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eyes/ears/nose/throat
tinnitus
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• low fat diet, low sugar, high complex carbohydrates
• protein 12-15% diet
• low cholesterol/cholesterol foods
• vegetarian cleansing diet or short fasts
» chronic:
• elimination/rotation diet, rotation diet, rotation diet expanded

therapeutic foods
» Kidney Xu (Deficiency) type:
• foods that tonify the Kidney, Yang and foods that tonify the Yin
• black sesame seeds, black beans, celery, oyster shells, pearl barley, adzuki beans, black jujube, yams, lotus seed, chestnuts, grapes

avoid:
• stimulating foods, hot, spicy foods, rich foods, coffee, alcohol

therapeutic foods
Liver Fire type:
• Heat-clearing foods, soothe the Liver foods, tonify the Liver foods
• liver-cleansing foods: beets, carrots, artichokes, lemons, parsnips, dandelion greens, watercress, burdock root
• chrysanthemum flowers and tea

avoid:
• stimulating foods, hot, spicy foods, rich foods, coffee, alcohol

specific remedies
• 3 oz. mussels, 8 oz. celery. Boil in 1 pt. water until reduced by half. Eat and drink 2-3x/week. (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 158)
• 1 lb. catfish, 4 oz. mung beans, 1 1/4 oz. garlic. Boil in 3 pt. water until reduced by half. Drink 10 oz. twice daily 3x/week (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 158)
• make tea from lotus seeds and chrysanthemums (Ni, p. l60)
• drink juice form celery and grapes, 1 cup three times daily (Ni, p. 160)
• cook adzuki beans and black beans with rice porridge and eat per day (Ni, p. 160)
• boil Chinese black dates, walnuts, and lotus seeds with rice porridge and eat per day (Ni, p. 160)
• take 15-30 g sunflower seed shells and 30 g sugar, cover with water and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 113)


supplements

• Vitamin A (Chole, 1978)
• Calcium and Vitamin D (Brookes, 1983)
• Magnesium
• Zinc (Shambaugh, 1984)
• omega-3 fatty acids 3 g per day (Cartwright, 1985)


footnotes