Lung cancer recovery and food choices

  Clinical features Lung cancer or primary bronchial cancer is the most common primary malignant tumor of the lung. In the early stage, patients often have chest pain, cough, coughing sputum, persistent blood in sputum or sometimes blood, or even hemoptysis, accompanied by chest tightness, breath, wheezing and fever. In the later stage, coughing without sputum or vomiting blood clots, pleural fluid, cachexia and emaciation may occur. In addition, the cancer may spread to the pleura, mediastinal lymph nodes, brain, central nervous system, bones, liver and other parts, causing lesions in corresponding parts.  Rehabilitation care 1. First of all, you should quit smoking, because smoking can inhibit the cilia movement of airways and weaken the phagocytosis of macrophages in alveoli. There is a close relationship between smoking and the incidence of lung cancer. According to some statistics, the mortality rate of cancer in smokers is 75% higher than that of nonsmokers, and the daily smoking amount of smokers is also related to the risk of liver cancer; compared with nonsmokers, the risk of lung cancer is three times higher for those who smoke 1-9 cigarettes per day. Those who smoke 10-19 cigarettes a day are 9 times more likely to have lung cancer; those who smoke 20-39 cigarettes a day are 15 times more likely to have lung cancer; those who smoke more than 40 cigarettes a day are 20 times more likely to have lung cancer than non-smokers.  2.It is advisable to use foods that can enhance the immunity of the body and help drugs inhibit cancer cells, such as sweet almond, coix seed, rhubarb, oyster, sea jelly, sea turtle, clam, sea cucumber, sea buckthorn, etc.  3.It is also possible to use foods with cough, antipyretic, hemostatic, smooth gas, broad chest and pain relieving effects. To reduce pain and enhance confidence in treatment.  4, according to Chinese medicine to identify the disease, choose the corresponding food. Such as irritating choking cough, available white fruit, radish, capers, bitter almonds, olives, etc.; sputum thick and difficult to get out, available sea jelly, water chestnut, coix, seaweed, nori, etc.; concurrent infection, can choose winter melon, coix, loofah, radish, buckwheat, etc.; fever with cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon, lettuce, lily, amaranth, fishy grass, horsetail, watermelon, olive, green fish, etc.; coughing blood, with plum, lotus root, sugar cane For coughing blood, use plum, lotus root, sugar cane, pear, sea jelly, sea cucumber, lotus seed, kelp, tofu, caper, eggplant, milk, crucian carp, snapper, tamari, etc. Temporarily prohibit warm leek, onion, garlic, chili, mutton, dog, etc. For those with significant chest pain, use rape, loofah, kiwi, walnuts, buckwheat, bitter almonds, eggplant, mustard, orange, orange, carp, etc. And you can add onion, garlic, ginger, etc. in the dishes.  5.During radiotherapy, you can choose shepherd’s purse, tofu, coix seeds, bitter almonds, lily, sea jelly, etc. During chemotherapy, you can choose goose blood, mushrooms, cinnamon, eels, walnuts, snapper, turtle, gourd, etc. to protect white blood cells; choose carp, silverfish, fathead fish, grass carp, mung beans, adzuki beans, lentils, etc. to protect digestive function.  Food selection 1, the choice of staple foods General rice, noodles cooking any of the easily digestible staple foods, buckwheat noodles, oats, etc.. Avoid undigestible rice and pasta products, avoid non-fermented pasta; avoid too sweet and greasy staple foods.  2.Choice of meat It is advisable to use meat foods that can enhance resistance and help fight cancer, such as oyster, yellowtail, carp, sea turtle, goose, chicken, snapper, turtle, silverfish, fathead fish, grass carp, eel, quail, pork, chicken, beef, etc.  3. Choice of vegetables When coughing is the main cause, radish, winter melon, purple cabbage and loofah can be used; when accompanied by fever, cucumber, bitter melon, loofah, capers and eggplant can be used. Hemoptysis is also the first symptom of the disease, so you can choose kelp, lotus root, mustard, eggplant, spinach, etc. Avoid spicy and stimulating vegetables such as chili, garlic, leek, onion, etc. Lung cancer patients should be cautious of using raw and cold unclean things, such as cold dishes, cold drinks, seafood and other raw and cold foods.  Fruits are rich in vitamins and folic acid, which can protect human tissues from cancer invasion and treat cancer. Patients with lung cancer should use the following fruits: pear – has the function of moistening lung and relieving cough and phlegm; white fruit – has the function of astringent lung and fixing asthma; persimmon – moistening lung; sugar cane – its juice can moisten dryness and stop cough; lily – sedative and cough. As well as lemon, olive, watermelon, pineapple, plum, mulberry seeds, peach, orange, orange, etc.