Just after the Chinese New Year holiday, many people reflect the holiday weight gain, one is the amount of activity to reduce, more importantly, may also be related to diet. Food is sometimes a double-edged sword, eat less poor nutrition, look at the poor look of African children will know; then eat more, or eat messy, bring the problem is also very much, now the street or around the crowd “fat” significantly increased, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, etc. significantly increased, are eating The “trouble” is caused by eating. This also shows that diet and disease are closely related, so how should we as lupus patients treat diet? Li Songwei, Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is an autoimmune disease that easily involves multiple systems and organs, and there is no cure at present. However, due to the long course of the disease, the complexity and variability of the disease and the high recurrence rate, many factors in daily life can affect the changes of the disease, especially the dietary habits. Good dietary habits can improve the disease and reduce or avoid its activities; poor dietary habits may aggravate the disease. Therefore, careful and scientific dietary habits are an important and inseparable part of the treatment process. The importance of diet is very much emphasized in Chinese medicine, as early as in the “Suwen – Shanggu Tianzhen”, it is said: “The ancient people, who know, the law in the yin and Yang, and in the art, eating and drinking in moderation, living in a normal way, not delusional labor, so that the form and the spirit, and the end of its natural life, a hundred years to go.” In Su Wen – Five Tastes, there are “No pungency for liver diseases, no salt for heart diseases, no acid for spleen diseases, no bitter for lung diseases, and no sweet for kidney diseases”. The ancients emphasized that “medicine” and “food” are not separate, such as yam can be used as medicine, but also can be eaten. Chinese medicine often emphasizes the “dialectical treatment”, so the choice of food should also be different from person to person, dialectical selection, different body type, evidence of the choice of food is also different. The basic pathogenesis of this disease is yin deficiency and internal heat, the original deficiency and the symptoms are real, all five organs and six internal organs can be involved. Because of the complexity and variety of symptoms, so the Chinese medical evidence more, but often more hot evidence, cold evidence less, mixed with the real. The common types of evidence are: heat-based evidence of heat toxicity, internal heat of Yin deficiency, Qi and Yin deficiency, etc.; cold-based evidence of liver depression and blood deficiency, Qi and blood deficiency, spleen and kidney deficiency, etc. Therefore, we have to adjust our diet accordingly with the change of the evidence type. Some patients do not know their own type of evidence, so they can combine the symptoms or under the guidance of the treating physician. In the stage of incandescence of heat toxin, it is mostly seen in the acute active stage of lupus. Patients often present with fever, erythema and rash on the face or body, dry throat and thirst, and pain in joints and muscles. Treatment is based on the method of “clearing heat and nourishing yin, detoxifying and cooling blood”. The diet should be light and usually include more cold foods, such as sugar cane juice, pear juice, apple, water chestnut, lotus root, bitter melon, cucumber, winter melon, coriander, red beans, coix seeds, etc. Meat can be eaten with lean pork and duck meat to clear heat and cool blood and detoxify blood. And lychee, cinnamon, dragon fruit, cherries, ginger, chili, star anise, fennel, leek, onion, beef, mutton, dog meat, donkey meat, chicken, seafood, etc. as little as possible, fried food should not be taken, otherwise it is easy to aggravate or condition. At the stage of Yin deficiency internal heat or Qi and Yin deficiency, mostly seen in the remission period of the disease, patients often show low fever, weakness, redness of both cheekbones, dry throat and thirst, easy light allergy, mouth ulcers, poor sleep, hair loss, joint pain and so on. Yin and heat should be nourished and cleared. Mulberry, yam, lily of the valley, white fruit, maitake, northern sage, chestnut, black soybean, pumpkin, animal liver, jelly, etc. can be eaten in soup. Ingredients in the stage of heat toxicity incandescence can also be used frequently. In the stage of spleen and kidney Yang deficiency, mostly seen in the remission stage, clinical fatigue, fear of cold, pale face, loss of appetite, waist and knee weakness, often with proteinuria, anemia and other manifestations. You can eat some slightly warm ingredients, such as astragalus, prince’s ginseng, wolfberry, cinnamon, yam, carrot, gravy, peanut rice, black soybeans, fungus, etc. Of course, for some specific cases, we have to treat them specially, as follows: 1. Figs, rape, celery, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients can easily induce or aggravate photosensitivity, cauliflower can aggravate hair loss, seafood can easily cause allergies, spinach can aggravate proteinuria, etc. These ingredients should be used sparingly. 2. Glucocorticoids are the main drugs used in the treatment of lupus and are prone to side effects such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and even necrosis of the femoral head when taken for a long time. Therefore, in the process of taking hormones, we should try to take a light and easy-to-digest diet, and use fatty products as little as possible; advocate a low-sugar or mixed grain diet; in addition to calcium medication, we should eat more foods with high calcium content such as seaweed, milk and sesame paste, which can reduce the above-mentioned side effects. 3, often eat foods rich in vitamin C, such as apples, oranges, etc., can reduce the permeability of blood vessels and reduce erythema. 4, avoid eating health products, such as gibberellic acid, cordyceps, purple river carp, umbilical cord, royal jelly, etc., these products are rich in estrogen, easy to enhance the immune response, inducing disease activity, such lessons are clinically common. 5, patients with lupus nephritis, often appear anemia, hypoproteinemia The diet requirements are even higher. Try to have a low-salt diet and supplement it with a high-quality high-protein diet, such as milk, eggs, lean meat, fish, etc. 6. Avoid smoking and alcohol. In conclusion, the diet of lupus erythematosus should be light, but these aspects listed above are only relative and should be mastered flexibly in actual life, so as not to overdo and not to be careless.