Ingredients
- 32 tomatoes are a powerful aperient
Directions
Celery is invaluable as a food to those snf- kring from any form of rheumatism, for diseases of the nerves, and nervous dyspep- sia.
Watercress is a remedy for Hcurvy.
Peanuts for indigestion. They are es- pecially recommended for corpulent diabetes. Peanuts are made into a wholesome and nutritions soup, are browned and used as cofFee, are eaten as a relish simply baked, or are prepared and served as salted almonds.
Onions are almost the best nervine known, says the housekeeper. No medicine is so useful in cases of nervous prostration, and there is nothing else that will so quickly relieve and tone up a worn-out system. Onions are useful in all cases of coughs, colds and influenza; in consumption, insom- nia, hydrophobia, scurvy, gravel, and kindred liver complaints. Eaten every other day they soon have a clearing and whitening efiect on the complexion.
Spinach is useful to those with gravel.
Asparagus is used to induce perspiration.
Carrots for sufferers from asthma;
Turnips for nervous disorders and for scurvy.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening, cleansing, healing, and nourishing.
Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for purifying the blood and toning up the system. As specific remedies oranges are aperient. Sour oranges are highly recommended for rheuma- tism.
Cranberries for erysipeles are used exter- nally as well as internally.
Lemons for feverish thirst in sickness, for biliousness, low fevers, rheumatism, coughs, colds, liver complaint, etc.
Blackberries as a tonic. Usebil in all forms of diarrhea.
Tomatoes are a powerful aperient for the liver, a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion. Tomatoes are invaluable in all conditions of the system in which the use of calomel is indicated.
Figs are aperient and wholesome. They are said to be valuable as food for those suf- fering from cancer. They are used externally as well as internally.
Apples are useful in nervous dyspepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal and vitaliz- ing; they aid digestion, clear the voice, correct the acidity of the stomach, and are valuable in rheumatism, insomnia and Hver troubles. An apple contains as much nutri- ment as a potato in a pleasanter and more wholesome form. — Commoner and Glassworker, Pittsburgh. Fa.