Problem description:

My grandmother has rheumatism. Every time she gets up from the stool, it's hard, and her feet hurt when she walks.

Analysis:

Chinese medicine believes that "medicine and food are homologous". Food also has sexual taste, and some foods are also medicines. If used properly, it can prevent and treat diseases. The method of using food to prevent and treat diseases is called dietotherapy, which is also called dietotherapy and medicated diet therapy. A new book on life-saving and old-age care says: "If people can know their eating habits and make use of them, it will be better than drugs"; "Good medicine tastes bitter but not as good as food". Wang Qing Meng Ying said: "Dietetic drugs are extremely simple, the most peaceful in nature, not bad in taste, and easy to handle and take." The specific operation method is as follows:

1, dialectical diet: dialectical diagnosis and treatment is also the basic principle of dietotherapy. "Deficiency is a supplement, but it is actually a discharge", "Those who are cold look forward to it, those who look forward to it are cold", "Those who are warm are bright, and those who are cold are warm". , are all treatments. Different dietary formulas should be given according to the syndrome of yin and yang, deficiency and excess, cold and heat. Generally speaking, patients with wind arthralgia should use pungent and warm products such as onion and ginger. Those who are cold should use warm products such as pepper and dried ginger, but avoid cold and cold; People with damp arthralgia should use drugs such as Poria cocos and Coix seed. Heat arthralgia is generally a mixture of damp-heat evil. Medicinal diet should be bean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, loofah, melon and other medicinal diets, and mutton and spicy food should not be eaten.

2. Reasonable cooking: generally, cooking methods such as frying, roasting and explosion are not used for all dietotherapy articles, so as not to destroy their effective components or change their properties and lose their therapeutic effects. Methods such as steaming, boiling, stewing and soup making should be adopted. The purpose of cooking is to preserve its medicinal properties even if it is delicious.

Diet recuperation is very important for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. First of all, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should choose foods with high protein, high vitamins and easy digestion. After reasonable nutrition collocation and proper cooking, they should try their best to increase their appetite and make the nutrition and energy in their diet meet the needs of the body.

Secondly, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should not eat foods that are unfavorable to their condition and foods with strong sex, such as peppers. Especially patients with rheumatoid arthritis in acute stage and patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire. Use less sugar and fat, too. This is because glucocorticoid is commonly used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, which leads to disorder of glucose metabolism and increase of blood sugar, while fatty foods are sticky and greasy, which can increase blood lipid and cholesterol, cause arteriosclerosis of heart and brain, and also have certain damage to spleen and stomach function. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis should also use less salt than normal people, because too much salt intake will cause sodium salt retention.

In addition, tea, coffee, citrus and dairy products may also aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid patients.

Different types of patients with rheumatoid arthritis have different dietary taboos, which are described as follows:

(1) Wind-heat type and damp-heat type: The main symptoms of wind-heat type are joint wandering pain, fever, sore throat, constipation, red urine, thick fur, red tongue, pulse or string number, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate is also significantly increased, while patients with damp-heat type may have low fever, chest tightness, anorexia, joint swelling and pain with effusion, red tongue and white greasy fur. Patients with these symptoms should choose a cold diet, such as rice porridge, beans, raw pears, bean rolls, chrysanthemums, reed roots and so on. , can help to remove internal heat; Instead of eating warm food, such as pepper, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, wine and so on. Because eating these will hurt yin and help fire and aggravate symptoms.

(2) Cold-dampness type: mainly manifested as joint swelling and pain or exudation, no appetite, thin stool, long urine, chills and cold limbs, dull complexion, pale tongue with greasy fur, thready pulse and heavy speed. This type of patients should choose some warm foods, such as pig, cow and sheep bone soup, ginger, cinnamon, papaya, medicated wine and so on.

(3) Deficiency of both liver and kidney: This type of patients may show joint pain deformity, muscle atrophy, tendon contracture, chills, emaciation, dull complexion, pale white or greasy tongue, and thready pulse, but the erythrocyte sedimentation rate mostly does not increase or is close to normal. This type of patients can eat more tonic foods, such as soft-shelled turtle, chickens, ducks and geese, pork, beef, sheep bone marrow, walnuts, longan, sesame and so on.

In addition, the problem of drinking alcohol in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is also treated according to the condition.

What foods can alleviate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?

1) Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, horse tooth, towel gourd and other foods have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can relieve local fever and pain.

2) Coix seed, tofu, celery, yam, lentils and other foods have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, which can relieve local fever and pain.

3) Snakes, insects and other foods that promote blood circulation, dredge collaterals, dispel wind and relieve pain can be cooked or drunk, which can relieve local symptoms of redness, swelling, heat and pain, and can also play a role in preventing pathological changes from moving to other joints, so it is a strong food.

4) The newly crowed rooster, 150g ginger (sliced), is stewed in a pot, and can be eaten within 1 day with a little white wine and no oil and salt. Take it every other week. Rooster has the functions of tonifying deficiency and kidney, warming stomach and dispelling cold, and can relieve local pain and joint muscle weakness.

5) 0.5 kg of eel, dried in the shade, soaked in 1 kg of white wine, and can be drunk after 1 month. Drink 50ml each time, twice a day. The boy eel is warm, good at dredging menstruation, and has the effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, expelling wind and removing dampness. It can relieve local redness, swelling and heat pain, prevent lesions from escaping to other joints, and has a good effect on shoulder and elbow joint dyskinesia.

6) A variety of fruits and vegetables can meet the needs of the human body for vitamins, trace elements and cellulose, and at the same time have the functions of improving metabolism, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and relieving pain, thus alleviating the symptoms of local redness, swelling and heat pain.

7) Mushrooms, fungus and other foods can improve human immunity and relieve symptoms such as local redness, swelling, heat and pain.

8) 200g of lean pork and 0/50g of Zanthoxylum bungeanum root/kloc-are boiled and seasoned, and taken twice a day. It can relieve severe pain symptoms.

In short, many foods can alleviate the symptoms of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, but you must be symptomatic when choosing foods, otherwise it will affect the effect.

What foods may aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?

(1) High fat: When fat is oxidized in the body, ketone bodies can be produced. Too many ketone bodies have a strong * * effect on joints, so it is not advisable to eat more high-fat foods, such as milk and fat, and put less oil when cooking and cooking soup.

(2) Seafood: Patients should not eat more seafood, such as kelp, sea cucumber, marine fish and shrimp. Because it contains uric acid, it can form urate crystals in joints after being absorbed by people, which makes joint symptoms worse.

(3) Too acidic and salty: If the intake of acidic foods such as peanuts, liquor, sugar, chicken, duck, fish and eggs exceeds the normal pH value in the body, the pH value in the body will be temporarily high, and lactic acid secretion will increase, consuming a certain amount of calcium and magnesium plasma in the body and aggravating symptoms. Similarly, if you eat salty food such as pickles, salted eggs and salted fish. , it will increase sodium ions in the body and aggravate the symptoms of patients.