Dietary considerations for patients with atherosclerosis

  Arteriosclerosis occlusive disease patients food therapy methods: 1, cold clotting blocking type can often take peach kernel porridge, black fungus drink, two son mountain chicken stew (codonopsis, wolfberry).  2, heat and Yin type can often take snow pear syrup, watermelon tender skin decoction Dihuang porridge, hawthorn decoction and other foods to reduce blood lipids, soothe blood vessels.  3, the four seasons conditioning in the Yang Qi Sheng Fa Dietary considerations for patients with atherosclerosis: 1, it is appropriate to eat more vegetable protein (such as soy products) and complex carbohydrates (such as starch, etc.), less simple carbohydrates (such as fructose, sucrose, honey and lactose).  4, it is advisable to eat more food rich in vitamin C, because vitamin C can promote the hydroxylation of cholesterol, thereby reducing the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood and tissue.  5.It is advisable to eat more food with high fiber, because food fiber is not easily digested by the human gastrointestinal tract.  6, it is advisable to eat more aquatic sea food, such as kelp, jellyfish, tamari, nori, lamb’s quarters, seaweed, etc. These seafood are good sources of protein and unsaturated fatty acids, as well as various inorganic salts, which have the effect of hindering the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine. Chinese medicine believes that such foods have the effect of soft and loose, so often eaten, can soften the blood vessels.  7, it is advisable to eat a low-salt diet, salt in the sodium, can increase the plasma osmotic pressure, prompting an increase in blood pressure, and hypertension on atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease can bring adverse effects.  8, it is appropriate to eat red pepper, milk and fish. Especially high cholesterol people should eat red pepper, milk and fish. Scientists have found that the red pepper contains a kind of pepper substance, it can effectively reduce cholesterol in the body. Milk contains a kind of whey acid substance, which can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver and reduce the cholesterol content in the blood, and milk is rich in nutrition. Fish contains cod liver oil has the effect of lowering cholesterol.  9, it is advisable to eat vegetable oils, such as soybean oil, vegetable oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, etc. In spring, the diet should be light, especially the elderly should eat coix seeds mountain jujube porridge, yellow essence, angelica, silver fungus and other products that strengthen the spleen and kidney to lower lipids and blood.  10, the hot summer, available some slightly cool, beneficial products, such as rhizome chrysanthemum tea, mung bean soup, silver fungus, bananas, hawthorn drink, etc., can soften blood vessels, but also beneficial to the spleen.  11, autumn, dryness prevails, easy to hurt the fluid, it is appropriate to take nourishing Yin and benefit Qi and blood products, such as lily of the valley, hawthorn porridge, yucca steamed chicken, yellow essence decoction, sea cucumber and angelica porridge.  12, winter is generally the best time to take tonic, should be based on physical identification of the tonic, do not make up too much, otherwise it will lead to congestion of Qi, it is appropriate to use ginseng chicken juice porridge, astragalus shouwu decoction, lotus seeds poria decoction, snapper stewed angelica and other products that nourish the kidneys and benefit the blood.