Nowadays, many people work in offices and due to the nature of their work, they are unable to move around, which can easily lead to cervical spondylosis. So what should you eat for cervical spondylosis? How much do you know about the dietary treatment for cervical spondylosis? Today, we will introduce some dietary remedies for cervical spondylosis.
When it comes to treating cervical spondylosis, in addition to physical therapy, you can also incorporate diet therapy. Below are some dietary remedies for different types of cervical spondylosis, let's take a look together.
What should you eat for cervical spondylosis? Dietary remedies for cervical spondylosis
Different types, different dietary remedies
Papaya and tangerine peel porridge
Ingredients: 10g papaya, 10g tangerine peel, 10g luffa melon vine, 10g Fritillaria thunbergii, 50g glutinous rice.
Method: Wash the ingredients, first simmer the papaya, tangerine peel, and luffa melon vine, remove the residue and take the juice, then add Fritillaria thunbergii (finely chopped), and the appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Benefits: This porridge helps to phlegm, remove dampness, and promote blood circulation, suitable for treating phlegm-dampness obstruction type cervical spondylosis.
Mountain dan tao ren porridge
Ingredients: 30g mountain dan, 15g Salvia miltiorrhiza, 6g peach kernel (peeled), 50g glutinous rice.
Method: Wash the above ingredients, simmer Salvia miltiorrhiza first, remove the residue and take the juice, then add hawthorn, peach kernel, and glutinous rice with the appropriate amount of water, boil with high heat, and simmer until it becomes porridge.
Benefits: Promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, and relieves pain, suitable for treating qi stagnation and blood stasis type cervical spondylosis.
Five seed lamb soup
Ingredients: 250g lamb, 10g goji berries, 10g dodder seeds, 10g glossy privet fruits, 10g schisandra berries, 10g mulberry fruits, 10g angelica, 10g ginger, 5g cinnamon.
Method: Wash the ingredients, wrap the dodder seeds, glossy privet fruits, and schisandra berries in gauze, slice the lamb, put angelica, ginger, rice wine, peanut oil, and lamb in a clay pot, add water and salt to taste, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer for half an hour, remove the gauze bag, add an appropriate amount of honey to the remaining ingredients.
Benefits: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, tonifies qi and blood, suitable for treating liver and kidney deficiency type cervical spondylosis.
Tian ma stewed fish head
Ingredients: 10g gastrodia elata, 1 fresh mandarin fish head, 3 slices of ginger. Place gastrodia elata, mandarin fish head, and ginger in a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of water, stew until cooked, season to taste. Can nourish the liver and kidneys, dispel wind and promote blood circulation. Suitable for cervical artery type cervical spondylosis.
Kudzu root stewed pork spine
Ingredients: 30g kudzu root, 500g pork spine. Peel and slice kudzu root, cut the pork spine into sections, put them together in a pot with an appropriate amount of water to make a soup. Drink the soup and eat the meat, it is commonly effective. Can tonify qi and nourish yin, relax muscles and promote blood circulation. Suitable for nerve root type cervical spondylosis.
Ginger porridge
Ingredients: 50g glutinous rice, 5 slices of ginger, a few green onions, a suitable amount of rice vinegar. Mash the ginger and cook it with the rice, when the porridge is cooked, add the green onions and vinegar, and consume it with meals. Can dispel wind and dispel cold, suitable for sun meridian obstruction type cervical spondylosis.
