TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Diet Therapy for Colon Cancer

In recent years, the incidence of colorectal cancer has increased year by year, and the auxiliary role of TCM syndrome differentiation and diet therapy in treatment has received more and more attention and attention. The right diet can improve the clinical treatment effect and help patients return to normal life as soon as possible.

TCM three types of syndrome differentiation and treatment:

1. Heat and toxicity congestion type

Clinical manifestations: abdominal distension and pain, increased frequency of bowel movements, often with pus, blood and mucus in the stool, poor appetite, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a stringy and thin pulse.

Recommended dietary therapy:

Hawthorn and Panax notoginseng porridge: 20 grams of hawthorn, 5 grams of Panax notoginseng (ground into powder), 60 grams of polished rice, 1 spoon of honey, add appropriate amount of water, cook into porridge and take twice a day.

2. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type

Clinical manifestations: abdominal distension and pain, hard abdominal masses, purple or bloody stools, or tenesmus, dark purple tongue or ecchymosis, thin yellow tongue coating, and thready and wiry pulse.

Recommended dietary therapy:

Pig blood and crucian carp porridge: 200g pig blood, 100g crucian carp, 100g rice. Remove the scales, intestines and gills of the crucian carp, cut into small pieces, and cook porridge with pig blood and rice. Eat 1-2 times a day.

3. Liver and stomach yin deficiency type

Clinical manifestations: dull abdominal pain, palpable lumps, dry and hard stools like grains or small and flat, bitter taste and dry mouth, poor appetite or vomiting, red tongue, and thready pulse.

Recommended medicated food for boils:

Fungus, golden needle and black-bone chicken drink: 15g fungus (soaked in water), 30g golden needle, 1 black-bone chicken (about 500g) with hair and internal organs removed. First stew the black-bone chicken for 1 hour, then add fungus and golden needle and stew until everything is cooked, season with salt and serve as a side dish.