Diet therapy relieves discomfort symptoms of colorectal cancer patients

Patients with colorectal cancer often suffer from diarrhea and bloody stools. After surgery or radiotherapy, patients are weak. In order to avoid adverse effects of drugs on the patient's body, diet therapy can be used to alleviate the symptoms.

Yam Antidiarrhea Cake

Ingredients: 250g fresh yam, 150g red bean, 30g gorgon rice, 20g white lentil, 20g poria, 4 black plums, and appropriate amounts of fruit and sugar.

Preparation method: Grind red beans and add appropriate amount of sugar, grind Poria cocos, white lentils and Euryale ferox into fine powder, add water and steam until cooked. Peel fresh yam, steam until cooked, add the above powder and mix well into a paste, put a layer of fresh yam powder paste and a layer of bean paste on a plate, about 6 layers, garnish the top layer with appropriate amount of fruit, and steam again. Boil black plums and sugar into a juice and pour it on the steamed cake.

Usage: Can be taken several times at will.

Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, relieve diarrhea in patients with intestinal cancer, and also has the function of stimulating appetite and digesting food.

Lily Porridge

Ingredients: 60 grams each of water chestnut and lily.

Preparation: Add the above two herbs into rice porridge and cook them into porridge.

Usage: Can be taken as a main meal for patients.

Efficacy: Relieve diarrhea symptoms.

Chaihu Guizhi Yin

Ingredients: 25g Bupleurum, 10g Ginseng, 20g Pinellia, 15g Cinnamon, 10g Scutellaria, 10g White Peony, 10g Ginger, 10g Jujube, 6g Licorice, 20g Sugar

Preparation: Wash the above medicines, put them into an aluminum pot and add appropriate amount of water. Put the aluminum pot on high heat to boil, simmer for 20 minutes on low heat, stop the heat, filter out the residue, add sugar to the liquid and stir well.

Usage: Take 50 grams three times a day.

Efficacy: Anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Can relieve blood in stool and pain during defecation caused by intestinal cancer.