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digestive system
dysentery
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• increase liquids
• a short alkaline fast or see specific remedies and use only these (see Fasting in materia medica)
• slowly return to your normal diet after all symptoms have left

therapeutic foods:
• goat's milk, mulberries (Jensen)
• buckwheat, sweet potatoes, peas, celery, scallions, taro root, ginger, garlic, carrots, daikon radish, green pepper, winter melon, cantaloupe, bitter melon, hawthorne berries, figs, Chinese prunes, pears, persimmons, guava, olive, sunflower seed, lotus roots, tea, soy products, corn, pumpkin, water chestnut, squash, honey, mung beans, cherry, pineapple, watermelon, brown rice, oats (Ni, p. 124)
• barley congee (Zeff)

fresh juices :
• carrot (Walker, p. 135)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 135)
• carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 135)
• celery (Walker, p. 135)

specific remedies:
• bamboo shoots cooked with rice (Ni, p. 28)
• raw garlic mashed in warm water every 2 hrs (Ni, p. 38)
• cherry (Ni, p. 57)
• chinese prune tea (Ni, p. 125)
• pineapple tea (Ni, p. 68)
• watermelon (Ni, p. 71)
• cook brown rice with persimmon cap and eat the rice (Ni, p. 125)
• take 5 parts mung beans to l part black pepper, grind to a powder and take l tbsp. three times daily (Ni, p. 80)
• cook sunflower seeds with water for l hr., add honey; eat and drink (Ni, p. 83)
• 10 g black fungus with warm water twice daily (bloody type) (Ni, p. 90)
• stir-fry tofu with vinegar (chronic type) (Ni, p. 95)
• carrot juice mixed with a little ginger juice, honey, and green tea, l c. per day (Ni, p. 124)
• mung bean soup (Ni, p. 124)
• ginger, garlic, celery, and peas stir fried together (Ni, p. 124)
• eat 4 persimmons per day (Ni, p. 124)
• soak plums in rice wine for 3 days, take 10 plums twice daily (Ni, p. 124)
• steam sweet potato and pumpkin, mash and eat three times daily (Ni, p. 124)
• steam black tree fungus with a little sugar in 1 1/2 c. water (Ni, p. 124)
• for chronic cases: eat eggs cooked with rice vinegar (Ni, p. 125)
• boil brown sugar with 2 Chinese plums and drink as tea (Lu, p. 146)
• mash raw garlic into boiled water and drink (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 133)
• for early stages of dysentery: boil 2 oz. fresh hawthorn berries and 3 oz. brown sugar in 1 pt. water until reduced to half. Drink hot 2-three times daily (Butt and Bloomfield, p. 133)
• 1/2 tsp Na Cl, 1/2 tsp Na(CO3)2, 1/4 tsp KCl, 4 tbsp. sugar, 1 quart water: isotonic electrolyte solution to replace lost fluids
• take half-ripe fresh apricots, wash and pit. Peel the fruit, mash and squeeze to a pulp. Simmer until it becomes a thick paste. Take 1 tbsp. twice daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 33)
dysentery with bloody stool: take 30 g crushed sunflower seeds and 30 g sugar, cover with water and simmer for one hour. Serve three times daily (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 113)
dysentery with bloody stool: roast an eggplant, including the stalk into charcoal, then grind into a powder. Add 3 ml warm wine and serve twice daily (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 61)
• simmer 100 g dried radish leaf until liquid thickens. Drink as a tea frequently for 3-5 days (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 12)
• cook Swiss chard in water and serve (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 42)
dysentery in children: take several cucumbers, slice, and pickle in honey. Serve pieces at regular intervals (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 57)
• For cold pain in stomach with vomiting and diarrhea: drink the juice of 30 g ginger and 120 g garlic (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 82)

avoid:
• dairy products, high-fiber foods, hard to digest foods, fried foods, meats, fish, raw foods, cold foods, chicken eggs (for acute cases of dysentery) (Ni, p. 124)


supplements

• Vitamin C
• Vitamin B IV (Bastyr)
• Vitamin A 50,000 IU per day
• Vitamin E 400 IU per day
• Vitamin B-complex


footnotes