2 dietary treatments for stasis-type colorectal cancer

Traditional Chinese medicine has known about colorectal cancer for more than 2,000 years. Colorectal cancer is similar to diseases described in traditional Chinese medicine, such as "symptoms and masses", "accumulations", "visceral poisons", and "intestinal ulcers". As the tumor grows, it can cause blood stasis and internal obstruction of blood stasis and toxins. The auxiliary treatment with Chinese medicine and symptomatic diet therapy is effective.

Qi and blood stasis type

Symptoms: Qi and blood stasis, poor blood circulation, obvious stabbing pain in the abdomen, accompanied by abdominal distension, diarrhea, and tenesmus

Dietary precautions: Eat more foods that can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, promote qi movement and disperse stagnation, such as raw hawthorn, peach kernel, Panax notoginseng, safflower, green peel, tangerine peel, orange peel, rose, Chinese rose, tortoise shell, turtle shell, citron peel, and bergamot.

Dietary therapy: peach blossom porridge

Recipe: 10 grams of fairy peach petals and 30 grams of polished rice.

Preparation: Cook peach petals and glutinous rice into a thin porridge. Take it once every other day for 7 consecutive days.

Efficacy: Promotes qi and blood circulation, promotes diuresis and relieves constipation.

Stasis and toxicity type

Symptoms: Internal obstruction of toxicity and abdominal pain, loss of appetite, vomiting, loose stools or tenesmus, and bloody and mucous stools.

Dietary precautions: It is advisable to use peach kernels, brown sugar, rice wine, earthworms, beehives, oldenlandia diffusa, dandelions, angelica, Chuanxiong, Panax notoginseng, etc.

Dietary recipe: Kiwi pork soup

Recipe: 100 grams of fresh kiwi root and 200 grams of lean pork.

Preparation: Wash and slice the fresh kiwi fruit roots, fry for 50 minutes, remove the residue and take the concentrated juice. Wash and slice the lean pork, put it into the oil pan and stir-fry for a while, add the concentrated juice and appropriate amount of ginger slices, scallions and water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the pork is cooked, add salt and MSG, and boil again.

Efficacy: detoxification and anti-cancer, promoting blood circulation and relieving stranguria. Mainly used for intestinal cancer caused by internal stasis and toxicity.