Epilepsy is a chronic disease that requires long-term treatment. In addition to taking medication, it is also important to pay attention to some dietary contraindications, and to avoid what folk call “hairy items”. The “hairy items” in Chinese medicine are not strictly defined, and some even include rice, wheat and eggs as hairy items, so people are at a loss as to what to do in choosing the food to eat. Because it is necessary to clarify this issue.
What is hairy food, that is, “induce, trigger, help the development of” certain diseases food. The Chinese Pharmacognosy Treatment “said:” hair refers to the food can cause the recurrence of old diseases, new diseases aggravated.” Chinese medicine believes that “hairy food” can cause the body’s Yin and Yang balance imbalance, inducing and aggravating certain diseases. Most of the hairy substances are fishy and stinky, such as beef and mutton; or raw hair, such as leeks, bamboo shoots, as well as seafood, shrimp and crab, curd, etc. In general, hairy food is also food, moderate consumption of most people will not produce side effects or cause discomfort, but for people with chronic diseases should be avoided as much as possible.
The earliest record of “hairy food” can be found in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. For example, it is written in “Su Wen – Heat Theory”: “If you are recovering from a fever, eating meat will bring you back; if you eat more, you will be left behind. This passage puts forward the dietary taboos in the treatment of diseases; the “Compendium of Materia Medica” contraindicated food: “Where taking medicine, do not eat fatty pork and dog meat, greasy soup will, fishy and stinky things. Where taking medicine, do not eat more raw garlic, caraway, raw onion, all fruits, all the slippery things”, and also said “goose, smell all thick, moving wind, sores”; “the herbs”: “winter month can not eat more onion”; “the Golden Horoscope”: “spring, do not eat liver”; “the Golden Horoscope”. “spring does not eat liver”, spring for the liver qi win, the same qi, eating liver is easy to make people hyperactive liver qi big; “the herb harmful”: “autumn does not eat ginger, people diarrhea qi”, depletion of fluid and injury to the spirit. Therefore, Chinese medicine regimen health focus on “but all the spring and autumn, so the disease started when, cut the amount of its own nature will raise”.
Why hair products can lead to the recurrence or aggravation of old diseases, some scholars have summarized that there are three possibilities.
1, the food contains hormones or hormone-like substances
For example, hen’s pork, rooster, fish roe, etc. contain a lot of animal hormones, even after cooking, the basic substances for synthesizing hormones still exist, and the hormones will promote certain hyperfunction or metabolic disorders in the human body. For example, glucocorticosteroids can induce the spread of infections, bleeding ulcers, seizures, etc. when the physiological dose is exceeded, causing the recurrence of old diseases. After eating, the body’s endocrine, or vascular, nervous system has a stimulating or excitatory effect. Some diseases related to the above system are easily induced.
2.Allergic reaction
Such as shrimp and crab contain more histamine, and histamine can cause increased vascular permeability, microvascular dilatation, congestion, plasma exudation, edema, glandular hypersecretion and eosinophilic leukocyte increase, which leads to the body’s metamorphosis, that is, allergic reactions, disrupt the body’s immune system and lead to the recurrence of old diseases. People suffering from skin diseases such as urticaria, eczema, neurodermatitis, impetigo, psoriasis, etc., will be aggravated after eating and using these foods.
3, the stimulating effect of spicy and irritating foods
Such as alcohol, chili, ginger, garlic, pepper, etc. are more irritating to the gastrointestinal and organism, which can easily cause the spread of inflammation and aggravate various inflammatory diseases such as sores, boils, carbuncles, swellings, etc. For epilepsy, beverages or foods that have an excitatory effect on the nervous system, such as strong tea, coffee, alcohol, etc. can often trigger seizures.
So, what exactly are hairy substances? I think it is difficult to answer this question, for example, venison is a hairy substance for people in the south, but not for people in Heilongjiang in the north, and mutton is a hairy substance for Han Chinese in the south, but not for Uyghurs in Xinjiang who eat mutton every day.
Therefore, the following is my experience and book knowledge of epilepsy patients should not eat with food or drink:.
1, livestock
Mainly roosters, female pork, pig’s feet, goose, mutton, dog, venison and animal testicles, fish eggs, etc., but hens, ducks, as well as eggs, duck eggs are allowed to eat, donkey meat is flat tonic, can also eat. Milk is not a problem.
2.Vegetables and edible mushrooms
Mainly bamboo shoots, mustard, toon sprouts, leeks, shiitake mushrooms, etc. Spinach is only for kidney stone patients should not eat.
3.Aquatic products
Mainly shrimp, crab, squid, silver carp, bighead carp, octopus, carp, etc..
In addition, there are also hairy substances such as wine, rice wine, pupae, etc. For epileptic patients, strong tea, coffee (including coffee sugar), tobacco and alcohol can excite nerve cells, so they are also contraindicated. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and most popular products.
For some fruits, such as peaches, apricots, ginkgoes, mangoes, cherries, lychees, melons, etc., are undoubtedly eaten, but be careful not to eat too much at a time. If a whole lot of nutrient-rich food or food are not used because of fear, it will cause malnutrition. Anything, such as too much is better not to do, “hair” is also the case.
In addition to some spicy condiments, such as Hunan people eat a small amount of chili, Sichuan Chongqing people eat some pepper, as long as not excessive, it is not a problem.
As mentioned above, the “hair” is actually people’s daily life is often in contact with food, and not what is untouchable toxic substances. Therefore, the “hair” should be correctly avoided, reasonable use. Modern medicine does not have the term “hairy substances”, but from the original meaning, in fact, “hairy substances” is equivalent to the triggering factors or the cause of certain diseases in Western medicine. For example, a female epileptic patient in her 20s had frequent seizures the next day after eating shrimp, and a child with epilepsy had a seizure the next day after eating a large bowl of mutton at her grandfather’s house, and the seizure was more pronounced than before. Therefore, through these cases, we do realize that epileptic patients should pay attention to avoid eating “hairy things”.