Frequent bowel movement belongs to the category of diarrhea in Chinese medicine, and there are different types of diarrhea, such as cold and dampness, dampness-heat obstruction (accumulation of dampness and heat to form stagnation), food stagnation in the gastrointestinal tract, liver-qi multiplication of the spleen (liver-qi excessively invades the spleen), spleen and stomach weakness, and kidney-yang deficiency.
1. Cold and dampness: Clinical manifestations include diarrhea, even watery diarrhea, stuffy epigastrium with little food, abdominal pain and intestinal tinnitus, or accompanied by cold (fear of cold), fever, headache, limb pain and other symptoms.
2. Damp-heat obstruction: clinical manifestations of diarrhea and abdominal pain, diarrhea, or diarrhea, or diarrhea, yellowish-brown foul stool, burning anus, irritable heat (irritability and sultriness), thirst, short yellow urine and other symptoms.
3. Food stagnation in the stomach and intestines: clinical manifestations include abdominal pain and intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea and feces smelling like rotten eggs, reduction of pain after diarrhea, distension of the epigastric region (stomach and abdomen), belching of putrefied and sour odors, and lack of desire for food and drink, and so on.
4. Liver qi multiplying the spleen: Clinical manifestations are usually depressed, or irritable, every time due to depression and anger, or emotional tension and diarrhea, accompanied by chest and ribs (chest and rib area of the general term) distension, belching (belching), less food and other symptoms.
5. Weakness of the spleen and stomach: clinical manifestations of loose stools and diarrhea, delayed and repeated, a little into the greasy food, then loose stools, the number of times to increase, accompanied by less food, nausea (no appetite, less food), epigastric boredom and other symptoms.
6. Kidney yang deficiency: clinical manifestations of pre-dawn abdominal pain, intestinal tinnitus that is diarrhea, diarrhea after the reduction of pain, the completion of the grain does not melt (stools in the more undigested food), the abdomen like warmth and like to press the shape of the cold (cold body) cold limbs and other symptoms.
When diarrhea occurs, you should consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify and treat the symptoms.