Health Benefits from Your Everyday Fruits and Vegetables

Apples- Contain phosphate of calcium, potash and soda, albumen, chlorophyle malic acid, lime, gum, sugar ect...They can help acidity, colic, diarrhoea, disorders in the liver and kidneys, and gall-stones.


Cabbage- Has sulphur, soda, and iron. And is useful for coughs, bronchitis, asthma, warts, and some skin diseases.


Celery- Contains iron and sulphur and is good for rheumatism and gout


Figs- Are a good laxative. They contain sugar, phosphates, gum, albumen.


Grapes- Are rich in sugar called glucose. They contain tannin, gum tartrate of lime, magnesia, alum, iron, citric and malic acid ect...Grapes help stop thirst and because of this, are useful during fevers, also for teething children. They promote healthy urine flow and are useful for people with gout rheumatism and cancer.




Lemons- Contain potassium, citric malate, and tartaric acid, and are also rich in vitamins. Lemons are believed to help with spongy gums, scurvy, gout, rheumatism, constipation, sore throat, thirst, heart burn, lumbago, and coughs.




Lettuce-contains potassium salts and is useful for sleeplessness




Mangoes- Have sugar and highly refined turpentine, iron, useful acids. They are helpful for rheumatism, diarrhoea, diabetes. The seeds and rinds of a mangoes are astringent.



Onions- Contain sulphur, phosphorus, potassium salts, ammonia, phosphoric and acetic acid, starch ect...good for coughs, bronchitis, colds, influenza, liver troubles, inflammatory conditions, gout, rheumatism. Onions promote perspiration and circulation of blood.



Peach- Have iron, gum, sugar and acids. It is a tonic and is useful for fever and anaemia.



Spinach- Contains ferrum salts, some contain sodium salts, and are good for constipation, and fever.


Information from Naturopathy for the 21st Century by Robert Thiel, PH.D