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, a bitter tasting powder made from the bark of the cinchona tree, is known mainly for its use in malaria treatment. Quinine has been used to treat nocturnal leg cramps, but the Food and Drug Administration states that the potential side effects outweigh any potential benefits of prescription quinine for this purpose.