Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor originating from the male prostate gland. In Chinese medicine, it belongs to the categories of “retention of urine”, “blood gore” and “labor gore”.
Chinese Medicine Etiology
According to Chinese medicine, the occurrence of prostate cancer is related to the dysfunction of kidney, spleen, liver, bladder and other internal organs. The weakness of the kidneys and the lack of qi in the kidneys, which leads to the failure to open and close the body; the deficiency of the spleen due to overwork and poor diet, which leads to the failure to raise the clear qi and lower the cloudy yin; the internal injury of the seven emotions, which leads to the depression of the liver and the stagnation of qi, which leads to the failure of the drainage, which leads to the failure to transport and transform the water and fluid in the triple jiao.
Diagnostic points]
1. Compression symptoms: it can cause progressive urinary difficulty, as well as urinary frequency, urinary urgency, increased nocturia, and even urinary incontinence. Tumor compression of rectum can cause difficulty in stool or intestinal obstruction, and compression of nerve can cause pain in perineum.
Metastatic symptoms: Prostate cancer can invade the bladder, seminal vesicles and vascular nerve bundles, causing hematuria, hematospermia and impotence. Metastasis of pelvic lymph nodes can cause edema of both lower limbs. Bone metastasis often occurs in prostate cancer, causing bone pain or pathological fracture and paraplegia. Prostate cancer can also invade the bone marrow and cause anemia or decreased blood count.
Life care]
1. Maintain stable emotion, actively cooperate with treatment, quit smoking and alcohol.
2.Adhere to physical exercise, the amount of exercise should be appropriate, maintain the appropriate weight.
3.Adhere to regular follow-up and monitor PSA treatment.
4.Patients with prostate cancer should get up and live sometimes, drink more water and urinate more often, not to hold urine excessively to help prostate secretion discharge and prevent infection.
Dietary care
1. Diet should be high in protein, vitamins and coarse fiber, and limit the intake of fat.
2, eat more fish, because fish is rich in unsaturated fatty acids.
3, daily consumption of fruits and vegetables, daily consumption of soy products, you can choose low-fat soy milk, tofu, soy protein powder, etc..
4.Take sufficient doses of calcium and vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis.
5, daily appropriate drinking green tea, drinking the habit of green tea can play a role in the prevention of prostate disease.
The actual food therapy]
1, wolfberry porridge: 60g fresh wolfberry, 60g round-grained rice. first wolfberry leaves boiled twice with water, take the juice to remove the slag, then add round-grained rice together with decoction into porridge. Effects nourish Yin and clear heat, benefit Qi and stomach.
2, sesame duck: 30g of raw earth, 20g of Zhi Mu, 20g of cow’s knees, 1 sesame duck (about 1000g), stewed with a gentle fire, seasoning. Eat duck meat and drink soup. Effects nourish Yin and clear heat.
3, stir-fried mung bean sprouts: mung bean sprouts 250g into the pot cooking. Effect: clear heat and dampness. Not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach or cold dampness.