Does traditional Chinese medicine have an absolute trick for children’s constipation? Diagnose and treat to relieve constipation!

Constipation is one of the common symptoms in children. Improper diet, lack of exercise and other reasons can easily lead to constipation in children. Long-term constipation will affect children’s appetite and physical development. Severe constipation can also cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and other discomfort.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathogenesis of children’s constipation is mainly deficiency of qi and yin, imbalance of liver and spleen, and excess heat and dryness. Treatment should be based on syndrome differentiation. The commonly used treatment methods are:

1. Deficiency of qi and yin: Mainly manifested as dry stool, dry mouth, pale tongue, and fine pulse. You can take Modified Liuwei Dihuang Pill to nourish yin and moisten intestines. Diet recommends mung bean soup, pear, etc.

2. Disharmony between liver and spleen: Mainly manifested as restless sleep, sallow face, dull pain in chest and abdomen, pale tongue with thin white coating, wiry pulse. You can take Shugan Jianpi Pill to soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen. Diet recommends foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish blood.

3. Excessive heat and dryness: Mainly manifested as fever, irritability, red urine, dry stool, red tongue with yellow coating. You can take Qingre Huashi Pill to clear heat and moisten dryness. Diet recommends mung bean soup, lotus seed soup, etc. To nourish yin and moisten intestines.

In addition to taking Chinese patent medicines for treatment, parents can also help relieve children’s constipation through diet guidance and maintaining exercise:

1. Diet Guidance: Give the child more fruits with high moisture content and high fiber diet, such as persimmons, peaches, bananas, etc. And foods such as whole grains, potatoes, mung beans, etc. Drink plenty of warm water.

2. Maintain exercise: Take the child out for outdoor activities as much as possible to promote gastrointestinal motility and defecation. Massaging acupoints such as Changqiang, Guanyuan and Yinlingquan can also help relieve constipation.

With reasonable diet, medication and exercise, most children’s constipation can be alleviated effectively. If the constipation does not improve for a long time or is accompanied by other discomforts, you should take the child to the hospital for further examination to determine the cause and treatment plan. 

Constipation is common in children, and most of them are related to physiological factors. Due to the weak gastrointestinal function and imperfect development of the anus and rectum, it is difficult to promote defecation and prone to constipation. Improper feeding, lack of habit of regular defecation, and lack of exercise can also cause constipation in children. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children’s constipation is divided into virtual and real. Treatment requires syndrome differentiation.

Which Chinese patent medicine should be chosen for children’s constipation?

1. Hot and constipated type 

Its characteristics are dry and hard stools, dry mouth with obvious halitosis, abdominal pain and bloating, irritability, red face, or fever, red tongue, short red urine, yellow and dry tongue coating, etc. Ma Ren Wan can be used to regulate this condition.

2. Qi deficiency and constipation type 

Its characteristics are that although there is a strong urge to defecate, defecation is unusually difficult. Sweating profusely during defecation, fatigue after defecation, the stools are not dry and hard, accompanied by pale complexion, easy fatigue, pale tongue and white tongue coating, limb fatigue and laziness, weak pulse. At this time, Bu Zhong Yi Qi Wan can be used to supplement qi deficiency and improve constipation.

3. Qi constipation type

Its characteristics are dry and hard stools, have the urge to defecate but cannot be discharged, or unsatisfactory defecation, bloating pain in the middle abdomen, frequent borborygmus, frequent belching, decreased appetite, indigestion, accompanied by thin and greasy tongue coating. Si Mo Tang oral liquid can be used to regulate at this time. 

4. Yin deficiency and constipation type 

Its characteristics are dry and hard stools, just like sheep feces. At the same time, it is accompanied by weight loss, redness of both cheeks, irritability, dizziness, spontaneous sweating, tidal fever, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, red tongue and less tongue coating, thin and numerous pulses, etc. Yigan granules can be selected in this case.

How to improve children’s constipation through massage?

1. Push three passes 

Push down along the ulnar side of the elbow transverse striae to the ulnar end of the wrist transverse striae, push 100-500 times, which can warm and nourish qi and blood, dispel cold, and suitable for all deficiency syndromes. 

2. Rub the turtle tail point

Find the tip of the coccyx in the child’s buttocks, which is the location of the turtle tail point. Gently press and rotate with the pulp of the thumb to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and facilitate the downward discharge of stool. 

3. Clear the large intestine 

Push along the ulnar edge of the index finger, starting from the tiger’s mouth, gradually push to between, push 100-300 times. This method can treat constipation, abdominal burning pain caused by phlegm, dampness and heat.

Kind reminder

Children’s constipation should not be treated casually. It needs to be diagnosed and treated by a professional traditional Chinese medicine doctor. See what type it is, and then choose the appropriate Chinese patent medicine. In addition, encourage children to drink more water and eat more whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables, which can increase the volume of feces and make defecation smoother. In addition, take children out for outdoor activities more often to provide momentum for gastrointestinal peristalsis, and gradually improve constipation. Of course, cultivate the good habit of regular defecation.