FoodNet

Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book

1909

Page 79

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Confine yourself to a simple diet of two or three things at a time from the following: Small fresh berries, apples, pears, grapes, oranges, pomegranates, lemons, melons, squash, tomatoes, rhubarb, celery, lettuce, watercress, green onions, cabbage, fresh corn, pearl and unpolished barley, unpolished rice, whole wheat, rolled, cracked or ground, dried bread, pine nuts and cocoanuts. Eat sparingly and leave the table still hungry. Take many walks in very cold weather. HEART TROUBLES Are the result of a torpid liver. To overcome these troubles abstain from an excessive use of fatty, rich, starchy, sweet foods, eggs, cream, chocolate, stimulants, and use more juicy fruits, but no water. Eat more fruit combined with nut creams, sun-dried bread, fresh greens, dandelion, water- pepper, mustard leaves, cress, tart apples, lemons, tomatoes, rhubarb, rice, macaroni, cottage cheese, buttermilk, clabber. NERVOUSNESS Is induced by the use of drinks with meals and the use of bread and butter with tea or coffee ; cakes with cocoa or chocolate; puddings and custards, pies and pastries exces- sively spiced and used with ices and lemonades. Avoid all this and confine yourself to very slow eating, selecting foods as in case of indigestion, confining yourself to two meals and abstain from social dinners. INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA Will be easily overcome by avoiding drinks with meals. Ab- stain from the use of soups and cereals unless cooked for hours. Use no dairy foods, no oils, and nuts sparingly and only when combined with fruits. Select from the follow- ing: Apples, oranges, pears, peaches, pomegranates, cran- berries, cherries, citron, ginger fruit, green grapes, fresh 145 figs, ripe olives, asparagus, cauliflower, horseradish, green corn, beans and peas, pumpkin, squash, rhubarb, spinach, turnips, gluten preparations as macaroni, spaghetti, sub- acid berries, parsnips, almonds and pine nuts in the form of creams. Eat raw or prepared. Do not eat anything that nauseates you or disagrees with you. IN LUNG OR PULMONARY TROUBLES, Coughs, colds, catarrhs, bronchial affections, abstain from all dairy foods, eggs, stone fruits, including blue grapes. KIDNEY TROUBLES. Abstain principally from eggs, water, oats, rye, rice, pears, plums, walnuts, Brazil nuts, chestnuts, pulses, dried fruits. Confine yourself mostly to solid foods in their raw state, using freely skimmed milk and cream thinned with lemon juice or orange juice, pine nut creams, fresh fruits, gruels boiled for four or more hours, green vegetables. MENTAL OR INTELLECTUAL FOODS For students, masters, virtuosos, artists, geniuses, and all those in search of spiritual knowledge. First live so as to eliminate all morbid substances from the system, adhere to simple diet and by prayer and fasting gain that station in life where the selection of food becomes limited yet most gratifying in your pursuit after knowledge. Confine your- self principally to the use of almonds, raisins, oranges, lemons, transparent grapes, raw grains, by masticating them thoroly, expelling the pulp as soon as absolutely taste- less. Use vegetables only in season, as nature produces them according to climatic conditions. Eat apples freely Deviate from regular diet only periodically with change of seasons. Abstain from dairy foods except when absolutely necessary to counteract certain tendencies.