Natural Healing Foods

With the many potential negative side effects of various drugs, you may be looking for more natural ways of overcoming your health problems. One of the options your should consider is natural healing foods. These foods can often be very beneficial in treating specific ailments and are often most effective when they are eaten raw.

Common Problems

A number of common problems can be treated with specific foods. For example, if you have arthritis, you might find apples, bananas, mangoes, cucumbers and garlic beneficial to your condition. Garlic is also helpful for people who experience asthma.

If you are experiencing constipation, some foods you might find helpful include dates, figs, raisins, almonds, soybeans, limes, bananas, carrots, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, corn and spinach.

If impotency is a problem for you, try eating almonds and the more non traditional black gram, also known as Urad Dal.

Plagued by hemorrhoids? Try onions, figs, limes and radishes as well as the more unusual options of beet root, bitter groud, jambul fruit and pigeon peas.

For acne, try consuming limes and lemons as well as applying cucumber juice directly to your face.

Serious Conditions

Even more serious diseases can be treated by eating natural foods in conjunction with other medical treatment. For instance, if you have cancer, you should try eating lots of garlic, carrots, lemons and limes.

If you're diabetic, try grapefruit, lettuce, kidney beans and soybeans. You might also explore some more nontraditional foods like Bengal gram, bitter gourd, fenugreek, Indian gooseberry, groundnuts, jambu fruit and mango leaves.

If your problem is heart disease, try eating apples, oranges, grapes, grapefruit, lemon, limes and raisins along with asparagus, cabbage, carrots and honey.

Detoxification

If you don't have any specific health condition, but are interested in clearing out toxins from pollution and processed foods from your body, you might want to consider a detoxification diet. Most detox meal plans include fresh fruits and vegetables along with whole grains with no dairy products, animal foods, sugar or alcohol allowed. A more intense version of this diet consists of only raw fruits and vegetables along with sprouted grains, seeds and nuts. Serious detox dieters will go on a juice fast, drinking only juice for a certain number of days.

Whether you are trying to detoxify your body or fighting some sort of health issue, big or small, there are many natural foods that can help you feel better and be more healthy.