Tuberculosis is a very common lung disease in life. It is mainly caused by improper long-term living habits. It requires timely treatment and good nursing care in life. So what foods are good for tuberculosis? quick? What are the dietary treatments for tuberculosis? There are many foods that are good for tuberculosis. Let’s learn more about them below.

1. Polygonatum rock sugar water

Ingredients: 24 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 30 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Wash the Polygonatum odoratum, chop it into small pieces, and put it in a casserole , add water to boil, filter the juice, add rock sugar and stir, drink directly after the rock sugar dissolves. Pork can also be stewed with the juice extracted from Polygonatum japonica.

Efficacy: Moistens the lungs and promotes body fluids. It is suitable for consumption by tuberculosis patients who are physically weak after illness, are emaciated, have dry cough with little phlegm, blood in the phlegm, and sometimes have night sweats.

2. Tremella tea

Ingredients: 20 grams of Tremella, 5 grams of tea, and 20 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Wash the white fungus, add appropriate amount of water, put it into the pot with rock sugar and stew until cooked. After brewing the tea leaves in boiling water for 5 minutes, mix the juice into the white fungus soup, stir and drink.

Efficacy: Patients with tuberculosis who have cough and low fever can drink it.

3. Lily and Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 9 grams each of Adenophora and lily, 50 grams of pineapple, 6 grams of Tremella, appropriate amount of rock sugar, and a little salt.

Preparation method: Peel the pineapple and soak it in salt water for 10 minutes. Soak white fungus in warm water, wash it, remove the yellow stems, and cut into small pieces. Peel the lily and cut the Radix Adenophora into slices. Put all the ingredients into a bowl, add a small amount of water, and steam until soft. Take it every morning and evening.

Efficacy: Tonifying and moisturizing the lungs, removing dampness and diuresis, stopping bleeding and relieving cough. It is suitable for patients with tuberculosis who have dry cough with little phlegm and blood in the phlegm.

4. Honey porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams of butter, 20 grams of honey, 100 grams of japonica rice.

Preparation method: Wash the japonica rice, add water and cook until thoroughly cooked. Add ghee 10 minutes before serving. After the porridge has cooled to about 60°C, add honey, stir evenly and serve.

Efficacy: Nourishes the lungs and nourishes yin, quenches thirst and moisturizes dryness. It is suitable for patients with tuberculosis who are weak and thin, have chronic cough due to lung deficiency, dry cough without phlegm, dry skin, dry and hard stools, and thirst due to deficiency heat.

5. Lotus seed and lily lean meat soup

Ingredients: 30 grams each of lotus seeds and lily, 200 grams of lean pork

Preparation method: cut the lean pork into pieces Cut into small pieces, put into a casserole with washed lotus seeds and lilies and stew until cooked. Add appropriate seasoning before serving.

Efficacy: It can be used as a daily recipe for patients with tuberculosis who have been ill for a long time and have low fever and dry cough.

6. Steamed radish with honey

Ingredients: 1 white radish, 100 grams of honey (can be added according to personal taste)

Preparation method: wash the radish Peel it and cut it into 3 sections. Hollow out the center of the radish from one side (do not dig through, leaving 1 cm thick to prevent the honey from flowing out), pour in honey, put it in a bowl, and steam it until cooked.

Efficacy: It has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, reducing phlegm and promoting fluid production. It is suitable for tuberculosis patients with dry throat, sore throat, cough, and bloody phlegm.

7. It is suitable to eat cool fruits with tuberculosis

People with tuberculosis should not eat hot fruits, such as longan, lychee, etc., but they can eat some cool fruits that have the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and reducing phlegm. Fruit is very beneficial to improving the condition.

(1) Sugarcane

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sugarcane is sweet and non-toxic, and it belongs to the lung, stomach and kidney meridian. For those with obvious symptoms of tuberculosis such as dry cough, night sweats, red cheeks, and hot flashes.

Note: Sugar cane is best squeezed for juice or cut into small pieces to eat. Biting it directly can easily damage the oral mucosa.

(2) Pears

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pears are sweet, slightly sour, and cool in nature. They mainly belong to the lungs and stomach meridians. They have the functions of moistening the lungs, clearing away heat, eliminating phlegm and reducing fire, and It has the functions of stomach diarrhea, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid, nourishing the kidneys and replenishing deficiency, and moisturizing the intestines and laxative. It has a unique and obvious effect in treating cough and phlegm caused by tuberculosis.

Note: After removing the core of the pears, add rock sugar and steam them to eat, which is more effective in treating tuberculosis and cough with excessive phlegm.

(3) Pomegranate

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pomegranate has a sweet and sour taste, while its skin is astringent and warm, and it returns to the lungs, large intestine and other meridians. It has the functions of killing insects, stopping dysentery, promoting bile and improving eyesight. , at the same time, pomegranate also has a certain auxiliary effect in the treatment of tuberculosis.

(4) Figs

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that figs are sweet and mild in nature and taste, and are responsible for the spleen and large intestine meridians of the human body. Its main functions are to invigorate the spleen and stop diarrhea, clear the intestines and remove heat, eliminate phlegm and regulate qi, nourish the lungs and breasts, reduce swelling and detoxify, etc. It can be used to treat cervical lymph node tuberculosis.

8. What you need to know in the early stages of tuberculosis

1. People with colds and coughs that cannot be cured, blood in the sputum, persistent fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, and shadows in the lungs should undergo regular anti-inflammatory treatment. If there is still no improvement in absorption after two weeks of treatment, the possibility of tuberculosis should be considered and further examination should be performed as soon as possible.

2. Those who are in close contact with tuberculosis patients, such as family members or those in the same dormitory at school who have tuberculosis patients.

3. People with strong positive tuberculin test, especially infants and children.

4. Patients with diabetes, silicosis, gastrectomy and other post-operative patients; patients with rheumatoid arthritis, aplastic anemia and other long-term use of adrenocortical hormones and other immunosuppressants; AIDS and other immunocompromised patients of patients.

5. People with long-term low-grade fever or tuberculosis allergy, such as joint pain, rapid erythrocyte sedimentation rate, poor anti-rheumatic treatment effect, or those suffering from erythema nodosum or alveolar conjunctivitis.

6. For healthy people, it is also recommended to have a chest fluoroscopy examination every 1 to 2 years, especially teachers, medical staff and service personnel in canteens, restaurants, supermarkets, Internet cafes, KTV and other public places. .