Diet therapy that helps improve discomfort in patients with colon cancer

The incidence of colon cancer has been on the rise in recent years. During the patient's hospitalization or recuperation after discharge, family members can prepare delicious symptomatic food therapy to improve the patient's weak constitution and enhance the body's nutrition.

Patients with weak temper

Symptoms: decreased appetite, weight loss and fatigue, sallow complexion, dizziness and palpitations, or swelling of both lower limbs.

Recipe: Seabass and Astragalus Soup

Ingredients: 500g sea bass, 30g astragalus, 30g yam, 6g tangerine peel, 4 slices of ginger.

Preparation method: Remove the scales, intestines and gills of the sea bass, wash and cut into pieces; wash the astragalus, Chinese yam and tangerine peel. Put all the ingredients into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1 hour and season.

Usage: Drink the soup and eat the meat.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and replenishes Qi, stimulates appetite and regulates the stomach.

Patients with Qi blockage

Symptoms: Colorectal cancer causes abdominal distension, dull pain, loss of appetite, irregular bowel movements, increased flatulence, white tongue coating and wiry pulse.

Recipe: Radish and Job's tears porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of white radish, 60 grams of coix seeds, and 50 grams of polished rice.

Preparation method: Wash the coix seeds and glutinous rice and set aside; wash and slice the white radish, boil it in a pot for 10 minutes, add the coix seeds and glutinous rice, and cook into thick porridge.

Usage: Take in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: Regulates qi and relaxes the intestines, strengthens the spleen and aids digestion, fights cancer and strengthens the body.