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.
Because of these anti-inflammatory properties quinine has been used for many years for treatment of certain illnesses. As a matter of fact, the first people who used quinine in medical purposes were the quechua Indians of Peru and Bolivia. Quinine is Good Treatment for Malaria and Itâs Found in Tonic Water. An interesting fact is that in the 17th century quinine was first used as a treatment option for people suffering from malaria triggered by Plasmodium falciparum.