Insomnia, called “sleeplessness” in traditional Chinese medicine, is characterized by the frequent inability to get normal sleep, and is a common symptom in Chinese medicine. The name of insomnia is from “Nangjing – 46th Difficulty”, and there are also ancient Chinese medical texts such as “not being able to sleep”, “not being able to sleep”, “not being able to close the eyes”, “not sleeping “The symptoms of insomnia vary in severity. The symptoms of insomnia vary in severity, with the milder ones having difficulty falling asleep. There is sleep and easy to wake up, there is awake after not being able to sleep again, and sometimes wake up when sleeping, and there is sleep but dreamy, etc.; serious cases are unable to sleep all night. Insomnia can also appear alone or together with headache, dizziness, palpitations, forgetfulness, etc. Compared with the ancients, insomnia is more common, more widespread and more serious in today’s people, and its etiology is mostly due to the injury caused by emotion and will or the consumption of long illness, excessive exertion, resulting in liver depression and fire, phlegm and fire or yin deficiency and fire, heart and spleen deficiency, heart and gall bladder deficiency and timidity, etc., which affect the heart and mind and insomnia. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness and headache, palpitation and forgetfulness, fatigue and restlessness, which bring great disturbance to daily life. Insomnia occurs more often in tumor patients due to the pain of tumor itself, the trouble brought by diagnosis and treatment, and the excessive psychological pressure. Insomnia, in turn, can affect the immune function of the body and even accelerate the development of tumor and cause more problems, so it should be given enough attention. Here are a few dietary recipes to regulate insomnia in tumor patients, which have certain effect. Dried scallop lean meat soup Material: dried scallop 50g, pork lean meat 200g, essence, plus fine salt seasoning salt appropriate amount. Practice: the dried scallop, pork lean meat soup, add refined salt seasoning. Suggestions: kidney yin deficiency of insomnia, excessive dreaming, heartburn, palpitations and other symptoms. Yellow wine walnut puree soup Ingredients: 5 walnuts, 50g of sugar, 250g of yellow wine. Directions: Pound walnuts with sugar into a puree, put it into a pot, and add yellow wine. Then place the pot on the fire and fry for 10 minutes. Suggestions: For people with insomnia, forgetfulness, headache and prolonged asthma and back pain and constipation. Lotus seeds and lily soup Ingredients: 30g each of lotus seeds and lily, 200~250g of lean pork. Directions: Boil lotus seeds, lily and lean pork with water, season and take. Suggestion: Insomnia and palpitations can be consumed. Gui Yuan Kid’s Chicken Ingredients: 1 kid’s chicken, 30g of cinnamon meat, green onion, cooking wine and salt. Directions: Clean the chicken by pulling out the guts, boil it in boiling water, take it out, put it into a soup pot, then add cinnamon, wine, green onion, ginger, salt and water. Steam in a cage for about 1 hour and take out. Recommended: for people with insomnia due to yin deficiency and heart and spleen yin blood deficiency. Poria buns Ingredients: Poria 30g, flour 1000g, fresh pork 500g, ginger, lily, pepper, sesame oil, cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, scallions, bone broth each appropriate amount. Practice: Poria into the pot, each time add water about 250ml, each time to cook 1 hour total heating and cooking 3 times, 3 times the juice combined with filtered into Poria water 500ml to be used. Pour the flour on the counter, add 300g of flour, warm Poria water, make a fermented dough. Chopped pork, pour into the basin, add soy sauce and mix well, then add the rest of the seasonings, stir into the filling. Make into buns as usual. Suggested: for those with palpitations and insomnia due to weakness of the spleen and stomach. Dietary contraindications for this disease Use less coffee, tea, cola and other caffeine-containing beverages, especially not strong tea and coffee after dinner. It is not advisable to apply deer antler, cow whip, seahorse and other tonic Yang products, so as not to help Yang to generate fire and aggravate the disease. Patients with yin deficiency and fire should use less or no spicy stimulants such as onion, ginger, leek, garlic, chili pepper, hot sauce, spicy oil, etc., to avoid these warming products to make them on fire and aggravate insomnia. Diet can only play a supplementary role, such as serious symptoms, or should seek regular medical consultation, trying to replace conventional treatment with food therapy is not sensible, often delaying treatment.