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reproductive system
spontaneous abortion/miscarriage
nutrition

dietary guidelines

therapeutic foods:
• increase foods rich in organic sources of Sodium
• increase foods rich in Iron, Vitamin C and Vitamin E
• chicken, chicken egg yolk
• increase foods that nourish Xue (Blood) and tonify the Spleen and Stomach; bland foods; foods that tonify the Kidney

specific remedies:
» threatened miscarriage: take 30 g of raisins and 15 g of red dates, add water, steam and serve (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 88)

avoid:
• hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, alcohol, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, meat, ice cream, cold foods


supplements

• Vitamin E 200 IU per day (Sutton, 1958)
• citrus bioflavonoids 200 mg three times daily (Redman, 1980)
• Selenium 200 mcg per day


footnotes