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eyes/ears/nose/throat
sinusitis
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
» acute:
• eat as little as possible
• increase fluids: diluted vegetable juices, broths, herbal teas
• increase foods rich in Vitamins C and A
• fruit and vegetable juice fasts
• low sugar
» chronic:
• elimination/rotation diet, rotation diet, rotation diet expanded

therapeutic foods:
• increase foods rich in Manganese: buckwheat, nuts, beans, peas and blueberries
• increase pungent foods and Lung foods
• increase foods rich in Silicon (Jensen, pp. 29-30)
• garlic, onions, citrus

fresh juices:
• carrot and spinach (Jensen, p. 50)
• carrot, beet, cucumber (Jensen, p. 50)
• celery and grapefruit with pinch of cream of tartar (Jensen, p. 50)
• cucumber, radish, and green pepper (Jensen, p. 50)
• watercress and apple with 1/4 tsp cream of tartar (Jensen, p. 50)
• coconut milk and carrot (Jensen, p. 50)
• lemon juice with a little horseradish (Jensen, p. 52)
• mixture of cayenne powder in a cup of water (Jensen, p. 52)

specific foods:
• horseradish, ginger, green onions, magnolia flowers, bananas, garlic, black mushrooms, chrysanthemum flowers, apricot kernels

specific remedies:
• tea from magnolia flowers, basil, ginger and green onions, three times daily for 1 wk (Ni, p. 115)
• combine magnolia flowers and eggs, cook together and eat (Ni, p. 115)
• tea from mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, then cook rice porridge in the tea and add apricot kernels (Ni, p. 115)
• nasal lavage with salt water
• boil tea of mint, basil and ginger. While boiling the tea, inhale the steam through the nose, three times daily for 2 months. (Ni, p. 115)

avoid:
• food intolerances
• all dairy products, all catarrh-forming food: tomatoes, oranges, sugar, sweets; coffee, caffeine, processed and refined foods, heavy protein foods, fats, meats, vinegars, shellfish


supplements

• Vitamin C to bowel tolerance
• Vitamin B5 500-1000 mg per day
• Vitamin B6 200-400 mg per day
• Vitamin A 10,000-30,000 IU per day
• Zinc 30-60 mg per day (Smith, 1983, p. 364)
• bioflavonoids 6 g per day


footnotes