The formation of esophageal cancer is related to mental factors. According to ancient people, “the evidence of choking and diaphragm must be caused by sorrow, thought, accumulated labor, accumulated depression or excessive damage of wine and color.” It means that mental factors are closely related to the formation and development of this disease. Patients are prone to pessimism and psychological burden due to the progressive swallowing obstruction and retrosternal pain, so medical staff and family members should encourage patients to have confidence and determination to live, believing that with the rapid development of science, today’s incurable diseases may be cured tomorrow. Patients should maintain an optimistic and positive attitude towards the disease and actively cooperate with the treatment. Some data show that patients who are doubtful about treatment, lose confidence, pessimistic and depressed have poor results and are prone to relapse, and their survival time is shorter than those who are cheerful and dare to fight against the disease. Some scholars have concluded that “people who are confident in overcoming the disease and surviving tenaciously have good foci of hope and expectation in the brain.” This focal point of good excitement is transmitted to the hormone-related pituitary gland in the lower part of the thalamus, the autonomic nerve center, through the limbic system of the brain, which is a functional center, so that immune activity is enhanced, abnormal cell function is depressed, and cancer cells degenerate. On the contrary, the lack of expectation and belief makes it difficult to stimulate a series of neuroendocrine reactions that inhibit the growth of cancer cells, which makes cancer cells dysregulate and worsen the disease. Therefore, patients should establish a correct outlook on life and treat the disease correctly so that Yang and Yin can be balanced, which is conducive to health and recovery. After diagnosed, patients with esophageal cancer need to undergo surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. During this treatment process, the patient will suffer a lot of pain and trouble, so family members should do the following: 1. 2, improve the patient’s cleanliness and hygiene, to prevent postoperative infection. To change clothing and eating utensils in a timely manner. For patients with postoperative anastomotic fistula or other postoperative complications, care and management should be strengthened to prevent cross-infection. 3. Do not eat high-fat food or overeat. Restoring confidence in normal life is good for physical and mental health. 4, eat more coarse grains, mixed grains, beans, fresh vegetables, fruits, low-fat foods, fish, seafood, soy products, low-fat dairy products. Do not eat or eat as little as possible smoked, fire, pickled, moldy and spoiled food. 5, cooking food, eat less fried, fried food, cooking oil temperature should not be too high, more steamed, stewed, boiled way to cook. 6, adjust their mindset. Anger, sadness, anxiety and other adverse emotions will cause a decrease in immunity, maintain emotional stability, optimism and cheerful mood, and actively fight the disease, plays a very important role in the improvement of the disease, it has been proved that many cured or improved patients do not talk about the significant role of spiritual factors. 7, active cooperation with treatment, patients in the recovery phase still need to continue treatment, to understand the physician’s treatment plan, active cooperation, timely response to treatment, so that doctors grasp the changes in the condition, timely adjustment of treatment plans and doses of drugs, to receive the best results. 8, re-regulation of life rules, patients after the disease, whether physiologically or psychologically have undergone great changes, to re-establish life rules, to develop good habits. 9, to properly strengthen nutrition, which is the material basis of recovery. After a period of treatment, the patient’s body often becomes very weak, want to restore health as soon as possible, we must let the body absorb more nutrition, meal style can be diverse, according to their own tastes and preferences, do some color, aroma, taste of food. How to take care of patients during radiotherapy and chemotherapy 1. Prevent infection, wash hands diligently, especially before and after meals, before and after going to the bathroom; stay away from people with colds and infectious diseases; avoid going to places with many people. 2.Since esophageal cancer patients have lesions, inflammation of mucous membrane and poor elasticity after radiation, pay special attention not to eat hard food such as bones and fried food to avoid piercing esophageal wall or mucous membrane and causing bleeding. Ensure that the food is cooked thinly and not to eat food with great viscosity such as dumplings, so as not to cause mucosal tearing and bleeding. 3, when the appetite is poor, nausea and vomiting, in order to give patients to increase appetite and stop vomiting, according to the appetite of patients, make some food with rich nutritional value, high quality and easy to digest, and encourage patients to eat as much as possible. Chinese medicine can be given to strengthen the spleen and regulate the qi, lower the rebellion and stop vomiting with Si Jun Zi Tang plus Chen Pi, Fa Xian Xia and Zhu Ru. For diet, lotus seed, Chinese yam and Coix seed porridge can be eaten to strengthen the spleen and benefit the qi. Patients should eat a light diet, such as vegetables, fruits, multivitamin food, avoid greasy, spicy, fried things. Avoid wind and cold, pay attention to rest, prevent fatigue, and keep a happy spirit. Fourth, the commonly used diet 1, Chen Xia Coix congee: with ingredients Chen Pi 5 grams, 12 grams of French Semen, 60 grams of coix seeds, 60 grams of rice. The half summer washed and packed in a cloth bag; Chen Pi washed, the stem rice washed and set aside. Wash the coix seeds, put them into a pot together with the bag, peel and rice, add water to make a thin porridge and season it. It can dispel dampness and resolve phlegm, regulate Qi and stop vomiting. 2, reed root ginseng persimmon cream porridge: 100 grams of fresh reed root, 10 grams of American ginseng, 50 grams of rice, persimmon cream 30 grams. First, the fresh rhizome washed and cut into thin sections with an appropriate amount of water decoction for half an hour, remove the dregs, save the juice for use. Slice the American ginseng, wash the rice, boil the ginseng and rice with rhizome water until the porridge, dissolve the persimmon cream and drink at will. Clear the stomach to stop vomiting, benefit gas and expectorant. 3, Chinese wolfberry stew turtle: materials turtle 500 grams, Chinese yam 30 grams, Chinese wolfberry 15 grams, red dates 5, ginger 3 slices. Wash Huai Shan, soak it for half an hour first; wash Chinese wolfberry and red dates, scald the turtle with hot water to make it urinate, cut it open, remove the intestines, wash and chop it. Put all the ingredients together in a stewing pot, add boiling water, stew in water for two hours, seasoning can be, feel free to drink soup and eat meat. Kidney fill essence, spleen and stomach. 4, ginseng astragalus stew raw fish: raw fish, ginseng 10 grams, astragalus 30 grams, red dates 5. Wash and slice the ginseng, clean the fish, put all the ingredients together into the stewing pot, add the right amount of water, stewed in water for two hours, go to the astragalus, fish, seasoning can be. Drink soup and eat meat. Benefit Qi and nourish the blood, to nourish the deficient muscle. 5, panax ginseng peach kernel pork lean meat soup: ingredients panax ginseng 10 grams, peach kernel 15 grams, pork lean meat 50 grams. Wash and slice panax pseudoginseng, peach kernel and lean pork, put all the ingredients into a stewing pot, add appropriate amount of boiling water, stew for two hours in water, season to taste, and drink at will. Promote blood circulation and dispel blood stasis, relieve pain. 6, Coix seed Huai Shan turtle soup: ingredients turtle, 50 grams of Coix seed, Huai Shan 30 grams, 3 slices of ginger. Kill the turtle or boil it to death, remove the intestines, wash and chop the pieces and set aside, wash the coix seeds, Huai Shan and ginger. Put all the ingredients together in a tile pot, add water, bring to a boil, cook for two hours on a gentle fire, season to taste, and drink at will. Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness. 7, duck stew with Cordyceps: 150 grams of duck meat, 10 grams of Cordyceps, five red dates, 15 grams of ginger. Wash and chop the duck meat, put all the ingredients together into a pot, add water to the right amount, boil, stew for two hours seasoning. Kidney fill essence, spleen and appetite. 8, sweet potato porridge: ingredients sweet potato 250 grams, 200 grams of rice, sugar appropriate amount. Sweet potatoes washed and cut into small pieces, with the rice into the pot, add the right amount of water to cook the porridge, and add sugar to taste after the porridge is cooked. 9, corn flour porridge: ingredients corn flour 50 grams, 100 grams of rice, brown sugar appropriate amount. Stalk rice washed and cooked, put corn flour and then cooked into a thin porridge, add brown sugar when eating. 10, wolfberry porridge: ingredients wolfberry 20 grams, 60 grams of rice, sugar appropriate amount. Stem rice and wolfberry into the pot, add water to cook the porridge, add sugar to taste after the porridge is cooked. 11, monkey head mushroom stew rabbit meat: ingredients monkey head mushroom 100 grams, 250 grams of rabbit meat, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, soy sauce, onion, ginger shreds a little. Soak the monkey head mushroom for half an hour, cut into thin slices, rabbit meat washed and cut into pieces. Put sesame oil into the pot and fry, then put in the onion and ginger and fry for a moment, add water and cook for two hours. Season to taste. 12, Astragalus stewed chicken: ingredients Astragalus 35 grams, a bird bone chicken, ginger and green onions appropriate amount, a little oil and salt. Slaughter the chicken to remove the hair and wash, chopped, with Astragalus, ginger stewed together in water, put oil and salt to taste. Drink hot and eat meat.