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Show Medicine In Vegetables. The following information may be useful use-ful to some at this season of the year, if not new to many: Spinach has a direct effect upon the kidneys; A common dandelion used ns, greens is excellent for the same trouble. Asparagus purges the blood. Celery acts admirably upon the nervous system, and is a euro for rheumatism rheu-matism and neuralgia. Tomatoes act upon the liver. Beets and turnips are excellent appetizers. Lettuce and cucumbers cu-cumbers are cooling in their effects upon the system. Onions, garlic, leeks, olive and shallots, all of which are similar, possess medicinal virtue of a marked character, stimulating the circulatory system and the consequent increase in the saliva and the gastric juice, promoting promot-ing digestion. Rod onions are an excellent excel-lent diuretic, and the white ones are recommended rec-ommended to be eaten raw as a remedy for insomnia. A soup made from onions is regarded by the French as an excellent excel-lent restorative in debility of the digestive diges-tive organs. -Tew York Herald. |