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Article #57: Health Benefits Of Lettuce

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Lettuce is one of the most delicate salad compensation results from a mixture of
plants - there is usually nothing but tonic and sedative components in which
disappointment to be gained from trying the calming effect on the nervous system
to bring a wilting specimen back to life. and digestive organs as well as the
It has been cultivated since the earliest sexual is combined with a tonic action
times, and varieties such as Cos or upon the glands. There is a slight
Romaine had become popular by the middle laxative action with the unusual feature
ages. Culpeper, the old English herbalist that the odor of ill-smelling stools is
said, `The juice of lettuce mixed with often much improved.
oil of roses, applied to the forehead and Lettuce contains a good spectrum of
temples procureth sleep and ease the minerals, although these are present in
head-ache'. He goes on to say that when average rather than exceptional
taken 'it abateth bodily lust' this, it quantities. The vitamin content includes
seems, is an accurate observation. a fair amount of carotene, but it is
Lettuce juice has been likened in effect essential to bear in mind that the outer
to the sedative action of opium without leaves may contain fifty times more than
the accompanying excitement. H.M. Evans the white inside leaves, so juice
of the University of California everything. The strong therapeutic effect
demonstrated in a series of experiments results from the many alkaloids present.
that whilst the lettuce had a calming These include asparagine (see asparagus),
effect on sexual ardour, there was a lactucine, lactucic acid and hyoscyamine.
surprisingly strong compensatory effect A mixture of lettuce and spinach juice is
in that the rate of fertility was greatly said to help the growth of hair if drunk
increased. So although the normal person to the extent of a pint or so a day. So
might well find these two results to be much hair loss is caused by your genetic
incompatible (or at any rate inheritance and not through deficiencies
inconceivable) lettuce is frequently that this information is given for the
suggested to help men who suffer from sake of the desperate. There is much more
premature ejaculation. evidence for its effectiveness in dealing
Pythagoras, the ancient Greek with a nervous cough and as supportive
mathematician, therefore knew only half therapy which might help but not cure the
of this information when he called diabetic and the asthmatic and help ease
lettuce 'The plant of the eunuchs: This those who have continuous pain.






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