Chinese Dietary Therapy for Cancer and other Severe Illness

Avoid white sugar and processed foods
Stick to foods that are easy to digest and cooling
Your job and the job of your body is to fight cancer and to heal itself. This means that if you eat foods that are easy to digest and help cool your body during chemotherapy, you are giving yourself the best chance of recovery and a long, joyful life.

Vegetables

Spinach
Kale
Watercress
Collard greens
Swiss chard
Dandelion greens
Beets and beet greens (beets are considered a blood builder)

Meats (blood and immune builders)

High quality marbled red meat once per week
Beef bones cooked in a large pot of water will make nutrient rich broth for soup/stew
Eat the marrow (inside "meat" of the bone).

Fruits, etc.

Pears, Berries, and all types of melon are cooling and nourishing to the stomach and spleen.
Berries provide wonderful antioxidants that are easily accessed by your body.

If you are making smoothies or protein shakes with yogurt and fruit... use unsweetened, whole milk cream-on-top yogurt sweetened only with stevia. Use room temperature (if you feel cold and fatigued) or refrigerated (if you feel hot and fatigued) fruits so that the body can easily access the cooling benefits along with the vitamins and nutrients provided by the fruits and yogurt.

Remember that your body is built to heal itself and recover from trauma. If you are eating foods that aid in the process, you give yourself the best opportunity to heal.
Also see the article "Healing With Food"

Text: Kathe Ana 2005.05.12
Image: ©2005 Steve Wiedemann. All rights reserved.