FRUIT AS FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 52, 10 December 1909, Page 2

FRUIT AS FOOD AND MEDICINE.

Tlie lollouiuji; oil "Fiuii.s u. ; food ami jk-dicine" is jlist as toclay as it was 23 year;, ag.>. lu jiublicall >ll is tijnejy in view of the jact that dietetic rut'oimens are inuui mure numerous than ever before, ib all the fruits with which we are bie..-ed the peach is the most digestible. '1 Jn-re is nothing mure palatable, w 1 .<> l»-inc and niedicinul than ripe pcache-.. 'JJipv should he ripe, but noi over-npe and half rotten and of the kind i;,.y may make a .•».'! pari t»l either lueal of be eaten between meals; but it !■■ better to make them part of the regular iwak. The apple is one of the b. si d frails. Baked or stewed apples will generally ag,ree with the most delicate i-jinaih, and are an excellent medicine m many cases of sickness. Green c.t imil'-ripe apples slewed and sweetened are pleasant to <he taste, cooling, ix.undlillg and laxalive, i'ar .-.upcrmr m many cases to tile abominable dcse> <■! salts and oil usually given in lever and otiier stewed are better lor enlist ipa: i<«ii lliail most liver pills. Oranges are m.*t acceptable to most but the orange juice alone should be taken, rejecting ihe pulp. The same may lie said of lemons, and all that das«. Lemonade is ihe be-t drink in fevers, and when 1 !iickci..■<! with sugar is better than syrup or m;u:1» and other noxious drills in many caves of conch. Tomatoes act on the l.ver and bowels and are much more plea-.int and safe than "liver regulator.," The jll'ee should he used alone, ret. Meg the skins.

The small seeded fruits, Mirli as blackberries, fijrx, ra--plM'rrit-». currants ,'iii'i srr;ni !,cn'i( ■>, in;iv tic ch -"I itmwiu ttic best foods an:| medicine-.. Tim sugar in thi-iii is liir arid is cooling and |»tirilyin-i and the si- ,1, an-a laxative. AYc would lie mucli tili■ gainer if V.'>' should ln:»k ll'ere t!> «mr ilrhal'ds anit gardens for our medicine a nil less to oni' drug stores. To cure lever or act 011 the kidneys 110 fiiiril'iiLM- or diuretic is superior to water mi !n;i, iiliich may. with verv lew exceptions, lw taken in sickness and health in almost unlimited quantities, not only without injury, hut with ] :>sitive lielnllt, Hut in using them the water or 'mire should he taken, excluding the pulp, and the melon should he fresh and ripe, not over-ripe and stale.