What to do if your lymph nodes in your neck are swollen and painful

Some of our friends suffer from neck lymph node pain and similar diseases. In fact, lymph nodes are relatively important organs in the human body. As the saying goes, food supplements are worse than medicine supplements. We should improve the abnormal condition of lymph nodes in the body through our daily diet so that the disease can be controlled to a certain extent, which will also heal faster.

Diet therapy

Recipe 1: Purslane, Chrysanthemum, and Mung Bean Porridge

Soak mung beans for half a day, wash and chop purslane, and dry and grind chrysanthemum into powder. After the mung beans are half cooked, add purslane and japonica rice and simmer until it becomes porridge. Add chrysanthemum powder and cook for a while. Take it twice a day. This method has the medicinal effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and removing dampness, and can be used to treat acute lymphangitis, in which one or several thread-like red lines appear on the wound of the lower limbs, which are hard and tender.

Recipe 2: Water Chestnut Porridge

Peel and slice the water chestnuts, put them into the pot together with the washed glutinous rice, add water and cook over low heat for porridge. Take it twice a day. The effect is that it can clear away heat and promote salivation. Mainly used to treat acute lymphangitis. Note: Water chestnut extract has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus.

Recipe 3: Snow Soup

50-100 grams each of water chestnuts and jellyfish (soaked and salted), boil them into a soup and drink it in 2-3 times. This is the "Xue Geng Soup" by Wang Shixiong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty. It has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating accumulation and softening hard masses, and lowering blood pressure. It can be used to treat phlegm-heat cough, lymph tuberculosis, and primary hypertension.

Recipe 4 Steamed Chicken Liver in Corrugated Rice Bowl

6-10 grams of corrugated seeds are calcined on fire, ground into fine powder, mixed with 1-2 chicken livers, and steamed before eating. It has the effects of eliminating accumulation and phlegm, tonifying the liver and kidneys, and nourishing blood. It is suitable for treating lymphatic tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, infantile malnutrition and other diseases.

Recipe 5: Taro noodle soup

Use 3 kg of raw taro, dry it and grind it into powder. Also use 300 g of old jellyfish (wash off the salt) and 300 g of water chestnuts. Add water and cook until the two ingredients are soft, remove the residue, add taro powder and make into pills as big as mung beans. Take with warm water, 6 g each time, three times a day. Or wash fresh taro, steam it in a pot, peel it, season it with soy sauce, and eat it as a dish every day. Treat scrofula, cervical lymphadenitis, postauricular lymphadenitis, etc.

The Chinese medicines and ingredients mentioned above are all things we can see in our daily lives, and they are not difficult to find. Therefore, as long as we can strictly follow the above recipes, go to bed early and get up early, rest on time, and maintain a good mentality, then no matter what lymph node disease it is, it will get better quickly.