Viral hepatitis is an acute infectious disease of digestive tract caused by hepatitis virus. The acute stage of this disease can be divided into acute jaundice type, acute jaundice-free type and severe hepatitis type according to the presence or absence of jaundice and the severity of the disease. The clinical manifestations are anorexia, nausea, abdominal discomfort, fatigue, liver swelling and tenderness, accompanied by varying degrees of liver function damage, and some patients also have jaundice and fever. Severe hepatitis is characterized by rapid onset and development, frequent fever, rapid deepening after jaundice, nausea and vomiting, obvious atrophy of the common liver and coma within a few days.

Foods with spicy and dry diet, such as pepper, pepper, fried dough sticks, oil cakes, fried peanuts, fried spicy broad beans, fried spicy beef, etc. Wash your hands before and after meals, implement a meal sharing system or use public chopsticks. In the acute phase, do not eat fried food, such as fried raw chicken, beef, shrimp, crab and so on. Do not eat dog meat, shad and carp. Coffee, strong tea and spirits should be banned. Better give up smoking.

The diet should be light, digestible and nutritious. The staple food can be rice, millet, steamed bread and noodles. Non-staple food can be mainly bean products, such as tofu and yuba. In acute stage, it is advisable to drink sugar water or chew sugar cane in moderation, daily 1 tablet; Or drink carrot water in a sugar cane basin to keep the urine unobstructed. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits with more vitamins, such as vegetables, loofah, cucumber, apple, Sydney, watermelon and grapes. Spica Prunellae Soup in acute stage: Spica Prunellae 30g, lean pork 100g. Prunella vulgaris is wrapped in gauze, put into the pot with pork, add water 1 hour, discard the residue, eat meat and drink soup.