Cancer is a wasting disease, and malnutrition and malnutrition are very common among cancer patients. Therefore, stimulating appetite and strengthening nutrition are very important for the rehabilitation of cancer patients. In daily life, we should pay attention to reasonable nutrition, try to change the food as much as possible, eat more fruits and vegetables with high protein, multivitamins and low animal fat, do not eat stale or irritating winter silk, eat less smoked, roasted, salted, fried, salty and other foods, and match the staple food with the thickness to ensure a balanced nutrition.

Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, each flavor has its special function. Acid can converge, promote fluid production and stimulate appetite; Sweetness can replenish the spleen and stomach; Bitter taste can drain and dry dampness, and a small amount can stimulate appetite; Spicy can also be appetizing; Salty can pass, soft and firm. Food is basically the above five flavors, or a mixture of several flavors. Patients in the recovery period of tumor should choose foods with certain anticancer components and functions of softening and resolving hard mass.

There are many kinds of nutritious food, except rice, wheat, millet, soybean and so on. Chicken, sheep and beef are all qi-invigorating foods, which can be eaten by tumor patients with weak constitution. Duck, turtle, turtle, crucian carp and prostitute fish are all foods that can tonify spleen and strengthen spleen. Sea cucumber, jellyfish, abalone, kelp, water chestnut and water chestnut can soften and disperse hard lumps and eliminate "hard lumps". Edible mushrooms such as auricularia auricula, Hericium erinaceus, Lentinus edodes and Flammulina velutipes all have certain anti-cancer effects. In particular, the nutritional value of Lentinus edodes exceeds that of all mushrooms. It contains seven essential amino acids, trace elements such as calcium, copper, iron and manganese, as well as a variety of sugars and enzymes, which can improve and enhance human immunity.

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