Causes and symptoms of blood in the stool: Blood in the stool is also known as "blood in the stool", "blood in the stool", and "blood diarrhea". It is characterized by bloody stool or loose stools.

It is more common in upper gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, gastrointestinal polyps, small intestinal bleeding, tumors, bleeding from perianal diseases, as well as some blood diseases, acute infectious agents, parasites, etc.

This refers to blood in the stool caused by damaged hemorrhoids, anal fissures, anal sinusitis, and damage to the rectal and colon mucosa.

The stool is soft and formed or hard, and blood adheres to the surface of the stool. Some have blood first and then the stool, and some have blood first and then the stool. The blood color is mostly bright red, and some are dark red and turbid.

When there is a large amount of blood, it drips continuously, and the anal orifice pain worsens after defecation.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood in the stool is caused by accumulated heat (dampness) in the intestines or spleen deficiency, which cannot control the flow of blood.

It can be treated by clearing away heat from the intestines, stopping bleeding, and replenishing qi and blood.

Precautions for self-treatment (1) Develop the habit of defecating regularly. It is better to have loose and mushy stools.

(2) Reduce postures that increase abdominal pressure, such as squatting and holding your breath.

Avoid sitting, standing for a long time, walking for a long time and overexertion.

(3) Avoid spicy, greasy, rough, and scummy foods, as well as tobacco, alcohol, and coffee.

(4) Eat more foods that can clear intestinal heat, moisturize and nourish mucous membranes, and relieve constipation and stop bleeding, such as raw pear juice, lotus root juice, water chestnut juice, reed root juice, celery juice, carrots, white radish (cooked food), bitter melon, and eggplant.

, cucumber, spinach, daylily, cabbage, egg yolk, apple, fig, banana, black sesame, walnut meat, white fungus, etc.

(5) Be cheerful and don’t get angry.

A depressed mood, irritability and depression will cause the intestinal mucosa to shrink and blood flow to be sluggish.

(6) Reduce sexual intercourse. Excessive sexual intercourse will cause congestion of the intestinal mucosa.

Increase bleeding.

Autonomous therapy 1.

Self-therapy with patent medicines (1) Yunnan Baiyao, 0.3 grams each time, 2-3 times a day.

Swallow with warm water.

(2) Piyue Maren Pills, 9 grams each time, 2 times a day, swallow with warm water.

(3) Zanglian Pills, 9 grams each time, 2 times a day, swallow with warm water.

2.

Prescriptions for self-therapy: (1) Grind rhubarb into powder with charcoal, 3-6 grams each time, 2 times a day, swallow with warm water.

(2) Dry eggplant leaves and grind into powder, 6 grams each time, 2 times a day.

Swallow the rice soup.

(3) 60 grams of Eclipta grass, decoction instead of tea.

(4) 15 grams of burnet charcoal, 12 grams of sophora charcoal, 12 grams of madder charcoal, 30 grams of adzuki bean, 10 grams of saposhnikovia charcoal, 10 grams of rhubarb charcoal, and 10 grams of Phellodendron charcoal, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 times, decoction and taken.

It is used for those with accumulated heat and dampness in the intestines, red and turbid blood, bitter mouth, yellow and thick tongue coating, and difficulty in defecation.

(5) 30 grams of Zaoxin soil, 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 10 grams of ginger charcoal, 10 grams of Cimicifuga charcoal, 12 grams of stir-fried qi, 9 grams of donkey-hide gelatin (separately closed), 6 grams of licorice, 1 patch per day

, decoct and take it in 2 times.

It is used for those with weak temper, pale complexion, fatigue and weakness.

3.

Dietary self-therapy.

(1) 250 grams of pig intestines and 15 grams of fresh sophora japonica flowers. Cook and drink soup.

(2) Eat a few persimmons every day.

(3) Stew 10 grams of white fungus and 15 grams of red dates over low heat and take it.

(4) 30 grams of daylily, appropriate amount of brown sugar, decoct in soup and take.

(5) 15 grams each of ginger and mugwort leaves.

Decoction of mugwort leaves and ginger into thick juice, take 1 cup each time.

Mugwort leaves warm menstruation and stop bleeding, and ginger dispels cold. It is used to treat bleeding due to deficiency and cold, and is mainly used to treat post-fecal bleeding.

(6) 5 bowls of vinegar and 3 bowls of adzuki beans, cooked and dried in the sun, take 5 grams each time.

This prescription is mainly used to treat bleeding caused by intestinal hemorrhoids.

4.

External treatment and self-therapy (1) Fumigation and washing.

Soak donkey-hide gelatin in vinegar to soften it, then steam it to make a paste. Take 30 grams each time and add 500 grams of vinegar to dissolve. Heat it to a boil, smoke it first, and then wash the anus twice a day.

The original solution can be washed multiple times.

Used for those with anal fissure and bleeding hemorrhoids.

(2) Apply medicine.

Mix 2 tubes of Zhuhuang powder with cooling oil and apply it on the inside and outside of the anus.

(3) Mash wild mugwort (artemisia cotyledon) into mud and apply it to the anus.

(4) Apply egg butter to the anus.

(Suitable for those with dry and cracked anal mucosa.) Egg butter preparation method: Take a few cooked egg yolks, put them in non-iron utensils and stir-fry over low heat until the oil seeps out and filter.

5. Other self-therapy (1) Abdominal rub.

Rub your abdomen twice a day, morning and night (after waking up and before going to bed), 100 times counterclockwise.

(2)levator anus.

Perform anal contraction movements 2-3 times a day, 30-50 times each time.

Avoid misdiagnosis. If there has been no anorectal disease in the past, blood in the stool suddenly appears, or a small amount of dark red and turbid blood in the stool appears from time to time and does not heal for a long time; or the blood in the stool contains necrotic and corrupt tissue or thick secretions, the patient should not be careless and should go to the hospital for examination.