What are the dietary treatments for advanced colorectal cancer?

The main manifestations of advanced colorectal cancer include: jaundice, ascites, edema and other signs of liver metastasis, as well as cachexia, rectal fossa masses, supraclavicular lymph node enlargement and other manifestations of distant tumor spread and metastasis. For patients with advanced colorectal cancer, most have lost the opportunity for surgery. The side effects of systemic radiotherapy and chemotherapy are extremely severe. These patients with advanced colorectal cancer are too weak to bear it. In addition, colorectal cancer is not very sensitive to chemotherapy. Therefore, patients with advanced colorectal cancer are recommended to be treated with traditional Chinese medicine, and diet therapy is one of them.
Treatment of advanced colorectal cancer

In ancient medicine, colorectal cancer belongs to the category of "mass accumulation", and its causes are mostly spleen weakness, evil toxins stagnation in the body and long-term disease. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes "treating the root of the disease", and the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer mainly adopts Qi-invigorating spleen, unblocking meridians and dispersing masses as the main treatment methods. For patients with advanced colorectal cancer who have recurred and metastasized after surgery or whose metastases are extensive and cannot be removed at all, this method has the advantages of small side effects and obvious improvement of symptoms, which prolongs the patient's survival time and significantly improves the quality of life.

——Heat and toxic congestion type: 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.

Hawthorn and Panax notoginseng porridge for dietary therapy: 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.

——Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: abdominal distension and pain, hard abdominal lumps, purple or bloody stools, or tenesmus, dark purple tongue or ecchymosis, thin yellow tongue coating, and thready and wiry pulse.

Dietary therapeutic medicinal food soup with water chestnut, coix seed, Panax notoginseng and lean pork: 15 water chestnuts, 20 grams of coix seed, 5 grams of Panax notoginseng, 60 grams of lean pork (chopped), add water and boil until cooked, add appropriate amount of salt and drink.

——Liver-stomach Yin deficiency type: dull abdominal pain, palpable lumps, dry and hard stools like grains or small and flat, bitter and dry mouth, poor appetite or vomiting, red tongue, and thready and rapid pulse.

Double ginseng and pig marrow soup for carbuncle: 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula (cut into small pieces and wrapped in gauze), about 200 grams of sea cucumber (soaked), 50 grams of kelp, 500 grams of pig spine with marrow and meat (chopped into small pieces), add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, simmer for another 3 hours, add salt to taste, remove the Codonopsis pilosula residue and the medicine bag, drink the soup and eat the meat as a side dish.

The above is an introduction to "What are the dietary treatments for late-stage colorectal cancer?" For people who are related to the pathogenic factors of colorectal cancer, it is recommended to take preventive measures against colorectal cancer. If you have other questions about colorectal cancer, please consult our experts online or call for consultation.

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