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endocrine system
nausea of pregnancy
Nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
Small, frequent meals throughout the day
• Do not mix fluids with meals
• Dry carbohydrates are usually well tolerated

therapeutic foods:
Ginger Root: can use the fresh herb as a tea, add lemon and honey, also consider Ginger Brew (available in health food stores)
• Lentils, grapefruit peel, orange peel, ginger, grapefruit
Protein rich snacks: popcorn with nutritional yeast, brown rice with miso, bread with tahini before going to sleep (Weed, 24.)
• Liver-cleansing foods: beets, carrots, artichokes, lemons, parsnips, dandelion greens, watercress, burdock root

fresh juices:
• Carrot (Walker, 150.)
• Carrot and spinach (Walker, 150.)
• Peach leaf tea (Shefi)
• Red raspberry leaf tea (Shefi)
• Anise or fennel seed tea (Weed, 25.)

specific remedies:
• Tea of ginger and grapefruit peel, three times daily (Ni, 148.)
• Scallion and ginger tea, twice daily (Ni, 148.)
• Tea form ginger, orange peels, and brown sugar (Ni, 148.)
• Steam 9 g grapefruit peel, and 12 g Chinese salted brown olives in 600-700 ml water until olives are fully cooked. Generally this remedy should relieve morning sickness after eating it 5-7 times. (Lu, 152.)
• Boil 15-20 g grapefruit peel in water. Drink tea. (Lu, 152.)
• Fry 250 g sweet rice with 30 ml fresh ginger juice until the rice breaks; grind into powder.
• Take l0-20 g in warm water each time, twice daily. (Lu, 152.)
• Bring 60 ml rice vinegar to a boil; add 30 g sugar and stir until dissolved; break the egg into the boiling vinegar; When the egg is cooked, drink the whole thing (Lu, 152.)
• Soda crackers before getting out of bed in the morning (Shefi)
1/2 oz. fresh ginger, 1/2 oz. dried orange peel. Boil in 1 pt. water until reduced by half. Drink while hot. (Butt and Bloomfield, 152.)
• Take 30-40 g fresh apple skin and 30 g rice which has been stir-fried golden brown. Add water and simmer until cooked. Drink in place of tea. (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, 45.)
• For dehydration of vomiting: juice from a fresh coconut with 30 g sugar and dash salt dissolved in it, drink one cup three times daily for 3 days (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, 86.)
Simmer sliced radishes, 3 slices of fresh ginger and a little honey in water and serve (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, 12.)
• Take 1 g ground black pepper and add to ginger soup (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, 88.)

avoid:
• Spicy, hot foods, rich foods, greasy foods


supplements

Vitamin B6: 100 mg three times daily (Marz, 446, 1997.); 25 mg with each meal for nausea, 250 mg per day for vomiting (Kirschmann, 1984, 209.)
Vitamin K: 5 mg twice daily along with 500 mg twice daily of vitamin C (Marz, 446, 1997.)
IM Vitamin K: 5 mg, Vitamin B6 50-100 mg along with B Complex and B12 as needed daily, if necessary (Marz, p. 446, 1997.)
• Zinc 30 mg per day
• Manganese 5-10 mg per day (Smith, 1983, 347.)



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