SPECIAL DIET FOR GEMINI

As noted in the chapter on Gemini , 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
GEMINI

For the normal or underweight Gemini:

Breakfast

Orange juice or prunes
Whole-oat cereal
Two strips crisp bacon
Two three-minute eggs
One slice toast
Coffee or coca (plantain) or wintergreen tea


Lunch

Mixed-vegetable juice
Chicken a la king, with parsley (serve on protein-bread toast)
Romaine-tomato salad with French dressing (bassil)
Sanka or tea (bay leaf)

Dinner

French onion soup (parsley)
Baked veal cutlet (pinch of curry in crumbs)
Lima bean casserole (summer savory)
Mixed green salad (borage)
Coconut blancmange
Coffee or pennyroyal tea

Breakfast

Pineapple-coconut juice
Two-egg omelet (dash of paprika, kelp, sweet marjoram)
Whole-wheat toast, apricot jam
Coffee or herb tea (betony, with bit of dried orange peel)

Lunch

Cream of celery soup or celery juice (parsley)
Salmon croquettes with white sauce (sorrel)
Raw-cabbage salad
Corn muffin
Spice cake
Coffee or mixed herb tea


Dinner

Oyster stew (dash celery seed)
Broiled sole (dash parsley and bay leaf)
Stuffed baked potato (minced onion, garlic and savory)
Brocoli (butter sauce with chervil and chives)
Lettuce-tomato salad (borage)
Lemon pie, graham-cracker crust
Sanka or hops tea

For the overweight Gemini:

Breakfast

One half grapefruit
One egg, hard broiled
Zwieback
Coffee (plantain herb or wintergreen tea)

Lunch

Sauerkraut juice
Vegetable plate-beets, carrots, spinach, one egg (hard broiled)
Whole-wheat rusk
Sanka or tea (bay leaf)

Dinner

One cup bouillon
One broiled ground-beef patty
Small baked potato, sour cream (chives or parsley)
Sliced tomatoes (borage)
One scoop pineapple sherbet
Coffee or pennyroyal tea

Breakfast

One half lemon in water or stewed dried apricots
One-egg omelet (dash of kelp or parsley)
Wheat Melba toast
Coffee or herb tea (betony, with bit of dried orange peel)

Lunch

Carrot-watercress-parsley juice
One salmon croquette
Raw-cabbage salad, low-calorie dressing
Rye crisp
One ginger cookie
Coffee or mixed herb tea

Dinner

Clam chowder (one cup)
Broiled ocean perch (one slice, lemon slices, chopped parsley)
Mixed green salad (borage)
Melba toast
One fresh peach or pear
Sanka or hops tea