What are the herbal remedies for kidney constipation?

Chinese medicine prescriptions commonly used in the treatment of constipation due to kidney deficiency are Jichuan Decoction, Liuwei Di Huang Pill, and Enriching Liquid Soup, which are composed of a number of traditional Chinese medicines with laxative and laxative effects. Jichuan Decoction is mainly composed of Cistanches, Angelica sinensis, Zedoaria japonica, Shengma, Citrus aurantium dulcis, Cow Knee, etc. It is used to treat constipation due to kidney yang deficiency with constipation, long and clear urination, coldness of waist and knees, and pale tongue and white moss. Enriching Liquid Soup is composed of Radix Panax Ginseng, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, etc. It can be combined with Six-flavored Di Huang Pill for treating constipation of Kidney-Yin deficiency, with dry and knotty bowel movements like sheep’s feces, emaciation, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, tidal flushes (a burst of fever), night sweating (abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping after waking up), and lumbar soreness with weakness of the knees. The adverse effects of the above formula are not known. Constipation due to kidney deficiency is mainly caused by kidney yang deficiency (deficiency of yang qi in the kidney) or kidney yin insufficiency, etc. The treatment of constipation should be based on the patient’s own specific symptomatic manifestations under the guidance of physician’s diagnosis, and it is not advisable to use the medication on one’s own in order to avoid delaying the condition.