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cutaneous system
abscess
nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• if on a regular diet, try a vegetarian diet high in vegetables and complex carbohydrates. If on a vegetarian diet, try a fruit and vegetable diet or a short fast.

therapeutic foods:
• watermelon, cucumber, garlic
• foods rich in vitamin A
• increase foods that cool the Xue (Blood) and clear Heat

fresh juices:
• carrot
• carrot, lettuce, spinach (Walker, p. 127)
• carrot, beet, cucumber (Walker, p. 127)
• celery
• apple
• breast abscess: lettuce and dandelion (Ni, p. 39)
• breast abscess: parsley (Ni, p. 43)

specific remedies:
• cabbage used externally as a poultice
• mix raw scallions with egg whites and apply, changing poultice every 4 hours (Ni, p. 46)
• poultice: grated raw turnip bulbs mixed with 1 tablespoon salt (Ni, p. 52)
• lemon juice in water, on empty stomach, in morning
• breast abscess: 2 tablespoon mung bean powder twice daily (Ni, p. 80)
• roast dry figs until they become like charcoal; grind into a powder, apply to the wound and bandage (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 21)
• take some longan fruit shell or stone and roast until it turns to charcoal. Grind into a powder, apply to affected area and bandage (Yin-fang and Cheng-jun, p. 28)

avoid:
• meat, especially pork, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods


supplements

• Vitamin C to bowel tolerance
• Vitamin A 50-100,000 IU
• Vitamin B-complex
• Zinc 30-60 mg
• thymus glandular
• garlic (Smith, 1983)

» drug interaction:
• Iron, Sodium, Calcium, carotene, Vitamin B12, fat, protein, cholesterol and neomycin (Mycifradin, Neobiotic): neomycin damages the intestinal villi and precipitates bile salts in the lumen; this leads to malabsorption of the enumerated nutrients
• prednisone/prednisolone: causes Sodium retention
• prednisone/prednisolone: causes reduced activation of Vitamin D (Travato, 1991; 44:1651-1658; Tuttle, 1982; 126: 1161-1162); 1,25(OH)2D3 can be measured to determine if supplementation necessary, with low levels can use calcitriol
• Vitamin K and cephalosporins [cefuroxime (Ceftin), cephalexin (Cefanex, Keflet, Keflex, Keftab), cefixime (Suprax), cephadroxil (Duricef, Ultracef), cephaclor (Ceclor)]:
- cephalosporins interfere with Vitamin K metabolism, sometimes leading to hemmorhage (Anonymous, 1984; 42 (4): 162-163)
- cephalosporins reduce Vitamin K synthesis by destroying the colonic bacteria responsible for that process
• prednisone/prednisone: causes increased urinary excretion of Zinc, Vitamin K and Vitamin C (Buist, 1984; 4 (3):114)


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