Therapeutic Value of Juice Diet

A number of persons occasionally inquired whether vegetables, fruits or juices have beneficial effects on sexual life.

In Kenya, sexual life is shy and reserved and no methodical sex education is imparted, hence, this simple, natural activity is believed to be complex. Yet, many frightened people or those enticed by alluring advertisement run after medicines in order to acquire or increase sexual ability.

As a matter of fact, NO medicinal herb or calyx can improve sexual ability.

These medicines perhaps bring a temporary sensual excitement, but in the long run they greatly damage the body. These drugs produce malefic heat in the body. Moreover, their consumption causes skin diseases and abdominal pain.

Despite this, the manufacturers of such drugs make a fortune out of the ignorance or anxiety of people.

Some present doctors too prescribe synthetic hormones for the treatment of sexual weakness. These doctors take advantage of people’s eagerness for regaining their lost sexual ability.

Of course, the use of such drugs can, to some extend, be justified only if the endocrine glands are diseased and fail to produce secretion. But in the absence of any definite cause a doctor should not prescribe such drugs.

In the human brain there is a part called ‘Limbic System’ which is the source of hunger, thirst, sex plus many more.

Fruits and vegetables properly stimulate this ‘Limbic System’.Vitamin ‘A’ richly contained in spinach, carrot, watermelon, mango and plums help to transform cholesterol into active sexual hormones.

Similarly, vitamin ‘B’ richly contained in potatoes, bananas and pumpkin plays a major role in the production of sexual hormones.

Bananas are rich in potassium which relieves a mental stress. Vitamin ‘E’ is commonly known as ‘anti-sterility’ vitamin. Its deficiency causes impotence. Wheat-husk, raw vegetables, fruits, millet, sesame plus many more contain plenty of vitamins ‘E’.

The health of prostrate gland is important for the regulation and prolongation of sexual life.

Zinc minerals are useful to keep prostrate gland active. This mineral is easily available from French beans, cucumber, onion, spinach, carrot and cabbage juice.

The addiction to tobacco, cigarettes, marijuana, liquor plus many more vices destroy valuable vitamins contained in the body.Fruits and vegetable juices control this damage and help to eliminate these effects.

In short, the regular consumption of fruits, vegetables and their juices produces sexual ability. Improves it and also maintains it for a very long time.

A bonus self treatment recipe for prostrate cancer is as follows:

There is very little you can do to treat prostrate cancer or prevention of development of enlarged prostrate. You should, however avoid certain medicines that worsens the problem, including cold and allergy pills, which can cause urinary retention. Some prescription medications used to treat ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome and depression may have similar effect.

1.     Urinate when you first feel the urge, rather than delaying. Avoid sexual stimulation and arousal without ejaculation.
2.     Eat Pumpkin seeds. These seeds are high in zinc and deficiency of this mineral has been linked to prostrate enlargement.
3.     Drink coconut milk.
4.     Drink 8-10 glasses of water a day.

Note: You should avoid alcohol and caffeine.

Garlic
Its warm pungent trait promotes energy circulation, warms the stomach and spleen, destroys worms; affects the spleen, stomach and lungs. Also treats eyesight, appetite, asthma, coarse voice, pimples, hysteria, rheumatism, constipation, typhoid, cold abdominal pain, edema, diarrhea, dysentery, whooping cough, obesity, bronchitis, kidney, hemorrhoids, gall bladder, headache etc.

How to Use:
Boil garlic cloves in water and eat with soy sauce at meals to relieve cough and abdominal pain and also to promote blood circulation and urination.

•     For women, to relieve itch in the genital region, boil a few garlic cloves and use the liquid to wash the genital region.
•     Crush a few garlic cloves to mix with mustard (powder of paste) and eat it with warm water. Or, boil a few garlic cloves in water and drink it as tea to correct chronic cold sensations, particularly in women.
•     Eat 1 to 3 fresh garlic cloves daily by dividing them into 3 dosages; continue treatment for 5 to 10 consecutive days to heal amoebic dysentery.
•     Take 2 teaspoonfuls 10 to 20 percent garlic solution every 2 hours (mixed with some syrup or orange tincture to make it more appetizing) to relieve whooping cough in children.
•     Eat garlic cloves regularly to prevent bacillary dysentery when it is widespread.
•     Cut up a garlic clove and use the juicy slice to rub the skin to relive pain caused by insect bite (such as bee sting) as an emergency measure.
•     Garlic may be cooked with soybeans: Soak the soybeans overnight; cook soy beans with 5 to 10 garlic cloves. Eat as a tonic and also to promote urination, relieve edema, and chronic nephritis.

Another way to use garlic: Fry garlic cloves in vegetable oil with black pepper, sliced fresh ginger, and salt: add dry shrimps, and then sprinkle with sugar, and green onion. Add some tomato ketchup and flour to thicken if desired

Many people do not want to eat garlic for fear of getting bad breath. According to research, "garlic" breath can be eliminated by eating a few dates or a persimmon. When garlic cloves are steamed (over boiling water), the strong smell will be gone before eating the garlic. .

In daily cooking, a few garlic slices may be added to eliminate the strong smell of meats or fish.

Carrot
Its neutral sweet taste used as a diuretic and digestive cure. It also treats Intestinal wounds, menstrual flow, blood cleaning, cancer, liver, kidney, digestive disorders, bladder complications, difficulty when urinating, 

Note: Regular consumption of fresh or cooked carrot prevents night blindness.

How to Use:

• Boil carrot and red dates in water to make soup to treat whooping cough in children.
• Carrot may be cooked with parsley and water chestnut for facilitating eruption in measles.
• Fresh carrot juice may he used for external application to heal
• Boil 5 g carrot seeds in 2 glasses water over low heat until water is reduced to I from glass. Drink the soup to promote urination for treatment of edema.
• Bake the peels of carrots until they appear burned. Eat the peels while hot to relieve frequent urination at night divide 1 carrot into 3 dosages and eat them 3 times a day.
• To use carrot as a blood tonic, cook it with spinach and lotus roots in soup or cook carrot with tomatoes and onion.
• For sharpening the vision, take one glass of carrot juice every morning.

Scenario: I remember one day my friend told me that his 3 year old son had wet the bed the previous night. I asked him casually if his son ate any carrot before going to bed. Quite unexpectedly, this friend was taken by surprise. “How did you know?” he asked. I told him that carrot can promote urination. In fact, carrot is also good to promote the outbreak of rash in measles, and for inflammation of the bladder and the kidneys not only because carrot is a diuretic, but also because it is an effective food for healing inflammations.

To contain cancer, 3 — 5 glasses of carrot juice is recommended every day. This should be taken on an empty stomach.

Onion
Its closely related to garlic and its pungent effect is beneficial for ailments such as colds, flu, sinusitis, sore throats and also fever, as it breaks down mucus blockage. Onions are natural digestive stimulant, reduces blood pressure, boost circulation and thins the blood thus, their intake is important in dealing with gout, urinary gravel, arthritis and any other water retention defects.

As a blood purifier, onions lowers bad cholesterol and hence prevents heart diseases. Its juice or soup is fed to diabetics persons and invalids respectively; because it helps reduce blood sugar and as an energizer alleviates anemia and extreme tiredness. They are rich in zinc and sulfur hence are good for the sex glands and to control cancer in that order.

How to Use:

• Make onions a part of your day-to-day diet to harvest their healing benefits. Cooked onions are usually more acceptable, but add them raw to salads or side dishes. To counter the oral smell they cause, sprinkle a little fresh lemon juice and salt on the raw onion slices and allow them to stand for about 30 minutes before serving. Another way is to soak the chopped or sliced raw onion in half a bowl of a solution of water and two tablespoonfuls of a pinch of salt or white vinegar. remember to drain before serving. 

• For all respiratory infections, chop an onion finely and moisten with some honey. Cover and allow it to stand all-night. Extract the juice of this mixture in the morning and take a teaspoon every two hours.

• As a precaution against food poisoning, grate one small onion and sprinkle with a pinch of ordinary salt. Extract the juice through a sieve and mix with the juice of one lemon. Drink before turning in for the night.

• Apply Raw onion juice as an antiseptic to animal bites, cuts, and boils. To experience relief of pus from a large boil, cut relatively thick thick round slice of onion and warm it lightly on a hot ungreased fry pan. Then place it directly on the boil, bandage it and leave on all night long. At dawn, the boil will have come to point and it will be easier to extract the pus.  

• Place a small piece of raw onion and bandage it lightly on a swelling from bee or wasp stings to reduce inflammation.

Lemon
It is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy.

Its taste is pleasant and it does not produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy. As you know, the lemon tree is known for its varieties of lemons and limes. You can eat the fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries and much more. It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and tumors.

This plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Is is very useful in all variants of cancer. It is considered also as an anti-microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi, effective against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressure which is too high and an anti-depressant, combats stress and nervous disorders.

It destroys the malignant cells in 12 cancers, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreas plus many more. The compounds of this tree showed 10,000 times better than the product Adriamycin, a drug normally used chemotherapeutic in the world, slowing the growth of cancer cells. And what is even more astonishing: this type of therapy with lemon extract only destroys malignant cancer cells and it does not affect healthy cells.

Tomatoes-Healthy Diet for a Man

Many people use tomatoes to add its red-rich color and flavor to their gravies and food. Some slice the tomato and add it onto other vegetables topped up eith fine dressings to make salads. Others still, will peel off the skin and mash the tomatoes to make soups.

Yet unknown to many, tomatoes contain important nutirnts that can protect them from numerous forms of cancer. Indeed, tomatoes should become a must-eat for men as the red pigment contains a vital compound called lycopene, which act as an anti-oxidant, neutralising free radical cells in the body.

Men who consume ten servings of tomatoes a week can cut the risk of developing cancer. Tomatoes lowers the risk of cancers of the stomach, lung and breast. But, the way you prepare it matters.The best way to get lycopene is through cooked or processed tomatoes (juice sauce and paste) It's recommended that the tomatoes be cooked with a little healthy oil, which helps carry lycopene into the blood stream.

Tomatoes also contain a compound called gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), which can help lower blood pressure and strengthen the heart muscle.

Natural aphrodisiac herbs

Sexually under performing individuals can chew the root of White's ginger (scientifically known as Mondia whytei), In Kenya the plant is locally known as Mukombero or Muhukura. It is a slow-growing vine with a vanilla-like aroma. Those who are not up to chewing can take it as tea. Its leaves, roots or stem are crushed, after drying it can be taken with tea.

Extracts of horny Goat weed which is associated with folklore (a sex herb in China) is a variety of weed scientifically known as epimedium, have activities similar to Viagra and a potential for a fewer side effects. Icariin, is the active ingredient extracted from the weed. Also, herbal aphrodisiacs do not activate the 'after burners' like viagra, which is why quacks are adding conventional ingredients to herbs.

Traditionally, combination of these known herbs have been used to re-energize the body, hence the famous 'miti ni dawa' slogan. These concotions are to be consumed in a controlled manner to replenish the body's energy. Coupled with a good diet and exercise, miti ni dawa could lead to enhanced sexual performance.

Not all natural aphrodasiac are safe. Excessive use of these products could lead to serious side effects, panic attacks, kidney failure and hallucinations. The line between an effective and dangerous dose is unknown but its thought to be quite narrow.

Ginseng, a common ingredient in most health supplements in the local market, is alleged to treat many conditions, including erectile dysfunction. It improves sexual desire and arousal in both sexes. It works like Viagra in relaxing muscles and improving blood flow to the genital region.

 Nutmeg, cloves, garlic and ginger are also found to be moderately effective.

Juice man special combination of fruit and vegetable juice: 2 apples and 1 orange for an antivirus cocktail; 133 grams of black grapes and 1/2 cup of black, pitted cherries for "the arouser"; 2 thick pineapple rounds for aches and pains; 1 orange, 1/4 grape juice, and 1/4 lemon with the skin on after a meal or workout; 2 apples and 1 pear for regulation at night; orange and grapefruit for eye openers; 2 apples, 1 pear, and 1 inch of ginger root for motion sickness; 3 carrots, 1 stalk of celery, 1 apple, 1/2 beet, 1/2 handful of wheat grass, and 1/2 handful of parsley as an immune stimulator; 1/2 tomato, 1 wedge of green cabbage, and 2 stalks of celery for ulcers; 6 carrots and 1/2 bell pepper for blemishes of the skin; and 2 to 3 carrots, 1/2 cucumber, and 1/2 beet with greens to cleanse the body. There are many more combination that show other health benefits, if you know of any please extend the list.

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