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.
Noun. 1. quinine-a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy. antimalarial, antimalarial drug-a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria.quinine water, tonic, tonic water-lime-or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine.Translations.[kwÉªËniËn] N â quinina f.oun. 1. quinine-a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy. antimalarial, antimalarial drug-a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria. quinine water, tonic, tonic water-lime-or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine. Translations. [kwÉªËniËn] N â quinina f.