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. Definition. noun. (pharmacology) A bitter, crystalline, alkaloid powder extracted from Cinchona bark used for medical purposes such as for the treatment of malarial disease. Supplement.Quinine is a crystalline alkaloid that is bitter in taste, whitish in color (or colorless), and needle-like in shape.uinine. Definition. noun. (pharmacology) A bitter, crystalline, alkaloid powder extracted from Cinchona bark used for medical purposes such as for the treatment of malarial disease. Supplement.