SPECIAL DIET FOR CANCER

As noted in the chapter on Moonchild (Cancer), your sign has certain disease tendencies.  Many of these may be corrected by proper diet, stressing food elements that your system may lack.  In addition, there are herbs which are of particular benefit to natives of your sign.  Some may be used as cooking herbs, others for medicinal purposes.

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The individual horoscope may show a disease tendency not usually ascribed to your sign; however, the following suggested menus and medicinal herbs should help you maintain good health.

Foods & Recipes
for
CANCER

For the normal or underweight Moonchild:

Breakfast

Orange juice or fresh fruit
Whole-wheat cereal
Omelet (basil or rosemary)
Toast, clover honey
Coffee (gentian herb) or peppermint tea


Lunch

Carrot-celery-cucumber juice
Beef ragout (basil herb)
Lettuce-tomato salad
Wheat roll
Coffee (calamus herb) or slip-pery-elm tea

Dinner

Cream of tomato soup (dash tarragon)
Grilled lamb chops, mint sauce
Rice ring with green peas, tiny whole onions, chopped parsley
Mixed green salad (ground basil leaves)
Poppy-seed roll
Ice cream, anise-seed cookies
Sanka (pinch of gentian) or balm tea (one whole clove)

Breakfast

Pineapple juice or fruit
Scrambled eggs (kelp or parsley)
Blueberry muffins
Coffee (one sage leaf) or mixed herb tea


Lunch

Pineapple-coconut juice
Shrimp chow mein, thin noodles
Endive, escarole salad with olive oil and lemon juice dressing (chervil)
Almond cooky
Coffee (one sage leaf) or peppermint tea


Dinner

Fish chowder (dash savory, mace)
Broiled trout (lemon slices, chopped chervil, chives, one bay leaf)
Small whole boiled potatoes, parsley butter
Green peas (pinch of fresh mint)
Cucumbers, sour cream, onions
Sponge cake, lemon sauce
Sanka coffee (buckthorn) or balm tea

For the overweight Moonchild:

Breakfast

One half lemon in water or one tangerine
One egg, hard boiled
Brank muffin, clover honey
Coffee (gentian herb) or peppermint tea

Lunch

Carrot-celery-cucumber juice
Grilled beef patty
Sliced tomatoes (burnet)
Wheat muffin
Slippery-elm tea or coffee (calamus herb)

Dinner

Tomato soup (clear), dash tarragon
One grilled lamb chop
Steamed carrots, parsley
Endive salad, low-calorie dressing (chives, dash marjoram)
Two anise-seed cookies
Sanka (pinch of gentian) or balm tea (one whole clove)

Breakfast

One half grapefruit
Whole-wheat cereal with blueberries or strawberries (no sugar)
Non-fat milk, coffee, or mixed herb tea

Lunch

Carrot-coconut juice
Cottage cheese, pinapple, two black olives, lettuce
Wheat Melba toast
Coffee (one sage leaf) or peppermint tea

Dinner

Fish chowder, small cup (dash savory and mace)
Broiled trout small portion (lemon slice, chervil, chives, bay leaf)
Mixed salad-lettuce, cucumber, tomato, radish, with olive oil, lemon juice and tarragon dressing
Sanka coffee (buckthorn) or balm tea