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Diet and IBS
Published in Melissa G. Hunt, Aaron T. Beck, Reclaim Your Life From IBS, 2022
Melissa G. Hunt, Aaron T. Beck
The best solution for most people is to combine soluble and insoluble fiber at every meal. For example, instead of having raisin bran for breakfast (where almost all the fiber is insoluble), have a bowl of oatmeal (soluble) with strawberries (soluble) and blueberries (a bit of insoluble fiber in the skin). Or better yet, make your own granola with whole rolled oats (soluble) and nuts (mostly soluble and some insoluble) and have it with a banana (soluble). This is a high-protein, deliciously satisfying breakfast that provides lots of heart-healthy omega-3 fats, vitamins, and minerals and should help calm a crampy gut and reduce diarrhea. See Appendix G for my heart-healthy, gut-friendly granola recipe. Lots of my patients try it and love it, and find that it’s both delicious and easy to digest.
Keeping the body open
Published in James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff, Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment, 2020
To some degree, Nature could compensate for these changes. The elderly prolonged their lives, Santorio Santorio claimed, by frequent expectoration, “for if what they spit was retain’d, it being incapable of digestion, would hinder perspiration, from whence would ensue suffocation and death” (1720, p. 94). In elderly men and postmenopausal women, haemorrhoidal bleeding might sometimes also offer a welcome relief (Ranchin, 1627, p. 481). More often than in the young, Nature in the aging body demanded active human intervention or indeed medical support, however. The choice of suitable food and drink, in quality and quantity, could already make a big difference by reducing the amount of crude, impure matter that the body had to deal with in the first place, and thanks to the “medicinal” qualities that many foodstuffs possessed in a wider sense. Sometimes just eating some prunes, figs or raisins might suffice to produce the desired copious stools. Yet, frequently laxatives were needed that were more powerful. As Galen had already underlined in the fifth book of his “De sanitate tuenda,” old people needed almost constantly medicines that loosened their stools and promoted the excretion of urine.
The classical age in countries that are now leaders in herbal medicine
Published in C. P. Khare, Evidence-based Ayurveda, 2019
Linseed: Linseed is not only used in combination with other ingredients, but also by itself removes spots on women’s faces, and its juice benefits the eyesight. With frankincense and water or with myrrh and wine it relieves fluxes from the eyes, parotid abscesses with honey or grease or wax, fluxes from the stomach when sprinkled in water like pearl barley, and quinsies when boiled in water and oil and applied externally with anise. It is roasted to check looseness of the bowels. For coeliac trouble and dysentery it is applied in vinegar. For pains of the liver it is eaten with raisins; for consumption electuaries are made from the seed with very useful results. Linseed meal, with soda or salt or ash added, softens indurations of the muscles, sinews, joints and nape of the neck, as well as the membranes of the brain. With a fig it also opens and brings to a head a parotid abscess; with the root moreover of wild cucumber it extracts bodies sticking into the flesh, including pieces of broken bone. Boiled in wine it prevents a sore from spreading, and with honey checks eruptions of phlegm. With an equal part of cress it cures scabrous nails, with resin and myrrh complaints of the testes and hernia, and in water gangrene. Stomach ache is cured by a decoction of one sextarius of linseed with an equal quantity of fenugreek in hydromel, and dangerous maladies of the intestines and lower trunk by an enema of linseed in oil or honey.
Betel nut: the prevalence of a carcinogenic substance as a social food—a study based on Xiangtan, Hunan province, China
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2023
Hong Wen, Hong Zheng, Lifang Li, Fengshan Li, Sheng Mingke
After the reform and opening up, the BN industry in the Xiangtan area has entered a period of rapid development, which also promoted the local economic development. During this period, betel nut enterprises began to produce BN in production and standardization, and gradually formed a systematic processing method. The main processing steps include the following aspects: First, the cleaned fresh areca nuts are pickled by bittern (a highly mineralized water containing lime), cassia twig oil (Zhang et al., 2012), flavorings, sweeteners (IARC, 2012), preservative and other substances. After that, they are cut into appropriate size, removing the core, and finally dried and sterilized. In this process, the materials and processes used in different production processes are slightly different. For example, some products will add wolfberries or raisins after pitting to increase their flavor.
Protective effect of raisin (currant) against spatial memory impairment and oxidative stress in Alzheimer disease model
Published in Nutritional Neuroscience, 2019
Mohammad Gol, Davoud Ghorbanian, Nabiollah Soltanpour, Jamshid Faraji, Mohsen Pourghasem
In the present study, for the evaluation of learning and memory, MWT and passive avoidance tests were utilized as behavioural models. Aluminium exposure resulted in the decrease of spatial memory and significantly increased the time to reach the hidden platform. The results agreed with the previous study43 which reported that Al exposure had a neurodegenerating effect which resulted in learning deficits. Raisin treatment during Al exposure decreased the time to reach the hidden platform so that the raisin group had the lowest time and the Al-treated group had the highest time. The mean swim speed in the Al group during various days is more than other groups which resulted in highest path length among presented groups. In probe day, the time spent on the target quadrant significantly decreased in the Al-treated group compared to other groups. In the passive avoidance test, retention trial time decreased in the Al-treated group, which is in agreed with the previous studies.44 In general, rats treated with Al showed impairment in their spatial memory. Acetylcholine is responsible with short-term memory. In Al exposed animals, Al can induce disorder in cholinergic neurotransmission leading to memory alterations.45 The result showed that the raisin can reduce the harmful effect of Al on learning and memory. Eventually, it can be deduced that by utilizing raisins the memory of rats can be improved.
Forced desynchronization model for a diurnal primate
Published in Chronobiology International, 2018
Crhistiane A. Silva, Laís I. M Melo, Alina R. Pires, Jordana C. Barbalho, Andreia V. Melo, Diego A. C. Fernandes, Everly B. Oliveira, Carolina V. M. Azevedo, Trinitat Cambras, Antoni Díez-Noguera, John Fontenele-Araujo
The animals were kept in individual cages, but with visual, auditory and olfactory contact between them. Each cage contained a PVC pipe food dispenser, pot for raisins, water bowl, wood perches and nest box. Water, feed (Purina® - Deli Dog) and raisins were provided ad libitum. Food was provided twice a day at irregular times to avoid synchronization, between 6 and 11 am and 12:30 and 6 pm. Animals received a nutritional mixture (milk, boiled eggs, bread, water, sugar and banana reinforced with vitamins A and D and amino acids) in the morning and a portion of seasonal fruits or baked sweet potatoes in the afternoon. In addition to the food provided in the afternoon, animals were given gum arabic, boiled egg, sunflower seeds and Tenebrio molitor larvae three times a week, and granola four times a week as a nutritional supplement and environmental enrichment.