Shi Jingming (Disciple of Shi Weizhi, a famous Chinese medicine expert) Talking about Constipation Constipation means that defecation is often blocked, defecation time is prolonged, or defecation is difficult because of defecation. The main cause of constipation is the dysfunction of peristalsis of the large intestine, and the feces stay in the intestine for too long, and the water is excessively absorbed, which makes the feces too dry and hard. If you are constipated for a long time, it will often cause abdominal fullness, even abdominal pain, loss of appetite, dizziness and headache, restless sleep, and even hemorrhoids, bloody stool, anal fissure and so on. Constipation is divided into heat secret, gas secret, qi deficiency constipation, blood deficiency constipation and cold secret in TCM clinic. In addition, taking a diet that moistens the intestines and relaxes the bowels can also effectively prevent constipation. Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Dry stool is characterized by heat, wind, qi, blood, dampness, deficiency, yin, spleen, triple energizer, and closing the front and rear points", and the treatment can be done by methods such as dredging, nourishing blood and moistening dryness, guiding qi and tonifying deficiency. Suggested ingredients auricularia auricula and sea cucumber stewed pig intestine | Habitual constipation materials: auricularia auricula and sea cucumber each 30g, pig intestine150g, salt and soy sauce each appropriate amount. Practice: Open the pig's large intestine and wash it. Add water, fungus and sea cucumber, and then add seasoning. Description: This prescription has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness and enriching blood, and is suitable for constipation due to blood deficiency, intestinal dryness and habitual constipation in the elderly. Pork tripe and Coix seed soup | Intestinal dryness constipation material: appropriate amount of pork tripe and Coix seed. Practice: Pork belly and Coix seed are boiled together and eaten as staple food. Description: Coix seed is a good tonic medicine. In summer, it is a good tonic to cook porridge or make cold drinks with Coix seed. The seeds and roots of coix seed can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Coicis Semen can "invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourish the lungs and clear away heat, and dispel wind and overcome dampness." Cook meals and cure air conditioning. Decocting and drinking is beneficial to urine and hot shower. It can be used to treat dry stool after a serious illness. | Habitual constipation material: appropriate amount of honey. Practice: Take 2 tablespoons of honey with warm water every time, and eat it on an empty stomach every morning. Description: Honey can make gastric acid secretion normal, enhance intestinal peristalsis, and significantly shorten defecation time. Honey has a good effect on colitis and habitual constipation without any side effects. Eat honey regularly and pay attention to eating more green vegetables. Shi Jingming (Disciple of Shi Weizhi, a famous Chinese medicine expert) Talking about Constipation Constipation means that defecation is often blocked, defecation time is prolonged, or defecation is difficult because of defecation. The main cause of constipation is the dysfunction of peristalsis of the large intestine, and the feces stay in the intestine for too long, and the water is excessively absorbed, which makes the feces too dry and hard. If you are constipated for a long time, it will often cause abdominal fullness, even abdominal pain, loss of appetite, dizziness and headache, restless sleep, and even hemorrhoids, bloody stool, anal fissure and so on. Constipation is divided into heat secret, gas secret, qi deficiency constipation, blood deficiency constipation and cold secret in TCM clinic. In addition, taking a diet that moistens the intestines and relaxes the bowels can also effectively prevent constipation. Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Dry stool is characterized by heat, wind, qi, blood, dampness, deficiency, yin, spleen, triple energizer, and closing the front and rear points", and the treatment can be done by methods such as dredging, nourishing blood and moistening dryness, guiding qi and tonifying deficiency. Suggested ingredients auricularia auricula and sea cucumber stewed pig intestine | Habitual constipation materials: auricularia auricula and sea cucumber each 30g, pig intestine150g, salt and soy sauce each appropriate amount. Practice: Open the pig's large intestine and wash it. Add water, fungus and sea cucumber, and then add seasoning. Description: This prescription has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness and enriching blood, and is suitable for constipation due to blood deficiency, intestinal dryness and habitual constipation in the elderly. Pork tripe and Coix seed soup | Intestinal dryness constipation material: appropriate amount of pork tripe and Coix seed. Practice: Pork belly and Coix seed are boiled together and eaten as staple food. Description: Coix seed is a good tonic medicine. In summer, it is a good tonic to cook porridge or make cold drinks with Coix seed. The seeds and roots of coix seed can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Coix seed can "invigorate the spleen and stomach, replenish the lung and clear heat, and dispel wind and overcome dampness." Cook meals and cure air conditioning. Decocting and drinking is beneficial to urine and hot shower. It can be used to treat dry stool after a serious illness. | Habitual constipation material: appropriate amount of honey. Practice: Take 2 tablespoons of honey with warm water every time, and eat it on an empty stomach every morning. Description: Honey can make gastric acid secretion normal, enhance intestinal peristalsis, and significantly shorten defecation time. Honey has a good effect on colitis and habitual constipation without any side effects. Eat honey regularly and pay attention to eating more green vegetables. Honey papaya | constipation knot material: honey, papaya (powder) 6 grams each. Practice: First, mix the honey with boiling water, then add the papaya powder and take it, morning and evening 1 time, which is effective for continuous taking. Description: This recipe can moisten dryness and smooth intestines, and clear away heat and toxic materials. Used to treat constipation and bleeding. Porphyra soup | Constipation material: 5g of laver and proper amount of vinegar. Practice: add laver to boiled soup, and add some vinegar when drinking. After getting up every morning, drink laver soup 1 bowl on an empty stomach, while it is hot, or drink laver soup three times a day, lasting 1 week can get good results. Description: The nutritional component of 1/5 in laver is dietary fiber, which can promote defecation, excrete harmful substances and maintain intestinal health. Stir-fried sweet potato leaves | Chronic constipation Material: 250 grams of sweet potato leaves, a little cooking oil. Practice: Wash the sweet potato leaves, dry them, and add cooking oil to the pot to fry the sweet potato leaves. Take it twice a day. Description: Sweet potato leaves have health care functions such as stopping bleeding, reducing blood sugar, detoxifying and improving immunity. Regular consumption can prevent constipation, protect eyesight, keep skin delicate and delay aging. Banana stained with black sesame | Constipation in the elderly Material: 500 grams of banana and 25 grams of black sesame. Practice: Use bananas to dip and chew fried black sesame seeds until they are half cooked. Eat it three times a day. Description: Bananas are sweet in taste and cold in nature. Cold in nature can clear away heat in the intestines, while sweet in taste can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, which can treat fever, polydipsia and constipation in the elderly. People with high blood pressure can eat it often. | Constipation material for the elderly: 200 grams of sweet potato, 50 grams of red dates and 25 grams of honey. Practice: peel and chop sweet potatoes, add red dates, add 500 ml of water, add honey when frying to about 300 ml, and then fry for 5? 10 minute, and can be taken after cooling. Every day 1 dose, take it on an empty stomach twice in the morning and evening, and drink the soup with dregs for 3? It can be effective in 5 days. Description: Sweet potato contains a lot of starch and glucose, which has the functions of regulating stomach, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels. Jujube strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves; Honey moistens dryness and smoothes intestines. The combination of the three herbs has the effects of nourishing spleen and stomach, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Because of the deficiency of kidney-qi, the elderly often suffer from yin deficiency of spleen and kidney, loss of vaginal fluid, and deficiency of body fluid. Using this prescription to treat habitual constipation of the elderly will have a significant effect. Spinach noodles | Constipation materials: 500 grams of spinach and 200 grams of flour. Practice: Wash spinach, boil it in clear water (stir it with chopsticks after boiling), make spinach juice, cool it (be careful not to put it all cold) and add it into flour to make dough, then stack it into thin slices and cut it into strips. After cooking, take it out and pour it on your favorite marinade for eating. As a staple food, eating it often can get good results. Description: Spinach is sweet and flat. Has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, calming liver and moistening dryness, and can be used for treating constipation. Black sesame walnut pine nuts | Intestinal dryness constipation Material: 25g of black sesame, 25g of walnut and 25g of pine nuts, and proper amount of honey. Practice: all the materials are smashed together and mixed with honey. Take/kloc-0 times a day, and take it on an empty stomach in the morning. Description: nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is used to treat constipation caused by intestinal dryness and habitual constipation caused by yin deficiency. Lotus plumule tea | Constipation material: lotus plumule. Practice: Take 20 grams of lotus plumule each time and brew with boiling water. After taking it continuously, the defecation can be kept normal. Description: the turquoise germ in the middle of lotus seeds is called lotus plumule, which is bitter in nature and bitter in taste. It is a good medicine blindly. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of clearing away heat, solidifying essence, calming the nerves, strengthening the heart, stopping bleeding and astringing essence, and clearing away heat and relaxing bowels. Suitable for constipation. | Constipation material: white radish150g, carrot 50g and rock sugar 20g. Practice: Wash and cut the white radish and carrot separately, add water to boil and add rock sugar. Eat radish and drink soup, about 4? It will take effect in 5 hours, and constipation can be cured by eating more times. Description: Carrot contains pectin, which can shape feces and adsorb pathogenic bacteria and toxins in the intestine. It is a good antidiarrheal and bacteriostatic food. This article is excerpted from "/kloc-0.3 billion people are using の Compendium of Materia Medica"/Shi Jingming (disciple of Shi Weizhi, a famous Chinese doctor)/Huahong Enterprise.