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

 
Tea (including black, oolong and green tea, not herbal teas). Amazing and diverse pharmacological activity, mainly due to catechins. Tea acts as an anticoagulant, artery protector, antibiotic, anti-ulcer agent, cavity-fighter, anti-diarrheal agent, anti-viral agent, diuretic (caffeine), analgesic (caffeine), mild sedative (decaffeinated). In animals tea and tea compounds are potent blockers of various cancers. Tea drinkers appear to have less atherosclerosis (damaged, clogged arteries) and fewer strokes. Excessive tea drinking because of its caffeine could aggravate anxiety, insomnia and symptoms of PMS. Tea may also promote kidney stones because of its high oxalate content. Green tea, popular in Asian countries, is highest in catechins, followed by oolong and ordinary black tea, common in the United States. Green tea is considered most potent. One human study, however, found no difference in benefits to arteries from green or black tea.

  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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