How to recover and care for liver cancer patients? Dietary taboos for liver cancer from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine

Liver cancer usually does not have obvious symptoms in the early stages of the disease, so it is often ignored by many patients. Once discovered, it may have reached the middle or late stages. Therefore, for the sake of personal health, no matter what condition your body is in, you must pay attention to early diagnosis and treatment, especially after treatment, you must pay attention to rehabilitation care.

How to carry out rehabilitation care for liver cancer patients? Let’s see how authoritative experts introduce it:

(1) First of all, we would like to remind you that you should stay in bed and rest after surgery. Sufficient rest will help your body recover better, reduce the burden on your liver, and help repair your liver and restore liver function. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, do appropriate exercise, such as jogging, walking, etc., avoid fatigue and heavy physical activities, and pay attention to self-protection.

(2) Everyone should understand the importance of a healthy diet. They should eat a light diet, eat at regular times and in regular amounts. They should also eat a moderate amount of high-calorie, vitamin-rich, low-fat foods. They should avoid eating fried, raw, cold, spicy, and other irritating foods. They should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and quit smoking and drinking.

(3) Remind liver cancer patients to pay attention to regular liver function checks, B-ultrasound, and CT scans during the recovery period.

(4) During the period of liver cancer care, it is important to keep the patient’s mood stable. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that “anger hurts the liver”. Try to avoid mental stress and emotional excitement, maintain a good mood, cooperate with all treatments and care with a positive and optimistic attitude, and recover as soon as possible.

Dietary taboos for patients with liver cancer

(1) Liver depression and spleen deficiency. Avoid eating fatty and sweet foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, fatty meat, milk, fried foods, soy products, pumpkin, red dates, peanuts, chestnuts, etc.; spicy foods, such as leeks, onions, garlic, chili peppers, peppers, prickly ash, mustard, ginger, etc.; avoid eating cold fruits and vegetables, such as raw cucumbers, raw radishes, raw tomatoes, watermelons, pears, raw water chestnuts, bananas, persimmons, etc.; absolutely avoid drinking all kinds of cold drinks, beer, green tea, and coffee.

(2) Damp-heat toxicity syndrome. It is strictly forbidden to eat warm foods, such as peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, leeks, coriander, mustard tubers, pumpkin, sword beans, cooked peanuts, longans, coconuts, bayberries, lychees, apricots, peaches, cherries, walnuts, pomegranates, etc.; it is forbidden to eat fishy and greasy foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chicken, shrimp, crab, quail meat, snake meat, hairtail, eel, carp, grass carp, silver carp, etc.; it is forbidden to drink alcohol, and it is not advisable to drink black tea and coffee.

(3) Blood stasis and toxicity. Avoid eating foods that are fishy and irritating to the stomach, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chicken, duck, quail meat, pork, goat milk, cheese, turtle, mandarin fish, sea cucumber, crab, clam, conch, jellyfish, scallop, lobster, prawn, river shrimp, river crab, snake meat, etc.; avoid eating pomegranates, persimmons, chestnuts, etc.; absolutely avoid alcohol and strong tea.

(4) Liver and kidney yin deficiency. Avoid hot and spicy foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, rabbit meat, rooster meat, shrimp, crab, goat milk, cow milk, clams, conchs, oysters, snail meat, black fish, snake meat, leeks, garlic, green onions, onions, chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, peppercorns, cooked peanuts, etc.; avoid or eat less rice vinegar, sugar, grapes, sugar cane, bananas, persimmons, pomegranates, black plums, walnuts, etc.; strictly prohibit all kinds of cold drinks, beer, alcohol, strong tea, and coffee.