Dear beloved brothers and sisters: As the number of patients with constipation has been gradually increasing in the clinic recently, I found that some patients have blind visits and some treatment misconceptions. Some patients come to the clinic and say, “Doctor, the stool is not working, prescribe some medicine to eat.” There are many causes of constipation, and it is important to find out the cause and treat the symptoms. Blind medication not only increases the financial burden, but also increases the burden on the body’s organs (Sun Simiao, a Tang Dynasty physician, said, “Human life is more important than a thousand pieces of gold.”) Too much medication may not be seen as a side effect at the time, but the toxic side effects of some medications can accumulate and it is often too late when the body reacts. It’s really sad to see some of these patients in the clinic! Cheng Fang, Department of Anorectal Medicine, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine In general, patients without organic lesions are advised to do the following homework at home and come back to the clinic without improvement to avoid taking too many drugs blindly. Some laxatives can also cause constipation more difficult to cure. (Patients who are not sure whether they have organic lesions are recommended to have a colonoscopy, because some diseases, such as colorectal cancer, have no symptoms in the early stage, and when they have symptoms, they are often advanced. (And colonoscopy can detect precancerous lesions.) 1.First of all, we should have a good living habit. To ensure sufficient sleep at night. In the morning, we should leave ample time for defecation, and those who work in the morning should start a little early, too busy or nervous in the morning will disrupt the normal biorhythm. The normal human body has an upright reflex after waking up in the morning, and there will also be a gastrocolonic group peristalsis after breakfast. A nervous person will often lead to plant nerve dysfunction. These “by the water” defecation opportunities will be lost in vain. 2, establish good eating habits. Eat more crude fiber-rich food (the elderly or people with bad teeth can make crude fiber very bad, later write a separate article about); try to make food diversity. 3, avoid taking laxatives blindly to lose weight. Blindly taking laxatives will often make the intestines in a “lazy” state, without laxatives can not defecate, and later more and more “lazy” to increase the dose to show the effect. In the end, there will also be a large dose of ineffective state, the need to replace the laxative, slowly with the ineffective again. This often makes constipation more and more difficult to treat. So before taking constipation drugs to see if they have done a good job in these areas. Many patients can often be cured without taking drugs after scientific conditioning.