1, habitual constipation is very harmful, can be cured habitual constipation is very common, more common in women! Long-term constipation is the culprit and twin brother of anal diseases, hypertension, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, gynecological diseases, cholecystitis, diabetes and various neurological diseases headache, insomnia, dreamy! Therefore the so-called incurable chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes especially need to deal with constipation. The solution of the constipation problem is the basis for the eradication of these diseases. Constipation is a functional disease of the digestive system, which is harmful, but curable. 2, not from the overall grasp of the disease itself mechanical treatment of constipation, where the rotten patch where the treatment methods and ideas can not solve the fundamental problem, can only relieve the pain of the moment, Chinese medicine overall conditioning can fundamentally solve the problem of constipation! Constipation treatment needs to be divided into yin and yang cold and heat, constipation of yin and yang cold and heat identification is very important! Treatment without differentiating between hot and cold yin and yang is often a way to quench thirst, temporarily solving the problem of thirst, but ultimately is to suffer a great deal. The more popular general internal medicine treatments for constipation are senna leaf, Cheng Qi Tang. Ma Ren soft capsules; Western medical treatment: mannitol, magnesium sulfate, phenolphthalein tablets, lactulose, etc. Laxative rather than stimulant laxative drugs generally have not been very serious consequences. Long-term application of stimulant laxatives such as senna, phenolphthalein tablets and other consequences are very serious! It is very common to see a decline in the function of the digestive tract caused by constipation without evidence-based treatment, such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain, poor eating, nausea, eructation, diarrhea, fear of cold, insomnia, panic, shortness of breath, chest tightness, etc. Moreover, the long-term need to take them causes patients to become dependent on laxative drugs until the side effects outweigh the therapeutic effect and they have to be maintained by enemas. Traditional Chinese medicine to identify the disease machine individualized treatment of patients, according to the pulse and other four diagnostic information to determine the patient’s condition, the disease machine treatment, satisfactory results! 3, cold and heat identification is one of the eight major elements of identification. It is also the first step in the evaluation of constipation in TCM. Cold and heat are the characteristics of the patient’s condition grasped from the overall perspective, mainly from the pulse. The tongue image is the first step in assessing constipation. Cold symptoms are mainly characterized by a sluggish pulse and a pale tongue. Of course, cold is not the absence of heat, but the main manifestation is cold! Even the presence of constipation appears irritability, irritability, fear of heat, sweating and so on, these are symptoms of liver wood, if you do not grasp the patient’s condition as a whole, it is easy to handle incorrectly! Of course, in the clinical evidence of the doctor’s focus in dealing with the condition is not the same, treatment will be very different, which is why the same patient different doctors will give what may seem to be diametrically opposed to the treatment! This is the different ways and habits of Chinese medicine, the way of literature and martial arts, the way of kings and the way of hegemony. But it is fundamental to clearly know the original cause of the condition, the so-called discussing the disease before discussing the medicine. This is not the focus of this article. 4, the common belief that constipation is fire, but why some patients with cold medicine more and more heavy, the more the amount of medicine used? Habitual constipation yin evidence cold evidence deficiency evidence very much, cold and hot mixed, heat confirmed by the evidence is not much, this is the basic fact, need to be clear. The more patients with cold evidence, the more patients with deficiency evidence, so the more cold medicine used the heavier, although desirable effect in the moment but caused greater side effects! And once you stop the medicine constipation more serious, long-term use of drugs cause malnutrition and nutritional deformities. If constipation is compared to a river, cold evidence and deficiency evidence of the patient is like a dry, about to freeze the river, the application of cold medicine caused by the freezing of the river, can not flow so more serious. Similarly heat evidence with heat medicine is like a boiling river about to dry up high temperature soon dried up, want to be able to travel the boat, it is impossible! Therefore, the treatment of constipation must be based on the spirit of dialectical treatment, through the four diagnosis to determine the pathogenesis, only then is targeted, otherwise it is a diffuse release of arrows!