The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-14
Things We Eat That Are Helpful
In Sickness.

IN 2lckuoaAs
This list Of food remedies compiled By
the Housekeeper Is well worth considera-
ton aud preservation for reference:
Celery is invaluable as a food for those
suffering from any form Of rheumatism;
for diseases Of the nerves and nervous
dyspepsia.
Lettuce is useful to those suffering FROM
insomnia
Water cress is a remedy for scurvy.
Peanuts for indigestion; they are es-
pecially recommended for corpulent dia-
betes. Peanuts are made into a whole
some and nutritious soup, are Drowned
and used as coffee, are eaten as relish,
simply baked, or are prepared and served
as sailed almonds.
Salt to check bleeding at the lungs, and
as a nervine and tonic for weak, thin
blooded invalids. Combined with hot
water is useful for certain forms Of dys-
pepsia, liver complaint etc.
Onions are almost the best nervine
known. No medicine Is so useful in cases
Of nervous prostration, aud there Is
nothing else that viii so quickly relieve
aud tone up wornout system. Onions
are useful In all cases OF coughs, colds and
influenza; in consumption, insomnia,
hydrophObia, scurvy, gravel and kindred
liver complaints. Eaten every other day,
they soon have a clearing and whitening
effect on the complexion.
Spinach is useful to those suffering with
gravel.
Asparagus is used to induce perspira-
ton.
Carrots for sufferers from asthma.
Turnips for nervous disorders and for
scurvy.
Raw beef proves Of great benefit to
persons suffering from consumption. It
is chopped fine, seasoned with salt, and
heated by placing it in a dish in hot
water. 1t assimilates rapidly and affords
the best Of nourislmeut
Eggs contain large amount of nutri-
ment IN compact, quickly available
form. Eggs, especially the yokes OF eggs,
are useful in jaundice. Beaten up raw
with sugar are used to clear and strengthen
the voice. With sugar and lemon juice
the beaten white of egg is used to relieve
hoarseness.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening,
cleansing, healing and nourishing.
Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for puri-
flying the blood and toning up the system.
As specific remedies, oranges are aperient.
Sour oranges are highly recommended FOL
rheumatism.
Watermelon for epilepsy and for yellow
fever.
Cranberries for erysipelas are used ex
ternally as well as internally.
Lemons for feverish thirst in sickness
for biliousness, low fevers, rheumatism
colds, coughs, liver complaint, etc.
Blackberries as tonic. Useful in al
forms of diarrhpa.
Tomatoes are a powerful aperient fO
the liver, a sovereign remedy for dys
pepsia and for indigestion. Tomatoes arr
invaluable in all conditions of the system
in which the use Of calomel is indicated
Figs are aperent and wholesome. They
are said to be valuable as a food for those
suffering from cancer; they are used ex
ternaly as well as internally.
Bananas are useful as food for those
suffering from chronic diarrhea.
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, ar
valuable In rheumatism, insomnia ant
liver trouble. Anapple contains as muct
nutriment as potato in pleasanter ant
more wholesome form.
Grapes dilute thick blood, send tn
circulation to the surface, remove OF
structons from liver and lungs, dissolv
and dislodge gravel and calculi and brin
the stomach and bowels to a healthy cor
dition.
Elephant is wholesome and aperient;
excellent for rheumatic sufferers and US
full for purifying the blood.