Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-29
MEDICINAL FOODS.
Fruits Which Are Beneficial to the
 Health.

Fruits Which Are Beneficial to the
 Health.
 "A dish of apples says 8 Ger man scientist, '.is often worth a dozen doctors prescriptions" Not in nases of acute illness, of course, but where one suffers from sleeplessness, Indigestion and that wearisome lassi- tude associated with the springtime. By very nice provision of nature this fruiS in the temperate zone can be had all the year round, and the believer in the virtues of apples holds that we Rhould eat them with as much regard to health as we eat bread and meat for sustenance. Persons who suffer from nervous, wakeful nights or who Are weak-throated should make 1t a rule to eat one or more apples just before Xoing to bed. Eat them raw, of course, and peeled. with all the bruised spots most carefully cut out. This simple remedy promotes sound, healthy sleep lnd cleanses the throat, or rather pre- vents an unpleasant collection of mu- roua in the back of ones mouth.
 An apple eaten first thing in the
 
 mouth where one suffers from acidity of the stomach. Another virtue of the apple is that 1t exerts most excellent Influence on the liver and kidneys.
 Next, perhaps, in value to this fruit h the fig, whether 1t be eaten fresh or dry. Happily the fig grows in warm climates where the heat renders the liver most unhealthily sluggish, and to rounteract this weakness figs should climates dried or pressed figs may be had and are eaten with exactly the same results. In fact, so beneficial is the effect that, with prunes, they are now recommended by physicians to those who endure much from the in activity of this particular organ and wish to have treatment.
 One way of helping the victims of the alcohol or opium habit is to serve them, at every meal and many times in the day, oranges when in season and lemons and lines the 12 months round. The juice of these fruits eoun- teracts the fearful thirst and craving the liquor inspires, while few drops of pure lemon juice will support the thirsty bicycler many miles until cool and wholesome water can be had.
 The very staff of life to men or wom- en who write, or must labor over fig ures many hours a day, is not bread, but the baked banana. Raw, this fruit Is often painfully indigestible, but baked it acts as stimulant on the nerves, being at once reA'iyed and rap Idly assimilated by the stomach. Ner- rous women will find remarkable re- lief in eating celery. They may take t raw, or stewed and served with but ter or white sauce it is a delicious dish, while in the hot season celery sauce and favoring should be liberally used pn meats, salads, in soups, etc.
 But list of medicinal foods would not be complete did one fail to mention the virtues of cracked wheat for weak 6vered folk Dry wheat merely cracked. but not ground fine, boiled with 8 little salt and eaten with butter is a ture-all of itself A coarse bread, made It home, baked like cornmeal pone and eaten in place of bakers bread also has salutary influence on liver that can not accept starch in any other form. 1t is the rough husk that does the good work and will often aid a poor misan- thropic invalid back to yigor and cheer eulness. Farm