Food Can Be a Medicine

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 22, 19 March 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

Food Can Be a Medicine

VALUE OF NATURE'S REMED

A recent medical publication special stress upon the positive tfa> pcutic value of food. We have 1 been informed as to what we sho not eat when ill, and dietaries h been made for those who are suffer from disease. In it all, however, the publication insists, the principal ject has been to provide food that not injure us.

Until quite recently there has b; little or no recognition of the fact t some of the most valuable of Natui remedies are contained in articles everyday diet, fo quote a distittgu! Ed medical authority of the day, n stead of prescribing syrup of iodide iron, the physician might profita urge bananas and spinach." It is a well-known fact that a K effective remedy for some diseases <j sists principally of extract of pare: Parsley is also excellent in cases ascites. .|

The onion and garlic are valuable pneumonia, and possess consider! virtue in the treatment of certain fo: of tuberculosis. Potatoes, or rather solanine, the al loid food in the skin of the young Bhoi have a sedative effect that make tr useful in epilepsy and some kinds

convulsions. ___ The calcium in asparagus and remedial salines in beans and Brus sprouts make these vegetable* ofj tivc help in the treatment of many oases. The pineapple and' the ban are rich iniodine, whos* _therapei value is well known. Carrots contain a principle that helpful to children afflicted with rick and the radish is of benefit in cases cholelithiasis. The list might be extended ind« ilely. Indeed, the more adval among the physicians are paying 68] ial attention to the therapy of « pi escribing as they can Nature's re dies in natural form and administei them as Nature seems to have ordair