Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

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form, but that those who are in need of an iron tonic should take it as
it exists in vegetables and fruit. To this end he especially commends
spinach.

Dr. Luff puts spinach first on a list of vegetables recommended to
those who suffer from gouty tendencies.

Spinach is very easily digested, and so juicy that no added water is
needed in which to cook it.


_Tomato._

The tomato, according to an American physician, is one of the most
powerful _deobstruents_ (remover of disease particles, and opener of the
natural channels of the body) of the _materia medica_. It should be used
in all affections of the liver, etc., where calomel is indicated.