Hemorrhoids — TCM Food Therapy & Dietary Approach

Food Therapy & Diet

Dietary Therapy Recipes

• Xanthium porridge: xanthium fruit (cangerzi) 15g, polished round-grained rice 100g. First decoct the xanthium, strain, then add the rice and cook into porridge, take on an empty stomach. Effects: expel wind and reduce swelling; suitable for hemorrhoid bleeding and blurred vision in the elderly.
• Beef spleen porridge: 1 beef spleen, polished round-grained rice 100g. Wash the beef spleen, use 150g each time, finely chop, and cook with the rice into porridge. Eat on an empty stomach. Strengthens the spleen and removes stagnation; suitable for spleen deficiency with food stagnation, also treats hemorrhoid bleeding.
• Mulberry glutinous rice porridge: mulberry 100g, glutinous rice 150g. Cook the mulberry for juice, then cook with glutinous rice into porridge. 1-2 times daily on an empty stomach. Effects: nourish liver and kidney, nourish blood; suitable for hemorrhoid bleeding, restlessness with heat and emaciation.
• Fig stewed lean pork: dried fig 100g, lean pork 200g, add enough water, put in a clay pot, stew over water until cooked, season. Take 2 times daily. Strengthens the stomach, regulates the intestines, reduces inflammation and detoxifies; suitable for hemorrhoids and chronic enteritis.
• Luffa and lean pork soup: luffa 250g, lean pork 200g. Cut the luffa into chunks, slice the pork, add water and make soup. 2-3 times daily, season with salt, eat with meals. Effects: clear heat and benefit the intestines, relieve summer heat and restlessness. Suitable for early internal hemorrhoid bleeding.
• Sugar stewed fish maw: fish maw 25-50g, white sugar 50g, add a little water, put in a clay pot and stew over water until cooked. Take once daily, effective with continuous use. Suitable for hemorrhoids. Effects: tonify kidney and benefit essence, stop bleeding and reduce swelling.
• Daylily sugar water: daylily 100g, brown sugar to taste, cook together in water, strain. Take on an empty stomach morning and evening daily for several days. Suitable for hemorrhoid pain and bleeding; effects: clear heat, promote urination, nourish blood and calm the liver.
• Black fungus cake: black fungus 5g, dried persimmon 30g. Soak the black fungus, cut the dried persimmon into pieces, cook together in water until soft and eat. 1-2 times daily. Effects: nourish and tonify qi, remove stasis and stop bleeding; suitable for hemorrhoid bleeding.
• Water spinach 2000g, honey 250g. Wash, chop and pound the water spinach for juice. Put the juice in a pot, heat on high then low heat to concentrate; when thickened add honey, cook until sticky, stop heat, cool and bottle. Take 1 tablespoon each time dissolved in boiling water, 2 times daily. Effects: clear heat and detoxify, promote urination, stop bleeding; suitable for external hemorrhoids.

Understanding the Condition

Hemorrhoids are soft venous masses formed by the dilation and varicosity of the venous plexuses beneath the mucosa of the lower rectum and beneath the skin of the anal canal. Based on their location relative to the dentate line, they are divided into internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids, and mixed hemorrhoids. Bowel movements are often accompanied by bleeding and pain. In treatment, excess-type cases should mainly cool the blood and dispel wind; cases of qi and blood deficiency should be treated by boosting qi and raising, or by nourishing and enriching the blood.

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