Chestnut, Grape, Lettuce,  Rice and Strawberry can all be effective home remedies for someone afflicted with WEAK DIGESTION.

Please read the descriptions below and see if this is the right home remedy for you.

Remember, these home remedies are not meant to be a replacement for your family doctor, please consult your doctor before trying any home remedy.

_Chestnut._

Chestnuts, when cooked, are valuable food for persons with weak
digestive powers. They should be put on the fire in a saucepan of cold
water and cooked for twenty minutes from the time the water first boils.
John Evelyn, F.R.S., a seventeenth century writer, says of them: “They
are a lusty and masculine food for rustics at all times, and of better
nourishment for husbandmen than cole and rusty bacon, yea, or beans to
boot.”

_Cresses._

All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.
The ancient Greeks also believed them to be good for the brain.

The ordinary “mustard and cress” of our salads is good for rheumatic
patients, while the water-cress is valuable in cases of tubercular
disease. Anæmic patients may also eat freely of it on account of the
iron it contains. Care should be taken, however, from whence it is
procured, as a disease peculiar to sheep but communicable to man may be
carried by it. It should not be gathered from streams running through
meadows inhabited by sheep.

_Lettuce._

Lettuce is noted for its sedative properties, although these are not
great in the large, highly-manured, commercial specimens. It is very
easily digested, and may, therefore, be eaten by those with whom salads
disagree in the ordinary way.

_Rice._

The chief medicinal value of rice lies in the quickness with which it
is digested. One authority says that “it can be taken four times a day
and the patient still get twenty hours’ rest.” It is consequently of
great value in digestive and intestinal troubles. But it should be
_unpolished_, otherwise it is an ill-balanced, deficient food. It should
likewise be boiled in only just enough soft water to be absorbed during
the cooking. One cup of rice should be put on in a double saucepan with
three cups of cold water and tightly covered. When the water is all
absorbed the rice will be cooked.

The large-grained, unpolished rice sold at “Food-Reform” stores at 3d.
per lb. absorbs the water and cooks much more easily than a smaller
variety sold at 2d. I have found the latter most unsatisfactory.

_Strawberry._

The strawberry is exceptionally wholesome on account of its being so
easily digested. It is recommended for gout, rheumatism, and the stone.
Also for anæmic patients on account of the iron it contains.

H. Benjafield, M.B., advises anæmic girls to take 1 quart of
strawberries per day, and when these are not obtainable several ripe
bananas.