Diet therapy that can relieve cancer pain in patients with colorectal cancer

The high incidence of colorectal cancer has become a major threat to people's life and health. As the disease worsens, most patients experience systemic cancer pain. Cancer pain is a feeling caused by the transmission of information that the painful area needs to be repaired or adjusted to the nerve center. It often occurs in the late stages of colorectal cancer. For patients with mild cancer pain, diet therapy can be used to provide slight relief.

Rhubarb and Red Dates Tea

Ingredients: 6 grams of raw rhubarb, 20 red dates.

Preparation: Clean the raw rhubarb, dry it and cut it into thin slices. Soak the red dates in a casserole with enough water, boil over high heat, then simmer for 40 minutes over low heat. Add the boiled jujube juice to the rhubarb slices, or directly put the rhubarb slices into the jujube decoction. Remove the casserole from the heat and let it stand for a while.

Usage: Take in 2 doses, drink the soup, chew rhubarb slices and red dates.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and dampness, relieves pain. Suitable for abdominal distension and pain caused by heat accumulation and qi stagnation in intestinal cancer.

Yunnan Baiyao with Garlic and Cabbage

Ingredients: 2 grams of Yunnan Baiyao, 50 grams of purple garlic, and 100 grams of cabbage.

Preparation: First, break open the cabbage leaves, wash them, rinse them with warm water, cut them into shreds, put them in a bowl, add salt and knead them evenly. Remove the skin of the purple garlic, wash and chop the garlic cloves, chop them into a paste, put them in a bowl, add the cabbage shreds and Yunnan Baiyao, add soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, sesame oil and a little shredded ginger, mix them evenly and it’s done.

Usage: Serve as a side dish with meals, eat as you like, eat shredded cabbage, chew minced garlic, and eat beautiful shredded cabbage, and finish on the same day.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, removes blood stasis and fights cancer.