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肿瘤的食疗

The tumor is the neoformation from unusual hyperplasia of the cell in part of the body under the effect of tumorigenesis factors, often manifested as local tumor. These tumor cells have unusual patterns and function of metabolize.

Therapeutic principles

  • 1 Choose foods of diversity and rich in nutrition and the vegetable ones. Vegetables and fruits, beans and roughwrought starches.

  • 2 Control the total calories intake, keep physical training, and avoid the low weight and overweight.

  • 3 Change the vegetables and fruits based on season changing, making their contribution of the total calories no more than 7%, the weight of the vegetables and fruits are within 400 to 800g(beans and starchy vegetables and fruits are not included).

  • 4 Food that are rich in starch and protein should be roughwrought and contribute to 45%~60% of total calories, refined sugar should provide heat calories below the total 10%. Everyday one should intake a variety of cereals, beans, root as to 600~800 g, and all roughwrought.

  • 5 Give up smoking and drinking.

  • 6 Make the daily intake of red meat (pork, beef, mutton and relevant products) below 10% of total calories, i.e.daily intake should be below 80 grams. Fish, poultry or non-domesticated animals meat are better choice.

  • 7 The intake of fat should be 15%~30% of total calories, avoid eating too much fatty food, especially the food from animals with much fat, choose appropriate amount of vegetable oil, unsaturated vegetable oil would be the best.

  • 8 Smoked, salted and burnt food should not be eaten and so as the mould affected food stored in room temperature for a long time.

  • 9 Don't drink stagnant water in pond, drink tap water or well water.

  • 10 chose the foods rich in vitamin C, E and B, and rich in selenium, zinc and other minerals, food supplements are not recommended.

Recipes:

  • 1 carrot
  • 2 mushrooms
  • 3 sweet potato
  • 4 Chinese cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower
  • 5 balsam pear
  • 6 royal jelly
  • 7 tomatoes
  • 8 green tea?
  • 9 soybean food
  • 10 the seed of Job's tears

General foods:

  • 1 garlic
  • 2 cordyceps sinensis is
  • 3 water chestnut
  • 4 black agaric
  • 5 corns
  • 6 red dates
  • 7 Rehmannia Root
  • 8 semen coicis
  • 9 asparagus
  • 10 sea-tangle

A. For people have stagnant blood and qi, they may have clinical manifestations as:sophageal cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer and other digestive tract cancer and lung cancer, thyroid cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, malignant lymphoma.

Disorder of qi in human body causes the stagnant blood and lead to the tumor. Clinical manifestations are dark tongue and greasy coating indicating much phlegm and dampness.

A.Therapy theories:

Activating vital energy and blood circulation, reducing phlegm and reduce phlegm and rheumatism.

A.Food therapies:

Hai zao and kun bu soup:Use each of them 30~40g, huang yao zi 15 g, proper amount of seasoning. Cook the raw materials for half an hour, add some seasonings. Apply 1 time a day. Drink twice a day at day and night.

B. For people who have yin deficiency, toxic heat inside the body, they may have such manifestations: nasopharyngeal carcinoma, lung cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, uterine cancer, bladder cancer, leukemia, bone tumor. Affected by exogenous pathogenic toxin, pathogenic heat and yin deficiency, phlegm stagnation, the heat toxin accumulated into tumors. Red tongue, rapid pulse are clinical manifestations as well.

B.Food therapies principles:

Nourish yin and clear heat and toxic.

B.Food therapies:

Chun cai and sharksucker soup:Cook with chun cai of 100 g, appropriate amount of ginger, onions, salt. Once a day or make it two days once.

C.For people who have tumors or have just had surgery operation, chemotherapy and lost his power, lose in qi and blood can lead to fatigue and shortness of breath, weakness, dizzy head, etc.

C.Food therapies theories:

Nourish qi and blood

Food therapies:

Ginseng shrimp:shrimp 200g, ginseng 5g. Boil the ginseng with small amount of water. Dip the shrimps with yellow rice wine, mix with starch, salt, anginomoto and cook together. Mix the food with ginseng soup and add little seafood soap, stir them and is ready to serve.