CELERY AS-A FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1808, 27 October 1888, Page 1

CELERY AS-A FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Numerous cures'of rheumatism by the use of celery kave recently beeu announced in English papers, but the following, more in detail, is given on the authority of the New York Times: —" New discoveries—or what j claim to' be discoveries—of the healing virtues of plants are continually! being made. One of the latest is that Icelery is a cure for rheumatism ; indeed it is asserted that.the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten- . The fact that; it is always put on tke table raw prevents its therapeutic (powers from being known. The celery should lie cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank by the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with boiled celery, serve it warm with a piece of toast, eat it with potatoes, and the painful ailment will soon yield. Such is the declaration of a physician who has again and again tried the experiment, and with uniform success: He adds that cold or damp never produces, but simply developos the disease, of which acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause, and that while the blood is alkaline: there can neither be rheumatism norj gout. English statistics show that in one year (1876) 2640 persons died of rheumatism, and every case, it is estimated, might have been cured or prevented by the adoption of the remedy mentioned. At least two-thirds of the caßes named heart disease are ascribed to rheumatism and its agonising ally, gout. Smallpox, so 1 mucbj dreaded, is not half as destructive as,, rheumatism, which, it is maintained by many physicians, can be prevented by obeying Nature's laws in diet; but it you have incurred it boiled icelery is pronounced unhesitatingly to be a specific." The proper way to eat celery is to have it cooked as a; vegetable'after the manner above described. The writer makes constant use of it in this way. Try v it once and you would sooner do without any! vegetables, with the single exception, of the potato, rather than celery. Cooked celery is a delicious dish for the table, and the most conducive to 1 health of any vegetable which can be mentioned.