In daily outpatient clinics, tumor patients often ask about herbal dietary therapy. Especially in Guangdong area, almost all tumor patients are trying more or less herbal dietary therapy. As tumor growth process will compete with the body for nutrition and cause malnutrition or even malignancy, plus some patients often aggravate malnutrition and cause the body’s immune function to decline when they receive surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and other treatments. Therefore, the reasonable use of Chinese herbal dietary therapy can not only supplement the nutrition needed to maintain patients, but also play an auxiliary role in fighting cancer. Combining with clinical practice, the author believes that tumor patients should pay attention to the following matters in the process of adopting Chinese herbal food therapy. Wu Wan Yin, Department of Oncology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Before use, we should establish the basic TCM evidence type of the patient, that is, we usually talk about cold, heat, deficiency and reality. Only if you choose the herbal dietary therapy formula that is suitable for your own type will you achieve satisfactory results, otherwise it will be detrimental to the control of your disease. For example, if the herbal dietary therapy formula suitable for lung cancer of qi deficiency type is used for patients with heat toxicity type, it will often aggravate the disease by helping heat. 1. Discriminate food administration. In other words, according to the different side effects caused by surgery, radiotherapy, intervention and other treatments, suitable herbal food therapy is selected. The purpose is to increase the effectiveness and reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and other treatments. 2. Identify the stage of food administration. That is, according to the different stages of the patient’s disease, different dietary therapy can be administered. Early stage patients can choose food therapy prescriptions that are biased towards attacking evil, while late stage patients should choose Chinese herbal food therapy prescriptions that are biased towards tonicity. 3. Identify the medicine and administer food. According to the other Chinese and Western medicines that the patient is using, choose the appropriate Chinese herbal food therapy formula. For example, patients who are taking Chinese herbal medicine at the same time should tell their doctors about the Chinese herbal medicine they are using to avoid unnecessary duplication or mutual restriction of efficacy between the food therapy prescription and the doctor’s prescription. According to the above principles, the following are some of the Chinese herbal food therapy prescriptions that have been used in clinical practice and have achieved better results. 1.After tumor surgery or radiotherapy, chemotherapy or advanced tumor patients with decreased appetite, tiredness and weakness, abdominal distension after eating, etc., the main evidence of gas deficiency. Can be used: Ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala 30 grams each (gauze wrapped separately), Poria, Chinese yam, heartless lotus seeds, coicis rice 50 grams each, 15 red dates, glutinous rice 100 grams, sugar appropriate. Method: Add about 1000ml of water to the medicine, boil and cook for 30 minutes, remove the ginseng, white atractylodes, add glutinous rice, sugar and appropriate amount of water to boil porridge. 2, after radiotherapy or advanced tumor anemia, white blood cell decline Yang deficiency patients, manifested as weakness, cold, cold limbs, limb weakness, mental discomfort, white face and light tongue. You can use 500 grams of turtle meat, 10 grams of American ginseng, 3 grams of deer antler, 50 grams of coic rice. Method: Wash the turtle meat, cut it into pieces, put the medicine gauze package into a pot, add 5 slices of ginger and water to boil, remove the foam after the water boils, add yellow wine and cooking oil, etc., cook with a gentle fire until the meat is cooked and season with salt. 3, after radiotherapy anemia, white blood cell decline yin deficiency, manifested as lethargy and weakness, hot flashes and night sweats, waist and knee soreness, red tongue and less coating. Can be used: 300 grams of turtle meat, 30 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 15 grams of rehmannia, 10 grams of northern astragalus. Method: wash snapper meat, cut, put the casserole, add water and gauze packets of drugs, boil and remove the foam, add the right amount of yellow wine, the fire boil until the snapper meat is cooked, remove the package of drugs, season with salt and other seasonings. 4, surgery, radiotherapy, anemia or, white blood cell decline in blood and gas deficiency, manifested as pale, dry throat and dry mouth, moving asthma, palpitations and insomnia. Can be used: 1000 grams of hen, angelica, peony, rehmannia, Chuanxiong, atractylodes, licorice 10 grams each, ginseng, poria 15 grams each, ginger 5 slices. Method: wash the chicken, cut, put in a casserole, add ginger, the drugs (shabu bag) and water, boil over a rapid fire, stew over a moderate fire until the chicken is cooked, go to the medicine bag, season with salt and other seasonings. 5, all kinds of tumors with blood stasis and blood deficiency as the main witness, manifested as subcostal or local lumps, hard, pain fixed and not moving, purple tongue, thin and astringent pulse, etc.. It can be used: 500 grams of black bone hen, 20 grams of angelica, 10 grams of Chuanxiong, 10 grams of ginseng sanqi. Method: Wash the chicken, cut it into pieces, put it in a casserole, add ginger, gauze bags of medicines and water, boil it in a rapid fire, then turn the fire to stew until the chicken is cooked, remove the medicine bag, and season with salt and other seasonings. 6, tumor chemotherapy or intervention after phlegm damp or heavy damp-heat, manifesting as loss of appetite, phlegm and sticky mouth, chest and epigastric stuffiness, body weight and weakness, white thick and greasy coating, smooth pulse, etc.. Available: 50 grams of rhizome powder, 50 grams of coic rice, 100 grams of yam, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 10 grams of pelargonium leaf, 10 grams of zhebe powder. Method: Slice yam, soak coicis rice, soak pelargonium leaves, add glutinous rice, cold water and boil, then add rhizome powder and zhebei powder to mix, boil porridge. 7.Patients with tumor heat toxicity, manifesting as fever and redness, irritation and thirst, sweating, short urine and redness, or early to mid-stage patients with strong constitution. You can use 30 grams of white flowers and snake’s tongue grass, 20 grams each of coic rice and half a lotus, 100 grams of lean pork, seasoning appropriate amount. Method: Wash the pork and cut it into small pieces, soak the coicis rice and wrap the remaining medicine in cloth. Boil the pork and medicine package with water, turn the fire to stew until the meat is cooked, remove the dregs of the medicine, mix in the medicine and salt, monosodium glutamate. 8, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and other head and neck tumors after radiation therapy, yin deficiency and fluid injury. The performance is dry mouth and want to drink, dry epistaxis and constipation, red tongue with less coating, thin pulse. Water chestnut, snow pear, fresh maitake, fresh lotus root, fresh rhizome, sugar cane 200 grams each can be used. Method: Wash the 6 kinds of raw materials separately, chop and squeeze the juice. Mix the juices, put them into a pot, add water, cook for 20 minutes with low heat, and drink as tea.