Many patients’ family members think that patients should take more nutrition in order to overcome the disease, so they often buy a little health food and nutrition for patients. However, for pancreatic tumor patients, diet must be paid attention to, in fact, careful family members will find that, in the case of tumor not effectively controlled, taking a little health care products, the patient’s condition will be aggravated. There was a pancreatic tumor patient who had ascites, and his family bought ginseng supplements for the patient, which resulted in more ascites, shortness of breath and respiratory failure. Whether pancreatic cancer patients should take tonic or not should be discussed from the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer. According to Chinese medicine, pancreatic cancer belongs to the category of “Fuliang”, which is also known as “obstruction”, “accumulation”, “lump”, and “knotted chest” in the medical books of past generations. “In traditional Chinese medicine, pancreatic cancer is considered to be in the category of “Fuliang”. The cause of the disease is mostly due to emotional disorders, dietary disorders, and long-term problems with tobacco, alcohol, and dampness, resulting in liver depression, spleen deficiency, poor qi flow, spleen dampness, depression for a long time, heat, and dampness-heat accumulation, which becomes poisonous over time, or there is a persistent poison and heat in the body, and the internal depletion of yin and blood, which burns the blood and fluid. The late stage is often accompanied by loss of kidney qi and deficiency of qi, blood and yin. The location of the disease is in the liver, gallbladder, spleen and stomach. In the early stage, the evil is predominantly real, but in the middle and late stage, there is a mixture of deficiency and reality. Therefore, the main treatment for pancreatic cancer should be to clear damp-heat, detoxify and disperse nodules, nourish Yin and clear heat.