Medicinal Benefits of Whole Foods

For the first 5000 years of civilization, humans relied on foods and herbs for medicine. Only in the past 50 years have we forgotten our medicinal "roots" in favor of patent medicines. While pharmaceuticals have their value, we should not forget the well-documented, non-toxic and inexpensive healing properties of whole foods. The following list is but a sampling of the health benefits from whole foods.

  1. Apple

  2. Asparagus

  3. Avocado

  4. Banana and Plantain

  5. Barley

  6. Beans

  7. Beets

  8. Bell Pepper

  9. Blueberry

  10. Broccoli

  11. Brussels Sprouts

  12. Cabbage (including bok choy)

  13. Carrot

  14. Cauliflower

  15. Celery

  16. Chili Pepper

  17. Cinnamon

  18. Clove

  19. Coffee

  20. Collard Greens

  21. Corn

  22. Cranberry

  23. Cucumbers

  24. Date

 
Mushroom (Asian, including shiitake). A longevity tonic, heart medicine and cancer remedy in Asia. Current tests show mushrooms, such as maitake, help prevent and/or treat cancer, viral diseases, such as influenza and polio, high blood cholesterol, sticky blood platelets and high blood pressure. Eaten daily, maitake or shiitake, fresh (three ounces) or dried (one-third ounce), cut cholesterol by 7 and 12 percent respectively. A shiitake compound, lentinan, is a broad-spectrum antiviral agent that potentiates immune functioning. Used to treat leukemia in China and breast cancer in Japan. Extract (sulfated B-glucans) has been declared by Japanese scientists more effective as an AIDS drug than the common drug AZT. Eating black ("tree ear') mushroom "thins the blood." No therapeutic effects are known for the common U.S. button mushroom. Some claim this species has cancer-causing potential (hydrazides) unless cooked.

  1. Eggplant

  2. Fenugreek Seed

  3. Flax seeds and oil

  4. Fig

  5. Fish and Fish Oil

  6. Garlic

  7. Ginger

  8. Grape

  9. Grapefruit

  10. Kale

  11. Kiwi Fruit

  12. Lecithin

  13. Lemon

  14. Licorice

  15. Melon (green and yellow, such as cantaloupe and honeydew)

  16. Milk

  17. Mushroom (Asian, including shiitake)

  18. Mustard (including horseradish)

  19. Nuts

  20. Oats

  21. Olive oil

  22. Onion (including chives, shallots, scallions, leeks)

  23. Orange

  24. Parsley

  25. Pineapple

  26. Plum

  27. Potato (white)

  28. Prune

  29. Pumpkin

  30. Raspberry

  31. Rice

  32. Seaweed and Kelp (brown or Laminaria type seaweed) 

  33. Soybean.  

  34. Spinach.  

  35. Strawberry.

  36. Sugar

  37. Sweet Potato (yams) 

  38. Tea (including black, oolong and green tea, not herbal teas)  

  39. Tomato  

  40. Tumeric

  41. Watermelon

  42. Wheat

  43. Yogurt (use only organic yogurt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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