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Apples Can Help Asthma Bronchitis Heart Health and Constipation

Natural Remedy

Apples should be eaten every day, whenever they are available.  The old adage, ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is a reminder of the efficacy of apples in avoiding illness of many kinds.  Apples are rich in Vitamin C and other plant chemicals such as pectin, which benefits the health by soothing mucous membranes and increasing resistance to disease.

Apples contain quercetin which is an anti-cancer component, as well as being helpful for the heart and lungs health.  Quercetin , like pectin, has an anti-inflammatory action on the mucous membranes.

Apples are a healing food which have vitamin B17 laetrile in their pips, which is an anti-cancer component.

Apples are good for the teeth.  They are a famous  preventer or cure for constipation and colitis, and for lowering bad cholesterol in the blood.   Apples are helpful for maintaining heart health and in stabilizing blood pressure. They are also thought to prevent alzheimer’s, if they are eaten regularly.

But did you know that the Lungs can benefit from apples?  Asthma and bronchitis  or persistent coughs can be helped by eating apples.  The apple diet is not a ‘stand-alone’ treatment, but it is well worth eating a meal of apples if you have a bout of coughing. Of course, you must visit your doctor or naturopath, homeopath or ayurvedic practitioner if you have a lung problem of any kind.  But do consider apples as part of your treatment.

Eating an apple desert such as the one I have listed below, or eating two grated apples raw, can relieve coughing almost immediately.  I have noticed benefits to the lungs from eating both raw and cooked apple, but I think that if you have a persistent cough, or wheezing, then the cooked apple eaten warm has more benefit.

I have been using apples, both raw and cooked, to cure a chest complaint which I have had for a while.  I think it was pleurisy. The cough was helped immediately I began the apple treatment, and the chest pain disappeared after several weeks of incorporating apple in my daily diet. It seems that my immune system stays strong while I continue to eat apples every day.  When I relaxed the apple treatment, as well as the homeopathic, herbal (olive leaf and zinc)  and vitamin supplements I have been taking, the cough came back with an inkling of the same chest pain I had had before.

I did see a doctor about this, and had an X-Ray done – just one – to see if there was any cancer on the lung.  But the X-Ray showed only hyper-ventilated lungs, and, fortunately, no trace of cancer.  The doctor could not help me any more that that, since I did not want to take an antibiotic.

So I pulled out all stops to do a natural cure. The apple treatment is an integral part of the programme I followed, which included various vitamins, herbal remedies, homeopathy, and abstaining from bread and wheat, with very few dairy products or sugar.

Here is a simple but delicious recipe for a stewed apple meal to help a persistent cough.

Recipe for Stewed Apple Dessert:

Grate two large apples with their skins left on.  Do not peel the apples.  I like granny smiths, but any apple will do. 

Put your apples into a saucepan with 2 and a 1/2 cups of water.

Bring to the boil and turn the heat down.  Cook gently for 5 minutes.

Turn off the heat.

Add half a cup of dates.

Add 3/4 cup of oatmeal bran, or rolled oats. I prefer the oatmeal bran, as I think it has more nutrients than standard oatmeal.

Stir.  Put the lid on the pot and leave on the warm stove with the heat turned off.

Wait for five minutes, then serve.   Put either a knob of butter on top of the apple dessert, or a tablespoonful of olive oil.

If you have a sudden attack of coughing, then take the apple desert on its own as a meal. Eat a large bowl of it.  Make sure you use some of the pips of the apple in the dessert, as these contain valuable healing nutrients, such as laetrile, or vitamin B17, also known as amygdalin.  And do keep the skins on the apple.  Healing components such as pectin and potassium have a high concentration in the skin of the apple.  So make sure to use that skin.  If you grate the apples, then the skin is easy to eat once the apple has cooked.


Apples Are Anti Cancer Food

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away, as our Mums used to tell us.

‘A’ Stands For ‘Apple’.

Apples are healing.  Apples are versatile.  They can be eaten raw, juiced into fresh drinks, made into an apple and beetroot salad, or cooked in delicious deserts such as apple crumble, apple strudel, and apple dumplings.  Apples can be made into wine, or cider.  The famous  second century court physician Galen, who also treated the gladiators, apparently presecribed apple wine for almost every ailment imagineable.  ‘AA’  in Galen’s time must have stood for  “Apples.  Apples.”

Raw Apples Provide Essential Fibre:  Raw apples, eaten whole or grated up, are a nutritious healing food which can help you to avoid or to treat diseases such as cancer and arthritis.  Eat the seeds too, as these are rich in Vitamin B17, also known as Laetrile, or Amygdalin, which is an anti-cancer agent. Raw apples eaten daily will help your colon stay clean and healthy.  Maintaining clean and healthy intestines will keep disease away.

Apples are Gluten Free:  Apples should be put at the top of the list of that Gluten-Free Diet.

Apples have an alkaline effect on the body, which is very healthy.  Alkaline foods help prevent degenerative diseases such as arthritis and cancer from taking hold.

Heart and Lungs Benefit:  The flavanoids in apples, such as quercetin,  are beneficial for the heart and for the lungs.  Some naturopaths recommend an apple to avert an attack of asthma.

Rheumatism and Arthritis:  The humble apple is a traditional remedy to alleviate rheumatism and prevent arthritis.

More Benefits of  The Apple:  It is a great preventer of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as being an easy and effective cure for constipation, as well as for diarrhoea.  A diet of apples, done for three days, is a powerful cleanser of the whole body.  The apple is regarded as a specific for the prevention of bowel or colon cancer because of its high fibre, as well as the specific healing chemicals it contains, such as pectin, and laetrile Vitamin B 17 in its seeds.

Apples are rich in potassium, which is another thing about apples which is good for your heart.  This mineral helps to eliminate fluid retention.

They are high in Vitamin C, which helps to keep connective tissues strong, and which keeps the immune system healthy.

Apples are high in pectin.  This is a valuable  soluble fibre which plays a part in healing mucous membranes and in keeping the colon healthy.  Pectin has a healing effect on the mucous membranes.  Pectin helps lower cholesterol. It also helps to stabilize the blood sugar level, which makes it a good addition to the diet of the hyperglycaemic.  Eating plenty of apples will help to prevent you from becoming hyperglycaemic.

Apples contain Laetrile, also called Amygdalin, or Vitamin B17:  This plant chemical is proven to have an effect on cancer cells, and it is a good vitamin to include in your diet for protection against cancer.  Vitamin B17, Laetrile, is found in quite high concentrations in the seed of the apple.  Apricots, plum pips, nectarine pips, and peaches all contain Laetrile Vitamin B17 in their kernels.  Just don’t eat too many in a day. These pips also contain a form of cyanide, and so one needs to be careful with the dosage.  Probably the seeds of one apple should be plenty, without risk of over-dose.  There is a story about a man who wanted to get really healthy through taking extra Vitamin B17.  He saved up all his pips in a cup and then ate them all at once.  He died soon after, according to the story.

But this doesn’t mean apple pips are bad for you – you can also die from eating carrots, and only carrots, if you do it for long enough.  A carrot or two a day would be good for you, and so are apple pips if you eat only four or five little pips per day.

Apples are a great dieting food.   They are a  delicious low-calorie dieting food which will help you to decrease your waist-line without too much trouble.  Apparently, people who eat plenty of apples tend to be slim.

Apples are a tasty and healthful addition to your children’s lunch-box.  Eating an apple after lunch will help your children’s teeth to stay healthy.

The Benefits of Quercetin:  Apples are rich in the anti-cancer chemical quercetin, as well as anti-cancer laetrile.  Quercetin is a flavanoid chemical which also helps to lower cholesterol and stabilize blood pressure.  Beside pectin in apples, quercetin is also  helpful in averting diseases such as cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease.

No wonder the humble apple is  regarded as such a healthful food.

Recipe For Apple and Beetroot Salad:  This salad is an easy-to-make high fibre dish.  It can be used daily for helping the bowel to heal, or as part of a diet to heal cancer.  It is an ideal combination to use if you are doing a three-day cleanse, in which case you would eat it three times a day.  But check out with your doctor or naturopath to see whether this is ideal for you.

Simply grate one apple and one beetroot onto a salad dish.  Mix together.  You can either eat it just as it is, or:

Add around a teaspoon of grated fresh ginger. Pour over a tablespoon of olive oil, or another good oil of your choice, and a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice.   Dried raisins or sultanas complement the flavour of this salad.  An avocado can also be sliced into it, along with some fresh spinach.  A few slices of fresh, sweet orange make this whole combination really delicious.

 

The Apple Diet

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

This post is going to tell you  about the benefits of fasting on apples.

The apple diet is a cleansing diet.  The fame of the humble, healing apple goes back for centuries. Dr Max Gerson used the apple as part of his famous cancer treatment, and it is still used today by people who follow the Gerson treatment.

The apple diet is one of the simplest, one of the most pleasant, and one of the best ways in which you can detoxify your body of chemicals and slush.

Apples are such a great food. They are rich in pectin,  vitamin C, potassium and other trace elements. They have an enormous amount of good quality fiber. They have an alkaline efect on the body, so you can reduce acidity by eating an apple after a meal. Eating an apple after a meal also helps you to absorb vitamins, iron, calcium,  and other minerals from your food. Apples are great food as snacks, too;  instead of going for that pastry or cookie, you could eat an apple, or even a few slices while you watch television or prepare dinner.

Apples are great for the teeth, of course. Children should all be given one apple at least per day.

The Apple Cleanse Diet is simple: All you do is eat raw apples for a few days. You can munch away at whole apples, or you can grate the apple up,  skin and core and all. In the Gerson diet for treating cancer and other immune diseases,  a whole organic apple is grated up each morning, to have on the big plate of oatmeal porridge, which is the only cooked item used in the initial cleansing period on the Gerson diet.

Three days of  straight apple eating is a standard period for a cleanse, but if you do not feel up to it, then do only one day on the apples. You will find that each time you repeat this one day or so on the apple diet,  you get a little stronger, your resistance will improve, and tackling the diet will become easy.

You can eat just as many as you like. This is a great exercise for all those who wish to lose weight, or who have eating addictions: no need for guilt on the amount of apples you eat – there are absolutely no limits.  Eating lots of apples just on their own WILL NOT MAKE YOU FAT. You will LOSE fat instead, if you can eat apples, and only apples, for three days at a time.

Your digestive system, especially your bowels, will benefit from the bulk of the fiber in the apple diet.  This bulk thoroughly cleanses the bowel of effete matter and any toxins it may be harbouring. The honorable apple contains high amounts of pectin, especially in the pips, and peptin has a great healing effect on the tissues of the body, including the intestines.

Your nervous system will benefit from a day or two on apples.

Your liver, gall bladder and kidneys and bladder will also benefit from a few days of eating only apples. If the apple diet is done regularly, say one day a week, or three days every few weeks, then you will be gradually diminishing any toxic deposits in these organs.

The same goes for the brain: after a few days on the apple diet, you will notice that your brain is much sharper, and so is your eyesight. The nutrients in apples help feed the nerves which affect the eyesight and brain. Because the apple diet cleanses the blood, there are less toxins in the blood which feeds your brain and eyesight: this, in itself, causes a rejuvenation of brain and eyesight.

Note- before attempting the apple diet,  ask your health practitioner if you  can safely do this diet, especially if you have any medical condition for which you are getting treatment.

Do not continue the apple fast for more than three days at a time.  Apples are great food, and they are wonderful for taking toxins out of the body and healing it:  However, after using apples to restore a healthy body,  you need  to include proteins , oils and fats, calcium-rich foods, and  iodine and iron in the diet again. A normal, healthy diet which includes proteins and plenty of fresh and cooked green vegetables should follow the apple diet.

The apple diet is made most effective in its detoxification effects when a bowel wash is done. If you have never done a cleanse before, then you might have large amounts of toxins to expel, and these can make you feel sick initially. Colonic irrigation  at a clinic is a good idea if you can afford it. The more you persevere with fasting on apples on a regular basis, the less toxic your body will become.