Where medicines and injections fail to cure a disease, by the use of raw food, vegetables and fruit juices people can be relieved of ailments.
Fruit-juices do the work of purifying blood. They cast out the toxic elements accumulated in the cells of the body. Fruit juices increase the quantity of urine through which all toxic elements of the body are thrown out. Raw vegetables of their juices do the work of reconstruction in the body. Vegetable-juices produce new cells in place of those that have been destroyed owing to a disease.
So fruit juices and vegetable-juices are supplementary to each other. The best time for taking fruit-juices is the first half of the day.
Vegetable juices can be taken at any time of the day.
HOW TO OBTAIN ALL THE NUTRIENTS FROM JUICES
Fruits and vegetables should be washed, shred or cut before extracting their juice.
Rinds and fibres of fruits and vegetables are rich sources of vitamins.
While extracting juice they should be properly crushed. However care should be taken that juice ready for drinking does not contain fibre ore rind.
METHOD FOR DRINKING JUICE
It should not be gulped. It should be drunk slowly with a spoon by this process juice gets mixed with the saliva. Digestive juices, which the saliva contains, digest sugar contained in juice. Thus, the juice, which goes into the stomach, is then digested within 20 to 25 minutes.
When juices are consumed for purpose of health or cure of disease, do not add sugar, pepper, or salt for taste or liking. If you dislike the taste of the juice of one of the vegetables, you can add some lemon juice or any fruit juice to it.
Expert dieticians, say one should ‘eat’ juice instead of drinking it. Juices should not be swallowed hastily but taken slowly sip by sip, consumption of fruit juices in quantities has no ill effect. A partaker of juice-diet should drink minimum two or three litres of juice per day for improving and maintaining his health.
Juices of Ginger, Onions and green turmeric being highly concentrated and strong are restricted to not more than 20-25 ml per day.
A tablespoonful of garlic juice is sufficient for a day.
A person who decides to live solely on only juice-diet to get rid of certain chronic and dangerous disease should daily take 5 to 6 litres of juices of various fruits and vegetables.
After the cure of disease, there should be a gradual decrease in the quantity of juice diet and raw food should be included in the diet.
Cooked food can be taken once or twice a week especially for satisfying the palate.
If you want to keep the body and the mind ever healthy and active a combination of juice diet with raw or cooked food is desirable because it serves two-purpose health and satisfaction of the palate.
CONTENTS AND QUALITIES OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
APPLE
Apple juice gives relief in the weakness of the nervous system. kidney-stone acidity, indigestion.
The slight acid content of the apple also exerts an antiseptic influence upon the germs present in the mouth and teeth. When it is taken by chewing sufficiently it may be looked upon as a natural protector of the teeth and hence should be taken in all tooth troubles.
BITTER GOURD (KARELA)
"A glass of bitter gourd juice taken on any empty stomach is a sure beneficial remedy for jaundice".
They are excellent as an appetiser and cure for cough, windiness, blood impurity fever, worms, bile anaemia and leucoderma. It relieves the burning in the kidneys. It dissolves kidney stone.
CABBAGE
Kindles gastric fire, good for the heart. To some extent it produces windiness. It is useful in cough. It’s useful only when taken in juice form. Cabbage contains a new vitamin, which cures gastric and duodenal ulcers.
CARROT
Carrots eaten by chewing strengthen the teeth. Grated carrots mixed with salt have beneficial efforts on eczema. Carrots are an excellent food for maintaining health of the eyes. Carrot juice eliminated unwanted uric acid from the blood and is, therefore very helpful for out patients. It is regarded as a remedy for gallstone troubles, liver diseases, tuberculosis and scanty menstruation.
CUCUMBER
Cucumber juice is a valuable part of the treatment of theumatic conditions. Cucumber is an excellent remedy for uric troubles. Those who suffer from diabetes and those who want to lose weight should make a liberal use of cucumber.
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