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immune system
fever of unknown origin
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• eat as little as possible
• increase Vitamin C foods
• short fast (see Fasting in materia medica)
• eat foods that are easy to digest: barley gruel or barley juice
• drink plenty of liquids: water, water and honey

therapeutic foods:
• lemon, orange, watercress, foods rich in Vitamin A, barley water (Shefi)
• swiss chard (Chao-liang, Qing-rong, Bao-zhen, p. 42)

therapeutic foods:
for Wind-Cold:
• foods that dispel Wind and Cold, and are diaphoretic
• ginger, garlic, mustard greens, grapefruit peel, cilantro, parsnip, scallions, cinnamon, basil, soupy rice porridge (Ni, p. 116)

for Wind-Heat:
• foods that dispel Wind, clear Heat, and are diaphoretic
• mint, cabbage, chrysanthemum flowers, burdock root, cilantro, dandelion, apples, pears

for Yin deficiency fever:
• foods that nourish the Yin, clear Heat

fresh juices:
• grapefruit (Walker, p. 137)
• lemon (Walker, p. 137)
• orange (Walker, p. 137)

specific remedies:
for Wind-Cold:
• boil for 5 minutes garlic, ginger, green onion, basil, mustard or cinnamon, drink and go to bed (Ni, p. 116)
• cilantro and ginger tea (Ni, p. 116)
• scallion and basil tea (Ni, p. 116)
• tea from mustard greens, cilantro and green onion, ginger (Ni, p. 116)
• miso soup with ginger and scallions

for Wind-Heat type:
• cabbage broth (Ni, p. 117)
• cilantro and mint tea (Ni, p. 117)
• mint, chrysanthemum, and dandelion tea (Ni, p 117)
• mint, dandelion, and licorice tea (Ni, p. 117)
• eat 2 or 3 cloves of raw garlic 2 or 3 times per day

avoid:
• cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, sugar and sweets, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, meat, ice cream, shellfish, heavy protein foods, fats, meats, vinegars


supplements

• Vitamin C
• Vitamin A
• Zinc


footnotes