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 Raw or boiled eggs and egg-tea, except in diarrhoea.
-Soups and broths of animal and vegetable substances otherwise allowed, seasoned with a little salt only; beef tea, mutton broth and chicken water, after having been boiled for at least half an hour.
+Soups and broths of animal and vegetable substances otherwise allowed, seasoned with a little salt only; beef tea[(In order to make the best beef-tea, the beef should be cut up into small pieces the size of dice and allowed to soak in the cold water for at least twelve hours before it is boiled. See page 362.)], mutton broth and chicken water, after having been boiled for at least half an hour.
 Beef, mutton, all kinds of tongues, venison and wild game, the lean part of ham, pigeons, chickens and turkeys; the latter only in the winter season and not in all cases.
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 The diet of children at the breast should not ordinarily be changed during their sickness; but in such cases that of the mother should be regulated according to the preceding rules.
+===== ARTICLES FORBIDDEN =====
+<span grade2>Unless especially allowed by the Physician.</span>
+The flesh of all young animals, and particularly veal; geese, tame ducks; the liver, lungs or tripe of animals; turtles, eels, crabs, old smoked or salt meat, sausages, mince pies, strong cheese, lard, fat port, roast pig, fried and pickled oysters. Food prepared from blood, and much animal fat.
+All highly seasoned soups, sauces, pepperpot.
+Cakes prepared with much butter or with aromatics; pastry, pies; honey, and all kinds of colored confectionery; all kinds of candies, excepting rock and barley sugar.
+All kinds of nuts, and fruits not mentioned amongst the allowed articles.
+Vinegar of all kinds, salads or cucumbers prepared with it; pickles prepared with spices or greened with copper; parsnips, parsley, celery, radishes, horse-radish, garlic, onions; all kinds of pepper, catsups, mustard, saffron, nutmeg, ginger, lemon or orange peel, vanilla, laurel leaves, bitter almonds, peach kernels, cloves, cinnamon, all spice, fennel, aniseed, sage, thyme, mint, etc.
+All kinds of distilled and fermented liquors; coffee and green tea; lemonade and drinks prepared with acids.
+All natural and artificial mineral waters.
+Colored toys, if the colors are not fixed, are on all occasions to be withheld from children, also vulcanised gum elastic toys.
+All perfumery, particularly musk, hartshorn, camphor, paccioli, Eau de Cologne, Eau de Luce, or other aromatic waters, strong smelling flowers, cosmetics and scented or medicated tooth-powder.
+Tobacco, if used at all, should be used very moderately. Every medicine, excepting those prescribed by the physicians, ought to be avoided; not only all medicines procured at the shops and all such as are empirical, but every description of domestic medicines, as all manner of herb teas, syrups, medicated poultices and irritating or medicinal substances applied to the skin.
+Blood-letting by the lancet, or by leeches and cups, and laxative injections, except of those of cold or lukewarm water, are likewise forbidden.
+Hot baths are to be strictly avoided, especially baths impregnated with herbs, sulphur, and other medicaments. Tepid or cold sponging baths, or rubbing with a wet towel, may be used, by most patients daily. For other employments of cold water the advice of an experienced physician must be sought.
+Linen, cotton, silk or leather, worn next the skin in preferable to flannels, excepting for persons much exposed to the weather, or for little children.
+The patient should, if possible, use moderate exercise, in the open air for an hour or more daily; and his chamber should be well ventilated every day.
+Rooms papered with yellow paper, or stained or painted yellow, and yellow transparent window-shades or curtains should be avoided; the best color for the walls of a sick room is a light rose-color, particularly alternate stripes of white and light rose-color. The window-shades should be of a grayish or light blue tint.
+Physical labor, which gives the mind the proper direction to usefulness, while it exercises the body, should be daily used in chronic diseases as far as the strength will allow of it. Homoeopathic medicines should not be taken too soon after eating; and for about an hour after taking them the patient had better abstain from eating or the use of tobacco, and, if possible, from much mental or bodily exertion.
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+^ Source: | The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician (the only authorized English edition); section XXV-XXVII |
+^ Description: | Diet and regimen during homeopathic treatment. Obstacles to cure. Antidotes. Food and drinks allowed and forbidden. |
+^ Author: | Hering, C. |
+^ Year: | 1858 |
+^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
+^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}

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