Food as Medicine Right food enables a person to refuse from
medicine because it becomes medicine by itself. In many ways the
curative action of food is caused by its taste. Since oldest
times there are six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, burning
and astringent. Sweet taste is the strongest as for its curative
activity on the organism. It strengthens the body, promotes
digestion, cures wounds and helps prolong life. Food with sweet
taste is especially useful for children, old people and weak
people. But eating a lot of sweet food is harmful for your
health, because it can make you fat and sick. Sour taste makes
the appetite better, promotes digestion and water detention in
the organism, makes intestine activity better. Excessive eating
of sour food can bring weakness, vertigo and edema, fever. If
food with sour taste promotes intestine patency, than astringent
taste, vice versa, calls spasms of gullet and make small ways in
the intestine. Salty flavor has cleaning ability-it makes the
removing of scybalum