Kitchen Medicine...Part II

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Liver seems to contain all the anti-anemic factors. Heart, kidney, brown rice, apricots, dates, dandelion and mustard greens, soybean products, kelp, bean sprouts, prune juice, almonds and torula yeast also help combat anemia-causing deficiencies.

If you're tempted to take iron pills or vitamins which contain iron, note the form in which the mineral is present. Ferrous sulfate is toxic . . . ferrous gluconate is the compound our bodies can use.

BURNS

Cold counters heat and stops pain. Immediately run cold water over burnreddened skin or grab an ice cube or piece of frozen food and pass it gently over the injury. If you're quick enough you may prevent blistering. A cold, wet tea bag comforts a small burn.

A bachelor friend reports that while frying chicken he spilled boiling oil down the underside of one forearm. He took 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C, soaked the injury in ice water for the next two hours and spent the night with his arm on an ice pack. The next morning, what had looked like a third-degree burn was gone except for a few blisters.

Vitamin E stops pain and prevents scarring. If the area to be treated is small, puncture a capsule with a sterile needle, squeeze the contents on the spot and cover the hurt with a band-aid. For larger, deeper or electrical burns, take vitamin E d-alpha tocopherol orally.

COLDS

TO PREVENT COLD SYMPTOMS CAUSED BY HOUSE DUST OR AIR POLLUTANTS: Keep your nose and sinuses clean. Wash well morning and night, gently clean the part of the nose you can reach and bathe the rest with nose drops of warm, mild salt solution. When you know you're going to be exposed to an unusual amount of dust or pollen, you might try Kay Holly's method of coating the nostrils with pure olive oil (see ALLERGIES).

TO PREVENT COLDS CAUSED BY BACTERIAL OR VIRUS INFECTION: Keep your body's defense system healthy with fresh air, exercise, wholesome food and enough rest.

One or two tablespoonfuls of cold-pressed cod-liver oil taken daily (with orange juice to cut the oiliness) will prevent many colds, pneumonias and respiratory distresses. Refrigerate the oil so it won't get rancid.

TREATMENT: If a cold strikes anyway, immediately take 100,000 units of vitamin A (50,000 for children) and 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C. Repeat the vitamin C—preferably with milk—every four hours and cut down on activity. Chew a clove or two for their antibiotic effect and to soothe or prevent a sore throat.

Vitamin C is reported to combine with viruses and render them inert and helpless. The fresh vitamin found in oranges or newly gathered rose hips can be seen (by means of special photographic techniques) to radiate life. (See Prevention magazine, January 1974, pages 96-101. —MOTHER.) The condition . . . but both you and your overworked doctor will be better off if you can prevent or cure your own minor ills . . . as Marj Watkins began pointing out in MOTHER NO. 28. Here's another installment of the health hints that work for her family. catch is that sometimes you can't take sufficient amounts in this form without fouling up your digestive system. A good substitute is . . .

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