What should liver cancer patients eat during chemotherapy? Introduction to folk remedies for liver cancer

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in my country, with an average age of 44. Liver cancer is highly malignant and develops rapidly. If treatment is not timely or the treatment plan is not properly selected, the average survival time is half a year. Liver cancer may be asymptomatic in the early stages. Once obvious symptoms appear, about one-third of patients are in the late stages. Patients will feel pain in the liver area, especially after meals, anorexia, enlarged liver, a mass in the right upper abdomen, unexplained weight loss, abdominal distension, diarrhea, intermittent fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, etc.

Diet for liver cancer patients during chemotherapy

Diet helps patients recover their health. During chemotherapy, liver cancer patients should choose some foods that can prevent and treat the side effects of chemotherapy. They can choose kiwi, asparagus, crucian carp, shrimp, crab, goose blood, jellyfish, catfish, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, quail, coix seed, mud snail, mung bean, day lily, apple, loofah, walnut, turtle, soft-shelled turtle, black plum, apricot cake, fig, etc.

Foods with high nutritional value and foods that improve immunity are very helpful for the recovery of liver cancer patients, such as black-bone chicken, quail, beef, rabbit meat, eggs, duck, tofu, knife fish, catfish, herring, yellow croaker, squid, crucian carp, pomfret, loach, shrimp, mussels, pork liver, sturgeon, etc. You should eat more foods rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin A. For example, celery, leek, garlic sprouts, onions, tomatoes, etc. In addition, soybeans contain rich nutrients such as fat, protein, minerals, vitamin E, phospholipids and unsaturated fatty acids, so you can eat more of them. Fruits such as watermelon, banana, orange, peach, hawthorn, strawberry, kiwi, etc.

What should patients with liver cancer eat during chemotherapy? Experts point out that for patients with liver cancer who have a severe reaction to chemotherapy, they can eat some light and refreshing raw salads or some acidic foods with little or no oil to stimulate their appetite. For example, heart-shaped carrots with vinegar, cabbage hearts with vinegar, vegetarian salad, white fungus with celery, carrot shreds with bean sprouts, and hawthorn cake with duck pears. At the same time, you can also use simple, easy-to-use, and economical medicinal diet therapy, such as mushroom tofu soup, kelp sesame rice, and Hedyotis diffusa, coix seed and lotus seed porridge.

Introduction to folk remedies for liver cancer

Many people with liver cancer will seek folk remedies when they reach the late stage. This is because after long-term treatment, the patient's body is no longer as good as before, and may even be very weak. Therefore, some remedies can help patients regulate their bodies while undergoing treatment. However, not all remedies are effective, and some may even have a negative impact on the patient's body. As for the question of what are the folk remedies for late-stage liver cancer, the following will introduce to you.

The onset of cancer is quite complicated, and there are many symptoms, so any folk remedy cannot achieve the same effect on several people. Therefore, folk remedies can only be used as a reference for doctors to learn, and should not be used in clinical practice. In terms of drugs, the use of drugs in different places is also different. Sometimes, although the efficacy of a drug is similar, the efficacy may not be the same. When prescribing, doctors should try to avoid substitute drugs according to the local drug source conditions to avoid not achieving the expected effect.

Oncologists point out that some single prescriptions, proven prescriptions or ancestral secret prescriptions do have a certain effect on cancer, and have played a certain role in the fight against malignant tumors in humans, especially the Chinese nation, and have enriched the experience of traditional Chinese medicine in treating tumors. However, single prescriptions and folk prescriptions have many uncertain factors, and the treatment effects have not been strictly verified. Even if they are effective for others, they may not be suitable for you. Many folk prescriptions have certain toxicity in terms of medication or dosage, and should not be taken blindly.

Folk remedies for the treatment of advanced liver cancer cannot replace regular treatments, but they can be used as an auxiliary treatment method. Be sure to consult your attending physician before taking them. The regular method for treating liver cancer is to choose traditional Chinese medicine for liver cancer, such as the traditional Chinese medicine "Huali Tang", which is very suitable for patients with advanced liver cancer.

The treatment of advanced liver cancer with traditional Chinese medicine has obvious advantages in improving patient symptoms, improving quality of life and prolonging survival. The treatment of advanced liver cancer with traditional Chinese medicine takes a holistic approach and takes syndrome differentiation and treatment as the basic treatment principle. While effectively killing cancer cells, it also takes into account the conditioning of the patient's body, eliminating evil without harming the body.