SPECIAL DIET FOR VIRGO

As noted in the chapter on Virgo, 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
VIRGO

For the normal or underweight Virgo:

Breakfast

Prune juice or stewed prunes
Eggs, soft-boiled or poached
Wheat cereal (cooked)
Protein toast
Sage coffee or raspberry-leaf tea

Lunch

Celery-parsley juice (dash lemon)
Broiled liver
Stuffed potato (minced green pepper, onion and pinch of savory)
Tomato-cauliflower salad (raw)
Sanka coffee or flaxseed tea
(If flaxseed, a laxative, is not necessary, use primose)

Dinner

French potato soup (pinch sorrel)
Lamb stew (carrots, lima beans, with mixed herbs: savory, bay, thyme)
Mustard greens, herb butter
Salad (lettuce, green peas, mint leaves, all-purpose dressing)
Steamed fig pudding
Coffee (buckthorn) or peppermint tea

Breakfast

Grapefruit-pineapple juice
Omelet (dash paprika and kelp)
Cinnamon bun
Coffee (pinch gentian root) or primrose tea

Lunch

Mixed vegetable juice
Shrimp Supreme in ramekin (parsley and pinch of chopped chives)
String beans, butter sauce (dash savory)
Lemon pudding
Coffee or lemon-grass tea

Dinner

Mushroom soup (dash parsley)
Broiled mackerel, butter sauce (chervil)
Baked potato, sour cream (chives)
Cabbage-carrot salad (borage in all-purpose dressing)
Prune whip, spice cookies
Coffee (buckthorn) or chamomile tea

For the overweight Virgo:

Breakfast

Prune juice (dash of lemon)
One egg, hard-broiled
Wheat toast, honey (no butter)
Sage coffee or raspberry-leaf tea

Lunch

Celery-parsley juice (dash lemon)
Cottage cheese
Wheat Melba
Tomato-cauliflower salad (raw)
Sanka coffee or flaxseed tea

Dinner

Bean soup, one cup (thyme)
Relish tray-celery, radish, etc.
Broiled liver
Mustard greens, herb butter
Figs, fresh or stewed
Coffee (buckthorn) or peppermint tea

Breakfast

One half grapefruit or juice
One egg, scrambled (dash kelp and paprika)
Zweiback
Coffee (gentian root) or primrose tea

Lunch

Celery-parsley juice (dash lemon)
Salad, shrimp, pineapple on romaine, low-calorie French dressing
Dietetic jellos lemon or lime
Coffee or dandelion root or lemon grass tea

Dinner

Tomato soup, clear (dash parsley)
Whitefish or haddock, steamed (sprinkle of tarragon and savory)
Peas and carrots (spray of thyme)
Lettuce with low-calorie French dressing
One fig cookie
Coffee (buckthorn) or chamomile tea