Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Liver Cancer Patients through Syndrome Differentiation

The incidence of liver cancer is very high in our country. The conditioning of all aspects of the patient's body after surgery is crucial to the patient's prognosis. Traditional Chinese medicine can provide syndrome differentiation and care based on the patient's different conditions, which can help patients recover their health better.

Liver stasis and spleen deficiency type

This type of patient may experience liver pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, chest tightness and chills, etc. The key points of nursing are to soothe the liver and regulate qi, and to invigorate qi and strengthen the spleen. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver likes to be smooth and hates depression, so patients should maintain an optimistic attitude and not sit in depression, worry, or be nervous. Family members should care and enlighten from many aspects.

The diet should consist of high-calorie, easily digestible light food. Those with poor appetite and severe vomiting can use appetizers such as tangerine peel, amomum villosum, and bamboo shavings, decocted in water and drunk as tea, which helps increase appetite and alleviate symptoms.

Liver and gallbladder damp-heat type

Patients of this type may experience bitter taste in the mouth, phlegm in the mouth with a sticky feeling, loss of appetite, soreness, heaviness and weakness, dizziness and swelling of the head. Nursing should be based on the principle of clearing heat and removing dampness. The diet should be as light as possible, and can be combined with Chinese medicine that clears heat and removes dampness, stimulates appetite and strengthens the spleen to make food therapy, such as grinding a proper amount of coix seed into powder and mixing it with water for cooked food; those with severe thirst can use Liuyi powder to soak in water instead of tea; observe urination, protect the abdomen, and prevent external impact or fall that may cause liver rupture; do not use hot compresses when there is abdominal pain; use 10g of raw rhubarb to soak in water instead of tea when the abdomen is full and the stool is blocked to eliminate turbidity, dampness and heat

Heat-toxic Yin-damaging type

Nursing should be based on the principle of nourishing yin and clearing heat. You can use raw rehmannia juice and polished rice to cook porridge to nourish yin, produce body fluid and clear heat. Patients with ascites should strictly control their salt intake. Those with severe abdominal pain or even bleeding should fast and be guided by doctors for nursing. At the same time, ensure that patients get enough sleep and keep the patient's recuperation environment quiet and comfortable. For hot flashes and night sweats, you can use Artemisia capillaris and Artemisia annua to soak in water instead of tea. For patients with high fever, physical cooling and drug cooling can be used, such as alcohol bathing and oral administration of Angong Niuhuang Pills, etc., and pay attention to indoor air circulation. Those with constipation can eat honey to moisten the intestines or use suppositories externally to make the bowel smooth as much as possible to eliminate turbidity and dampness and remove heat toxins.