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musculoskeletal system
low back pain
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
» chronic:
• elimination/rotation diet, rotation diet, rotation diet expanded

therapeutic foods:
• olives, rye, lima beans, rice bran, bananas, sprouts, watercress, apples (Jensen, p. 61)

therapeutic foods:
» Kidney Yang Xu (Deficiency):
• Warming foods, chicken, lamb, scallions, sesame seeds, fish, baked tofu, soybeans, walnuts, eggs, lentils, black beans lotus seed, ginger, a little wine, cinnamon bark tea, foods that tonify the Kidney (Ni, p. 144)

» Kidney Yin Xu (Deficiency):
• Cooling foods, mulberries, apples, peaches, pears, fresh vegetables, beans, tofu, soy sprouts, chrysanthemum flowers, foods that tonify the Kidney, Heat-clearing foods (Ni, p. 145)

fresh juices:
• carrot (Walker, p. 125)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 125)
• carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 125)
• carrot, celery, parsley, and spinach (Walker, p. 125)
• potato peeling broth (Jensen, p. 61)
• dried olive tea (Jensen, p. 61)
• nut milk and liquid chlorophyll (Jensen, p. 61)

specific remedies:
• 3 oz. fresh walnuts, 2 oz. raw brown sugar, 6 fl oz. warm rice wine, mix and drink 3-4 fl. oz. twice daily (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 122)
• l lb. venison, 2 oz. garlic, 1 oz. ginger, boil in 2 1/2 pt. water until reduced to 1 1/2 pt. Divide into 3 and eat three times daily for 1 week. (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 122)
• 4 oz. mussels, 4 oz. pork, 2 oz. garlic, 4 oz. potato. Boil all together in 2 pt. water until halved. Eat and drink per day for 6-12 days (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 122)
• 7 fresh chestnuts dried in oven (not browned), twice daily for 1-2 months (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 122)

avoid:
• food intolerances
» Kidney Yang Xu (Deficiency):
• Cold and Cooling foods, raw foods, fruits
» Kidney Yin Xu (Deficiency):
• Hot, spicy foods, alcohol


supplements

• Vitamin C 5 g per day
• Calcium 1 g per day
• Magnesium 500-800 mg per day 2-4 cc IM
• Vitamin B6 (Bastyr)


footnotes