Insomnia patients should eat foods rich in iron and copper, such as lean meat, pork liver, egg yolk, clams, shellfish, shrimp, crab, sesame, beans, spinach and so on. Shellfish food is not only beneficial to sleep, but also plays an auxiliary role in the treatment of tuberculosis. In addition, drinking a cup of honey water or hot milk and lotus seed soup before going to bed every day can help patients fall asleep safely and quickly. Patients with hemoptysis should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables such as oranges, red dates and strawberries rich in vitamin C, but should not eat sour juice and spicy, fried and overheated food to avoid inducing hemoptysis.
When the condition is severe and dyspnea occurs, improper diet will aggravate the symptoms or cause vomiting. Therefore, such patients should drink non-irritating beverages, try to avoid eating spicy and spicy condiments, and never drink carbonated drinks to avoid excessive carbon dioxide production and reduce the intake of fatty foods.
Patients with loss of appetite should have a regular diet. Appropriate cooking methods and food types should be arranged according to patients' preferences, such as adding a little vinegar or eating light cold dishes when cooking food, which can increase patients' appetite.
Patients with severe cough in acute stage should not eat cold food or food that is too spicy and sweet.
In addition, tremella rock sugar porridge, black sesame porridge, lotus seed lily stewed lean meat and so on. It has the effects of strengthening the body, moistening the lungs and intestines, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Regular consumption is beneficial to the treatment of tuberculosis, and they can all be used as therapeutic prescriptions for tuberculosis patients.
Steamed lily with honey
Materials: dried lily100g, honey150g.
Methods: Lily and honey were steamed in water.
Medicinal: Take it at will.
Description: moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves; It is effective for chronic cough caused by pulmonary tuberculosis.
Lotus root and egg soup
Ingredients: lotus root juice 100ml, egg 1 piece, 5 g of panax notoginseng.
Method: boil lotus root juice, add raw eggs and mix well, add notoginseng, season and boil.
Medicinal use: twice a day for 3 days.
Description: clearing lung and relieving cough; It is effective for tuberculosis. [Gourmet China]
Tremella rock sugar soup
Materials: 2g dried tremella, 20g rock sugar, pigeon eggs 1.
Method: soak the dried tremella for 20 minutes, knead, add a bowl of water, boil over high fire, add rock sugar, and cook over low fire. Open the pigeon eggs, steam it for 5 minutes on low heat, add it into the tremella rock sugar soup, and boil it.
Description: nourishing yin and moistening lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production; It has therapeutic effect on chronic cough and dry cough due to physical weakness.
Stewed eel with sea cucumber
Ingredients: 200 grams of eel, 30 grams of Adenophora adenophora, 30 grams of yam and 30 grams of lily.
Methods: Remove impurities from eel, wash it, stew it with Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Lily in water, and add seasoning.
Medicinal: take 50g each time, three times a day.
Description: nourishing yin and tonifying lung; Can be used for treating persistent pulmonary tuberculosis and anorexia.