About the diet of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients

When treating any disease, it is necessary to maintain a good diet to better alleviate the condition. Nasopharyngeal cancer patients also need to maintain a good diet during treatment. Next, let’s take a look at the diet of nasopharyngeal cancer patients.

In the diet of nasopharyngeal cancer patients, please pay attention to avoid alcohol, spicy, hot and irritating foods, control high-fat diet and low-fiber foods, and try to eat less fried, smoked, grilled and pickled foods. In daily life, you should pay attention to reasonable nutrition, try to diversify your food, eat more high-protein, multi-vitamin, low-animal fat, easily digestible foods and fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat stale, spoiled or irritating foods, eat less smoked, grilled, pickled, fried and overly salty foods, and match coarse and fine grains in the staple food to ensure nutritional balance. Next, I will introduce several dietary therapies for nasopharyngeal cancer patients:

(1) Honey Lung-Moistening and Cough-Relief Pills: Take equal parts of beehive and silkworm pupae, and an appropriate amount of honey. Grind the three herbs into powder, and make pills with refined honey. Take 2 times a day, 6 grams each time. It moistens the lungs, resolves phlegm, and relieves swelling. It is suitable for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have obvious cough.

(2) Licorice and pear stewed with pig lungs: 10 grams of licorice, 2 pears, and about 250 grams of pig lungs. Peel the pears and cut them into pieces. Wash the pig lungs and cut them into slices. Squeeze out the foam and put them in a casserole with the licorice. Add a little rock sugar and an appropriate amount of water and simmer over low heat for 3 hours before serving. Take once a day. It has the effect of moistening the lungs and removing phlegm. It is suitable for people with persistent coughs.

(3) Rock sugar almond paste: 15g sweet almonds, 3g bitter almonds, 50g polished rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Soak the sweet almonds and bitter almonds in water until soft, peel them, mash them, add polished rice, water and rock sugar, and cook into a thick porridge. Eat it once every other day. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and removing phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and moistening the intestines.

(4) Ginkgo and Red Dates Porridge: 25g of ginkgo, 20 red dates, and 50g of glutinous rice. Cook the ginkgo, red dates, and glutinous rice together to make porridge. Take it warm on an empty stomach in the morning or evening. It has the effects of detoxification and swelling.

(5) Angelica dahurica stewed with bird's nest: 9 grams of Angelica dahurica, 9 grams of bird's nest, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Stew the Angelica dahurica and bird's nest until they are very soft, filter out the residue. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar to season and stew for a while. Take 1 to 2 times a day. It has the effect of nourishing the lungs and yin, relieving cough and stopping bleeding.

(6) Steamed duck with ginkgo: 200g ginkgo nuts, 1 white duck. Shell the ginkgo nuts, boil them in boiling water, peel and pistil, blanch them in boiling water and mix them with the boneless duck. Add clear soup and steam for 2 hours until the duck is cooked. It can be eaten frequently, as it has the effects of tonifying deficiency, relieving asthma, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It is suitable for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal cancer who have difficulty breathing, general weakness and excessive phlegm.

(7) Schisandra stewed with meat: 50g Schisandra, appropriate amount of duck or lean pork. Steam or stew the Schisandra with the meat, and add seasoning as appropriate. Take the meat, medicine, and soup together to nourish the lungs and kidneys, relieve cough and asthma, and is suitable for patients with kidney deficiency type of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

(8) Lotus seed chicken: 15g lotus seed, chicken, duck or pork. Stew the lotus seed and meat until cooked, then add appropriate seasoning. Regular consumption can nourish the lungs, replenish qi and promote the production of body fluids. Suitable for patients with nasopharyngeal cancer who have insufficient qi and blood.

(9) Winter melon peel and broad bean soup: 60 grams of winter melon peel, 60 grams of winter melon seeds, and 60 grams of broad beans. Put the above ingredients into a pot, add 3 bowls of water and simmer until 1 bowl is left. Add appropriate seasonings and serve. Remove the residue and drink. It has the effects of removing dampness, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling. It is suitable for patients with nasopharyngeal cancer and pleural effusion.

(10) Ginger beef rice: 100-150g fresh beef, 50g ginger, 500g rice, a little soy sauce, peanut oil, scallion and ginger. Preparation: Wash the fresh beef and chop it into minced meat. Squeeze out about two tablespoons of ginger juice, add it to the beef, then add soy sauce, peanut oil and chopped scallion and mix well for later use. Wash the rice and boil it in water until it is 80% cooked, then remove and drain. Mix well and steam in a steamer for 1 hour.

(11) Sheep bone porridge: Ingredients: 2 sheep bones (weighing about 100 grams), 100 grams of polished rice or glutinous rice, a little salt, ginger, and scallion. Usage: First, wash the sheep bones and pound them into small pieces (such as the size of a ping-pong ball), add water and boil, take the soup and cook it with the washed polished rice (or glutinous rice) into porridge, add salt after the porridge is cooked, and it is ready to eat.

I hope you can recover soon and eat properly under the guidance of a doctor in a regular hospital.