Patients suffering from ulcerative colitis often have the same painful experience: the disease is difficult to heal, life is tortured! Some people even suffer from the disease for more than ten years, but can not get rid of this disease! A small enteritis, why so difficult to deal with? 1, strange, will rest disease! Ulcerative colitis, simply put, is a chronic non-specific inflammatory disease of the colon. Our colon lumen is divided into four layers from inside to outside: mucosal layer, submucosal layer, muscular layer and plasma membrane layer, and the annoying ulcerative colitis lesions mainly occur in the mucosal layer and submucosal layer of the colon. Patients are mostly characterized by intestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea, mucopurulent blood stools, abdominal pain and abdominal pain, some of which are accompanied by abdominal distension, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, perianal abscess, anal fistula and other symptoms. In addition, about 10% of patients may have extra-intestinal symptoms: joint pain, recurrent oral ulcers, subcutaneous nodular erythema, cholangitis, chronic hepatitis and so on. Some of the more serious patients may even develop systemic symptoms: fever, rapid heart rate, weight loss, anemia and so on. It is often said that “people get sick easily when they get old”, but ulcerative colitis is mostly seen in young adults, especially in the 20-40 year olds; moreover, the history of the disease onset and remission of the disease often alternates, just like the human body alternates between work and rest, therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, it also has a “long dysentery Therefore, in Chinese medicine, it is also known as “long diarrhea” or “rest diarrhea”. 2, vigilance, may become cancerous disease! At present, the cause of ulcerative colitis is not yet completely clear, and is thought to be related to infectious factors, genetic factors, autoimmune decline, mental stress and fatigue, cold, dietary disorders and allergies, etc., and the condition is often recurring, prolonged and difficult to cure, and it is recognized at home and abroad as one of the intractable and difficult diseases. It is worth mentioning that ulcerative colitis is one of the causes of colorectal cancer. According to the research, the cancer rate of those with more than ten years’ history of ulcerative colitis is about 5%~10% in foreign countries, and it is lower in China, about 1%~3%. At present, it is believed that the following cases are more likely to develop cancer: ① those who start to develop the disease before the age of 20; ② those who have the history of the disease for more than 10 years; ③ those who have heavier lesions with wide range and involve the whole colon; ④ those who have moderate or severe hyperplasia in pathological biopsy. Therefore, it is very important to have an early examination and take timely measures for treatment. Among them, colonoscopy is recognized as the preferred method to diagnose ulcerative colitis because of its obvious advantages such as safety and accuracy. Through colonoscopy, doctors can clearly understand the severity of inflammation and the extent of lesions in the patient’s colon, and rule out the presence of colorectal cancer and other major diseases, and if necessary, biopsy can also be performed under the microscope to confirm the diagnosis. In addition, the doctor can even microscopic bleeding lesions of large drugs or argon gas spray treatment. 3, tips, Chinese medicine enema is effective! Since this disease is so difficult to treat and potentially cancerous, how should patients cope? In general, once diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, patients should be “early, active, comprehensive” treatment. According to the condition, on the basis of TCM symptomatic treatment, drugs such as Liuzosulfapyridine, Mesalazine, Edexa and adrenocorticotropic hormone can be used appropriately. At present, it is found that taking the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, internal and external (retention enema) treatment, the therapeutic effect is better. At the same time, in order to improve and consolidate the therapeutic effect, the patient should also pay attention to the appropriate diet rich in nutrients, fresh, easy to digest food, avoid spicy stimulation or cold food, milk, bamboo shoots, kelp, cuttlefish, squid, pickled products (salted fish, sauerkraut) and so on. It should also be emphasized that patients should maintain optimism, eliminate ideological stress, and participate in appropriate physical activities to improve their own immune level, all of which will help promote the early recovery of ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is not scary, the key is that the patient should actively communicate with the doctor, according to the doctor’s instructions to regulate the body, and fight the disease together!