Patient: Hello doctor, I had 3 high complex anal fistulas from 06-08, the first two at the hospital and the last one at the provincial Chinese medicine, now I secrete mucus after stool, our doctor here said there is no recurrence, but the anus is a little deformed and the anal sphincter is functioning poorly, is there any good way? Thank you! Doctor’s reply: You had 3 surgeries for high complex anal fistula from 2006 to 2008, and your doctor said that your anus was a bit deformed and your anal sphincter function was poor. I don’t know if your current discharge is like this right after the surgery or is it a recent situation? The normal condition of the intestinal tract secrete mucus, if you do not close the anus after surgery surgery scar hard, the secretion will unknowingly spill out of the anus, so that you have anal damp discomfort. This needs to be fixed by you doing anal lifting exercises and keeping your bowels formed and bowel movements open later. If you have recently developed a large amount of discharge in the stool, it may be caused by intestinal dysfunction or intestinal inflammation. Intestinal dysfunction or intestinal inflammation can be treated with Chinese medicine and acupuncture. If it is caused by poor function of the anal sphincter, you can do anal lifting exercises 50 times a day for a long time. You are young and have strong tissue repair ability, it will slowly improve some. I have also treated a 60-year-old male patient with deep abscess by hanging threads, and when he was discharged from the hospital, his anus was not closed properly and often had discharge. You can also do anal lifting exercises as required. No matter what the cause of the intestinal discharge should avoid spicy food and alcohol, according to Chinese medicine: spicy food is easy to produce moisture and heat, moisture and heat congestion in the internal organs will develop into anal canker, intestinal canker.