I don’t know from which day, we began to appear around the concept of “clearing hangover, bowel detoxification”, with the various “health products, health institutions” to promote, even the children will casually come to the phrase “discharge toxins, a body of relaxation”, “hangover” and tumors, beauty, obesity and so on linked together, beauty institutions to promote “intestinal hydrotherapy”, health care products business launched “to give your intestines a bath”, it seems that It seems that we have been inseparable from the “hangover”, and we have to get rid of it before we can get rid of it. Is this really the case? What is “Hangover”? To talk about hangover, we need to talk about how food turns into stool. The food we eat will take 6-10 hours to be digested and absorbed by the stomach and small intestine, and then the rest of the food will enter the colon and travel slowly, while a large amount of water and electrolytes will be absorbed, and it will take about 20 hours for the process to reach the rectum, where it will be formed into soft stools. When these soft stools accumulate in the rectum over a certain volume, there will be a desire to defecate, and if conditions permit, you can defecate. If you are good at math, you can calculate that it takes about 30 hours for food to turn into stool, and today’s dinner, under normal circumstances, will be excreted the morning after. There is no such term as “hangover” in medicine. According to the advertisements, “Hangover” is the accumulation of stools in the body that have not yet been eliminated. It is true that after defecation, there will be some unformed stools in the colon, but in the subsequent accumulation process, most of the water and electrolyte absorption occurs, and there is no absorption of the so-called “toxins” for healthy people. For healthy people, there is no such thing as “toxin” absorption. The so-called “intestinal detoxification” is simply nonsense. “Hangover” is an unscientific concept, so the treatments we use for “hangover”, such as “intestinal hydrotherapy” and “laxative tea” are naturally not necessary. However, some people will still say, I do not want to detoxify and lose weight, just want to give the intestines a bath, comfortable. This kind of thinking will not work. The intestines can’t just “take a bath” No matter if these beauty organizations mention intestinal spa or intestinal hydrotherapy, in fact, it is a kind of enema treatment. The principle is very simple: artificially filled with liquid to the rectum, so that the rectum thought it was time to defecate, passing signals to the brain to start the defecation process in advance. This deception of the rectum and the brain in advance of the bowel movement, will affect the absorption of water and electrolytes in the colon, long-term frequent use will lead to dehydration or electrolyte disorders. Improper handling may also result in perforation and rupture of the bowel, causing peritonitis. Long-term enema defecation, will make the rectum less sensitive, more and more dependent on the enema to defecate, and even the emergence of the enema can not produce stool without the situation. Claims can laxative health products can not be eaten indiscriminately, their effective ingredients are generally the Chinese herb rhubarb and the foreign herb senna. These ingredients can promote defecation because they contain anthraquinones, which directly stimulate the intestinal mucosal nerves, leading to colon smooth muscle contraction, intestinal peristalsis accelerated, thus promoting defecation. Long-term application can lead to irreversible enteric nerve damage and muscle atrophy, with increasing dependence on the drug and ever-increasing doses to be effective. In addition to the problem of drug dependence, this stimulation causes pigmentation of the intestinal wall and the development of colonic melanosis. The normal mucosa of the colon is pink, but people who take anthraquinone laxatives for long periods of time will have their intestines take on a black-pink interspersed leopard print appearance, and in severe cases the entire intestinal wall may even turn black. Colon blackening has also been confirmed by most studies to have the risk of colon malignancy, this more wash the more black bath, you and I do not want to see it, right? For most normal people, as long as they have good bowel habits, no bowel problems affect the quality of life, there is no need to add to the use of all kinds of products to “clear the bowels” and “clean the bowels”. Adopt a healthy lifestyle is enough If really meet the diagnostic criteria of constipation patients, can not be used without authorization laxative products, but to find a gastroenterologist, according to their own symptomatic characteristics, take different medications to deal with the symptoms of the advertisement of those products is not a solution to the problem.