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 chemical extract from the bark of Peru's cinchona tree, is the active ingredient in tonic water. When India was part of the British Empire, tonic water was the preferred method of delivering the malaria-fighting protection of quinine to British troops and colonials.