Dietary principles for breast cancer patients

  Dietary principles for breast cancer patients: 1. Emphasize balanced nutrition and focus on supporting and replenishing deficiency The internal deficiency of breast cancer patients is the main contradiction in the process of disease occurrence and development. The deficiency causes cancer, and the deficiency causes deficiency because of cancer, and the deficiency is the foundation of the disease. The purpose of food therapy is to ensure that breast cancer patients have enough nutrition to improve the body’s ability to resist disease and promote their recovery. Therefore, the Nei Jing says: “Food and meat, fruits and vegetables should be nourished to the fullest, without making too much of them, which will hurt their righteousness.” Under the guidance of the general principle of supporting the righteousness and nourishing the deficiency, the dietary treatment for breast cancer patients should be nutritious, diversified and balanced. As stated in Nei Jing, “Five grains are nourishing, five fruits are helpful, five animals are beneficial, and five vegetables are sufficient.” The loss of bias, it is harmful.  Breast cancer, like other diseases, has different yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and reality. Food is also different from hot, cold, warm and cool, pungent, sweet, bitter, sour and salty. The five tastes of food should be cold and hot, while the cold one should be warm. Pungent taste is warm and dispersed, such as ginger and onion; sweet taste is moderate, such as yam, gorgonian and syrup; light taste is permeable, such as winter melon and coix seed; sour taste is astringent, such as umeboshi and hawthorn; salty taste is soft and firm, such as seaweed, kombu and oyster.  3.Select anti-cancer foods, and strive to be targeted. Some foods have both therapeutic and anti-cancer effects, and can be selected and applied in a targeted manner. Folk use it with clove and persimmon to treat esophageal cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, etc. Experiments have confirmed its inhibitory effect on transplanted tumors caused by carcinogenic viruses in mice. Foods in daily life, such as garlic, soy products and green tea, are also good anti-cancer agents. In addition, according to the latest findings of the American Journal of Epidemiology, middle-aged women with a family history of breast cancer, especially after early detection of breast cancer, taking some ginseng appropriately under the guidance of a doctor is beneficial to prevention and recovery. ( 【Desirable】 (1) It is advisable to eat more foods with anti-breast cancer effect, such as seahorse, horseshoe crab, cobra meat, sperm whale oil, toad meat, crab, red, clam, oyster, tortoiseshell meat, kelp, asparagus, and stone flowering vegetables.  (2) It is advisable to eat more foods with immunity enhancing and relapse prevention, including mulberry, kiwi, asparagus, pumpkin, barley, beans, yam, shiitake mushroom, shrimp skin, crab, mackerel, prawns, and snake.  (3) Swelling should eat barley, loofah, adzuki beans, taro, grapes, lychee, water chestnut, carp, pond lice, shark, mud fish, yellow catfish, and snail.  (4) Swelling and pain, nipple retraction is appropriate to eat fennel, scallions, shrimp, sea dragon, smear oil whale, orange cake, grapefruit, horseshoe crab [Avoid] (1) Avoid smoking, alcohol, coffee, cocoa.  (2) Avoid spicy pepper, ginger, cinnamon and other spicy stimulating food.  (3) Avoid fatty, fried, moldy, pickled food.  (4) Avoid hairy foods such as rooster.