Diet therapy for patients with bone marrow suppression after chemotherapy

Zhou Ming will have chemotherapy in a few days. When the doctor told him the news, his face changed drastically, because he also knew something about chemotherapy and knew that chemotherapy would produce a series of toxic side effects, and the most serious one was bone marrow suppression, which would lead to problems such as decreased pericytes and decreased immunity.

However, Zhou Ming was also prepared. He had long ago asked his doctor about a dietary therapy method for relieving bone marrow suppression during chemotherapy. He started to eat it from now on to help himself get through the difficult times. Because he usually likes to eat fish, the dietary therapy recipe he asked about was "Guiqi Eel Soup".

The raw materials are 10g of angelica, 30g of astragalus, 500g of eel, and seasonings such as onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt, and MSG.

Method: First, wash the angelica and astragalus, dry them, put them in a gauze bag, tie the bag tightly, and set aside. Then kill the yellow eel, scald it with warm water, squeeze it out and cut it open, remove the bones, internal organs, head and tail, wash it with clean water, and cut it into shreds. Put the wok on the fire, add vegetable oil and heat it until it is 60% cooked, add scallion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, add the eel shreds, stir-fry over high heat, add cooking wine, stir-fry until it is 80% cooked, remove it, put it in a bowl, and set aside. Then boil the angelica and astragalus medicine bag with clean water over high heat, then simmer it over low heat for 30 minutes, take out the medicine bag, filter out the medicine residue, add chopped scallion, ginger, soy sauce, and salt. After boiling, pour in the eel shreds, simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, add MSG and five-spice powder, and thicken it with wet starch to make a simmer.

Usage: Serve as a side dish with meals, take as you like, eat the eel shreds and drink the soup, and finish on the same day.

Efficacy: nourishing qi and blood, enhancing immune function. It can be used for bone cancer chemotherapy or qi and blood deficiency after surgery, decreased immune function, etc.