When seeing a Chinese medicine doctor, the doctor will tell the patient to avoid eating “hairy food” on the grounds that “hairy food” will aggravate the disease. What is “hairy food” and is there any truth to this statement? There are four types of hairy things 1, edible mushrooms: mainly mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc., over-eating this kind of food can easily cause wind and Yang, triggering liver Yang headache, liver wind vertigo and other chronic diseases, in addition, also easy to induce or aggravate skin sores and swelling poison. 2, sea fishy class: mainly with fish, yellowtail, pomfret, mussels, shrimp, crab and other aquatic products, most of these foods salty cold and fishy, for people with allergies, easy to induce allergic disease attacks such as asthma, urticaria, but also easy to trigger sores and swellings and other skin diseases. 3, fruits and vegetables: mainly bamboo shoots, mustard, pumpkin, spinach, etc., this type of food is easy to induce skin sores and swelling poison. The former pointed out that eating peach is easy to produce heat, carbuncles, sores, gangrene, boils, insects and chancre, and eating apricot produces carbuncles and boils, which hurt the muscles and bones. The main reason for this is that it is not a good idea to have a good idea of what you are doing. Eggs should not be eaten more than 2 a day, especially for patients with hepatitis, allergies, hyperlipidemia, hyperthermia, kidney disease, diarrhea, more should not eat. The reason is that eggs contain a large number of proteins, but they are heterogeneous proteins, and a considerable number of people have a pathological reaction after eating heterogeneous proteins. In addition, there are hairy things such as vegetable oil, dregs, wine, white wine, peas, yellow soybeans, tofu, tofu milk, pupae and onions, garlic, leeks, etc.. Sometimes, meat, fishy and stinky foods are also considered as hairy substances. Should cancer patients avoid eating? 1.Different from person to person: mainly refers to the selection of food according to the cold and hot properties of the disease. Patients with hot symptoms, such as fever, irritability, thirst, burning in the chest and abdomen, red face, red tongue with yellow coating and number of pulses, etc., such as patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have been diagnosed with heat disorder or general cancer fever, should not eat hot foods, such as mutton, dog meat, venison, eel, chili pepper, etc., which are obviously not edible for patients with hot physical constitution. Patients with a cold nature, manifesting as fear of cold, cold limbs, light mouth, no thirst, clear and long urine, loose stools, light and fat tongue, white slippery coating, sunken and sluggish pulse, such as patients with spleen and kidney Yang deficiency after chemotherapy, watermelon, pear, persimmon, duck, goose and other cold products with cold accumulation should not be eaten.” Patients with evidence of deficiency of qi and blood, manifesting as weakness, pale face, pale tongue, thin and feeble pulse. This symptom is often seen after chemotherapy for solid or hematological tumors, where white and red blood cells are low. In addition to the things that activate blood, such as chili pepper and pepper, cold foods such as watermelon and winter melon should be avoided. Patients with evidence of damp-heat congestion, manifesting as chest tightness, thick yellow phlegm, thick yellow coating, slippery pulse, etc., such as lung cancer patients manifesting as phlegm-heat stagnant lung, syrup, glutinous rice, pork and other damp-heat products, as well as pepper, mutton, dog meat and other heat-generating substances are contraindicated. Crab, goose, carp and other wind-generating substances are tonic in nature and may be harmful to dampness. If the patient has a deficiency of spleen and stomach Yang, he should avoid eating sticky, cold, slippery and greasy products, such as silver fungus, sunflower seeds, rice cake, etc.; if the patient has a deficiency of spleen and stomach Yin, he should eat less fried dried fruits, raw onion, chili, pepper, etc. In addition to the above-mentioned types, there are other types such as qi stagnation type, blood stasis type and so on. 2.Different from disease to disease: some foods should be avoided, such as smoked foods and stimulating seasonings for stomach cancer patients; overheated drinks and wine for esophageal cancer patients; hard, fried, stimulating foods and wine for liver cancer patients; stimulating foods, saturated animal fats and wine for breast cancer patients; alcohol, processed meat and saturated animal fats for intestinal cancer patients; tobacco, alcohol and stimulating foods for lung cancer patients; prostate cancer patients. Prostate cancer patients should not eat food containing androgens such as seahorse, antler, leek and leek flower; gallbladder cancer patients should not eat high fat, wine, fried food, and avoid overeating. 3.Varies according to treatment methods and drugs used: It varies according to different treatment methods, drugs and stages of cancer patients. For example, when taking medicine for strengthening the spleen and stomach, warming the middle and tonifying the qi, one should avoid eating cold and slippery products; when taking the tonic medicine ginseng, one should avoid eating radish, lycopodium, etc. Chinese medicine will be in different stages of “diagnosis and treatment”, the need to avoid food and food should be eaten, this taboo strictly belong to a certain stage of treatment needs, after a certain stage may not need to taboo, so taboo is a stage, personalized, not absolute. In conclusion, dietary contraindications should vary from person to person and should not be implemented blindly. Patients are advised to follow the general principles of diet regimen, and excessive taboos and excessive nourishment are not desirable. Cancer is a disease prone to recurrence, and after a large number of observations and statistics of patients with cancer recurrence, it is found that there is no definite correlation between any kind of food and the deterioration of cancer, so most scholars believe that there is no scientific basis for the saying of “hairy food”.