CASE MANAGEMENT [More About Diet]
By Rabe R F
No 6
ABOUT DIET.
There are twelve mistakes which are
commonly made in respect to eating:.
1. Eating too much.
2. Eating too fast and chewing food too
little.
3. Eating too often (between meals).
4. Eating too many rich and
concentrated foods and seasonings.
5. Eating too little of fresh fruits
and raw vegetables.
6. Eating too many kinds of food at a
meal.
7. Eating too few different kinds of
food during a week or a months time.
8. Taking too much liquid with meals
(washing down food).
9. Eating when not hungry.
10. Eating when tired.
11. Eating when hurried.
12. Eating when emotionally disturbed.
Many chronic patients suffering from
digestive disorders will show marked improvement if one or several of
these mistakes are resolutely corrected and the corrections adhered to.
We often find it advisable to prescribe
one all-raw fruit meal a day, which can be either breakfast or lunch
according to the requirements of the individual case. One or several kinds
of fruit can be taken at one meal; if only one kind, then the variety
should be changed every day in order to provide all the essential elements
and organic mineral salts in a natural and undisturbed condition.
LIST OF RAW FRUITS.
Note: The skins of apples, pears,
peaches and grapes are valuable, but such fruits should be thoroughly
washed in order to remove all possible traces of spray material.
Apples
Apricots
Avocado
Bananas
Blackberries
Blueberries
Cantaloupes
Cherries
Currants
Grapefruit
Grapes
Honeydews
Huckleberries
Lemons
Limes Mulberries
Nectarines
Oranges
Peaches
Pears
Persimmons
Pineapple
Plums
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Strawberries
Tangerines
Watermelon.
Raw vegetables are exceedingly valuable
and a large raw vegetable salad should be taken at least once every day.
LIST OF RAW VEGETABLES.
Note: These may be served in a number
of ways shredded, grated or ground, and taken either with or without
dressing or with any of the following: lemon juice and olive oil, sweet
cream and honey, or plain sour cream. A number of raw vegetables will make
a delicious salad in almost any combination.
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Cucumbers
Dandelion salad
Garden mustard
Leeks
Lettuce
Onions
Parsley
Peppers
Radishes
Tomatoes
Watercress.
Nuts have been called natures choicest
proteins, but there is probably nothing more useless or indigestible than
roasted, salted nuts. These should be strictly avoided.
LIST OF FRESH NUTS.
Note: Nuts should be purchased in the
shell. Taken with raw fruits they are more easily digested than when taken
alone or in any other combination. A Waldorf salad, for example, is an
excellent meat substitute and could easily supply the main dish at either
lunch or supper. Nuts should be thoroughly chewed or ground in order to
render them easily digestible.
Almonds
Brazil nuts
Butternuts
Coconuts
Filberts (hazelnuts)
Hickorynuts
Peccans
Pistachio nuts
Walnuts (black)
Walnuts (English).
One of the most pernicious habits of
eating is the taking of hearty foods, such as milk, cooked foods, bread,
cake, crackers, ice cream, candy, etc., between meals or upon retiring.
Every patient who is in the habit of doing this should be urged to
discontinue this practice immediately. Of course, what is done only very
occasionally is of relatively small moment, but what is done routinely is
extremely significant and often a determining factor in the matter of
health or recovery from chronic sickness. The only foods permissible
between meals and upon retiring except on very special occasions should be
fresh raw fruit or freshly expressed, unsweetened raw fruit juices.
LIST OF FRESH JUICES.
Note: When the fruit or vegetable cells
are fractured, chemical change or oxidation begins immediately. Unless the
juice is used at once much of its value is lost. As a rule these juices
act most favorably when not combined.
Apple
Apricot
Blackberry
Blueberry
Carrot
Celery
Cherry
Grape
Grapefruit
Huckleberry
Lemon
Lime
Mulberry
Nectarine
Orange
Peach
Pear
Persimmon
Pineapple
Plum
Raspberry
Strawberry
Tomato.
Try grinding grapes after thoroughly
washing them, express the juice and drink it immediately. Compare this
with any bottled brand on the market and note the surprising difference.
The raw juice is much more palatable and refreshing, much easier to digest
and infinitely more valuable.
In cases of severe stomach, liver and
intestinal trouble and particularly in cases where heart symptoms are
associated with digestive derangement the rules of food compatibility are
quite essential.
RULE 1. STARCHES and sweets will
combine with each other, with all non-starchy vegetables and fats.
Starches will NOT combine with proteins
or acid fruits.
RULE 2. PROTEINS will combine with
other proteins, with fruits, all non-starchy vegetables and fats.
Proteins will NOT combine
satisfactorily with starches or sweets.
FOOD CHART.
STARCHES.
Bananas
Beans (dry)
Bread
Cereals
Corn starch
Macaroni
Pastries
Everything made from grains
Peas (dry)
Potatoes (white) Well people may
combine potatoes with meat, as their high potassium content helps to
digest both foods.
Potatoes (sweet)
Pumpkin
Rice (natural brown)
White flour.
Combine with sugars
All sweets
Dates
Figs
Honey
Maple sugar
Raisins may be combined with any food.
PROTEINS
Meats
Game
Cheese
Clams
Crabs
Eggs
Fish
Milk (all kinds)
Mushrooms Mushrooms and nuts may be
combined with all foods. Nuts Mushrooms and nuts may be combined with all
foods.
Oysters.
Combine with raw fruits
Limes
Oranges
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Rhubarb
Tangerines
Melons
Berries
Apples
Apricots
Cherries
Currants
Grapes
Grapefruit
Lemons.
Combine with NON-STARCHY VEGETABLES
Artichokes
Asparagus
Beans (green, wax)
Beets
Beet tops
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Celery cabbage
Collards
Chayote
Corn (sweet)
Cucumber
Dandelion
Dill
Egg plant
Endive
Escarolle
Garlic
Kale
Kohl-Rabi
Leek
Lettuce
Okra
Olives
Onions
Oyster Plant
Parsley
Parsnips
Peas (green)
Peppers
Radishes
Romain
Sauer Kraunt
Spinach
Squash
Tomatoes
Turnips
Watercress
All leafy vegetables.
Combine with fats
Bacon
Butter
Cod liver oil
Cream
Egg yolk
Lard
Olive oil
Peanut oil
Peanut butter
Vegetable fat.
It is excellent practice to request
office patients to bring a complete two-day menu at each visit. It
requires only a few moments to check over one of these menus and thereby
acquire a knowledge of the patients eating habits. The wonder is that some
people are even alive at all and it is no wonder that they are suffering
from a host of chronic symptoms and complaints.
If the homoeopathic physician will
consistently pay attention to diet his results will be improved to a
concepts degree. Attention to diet alone will cure a worthwhile percentage
of patients. Homoeopathy alone will also cure many cases. Homoeopathy and
a correct diet plus a fairly normal natural routine otherwise will produce
conspicuous and outstanding results and we will wager that the physician
who takes all these factors into consideration will step well ahead of all
competition in the successful practice of his profession.
Question relating to this subject will
be answered through the Question and the Answer Department, and if any
reader would care to send in a two-day menu for any corrective suggestions
or advice it is possible that conviction of the truth of the foregoing may
be gained through a bit of personal experience.
QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT
[Note- Send questions to Dr. Eugene
Underhill, Jr., 2010 Chest nut Street, Philadelphia, Penna. allowed for
the action of the original prescription of Rhus tox. Several hours may be
required in acute cases for any observable remedial action and several
days in chronic cases.
Question: CAN THE SAME REMEDY IN A
LOWER POTENCY BE GIVEN TO THE PATIENT FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES WHO IS
ALREADY UNDER THE ACTION OF THE SAME REMEDY IN HIGH POTENCY?.
Answer: A procedure of this kind might
sometimes be required and there would be no valid objection in case of
emergency.
(The above questions were sent in by
Dr. M. Sheriff, Ferozepore Cantt., Punjab, India.).
Bombay, India