🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy often experience varying degrees of reduced appetite, weakened digestion, fatigue, and weight loss. Many hope to improve these conditions through proper dietary therapy. True dietary therapy not only prevents disease but also tastes delicious, stimulates appetite, and is easy to digest and absorb. This issue introduces four dietary recipes with certain cancer-preventive and anti-cancer effects.
Chinese Yam and Goji Berry Steamed Sea Cucumber
Ingredients and Method: 96 grams of dried sea cucumber, 10 grams of American ginseng (separately wrapped, steamed for only 15 minutes), 250 grams of pork spine, 65 grams of Chinese yam, salt and peanut oil as needed. First, cut the sea cucumber into small pieces, combine with chopped pork spine in a large steaming bowl, add Chinese yam and sufficient water. After boiling, simmer gently for one hour, then add American ginseng slices, goji berries, peanut oil, and salt, steam for another 15 minutes. Drink the broth in portions and eat the sea cucumber.
Benefits: Anti-cancer, tonifies qi and blood.
Evaluation: Sea cucumber is warm in nature, rich in protein, calcium, iron. Its mucopolysaccharides effectively enhance immune function, inhibit tumor cell growth, and prevent metastasis. Sea cucumber saponins also have anti-cancer properties. American ginseng is slightly bitter and sweet, cool in nature, nourishes qi and yin, clears heat, and generates body fluids—especially suitable for those with qi-yin deficiency after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, presenting symptoms like fatigue, thirst, dry tongue, and dizziness. Chinese yam is sweet and neutral, tonifies qi and yin, strengthens spleen and kidney. Goji berries are sweet and neutral, nourish blood and essence, brighten eyes, and protect the liver—helping reduce liver damage caused by chemotherapy drugs. Combined with marrow-tonifying pork spine, this recipe achieves anti-cancer, qi- and blood-tonifying effects.
This formula can also be used for general tonification, post-menstrual nourishment in women, etc.
Eggplant and Enoki Mushroom Stir-Fry with Goose Blood
Ingredients and Method: 125 grams of eggplant (washed, skin retained, cubed), 150 grams of enoki mushrooms (washed, cut), 96 grams of goose blood. First, stir-fry eggplant and enoki mushrooms in peanut oil and salt over medium heat until 70–80% cooked. Then quickly stir in goose blood, serve as a dish. Consume 1–2 servings daily for 7–10 days, or alternate with other anti-cancer dietary recipes.
Benefits: Nourishes blood, prevents and treats cancer.
Evaluation: Eggplant is sweet and cool, rich in vitamins A, C, and E. Its solanine content inhibits formation of digestive tract tumors and promotes bowel movements, contributing to anti-cancer effects. Enoki mushrooms are sweet and cool, with protein content exceeding 21%, containing eight essential amino acids and various vitamins. They induce interferon synthesis, thus preventing cancer, and show auxiliary therapeutic effects on breast cancer and lymphoma. Goose blood is slightly salty, rich in vitamins and hemoglobin, offering auxiliary treatment for esophageal cancer. Together, these ingredients make a dish beneficial for health and prevention of esophageal and intestinal cancers.
Bean Sprouts and Lettuce Stir-Fried with Sardine Fillets
Ingredients and Method: 100 grams of bean sprouts, 125 grams of lettuce, 96 grams of sardine fillets, 4.5 grams of ginger threads. Stir-fry all four ingredients in peanut oil and salt until cooked, served as a side dish. Consume one serving daily for 3–5 days, or alternate with other anti-cancer dishes.
Benefits: Prevents cancer, regulates lipid levels, detoxifies smoke.
Evaluation: Bean sprouts are sweet and slightly cool, rich in vitamin C, B2, beta-carotene, amino acids, and sugars—nutrient content higher than legumes and easily digestible. Their chlorophyll effectively breaks down carcinogenic nitrosamines, helping prevent colorectal cancer and other malignancies, especially beneficial for long-term smokers. Lettuce is sweet and slightly bitter, cool in nature, contains calcium, iron, phosphorus, and beta-carotene—helps regulate lipid levels and prevent breast cancer. Sardines are sweet and slightly salty, neutral in nature, rich in protein, iron, calcium, and phosphorus—enhances immune function and anti-cancer capacity.
Together, these ingredients provide health benefits and are effective in preventing lung, breast, and colorectal cancers.
Kelp and Softshell Turtle Shell Pork Soup
Ingredients and Method: 65 grams of kelp (washed clean, soaked and cut into chunks), 65 grams of softshell turtle shell (crushed), 65 grams of lean pork. Simmer together into soup. After cooking, add salt and sesame oil to taste. Consume twice daily, warm, and eat the kelp.
Evaluation: Kelp is salty and cold, rich in vitamin B2, vitamin C, beta-carotene, cobalt, and abundant iodine (statistical data worldwide indicate higher incidence of breast cancer in regions deficient in iodine). Softshell turtle shell is salty and cold, softens hardness and disperses nodules. Enoki mushrooms are sweet and cool, contain eight essential amino acids, and enhance interferon synthesis, thus having anti-cancer effects.
Regular consumption of this soup not only prevents fibrocystic breast disease but also effectively aids in breast cancer prevention—a cost-effective dietary remedy.