胃癌食疗方十三则 TCM Food recepie for stomach cancer

胃癌食疗方十三则

(1)蔗姜饮：甘蔗、生姜各适量。取甘蔗压汁半杯，生姜汁1匙和匀炖即成。每周2次，炖温后服用，具有和中健胃作用，适宜胃癌初期用。
　　(2)红糖煲豆腐：豆腐100克，红糖60克，清水1碗。红糖用清水冲开，加入豆腐，煮10分钟后即成。经常服食，具有和胃止血，吐血明显者可选用此食疗方治疗。
　　(3)陈皮红枣饮：桔子皮1块，红枣3枚。红枣去核与桔子皮共煎水即成。每日1次，此食疗方行气健脾，降逆止呕、适用于虚寒呕吐。

　　(4)莱菔粥：莱菔子30克，粳米适量。先将莱菔子炒熟后，与粳米共煮成粥。每日1次，早餐服食，此药方消积除胀，腹胀明显者可选用。
　　(5)陈皮瘦肉粥：陈皮9克，乌贼鱼骨12克，猪瘦肉50克，粳米适量。用陈皮、鱼骨与米煮粥，煮熟后去陈皮和乌贼骨，加入瘦肉片再煮，食盐少许调味食用。每日2次，早、晚餐服用，此食疗粥降逆止呕，健脾顺气，腹胀者可首选此膳。
　　(6)莴苣：莴苣250克，大枣250克，面粉500克。将莴苣切碎，大枣煮熟去核，与面粉混和后做饼即成。当点心服用，健脾益胃，燥湿利水；大便稀薄或腹泻可选用。
　　(7)芡实六珍糕：芡实、山药、茯苓、莲肉、薏米仁、扁豆各30克，米粉500克。将上述全部加工成粉末与米粉合匀即成。每日2次或3次，每次6克，加糖调味，开水冲服，也可做糕点食用，此方健脾，止泻效果良好。
　　(8)桂圆花生汤：花生连红衣250克，大枣5枚，桂圆肉12克。大枣去核，与花生、桂圆一起加水煮熟即可。每日1次，养血补脾，贫血明显者可用此方。
　　(9)乌梅粥：乌梅20克，粳米100克，冰糖适量。先将乌梅煎取浓汁去渣，入粳米煮成粥，粥熟后加少许冰糖，再稍煮即可。每日1次，此方有收涩止血作用。
　　(10)麻仁粥：芝麻、桃仁各20克，粳米80克。用芝麻、桃仁和糯米共同煮粥即成。隔日1次，润肠通便，大便干燥秘结者可用此粥。
　　(11)芝麻粥：芝麻6克，粳米30克，蜂蜜适量。将芝麻炒香待米煮粥即将熟时加放，再加蜂蜜调匀即成。每日1次，此药膳补血润肠。
　　(12)鱼肚酥：鱼肚(大黄鱼、鲤鱼、黄唇鱼、鳗鱼的鳔均可作原料)，芝麻油。鱼肚用芝麻油炸酥，压碎即成。每日3次，每次10克，用温开水送服。此药膳补肾益精，滋养筋脉，止血、散淤、消肿。
　　(13)健胃防癌茶：向日葵杆蕊或向日葵盘30克。用上述原料煎汤即成。煎汤代茶，长期饮用，有防癌，抗癌消炎之功效。胃癌术后吻合口有炎症者可选此膳。

Proper Understanding On Drug Effects Especially Those Antagonise Nutrients And Etc.

Anti nutrients are substances to which we are all exposed through food and water that antagonize nutrients needed for health.

Some anti nutrients bind to other nutrients, making them useless. Others tie up enzymes needed in digestion and other body functions. Some cause problems by creating a greater need for certain nutrients. Others cause nutrients to be excreted more rapidly from the body. In our world of high technology, the level of anti nutrients to which we are exposed is surprisingly high. Many of the anti nutrients have either a direct or indirect effect on immune function. Anything you can do to reduce exposure to anti nutrients will be helpful in preventing recurrent illness.
Table sugar, food coloring, processed fats, additives like BHT, and most of the 3,000 or so food additives allowed in the United States often act as anti nutrients. For example, in 1985 it was reported that American agriculture uses 1 billion pounds of pesticides each year. That is 4.5 pounds for every man, woman and child in the country. These chemicals have many adverse effects, and are more of a problem than most would imagine. Caffeine is another serious problem that most people don't fully understand.
Pharmaceutical drugs constitute another important category of anti nutrients. If drug therapy is short, the effects are minimal, but if one takes a drug for a long time (months or years), the nutritional effects of the drugs must be taken into account. Below is a sample of the nutrients adversely affected by drugs. Taking drugs long term has more adverse effects than simply nutritional ones, but we are focused on nutrition here.
Drug ======Clinical Condition== Nutrient Affected

Antibiotics =====bacterial infection ========Vit.. K, A, B12, Mg, folic acid, C, K+

Aspirin ========pain, fever =============B1, Vit.. C, K+

Cortisones== ===inflammation, allergy ======Zn, K+, folate, B6, Vit.. C, D, Ca

Ritalin====== ==hyperactivity, ADD =======suppresses appetite

Phenobarbital== seizure disorders =========Vit.. C, D, Ca, Mg, folic acid

Tetracycline ===infection ===============Zn, Ca, Fe, Mg, Vit.. K, B2, B3, C, folate

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A balanced diet as recommended by the USDA.
Your body is a temple. There is no room in the temple for junk, sugar water, frozen dinners or overly processed synthetic foods. Eastern knowledge about nutrition is founded on millennia of eating what is readily found in nature. Foods grown organically and prepared simply have proven to be the most beneficial to sustain human body.
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Thousands of years ago, the Chinese populations have been moulding, formulating and practicing a tradition of appertising eating for health. Chinese people enjoy the pleasure of eating good food while at the same time knowing the food can nourish their body and upkeeping good health. In fact, food therapy has become such an important part in Chinese culture that modern Chinese population just take it as a natural way to eat naturally everyday and have no worry for good health as it certainly comes along the way!(健康從食物開始--進補). Food therapy can be achieved by careful fabrication of daily meat and vegetables, Chinese herbs and nutritious foods, taking into consideration :the nature of seasonal changes and the body health basics of individuals, whether they belong to the "Yin" or the "Yan" side.
Food therapy is a combination of traditional Chinese medication and Chinese cuisines, its background theory is difficult to master out of experiences for thousands of years(MY COMMENT=Many concordance originated in THE IMPERIAL COURTS where the best food and health must be taken care of), but here in this webpage we have successfully create dishes which are easy to prepare for our daily consumption. We wish to promote this idea of traditional Chinese food therapy to the world. Hope you can enjoy and benefit from this website.

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Basic Nutrition And Our Daily Dieting

The extract is from Vegetarian Society and Dr.Ja. As I look at them and after making some adjustment of text ,I hope the text serves as a sound guidelines for proper dieting for vegetarians and apply equally well for those who want to cut down the body weight even he/she is not a vegetarian. By additon of red meat and fresh fish( Sea-water fish is preferable to fresh-water fish because it has less bacteria,and it also tastes better) the non-vegetarians could certainly benefit the most in their diet by following the given suggestions.

Ayurvedic guidelines about eating

Eat three meals and zip your lips in between.
Eat at right times – Break fast around 7.00 am , lunch around noon and dinner around 6-7.00 pm
Respect the food you will be eating
Sit Down and eat. Enjoy eating. Don’t eat on the run, or watch TV or work on the computer while eating.
Don’t just eat raw foods. Eat freshly cooked food.
Eat with proper frame of mind. Be happy when you eat, not depressed, worried, angry or sad. You may ingest those emotions with food, and it will not be digested well.
Eat enough quantity that you feel full. Don’t eat less, you may end up eating in couple of hours, or don’t eat too much. It will create indigestion and you will feel lethargic.
Take time, chew food longer. You will enjoy it more.
My Doctor recommends eating small frequent meals – ( 5-6 times a day). Why does Ayurveda recommend eating only three meals?
Eating three meals a day and zipping the lips in between is the perfect way of eating. It takes about 5-6 hours to go thru’ all stages of digestion. If we eat before, food stays undigested, causes gas, bloating and, discomfort. Instead of eating smaller meals, we should eat enough to feel full, so we don’t feel hungry soon.

Introduction

Many people worry that when they stop eating meat and fish, they might be in danger of some nutritional deficiency. This is not the case as all the nutrients you need can easily be obtained from a vegetarian diet. In fact research shows that in many ways a vegetarian diet is healthier than that of a typical meat-eater. (my comment: It is true,we tend to eat more meat than plants)

Nutrients are usually divided into five classes:

carbohydrates, proteins, fats (including oil), vitamins and minerals.
We also need fibre and water. All are equally important to our well-being,

Carbohydrate, fat and protein are usually called macro-nutrients and the vitamins and minerals are usually called micro-nutrients.
Most foods contain a mixture of nutrients (there are a few exceptions, like pure salt or sugar) but it is convenient to classify them by the main nutrient they provide. Still, it is worth remembering that everything you eat gives you a whole range of essential nutrients.
MEAT supplies protein, fat, some B vitamins and minerals (mostly iron, zinc, potassium and phosphorous FISH, in addition to the above, supplies vitamins A, D, and E, and the mineral iodine. All these nutrients can be easily obtained by vegetarians from other sources, as this Information Sheet shows.

Protein

Women need about 45g of protein a day (more if pregnant, lactating or very active), men need about 55g (more if very active). Evidence suggests that excess protein contributes to degenerative diseases. Vegetarians obtain protein from:
• Nuts: hazels, brazils, almonds, cashews, walnuts, pine kernels etc.
• Seeds: sesame, pumpkin, sunflower, linseeds.
• Pulses: peas, beans, lentils, peanuts.
• Grains/cereals: wheat (in bread, flour, pasta etc), barley, rye, oats, millet, maize (sweetcorn), rice.
• Soya products: tofu, tempeh, textured vegetable protein, veggieburgers, soya milk.
• Dairy products: milk, cheese, yoghurt (butter and cream are very poor sources of protein).
• Free range eggs.
You have may have heard that it is necessary to balance the complementary amino acids in a vegetarian diet. This is not as alarming as it sounds. Amino acids are the units from which proteins are made. There are 20 different ones in all. We can make many of them in our bodies by converting other amino acids, but eight cannot be made, they have to be provided in the diet and so they are called essential amino acids.
Single plant foods do not contain all the essential amino acids we need in the right proportions, but when we mix plant foods together, any deficiency in one is cancelled out by any excess in the other. We mix protein foods all the time, whether we are meat-eaters or vegetarians. It is a normal part of the human way of eating. A few examples are beans on toast, muesli, or rice and peas. Adding dairy products or eggs also adds the missing amino acids, eg macaroni cheese, quiche, porridge.
It is now known that the body has a pool of amino acids so that if one meal is deficient, it can be made up from the body's own stores. Because of this, we don't have to worry about complementing amino acids all the time, as long as our diet is generally varied and well-balanced. Even those foods not considered high in protein are adding some amino acids to this pool.

Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate is our main and most important source of energy, and most of it is provided by plant foods. There are three main types: simple sugars, complex carbohydrates or starches and dietary fibre.
• (1)The sugars or SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATE can be found in fruit, milk and ordinary table sugar. Refined sources of sugar are best avoided as they provide energy without any associated fibre, vitamins or minerals and they are also the main cause of dental decay.
• (2)COMPLE CARBOHYDRARE are found in cereals/grains (bread, rice, pasta, oats, barley, millet, buckwheat, rye) and some root vegetables, such as potatoes and parsnips. A healthy diet should contain plenty of these starchy foods as a high intake of complex carbohydrate is now known to benefit health.
The World Health Organisation recommends that 50-70% of energy should come from complex carbohydrates. The exact amount of carbohydrate that you need depends upon your appetite and also your level of activity. Contrary to previous belief a slimming diet should not be low in carbohydrates. In fact starchy foods are very filling relative to the number of calories that they contain.
• (3)Dietary Fibre: Dietary fibre or non-starch polysaccharide (NSP), as it is now termed, refers to the indigestible part of a carbohydrate food. Fibre can be found in unrefined or wholegrain cereals, fruit (fresh and dried) and vegetables. A good intake of dietary fibre can prevent many digestive problems and protect against diseases like colon cancer and diverticular disease. The unrefined carbohydrates, like wholemeal bread and brown rice are best of all because they contain essential dietary fibre and B vitamins.

Fats & Oils

Too much fat is bad for us, but a little is necessary to keep our tissues in good repair, for the manufacture of hormones and to act as a carrier for some vitamins. Like proteins, fats are made of smaller units, called fatty acids. Two of these fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic acids, are termed essential as they must be provided in the diet. This is no problem as they are widely found in plant foods.
Fats can be either saturated or unsaturated (mono-unsaturated or poly-unsaturated). A high intake of saturated fat can lead to a raised blood cholesterol level and this has been linked to heart disease. Vegetable fats tend to be more unsaturated and this is one of the benefits of a vegetarian diet. Mono-unsaturated fats, such as olive oil or peanut oil, are best used for frying as the poly-unsaturated fats, like sunflower or safflower oil are unstable at high temperatures. Animal fats (including butter and cheese) tend to be more saturated than vegetable fats, with the exception of palm oil and coconut oil.

Vitamins

Vitamin is the name for several unrelated nutrients that the body cannot synthesise either at all, or in sufficient quantities. The one thing they have in common is that only small quantities are needed in the diet. The main vegetarian sources are listed below:
Vitamin A (or beta carotene): Red, orange or yellow vegetables like carrots and tomatoes, leafy green vegetables and fruits like apricots and peaches. It is added to most margarines.
B Vitamins: This group of vitamins includes B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cyanocobalmin), folate, pantothenic acid and biotin.
All the B vitamins except B12 occur in yeasts and whole cereals (especially wheat germ), nuts & seeds, pulses and green vegetables.
Vitamin B12 is the only one that may cause some difficulty as it is not present in plant foods. Only very tiny amounts of B12 are needed and vegetarians usually get this from dairy produce and free range eggs. It is sensible for vegans and vegetarians who consume few animal foods to incorporate some B12 fortified foods in their diet. Vitamin B12 is added to yeast extracts, soya milks, veggieburgers and some breakfast cereals.
Vitamin C: Fresh fruit, salad vegetables, all leafy green vegetables and potatoes.
Vitamin D: This is vitamin is not found in plant foods but humans can make their own when skin is exposed to sunlight. It is also added to most margarines and is present in milk, cheese and butter. These sources are usually adequate for healthy adults. The very young, the very old and anyone confined indoors would be wise to take a vitamin D supplement especially if they consume very few dairy products.
Vitamin E: Vegetable oil, wholegrain cereals, eggs.
Vitamin K: Fresh vegetables, cereals and bacterial synthesis in the intestine.

Minerals

Minerals perform a variety of jobs in the body. Details of the some of the most important minerals are listed below:
Calcium: Important for healthy bones and teeth. Found in dairy produce, leafy green vegetables, bread, tap water in hard water areas, nuts and seeds (especially sesame seeds), dried fruits, cheese. Vitamin D helps calcium to be absorbed.
Iron: Needed for red blood cells. Found in leafy green vegetables, wholemeal bread, molasses, eggs, dried fruits (especially apricots and figs), lentils and pulses. Vegetable sources of iron are not as easily absorbed as animal sources, but a good intake of vitamin C will enhance absorption.
Zinc: Plays a major role in many enzyme reactions and the immune system. Found in green vegetables, cheese, sesame and pumpkin seeds, lentils and wholegrain cereals.
Iodine: Present in vegetables, but the quantity depends on how rich the soil is in iodine. Dairy products also have plenty of iodine. Sea vegetables are a good source of iodine for vegans.

In addition to the above-mentioned categories, I would like to suggest the intake of plant beverages like herbal tea(of flowers/roots/leaves) which is very rich in minerals and anti-oxidants. Moreover:

According to Chinese traditional concept of OPTIMUM/IDEAL dieting:

(1)We should eat the food that comes from various parts of plant: Flowers,leaves,stem and root
(2)According to the seasons, take as an example flower beverage is good for hot day or summer
(3)According to time(even hours) of the day: like FLOWER herbal tea is bad at night when body is at the YING state(low energy state), but ginger tea should be good at night. By the way-- Sex is bad for heart at mid-night(especially those having heart/BP problem),stomach is active for digestion say from 6-8 am(optimum time to eat your breakfast ); the lung is weak after 6pm(cold food is not appropriate); Liver and heart must have proper "rest" before twelve,therefore those who sleep after 12 mid-night plus heavy alcohol drinking is VERY BAD! the list go on and on.... This doctrine/subject is part of Chinese Medicine Study--so called "MEDICATION ACCORDING TO QI FLOW TO DIFFERENT ORGANS IN THE BODY".

o *Try to eat according to season, following your body type and need ,and listen to what your body tells you about what you are eating.
o Have skin disease, don’t eat onion, or other things that are pungent.
o If you have weak Spleen and Stomach (puffy tongue, loose stools, poor appetite, bloating), do not eat foods that are too cold in the morning (orange juice, banana, cold yogurt, fruit smoothies, etc). This type of breakfast is more suitable for the person that shows Heat signs.
Women have more taste than men. Men more use the nose (smell).
o Boil bitter melon just briefly, then store for 24 hours in the fridge before eating.
o Qiang Chai vegetable cooked (stir fried in water) then left in the fridge for one day produces alcohol (green vegetable)
o At different times of the day foods effect you differently, just like we know not to drink coffee just before we go to bed!
o Any Bi syndrome, avoid tomatoes, they are cold and sour.
o Vitamin A goes to the Liver for the eyes.
o Celery is bitter cold, proof that it slows sperm (essence), good to drain Damp/Heat.
o Alcohol have different energies (not all damp/heat), the different herbs they are made with adjust their properties, i.e. brandy is made with Chen Pi, gin is made with juniper berries, peppermint schnapps, etc.
o Tonify the Blood: carrots (liver, Spleen), beets, cherries, spinach, dark grapes, marrow, easily digestable grains, raspberries
o Tonify Kidney Qi: animal kidneys, lobster, lamb, seeds, dry nuts, rosehips, beans, turnip, raspberry, sprouts, blueberry
o Tonify Lung: almond, dry apricots
o Tonify Liver: cranberry, blueberry, mulberry, raspberry
In spring, should you eat more sour? Depends on the person. Normal situation, we should eat more sweet because it’s energy is rising, if too much it will overact on the Spleen so eat sweet to protect it.
In Summer, eat less bitter, slightly more pungent food to protect the lungs.
In fall, less pungent and eat some sour too keep it from overacting on the liver. Also things that nourish the lung are beneficial, i.e. pears (if the person is of cold constitution can steam with cinnamon and maple syrup)
In late summer, one can eat a little more salty in preparation for winter for the kidney.
Although you must see if there is excess or deficiency:
If there is Liver Fire (energy going upward and outward): eat more sour cold
Qi and Yang deficiency should eat more warm foods, avoid a lot of cold energy foods or try to change their properties if people do not want to avoid certain things

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