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Can cancer patients eat ginseng?
As an oriental, ginseng is certainly not strange. For the efficacy of ginseng, most people are still addicted to it, keeping their lives strong and prolonging their lives. Therefore, cancer patients are weak, and the first thing that comes to mind is ginseng. But whether ginseng is suitable for cancer patients has been controversial. Can cancer patients eat ginseng?

The old Chinese doctor said that not everyone can eat ginseng, and eating the wrong person is counterproductive, so be careful!

Ginseng, the "King of Herbs", has many health-preserving effects. Ginseng is a brave, hardworking and intelligent working people in China. It is undoubtedly a great discovery to find precious medicinal materials from 400 thousand plants around the world. Ginseng is not only a bright pearl in the medical treasure house of our great motherland, but also an extremely precious medicine provided by our ancestors for world health care. Modern medical research has found that ginsenoside and ginseng polysaccharide, the core functional components of ginseng, also have many biological activities such as anti-tumor, anti-aging and anti-radiation. However, ginseng has complex components and is not suitable for tumor patients to take as a whole.

In fact, for cancer patients, there are many foods that can't be eaten, such as milk. Some people think that cancer will cause some calcium loss during treatment, and drinking more milk is beneficial. In fact, this idea is wrong. Milk is actually a nutritious food, but for cancer patients, it is best to drink less, because calcium and phosphorus contained in milk are easy to combine with iron in human body, which leads to insufficient iron content in human body and induces iron deficiency anemia. Therefore, it is better for cancer patients to drink less milk.

Although cancer patients are weak and need tonic, this is not the primary consideration for cancer patients. The most important thing for cancer patients is treatment. Such as surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and now anti-vascular therapy. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy should have a long history in clinic. Today I mainly talk about anti-vascular therapy.

The growth of cancer needs blood vessels to provide nutrition. Without the formation of new blood vessels, cancer will not exceed the size of a pin. This is the well-known "angiogenesis" theory today. The growth of cancer has gone through two stages: avascular stage and vascular stage. In the avascular stage, the existence of tiny cancer blocks depends on the diffuse blood supply of surrounding stroma, the size of cancer blocks is less than 2 mm, and the number of cancer cells is less than 654.38+ 10,000 ~ 654.38+10,000. After entering the vascular phase, the cancer tissue is perfused with blood, and the growth of cancer mass is almost unrestricted. New blood vessels promote the growth of cancer and create conditions for blood metastasis and lymphatic metastasis of cancer cells. Therefore, blocking the formation of new blood vessels in cancer blocks can prevent the growth of cancer blocks and reduce the incidence of cancer cell diffusion and metastasis. Therefore, anti-vascular therapy has become one of the means of comprehensive treatment of tumors.