Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — THE GARDEN IS A MEDICINE CHEST [ARTICLE]

THE GARDEN IS A MEDICINE CHEST

Every man who has a. kitchen garden has a%nedicine chest in his | back yard, although tfe probably has not seriously - looked upon it las such. In the onion, for example, he has a sulphur oil which gives the onion its reputation as a remedy for insomnia, and which some physicians hold is a valuable anodyne for “rheumatic - - pains. .There are certain oils in turnips 'and parsnips that have aperient and ■diuretic properties. There is sol’anin in the potato, and spinach contains iron. Cabbage is highly reIgarded as a preventive and, corrective of scurvy and scrofula. Ihe Composition of the tomato is chemically so subtle that it is not yet j fully understood, although several active principles have been isolated ■ and names have been given to them. Thus the man yfho eats I freely of vegetables is taking medicine without paying, for a prescription and without being bothered by the high cost of drugs. In the formal individual the instinctive appetite automatically regulates the [size of the “dose.” —-Portland Ore‘gonian. .