Burbank Tomato: Potassium 36.4, Sodium 12.3, Iron 8.0, Chlorine 6.0
Red Tomato: Potassium 39.9, Sodium 9.4, Iron 9.0, Chorine 7.0

The tomato is more of a fruit than a vegetable, though usually accepted as a vegetable. It is rich in vitamins A, B and C, and because it is rich in practically all of the important acids which help maintain balance in the system, It is the most important of all the fruits in maintaining health.

The tomato is a cleanser. It is indicated wherever there is a morbid condition in the system. It is a great liver and kidney remedy and is actually indicated in all diseases where a lack of potassium, iron, chlorine, and of vitamins A, B and C are shown.

It is becoming universally used in the various ailments of childhood, especially where there is under nourishment and lack of normal development.

The sodium content is just enough to successfully balance its other elements, and there is probably no disease, no condition, where the tomato is contra-indicated. In extreme acidity or irritation of the stomach there may be a more or less violent reaction but this continues only until the harmful acids are neutralized, and it may be well in some conditions to accomplish this with the more soothing food agents.

When the physicians of the Natura School first made extensive use of the tomato as a remedial agent, some of the orthodox profession severely condemned it and even claimed that it caused cancer. That claim, however, is in the dead past.

The tomato is indicated wherever potassium is the logical remedy as well as in diseases where a lack of iron and chlorine is shown, i.e., in all conditions where the symptoms show potassium starvation, enhanced by a lack of iron and chorine.

Potassium 37.1, Chorine 14.3, Calcium 7.5, Sodium 8.4, Sulphur 5.7, Magnesium 4.0, Phosphorus 2.5

Alfalfa is a rich carrier of organic mineral elements, but its greatest value is due to its potassium and chlorine content. It is an agent that has been lauded to the sky, deserves part of this laudation but is rapidly losing friends because it cannot possibly justify the extravagant claims of its exploiters. Many of our best remedial agents fall into disrepute for the same regrettable cause.

Alfalfa is an ideal food drink and it would be well for all people if they would substitute it for India or China teas and for coffee. It is valuable in blood and pus diseases due to its high potassium content. It has favorable influence on the stomach, kidneys, the glands, including the mammary glands in the production of milk, increases peristaltic action of the bowels, increases the appetite and the assimilation of food.

Alfalfa contains the vitamins: fat Soluble A, water Solubles B and C, and is indicated in all ailments where these vitamins are called for.

Alfalfa is essentially a potassium and chlorine food and of great value in all diseases where these elements are called for.*

Potassium 13.3, Phosphorus 4.1, Calcium 2.3, Magnesium 2.6, Sulphur 1.2,
Acid: Citric and Formic

Grapefruit is the natural remedy wherever there is the presence of pus. Of all the tested remedial agents none can compare with grapefruit in building up the alkaline reserve of the blood with which to neutralize the acids and toxins which manufacture pus.

Grapefruit is low in all the organic elements with the
exception of potassium which is essential in all the synthetic processes or chemical combinations of organic life, in the digestion of fat and proteins, the manufacture of red blood corpuscles, in brain, nerve heart, and liver function. In short it is the stabilizer of normal physical functioning as well as of the building of healthy cells. It is antithetic to all abnormal action in any part of the body.

In abnormalities where there is the formation of pus, all congesting foods should immediately be prohibited, only neutral proteins permitted, such as milk, and the diet balanced with vegetables, and from two to six grapefruits a day prescribed and continued until pus formation has ceased.

Potassium 31.8, Calcium 19.4, Phosphorus 17.6, Sulphur 10.4

Kale is a composite, or balanced food substance and is of almost equal value where either potassium, calcium, phosphorus, or sulphur is required. It is considered a potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur is required. It is considered a potassium food but cannot be used when calcium is contra-indicated, nor is it advisable to use it as a phosphorus agent when sulphur is contra-indicated. Excess of calcium is indicated by gout, bony growths, hardening of the canal walls, calculi, cracking of the joints, stiff tendons, and mental dullness.

Excess in sulfur is manifested by countless symptoms which, however, are not so easily defined. Sulphur foods are not indicated in gastric dyspepsia, gas in the bowels, heart depression, boils, eruptions, paralysis of the nerve centers, depressive breathing, erratic temperament, chronic irregularity of menstruation, and constant desire for sour foods or drinks.

If these indications do not appear, then kale is important either as a potassium, calcium, or phosphorous agent as well as when a food is required which contains plenty of sulphur, in which case the sulphur is well balanced by the other elements.

Potassium 41.0, Phosphorus 8.6, Sodium 5.1

Egg plant is almost purely a potassium food. It has been termed the "meat" of the vegetable kingdom and it should be the base whenever a highly potassium diet is required which is essentially true in cancer, beriberi, pellagra, malignant ulcerations, muscular atrophy, symptoms of paralysis, itchy and blistery skin without apparent cause, falling stomach, kidneys, uterus, and other organs of the body, anemia of the muscular system, spasms, lumbago, unnatural sleepiness, muscular fatigue, and hallucinations.

Potassium 32.0, calcium 20.0, Phosphorus 11.0, Sodium 10.0
Dandelion Root, Green, 21% Vital Insulin

Dandelion is classed as a potassium food but due to its high calcium content it is equally important as a lime food. Dandelion is indicated as a potassium remedy and is especially valuable in all torpid conditions of the liver. It has a favorable action on the spleen, and is a blood purifier. It is especially indicated in all ulcerations as this condition calls for both potassium and calcium; also in rickets, irritated nerves, pus formations. It has its greatest value in all conditions arising from torpidity of the liver and delayed digestion which retards the assimilation of food, metabolism, and induces nerve depletion.

Dandelion Root: In the treatment of diabetes, vital insulin is to the physician of the Natura School, more than the chemist's insulin is to the orthodox physician. Its results are even more certain because it is readily metabolized and is a natural food to the diseased organ. Dandelion root should always be used in conjunction with blueberry leaves and these must be associated with the correct dietary. The dandelion root is best used fresh, either well chewed or scraped, or may be dehydrated while fresh. Blueberry leaves are used either as a tea from the fresh leaves or from the green leaves dehydrated.

Potassium 35.1, Sulphur 14.0, Phosphorus 12.3, Calcium 10.4

Endive is preeminently a potassium food. Its next importance is as a sulphur agent. As a potassium food it is indicated in ailments where there is a tendency to fall, in throbbing, periodic headaches, dull eyes, muscular atrophy, symptoms of paralysis, valvular weaknesses, itching and blistered skin, angry ulcers, constant and unnatural thirst. fallen organs such as stomach, kidneys, and uterus, spasms, muscular fatigue, constant sleepiness, beriberi, pellagra, hardening of the heart, ulcerations. Endive contains a considerable amount of phosphorus and for that reason is valuable in nerve affections, but, because of its high sulphur content, cannot be successfully employed in extremely nervous temperaments.

Potassium 46.7, Phosphorus 17.4, Sulphur 12.0

Indication practically the same as Savoy cabbage. It is a potassium food of highest value and indicated wherever potassium is the required agent. However, like cabbage, it is rich in sulphur and though abundantly supplied with phosphorus it cannot be used in nervous temperaments, but is acceptable where the nervous and mental systems are starved for phosphorus.

Due to its low calcium content, cauliflower may be readily prescribed in cases where Savoy cabbage would be unacceptable. It is first of all a potassium food and indicated in all conditions where the element is missing, and secondly, wherever phosphorus is called for and where the temperament of the sufferer is not nervous; thirdly, in all cases where a highly sulphurous diet is required.

Potassium 24.8, Phosphorus 19.0, Calcium 16.5, Sodium 10.9

Savoy cabbage is almost identical in its contents with asparagus and is an equally valuable remedial agent. In diseases such as cancer and in ailments afflicting the nervous system, it is readily substituted because in potassium and phosphorous content it is slightly higher than asparagus and it can be obtained throughout the entire year.

Savoy cabbage is much higher than asparagus in its lime content and for that reason it is not as readily applicable to certain cases, because it cannot be prescribed where there is too much as indicated by arthritis of the joints, hardening of the arteries, gravel, or abnormal bone growths, though the sodium it contains has the tendency of keeping the calcium in solution and distribution.

Cabbage when used as a remedial agent, must not be boiled, but should be run through a food chopper or food press and may be made into a salad.

Potassium 44.5, Calcium 16.3, Sodium 10.0, Sulphur 10.0

Indicated in cancer and wherever purification of the blood is called for. It is also highly valuable wherever calcium is needed.

As a potassium food it is indicated in: Neurotic tendencies, constipation, cancer, infections, old sores, low vitality, lack of recuperative power, low muscular tone.

As a calcium food it is indicated in: Gastric disturbances, digestion of food, assimilation of food, infections of teeth, weaknesses of bony structures, weak arteries.

As a sulphur food it is indicated in: Diseases of the skin, diseases of the hair, infections, lack of bile secretions, intestinal putrefaction.

Cabbage is contra-indicated in all diseases which are in part due to excessive lime in the system and in nervous temperaments.

Cabbage, both red and Savoy, is an ideal food for children as its rich calcium content is invaluable in the building of teeth and the bony structure.

Potassium 44.0, Sodium 10.3, Phosphorus 8.3, Calcium 6.2

When used as a curative agent there are three methods of preparation: grinding the beets raw to make into a salad, boiled, served either with a little lemon juice or with drawn butter - not as good as when used in the raw state; tea, made from the green tops or from tops dehydrated when green.

This agent is indicated in all hepatic congestions, diseases of the skin, and in erysipelas, taken as a food and used externally, ground, as a poultice; in diseases of the cerebrospinal system, anemia, tuberculosis, heart weaknesses not caused by organic lesions. The leaves are of great value in diabetes.

Beets and their tops are of value in practically all
afflictions where asparagus is indicated but are not as valuable as the latter in mental, brain, and nerve weakness as they contain a less amount of phosphorus. The content of potassium is much greater and they are therefore highly indicated in: constipation, skin diseases, cancer, neurotic tendencies,
infections, muscular weakness, muscular paralysis, pain, old sores.

It sometimes happens that we encounter what is known as true potassium diseases, i.e., ailments which are due to potassium starvation and where practically no other element is called for or indicated. In these cases we find wild cherry and parsley ideal agents.

Potassium 62.3, Calcium 4.3, Phosphorus 3.6

There is also present a principle which acts as a stimulant to the digestive organism and which helps to reestablish normal digestion.

Potassium 41.0, Calcium 19.0, Phosphorus 7.1

Parsley contains a considerable amount of calcium and is contra-indicated where there may be present as much or more of this agent than called for. When calcium also is called for, parsley is preferable to wild cherry.

Milk, Cow: Potassium 26.6, Calcium 24.3, Phosphorus 21.2, Sodium 12.5, Chorine 10.3

Milk, Skim: Potassium 24.4, Calcium 23.9, Phosphorus 20.4, Sodium 8.8, Chlorine 10.0

Milk, Goat: Potassium 28.6, Calcium 13.6, Phosphorus 21.2, Sodium 14.6, Chlorine 13.6

Milk is the ideal calcium food for two reasons: first, it is also an easily digested protein food; second, it is almost completely balanced by the other vital and most essential elements required by the body.

Milk is indicated wherever potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, or chlorine are required. It is contra-indicated in all so-called "ageing" diseases, such as hardening of the arteries, and like ailments. However, the sodium content of milk is high enough to keep the calcium in solution and properly distributed, and it is only when other elements as found in vegetables, are lacking, that milk may cause the disturbances attributed to it.

Milk is lacking notably in iron, magnesium, and fluorine. These must be secured from vegetable or cereal substances. It is a concentrated food and the required bulk must be obtained from vegetables, cereals, and legumes. Goat's milk is the more readily digested as, owing to its much smaller calcium content, it forms smaller curds and is more readily broken up. For this reason goat's milk should be prescribed whenever possible, for adults and all afflicted with hardening of the arteries, calcium deposits, and similar ailments.

Calcium 20.0, Sodium 12.6, Chlorine 10.1, Phosphorus 8.4

Okra is essentially a calcium food, containing almost twice as much of that element as of any other of the essentials. It is also to be considered as a chlorine agent and should be prescribed as such unless the symptoms indicated that there is already a surplus of calcium in the system.

The peculiarity of okra is that besides containing an abundance of chlorine it is equally well supplied with sodium, and this element in conjunction with potassium, regulates the albumin and fibrin in the system. The calcium is essential in the correction of many digestive disturbances and the sodium is efficacious in keeping the calcium in solution. Okra is therefore preeminently the agent indicated in digestive disturbances.

The chief indication for okra, besides those already mentioned are: digestive and assimilative disturbances, low vitality of the cells, lack of firmness of the arteries and pulse, lack of endurance, defective teeth, weak bony structure, uterine hemorrhages, tuberculosis, slow healing of wounds, nervousness, asthma, hay fever and scurvy.

Due to its sodium content okra furnishes nourishment to the ligaments. It is an alkalinizing element, neutralizing acids, and therefore of great value in cancer and tumors. It promotes secretions and in combination with its own chlorine, promotes and maintains osmosis. While the tendency of too much calcium is to cause hardening of the arteries, sodium prevents it. This sodium is likewise indicated in deafness, catarrh, and stiffness of joints.

Chlorine is the laundryman of the system. Its efforts are directed toward the cleansing of the body from impurities. Chlorine breaks up albumin promotes peristalsis, reduces surplus fat, and gives energy. It is indicated in pyorrhea. Abuminuria, bloating of the abdomen due to acids or digestive disturbances, in all diseases symptomized by gloom, anxiety, suspicion, hatred, and fear, and in diseases affecting the joints due to disease or under development.

Although many foods are much higher in calcium content, none is as thoroughly balanced and indicated in as many physical disabilities. Okra is an almost universal food and a reliable agent in many ailments.

Sugar Beet Leaves: Potassium 31.4, Calcium 17.2, Sodium 12.3, Magnesium 9.4
Sugar Beets: Potassium 42.9, Sodium 11.0, Phosphorus 9.0, Calcium 6.2

The sugar beet may be considered as a true potassium food. Its potassium content is very high, calcium content low, and sodium and phosphorus just high enough to balance it as a food or remedial agent. The leaves of the sugar beet are also high in potassium, but the calcium content is high enough to classify it as a calcium agent and are indicated wherever that element is required. Its sodium content is such as to enhance its use due to the fact, as previously stated, the sodium is never in excess. The magnesium balances the calcium.

This agent is indicated in all calcium-lacking ailments unless potassium is contra-indicated.

Florida Oranges: Potassium 28.9, Calcium 22.6, Phosphorus 12.9, Magnesium 5.3
California Oranges: Potassium 10.1, Calcium 10.1 Phosphorus 9.8, Magnesium 3.6

The indication of the orange are almost identical with that of the lemon, with the one exception that oranges contain 5.4 sulphur and wherever there is an indication if inactivity or morbidity of the liver this sulphur may cause even greater disturbances.

Lemons and grapefruit lack this sulphur and are more abundantly supplied with acids. They are therefore indicated in inactivity or morbidity of the liver.

Oranges are stimulating and wherever a tonic is required, should be combined with the raw yolk of an egg as often as indicated. Grapefruit on the contrary, is soothing, induces sleep, is quieting to the nervous system and may readily be taken in the evening before retiring.

The organic mineral value of the Florida orange is about two-thirds that of the lemon, and in the California orange about one-third of the lemon.

Potassium 48.3, Calcium 29.9, Phosphorus 11.1, Magnesium 4.4

Although lemons contain almost twice the amount of potassium as of calcium, they are nevertheless a calcium food for the reason that no other vegetable or fruit contains an equal amount of this element.

Lemons, like grapefruit, due to both their mineral content and acids, are preeminently cleansers, antiseptics, and healing agents, and are indicated in almost all conditions where there is a tendency to pus formation or where it has actually formed.

Lemons are indicated wherever a high calcium agent is called for. They are likewise of importance wherever there is a need for either potassium or phosphorus and no contra-indication for calcium.

In the potassium we find the agent which nourishes the muscular system, heals injuries, and reduces pain.

This potassium unites with the phosphorus and supplies the brain and nerve cells with their proper nourishment.

The calcium is indicated in all tendencies to bleed, uterine hemorrhages, rickets, tuberculosis, softening of the bone, broken bones, in pregnancy to build bone in the child, sores, asthma, hay fever, scurvy, and in the repair of tissue alkalinization, and to give vigor to the heart.

Potassium 29.0, Sodium 26.0, Phosphorus 14.6, Calcium 10.1

Though celery contains a larger amount of potassium than sodium, it is, per se a sodium-phosphorus agent and is to be prescribed wherever these elements are lacking. It is therefore the agent in all complaints arising from a depleted mental-nervous system.

Sodium is the great cleanser and alkalinizer of the system and is essential in keeping calcium in distribution.

Without sufficient sodium the system becomes acid and permits the development of many diseases due to acidity. Among these diseases may be mentioned deafness, stiffness of body, rheumatism, gall stones, paralysis, gastric indigestion, fevers. Sodium increases osmosis. It helps to hold albumin and fibrin in solution. In conjunction with phosphorus it acts on the brain and nervous system, the mucous and serous membranes, alimentary canal, secretory glands, stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, and albumin metabolism. In conjunction with sulphur it acts on the liver.

It is estimated that practically no one has sufficient sodium in his system and sodium foods are therefore indicated in practically all weaknesses and diseases. The foods rich in this element are okra, spinach, collards, pumpkins, romaine lettuce, Swiss chard, pomegranates, and skins of apples.

The other element highly important in celery is phosphorus and lack of this leads to brain fag, and nerve depletion. Phosphorus, vitalizes the brain and nerves, and is required by all brain workers and in all diseases which result from nerve and brain depletion.

Fresh: Potassium 36.9, Sodium 24.9, Phosphorus 13.6
Dried: Potassium 33.9, Sodium 35.9, Phosphorus 13.9

Although apples contain a considerably larger amount of potassium than of sodium, they are a sodium agent for the reason that very few foods contain the high percentage of sodium that apples do.

Since apples are low in calcium and sulphur, they are indicated in all conditions where potassium and phosphorus are essential agents, and in all ailments where sodium is of vital importance, unless potassium is contra-indicated in these diseases.

Unless it is especially desirable that potassium be prescribed as an eliminant, it is best to use either the dried apples or, what is still better, the dehydrated apple peelings.

Sodium is actively indicated in rheumatism, gout, gall stones, bladder difficulties, in various hardening of the organs, and stiffness of any portion of the body. It is active in the lymph of the blood and prevents clotting and such ailments as paralysis, congestions, convulsions, and general thrombosis. Sodium is required by the bile, the spleen, the brain, stomach, intestines, pancreas. Unless there is a sufficiency of sodium, fatty foods are not properly metabolized and are causative of digestive difficulties, fermentation and prostration. Sodium helps to prevent the undue increase of disease creating intestinal flora.

Apples should be considered as a sodium agent where a large amount of potassium is also indicated.

Potassium 21.1, Sodium 15.3, Phosphorus 17.1, Calcium 9.4, silicon 10.0

Asparagus is a composite agent as it is rich in four of the most important elements required by the human system. There is one contra-indication to asparagus: When there is already too free or great a flow of urine. Asparagus is indicated in: Neurasthenia, tuberculosis, pus infections, liver affections, constipation, tumors, lack of recuperative power, insomnia, brain fag, lifeless skin, falling hair, numbness, depleted sexual system, eye weakness, teeth decay, fatigue without cause, abscesses, neurotic tendencies, mental confusion, uneven pulse, nerve exhaustion, enlargement of the liver, catarrh of bladder, diabetes, nervous excitement, excessive flow during menopause.

Sodium 23.0, Potassium 26.8, Phosphorus 14.3, Calcium 12.2, Sulphur 7.7

Swiss chard is high in sodium content though not so high as Chinese cabbage. It is indicated in practically the same conditions but with these modifications:

It is higher in potassium content, therefore of greater value where potassium shortage is indicated. It is richer in phosphorus, consequently of value wherever that agent is required. It is fairly rich in sulphur, therefore a desirable remedy where sulphur is needed but cannot be as successfully used for patients who are of a nervous temperament or manifest conditions where this agent is contra-indicated.

Swiss chard should be used as a sodium, potassium, phosphorous, and sulphur food. Its calcium content is sufficient to balance it but not high enough to recommend it as a calcium food. It is contra-indicated in nervous temperaments.

Sodium 21.1, Calcium 19.7, Potassium 14.3, Phosphorus 11.1, Chlorine 9.4

Primarily collards are a sodium food and therefore indicated in all conditions where this element is called for.

Secondarily, collards are a calcium food and of great value wherever calcium is required. As both sodium and calcium are essential in the production and normalization of the digestive fluids, or having their seat in the digestive and assimilative organism.

The phosphorous content is fairly large and for that reason collards are valuable in nervous-mental conditions.

Sodium and potassium unite with calcium and regulate albumin and fibrin. Chlorine breaks down albumin, aids digestion, and promotes peristalsis.

We have here an ideally balanced vegetable for use while in a state of comparative health, and for prescription in diseases primarily due to digestive disturbances, it is equally desirable.

Collards are a sodium food and are indicated when the disease or ailment shows complications due to a lack of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and chlorine.

Cultivated Strawberries: Sodium 19.6, Potassium 13.4, Calcium 8.7, Silicon 7.0 Wild Strawberries: Sodium 18.6, Potassium 13.4, Calcium 10.0, Silicon 7.9,

Strawberries are a sodium food and indicated wherever this element is required. With the exception of silicon, which must be separately considered, the other elements merely balance the sodium. Silicon is an antiseptic, and is of great importance in the body. When abundantly supplied it will help to prevent such diseases as tuberculosis, cancer, tumors, pyogenic infections, abscesses, and pus formations, nerve exhaustion and ailments which affect the vital centers. Sodium and potassium possessing more or less of these same potencies, strawberries are of great value in all these diseases and, whenever possible, should be abundantly supplied in their fresh state. When the fresh berries are not to be had, then the dehydrated powder may be substituted, though the valuable acids are then lost.

Sodium 35.4, Potassium 18.8, Calcium 12.2, Phosphorus 10.0

In Chinese cabbage we have an almost perfect sodium food or agent indicated wherever sodium is essential in the treatment of a disease. Its potassium and calcium content is just about what it should be, and its phosphorus content is high enough to make it of great value wherever that element, in conjunction with sodium, is required.

This food is indicated in all conditions where it is necessary to nourish the ligaments and tendons; where a purifying agent is essential and where a state of acidosis exists: i.e., cancerous conditions, tuberculosis and anemia, hardening of arteries or other organs.

This food helps to promote secretions, maintain osmosis, and prevent disorders of metabolism.

As a phosphorous food it is important in the building of bones, nerves, fibers, brain, and red blood cells, is indicated in all neurasthenic conditions and where the nerve cells are starved.

In almost all conditions caused by nerve and brain starvation or nerve and brain abuse, digestive and assimilative disturbances are present, and it is here that sodium is essential to correct that trouble while the phosphorus feeds the nervous-mental system.

Potassium 27.9, sodium 25.4, Phosphorus 14.1, Magnesium 6.1

Although romaine lettuce contains a greater percentage of potassium than of sodium and is clearly indicated in all conditions where this element is called for, it is nevertheless a sodium food and of especial value when, in addition to sodium and potassium, there is need of phosphorus and magnesium. The fact that it is high in phosphorus and low in sulphur, permits its use in all cases where the element phosphorus is called for.

Many brain workers who refuse to take sufficient exercise suffer from arthritis due to phosphorous deposits. In these cases magnesium is the element which will break up and distribute these deposits. Romaine lettuce containing, as it does, both phosphorus and magnesium, is an ideal food for brain workers.

Sodium 16.3, Potassium 14.6, Iron 9.9

In many respects the pomegranate is comparable to the tomato except that it does not contain any appreciable amount of chlorine.

However, it is richer in sodium and is classed as a true sodium agent and so prescribed. Its potassium content is far less, and what is of importance, it is rich in iron and is therefore a builder besides being a normalizing agent.

In acids it is as abundantly supplied as the tomato but is less harsh in its action. It is not prescribed where calcium is necessary and should therefore be limited to such diseases as call for sodium and iron, and which require the neutralizing acids that pomegranate contains.

It is to be classed between tomatoes and strawberries.

There are many foods which are far richer in sodium then those thus far mentioned. However, these foods are of animal origin and not balanced. In some instances, an almost wholly sodium diet may be necessary for a short period of time. When this is so, then fruits such as tomatoes, strawberries, and pomegranates should be combined with them in order to quickly neutralize the animal acids and toxins as well as to supply additional elements.

Among the richest of the sodium foods are:

Sodium 35.6, Chlorine 15.6, Phosphorus 7.1

Magnesium is an important agent and must be treated somewhat differently from other organic elements for the reason that it is found most abundantly in such foods as are also rich in calcium, as for example, Savoy cabbage, dandelion, pomegranate, sugar beets and sugar beet leaves.

Other foods rich in this element are cocoa, yellow corn meal, wheat, black walnuts, and wild rice. Of these, wild rice, yellow corn meal, and whole wheat are to be prefer in the treatment of the sick whenever the vegetables containing magnesium cannot be secured.

Potassium 34.0, Phosphorus 17.4, Sulphur 10.4, chlorine 9.1, Magnesium 8.9

Although sorrel contains almost four times the amount of potassium it is nevertheless a magnesium food as it is seldom found in a vital (assimilative) form except in similar combinations.

The phosphorous content is very high in sorrel and it is therefore also a brain and nerve food, except in gastric conditions and nervous temperament where it is not applicable because of its high sulphur content.

One of the most important functions of magnesium, and one little known, is in the treatment of arthritis caused by phosphorous deposits. No other known element is capable of breaking up these deposits and curing phosphoric arthritis.

Potassium 30.4, Sodium 16.0, Magnesium 12.1, Sulphur 18.1, Phosphorus 11.1

Nettles are considerably higher in magnesium than sorrel, and also in sulphur, and for the latter reason not well indicated where sulphur is contra-indicated.

The sodium content is high in nettles and therefore it has a double function. Arthritis may be due to calcium deposits, or phosphorous deposits, and in either case this agent is equally effective because the sodium breaks up the calcium deposits, while the magnesium breaks up the phosphorus deposits. Arthritis may be due also to uric acid, in which case, fruit acids will break up the deposits. Like sorrel, nettles are rich in phosphorus and indicated wherever there is a lack of this element.

Seemingly we meet with a contradiction in this food. We use the magnesium to break up phosphorous deposits but despite this fact there is a large amount of phosphorus in this food which we propose to use for rebuilding brain and nerve tissue.

Phosphoric arthritis is not due, per se, to too large an amount of phosphorus in the system, but to a too rapid burning up of this element as a result of over intensive mental activity, worry, or other cause which quickly uses up phosphorus and produces an acidity due to too slow elimination. As a result, we must replace the phosphorus and neutralize the phosphoric acid, which we do with magnesium. Nettles contain these two valuable agents in combination.

Phosphorus 39.2, Potassium 27.6, Magnesium 19.7, Calcium 4.7

Cocoa is classified as a magnesium food because of the abundance of this substance in it. Very few foods carry as large a proportion of this vital element, it being one of our richest phosphorous foods and should be listed under that classification.

Cocoa is indicated in all diseases where both magnesium and phosphorus are greatly lacking. Unless phosphorus is called for, or where contra-indicated, this food must not be prescribed lest it set up aggravated symptoms of neurasthenia, brainstorms, hallucination, etc. We have known cases where one cup of cocoa had the effect of first causing acute indigestion, followed by extreme, biliousness, and then the symptoms of acute neurashesia with hallucination. Phosphorus and sulphur have this effect when contra-indicated because of their active nerve and brain stimulating qualities.

In prescribing cocoa it is well to prepare the digestive organism previously by eating half a grapefruit one hour before taking the cocoa. Cocoa is indicated in all ailments where a large amount of vital phosphorus and Magnesium are essential for a cure.

Potassium 33.9, Phosphorus 30.3, Magnesium 18.0, Sodium 7.7

All foods prepared from yellow corn meal come under practically the same classification as cocoa. Although classed as a magnesium food it is equally a phosphorous carrier.

There is some slight difference between the two. The potassium content is not as high in yellow corn meal as in Cocoa, but instead, it is better balanced due to the sodium content which also helps in its digestion, and the reaction of the phosphorus is not as great as in cocoa. Moreover, this phosphoric acid reaction can more readily be prevented by combining fresh, non-sulphur-carrying vegetables with it - never cocoa.

Yellow corn foods are indicated wherever there is need of either potassium, magnesium, or phosphorus, and where none of the other two elements are contra-indicated.

All high phosphorous foods have the tendency to cause morbidity or stagnation of the liver and neutralizing agents should always be combined with them.

Phosphorus 42 .1, Potassium 29.7, Magnesium 13.2, Calcium 7.1

Like yellow corn meal and cocoa, wheat products are classified as magnesium foods though they are far richer in phosphorus and potassium than in magnesium.

Of the three, wheat foods are the easiest of digestion and have the least reaction on the liver, though of acid reaction like the two former. The calcium content of wheat no doubt is in part responsible for this.

Wherever magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium are indicated, wheat products become suitable remedial agents and should form one-sixth of more of the meal.

As with the other two high phosphorus and magnesium carriers, wheat products should not be prescribed if any one of these elements is contra-indicated.

Plums, Common: Potassium 17.1, Magnesium 11.0, Phosphorus 4.3,
Plums, Blue Damson: Potassium 19.1, Magnesium 10.4, Phosphorus 4.1

Whenever magnesium alone is indicated, then plums are the desirable medium as the phosphorus and other elements, except potassium, are very low, and the potassium itself is no greater than required to balance it.

In arthritis and other ailments due to phosphoric acid deposits, plums are the ideal fruit to prescribe, as they contain a fairly large amount of magnesium as well as several valuable eliminating acids.

Iron is one of the most important organic mineral elements required in the human system to maintain a balance and to preserve health, nevertheless, it is found in comparatively small amounts in even foods richest in these substances.

We have already listed many of the foods which are richest in iron, although these agents are not classified as iron carriers because they contain so much more of other elements required by the body. These foods are: okra, dandelion, kale, sorrel, Savoy cabbage, collards, mustard, and strawberries. Other foods, classified as iron carriers, or vital iron agents, will follow.
All the claims made by physicians of the Natura School and liberal dietitians, i.e., those not belonging to the orthodox medical schools, are now admitted by the members of that school, as noted the following statements by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen:

"Iron is one of the minerals necessary for the maintenance of life, its chief function in the human body being as part of the blood. It is found in the hemoglobin which is contained in the red blood corpuscles, and carries oxygen to all parts of the body. No reserve of iron is stored up in the body, and so a constant supply must be taken in food. Iron taken in the form of inorganic compounds (mineral iron) is not absorbed by the body to the extent of iron contained in foods.

"William H. Peterson and C.A. Elvehjem present figures for the percentage of iron in about 150 of our common food materials. Most of these analyses are for plant materials, but figures for a number of samples of poultry and fish also are included.

"These men found that soil and climatic conditions largely determine the iron content of the plant. This was shown by the great variation which existed in different samples of the same plant material. One sample often contained two or three times as much iron as another sample of the same product.

"It was also interesting to note that beef juice contained only a small percentage of total iron in the original beef. The same tendency of iron to cling to the soil part of the material is observed in the case of orange juice and pulp. When orange juice is pressed out and strained, as is the case in infant feeding, only about twenty-five per cent of the total iron is represented by the expressed juice, although the juice makes up sixty per cent of the orange. Tomato juice, similarly prepared contained about thirty-eight per cent of the iron in the original vegetable. These facts indicate the desirability of feeding infants both the juice and the pulp as early as possible, in order to take full advantage of the entire iron content of these materials.

"An interesting condition was found to exist in the iron content of various kinds of fish. Salt water fish contained about forty percent more iron than the fresh water species. Fish with dark-colored tissues contained about seventy-five percent more iron than those having light-colored tissue.

"Arranged in order, according to the amounts of iron they contain (those with the most appearing first) the classes of foods come as follows: Dried legumes, which are dried peas and beans; green, leafy vegetables, such as spinach and leaf lettuce; dried fruits; nuts, cereals, poultry; green legumes, such as green peas; root vegetables, non-leafy vegetables, such as head lettuce, cabbage, and celery; fish and fresh fruits.

"Thus, those with anemia will find in this list of foods many which they can eat and relish, but to get a big supply of iron the ones at the top of the list should be eaten regularly. Don't squeeze the juice out of fruits, meats or vegetables and discard the pulp, because a great deal of the iron clings to the pulp and is not expressed in the juice. For building up the iron content of the blood, eat green, leafy vegetables, fish with dark meat, and dried fruits, together with plenty of dried beans and peas."

Potassium 46.6, Iron 9.5, Calcium 5.1

Lettuce is one of the richest iron carriers of all the vegetables and therefore indicated wherever iron is required, and it is more evenly balanced in its vitamins as it contains vitamins A, B, C, and D.

Many patients most in need of lettuce suffer from digestive disturbances whenever they eat it. This can readily be overcome by the use of a lemon dressing, or instead of lemon, grapefruit juice. Lettuce is considered as an almost pure iron food.

Potassium 46.0, Phosphorus 14.0, Iron 6.4, Sodium 7.8, Sulphur 5.9

While salsify is rich in iron it cannot be as freely prescribed as lettuce for the reason that it also contains sulphur and many of the other elements which may be to a degree contra-indicated. In prescribing it consideration must be given to this fact.

Besides being an iron food, it is likewise a phosphorous carrier and of great value in mental and nervous diseases, fatigue or starvation. The iron content enhances it for this purpose.

Potassium 39.9, Sulphur 12.4, Sodium 9.4, Chlorine 11.0, Iron 6.0

Another splendid iron carrier but still more complicated than salsify.

This vegetable is indicated wherever there is need for sodium and chlorine besides iron, but is contra-indicated in gastric disturbances and diseases afflicting nervous temperaments. The sodium somewhat offsets the reaction of the sulphur, but not altogether so.

Spinach is classified secondly as a chlorine food.

Potassium 5.4, Chlorine 41.7, Sodium 34.2, Iron 6.0

There are a very few ailments wherein potassium is contra-indicated and cheese made from goat's milk is then a desirable food and of great value as its casein is easily digested.

Due to its fairly large iron content, cheese is classified as an iron food. However, it also belongs especially under the classification of chlorine and sodium foods as it is extremely rich in these and of a type quickly and easily absorbed by the assimilation organism. Goat's milk cheese is to be prescribed whenever the ailment calls for either chlorine, sodium, or iron, unless one or the other is contra-indicated.

Phosphorus 34.3, calcium 24.0, Iron 10.0, Magnesium 8.0

Under certain conditions iron is called for in a form which requires very little digestion and then emulsified bone is the ideal agent.

Besides being rich in iron, it is well supplied with calcium which neutralizes the acid reaction of the iron. It is at the same time one of the richest phosphorous foods and highly desirable in all diseases resulting from starvation for this vital element. Here again, Nature took good care to supply the agent which would quickly neutralize the phosphoric acid resulting in the burning up of the phosphorus and its metabolization into nerve and brain tissue.

Phosphorus has long been known as the "chemical of intelligence." But for this vital element we should be unable to think.

Phosphorus unites with iron, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium and in natural foods is found well surrounded with these elements.

Phosphorus is essential in the building of bone, nerves, brain cells, red corpuscles, and if this vital element is missing, then there may be disease in any of these departments.

The brain cells are chiefly composed of potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and highly specialized fats, and if any of these are missing, it is unable to function properly.

It is best to obtain this phosphorus from the better organized foods and those which contain within themselves the neutralization agents, as phosphorus is a decidedly acid-reacting element and must be neutralized lest its presence ultimately do as much harm as would its absence.

We have already given extensive consideration to many of the foods which carry a considerable amount of phosphorus, such as cocoa, yellow corn meal, wheat, apples, asparagus, bone, cauliflower, celery, and cheese, and will consider several others of the more important ones, so that the choice of agents may be as wide as possible.

Phosphorus 63.4, Potassium 9.3, Calcium 13.0, Sodium 5.9

The yolk of egg is the richest phosphorus carrying food or agent known and is the truest phosphorous food, being low in the other elements. Its calcium content is barely sufficient to neutralize its acid reaction.

In all cases where phosphorus is indicated in its highest form, egg yolks should be prescribed. It is best to beat up the yolk of a raw egg and mix it thoroughly with the juice of two oranges. Those who feel they cannot take the raw yolk, may boil it until hard, then powder and mix with orange juice.

If there is stagnation or morbidity of the liver, then instead of orange juice, grapefruit juice must be substituted. Grapefruit juice is not as great a stimulant but is of more help in the digestion and assimilation of the phosphorus.

Phosphorus 37.8, Potassium 20.1, Sodium 12.7, Silicon 6.5

Wild rice is a splendid phosphorous food and is well tolerated by almost every stomach. It is especially indicated in all cases of phosphorous deficiency where there is also a need for both sodium and silicon.

Among ailments which would be benefitted by this food are arthritis due to lime and magnesium deposits in people of sedentary habits, those constantly occupied with mental work, or such efforts as require a great deal of nerve force. It is contra-indicated in arthritis due to phosphoric acid deposits in people also requiring phosphorus, in which instance, foods rich in that element and magnesium are essential.

Phosphorus 31.8, Potassium 19.6, Magnesium 17.7

Peas are ideally indicated in all cases of arthritis due to phosphoric acid deposits, as well as in other diseases due to hardening as the result of phosphoric acid deposits.

The phosphorus is high enough to supply all requirements of deficiencies, while the magnesium content is such as to readily break up all such deposits and eliminate them from the system by proper distribution. Peas are a true phosphorus-magnesium food.

Phosphorus 23.4, Potassium 16.9, Sodium 16.1, Silicon 5.1

Pumpkins are a true phosphorus-sodium food and as such are indicated in all those ailments which afflict mental workers and which are in part at least, due to calcium deposits.

While peas are clearly indicated in arthritis in mental workers when due to sulphuric acid deposits as a result of the too rapid "burning up" of phosphorus and insufficient elimination of the resultant acids, pumpkin is indicated in arthritis or hardening of the arteries in mental or sedentary workers when due to calcium deposits. Pumpkin is indicated wherever there is a call for both phosphorus and sodium; also in cases where silicon is required and phosphorus and sodium not contra-indicated.

Buttermilk, Goat: Phosphorus 20.3, Potassium 14.6, Sodium 11.2, Magnesium 13.2 Buttermilk, Cow: Phosphorus 19.0, Potassium 14.2, Sodium 11.2, Magnesium 12.1

Buttermilk is an ideal food in a multitude of diseases and is contra- indicated in but a very few. Wherever there is any form of toxin or acidosis, buttermilk is the remedy as its lactic acid is a most perfect eliminant. Though rich in most of the organic mineral elements, practically all of the elements, with the exception of phosphorus, are alkaline in their reaction and therefore eliminants of all undesirable deposits, whether these be of uric acid, phosphoric acid, or calcium. Buttermilk is equally beneficial in cases of arthritis, or hardening of the arteries or other parts of the body, whether due to uric acid, sulphuric acid, or calcium. Wherever phosphorus, sodium, or magnesium are needed, buttermilk is beneficial and a remedial agent unless one of these is contra-indicated.

Phosphorus 55.4, Potassium 10.4, Magnesium 14.1, Sodium 6.1

An ideal phosphorous food but because of its high phosphorous content, it calls for considerable vegetable food to counteract the acid reaction of the phosphorus.

This food is indicated wherever a high phosphorous diet is required and is especially valuable to brain workers who may be suffering from arthritis or hardening of the arteries due to either sulphuric acid or calcium. Next to the yolk of eggs, it is one of the most desirable of the high phosphorous content foods. Fortunately, there are very few ailments in which phosphorus is essential, in which this food is contra-indicated.

Phosphorus 23.1, Potassium 16.1, Sodium 12.3

Another ideal phosphorous food though only half as rich in this element as shad roe. However, its sodium content is so high that it is actually a sodium agent and useful for that purpose unless phosphorus is contra-indicated.
Due to this sodium content, crabs are an ideal food wherever phosphorus is required in patients suffering from calcium deposits of any nature, especially in calcium arthritis, and in hardening of the arteries, or afflictions of the lungs, kidneys, or other organs due to calcium deposits.

Sulphur 29.4, Potassium 21.6 Calcium 16.0, Phosphorus 7.17

Only two other organic (vital or vegetable) foods contain a greater amount of sulphur and these are horseradish and mustard. In these three foods are found the ideal sulphur of the Natura materia medica, and if all other vital agents were as clearly outlined as these, Natura medicine would be a simple practice.

Sulphur promotes the secretion of bile so necessary in the conversion of fats and sugars. It helps to control internal heat. It is the agent more or less responsible for the carrying of impurities to the surface or out of the system.

Sulphur unites with sodium to regulate the moisture in the system and with potassium to govern the secretions of oil in the skin and hair. In combination with hydrogen it prevents intestinal putrefaction.

It is indicated in emotionalism, nervous tremor, pains in various parts of the body, inordinate appetite, eruptions of the skin, frigidity in women, psychosis or neurosis, mental, sexual, and nervous diseases for which there apparently is no cause, sexual perversion, and in all cases where there is a deficiency of cerebrospinal fluid.

Watercress is a fairly well-balanced sulphur food but lacks sodium. It is indicated in all sulphur deficiency unless potassium or calcium are contra- indicated.

Sulphur 35.8, Potassium 21.8, Phosphorus 10.6, Calcium 5.8

This food is more abundantly supplied with sulphur than watercress, contains the same amount of potassium, less calcium, and a greater proportion of phosphorus.

As a sulphur carrier it is indicated in all diseases where this element is lacking, and is more valuable even than watercress. It is indicated especially where there is also a call for phosphorus, unless potassium is contra-indicated.

It contains a stimulant to the digestive organism not found in watercress, and believed to be in an agent known as thiosinamin. In all irritations of the stomach and intestinal tract it is best substituted by watercress.

Sulphur 48.2, Potassium 18.3, Phosphorus 14.0, Calcium 14.0

Mustard is the richest and most balanced of the sulphur foods but is more difficult to obtain than some of the other agents. It is the sulphur food to prescribe in all cases of sulphur deficiency. Its phosphorous content is high and it is therefore of equal benefit as a phosphorous food when there is also a deficiency of that element, and for that reason may be contra-indicated in some ailments. Its potassium content is sufficient to balance the sulphur, but it is minus sodium, which in many ailments, must be supplied through other foods.

Mustard is per se the sulphur agent of the Natura materia medica.

Sulphur 35.3, Potassium 31.4, Phosphorus 20.4

This is one of the richest sulphur foods and is indicated wherever there is lack of this element in the system. Sulphur is the internal heat creator. It is essential in the promotion of bile secretions and the oil in the skin and hair. It is an internal disinfectant, helps to create immunity to disease, clarifies the complexion, and produces growth of the hair.

Brussels sprouts is a sulphur food and indicated in all conditions where the basic cause is lack of this element. See the chapter on this subject. It may, to a degree, be accepted as a phosphorous food in other than nervous temperaments.

Only a small amount of silicon is to be found in even those foods which are richest in this element. Although silicon is an absolute essential in the maintenance of health and strength, the amount required is not nearly so large as many of the other vital elements. Nature has taken good care to see to it that almost sufficient silicon is distributed in those foods which are mostly used and which are absolutely essential in the treatment, by natural foods, of most of the ailments to which modern man is heir.

Silicon is a remedial agent called for in impotence, sexual weaknesses, and ailments of the sexual organs of both sexes, remedying the ravages due to self-abuse, neurasthenia, varicose veins, flabby flesh, ravages of brain and nerve work, ulcerations of throat or other parts of the body, healing of wounds and suppurations, paralysis, weakened, inflamed and ulcerated linings of the walls of canals, and ailments of the testes, ovaries, prostrate and other glands. It is required in the treatment of nervous dyspepsia, falling hair, uterine weaknesses and wherever a powerful antiseptic agent is necessary.

Thus we have already given consideration to many foods well supplied with this element, such as asparagus, dandelion, horseradish, mustard greens, wild rice, wild strawberries, Savoy cabbage, collards, pumpkins, and spinach, and will give consideration to a number of other important ones.

Potassium 41.2, Sodium 10.1, Phosphorus 15.0, Calcium 7.3, Silicon 7.4, Chlorine 6.8, Sulphur 6.9, Magnesium 4.2,
Acids: Citric, Oxalic, Malic

Cumbers are properly classified as silicon and chlorine carriers but it would be more proper to catalog them as among the world's greatest "empiric" remedial agents, because they are good for every disease to which the flesh is heir, and when the physician is nonplussed as to what is really the cause of the trouble, or what to prescribe, then cucumbers are the answer. They are contra-indicated only when one of the acids would be forbidden.

Due to being carriers of the several acids, cucumbers are one of the best cleansers of the system of the various body acids such as uric acid, and the toxins. However, they must be consumed like an apple, with their skin and without condiments. When used dehydrated, the acids are mostly lost and they lose their value in that respect.

Cucumbers are indicated where asparagus may not be prescribed - in diseases and weakness of the kidneys where there may be an excessive flow of urine. Cucumbers are purifying in all blood and skin diseases.

In congestion of the kidneys, cucumbers will work very well in conjunction with asparagus, the latter boiled or made into a tea, the cucumbers only to be eaten raw as stated, or the dehydrated powder used.

Due to their large content of potassium, cucumbers are invaluable in cancerous conditions and the pressed juice freely taken will take the place of water: lacking in silicon, they are not as important in the treatment of tumor as asparagus and other food substances.

In general, cucumbers are active in all conditions where asparagus is indicated.

Potassium 42.2, Phosphorus 12.8, Silicon 9.4, Sulphur 7.2

Although the parsnip may be considered as almost wholly a potassium food, it is especially indicated when a lack of silicon also is shown by such symptoms as neurasthenia, disease of the hair, varicose veins, ulceration, diseases of the throat, slow sores, paralysis, weakened, inflamed or ulcerated linings of the canal walls, nervous dyspepsia.

They may be considered as among the best silicon foods for the reason that they also contain almost as large a percentage of sulphur, another antiseptic agent. It is due to this combination of silicon and sulphur that parsnips have been well termed the "school-girl" complexion food."

Parsnips are considered good food for almost everyone while in health or whenever silicon is required. They are contra-indicated in but few ailments because the other elements are not high. Parsnips should be prescribed whenever the vital element silicon is called for.

Potassium 28.7, Silicon 16.2, Phosphorus 14.1, Calcium 12.6, Sulphur 11.56, Chlorine 6.4, Magnesium 4.0, sodium 4.7

Like cucumbers, marjoram can be almost universally prescribed except in those cases where sulphur is contra-indicated.

Marjoram is really a silicon-chlorine food and should be used as such in all cases where these vital elements are required. Like cucumbers, it also may be classified as an "empiric" remedial agent because it may be successfully prescribed in all those cases where everything seems to be at fault and a definite diagnosis is not possible.

Marjoram is an eliminating agent though not comparable to cucumbers. It contains acid which is an eliminant of toxins and ureas but this acid is not as well defined as that in cucumbers.

Silicon 24.0, Phosphorus 18.2, Potassium 13.6, Magnesium 5.2

One of the richest silicon carriers known and, if properly combined with fruit or vegetable eliminants, is the ideal basic food for children during the winter months to prevent infection from all zymotic diseases.

It is not too much to say, that oatmeal, if combined with other foods so as to prevent congestions and the formation of toxins and acids due to the acid- reaction, would do more to prevent contagious diseases than all the serums thus far invented or that ever will be. Oatmeal is neither artificial nor a substitute, but a natural agent for the supply of those elements which will, by their antiseptic properties, make contagious infections usually impossible.

Besides this antiseptic quality, oats are rich in the phosphorus required by the child for the formation of brain and nerves and the elements required by the mind in study.

Wherever a large amount of silicon is required, prescribe oatmeal or, if this is not practical, due to digestive disturbances, then the extract, Avena Sativa.

Potassium 30.2, Phosphorus 12.8, Silicon 9.2, calcium 6.4

An almost perfect silicon food and one that can readily be prescribed wherever silicon is required. The onion is a perfect antiseptic as well as an ideal eliminant and is exceedingly valuable in "colds," and congestions resulting from them.

Onions may be prescribed in various ways. Many prefer them raw but if there is trouble in their digestion due to their acid, then in all cases of disease, they should be baked and seasoned with a little honey. They may be applied as a poultice, and in pleurisy and pneumonia are decidedly valuable. When silicon is required, do not forget the lowly onion.

Chlorine is essential in the prevention and treatment of such diseases as are manifested by temperatures, in delirium tremens, diseases of the kidneys, uremia, dropsy, epilepsy, paralysis, tetanus, infections and the presence of pus, heart disease, obesity, catarrh, hay fever, typhoid, pneumonia, chlorosis, Bright's disease, tuberculosis, torpidity of the liver and congestion of the spleen, distension of the stomach due to digestive disturbances, and in diseases in which indican, albumin, pus, epithelial cells and phosphates appear in the urine, and in various other ailments previously enumerated.

Many of the foods rich in this element have already been considered: collards, milk, cheese, spinach, bacon, gizzard, goat's milk, marjoram, sorrel, tomatoes, bone, and okra. There are a number of other foods not before listed which are abundantly supplied with this vital element which will have our consideration here.

Sodium 36.5, Chlorine 45.0, Phosphorus 6.4

Sodium 34.2, Chlorine 41.7, Iron 6.0

Cheese is to be preferred to various meats but consideration must be given to the high chlorine content, and whether or not the element chlorine is needed.

Sodium 44.0, Chlorine 33.1 Phosphorus 7.1

To be prescribed only where conditions call for chlorine as well as sodium.

Potassium 31.3, sodium 31.6, Chlorine 20.8, Phosphorus 4.4

White of egg is an ideal chlorine food, not only because of the exceedingly large amount of its chlorine content but because it is equally rich in sodium, a highly soothing and neutralizing agent.

Wherever chlorine and sodium, either or both, are indicated in large amounts, this is the proper food to give, but when prescribed as a remedial agent, the egg-white must not be heated or treated in any manner, but should be thoroughly beaten and sipped, or well beaten and mixed with milk.

It is the ideal remedy in cancer or ulcer of the stomach, not because it is digested, but because it acts as a coating and the chlorine and sodium are the agents which neutralize the acids present and soothe the irritation. This is accomplished even though digestion does not occur.

As will readily be noted by comparing the table, the yolk of eggs is diametrically different in all respects from that of the white of eggs, and practically every element in the two are contra-indicated. This is the reason the white and yolk of eggs should not be eaten at the same meal and cannot be prescribed in the same illness without serious results.

Chlorine 14.1, Sodium 12.6, Sulphur 4.6,

It will readily be seen that butter is an ideal chlorine carrier as it is high in chlorine content and low in all other elements with the exception of sodium. However, butter is of acid reaction and these acids must be neutralized by vegetables and fruits, otherwise serious results will follow.

The fat in butter is a lubricant to the entire system but its combustion will create acids such as capric and butyric, and these are best eliminated by grapefruit, lime, orange and lemon juices mixed, and the various vegetables. Butter is contra-indicated in boils, carbuncles and most skin diseases.

Potassium 16.9, Chlorine 16.1, Sodium 21.2, Phosphorus 34.5

An exceptionally well-balanced chlorine food and easily digested by most people.

Oysters are also a nerve and brain food due to the high phosphorous content but cannot be prescribed in cases when this element is contra-indicated.

Whether used as a food or prescribed as a remedial agent, oysters are best served raw and to neutralize the acid reaction of the phosphorus, should be either with lemon juice, or lemon-juice water taken half an hour before eating the oysters.

Oysters are indicated wherever there is need for chlorine, sodium, or phosphorus unless one or the other is contra-indicated. For brain workers suffering from chlorine arthritis or hardening of the arteries or calcium infiltration, they are an ideal food.

Potassium 31.2, Phosphorus 23.4, Chlorine 12.1

Of all the meats, lamb or mutton is the most desirable from a dietetic standpoint, is most easily digested, and has less of an acid or ureal reaction.

It is indicated wherever a high chlorine diet is desired, provided phosphorus is not contra-indicated.

As a phosphorous food it is ideal in neurasthenia, and all nervous diseases resulting from phosphorous starvation, is highly desirable in diseases due to mental drain, especially when during the duration of these diseases there is digestive disturbance.

Mutton should always be well balanced by such vegetables as celery, okra, and other sodium and calcium carriers.

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(*) Editor's Note: This refers only to the fluorine found naturally in food. That added to the water supply has only a detrimental effect on the body and should be avoided at all cost.
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Lack of fluorine in the system is not difficult to diagnose: hallucinations, various mental depressions, most mental states included under the generic term of "the blues," inferiority complex, abnormal and groundless fears and phobias, the ready acceptance of every superstitious belief, an abnormal and active imagination, especially after darkness has set in, morose disposition, sensual thoughts and various other mental states which in no sense can be thought of as any form of insanity, yet which do not belong to the normal or balanced mentality.

We have already, under different classifications, considered many of the foods rich in the vital element fluorine but among these are: Cheese, goat's milk, whole wheat, yolk of eggs, endive, spinach, wild rice, watercress, cabbage, and oysters. There are a number of other foods comparatively well supplied with this element which we will now list.

Potassium 20.1, Sodium 10.6, Phosphorus 10.9, Chlorine 6.3, Fluorine .02

Potassium 23.7, Chlorine 13.9, Calcium 11.0, Sodium 10.3 Fluorine .06

Chlorine is an associate remedy with fluorine and has a somewhat identical work to perform in the human body. Whey from goat's milk is one of the best fluorine foods.

Phosphorus 20.2, Potassium 14.6, Calcium 13.2, Chlorine 4.02, Fluorine .08

Phosphorus, as we well know, is a nerve and brain food, and in conjunction with chlorine, enhances the value of fluorine.

Of all the known foods, goat's milk and all its by-products are the most valuable of fluorine foods.

Potassium 16.2, Phosphorus 16.1, Chlorine 9.0, Fluorine .05

As valuable as goat's buttermilk but due to lack of calcium and presence of phosphorus, must be well balanced with alkaline reacting vegetables.

Potassium 30.1, Sodium 13.3, Phosphorus 13.2, chlorine 3.4, Fluorine .02

Manganese is the localized pain remedy. It is indicated in all localized tensions, in cancer of the breast, bloody discharges, gurgling sounds as coming from the heart, cracking of joints, neuritis, kidney, and menstrual disorders.

Manganese is required by the nerve and brain cells, linings of the heart and uterine organs, and larynx and excretory ducts. It helps to alkalinize the organic mineral elements required by the brain and nervous systems. Manganese connects the fibers of the brain so that thought-action will be continuous. Deficiency of this element will cause confusion of mind, incoherence in speech and writing, quick and erratic action, and the tendency to great forgetfulness.

We have, under other headings, considered some of the most important of the manganese foods: yolk of eggs, watercress, endive, parsley, marjoram, and whole wheat. A few other foods supply this organic mineral element:

Potassium 16.4, Phosphorus 4.7, Silicon .06, Chlorine .5, Manganese .06

In most cases, silicon, chlorine and manganese cooperate in the removal of causes and the supply of these mineral deficiencies.

Potassium 21.2, Phosphorus 11.3, Silicon, 06, Chlorine 0.6, Manganese .03

Potassium 19.5, Phosphorus 27.3, Silicon .07, Chlorine 4.3, Manganese .03

It will be noticed that in practically all of these foods, the phosphorus, a brain and nerve food, is fairly large, indicating thereby that phosphorus must cooperate with manganese in the performance of its work and in part, at least, this is due to the sulphuric acid neutralizing potency possessed by manganese.

Potassium 35.2, Phosphorus 21.8, Silicon 5.9, Chlorine 2.2, Manganese .2

Potassium 37.5, Phosphorus 12.3, Silicon 11.3, Chlorine 1.3, Manganese 2.1 Acids: Tannic, and Boheic

One of the richest manganese bearing articles used in the diet. Cannot be used when tannic acid is decidedly contra-indicated.

Potassium 53.7, Phosphorus 12.6, Silicon .9, Manganese .5
Acids: Malic and Acetic

Not to be prescribed in gastric ulcers of the stomach, torpidity of the liver, or cancer of the liver.

It is now recognized that iodine is one of the most important elements in maintaining mental and physical balance, as well as in that something which we term "spiritualization" of the mind for want of a better word.

Iodine is an essential element required by the thyroid glands and when lacking, we suffer from mental unbalance and nervousness. There is no question but that the thyroid gland controls mental equilibrium.

Iodine is required for brain oxidation as well as for the elimination of toxins, to induce assimilation of calcium and other organic mineral elements, help assimilation of the food ingested; and in the treatment of goitre, nervous ailments, control of hear pulsation, and to overcome underdevelopment in children, idiocy, myxedema, anemia, and other weaknesses and diseases.

Many of the iodine-carrying foods have already received consideration. Among the very best are: Shrimp, Irish moss, carrots, collards, chives, crabs, wild rice, goat's milk and goat's milk products, Swiss chard, cabbage, lettuce, kale, lamb's lettuce, Savoy cabbage, oranges, strawberries, tomatoes, watercress, and asparagus.

Other foods fairly well supplied with this element are:

Potassium 21.0, Phosphorus 17.6, Calcium 3.0, Iodine .1

Due to the high phosphorus and low calcium content, kidney beans must be well combined with vegetables that will neutralize the phosphoric acid.

Potassium 39.0, Phosphorus 12.8, Sodium 9.1, Chlorine 3.4, Iodine 5.8

Like crab, green turtle is extremely rich in iodine and is indicated whenever a high iodine diets indicated. Being low in calcium the same rule as with kidney beans must be applied. Lemon or grape fruit juice is the best acid neutralizer with green turtle as with crabs and lobsters.

Herring, Fresh: Potassium 17.0, Phosphorus 22.3, Chlorine 4.6, Calcium 3.4, Iodine 1.8

Herring, Smoked: Potassium 17.8, Phosphorus 22.1, Chlorine 11.6, Calcium 3.4, Iodine 1.5

Both very good iodine foods but somewhat difficult to digest. Fresh herring are best when a high chlorine diet is called for. Neutralize acids with fresh vegetables high in calcium, or with lemon or grape fruit juice.

Potassium 30.4, Sodium 13.5, Calcium 12.1, Phosphorus 13.2, Chlorine 4.0, Silicon 4.0, Manganese 3.5, Iodine .2

Potassium 28.3, Phosphorus 32.3, Sulphur 12.6, Sodium 11.1 Calcium 2.1, Iodine 1.7

A food rich in iodine and phosphorus, therefore a splendid gland and brain food, but not well accepted in gastric indigestion or by nervous temperaments due to the sulphur present. Must be carefully neutralized with vegetables or acid fruits.

Potassium 15.9, Phosphorus 34.5, Sodium 21.2, Chlorine 16.1, Iodine 1.3

A splendid iodine food, very rich in Chlorine, and high in phosphorus. Ideal in nervous troubles and calcium arthritis. Must be carefully neutralized.

Potassium 44.3, Phosphorus 16.7, Calcium 10.9, Silicon 2.6, Chlorine 4.2, Iodine .1
Acid: Oxalic

A very good iodine carrier and a neutralizer of bodily acids and toxins as well.

Potassium 13.1, Phosphorus 19.6, Chlorine .7, Iodine 1.5

An ideal iodine food and like all sea foods, of whatever nature, a desirable protein food, which readily takes the place of meat. Smoked salmon is equally good but more difficult to digest.
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