Constipation is a symptom of a variety of common clinical diseases. It refers to a decrease in the frequency of bowel movements, a bowel movement every 3 to 4 days or longer without the use of laxatives, or a small and dry hard stool, some like sheep feces, and often a feeling of difficulty in defecation, or a combination of long bowel movements, a feeling of rectal distension, or a feeling of incomplete defecation. The incidence of constipation in the elderly is higher than that in young adults, and with the trend of aging of the population, changes in diet structure, and the influence of psychological and social factors, constipation has become an important condition affecting the quality of life of the elderly. The elderly are suffering from the gradual decline of Yin, the depletion of blood and fluid, and a variety of diseases in one. Constipation is often the result of poorly relieved stools, which are not dry in texture. Due to individual differences, each person has different constipation, so the key to the treatment of constipation in the elderly is to clarify the causes of constipation, the specific location of the disease, in order to treat the cause, according to the time of the appropriate, or tonic, or diarrhea, or drop, or blood, etc.. Treatment of the disease to seek the root, in order to get the medicine to the success of the work. Chinese medicine treatment of constipation in the elderly is based on the decline of spleen and stomach functions, kidney deficiency and deficiency of gasification in the elderly, starting from the three aspects of fecal formation, fecal discharge and fecal control, adjusting the functions of the spleen and stomach, lung and large intestine, kidney and large intestine, regulating the qi flow and restoring the relative balance of internal organs functions. Chinese medicine theory emphasizes the importance of diet and life conditioning, and one should always maintain a healthy and reasonable lifestyle while taking medication, such as changing the habit of reading books and newspapers during defecation, and not pursuing regular defecation too much to avoid aggravating the psychological burden and causing undesirable interference with intestinal peristalsis.