Chinese herbal medicines can be taken for constipation, including rhubarb, mangosteen, flaxseed, and croton cream. Depending on the cause of constipation, different medicines should be chosen, and different diseases also need to be matched with the appropriate medicines.
The effects of rhubarb are diaphoretic (treating constipation by passing stools), clearing heat and fire, cooling the blood and removing toxins, stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis and clearing the channels (removing blood stasis and clearing the channels), and inducing diuresis to relieve jaundice (removing dampness and eliminating jaundice). For the treatment of stagnant constipation of the key drugs, solid heat stagnation of constipation is particularly suitable. It is often used in conjunction with manganite, citrus aurantium dulcis, thick park, flaxseed, honey, and so on.
The efficacy of manganese nitrate is laxative, moistening dryness and softening hardness, clearing fire and subduing swelling. Can treat solid heat stagnation, abdominal fullness and pain, stool dryness, often with rhubarb must be used to enhance the role of laxative.
The efficacy of flaxseed is laxative. It can moisturize and laxative, and also has the role of nourishing and supplementing the deficiency. It is often used in conjunction with laxative drugs such as Ulirin, Psoralea vulgaris, Suzi, and almonds; or with rhubarb and Huperzia to enhance the laxative effect.
The efficacy of Croton Cream is to expel phlegm, expel water and reduce swelling, expel phlegm and benefit the pharynx; it can be used externally for erosion of sores. It can expel cold stagnation and open intestinal occlusion. It can be used alone in capsules, or with rhubarb and dried ginger in pills, for cold food accumulation (indigestion of food in the stomach), blockage of the intestinal tract, inaccessible to the bowels, abdominal fullness and distension, and the disease is acute, and the qi and blood are not yet exhausted.
Many of the laxative medicines are toxic and have contraindications for compounding and contraindications for medication, so please use the medicines under the guidance of a doctor and do not take the medicines without authorization. If there is any discomfort, please go to the hospital for medical treatment.