Food Remedies: Facts About Foods and their Medical Uses

Food Remedies: Foods and their Medical Uses

By Florence Daniel

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What’s the difference between food and medicine?

We ingest food. We ingest medicine. Medicine has active ingredients that effect our health and so does food. We think of a Vitamin C supplement as medicinal, but we think of an orange as food. Yet both are vehicles for adding a chemical to our bodies that is critical to our health and well-being.

Think of aspirin; very definitely a medicine. Yet it has it’s origins in plant-life, specifically willow trees and other salicylate-rich plants. The active ingredient of aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid.

And this is the case for many health-giving and illness-curing compounds that we are used to seeing in the form of tablets and capsules.

This classic book looks at the medicinal properties of a huge range of foods, from almonds, apples and asparagus through oats, olives and onions to walnuts, wheat and white rice.