Vegetables
Experiments have shown that the breaking down and building up of cells - the essential body metabolism - is helped by the consumption of plants and their juices. This vegetable matter has an influence on gland activity. Juice and human blood are closely associated in their metabolic function, and roots, barks, foliage, and herbs are restorative in building up health and resistance to disease. They are used in various ways - eaten raw or cooked, infused, distilled, and applied externally.
A knowledgeable use of vegetables is a preventive measure, and if some minor trouble should interfere with organic function, certain vegetables can often correct the problem and help restore the body's equilibrium.
- Artichoke, particularly beneficial for the liver, it can purify the blood and act as a diuretic (an increased flow of urine). It can provide protection against urea, cholesterol, arthritis, and certain intestinal viruses. It is bitter when not cooked or as a juice but it is certainly worthwhile taking. Press the juice from stem and leaves, or steep the root in wine. Either liquid will help keep away rheumatism if two or three teaspoons are taken before meals - perhaps in a glass of wine to improve the taste. A tea brewed from the fresh leaves is good for a liver attack.
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- Asparagus, can improve a sluggish liver and help diabetics, kidney ailments and bladder stones often benefit. Its tonic properties are said to affect the brain, heightening both mental and emotional faculties, while it has a calming effect on heart ailments and palpitations.
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- Cabbage, when boiled, it is sometimes difficult for delicate stomachs to digest, so steam it or eat it raw. It can be put through a juicer, and if lemon is added, makes an appealing and nutritious drink. Valuable for cirrhosis of the liver, especially when caused by alcoholism, and a preventive against arthritis and gout. Cabbage water as a tea with sage is a soothing night cap, and gargle with it for a sore throat. Externally, a hot compress - cabbage leaves, finely chopped and sandwiched between muslin - can relieve various muscular aches and pains. It can be placed on any painful area to help alleviate liver attacks, intestinal pains and period pains. On the head it can reduce a migraine, on the chest and throat it helps colds and asthma. It is a first-aid item, for a burn or insect bite, a crushed cabbage leaf will reduce the pain and facilitate healing. It will help to heal any cuts or sores, lesions, pimples, abscesses, boils, skin eruptions and superficial infections and swellings.
- Celery, helps to purify blood. Eat celery raw or make a small glass of pure celery juice. It is a good tonic, and can work wonders for your diet, it produces perspiration and acts as a diuretic so include it in your eating plan.
- Cucumber, has the ability to get rid of excess fluid and is highly valued for cleansing the body of its toxic matter, and for slimming. The juice, or merely the vegetable cut in fine slices, is soothing for burns and sunburn.
- Fennel, soothes the stomach and is a mild laxative. Its principal asset is as an aid to the reproductive system. It helps to regularise menstrual periods, particularly normalising an insufficient flow.
- Garlic, has become synonymous with good health, vitality and longevity. It contains powerful antibiotic elements, keeps germs at bay, is antiseptic, antibacterial, a laxative, and a diuretic. The smell of garlic puts some people off, but the more you eat, the less it seems to show and it is simple to counteract the odour by chewing fresh parsley. Garlic tonics are part of old folk lore - here is one that I found: 1) mince a couple of garlic cloves and steep in a glass of white wine for a few days, take a teaspoon every morning as soon as you wake up. (Use only for 6 weeks and then have an interval period of 6 weeks before using it again)
- Lettuce, very calming, so much so that as a sedative it can have a hypnotic effect. It should be taken by those suffering from insomnia as a tea (simply boiled), or braised and eaten late in the evening.
- Onion, is a close relative to garlic and has many of the same powers but to a lesser degree and they are not lost in cooking. Onion is a good diuretic, acting not only against retention of fluids, but also helping to get rid of urea and sodium and is a particularly good tonic, helpful in combating colds and throat ailments.
- Watercress, good for circulation and the liver, a glass of watercress juice first thing every morning is really bracing. It can help clear the lungs and relieves catarrh and congestion of the bronchi.
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