Dietary principles for patients with colorectal cancer

Diseases like colorectal cancer are very serious and difficult to treat. In fact, the main cause of colorectal cancer is due to improper diet, but proper diet can also alleviate the pain caused by colorectal cancer. So what is the dietary treatment for colorectal cancer?

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-colorectal cancer effects, such as soft-shelled turtle, horseshoe crab, sheep's blood, quail, agar-agar, eucheuma, walnut, coix seed, arrowhead, taro, fig, water chestnut, asparagus, and carrot.

(2) For patients with tenesmus, it is advisable to eat hedgehog meat, wild boar meat, kohlrabi, taro, black plum, bayberry, fig, loofah, and bitter melon.

(3) Eat more foods that enhance immunity: tomatoes, honey, sweet almonds, carrots, asparagus, sword beans, lentils, yam, sturgeon, conger eel, pomfret, grass carp, yellow croaker, sea cucumber, shrimp, crab, lobster, shiitake mushrooms, and black fungus.

(4) It is advisable to eat more foods that have the function of expelling pus and detoxifying: loofah, wax gourd, sweet almonds, peach kernels, buckwheat, water shield, rapeseed, kohlrabi, houttuynia cordata, walnuts, thistles, snake meat, pork kidney, crow meat, crucian carp, clams, and snail meat.

(5) For symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloody stools, diarrhea, constipation, and loss of appetite, please refer to the relevant content on small intestinal tumors.

(6) Foods that reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy: soft-shelled turtle, tortoise, pigeon, quail, goose blood, mud snail, catfish, loach, clam, grass carp, kiwi, fig, apple, orange, mung bean, red bean, black soybean, coix seed, walnut, shiitake mushroom, and loofah.