Lung cancer patients often eat water chestnuts and lotus seeds to help recovery

In addition to actively cooperating with doctors' treatment, lung cancer patients should also pay attention to their daily diet. Studies have found that eating water chestnuts and lotus seeds regularly can help lung cancer patients recover.

Water Chestnut

Water chestnuts are cold in nature and sweet in taste. They can clear away heat, promote the production of body fluid, resolve phlegm, and eliminate stagnation. "Compendium of Materia Medica" has long recorded that "water chestnuts can treat five types of choking". "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Water chestnuts are the best medicine for eliminating stagnation. It is best to use them together with turtle shells, and it does not consume true energy." Water chestnuts have an anti-tumor effect in animals. Since water chestnuts contain anti-cancer substances, eating water chestnuts is beneficial to the recovery of lung cancer patients. Use 60g of fresh water chestnuts and 30g of jellyfish, stew them in boiling water and take them. When symptoms of phlegm and heat appear or cancer patients have body fluid damage, heat and thirst after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, it is advisable to eat water chestnuts. This is beneficial to relieve the condition and improve symptoms.

Lotus seeds

Lotus seeds are mild in nature and sweet in taste. They nourish the heart, benefit the kidneys, and strengthen the spleen. The Song Dynasty's "Illustrated Materia Medica" records: "Lotus seeds are mashed and mixed with rice to make porridge and rice, which can lighten the body, benefit the qi, and make people strong." Lung cancer patients and those who are weak after radiotherapy and chemotherapy should eat lotus seeds regularly. Modern pharmacology has found that the oxidized oxaline contained in lotus seeds has the effect of inhibiting cancer. Lung cancer patients with low fever, dry cough, and those who are weak after radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cook lotus seeds with lily, yam, white fungus, and crystal sugar.

Tips: Lung cancer patients are advised to choose food rationally under the guidance of professional doctors.