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Food Therapy

Your mom may not have known it, but whenever she made you chicken soup to ease a 'cold'  or insisted that you finish your vegies, she was practicing a form of food therapy. Eating certain foods (and avoiding others) can improve the way you feel in your daily life and even help prevent illness and disease. This idea has developed into one of the central tenets of naturopathy, a system of alternative medicine that uses non-drug therapies to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself. Typical treatments range from basic nutritional advice to food-elimination diets and "detoxifying" fasts.

The following are some of the  some of the food that we take commonly in our daily life but has miraculous healing properties

Headaches - Fish - Eat plenty of fish - fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.

High Fever - Yogurt - Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season.

Strokes - Tea - Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea.

Insomnia - Honey - Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.

Asthma - Onions - Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.

Arthritis - Fish - Salmon, tuna, mackeral and sardines actually prevent arthritis.

Upset Stomach - Bananas, Ginger - Bananas will settle an upset stomach.

Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.

Bladder Infections - Cranberry Juice - High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.

Bone Problems - Pineapple - Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.

PMS - Cornflakes - Women can ward off the effects of PMS with corn flakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

Memory Problems - Oysters - Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.

Colds - Garlic - Clear up that stuffy head with garlic.

Cough - Red Pepper - A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper.

Breast Cancer - Wheat, Bran, Cabbage - Wheat, bran and cabbage help
maintain estrogen at healthy levels.

Lung Cancer - Orange & Green Veggies - A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.

Ulcers  - Cabbage - Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.

Diarrhea - Apples - Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition

Clogged Arteries - Avocados - Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.

High Blood Pressure - Olive Oil, Celery - Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure, too.

Blood Sugar Imbalance - Broccoli, Peanuts - The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.

Sharifah Said Ali

 

 

 

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