Dietary therapy for testicular swelling and pain: Etiological analysis and selected dietary recipes

**(**Three**)** **Dietary Therapy for Testicular Swelling and Pain**

**1.** **Common Causes of Testicular Swelling and Pain**

Testicular swelling and pain is a condition characterized by testicular pain as the main symptom, caused by various factors.

Symptoms. In the acute phase, testicular redness, swelling, and pain are common, along with fever and chills; in chronic cases, testicular swelling and pain are more common.

The testicles gradually swell, become hard, and cause mild pain, but the condition persists for a long time. This can be seen in modern medicine.

Acute epididymitis, acute epididymitis, epididymo-orchitis, etc., are referred to in Traditional Chinese Medicine as...

"Vaginal abscess," "kidney abscess," etc. Commonly seen in chronic prostatitis, varicocele, etc.

Hydrocele, epididymitis, and some cases of unexplained testicular pain.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathogenesis of this disease is mainly due to cold congealing in the liver meridian, damp-heat descending to the lower body, and stagnation of liver qi.

Symptoms include qi stagnation and blood stasis. The treatment principle is mainly to warm the meridians and dispel cold, clear damp-heat, soothe the liver and regulate qi, and promote qi and blood circulation.

**2.** **Dietary Therapy for Testicular Swelling and Pain**

**(1) Winter melon, bitter greens, and meat**

**Ingredients:** 30g fresh bitter lettuce, 250g winter melon, 90g lean pork, salt, MSG, and sesame oil to taste.

**Preparation:** Wash the bitter greens and chop them finely; peel and remove the seeds from the winter melon, then cut it into small pieces.

Cut lean pork into chunks after washing and dicing. Add water to a pot and simmer the pork until cooked. Then add winter melon.

Add bitter greens and salt, and cook until the meat is tender. Add MSG and sesame oil before serving.

**Dosage:** Take one meal at a time for 3-5 consecutive days.

**Efficacy:** Clears heat and detoxifies, promotes diuresis. Suitable for testicular swelling and pain, and dark yellow urine.

**(2) Stir-fried bitter melon**

**Ingredients:** 250g bitter melon, 60g lean pork, appropriate amounts of chopped green onion, ginger, salt, MSG, and sesame oil.

Preparation: Slice the bitter melon; slice the lean pork; heat a pan, add sesame oil or salad oil, then add chopped green onions...

Stir-fry minced ginger, sliced ​​meat, and salt until the meat is cooked. Then add bitter melon and stir-fry briefly. Add MSG to taste.

**Dosage:** Take with meals for 5-7 consecutive days.

**Efficacy:** Clears heat and detoxifies, promotes diuresis. Suitable for carbuncles and testicular swelling and pain.

**(3) Stewed Lamb with Cinnamon**

**Ingredients:** 20g aconite root, 10g cinnamon, 3g fennel seeds, 250g mutton, salt and MSG to taste.

**Preparation:** Wash the mutton and cut it into chunks; wrap the first two herbs in gauze and add them to the mutton along with water.

Stew together until the meat is tender, then season with salt and MSG.

**Dosage:** Eat the meat and drink the soup.

**Efficacy:** Warms Yang and dispels cold. Suitable for Yang deficiency with excessive cold, lower abdominal pain, coldness in the genital area, and carbuncles.

**(** 4** )** **Toona sinensis** **Green beans** **Porridge**

**Ingredients:** 100g fresh toon leaves, 30g green peas, 60g glutinous rice.

**Preparation:** Cook green peas and glutinous rice together into a porridge. Once cooked, wash and chop the toon leaves.

Chop it up, add it to the porridge, and it's ready after one or two boils.

**Dosage:** One dose daily for 3-5 consecutive days.

**Efficacy:** Clears heat and detoxifies, promotes diuresis. Suitable for testicular swelling and pain.

**(5) Three-Bean Drink**

**Ingredients:** 30 grams each of red beans, mung beans, and black beans.

**Preparation method:** Boil the above three types of beans in water until they are soft.

**Directions for use:** Eat the beans and drink the soup.

**Efficacy:** Clears heat and detoxifies, resolves blood stasis. Suitable for testicular swelling and pain.

**(** 6** )** **Yam** **Medicinal Herb** **Longan** **Stewed** **Soft-shelled Turtle** **Fish**

**Ingredients:** 30g yam, 20g dried longan pulp, 1 turtle (approx. 500g), seasoning

Add appropriate amounts of wine, ginger, and salt.

Preparation: First, kill the turtle, wash it clean, remove its entrails, and add the shell and meat along with an appropriate amount of water, then mix with the mountain...

Stew the herbs and dried longan pulp with cooking wine and ginger until the meat is tender. Season with salt before serving.

**Dosage:** Eat the meat and drink the soup.

**Efficacy:** Nourishes Yin, nourishes the liver, and reduces swelling. Suitable for testicular enlargement.

Burning pain, scanty dark urine, red eyes and tinnitus, thin yellow tongue coating, and wiry and rapid pulse.

**(7) Steamed Pork Liver with Verbena**

**Ingredients:** 60g fresh verbena, 100g fresh pork liver.

**Preparation:** Wash and chop the verbena; wash and slice the pork liver, then arrange them alternately with the verbena on a porcelain plate.

The food is steamed in a dish over water until cooked.

**Dosage:** Once daily.

**Efficacy:** Clears heat and detoxifies, nourishes blood and softens the liver. Suitable for scrotal redness, swelling, heat, pain, and a feeling of heaviness or distension.

Symptoms include fever, dry mouth and thirst for cold drinks, dark and difficult urination, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse.