What to do about Sjögren's syndrome? Treatment of Sjögren's syndrome

For a disease like Sjögren's syndrome, we can alleviate the symptoms of the disease through dietary adjustments. Foods like chrysanthemum porridge, ophiopogon porridge, pear porridge, sesame porridge, and peanut porridge are all very good, and you can eat more of them appropriately.

1. Chrysanthemum porridge

Regular consumption of chrysanthemum porridge has a good effect on the treatment of Sjögren's syndrome. Boil 50 grams of chrysanthemum in water, and then cook it with 100 grams of japonica rice into porridge. It has the effects of clearing away summer heat, dispersing wind-heat, clearing liver fire, and improving eyesight. It has certain effects on wind-heat colds, irritability, dry throat, red and swollen eyes, etc.

2. Ophiopogon japonicus porridge

Use 20-30 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, decoct the soup to extract the juice, then cook porridge with 100 grams of polished rice until it is half cooked, then add the Ophiopogon japonicus juice and appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook together. Ophiopogon japonicus can nourish yin and produce body fluid, and is effective for symptoms such as lung dryness, dry cough, and little sputum.

3. Pear porridge

Patients with Sjögren's syndrome can eat more pear porridge, which has a good therapeutic effect. Take 2 pears, wash them, chop them into pieces with the skin and core, add 100 grams of polished rice and cook porridge. This porridge has the effects of promoting body fluid and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and can be used as a health food in autumn.

4. Sesame porridge

Wash an appropriate amount of black sesame seeds, dry them, fry them and grind them into powder. Take 30 grams each time and cook them into porridge with 100 grams of polished rice. Sesame can moisten the five internal organs and replenish deficiency qi.

5. Peanut porridge

45 grams of peanuts with skin, 60 grams of glutinous rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Crush the peanuts with skin on and put them into a casserole together with the glutinous rice and rock sugar. Add an appropriate amount of water to cook porridge. Eat it on an empty stomach every morning to strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs.

6. Fungus porridge

Fungus porridge can also be used to treat Sjögren's syndrome. Soak 5-10 grams of white fungus until it swells, add 100 grams of polished rice and 3-5 jujubes and cook into porridge. White fungus is sweet and mild in nature, and has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the stomach and promoting salivation.

7. Red Flower Hawthorn Cake

15 grams of safflower, 500 grams of hawthorn, and 500 grams of rock sugar. Boil the safflower to extract the juice, add the pitted hawthorn and rock sugar, cook until it is soft, and then cool it down and solidify into blocks, which are ready to eat. It can invigorate blood circulation and produce body fluid.