inner skin is thinner.

Chestnuts are low in fat but rich in the monounsaturated fats oleic acid and palmitoleic acid, known to lower LDL cholesterol. Chestnuts are also high in fibre which also helps lower cholesterol. Chestnuts are rich in the B vitamins thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. They are also a source of calcium, iron and phosphorous. Chestnuts contain a source of folates such as folic acid essential in the manufacture of red blood cells. Chestnuts have a higher starch content than potatoes.

Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils. John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: "They are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to boot."

Celery

Celery is from the same family with parsley and fennel, the Umbelliferae family. It can grow to the height of up to 16 inches. The white celery is grown shaded from direct sunlight, thus has less chlorophyll, compared to its greener counterparts.

Celery leaves has high content of vitamin A, whilst the stems are an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, B6 and C with rich supplies of potassium, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, sodium and plenty essential amino acids.

Celery is known to contain at least eight families of anti-cancer compounds. Celery promotes healthy and normal kidney function by aiding elimination of toxins from the body. 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.

Papaya

Papaya isn't just a delicious fruit to eat, it also includes abundant health advantages and therapeutic value. Papaya can be consumed as a fresh fruit, the healthy smoothie or even a malt.

Papaya is so rich in vitamins and minerals that in 1992 the Center for Science in Public Interest, a group that does nutritional studies, studied over 40 fruits. They used a point system for not just the vitamins in the fruit but also the fiber and potassium. They ranked the papaya as the highest. Cantaloupe, strawberries, oranges and tangerines followed it.

Papaya usually helps prevent constipation and also aid in digestion. Papaya contains the protein called papain which is a digestive enzyme that helps in natural digestion process. Papaya has anti-inflammatory properties and anti-cancerous properties. The anti-inflammatory properties in papaya will help reduce pain for those suffering from arthritis, edema and osteoporosis. Papaya is also very good for those who frequently suffer from cold, cough or flu because intake of papaya boosts the immune system. The high concentration of Vitamin C and Vitamin A contained in papaya is very beneficial to strengthen the immune system.

Avocado

Avocados are commercially valuable, and are cultivated in tropical climates throughout the world. Avocado is a climacteric fruit, which means it matures on the tree, but ripens off the tree. Study shows that high avocado intake to lower blood cholesterol levels. Avocados are such a treasure chest regarding nutrition.






Here are some profits of using avocados :

• Avocados contain 30% of the precious vegetable oil called oleic acid, which has special effects for dry hair.
• Avocados are also a great source of dietary fibre. Eating 100g of avocado will give you 6.7g of dietary fibre.
• Avocados contain Vitamin C, which is an amazing antioxidant, anti-viral and anti-bacterial. It is also brilliant for your skin.
• Avocados contain Vitamin K, which is an antioxidant and helps protect the Liver from free radicals damage.

Mango

Mangoes are seasonal fruit and are mainly available during hot summer season. Mango is mostly cultivated in tropical regions. Scientific name of mango is Mangifera indica. There are many cultures around the world that use the fruit and leaves for ritual purposes and decorations.

Mangoes contain pectin, a substance that is proven to lowers blood cholesterol levels. Eating lots of mangoes can help prevent the progression of cancer stages especially gastrointestinal kind. With the high fiber content, mango is a perfect fruit for heart and ideal as cancer prevention.

This fruit has lots of health benefits such as :

• Mangoes are very much beneficial for people suffering from acidity and its enzymes helps to relieve indigestion problems.
• The Vitamin E present in mangoes helps to regulate sex hormones and boosts sex drive. In many varieties of mango there is about 2.3 to 3 mg of Vitamin E per mango.
• Mangoes are useful to children who lack concentration in studies as it contains Glutamine acid which is good to boost memory and keep cells active.
• Fights against cancer and other heart diseases when consuming mango regularly.
• Mango helps in clearing clogged pores that causes acne.

Goji

Goji also known as Lycium Barbarum is an excellent berry found in Himalayas. the berries has been realize because of its several health advantages in addition to health offering features.

The best nutritional components Goji includes are usually glyconutrients, which offer eight imperative sugars required for the appropriate expansion of our body. The actual twenty-two phytonutrient compounds available in Goji help the particular intercellular connection.

Several well worth talking about benefits of Goji :

• It increases the actual resistance to contamination and also disease.
• It takes away the dried up cough.
• Helps inside digestion of food in addition to memory space capabilities.
• It improves male fertility and encourages the actual libido.
• It's a very powerful anti-oxidant, which usually counters the early ageing.
• It significantly helps inside regulating the blood pressure.
• It controlled the particular blood glucose in the early levels of diabetic issues.
• Manages weight.
• It gives an extremely good effect on heart,  vision, sleeping disorders and also relives headaches.
• It reduces the cancer risk by means of stopping the particular DNA mutation, inhibit the particular cancers development and through controlling fats peroxidation.

Acai Berry

Acai berry is a grape kind of fruit which is about 5 mm in diameter and black-purple in color. This healthful fruit is found in the great rain forests of Amazon Brazil. By taking acai berry supplement, you can enjoy a lot of health benefits, other than just weight loss. For example, acai berry can help increasing your energy levels, enhancing mental focus, reducing inflammation, supporting in circulation, and improving diggestion.

The supplement of acai berry is also rich in amino acids which are known to be the building blocks of protein. Amino acids are essential for your muscles to be in the best condition. Acai Berry is now a primary ingredient in many of the most effective supplements on the market. From juices and pulps to candy, Acai berries are making individuals all across the country look and feel better.

Grape

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. For this reason is grape juice the best possible food for fever patients, consumptives, and all who are in a weak and debilitated condition. The grapes should be well chewed, the juice and pulp swallowed, and the skin and stones rejected.

In countries where the grape cure is practiced, consumptive patients are fed on the sweeter varieties of grape, while those troubled with liver complaints, acid gout, or other effects of over-feeding, take the less sweet kinds.

Researcher deprecates the use of grapes for the ordinary gouty or rheumatic patient, but with all due deference to that learned authority, I do not believe the fruit exists that is not beneficial to the gouty person. One of the most gouty and rheumatic people I know, a vegetarian who certainly never over-feeds himself, derives great benefit from a few days' almost exclusive diet of grapes.

Sufferers from malaria may use grapes with great benefit. For this purpose the grapes, with the skins and stones, should be well pounded in a mortar and allowed to stand for three hours. The juice should then be strained off and taken. Or persons with good teeth may eat the grapes, including the skins and stones, if they thoroughly macerate the latter.

In the absence of fresh grapes raisin-tea is a restoring and nourishing drink.

Carrot

Carrots are strongly antiseptic. They are said to be mentally invigorating and nerve restoring. They have the reputation of being very indigestible on account of the fact that they are generally boiled, not steamed. When used medicinally it is best to take the fresh, raw juice. This is easily obtained by grating the carrot finely on a common penny bread grater, and straining and pressing the pulp thus obtained.

Raw carrot juice, or a raw carrot eaten fasting, will expel worms. The cooked carrot is useless for this purpose. A poultice of fresh carrot pulp will heal ulcers. Fresh carrot juice is also good for consumptives on account of the large amount of sugar it contains. Carrots are very good for gouty subjects and for derangement of the liver.

Many studies shown that eating carrots may help lower the risk of breast cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer. Recently, researchers have isolated a compound called falcarinol in carrots that may be largely responsible for anti-cancer benefits. Falcarinol is a natural pesticide found in carrots that protects roots from fungal diseases. Carrots are also excellent for the eyes.

Caraway Seed

Caraway Seed is a wonderful digestive aid, used to relieve indigestion, upset stomach, gas, constipation, heartburn, colic, and irritable bowel syndrome. Caraway seeds sharpen the vision, promote the secretion of milk, and are good against hysterical affections. They are also useful in cases of colic. When used to flavour cakes the seeds should be pounded in a mortar, especially if children are to partake thereof.

Caraway Seed is famous for improving the appetite and treating conditions of the digestive system, including heartburn, indigestion, colic, nausea, upset stomach and stomach ulcers. It is also considered a harmless calmative. Caraway Seed is considered an antispasmodic and helps to relieve uterine and menstrual cramps. As an effective herbal expectorant, Caraway Seed is said to encourage productive coughs due to colds and relieve bronchitis.

As a further aid to the digestive system, Caraway relieves constipation, expels flatulence and eases the "griping" (pain and grumbling) in the bowels and intestines that frequently accompanies gas. Herbalists consider it one of the most important herbs for strengthening the intestines.

When used medicinally 20 grains of the powdered seeds may be taken in a wineglass-full of hot water. But for children half an ounce of the bruised seeds are to be infused in cold water for six hours, and from 1 to 3 teaspoonfuls of this water given. A poultice of crushed caraway seeds moistened with hot water is good for sprains. Caraway seeds are narcotic, and should therefore be used with caution.

Banana

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. Bananas are excellent food for anemic persons on account of the iron they contain. A very palatable way of taking them is with fresh orange juice.

Not only does it actually subdue the inflammation of the intestines, but, in the opinion of at least one authority, as it consists of 95 per cent. nutriment, it does not possess sufficient waste matter to irritate the inflamed spots.

But great care should be taken in its administration. The banana should be thoroughly sound and ripe, and all the stringy portion carefully removed. It should then be mashed and beaten to a cream. In severe cases I think it is better to give this neat, but if not liked by the patient a little lemon juice, well mixed in, may render it more acceptable. It may also be taken with fresh cream.

A friend who has had a very wide experience in illness told me that she was once hurriedly sent for at night to a girl suffering from peritonitis. Not knowing what she might, or might not, find in the way of remedies when she arrived at her destination, my friend took with her some strong barley water, bananas, and an enema syringe. She found the girl lying across the bed screaming, obviously in agony. First of all my friend administered a warm water enema. A pint of plain warm water was injected first, and after this had come away as much warm water as could be got in was injected and then allowed to come way. The object of this was to thoroughly wash out the bowels. Then the barley water was warmed, the bananas mashed, beaten to cream, and mixed in with the barley water. A soothing nutrient lotion was thus prepared, and as much as the patient could bear comfortably was injected in the bowel and retained as long as possible. The effect was magical. The pain subsided, and the patient ultimately recovered.

In the absence of  perfectly  ripe bananas, baked bananas may be used. But, although better than no fruit at all, cooked fruit is never so valuable as the fresh fruit, if only the latter be perfectly ripe. Bananas should be baked in their skins, and the stringy pieces carefully removed before eating. From twenty minutes to half an hour's slow cooking is required.

A comparatively old-fashioned remedy, for sprained or bruised places that show a tendency to become inflamed is to apply a plaster of banana skin.

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. Beans, peas, and lentils are not only nutritious but also delicious.

Beans are good for diabetics too because they contain complex carbohydrates and lots of fiber that helps keep blood sugar on an even keel. It is also a good way to add variety to gluten free diets. According to Sir Henry Thomson haricot beans are more easily digested than meat by most stomachs. "Consuming weight for weight, the eater feels lighter and less oppressed, as a rule, after the leguminous dish; while the comparative cost is greatly in favour of the latter."

Lentils are the most easily digested of all the pulse foods, and therefore the most suitable for weakly persons. A soup made of distilled water and red lentils may be taken twice a week with advantage. Lentils contain a good percentage of iron, and also phosphates.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon has long been used in both cooking and in medicine. Since Egyptian times, cinnamon's healing abilities have been recognized and utilized. Chinese medical journals record cures with cinnamon dating back to 2,800 B.C. Cinnamon has also been used in Ayurvedic Medicine in India. Cinnamon is a known antibacterial and antifungal and has anti-inflammatory properties.

Cinnamon is a very old-fashioned remedy for soothing the pain of internal or unbroken cancer. Cinnamon has a powerful influence over disease germs, but care must be taken to obtain it pure. It is often adulterated with cassia. Cinnamon tea may be taken with advantage in cases of consumption, influenza, and pneumonia.

The active ingredient in cinnamon is a chemical called coumarin. This compound is known to thin blood, and for this reason, pregnant women and diabetics are not advised to consume cinnamon.

Berries for Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is really a rare form of cancer malignancy that is primarily caused by exposure to asbestos fiber. This kind of cancer evolves in the mesothelial cells that comprise the lining from the bronchi, heart and also stomach. What is mesothelioma can take from twenty to fifty years being noticeable and also by that period, the Cancer is in advanced phases and is a lot more difficult to treat successfully.

Great nutrition is essentially stopping and also combating cancer and there are numerous associated foods that can be very helpful mesothelioma patients which allow their health to better against the disease, as well as reduce the signs of the condition and also negative effects of treatment.

Consuming a well-balanced and proper diet is essential to help against most cancers. A more well balanced and proper diet can not only improve chances of survival, but in addition reduce unpleasant signs and symptoms and undesirable treatment side effects.

Fruits consist of the greatest important nutrients, which includes lots of dietary fiber and vitamin C . There are numerous delicious kinds of berries you can include into your diet plan in order to take advantage of the cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals these people include, such as blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cranberries. Fruits include numerous cancer-fighting phytonutrients just like anthocyanins, ellagic acid, pterostilbene and also Resveratrol supplements. In one research, extracts of six types of berries had been tested for their capability to stop the growth and spread regarding various kinds of cancer malignancy tissues. Fruits additionally consist of some other cancer malignancy battling phytonutrients like ellagic acidity, pterostilbene and also resveratrol supplement.

Blackberry

Blackberry is a fruit which is composed by many smaller fruits called drupes. The fruit color is dark purple with fragile skin. In the middle of the cluster is a greenish-white core that extends to almost the bottom of the berry. Blackberries can be easily confused with raspberries, but raspberries have a hollow center.

Blackberry contains very little carbohydrate (6%), protein 0.9% and 1% fat with a higher percentage of dry matter (20%). Blackberry contains potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and iron. Among the most common are vitamins B1, B2, C and PP. It contains considerable amount of gallotannin (8%), inosite and organic acids. Blackberry leaves contains pectin, and while they are fresh, also a considerable amount of vitamin C.

In pharmacy, blackberry wine is classified as curative. There are data that Quercetin, ingredient of blackberry wine prevents cancer (magazine "Weine and Spiritus" No. 29 from 1995). It is recommended for anemia, poor nutritional status, to regulate digestion, to reduce blood pressure and improve blood circulation. Enhances appetite, contributing to a better secretion of bile and urine and has a positive effects on metabolism. Iron from blackberries is a part of organic compound , and therefore easy to use. It is especially beneficial for the prevention of anemia and in increased needs for iron (children, pregnant women and breast-feeding). Tea from the list of blackberries is used in anemia and for strengthening the immune system.

Potato

Potatoes were first introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize.

The potato is a remedy against gout, scurvy, and rickets. A doctor tells how he cured a case of scurvy solely with raw potatoes. One of the favourite dishes of that good old doctor was a salad composed of sliced raw potatoes and olive oil.

In order to preserve the medicinal properties of potatoes when cooked, they must always be steamed in their jackets. The skin may be removed before eating, but care should be taken not to allow a particle of the potato to adhere to it. The valuable potash salts chiefly lie just under the skin. A raw potato scraped or powdered to a pulp is an excellent remedy for burns and scalds.

Some doctors recommend the following decoction with which to bathe the swollen and inflamed joints of rheumatic sufferers. Take 1 lb. potatoes, cut each into four, but do not peel them. Boil in 2 pints of water until stewed down to 1 pint. Strain,and use the liquid.

Eaten too excess potatoes can cause dullness and laziness.

Apple

Apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. For this reason it is an invaluable nerve and brain food. Sufferers from nerve and brain exhaustion should eat at least two apples at the beginning of each meal. At the same time they should avoid tea and coffee, and supply their place with barley water or bran tea flavored with lemon juice, or even apple tea. Apples possess tonic properties and provoke appetite for food. Hence the old-fashioned custom of eating an apple before dinner.

 

Apples periodically appear upon the tables of carnivorous feeders in the form of apple sauce. This accompanies bilious dishes like roast pork and roast goose. The cook who set this fashion was evidently acquainted with the action of the fruit upon the liver. All sufferers from sluggish livers should eat apples.

Apples will afford much relief to sufferers from gout. The malic acid contained in them neutralizes the chalky matter which causes the gouty patient's sufferings. Apples, when eaten ripe and without the addition of sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach. Certain vegetable salts are converted into alkaline carbonates, and thus correct the acidity.

An old remedy for weak or inflamed eyes is an apple poultice. I am told that in Lancashire they use rotten apples for this purpose, but personally I should prefer them sound. A good remedy for a sore or relaxed throat is to take a raw ripe apple and scrape it to a fine pulp with a silver teaspoon. Eat this pulp by the spoonful, very slowly, holding it against the back of the throat as long as possible before swallowing. Apple water or apple tea is an excellent drink for fever patients.

A diet consisting chiefly of apples has been found an excellent cure for inebriate. Health and strength may be fully maintained upon fine whole meal unleavened bread, pure dairy or nut butter, and apples.

Barley

Barley is great foods for that anemic as well as nervous on account of it's richness inside metal and phosphoric acidity. It is also useful in fevers and many types of inflammation diseases, because of it's soothing properties. From your earliest occasions barley water may be the actual recognized consume with the sick.

Barley water, usually flavored along with lemon or other fruit, is really a traditional British soft drink. It really is created by boiling washed pearl barley. When utilizing Bead barley in making barley water it should be properly cleaned. The actual great whitened dirt that adheres to it is actually most unwholesome. For that reason the particular cook is usually forwarded to initial dissect the barley for 5 minutes, and also toss this particular water away. Yet in this way a few of the valuable qualities are usually discarded with all the dirt. The greatest results are obtained through nicely cleaning that in cool drinking water, however this must be completed again and again. Half-a-dozen waters will not be too many. Following the previous cleansing the drinking water ought to be flawlessly obvious.

When barley water is being employed for healing purposes it ought to be strong. These recipe is a great one to try. A ½ pint regarding barley to 2½ pints water (distilled if possible). Steam for 3 hours, or until reduced to 2 pints. Stress as well as increase 4 teaspoonfuls clean fresh lemon juice. Enhance to flavor with real walking cane sugar.

Great Whiskey barley will be desired for the Pearl barley when it could be acquired.

Blackcurrant

Blackcurrant is a species of Ribes berry native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia, and is a perennial. Blackcurrant is often mixed with cider to make a drink called "Cider and Black". Blackcurrants usually used as dietary supplements, snacks etc.

Blackcurrant tea is one of the oldest of old-fashioned remedies for sore throats and colds. It is made by pouring half a pint of boiling water on to a large tablespoonful of the jelly or jam. To make the jelly use the same recipe as for blackberry jelly.

The fresh juice pressed from the fruit is, of course, better than tea made from the jelly, but as winter is the season of coughs and colds the fruit is least obtainable when most needed.

Almond

Almond is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. The fruit of the almond is not a true nut, but a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed inside.

Almond can be cultivated as a food that can help us convalescents. As a review 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. Another pint of milk or stock is then to be added and the whole warmed. After this add another pint and a half of stock if the soup is to be a vegetable one, or rice water if milk has been used.

An emulsion of almonds is useful in chest affections. It is made by well macerating the nuts in a nut butter machine, and mixing with orange or lemon juice. Almonds should always be blanched, that is, skinned by pouring boiling water on the nuts and allowing them to soak for one minute, after which the skins are easily removed. The latter possess irritating properties.

Bitter almonds should not be used as a food. They contain a poison identical with prussic acid.

Asparagus

Asparagus is considered to bolster as well as produce the actual imaginative performance. This vegetables also calms palpitations of the coronary heart. It is extremely beneficial to rheumatic patients on account of the salts of potash. It should be steamed, not really boiled, otherwise the main valuable salts are usually lost. Only young asparagus shoots are commonly eaten.