Coronary heart disease is a heart condition caused by the obstruction of blood supply to the heart muscle due to the hardening of the coronary arteries. It presents in different forms, and the corresponding dietary prescriptions also vary.
Type 1: Cold stagnation in the heart meridian
【Clinical manifestations】
Sudden and severe chest pain, as if being twisted, radiating to the back; worsens with exposure to cold. Palpitations, shortness of breath, cold hands and feet, pale and dark tongue, thin white coating, and tight pulse.
【Dietary prescriptions】
1. Ginger and peppercorn lamb soup: 30g of ginger, 200g of lamb, 6g of peppercorn. Boil them together to make a soup and drink it.
2. Tender leaves of rapeseed soup: 30g of tender rapeseed leaves, 15g of lotus leaves, 15g of mugwort leaves. First, boil the lotus leaves and mugwort leaves in water for 15 minutes, remove the residue, then add the tender rapeseed leaves and continue boiling until cooked. Season to taste and consume.
3. Braised young chicken with ginger and spring onion: 100g of young chicken, 30g of sweet rice wine, 25g of onion, 20g of cooking oil, 20g of ginger, 30g of soy sauce. Put all the ingredients in a pot and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. When the sauce has dried up, add a little sesame oil and consume.
4. Scallion and ginger crab soup: 200g of crab, 10g of ginger, 5 scallions, 20g of rock sugar. Steam them together and drink the soup while eating the crab. Once a day.
Type 2: Phlegm obstruction
【Clinical manifestations】
Chest tightness and pain, especially in the presence of obesity and excessive phlegm. Heavy limbs, dizziness, palpitations, swollen tongue, thick and greasy coating, and slippery pulse.
【Dietary prescriptions】
1. Mustard and soybean porridge: 6 mustard heads, 50g of soybeans, 50g of rice. Cook them into porridge and season to taste.
2. Chinese yam, coix seed, and radish porridge: Boil 1000g of radish and extract the juice. Add 20g of coix seed, 20g of Chinese yam, and 60g of rice to the juice and cook into porridge. Season to taste and consume.
3. Garlic porridge: Peel 50g of garlic and blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute. Then cook 100g of rice into porridge and add the garlic to cook together. Season to taste and consume twice a day.
Type 3: Deficiency of heart qi
【Clinical manifestations】
Hidden chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, spontaneous sweating, pale and swollen tongue, white coating, weak pulse.
【Dietary prescriptions】
1. Pork heart stewed with ginseng: 150g of pork heart (washed and cut into pieces), 10g of ginseng. Stew them together to make a soup and consume.
2. Corn flour porridge: Dissolve 50g of corn flour in cold water, add 100g of glutinous rice, and cook into porridge. Season with white sugar and consume.
3. Ginseng and astragalus porridge: 30g of ginseng, 50g of astragalus, 100g of glutinous rice. First, decoct the ginseng and astragalus in water to remove the residue, then add the glutinous rice and cook into porridge. Season with white sugar and consume.
