In clinical practice, we often encounter tumor patients who have thin and soft stools after taking traditional Chinese medicine, with 2-3 bowel movements a day. Many patients, especially those with thin body types, panic when they see this situation, worrying whether this is a toxic side effect of taking traditional Chinese medicine, asking: “I am already thin, I eat less, and I always have diarrhea. “How can I do that? Is it really a bad thing to have thin and soft stools after taking medicine? Why choose the “laxative” treatment? Theoretical basis: Many tumor patients have a preference for fatty, sweet and thick flavors, or have obvious bad dietary preferences, resulting in the internal growth of evil and toxicity, and most of them have a history of irregular bowel movements, and we emphasize that we must “give the evil a way out” in the diagnosis and treatment. It is also one of the major treatment methods advocated by Prof. Huang Jinchang for tumor treatment, such as “warming the Yang”, “activating the Blood”, “attacking poison with poison”, and “facilitating urination and defecation”. What are the functions of laxative? 1.Dispel tangible evil qi to remove cancer toxicity: laxative is used in tumor clinical practice and has the function of breaking stasis, dispelling toxicity and attacking accumulation. It can make cancer toxin excreted through stool and restore positive qi; 2.Tackling evil in the stomach and intestines to regulate qi flow: laxative can lower stomach qi, raise clear qi and mediate the middle state, so that liver qi can be relieved and blood stasis and phlegm accumulation can be removed; 3.Preventing poisoning by accumulation of toxic Chinese medicines: toadflax, centipede, spotted cypress, croton, white arsenic, light powder, red powder, etc. are toxic. In addition to strict control of the dosage and method of administration, it is important to keep the stool open during the administration of the medicine to prevent poisoning by accumulation. When taking which herbal medicines, will the stool be thin and soft? Firstly, the common laxatives such as rhubarb, mannitol, dioscorea, gansui, rhizome, betel nut, senna, croton, etc.; secondly, the qi-regulating drugs often used in combination with laxatives such as heliotrope, houpu, neem, etc.; the use of bitter-cold drugs such as horsetail, gypsum, Zhimu, fresh bamboo lei, etc. may also occur; in addition, the use of large doses of yin-nourishing drugs such as rehmannia, raw earth, maidenhair, xuan shen, he shouwu, etc., as well as the warming of yang and laxative drugs such as lock yang, cistanches, etc. In addition, the use of large doses of Yin nourishing drugs such as Shu Di, Sheng Di, Mai Dong, Xuan Shen, He Shou Wu, etc., and Yang warming and laxative drugs such as lock Yang and Cistanches can cause loose stools. What are the normal cases of thin and soft stools after taking medicine? And which cases need attention? Generally after taking the drug stool is thin and soft, 1-3 times a day defecation, do not touch the pool are normal, you do not need to be nervous and worried, you can continue to take the current drug by mouth. Sometimes the stool is not only thin, and even “black”, the “Jin Kui Yao Bai He fox confusion Yin Yang poison” in the “Bai He Di Huang Tang” after taking “when the stool is like paint” record, which This may be related to the black color of fresh Dihuang juice. Sometimes there is necrotic tissue in the discharge of the stool, usually the condition improves after discharge, and the tumor is partially liquefied, reduced in size, or even absorbed after all liquefaction; sometimes after taking the medicine, “black blood” is given, which does not coagulate and does not dissolve in water, the stool is negative or positive for occult blood, if the mental strength is the same as before, there is no need to be nervous, this is the performance of the effect. Generally before and after the black blood stool symptoms will be quickly alleviated. However, if the physical strength is significantly reduced, pale, too many black stools, and even the case of fresh blood should be alert to prevent the emergence of gastrointestinal hemorrhage critical life, but this situation is not common in clinical. Sometimes there is diarrhea like water, the number of times significantly increased, more than ten times a day, which is relatively common in the clinic is also the most worrying situation for patients, this situation needs to pay attention to, should follow up, timely adjustment of prescriptions, to prevent the emergence of deficiency. How to deal with diarrhea at home when it is too obvious? Commonly used emergency methods are: 1, moxibustion Shen Que point (navel): choose smoked or smokeless moxa, lit directly to the navel, 2-3 cm from the body surface, general moxibustion for about half an hour to stop diarrhea; 2, five times the seeds compress umbilical: five times the seeds research into fine powder, take the appropriate amount, external navel, fixed with medical rubber paste, once a day, each time 24 hours; 3, Western medicine to stop diarrhea: sometimes diarrhea is more powerful, can be used Western medicine to stop diarrhea, montmorillonite, diarrhea stop, etc. to control the symptoms, the serious condition should be timely in the local hospital consultation line infusion to stop diarrhea and other treatment. After the condition is stabilized, you should promptly find a doctor to adjust the prescription.