English in a pill – Angielski w pigułce, Lesson 17

Fruit and Vegetable

Juice Therapy

Did you know that papaya, orange, lemon and pomegranate act as antidotes to high blood pressure...

or carrot is useful in controlling asthma... or guava helps in regulating constipation? In fact each and every fruit and vegetable has incredible curative properties and offers a natural way to good health. Fruits and vegetables drive away toxic and harmful wastes. They nourish our body with pure water, sugar, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fibre andaromatic compounds.

Here are some examples which will help you combat some ailments effectively:

1. Skin disease preventives: apple, carrot, watermelon, lemon.
2. Asthma prophylactics: carrot, pomegranate.
3. Fever combatants: orange, pomegranate.
4. Diarrhea curatives: pineapple, apple, pomegranate.
5. Constipation regulators: guava, apple.
6. Digestion aid: spinach.
7. Jaundice and diarrhea control: carrot.

According to nutritionists, weekly once, depending on the convenience of the individuals, the stomach can be given complete rest without losing the required energy by following the juice therapy. In a 24-hour juice therapy, one can take different types of juices for every 2 hours and this can be discontinued when one goes to sleep, of course, under the medical guidance of the doctor. Thus your body gets detoxified every week.

Juice therapy with some common vegetables:

• The juice of amaranth leaves is effective in resolving cataract. Taken every morning show a reduction in blood glucose levels.
• Beet juice is one of the most valuable juices for the liver and gall bladder.
• The use of cabbage juice for treatment of stomach ulcers is one of the latest and most vital advances in the field of juice therapy.
• A cup of carrot juice taken daily improves the eyesight and prevents cataract. Carrot juice is also excellent for the treatment of infantile diarrhea and acute colitis. It also prevents dehydration. Mixed with a little honey carrot juice is highly effective in all sorts of fevers, general debility, nervous disorders, anemia, lassitude, low vitality and rundown conditions. Carrot juice applied on the burns helps them heal faster.
• Lemon juice is an excellent blood purifier. Upon rising in the morning, drink the juice of 1 lemon in a cup of warm water. It helps in reducing obesity. Asthma is relieved by taking a half-spoonful of lemon-juice before each meal and upon retiring. Lemon juice taken 3-4 times daily along with garlic cures cough and cold. Drinking lemon juice daily helps to alleviate rheumatic fever, painful joints and sciatica.
• Mint leaf juice is good in case of digestive disorders.
• Equal quantities of raw onion juice and honey, taken twice a day are effective for stomachache and indigestion.
• A cup of raw potato juice taken daily cures acidity.
• Juice of fresh ripe pumpkin taken regularly helps to get rid of kidney stones.
• Radish juice and its leaves, mixed with a little sugar, should be taken twice daily in the cases of jaundice. Equal quantities of radish juice, cucumber juice and capsicum juice taken once a week would help in cleansing the digestive and respiratory systems of the body.

WORDS

• First-aid kit - Apteczka
• pomegranate - owoc granatu
• guava - gujawa pospolita
• constipation - zaparcie
• to nourish - odżywiać, karmić
• fibre - błonnik
• to combat - zwalczyć
• preventive - zabezpieczenie
• jaundice - żółtaczka
• diarrhea - biegunka
• to discontinue - przerwać
• amaranth - amarant
• cataract - katarakta
• gall bladder - pęcherzyk żółciowy
• ulcer - wrzód
• acute - ostry
• colitis - zapalenie okrężnicy
• debility - zniedołężnienie
• lassitude - znużenie
• sciatica - rwa kulszowa
• acidity - nadkwasota
• radish - rzodkiewka
• capsicum - pieprz turecki

A JOKE

Why did the blonde stare at frozen orange juice can for 2 hours? Because it said "concentrate".

„Farmacja i ja”, marzec 2009