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Show VEGETABLE MEDICINES. Many people still have the "drug habit." as the enormous sale of patent medicines and drug preparations well proves. But persons who have given the matter serious thought have become be-come more and more doubtful that the taking of drugs into the stomach ever benefited anyone nay, convinced that it is harmful. But if one must "take something" it is better to take medicine in vegetable foods than to be swallowing swallow-ing drugs, many of them poisonous. A health journal gives the following list of vegetable medicines: Turnips, onions, cabbage, cauliflower, cauliflow-er, watercress and horseradish contain sulphur. Potato, salts of potash. Fresh beans and lentils give iron. AA'atercress, oil. iodine, iron, phos-' phale and other salts. Spinach, salts of potassium and iron. Food specialists rate this the most precious of vegetables. Cabbage, cauliflower end spinach are beneficial to-anemic people. Tomatoes stimulate the health action of the liver. Asparagus benefits the kidneys. Celery for rheumatism and neuralgia. The carrot forms blood and beautifies the skin. Beets and turnips i urify the blood and improve th appetite Lettuce for tired nerves. Parsky, mustard, cowslip, horseradish, horserad-ish, dock, dandelion and beet tops clear the blood, regulate the system and remove re-move that tired feeling so peculiar to spring. . . |