First, diet care Chinese medicine attaches great importance to patients' diet, especially AIDS patients with weak physique and weak digestive ability, who often carry a variety of opportunistic infections from other systems, such as cryptosporidium diarrhea, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, mucosal or subcutaneous bleeding, etc. , and should pay attention to the following principles and methods in diet:
(1) Reasonable diet
The so-called suitability means that the amount of food should be tailored to people and illness. Eating too much is easy to indigestion, damage the spleen and stomach, which is not good for the condition; Too little is insufficient intake and nutrition is even more scarce, so AIDS patients should eat less and eat more meals; The second refers to cold and heat, because the spleen and stomach of AIDS patients are generally weak, and Chinese medicine believes that there are more people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, so warm food and hot drinks should be given in most cases; Don't trust three fingers. Normal people are addicted to alcohol and tobacco due to different regional customs, sour and spicy, sweet and greasy, and fishy in the sea. However, in view of AIDS patients' many complications, weak constitution, weak spleen and stomach, and low immune function, try to avoid alcohol, tobacco, sour and spicy food, such as cough and excessive phlegm, try to eat less sweet and greasy food, such as skin sores and rashes, and try not to eat fishy hair (crabs, shrimps and hairtail). Eating at the specified time makes the patient's digestive system exercise rhythmically, and it is advisable for AIDS patients to eat five or six meals a day; Five fingers choose digestible food and liquid (semi-liquid), try to eat less fried food (fried chicken, oil cake and the like) and eat more digestible cooked food (steamed eggs, noodles and the like).
(b) Food should be avoided.
Chinese medicine has long observed that the nature of various foods is very different. Understanding food preference is an important part of health preservation and disease prevention, and can even be used as auxiliary medical care. The opportunistic infection of AIDS patients is changeable, and it is more necessary to avoid eating, which is a major feature of Chinese medicine diet care. Traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into deficiency syndrome, excess syndrome, cold syndrome and heat syndrome. When discussing how to adapt diet to the disease, in principle, deficiency syndrome should be supplemented, except excess syndrome, warm-cold syndrome and cold-heat syndrome.
Nourishing: Food intake has a certain nourishing effect on human body, such as pork, beef, eggs, milk, snakehead, beans and so on. If it is weak and cold, you can use mutton, dog meat, sparrow meat and venison; If the heat is deficient (the middle energizer is internal heat due to yin deficiency), soft-shelled turtle, lily, duck and mussel can be used.
Digestion: mainly refers to helping to eliminate unnecessary substances in the body. If there is no indigestion, hawthorn products can be used to help digestion; External cold can be used with ginger soup; Edema can be eaten with melon or carp to induce diuresis.
Warm decoction: refers to the body feeling cold, or suffering from exogenous wind and cold, which can be decocted with ginger and onion to pray for sweating to drive away cold, or eat ginger mutton soup and angelica stewed chicken soup to warm the body.
Cool: Chinese medicine believes that when there is heat and fire in the body, it is suitable to eat foods that clear away heat and reduce fire, such as mung beans, watermelons, cucumbers, bitter gourd, spinach and red beans.