Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

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Fine Scotch barley is to be preferred to the pearl barley if it can be
obtained.


_Blackberry._

Fresh blackberries are one of the most effectual cures for diarrhoea
known. Mr. Broadbent records the case of a child who was cured by eating
an abundance of blackberries after five doctors had tried all the known
remedies in vain.


_Blackberry Tea._

In the absence of the fresh fruit a tea made of blackberry jelly and hot
water (a large tablespoonful of jelly to half a pint water) will be
found very useful. A teacupful should be taken at short intervals.