CELERY AS A FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1954, 26 September 1888, Page 3

CELERY AS A FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Numerous cares of rheumatism by the use of oelery have recently been announced la English papers ; bat the following, more In detail, ia given on the authority of the " Now York Times " : — 11 New discoveries — or what claim to be dlaooverles — of the healing vlrtaea of plauts are continually being made. Oue ot the lateit ia that oelery is a cure for rheumatism ; indeed it la asserted that tho disease is impossible if the vegetable be oooked and freely eaten. The faoc that It h always put on the lable raw provens ifcg therapeutics pawora from being known. Tho oalury Bhou'd be cut into blta, boiled In wator aut^.aoft, and the water drauk by tho patient. Pat now milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, Into a aaucepan with boiled oelery, eerve It warm with apieoeof toast, eat it with potatoes, and tho painful aliment will aoon yield, buch ia the declaration of a physician who has again and a^ain tried tho experiment and with uniform succes;. Ho adds that sold or damp never produces batsinip'y develops tho disease, of whioh acid blood la tho primary and sustaining cacao, and that while iho blood 1b a kalioe theio can be neither rhenraatism nor gout. Knul'ah Btatiatfci show that m one year (1876) 2640 persons d'od of rheumatism, and every case, it is claimed, might havo been cured or prevented by tho adoption of the remedy mentioned. At least two-thirds of tho Oises numed heart disease are ascribed to rheumatism and its agonising ally, gout. Small-pox, so much dreaded, ia not hulf co destructive oa rheumatism which, it is nnlntainod by manj phyaicia a, can be pre?entnd by obeying Nature's laws m diet, But if y,n have lacoirjd it, boiled o.lery is pronounood unhesitatingly to ba a Bpeo fio. "

The propoc ™%y to oat celoiy 'a to havo it oooked aa a vegetable after the mannor above described Tho writer makes constant uao of it m this way. Try it o:o and you would aooner do without Any votratublec, with the elnglo exception of the potato, rather than oolery. On>ked calory is a delicious dish for the table, and iho most conducive to health of any vegetable which oan be mentioned.