Food Remedies

Food Remedies

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Title: Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
Author: Florence Daniel
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FOOD REMEDIES
HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
No. 2.

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HEALTHY LIFE BOOKLETS
NO. 1. THE LEAGUE AGAINST HEALTH.
By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
NO. 2. FOOD REMEDIES.
By FLORENCE DANIEL.
Ready in September, 1908.
NO. 3. INSTEAD OF DRUGS.
By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
NO. 4. HEALTHY LIFE COOK BOOK.
By FLORENCE DANIEL.
Ready in December, 1908.
NO. 5. MIND VERSUS MEDICINE.
By ARNOLD EILOART, B.Sc., Ph.D.
NO. 6. DISTILLED WATER.
By FLORENCE DANIEL.
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FOOD REMEDIES
FACTS ABOUT FOODS AND THEIR MEDICINAL USES
BY FLORENCE DANIEL

LONDON C. W. DANIEL 11 CURSITOR STREET, E.C. 1908

PREFACE
There is a sentence in the Talmud to the effect that the Kingdom of
God is nigh when the teacher gives the name of the author of the
information that he is passing on. With every desire to fulfil the
rabbinical precept and acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find
myself in a quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must
begin with my grandmother and Culpeper's Herbal. Following upon
those come the results of my own and friends' practical experience.
After this I should, perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose
pages I have culled much helpful information. But as space and
memory preclude individual mention I must content myself with this
general acknowledgment. Lastly, I desire to record my thanks to Dr.
Fernie, whose Meals Medicinal, a large and exhaustive collection of
facts about food, has afforded not the least valuable assistance. F. D.

CONTENTS
PART 1.--INTRODUCTORY PAGE While there is Fruit there is Hope
1 Fruit and the Teeth 5 Fruit is Food 6 Objections to Fruit 8 A Pioneer
of Food Remedies 10 The Simple Life 12 Fruit or Fasting 13 Acute
Illness 14


PART II.--FOODS AND THEIR
MEDICINAL USES

Almond 15 Apple 16 Asparagus 20 Banana 20 Barley 23 Blackberry
24 Black Currant 26 Brazil Nuts 26 Beans, Peas, and Lentils 27 Beet
28 Cabbage 28 Caraway Seed 29 Carrot 30 Celery 31 Cresses 31
Chestnut 32 Cinnamon 32 Cocoanut 33 Coffee 33 Date 34 Elderberry
34 Fig 38 Grape 39 Gooseberry 43 Lavender 43 Lemon 44 Lettuce 46
Nettle 47 Nuts 47 Oat 51 Olive 52 Onion 53 Orange 56 Parsley 57 Pear
58 Pea Nut 59 Pine-Apple 60 Pine Kernel 64 Plum, Prune 64 Potatoe
66 Radish 67 Raspberry 68 Rice 68 Rhubarb 69 Sage 71 Strawberry 72
Spinach 72 Tomato 73 Turnip 74 Thyme 75 Walnut 75 Wheat 76


PART III.--INDICES
Index to Diseases and Remedies 79 Index to Prescriptions and Recipes
86 Index--Miscellaneous 87

FOOD REMEDIES



PART I.--INTRODUCTORY
While there is Fruit there is hope.
While there is life--and fruit--there is hope. When this truth is realised
by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand
professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their profession
and take to fruit-growing for a living.

Many people have heard vaguely of the "grape cure" for diseases
arising from over-feeding, and the lemon cure for rheumatism, but for
the most part these "cures" remain mere names. Nevertheless it is
almost incredible to the uninitiated what may be accomplished by the
abandonment for a time of every kind of food in favour of fruit. Of
course, such a proceeding should not be entered upon in a careless or
random fashion. Too sudden changes of habit are apt to be attended
with disturbances that discourage the patient, and cause him to lose
patience and abandon the treatment without giving it a fair trial. In
countries where the "grape cure" is practised the patient starts by taking
one pound of grapes each day, which quantity is gradually increased
until he can consume six pounds. As the quantity of grapes is increased
that of the ordinary food is decreased, until at last the patient lives on
nothing but grapes.[1] I have not visited a "grape cure" centre in person,
but I have read that it is not only persons suffering from the effects of
over-feeding who find salvation in the "grape cure," but that
consumptive patients thrive and even put on