Are you constipated today? 2014 Chinese Physicians Association initiative to establish March 28th as ‘China Constipation Day’, it can be seen that constipation seriously plagued life, especially long-term constipation people, painful.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, constipation is not something that can be solved by drinking more water and simply taking senna, rhubarb and hemp pills.
The main types of constipation are: real heat constipation, Qi deficiency constipation, blood deficiency constipation, Yang deficiency constipation, and Jin deficiency constipation, according to their own situation, symptomatic treatment, in order to safely and effectively solve the problem of constipation.
- Real heat constipation: mainly manifested as strong heat, red face, dry stool, abdominal pain and refusal to press, yellow and thick greasy tongue coating
- Qi deficiency constipation: mainly manifested as Qi deficiency pushing weakness, stool is not particularly dry, but defecation effort, always feel not clean, three to five days once
- Blood deficiency constipation: the stool is generally dry, accompanied by a pale complexion, abnormal menstruation in women and other blood deficiency symptoms
- Jin deficiency constipation: dry stools, the large intestine is the master of Jin, absorbing water, the water in the large intestine becomes less, just like the river water becomes less, the boat does not travel smoothly, the large intestine is not enough fluid caused by constipation
- Yang deficiency constipation: dry stools, accompanied by the symptoms of Yang deficiency such as fear of cold and cold limbs
From the theoretical point of view of TCM, these are basically the types of constipation, but in actual life, there may be a mixture of the above conditions, and a holistic view is needed to dialectically treat them.
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