Dietary taboos for liver cancer

Liver cancer patients should avoid all irritating and toxic foods. Avoid alcohol, high-fat foods, peppers, garlic, leeks, sow meat, beef, mutton, dog meat, shrimp, crabs, etc. In the late stage of liver cancer, esophageal varices, to prevent injury and bleeding, do not eat fried, roasted, smoked, hard, crispy, or crude fiber-containing foods, and chew slowly.

Dietary taboos

1. Patients with liver depression and spleen deficiency syndrome should 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 leek, onion, garlic, chili, pepper, Sichuan pepper, mustard, ginger, etc.; cold fruits and vegetables, such as raw cucumbers, raw radishes, raw tomatoes, watermelons, pears, raw water chestnuts, bananas, persimmons, etc.; all kinds of cold drinks, beer, green tea, and coffee are absolutely forbidden.

2. Patients with damp-heat toxicity syndrome are strictly prohibited from eating warm foods, such as peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, leeks, coriander, pickled mustard tubers, pumpkin, sword beans, cooked peanuts, longans, coconuts, bayberries, lychees, apricots, peaches, cherries, walnuts, pomegranates, etc.; they are prohibited from eating 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.; they are prohibited from drinking alcohol, and it is not advisable to drink black tea and coffee.

3. Patients with blood stasis and toxic accumulation syndrome should avoid eating fishy and stomach-injurious foods, such as beef, mutton, dog meat, chicken, duck meat, quail meat, pork, goat milk, cheese, turtle, mandarin fish, sea cucumber, crab, clam, conch, jellyfish, scallops, lobster, prawns, river shrimp, river crab, snake meat, etc.; avoid eating pomegranates, persimmons, chestnuts, etc.; absolutely avoid alcohol and strong tea.

4. Patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency syndrome should avoid warm 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, leek, garlic, scallion, onion, chili, Sichuan pepper, pepper, cooked peanuts, etc.; avoid or eat less rice vinegar, sugar, grapes, sugar cane, bananas, persimmons, pomegranates, black plums, walnuts, etc.; all kinds of cold drinks, beer, alcohol, strong tea, and coffee are strictly prohibited.