Читать книгу Edgar Cayce’s Quick & Easy Remedies - Elaine Hruska - Страница 34

Apples are a good source of vitamins and minerals: A, C, B complex, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. They contain pectin, a fiber which has a gentle laxative effect, and are also high in bioflavonoids (antioxidant compounds).

Water and coffee (one reading, 1597-2, mentioned the choice of “ . . . a cereal drink . . . ”) were the only food items that might be consumed with the raw apple diet; not to be consumed: milk, bread, and yeast were specifically noted.

. . . Raw apples are not well {for the three-day apple diet} unless they are of the jenneting variety . . .

820-2

. . . The jenneting or Jonathan variety is better than those of the woody stock; as the Winesap.

257-167

“Jenneting,” according to one dictionary of obsolete words, is an early pear resembling the jenneting apple, so named because it ripens on St. John’s day, June 24. Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary defines it as “a species of early apples.”

Other varieties of apples suggested in the readings include Arkansas Black, Sheep Nose, Delicious, Oregon Red, and Jonathan. The Delicious (the yellow and red) might be the easiest to locate in grocery stores. Some people prefer the yellow variety, which contains the most pectin (noted by Dr. Reilly), a substance which helps reduce cholesterol.

Though the three-day apple diet is intended in the readings as a purifying and cleansing diet rather than a means of losing weight, weight loss may be a natural result of decreasing food intake while on the diet.