SPECIAL DIET FOR CAPRICORN

As noted in the chapter on Capricorn, 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
CAPRICORN

For the normal or underweight Capricorn:

Breakfast

Fruit juice or fresh fruit
Cream of Wheat or Cream of Rice
Eggs, poached
Protein toast
Coffee (pinch gentian root) or rosemary tea

Lunch

Carrot-celery-parsley juice
Herb meat loaf with cheese strips (basil, rosemary and savory)
Cauliflower in butter sauce
Sanka coffee or sweet woodruff tea

Dinner

Green pea soup (dash mint)
Baked ham with pineapple slices
Steamed French endive, herb butter
Baked yams
Caraway-seed rolls
Salad bowl (few fennel leaves)
Fig whip
Sanka (one sage leaf) or sage tea

Breakfast

Fruit juice or stewed figs
Eggs, omelet or scrambled
Wheat toast, honey
Coffee (pinch gentian root) or mixed herb tea (skullcap)


Lunch

Tomato soup (tarragon and ground basil)
Crab meat-vegetable casserole
Celery in cream sauce (chopped chervil or parsley)
Green salad (dill, rosemary leaves)
Sanka or coffee substitute or fennel-seed tea

Dinner

Fish chowder (dash tarragon)
Broiled fish, herb butter sauce (few chopped leaves burnet, dill, sorrel)
Baked potato, parsley butter or sour cream and chives
Steamed Brussels sprouts
Head lettuce, cucumber, French dressing
Sanka coffee (pinch buckthorn) or peppermint tea

For the overweight Capricorn:

Breakfast

One half lemon in water or one half grapefruit
One egg, hard-boiled
Bran muffin
Coffee (pinch gentian root) or rosemary tea


Lunch

Carrot-celery-parsley juice
Mixed green salad (few dill leaves)
Sliced American cheese, rye Melba
Sanka coffee or chickweed tea

Dinner

Potato soup
Caraway-seed crackers
Broiled ground beef patty
Steamed carrots (dash thyme)
Salad bowl (chickweed)
Sanka (one sage leaf) or sage tea


Breakfast

Grapefruit juice or one quarter cantaloupe
Seven-grain cereal, honey or raw sugar, skim milk
Coffee (pinch gentian root) or sweet woodruff tea

Lunch

Carrot-cabbage juice (dash parsley)
Egg salad-stuffed tomato
Celery, radishes, green onions
Wheat Melba toast
Sanka or coffee substitute or fennel-seed tea

Dinner

Celery soup, clear (dash thyme)
Steamed haddock or cod, butter sauce (few chopped leaves burnet, dill, sorrel)
Salad bowl: lettuce, raw spinach, watercress, radishes, grated carrot, lemon French dressing
Soy crackers or wheat Melba
Sanka coffee (pinch buckthorn) or peppermint tea