Lung cancer is a very common cancer, which ranks second in the mortality rate of malignant tumors in China. Generally speaking, the systemic symptoms of lung cancer are not obvious. Early stage may have symptoms like cough, shortness of breath, blood in sputum and other inflammation like tuberculosis, while late stage patients may have fever, emaciation, fatigue, and even malignant fluid.

Early and middle stage lung cancer patients, whose digestive system function is sound, should seize the time to supplement nutrition to the organism after clinical diagnosis, so as to improve the body quality, enhance the resistance, and prevent or delay the appearance of malignant stasis. If the nutrients are filled up sufficiently before clinical treatment, patients with better physical condition will have stronger tolerance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy and better treatment effect; similarly, patients with better physical condition will be more receptive to surgical treatment and recover faster than those with poorer nutritional condition. Therefore, early and middle stage lung cancer patients should supplement various nutrients, such as high-quality protein, carbohydrates, fat, inorganic salts and multi-vitamins as soon as their digestion and absorption ability allow.

For lung cancer patients coughing and coughing up blood and other symptoms, motherland medicine has a lot of medicines and recipes for nourishing yin and moistening lung and stopping cough, stopping bleeding and astringency, for example, there are nourishing yin and moistening lung and food such as jellyfish with almonds, lily, water chestnut and so on, and lotus root, lotus seed, persimmons, duck pear, Chinese yam, lily and white fungus have the effect of stopping cough and astringency and stopping bleeding. According to folk prescription, lung cancer patients can also eat mealybugs, turtle board paste, turtle meat, glutinous rice and other nourishing and nourishing foods.

Compared with digestive tract tumors, the diet of lung cancer patients should be a better solution. In addition to the nourishing foods of traditional Chinese medicine mentioned above, patients with lung cancer should choose milk, eggs, lean meat, animal liver, soybean products, fresh vegetables and fruits and so on. It can try to increase the amount and frequency of food intake of patients. Attention: lung cancer patients should avoid fishy and greasy food, spicy and stimulating food such as smoke and alcohol.

II. Diet therapy for lung cancer

(1) Strengthen nutrition: when lung cancer patients have no dysphagia, they should choose food freely, and eat more protein, carbohydrate-rich food, such as lean meat, chicken, duck, rabbit, fish, shrimp, soybean products, and all kinds of cereal without restricting the amount of food, so as to ensure good nutrition and create good conditions for surgery.

If the nutritional status is poor, it is difficult to tolerate the trauma of surgery, postoperative healing is slow, easy to infection, and extremely unfavorable to surgical recovery. This requires improving the quality of meals before surgery.

(2) Supply elemental diet: half a month before surgery, lung cancer patients should supplement elemental diet in addition to three meals a day. Elemental diet contains all kinds of nutrients necessary for human body, because complete nutrients can satisfy the need of organism, and can be absorbed in the upper end of small intestine without digestion, and can be taken orally or fed by tube. Elemental diet can supplement the protein nutrition, in enough calorie supply, can promote muscle protein synthesis, in the calorie supply is insufficient, the branched chain amino acids can also provide more calories.

There are many types of elemental diets, administered orally or by tube. Application, to start from a low concentration, generally 5% of the concentration gradually increasing, if no diarrhea, vomiting, can be gradually increased to 10% to 20%, if oral should pay attention to slow drinking, drinking too fast, due to the elements of the meal for the hypertonic liquid, easy to produce diarrhea and vomiting. Pay attention to the appropriate temperature, to prevent too cold and cause diarrhea. If you take 100 grams of elemental diet every day, you can increase calories 400 kcal, protein 16 grams. At the same time increase the body's immunity and be able to tolerate the surgery.

(3) postoperative diet allocation: after surgery to determine the diet according to the condition, some patients in the second day of surgery can eat, but to start from the clear flow, food should be light, soft, easy to digest and absorb the main, because the surgical trauma will cause digestive dysfunction, so in the choice of food and tonic, don't be in a hurry. Start with the simplest food, and if there is no adverse reaction from the gastrointestinal tract, then transition to semi-fluid food and general food. In the week after surgery, in addition to consuming clear flow, half-flow, but also supplement the elements of the meal, to replenish the body's nutrients. When you can eat normally, then cancel the elemental diet. Regardless of before and after surgery, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as green, yellow and red vegetables, mushrooms, black fungus, asparagus, lemon, red dates, etc., because fruits and vegetables are rich in Vitamin C, which is a cancer inhibiting substance, and it can block the production of cancer cells.

Don't eat or eat less stimulating food, including fried food. You can often eat some garlic, which contains anti-cancer substances. Don't smoke and don't drink alcohol. With good living and eating habits, regular physical examination, timely diagnosis and treatment, you will be able to prolong your life.

III. Lung Cancer Dietary Cure

(1) Honey Moistening Lungs and Relieving Cough Pill: Lupinus and Stiffworms are equal parts each, and honey is appropriate. Grind the 3 flavors into powder and make honey into pills. 2 times a day, 6 grams each time. Effective in moistening lung, resolving phlegm, dispersing nodules and subduing swelling. It is suitable for people with obvious cough of lung cancer.

(2) Licorice and Pear Boiled Pork Lung: 10 grams of licorice, 2 pears, about 250 grams of pork lung. Pear peeled and cut into pieces, pig lungs washed and cut into slices , squeeze the foam, and licorice with the casserole. Add a little rock sugar, water, moderate amount of small fire simmers 3 hours after taking. 1 time a day, has the effect of moisturizing the lungs in addition to phlegm, applicable to more than a cough.

(3) rock sugar almond paste: 15 grams of sweet almonds, bitter almonds 3 grams, 50 grams of round-grained rice, rock sugar. Sweet almonds and bitter almonds with water soak soft skin, mashed with round-grained rice, water and rock sugar cooked into thick porridge, every other day. It has the effect of moistening the lungs to dispel phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, and moistening the intestines.

(4) date congee: 25 grams of white fruit, 20 jujube, glutinous rice 50 grams. Fruit, jujube, glutinous rice *** with porridge into. Morning and evening on an empty stomach, warm service, detoxification and swelling.

(5) dahurica stewed bird's nest: 9 grams of dahurica, bird's nest 9 grams, rock sugar. Will dahurica, bird's nest stewed in water until very rotten, filtering slag. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar seasoning and then stew for a few moments into, 1 to 2 times a day. It has the effect of tonifying lung and nourishing yin, stopping cough and bleeding.

(6) ginkgo steamed duck: 200 grams of white fruit, white duck 1. Fruit shell, boiled in boiling water, peeled, pistil, and then blanched in boiling water and mixed into the kill good boneless duck meat. Add broth, steam for 2 hours until the duck meat is cooked and eaten. It can be consumed regularly, and has the function of tonifying the deficiency and calming the asthma, promoting water retention and reducing swelling. It is suitable for people with advanced lung cancer who have gasping, weakness and phlegm.

(7) Stewed Meat with Schisandra: 50 grams of Schisandra, duck meat or pork lean meat. Schisandra and meat steamed or stewed together, and add seasonings as appropriate. Meat, medicine and soup are served to replenish the lung and benefit the kidney, relieve cough and asthma, which is suitable for patients with kidney deficiency type of lung cancer.

(8) Lotus seed chicken: 15 grams of lotus seed ginseng, chicken or duck, pork, appropriate amount. Lotus seed and meat *** stewed, add seasoning can be appropriate. Taken regularly, tonifying the lungs, benefiting qi, and generating fluids. It is suitable for people with insufficient qi and blood in lung cancer.

(9) Winter melon skin broad bean soup: 60 grams of winter melon skin, 60 grams of winter melon seeds, 60 grams of broad beans. The above food into the pot with 3 bowls of water decoction to 1 bowl, and then add the appropriate seasoning that is, slag drink. Effective in removing dampness, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. It is suitable for people with pleural fluid in lung cancer.

Four. Examples of one-day recipes for lung cancer (during recovery period of surgery)

Breakfast: milk (250g of fresh milk, 10g of sugar), 1 hard-boiled egg (50g of egg), steamed bread (50g of flour), mixed vegetables (70g of celery, 10g of bean curd)

Additional meal: fruit (250g of duck pear)

Lunch: rice (100g of rice), minced meat and tofu ( Minced meat 100g, tofu 100g), shredded green pepper and radish (green pepper 200g, shredded radish 50g)

Additional meal: fresh fruit juice (fresh orange juice 200g)

Dinner: millet porridge (millet 25g), hair cake (flour 75g), fried bean sprouts (mung bean sprouts 200g), steamed fish (crucian carp 75g)

V. Diet in chemotherapy period:

Because of the consumption of tumor itself on human body and insufficient intake caused by loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, lung cancer patients should arrange their diets in the spirit of the principle of high protein, high calorie, easy to digest, and low fat during the chemotherapy period. From the perspective of modern nutrition, protein of various meat and fish has higher nutritional value and calories, and should be combined with coarse and fine food and strive for diversification in staple food. Eat more corn, black beans, black sesame, peanuts, millet, black rice and other foods with high nutritional value, eat more vegetables and fruits, because they contain essential nutrients, especially a variety of vitamins and fiber, such as cabbage, cauliflower, white radish, rape, mushrooms, fungus, apples, pears, jujubes, kiwi, citrus and so on.

If there is loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy, you can add hawthorn, white lentils, white radish, fresh rutabaga, fresh lotus root, ginger, barley, Chen Pi, etc., and boil porridge frequently, which can strengthen the spleen and open up the stomach, and reduce the reversal and stop vomiting. If there is a drop in blood, use jujube, longan meat, animal liver, chicken meat, duck meat, soft-shelled turtle meat, etc. in the diet.