What Doctors say about " Cabbage"

                            Cabbage Continue "Day  21, 2011

The common cabbage has been of vital importance to mankind over 4,000 years of its culti-vation.   Hippocrates once remarked that “physicians shouldn't hesitate to borrow from folklore that which can be useful in medicine.”  We now know, with sound proof, that the folklore of cabbage has stood the test of time and scientific experimentation.

Doctors Marat and Lens of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris wrote in 1829 (Universal Dictionary of Material Medical): "The cabbage is one of the most valuable acquisitions of man.  It combats scurvy, it prevents gout, the tender leaves are applied to wounds, and seeds are indicated for worms."

Doctor Garnett-Cheney, Professor at the Medical School of Stanford, published a report concerning the use of cabbage juice in the treatment of gastric ulcers.  Of 65 cases reported in his series, 62 were cured at the end of three weeks.  Cabbage has been recommended to correct anemia of experimental animals induced by an all-milk diet.

In research at the University of Texas, Dr. W. Shiva extracted from cabbage a substance he calls Glutamine, useful in the treatment of alcoholism and peptic ulcer.

“For the Lord giveth wisdom:  out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.”

Proverbs 2:6