As we all know, the earliest medical treatment in China should be considered as diet therapy, so since ancient times there is “medical food with the same source”, “medicine and food with the same function”, China’s first medical theory monograph, “Huangdi Neijing” in the Warring States period, there are many food treatment There are many records of using food to treat diseases in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine from the Warring States period. The famous doctor in our history, Bian Magpie, once said that to treat a patient’s illness, we should “treat the patient with food, and if the food treatment does not work, then order the medicine.” Nowadays, people are paying more and more attention to their health and health care, and we see a variety of Chinese herbal medicines in food markets and supermarkets, and a variety of health products in pharmacies. How to distinguish between food and medicine, how to eat and how to use them? What kind of effects do they each have? It has been proved that there is a direct correlation between uncontrolled diet and the occurrence and prognosis of tumor recovery, etc. Tumor patients are more concerned about how to eat healthily, and today, we would like to help you to understand some knowledge in this regard. I. Medicine and food: No matter drugs or food, they have different properties such as “warm, hot, cold and cool”, which are called “four properties” in Chinese medicine. The basic nature of food and medicine is divided into three categories. In terms of statistics of more than 300 kinds of common foods, the majority of foods are flat, followed by warm and hot, and again by cold. So, the so-called cold nature is applicable to hot body or disease food and medicine, such as watermelon for fever, thirst, irritability, yellow urine and other symptoms (natural white tiger soup), pear for cough, chest pain, cough yellow phlegm and other symptoms (wind-heat cough, combined with shellac), and persimmon cream sugar for dry mouth, mouth sores, celery for hyperactivity of liver Yang caused by dizziness, etc., all belong to the cold nature of the Food. Warm nature is the opposite of the cold nature of the food and medicine for cold body or disease. For example, ginger, white onion and cilantro are suitable for cold and fever, runny nose and headache caused by wind and cold; dry ginger and black tea are suitable for abdominal pain, vomiting and warmth and pressure; chili pepper and wine are suitable for cold limbs, fear of cold and rheumatic arthritis, etc. They are all warm foods. What is the flat nature? Flat food is a kind of food between cold and warm nature, applicable to the general body, not cold and not hot, or a little cold, a little hot patients, can be eaten. This kind of food and medicine is mostly some nutritional health products. Some of you may know that Chinese medicine has “four qualities” and “five tastes”? What are the “five tastes”? The five tastes we say in Chinese medicine are “pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty”. Acidic food can enhance liver function, suppress stomach acid, increase appetite, and promote food digestion. According to Chinese medicine, the spleen is the master of muscles and limbs, and opens the mouth, with its flora in the lips. If excessive consumption of acidic foods will injure the spleen, which in turn will cause the skin to wrinkle and harden and thicken the skin, so patients with tendon injuries should not consume foods that are too acidic. Sweet (sweet) taste is produced with sugar, eating sweet food can benefit the qi and blood, eliminate fatigue, detoxification, etc., but eating too much sweet food is also bad for the spleen and stomach function, and it can easily cause cardiovascular disease. Chinese medicine believes that the taste of too sweet, easy to hurt the kidney, leading to some bone and joint disease. Bitter taste, which is produced by organic alkali. Bitter taste, has the effect of removing dryness and dampness, cooling and relieving summer heat, diuretic, blood circulation, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic, and clearing the heart and eyes. Pungent (spicy) taste, is produced with capsaicin, eating spicy can promote the secretion of gastric juice, saliva, increase the activity of amylase, help gastrointestinal peristalsis, also can eliminate blood stasis in our body, is the skin capillary dilation, promote blood circulation. But excessive consumption of spicy, will stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa caused by abdominal pain, stomach pain, etc. Therefore, patients suffering from gastric ulcer, enteritis, hemorrhoids, etc., should eat less spicy food. Finally, it is salty. Salty taste from refined salt, is an important substance indispensable to human metabolism, eat salty food, can soften the acidic lumps in the body. However, patients with cardiovascular disease and kidney disease should have a low-salt diet. Second, healthy diet is the first step to prevent cancer: After talking so much about the four sexes and five tastes of food drugs, the purpose is to make us all understand the food we consume, so that we can prevent tumors with healthy diet according to our own constitution. Around us, one third of malignant tumors are actually preventable, and making a healthy recipe for ourselves is the first step to prevent cancer. Here are some anti-cancer and anti-cancer foods 1) corn: corn has a high content of cellulose, which is almost 10 times of rice. A large amount of cellulose can stimulate the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, shorten the residence time of food residues in the intestines, thus accelerating the excretion of feces and bringing harmful substances out of the body, which is very important for the prevention and treatment of constipation, enteritis and rectal cancer. One more, glutathione in corn is a powerful antioxidant, can accelerate the loss of aging free radicals, is the most effective anti-cancer substances in our bodies. (2) Coix seeds: recall that we have just said the four sexes and five flavors, coix seeds belong to the slightly cold drug, with the spleen and stomach, the role of water and dampness. It contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, and has the effect of promoting metabolism and reducing the burden on the stomach and intestines. Coix lacryma is not only tonic, but also inhibits sarcoma, cervical cancer and digestive tract tumors, and can raise white blood cells and platelets. Its active ingredients have been extracted and added to anti-cancer herbal preparations, which are widely used in clinical practice and have good therapeutic effects. We usually most commonly use coix seeds to cook porridge to drink, such as barley mung bean porridge, barley lotus rice porridge, etc., are very convenient and practical. (Job’s tear and lotus rice porridge: 30g each of barley and lotus seeds, 10g each of wolfberry and lily of the valley, 30g of yam, boil the porridge and take it every day for breakfast) 3) sweet potato: more than a decade ago, American biologists found that sweet potatoes contain chemicals that can be used to prevent colon cancer and breast cancer. 1996, the Japanese National Cancer Prevention Institute conducted a statistical survey on the relationship between the dietary life of 260,000 people and cancer. Through the analysis and study of more than 40 kinds of vegetables anti-cancer ingredients, listed 20 kinds of vegetables with significant inhibitory effect on cancer, cooked sweet potatoes listed first, 98.7%, raw sweet potatoes listed second, 94.4%, which shows the anti-cancer power of sweet potatoes. Sweet potato porridge: sweet potato 250g, japonica rice 10g sugar 10g. sweet potato and persimmon should not be eaten at the same time in a short period of time, if the amount of food, should be at least five hours apart. If consumed at the same time, the sugar in sweet potatoes in the stomach fermentation, will increase the secretion of gastric acid, and persimmons in the tannin, pectin reaction precipitation cohesion, resulting in hard lumps, the amount of serious gastrointestinal bleeding or gastric ulcers. (4) soybeans: soybeans contain at least five kinds of anti-cancer substances. One of them is similar to the action of a drug used clinically for the treatment of estrogen-dependent breast cancer, so it has a preventive effect on breast cancer. 5) Kombu: Kombu in Chinese medicine is the kelp that we usually eat. It is salty in taste and cold in nature, and has the function of eliminating phlegm and softening hardness, draining heat and promoting water. Seaweed foods like kelp, nori and wakame have certain anti-cancer effects. Studies have found that the blood of cancer patients is mostly acidic, and kelp is high in calcium, which can regulate and balance the pH of blood and play a role in cancer prevention; at the same time, it contains fiber that is not easily digestible, which can increase the amount of stool after eating and promote the excretion of certain carcinogens in the intestine, which is helpful for human cancer prevention and health care. Introduce you a kelp winter melon barley soup: 30g of kelp, 100g of winter melon, 10g of barley, cook the soup and adjust the taste with a small amount of sugar. It has the effect of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, benefiting dampness and strengthening the spleen, and preventing cancer. (Can be used to treat endemic goiter, thyroid tumors, but should be used with caution for patients with hyperthyroidism) 6) Broccoli: plants of the cruciferous family, including broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, purple kale, are anti-cancer foods. Some studies have shown that regular consumption of the above vegetables can reduce the threat of gastrointestinal tumors and breast cancer. The active substance in these vegetables is neither a vitamin nor a mineral, but a complex. However, this active ingredient is lost when cooking, so when we cook, these types of vegetables should not be cooked too long. Kale juice: 300g of purple kale, 15g of sugar, wash the kale and then rinse it with cold boiling water and dry it slightly; squeeze about 150ml of juice from it. Suitable for patients with stomach pain when drinking. (7) Bitter tea: in the four natures, it belongs to the great cold, can evacuate wind and clear heat, produce body fluid to quench thirst, detoxify and remove annoyance. Bitter tea has lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, for nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer inhibitory effect. Boiling it in water for external washing can also treat many skin diseases. Because bitter tea has a large cold properties, so some patients with a fear of cold, cold body, should not drink bitter tea, in addition to the spleen and stomach cold people, abdominal pain and diarrhea, drinking bitter tea will also aggravate these symptoms. 8) Carrots: Carrots have long been considered a healthful food that contains a large amount of carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A needed by the body, and also contains a natural anti-cancer compound. Researchers found that a cooked, whole carrot contained 25 percent more of the cancer-fighting compound than a cut carrot. Cut carrots increase the surface area in contact with water, which results in a loss of nutrients. Also, during the boiling and softening process, the vitamins in its cell walls are more likely to dissolve in large quantities in the water. Therefore, when we consume carrots, it is better to cook them whole or cut them into cubes rather than slicing or shredding them. Vitamin A, one of the active ingredients of carrots, is easily dissolved in vegetable oil or animal fat, so we advocate carrot stew with beef, thus improving the absorption of vitamin A. For some patients who are already suffering from tumor, one kind of people think that the more nutritious things they eat, the faster the tumor cells will grow; if they don’t eat nutritious things, they can “starve” the tumor cells; they are afraid of eating things that we call “hairy things”, so they don’t even dare to eat meat. There are some patients who are at the other end of the spectrum and take a lot of supplements in order to improve their ability to fight diseases. These are some misunderstandings of diet. In fact, tumor patients need a good body for surgery and radiotherapy, without a good physical strength, it is difficult to bear the surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen nutrition properly in tumor treatment. The diet of cancer patients should be reasonable, emphasize balanced, match meat and vegetables, mix coarse and fine food, not to generalize what to eat mechanically, harshly control what not to eat, not to force too much protein, fat and so on. The above are just the attentions of cancer patients in terms of diet, but ultimately they are auxiliary cancer treatment, and the final treatment depends on standardized and comprehensive treatment.