慢性膽囊炎的食療

Chronic cholecystitis is one kind of disease that due to acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation and repeated long-term attack, making cystic fibrosis atrophy or hypertrophy, gallbladder shrinking, loss of function. It is closely related to bacterial infections, parasitic infections, the change of bile composition and cholesterol metabolism disorders, of which about 70% are caused by gallbladder stones.

Food therapies principles:

5 Proper dietary fiber may stimulate peristalsis of intestines, prevent cholecystitis.
6 Daily drinking can help bile dilution: intake volume 1500~2000ml.

Genearal foods:

A. Pent-up liver qi symptoms:

clinical manifestations:

Right upper abdomen, or upper part of body pain;along with shoulder and back, anger will induce severer pain. Paroxysmal swelling, nausea, loss of appetite, chest and hypochondrium fullness, hiccup, light color tongue, white tongue coating, string and weak pulse.

Food therapies Principles:

Dispersing stagnated liver Qi, and regulating qi to alleviate pain.

Prescription for foods

B. Blood stasis and meridians

clinical manifestations:

Right upper abdomen or epigastric pain, fixed position, stabbing opthalmalgia, more severe when the climate changes, mood changes can be also induce the illness. Dark tongue or with ecchymosis. Sublingual vein engorgement stasis; thin and taut pulse.

Food therapies principles

Dispersing stagnated liver qi for promoting bile flow, removing blood stasis and relieving pain.

Food therapies

C.Damp heat stagnant symptoms:

Clinical manifestations:

Right upper abdominal fullness and pain, nausea and vomiting, burnout limbs, difficulty in defecation, fever, loss of appetite, anorexia, yellow urine, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, taut or rapid pulse.

Food therapies principles

Dispersing liver qi, clear heat and eliminating dampness.

Food therapies

D. Liver yin deficiency

Clinical manifestation

Right upper abdomen and epigastric pain, a burning sensation, dry mouth and throat, irritability, heat in chest, dizzy, fever in the afternoon, red tongue, less tongue coating, weak pulse.

Food therapies principles

Nourishing yin and clearing heat, dispersing liver qi and gallbladder.

Food therapies:


慢性膽囊炎的食療