Constipation refers to the fact that the feces remain in the intestine for too long, the constipation is not clear, the bowel cycle is prolonged, or the cycle is not long, but the feces are dry and hard, and the discharge is difficult, or the feces are not hard.
Traditional Chinese medicine generally divides constipation into two categories: virtual and real.
▷Empirical evidence: constipation, hard and difficult, abdominal distension and pain, accompanied by headache, nausea, bitter and smelly mouth, small yellow and red, moss yellow veins.
▷ False evidence: rhubarb secret knot, dizziness, fatigue, lack of appetite, anger and fatigue during defecation, light tongue, more common in the elderly.
Chinese medicine + Tuina massage
Traditional Chinese medicine medium
1. Empirical
Prescription: Nitro soap horn powder.
Composition: rhubarb, glauconite, soap horn and equal amounts, study together and set aside.
Fang Solution: Fang Zhong rhubarb, mango nitro diarrhea heat laxation, with soap horn into Yangming meridian gas division, to open the trick to clear the customs.
2. False evidence
Prescription: Fresh aloe vera juice for later use (dry aloe vera powder if there is no fresh aloe vera).
Solution: Aloe vera has the effect of clearing the liver and laxative. Be careful when using fresh aloe vera, as there are many varieties of aloe vera, and the medicinal aloe vera is aloe vera from Curacao. If there is no aloe vera, you can replace it with aged vinegar, which is rich in amino acids and a large number of enzymes that promote digestive function, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and maintain the balance of intestinal environment flora, so it can be laxative.
Tuina massage
First dip the medium of Chinese medicine on the acupuncture points before applying the technique.
1. Tap Dagu Yu, Tianshu, Zhigou, Zusanli, Shangju Void, Yinling Spring, Yingxiang. Empirical Jia Hegu and Quchi; False evidence plus Guan Yuan, Qi Sea, Zhaohai.
2. The patient lies on his back, clasps his hands to his navel, overlaps and presses, and massages 100 times clockwise to increase intestinal peristalsis, and then lead the stool downward.
3. The patient lies on his back, overlaps his hands under his navel, and trembles together 30 times with trembling method, trembling speed from slow to fast, strength from weak to strong, to increase intestinal peristalsis.
4. The patient lies on his back and presses his hands alternately from the front chest to the lower abdomen, repeating 50 times. Then push with the left palm from the right lower abdomen along the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon to the lower abdomen, a total of about 20 times, so that the stool descends.
5. The eight hip points belong to the foot solar bladder meridian, there are four holes in the sacrum and each side of the sacrum, from top to bottom are called the upper hip, secondary hip, middle hip, lower hip four points, the two sides add up a total of 8, so it is called the eight hips. Use the two fingers to push along the sacrum from top to bottom, which can moisten the intestines. When manipulating, the false evidence should be gentle and gentle, and the empirical evidence should be heavier.
Family therapy
1. There is a folk saying: "Aged vinegar is better than countless medicines for constipation." "Aged vinegar is rich in amino acids and a large number of enzymes that promote digestion, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and maintain the balance of intestinal environment, so it can treat habitual constipation. People with constipation can drink aged vinegar.
2. Adhere to "keeping the rules". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that food is better to eat "miscellaneous", and should follow the dietary principle of "five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, and five vegetables for filling" in the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon". "Keeping the rules" is to keep their stools smooth and develop good habits. If the stool time is not in the morning, you can drink a glass of 0.8% salt boiled water every morning and insist on about 1 week to adjust the bowel movement time.
3. Proper physical activity.
4. Many elderly people have persistent diarrhea, diarrhea is stopped, and constipation comes again; Or constipated elderly once successful bowel movements, and then diarrhea is uncontrollable, diarrhea, constipation alternately occurs, which is related to the frequent use of laxatives due to constipation, resulting in gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore, the elderly should pay attention to adjusting gastrointestinal functions while using laxatives, such as using more massage, dietary therapy, and develop the good habit of drinking a cup of warm water every morning and scrubbing the anus with warm hot water before going to bed every night, which also has a certain effect on preventing constipation.
Source: People's Medical Publishing House publishes "Special Effect "Acupressure Points + Chinese Medicine" Massage"