Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin

Author:Annemarie Colbin [Colbin, Annemarie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83313-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

GRAIN

• Contractive

• Acid-forming

• Moderately warming

• Buildup food

Cereal grains are associated with the rise of civilization the world over. Mythologies consistently credit supernatural beings with having brought and taught their use to humans. Grain foods—rice, bread, corn—are part of religious ritual and ceremony and revered as essential to life everywhere. They are the first solid foods given to infants, and when prisoners in times past were given bread—whole-grain bread—and water, it was because they could live on that. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver found this out in one of his travels:

Oats … These I heated before the fire as well as I could, and rubbed them till the husks came off … I ground and beat them between two stones, then took water and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire, and eat warm with milk.… And I cannot but observe that I never had one hour’s sickness while I staid in this island …

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