The etiology of primary lung cancer is not yet understood, but it is generally believed to be related to chemical carcinogens, smoking, and radioactive substances. The disease occurs more frequently in males than females. The clinical manifestations include persistent chest pain, cough, dyspnea, hemoptysis or bloody sputum, fatigue, weight loss, and fever.
Type 1: Yin deficiency with phlegm-heat
Clinical manifestations:
Cough with little or no phlegm, or phlegm mixed with blood, dyspnea, chest pain, restlessness, fever, dry mouth, constipation, red tongue, thin yellow coating, and wiry rapid pulse.
Dietary therapy:
1. Fish and yam soup: Take 1 whole fish (about 500g), remove the internal organs and cut into pieces, add 15g longan flesh, 30g yam, and 15g sweet almond (ground). Put all the ingredients in a clay pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 2 hours over low heat. Season and consume once daily.
2. Lotus root and pear drink: Take 20 large fresh lotus roots (wash and peel), 150g fresh lotus root without nodes, and 2 pears. Mash and squeeze out the juice, then drink.
3. Stone pine and lean pork soup: Take 100g stone pine, 15g mulberry bark, and 15g apricot kernel. Boil them with water, then drink the soup and eat the pork.
4. Ginkgo and olive rock sugar water: Take 20 ginkgo nuts (shell removed, soaked for 1 day, remove skin and pit), 10 fresh olives (pit removed, slightly mashed), rock sugar appropriate amount, and 3 bowls of water. Simmer over low heat until reduced to 1 bowl, slowly drink the liquid and eat the residue.
5. Dwarf lilyturf, winter melon seed, and egg soup: Take 20g dwarf lilyturf, 15g winter melon seed, and 2 eggs. Boil them together with 3 bowls of water, remove the shell from the eggs, continue boiling for a while, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and drink the soup and eat the eggs.
Type 2: Qi and Yin deficiency
Clinical manifestations:
Cough with little phlegm, weak cough, thin and sticky phlegm, shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, thin body, not much thirst, red tongue, and weak pulse.
Dietary therapy:
1. Tremella, bird's nest, and lean meat porridge: Take 15g tremella (soak until soft), 5g bird's nest (pick and remove hair), 50g lean pork (chopped), and 60g rice. Cook them together to make a thin porridge, season and consume. 1-2 times daily.
2. Lily, coix seed, and tremella porridge: Take 50g fresh lily, 50g coix seed, 10g tremella, and 60g glutinous rice. Cook them together to make porridge, consume twice daily.
3. Prince ginseng and winter melon stewed duck: Take 30g prince ginseng, 30g winter melon, and 100g duck meat. Stew them together until cooked and tender, season and consume the soup and duck meat.
4. Lily, American ginseng, and pig lung soup: Take 50g fresh lily, 5g American ginseng, and 200g pig lung. Stew them together until cooked, season and consume.
Type 3: Qi stagnation and blood stasis
Clinical manifestations:
Cough with uncomfortable phlegm, dyspnea, chest tightness and pain, blood in phlegm, constipation, dark lips and nails, pleural effusion, purple spots or patches on the tongue, thin yellow coating, and stringy rough pulse.
Dietary therapy:
1. Modified Shengmai porridge: Take 30g dangshen, 15g maidong, 5g schisandra, and 3g sanqi. Boil the first 3 ingredients in water to extract 250ml of juice, then add an appropriate amount of water and cook the rice to make porridge. When cooked, add sanqi powder and mix well before consuming.
2. Tremella, egg, walnut, and jujube stem decoction: Take 15g tremella, 3 eggs, 20g lily, 10 jujube stems (core removed), 20g huai shan, appropriate amount of brown sugar, and 100g walnut branches. Stew the eggs and walnut branches together for 1 hour, remove the residue, peel the eggs and cook them with the other ingredients. Season with brown sugar and consume once daily. Can be consumed regularly.
