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.
Tonic water, also known as Indian tonic water, is a soft drink, carbonated in nature with an additive called as Quinine, which is commonly used in combination with other drinks, like gin. Quinine is actually a medicine, which was used as a prophylactic agent against malaria, whose content has been reduced in tonic. Since it has medicinal effects due to addition of quinine, it got the name Tonic. Tonic water was intended to be used in South Asian and African regions, which has high cases of malaria.