*FRUITS &VEGETABLES JUICE THERAPY
"let natural food be your medicine" Hippocrates made this statement 2,400 years ago.
These prophetic words are the basis of research on the healing power of food. In this simple words, He true to explain that in raw fruits and vegetables there are essential drugs to control and fight human diseases most effectively.
If human body is kept free from toxic or waste products, then it can remain free from diseases. Raw fruits and vegetables juice have proved quite effective in removing toxins from our bodies.
Fruits and vegetables juices can be divided into six (6) major types:-
1. From Sweet fruits such as prunes and grape.
2.From Sub-acid fruits like apple, 🍐 pear, apricot nd 🍑 peach.
3. From acidic fruits like orange, lemon strawberry and pineapple.
4. From vegetable fruits namely tomatoes and cucumbers.
5. From green leaf vegetables like cabbage, spinach, watercress and celery.
6.From root vegetables like carrots, onion, potatoes, and radish.
It is believed that fruit juices stir up to toxins and acid in the body thereby stimulating the eliminative processes. Vegetable juices on the other hand, carry away toxins in a gentler way.
Due to the different actions between vegetables and fruits they should not be used at the same time.
And not more than three juices should be used in any one mixture.
The following broad rules apply when using mixtures :-
1) Juice from sweet fruits may be combined with juice of sub-acid fruits, but not with those of acid fruits, vegetable fruits or vegetables.
(ii) juices from sub-acid fruits may be combined with juices of sweet or acid fruits but not with other juices.
(iii) juices from acid fruits can be combined with those of sub-acid fruits or vegetable fruits but not with other juices.
(iv) juices from vegetable fruits may be combined with those of acid fruits or of green leafy vegetables, but not with other juices.
(v) Juices from green leafy vegetables may be combined with those of vegetable fruits or of the root vegetables but not with other juices.
(vi) Juices from root vegetables may be combined with those of green leafy vegetables but not with other juices.
A proper selection of juices in treating a particular ailment is very essential. Thus for instance, juices of carrot, cucumbers cabbage and other vegetables are very valuable in asthma, arthritis and skin diseases, but orange juice can aggravate their symptoms by increasing the amount of mucus.
Therefore the use of fruit and vegetable juice may not be as it is not much important as some of people think. It must be core of our meal for the better health.
Motto: Healthily life, livelonger.
Thank you for you time.
Prepared by
Mwl. Robert Lucas
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