What are the folk remedies for treating late-stage liver disease? What is the best diet for late-stage liver cancer?

The lesions of patients with advanced liver cancer are highly malignant and they suffer from a wide variety of symptoms, which cause great pain to the patients and seriously threaten their lives and health. Patients with advanced liver cancer are under great psychological pressure, and some cannot even tolerate the pain of the lesions. Therefore, other interventional treatment methods are required. So what are the folk remedies for treating advanced liver cancer?

What should patients with advanced liver cancer pay attention to in their diet and what are the dietary principles to adhere to in the advanced liver cancer stage?

1. First of all, the patient's diet should be easy to digest

In the late stage of liver cancer, the digestive tract of patients cannot digest foods that are difficult to digest. Therefore, special attention should be paid to providing easily digestible foods in the diet arrangement of patients with liver cancer in the late stage. The food must include a certain amount of staple food, such as wheat flour, sweet potato, millet and corn; vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, strawberries, oranges, lettuce, kiwi, cauliflower and rapeseed; meat, soy products, as well as milk and dairy products.

2. Diet during chemotherapy

Liver cancer patients in the late stage need to receive chemotherapy, so when the patient is undergoing chemotherapy, family members should choose foods that replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, nourish blood and detoxify, are nutritious, light and refreshing, such as raw Job's tears, eggs, red dates, animal liver, oranges, radishes, goose blood, winter melon, fresh peaches, yam powder, lotus root, turtle, watermelon and crucian carp, etc.

3. Diet after bleeding

It is inevitable that patients with liver cancer will have bleeding symptoms. When the symptoms stop, the food to be added to the patient can be sugared milk, soy milk, vegetable juice, lotus root powder and eggs, and some staple foods containing salt can be added appropriately. After the condition stabilizes, porridge, minced meat, pork liver, vegetable puree and noodles can be added appropriately on the basis of the above staple foods. It is best to add some fruits and vegetables with less fiber and more vitamins to the diet. Vegetables and fruits can be mashed, and meat should be fully stewed for easy digestion and to prevent food from rubbing against varicose veins.

4. Diet during radiotherapy

Patients are very weak during chemotherapy, so we prepare enough food for their body nutrition. During radiotherapy, the diet for patients with advanced liver cancer should be nutritious and nourishing. At the same time, they should also be supplemented with spleen-strengthening and appetite-stimulating foods, such as lotus root, eggs, longan meat, quail eggs, sweet oranges, tortoise shell glue, grapes, lychees, bird's nests, cornus fruit, winter melon, white lentils, water chestnuts and turtle shell glue.

There are many folk remedies for treating advanced liver cancer.

1. Main symptoms of liver qi stagnation: distension and pain in the right hypochondrium, chest tightness and discomfort, sighing, poor appetite, occasional diarrhea, a lump under the right hypochondrium, a thin white tongue coating, and a stringy pulse. Soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen, regulate qi and activate blood circulation.

2. Main symptoms of damp-heat toxicity: irritability, yellowing of the body and eyes, dry and bitter mouth, decreased appetite, abdominal distension, stabbing pain in the ribs, red urine and dry stools, dark purple tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, stringy or slippery pulse. Treatment principle: clear away heat and promote bile secretion, purge fire and detoxify.

3. Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment for primary liver cancer: Astragalus, tortoise shell, turtle shell, Alisma orientalis, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, Angelica sinensis, Oldenlandia diffusa, Scutellaria barbata. Functions: invigorating Qi and nourishing Yin, clearing away heat and activating blood circulation. Suitable for primary liver cancer. The method of use is decocting in water.

4. Main symptoms of Qi stagnation and blood stasis: huge lumps under the hypochondrium, hypochondrium pain radiating to the back, which is resistant to pressure and worse at night, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, loose and irregular stools, fatigue, dark purple tongue with ecchymosis and petechiae, and deep, thin or stringy and astringent pulse.

5. Liver cancer patients can take selenium supplements appropriately when they are in the late stage. Some patients are zinc-deficient. For people with low selenium, selenium-enriched yeast, selenium polysaccharides, and selenium-enriched salts can be used to supplement selenium and improve blood selenium levels.

6. Liver cancer patients must not smoke or drink alcohol, which is to reduce the intake of nitrosamines. Smoking and drinking are also bad for fatty liver. Drinking wine, beer, and a small amount of alcohol can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, but this is not true. Alcohol is harmful to the human body. The gastric mucosa in the stomach has a protective effect on the human body. Alcohol can digest the gastric mucosa, injure the gastric cells, and the toxic substances in the food are easily absorbed by the stomach.

Further reading: Dietary treatment for advanced liver cancer

1. Chinese wolfberry turtle: 30g Chinese wolfberry, 150g turtle. Steam the Chinese wolfberry and turtle until they are cooked. Both Chinese wolfberry and turtle soup can be eaten. Eat once a week. Do not eat too much, especially for those with indigestion and insomnia. Avoid drinking white wine, chili peppers, sow meat, leeks, fat, fried food, hard food and irritating condiments. It has the functions of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, dispersing knots, cooling blood, and improving the body's immune function.

2. Steamed Mandarin Fish with Poria: 15g Poria, 150g Mandarin Fish. Add water and seasonings and steam until cooked. Eating fish and drinking soup can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and replenish qi and blood.

3. Watermelon rind, tomato and tofu soup: 30g watermelon rind, 50g tomato and 150g tofu. Cut the watermelon rind, tomato and tofu into thin strips and make soup. Regular consumption has the effects of strengthening the spleen and digestion, clearing away heat and detoxification, and promoting diuresis and dampness. People with cold and weak constitution should not take too much.

4. Thistle and crucian carp soup: 30 grams of thistle, 1 crucian carp. Boil thistle and crucian carp together, add appropriate seasonings. Regular consumption can eliminate blood stasis, stop vomiting, and improve symptoms. However, it is not recommended for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and no stasis.