Protecting the Liver: Medicinal Diets for Liver Disease Patients

February 23, 2024

How to protect the liver in daily life for patients with liver disease? Medicinal diet is the best choice. Let's take a look at the specific medicinal diet and recipes together!
 


 

  【Poria congee】

  Ingredients: 30g of Poria powder, 100g of glutinous rice, 20 jujubes.

  Method:

  (1) Wash the glutinous rice and jujubes separately, put them together in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook into congee;

  (2) Add Poria powder after the congee is cooked, and boil for a few more times before consuming.

  Usage: Eat warm on an empty stomach, or add brown sugar according to taste. Take 2 times a day, morning and evening.

  Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and nourish the liver, promote diuresis and dispel pathogenic factors. It has a mild medicinal property, nourishes without being greasy, and promotes bowel movements without being harsh. It is suitable for patients with various types of chronic hepatitis.

  【Coix seed congee】

  Ingredients: 60g of coix seed, 60g of Chinese yam, 200g of glutinous rice.

  Method: Wash the coix seed, Chinese yam, and glutinous rice, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook into congee.

  Usage: Eat as needed in daily life.

  Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for patients with chronic liver disease and weak spleen function. Symptoms include abdominal distension, loss of appetite, loose stools, and thick greasy tongue coating.

  【Astragalus stewed black chicken】

  Ingredients: 1 female black chicken, 30-60g of Astragalus, 2 Cordyceps sinensis.

  Method: Remove the internal organs and impurities from the black chicken, wash it, put in Astragalus and Cordyceps sinensis, bring to a boil over high heat, and then simmer over low heat. Add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, and other seasonings after it is cooked.

  Usage: Eat the meat and drink the soup, consume as needed.

  Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and replenish qi, nourish deficiency and fill essence. It is suitable for patients with chronic liver disease and deficiency of both qi and blood, with symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, laziness in speech, easy colds, pale tongue, and thin pulse.

  【White grass root lean meat soup】

  Ingredients: 250g of lean pork, 60g of white grass root.

  Method:

  (1) Wash the white grass root and cut it into sections; wash the lean pork and cut it into pieces;

  (2) Put all the ingredients into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the meat is cooked and tender.

  Usage: Once a day or every other day.

  Efficacy: Clear heat and dampness, tonify the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for patients with active period of chronic hepatitis with damp-heat accumulation, with symptoms of jaundice, difficult urination, and nausea.

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