Softer Foods, Smaller Portions. While following a bland food diet, a patient eats softer foods such as cream of wheat, mashed potatoes or cooked rice in place of heavier starches such as bread, crackers and grain cereals.
Quinine is an alkaloid, a naturally occurring chemical compound. How it works as a medicine is not entirely clear. Quinine was first isolated in 1820 from the bark of a cinchona tree. Bark extracts have been used to treat malaria since at least 1632.
Quinine water is an older name for what is more commonly referred to these days as tonic water. It is popular throughout the world, and is the basis for some popular mixed drinks, including the gin and tonic. The liquid is given its name because it has a small amount of quinine, a crystalline alkaloid, in it.