Kitchen Medicine Part V

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CONSTIPATION: Fast a day or two on fruit juices, herb teas, and an occasional dried fruit. One or two mornings a week have a fruit breakfast of apples, oranges, pears, grapefruit, pineapple, or any combination you enjoy, with berries in season. Drizzle a little honey over the diced goodies delicious! A mild, wholesome laxative: one quarter teaspoon magnesium oxide in a glass of fruit juice.

TO PREVENT OR COMBAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: Eat greens-raw in salads and as cooked vegetables-for their potassium. Eat liver two or three times weekly, and whole grains and nuts every day. Use rice polish, whole wheat, rye, oat, and millet flours in baking. Take a papaya enzyme tablet (available at health food stores) with each meal for efficient digestion.

THREATENED MISCARRIAGE: Raspberry leaf tea contains a hormone inhibitor that slows down overactive glands and promotes an easy delivery at the right time. Drink one cupful twice daily. The same brew also gives you vitamins A, B, C, E, and G, plus calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Eat protein at every meal and snack also creamed cottage cheese and many fresh fruits and vegetable` (Cranberry orange relish: whole, fresh cranberries and unpeeled orange chopped, mixed, and sweetened with honey. Chopped walnuts can be added.) Soy oil can be used in salad dressing to provide vitamin E. Avoid sex if you get cramps, and in any case at the times when you would normally be having a menstrual period.

TO PREVENT TOXEMIA: This most feared pregnancy disaster-one that can cost you the baby and make you very sick-is associated with vitamin B6 deficiency. Before conception and while you're carrying a child, eat all the good, high-nourishment foods and avoid sugar, coffee, strong China tea, and white flour products. Enrich your diet with kelp, bladder wrack. dulse, and seafood for the 67 different minerals needed by the body. Take 25 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily if you have been using birth control pills or if your doctor warns you that you are in danger of toxemia.

SKIN PROBLEMSACNE OR PIMPLES:

The cleaner than clean. Wash your hands and face twice daily with pure soap, warm water, and a soft cloth (pat, don't rub). Rinse by splashing on clear, cool water. Otherwise, keep your hands away from your face. Eat whole-grain cereals and breads, "an apple a day", peaches, fresh parsley, watercress, sorrel, collard greens, and green or red bell peppers. Also steamed spinach, baked yams, dried apricots, cantaloupe, papaya, persimmons, and grated carrot and raisin salad. Also poached or broiled swordfish, lamb, beef or chicken liver, and poached or boiled eggs. Drink milk three times a day and enjoy cottage cheese or yogurt. Sunflower seeds are good for snacks. Don't eat candy, syrup, cake (especially frosted), soft drinks, chocolate, or other hard fats, except for a little butter. Take daily 50,000 units of vitamin A, 100 units of vitamin E and a B-complex preparation containing BI, B2, B6, B12, pantothenic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, choline, and inositol.

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