What to eat for tuberculosis

The principle of food therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis should be to nourish lung energy and lung yin, so it is advisable to choose foods that nourish yin and moisten the lung. For example, silver fungus, lily of the valley, the following is to see what are the suitable food therapy methods for tuberculosis patients?

Radix et Rhizoma Polygonatum

Ingredients: 24 grams of yellow essence, 30 grams of rock sugar Preparation: Wash and chop the yellow essence, put it into a casserole, add water and decoction, strain the juice, and add rock sugar and stir, then drink directly after the rock sugar dissolves. You can also use the juice boiled out of yellow essence to stew pork for consumption. Efficacy: moistening the lung and promoting the production of body fluid, suitable for consumption by patients with tuberculosis who suffer from post-illness deficiency, emaciation, dry cough with little phlegm, blood in the phlegm and occasional night sweats.

Silver Fungus Tea

Ingredients: 20 grams of silver fungus, 5 grams of tea leaves, 20 grams of rock sugar. Preparation: Wash the silver fungus, add the right amount of water and stew it in a pot together with rock sugar. After the tea leaves are brewed with boiling water for 5 minutes, take the juice and mix it into the silver fungus soup, stir and drink. Efficacy: It can be consumed by tuberculosis patients with cough and low fever.

Lily and silver fungus soup

Ingredients: 9 grams each of northern sage and lily, 50 grams of pineapple, 6 grams of silver fungus, appropriate amount of rock sugar and a pinch of salt. Preparation: peel the pineapple and soak it in salt water for 10 minutes. Soak the silver fungus in warm water, then wash and remove the yellow tip, and cut into small pieces. Peel the lilies and cut the northern sage into slices. Put all ingredients into a bowl, add a little water and steam softly over water. Take daily in the morning and evening. Effects: Tonifies the deficiency and moistens the lung, dispels dampness and diuresis, stops bleeding and cough, suitable for tuberculosis patients with dry cough with little sputum and blood in the sputum.

Crispy honey porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams of ghee, 20 grams of honey, 100 grams of round-grained rice. How to make: Wash the round-grained rice, add water and boil it to cook. Add ghee 10 minutes before serving. When the porridge cools down to 60°C, add honey and stir well before serving. Efficacy: moisten lung and nourish yin, quench thirst and moisten dryness, suitable for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who are weak and thin, have a long-lasting cough with lung deficiency, dry cough without phlegm, dry skin, dry stools, deficiency heat and irritable thirst.

Lotus seeds and lilies lean meat soup

Ingredients: 30 grams each of lotus seeds and lilies, 200 grams of lean pork Production method, cut pork lean meat into small pieces, and washed lotus seeds, lily together in a casserole stew cooked, add the appropriate amount of seasoning before serving. Efficacy: It can be used as a daily recipe for tuberculosis patients who have been weak for a long time and have a low heat and dry cough.

Steamed radish with honey

Ingredients: 1 white radish, 100g of honey (can be added according to personal taste) Preparation: wash and peel the radish, cut into 3 sections, hollow out the center of the radish from one side (without digging through, leaving a thickness of 1 cm to prevent the honey from flowing out), fill with honey, put it in a bowl and steam it over water. Efficacy: It has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, resolving phlegm and producing fluid, suitable for tuberculosis patients with dry and sore throat, cough and blood in the sputum.

Cool fruits are suitable for tuberculosis

Hot fruits, such as longan and lychee, should not be eaten with tuberculosis, but cool fruits, which have the effect of detoxifying and resolving phlegm, can be eaten, which is very beneficial to the improvement of the disease.

Sugar cane

According to Chinese medicine, sugar cane is sweet in nature and non-toxic, and is classified as a lung, stomach and kidney meridian, which can moisten the lung and benefit the stomach, tonify the kidneys and produce fluid. For those with obvious symptoms of tuberculosis such as dry cough, night sweats, red cheek and hot flashes. Note: Sugar cane is best juiced or cut into small pieces to eat, direct bite is easy to hurt the oral mucosa.

Pear

According to Chinese medicine, pear is sweet, slightly sour and cool in nature, mainly belongs to the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of moistening the lung and clearing heat, eliminating phlegm and lowering fire, clearing heat from the stomach, nourishing yin and generating fluid, nourishing the kidney and tonic the deficiency, and laxative. It has unique and obvious effects in treating cough and phlegm caused by pulmonary tuberculosis. Note: After removing the core of the pear, add rock sugar and steam it to eat to cure tuberculosis phlegm cough with better effect.

Pomegranate

According to traditional Chinese medicine, pomegranate is sweet and sour, while its skin is astringent and warm, and it belongs to the lung and large intestine. Pomegranate is also useful for the treatment of tuberculosis.

Figs

According to Chinese medicine, figs are sweet and mild in nature and are used in the spleen and large intestine meridians. Its main function is to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, clear the intestines and remove heat, dispel phlegm and Qi, benefit the lungs and promote breast milk, and eliminate swelling and detoxification. It can be used to treat cervical lymphatic tuberculosis.