Curing Rheumatism with Celery.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1460, 21 September 1885, Page 4

Curing Rheumatism with Celery.

A German correspondent of an English paper writes as follows ; — " I have had a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, and was healed m two days' time by a soun made of the stork and root of celery ; therefore I denre to make this simple remedy known through the columns of your valuable paper, for the benefit of all sufferers from gout or rheumatism of any form. I* was induced to try it by seeing the following notice : " Numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of celery have recently been announced m English pai es. New discoveries — or what claim to be discoveries — of the healing virtues of plants are continually being made. One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheumatism ; indeed, it is asserted, the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic pDwers from being known. The celery should be cut into bits, boiled m water until soft, and the water drunk by the patient. Serve warm withpiece3 of toasted bread and the painful ailment will soon yield." Such is the declaration of a physician who has again and again tried the experiment with uniform success. At least two-thirds of the cates named • heat disease' are a cribe I to rheumatism and its agonising ally, gont. Small-pox, so much dreaded, is not hall: so destructive as rheumatism, which, it is maintained by many physicians, can be prevented by obeying nature's laws m diet. Here m Germany we boil the root and stalks, as the rootjis the prin cipal part of it, and afterwards eat it as a: salad with oil and vinegar. I received such such immediate benefit that I am anxious to let all rheumatic sufferers know of it.'