Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

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Sage, like so many of the fragrant herbs, is antiseptic.


_Strawberry._

The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so
easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
Also for anaemic patients on account of the iron it contains.

H. Benjafield, M.B., advises anaemic girls to take 1 quart of
strawberries per day, and when these are not obtainable several ripe
bananas.


_Spinach._

Professor Bunge declared that iron should never be taken in its mineral