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mental/emotional
alcoholism
Nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• hypoglycemic diet
• calorie percentages: 70% complex carbohydrates, protein 12-15%, fat 15-18%
• high fiber

therapeutic foods:
• increase foods that cool Xue (Blood) Heat and clear Heat, soothe the Liver
• beets and beet tops, bamboo shoots, spinach, banana, grapefruit, mulberry, persimmon, strawberry, white mushroom, apple, ginseng, white fungus (Ni, pp. 28, 35, 36, 48, 56, 61, 64, 66-69, 96)

fresh juices:
• carrot (Walker, p. 145)
• carrot, beet, and lettuce (Walker, p 145)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 145)
• dandelion tea (Shefi)
• beet top tea (Ni, p. 28)
• daikon
• persimmon juice or tea (Ni, p. 68)

specific remedies:
• pour boiling water into teapot containing 15 g tea leaves, steep 10 min and drink all at once (Lu, p. 149)
• boil 60 g black soybeans in water and drink as soup (Lu, p. 149)
• put 15 g sugar in 30 ml rice vinegar; add a little hot water to dissolve the sugar. Drink all at once (Lu, p. 149)
• boil 30 g hyacinth beans in water. Drink as soup (Lu, p. 149)

avoid:
• hypoglycemia
• fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, chocolate, nuts, coffee, alcohol, sugar and sweet foods, simple carbohydrates, smoking, stress, constipation, hot foods, chili, spicy foods, dried fruits, fruit juices

» drug interaction:
• cimetidine (Tagamet) and ranitidine (Zantac) inhibit gastric alcohol dehydrogenase, interfering with alcohol breakdown, and substantially increasing serum alcohol levels (DiPadova, et al., JAMA 1992; 267: 83-86)


supplements

• Vitamin A (Lieber, 1983), 25, 000 IU per day.
• Vitamin B-complex 100 mg per day. (especially include thiamine, folate, Vitamin B6, B12) (Baines, 1978)
• Vitamin C 1-3 g per day. (to reduce ethanol toxicity)
• Vitamin E 800 IU per day. (protection from cardiotoxic effects) (Retzki, 1983)
• Calcium/Magnesium
• Selenium (Dworkin, 1984), 200-300 mcg per day.
• Zinc (McClain, 1983), 60 mg picolinate, balance with Copper 1-2 mg
• L-carnitine (Sachan, 1984)
• Evening primrose oil, 1/2-1 g three times daily.
• L-glutamine, 2 g in divided doses when craving alcohol
• Essential fatty acids
• NAD

footnotes

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Replgle WH, Eicke FJ. Megavitamin therapy in the reduction of anxiety and depression among alcoholics. J Orthomol Med 1988;4:221-224.

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