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respiratory system
pneumonia
Nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:

• increase fluids: diluted vegetable juices, broths, herbal teas

• increase foods rich in Vitamins A and C

• vegetable juice fasts

• low sugar

therapeutic foods:

• foods that tonify the Lung

• garlic, onions, leeks, turnips, grapes, pineapple, honey, green leafy vegetables (Jensen, p. 61)

» Wind-Cold Invading the Lung:

• increase Warming foods, easily digested foods: soups, porridges, meat broths

» Phlegm Shi (Excess):

• marjoram, mustard greens, mushroom, strawberry, string bean, papaya, potato, pumpkin, radish, agar, garlic, fresh ginger, Job's tears, kohlrabi, tuna

» Lung Heat without Phlegm Shi (Excess): clears Heat from the Lung:

• white fungus, agar, celery, asparagus, apple, pear, carrot, duck, Job's tears, mango, shark meat, mushroom, nori, octopus, papaya, peach, persimmon, pumpkin, radish, rice congee with carrot or adzuki bean

» Lung Yin Xu (Deficiency); moisten and nourish Lung Yin:

• dairy foods, pears, applesauce, seaweed in small quantity, shark meat, watermelon, mutton, tangerine, pinenut, chicken broth, clam, barley malt, walnut, yam, peanut, chicken egg

» Lung Qi Xu (Deficiency): support the Middle Warmer, nourish the Righteous Qi:

• Astragulus or Codonopsis cooked in soups, carrot, duck, celery, garlic, fresh ginger, grape, Job's tears, kohlrabi, tuna, barley malt, mango, mushroom, marjoram, mustard greens, olive, papaya, peach, peanut, pork, pumpkin, rice, yam

fresh juices:

• carrot (Walker, p. 150)

• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 150)

• carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 150)

• horseradish and lemon (Walker, p. 150)

• carrot, celery, and radish (Walker, p. 150)

specific remedies:

• Add 1-2 dried persimmons to rice gruel. Eat first thing in the morning for five days (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 63)

• turnip pack externally on chest

• carrots and apricot kernels cooked with rice porridge, three times daily for 30 days (Ni, p. 113)

• 2-3 pears, reinvigorate the core and fill with honey and eat before bed every day for l month (Ni, p. 113)

• juice from pineapple and lemon, drink before meals for relief (Ni, p. 113)

to expel phlegm: mix honey and apple cider vinegar

• cough syrup made from soaking chopped onions (or garlic) in honey overnight, covered, until a syrup has formed (Shefi)

• 6 oz. chestnuts, 5 oz. pork. Braise together and eat 3-4 oz. twice daily (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 124)

• 1 pear, 7 scallions, 3 oz. raw brown sugar. Boil in 1 pt. water until reduced by half. Eat and drink twice daily using half each time (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 152)

• take 10-15 g loquat fruit stones and crush them. Add 3 g fresh ginger, cover with water and simmer 1 hour. Serve twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 48)

cough with thick phlegm: take 2 dried persimmons and 30 g candied honey. Add water, steam in a covered pot, mash and eat twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 63)

• take a fresh lemon or orange, slice and add 15 g sugar. Steam in water until soft, mash and serve, including the skin, twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, pp. 64, 84)

• take 50 g of shelled peanuts, add water and boil, then mash. Drink the broth and eat the peanuts twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 97)

• burning cough with Phlegm Shi (Excess): simmer bamboo shoots in water and serve (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 23)

• Hot cough with Phlegm Shi (Excess): simmer bok choy in water and serve (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 33)

• burning in lungs with frequent cough: simmer watercress in water and serve (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 37)

avoid:

• cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, sugar and sweets, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, meat, ice cream, heavy protein foods, fats, meats, vinegars, shellfish

Wind-Cold Invading the Lung:

• Cooling foods, eggs

Excess Lung Phlegm:

• dairy, soy products, coconut, sugar, sweet rice, persimmon, pork, almond, honey, peanut

Hot Lung Phlegm:

• garlic, fresh ginger, pork, mustard green, sweet rice, sugar, walnut

supplements

Vitamin A 150,000 IU per day (TOXIC DOSE)

Vitamin C to bowel tolerance

Vitamin E 1200 IU per day

Zinc 90 mg per day Children receiving zinc supplementation of 10mg daily had 45% fewer episodes of pneumonia during a six-month double-blind study. (Sazawal S, et al. Pediatrics 1998 Jul;102(1 Pt 1):1-5.)

Selenium 250 mcg per day

Bioflavonoids 4-6 g per day (Bastyr)

also see bronchitis

footnotes

Sazawal S, Black RE, Jalla S, Mazumdar S, Sinha A, Bhan MK. Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in infants and preschool children: a double-blind, controlled trial. Pediatrics 1998 Jul;102(1 Pt 1):1-5.

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Increased acute lower respiratory infection incidence, severity, and mortality are associated with malnutrition, and reduced immunological competence may be a mechanism for this association. Because zinc deficiency results in impaired immunocompetence and zinc supplementation improves immune status, we hypothesized that zinc deficiency is associated with increased incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory infection. METHODS: We evaluated the effect of daily supplementation with 10 mg of elemental zinc on the incidence and prevalence of acute lower respiratory infection in a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial in 609 children (zinc, n = 298; control, n = 311) 6 to 35 months of age. Supplementation and morbidity surveillance were done for 6 months. RESULTS: After 120 days of supplementation, the percentage of children with plasma zinc concentrations <60 microg/dL decreased from 35.6% to 11.6% in the zinc group, whereas in the control group it increased from 36.8% to 43.6%. Zinc-supplemented children had 0.19 acute lower respiratory infection episodes/child/year compared with 0.35 episodes/child/year in the control children.

After correction for correlation of data using generalized estimating equation regression methods, there was a reduction of 45% (95% confidence interval, 10% to 67%) in the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in zinc-supplemented children. CONCLUSIONS: A dietary zinc supplement resulted in a significant reduction in respiratory morbidity in preschool children. These findings suggest that interventions to improve zinc intake will improve the health and survival of children in developing countries.