What herbal diets are commonly used in patients with vasculitis?

Vasculitis, known as “Thromboembolic Vasculitis”, is a kind of stubborn vascular disease. Thromboembolic vasculitis is categorized as “gangrene” in Chinese medicine. The high-risk groups for developing vasculitis are smokers (especially young and middle-aged men), people with mental stress, people with unbalanced nutrition, people living in cold and humid areas, and people with family genetic factors. It occurs mostly in men between the ages of 20 and 40 and is rare in women. Vasculitis can be treated by activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis through traditional Chinese medicine. We know that one of the best ways to treat vasculitis in Chinese medicine is medicinal diet, i.e., food therapy. Dietary therapy is to prevent and cure diseases through daily diet, which is a unique treatment method in China for many years. Many diseases can be improved through dietary therapy, and the same is true for patients with vasculitis. To achieve good results, must be in accordance with the identification of Chinese medicine to add some targeted drugs. 1, qi and blood deficiency type patients (body thinness and fatigue, muscle atrophy of the affected limbs, skin wrinkles and flaking, wounds for a long time) should eat nutritious, easy to digest food, such as lean meat, eggs, milk and so on. Beef can be stewed with Codonopsis, Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala and jujube. 2, blood stasis and blockage type phlebitis patients (like warmth and fear of cold, pale skin at the end of the toes, persistent swelling and pain, no ulcers), can eat ginger and mutton soup, duck, deer blood, mountain ballast, cinnamon sticks, cinnamon meat; avoid cold. 3.Patients with heat toxicity injury type phlebitis (recurrent wandering thrombophlebitis, toe end can be gangrenous and ulcer), it is advisable to eat heat detoxification, easy to digest food, such as mung bean, azuki bean, tea, pear, watermelon, horse tooth forage and so on. Chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle dew or decoction of lotus leaves, bamboo leaves and fresh plantain can be used instead of water.