The common types of constipation in children are spleen and kidney yang deficiency type, intestinal qi stagnation type, yin deficiency intestinal dryness type and intestinal solid heat type, and different types of medicines are used. Commonly used traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are Jichuan Decoction, Hovenia Conducting Stagnation Pill, Moistening Intestines Pill, Hemp Seed Pill and so on.
1. Jichuan Decoction: It can be used for children with constipation of spleen and kidney yang deficiency type, with the effect of moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels, and can be used for treating children with dry or non-dry stools, and difficulty in evacuating the bowels. Its adverse reaction is not clear, but note that patients with heat evil injury to fluid and yin deficiency should not use this medicine.
2. Hovenia Conducting Stagnation Pill: It can be used for children with constipation of intestinal gas stagnation type, with the efficacy of eliminating food stagnation (promoting digestion of food), and can treat epigastric (gastric and abdominal) plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort), constipation, etc. It can also be used for patients with diarrhea without accumulation of stagnation. For patients with diarrhea without stagnation, it should not be taken without authorization, and pregnant women should not use it.
3. Run intestines pill: can be used for yin deficiency intestinal dryness type children constipation, with the effect of laxative, used to treat dry stools, stools such as goat feces and other symptoms. The adverse effects of the drug is not clear, but allergy should be used with caution, pregnant women are contraindicated. Children and the elderly and frail patients, should be taken under the guidance of a physician.
4. Hemp Seed Pills: used for intestinal solid heat type, the drug has the effect of moistening the intestines and diarrhea heat, move the qi and laxative effect, used for the treatment of constipation in children, to improve the symptoms of dry stools. For patients who are old and weak, with deficiency of fluid and blood, it is not suitable to be taken regularly, and pregnant women should be cautious.
If children need to treat constipation, they should be treated by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not blindly use medication on their own to avoid delaying their condition.