Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: asparagus urine

  • Asparagus in history and medicine

    In Germany, in the spring, everyone goes wild about asparagus. It is on the menu in all restaurants—asparagus with steak, with ham, or with schnitzel. Its delicious stalks are white if grown in the shade, green from chlorophyll if grown in sunlight. Asparagus is also eaten outside Germany, but perhaps not quite with the same…