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cutaneous system
rosacea
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• if on a regular diet, try a vegetarian diet high in vegetables and complex carbohydrates. If on a vegetarian diet, try a fruit and vegetable diet or a short fast.

therapeutic foods:
• increase foods that cool the Xue (Blood) and clear Heat in the Lungs: squash, cucumbers, watermelon, winter melon, celery, carrots, cabbage, beet tops, dandelions, aloe vera, mulberry leaves, carrot tops, lettuce, potato, cherries, papaya, pear, persimmon, raspberries, buckwheat, alfalfa sprouts, millet, brown rice, mung beans, plenty of water (Ni, p. 99)
• burdock root, onions

fresh juices:
• cucumber, endive and pineapple (Jensen, p. 63)
• apple (Shefi)
• cucumber diluted with 50% water
• dandelion and beet top tea
• carrot (Walker, p. 120)
• watermelon juice (Shefi)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 120)
• carrot, lettuce, and spinach (Walker, p. 120)

specific remedies:
• 4 oz. mung beans and 2 oz. raw brown sugar boiled in 1 1/2 pt. of water until reduced to half. Eat and drink (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 119)


supplements

• HCl 5 grains/meal
• Vitamin B12 1000 mcg IM (Austin, 1987)
• Vitamin B-complex


footnotes