Question
What Should Yellow Jaundice Patients Avoid Eating?
Answer
Patients with yellow jaundice should avoid spicy foods such as chili, pickled vegetables, garlic, cinnamon, cloves, fennel, scallions, chives, and fresh ginger. Additionally, they should also steer clear of sticky and moist foods like glutinous rice, jujube, and lychee. Foods that are likely to cause bloating, such as potatoes and broad bean curd, should be avoided as well. It is also advisable to minimize the intake of animal fats, fatty meats, dog meat, seafood, shrimp, Astragalus, Ling Zhi (Reishi mushroom), and other tonifying substances. For patients with Yin-type jaundice, it is necessary to avoid cold and raw foods such as crabs, snails, clam meat, persimmons, bananas, spinach, raw sweet potatoes, cucumber, and bitter melon.