The symptom of thick and hard stool is usually considered as constipation. Constipation can be divided into physiological constipation and pathological constipation. Different methods can be used to relieve constipation caused by different reasons: 1. Physiological constipation: Mostly due to short-term dietary disorders, excessive meat, spicy and stimulating food, low water intake, low exercise, bad defecation habits and other factors, which may lead to poor defecation, dry stools, coarse and hard symptoms, sometimes accompanied by blood in the stool, anal pain and other symptoms. This condition can be adjusted by improving lifestyle habits and does not require special treatment. Such as maintaining a balanced nutritional diet and good lifestyle habits; adhere to outdoor exercise, avoiding sedentary, prolonged lying; appropriate abdominal massage; ensure that the daily water intake, conducive to the improvement of gastrointestinal function; can also eat oil and fat, nuts food can help prevent constipation; 2, pathological constipation: common in patients with intestinal polyps, hemorrhoids, anal fissures and other digestive system diseases, or diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, etc. Patients with endocrine system diseases and patients with multiple sclerosis diseases may also have thick and hard stools. In this case, we need to actively treat the original disease and aim to relieve the symptoms of constipation and restore the normal intestinal dynamics and physiological functions of defecation, and we can choose medication and surgical treatment. For example, patients can use open cork to lubricate the intestinal wall and soften the stool; use drugs such as Mosapride and Itopride to promote gastrointestinal motility. Chronic constipation can also use lactulose, sorbitol and other drugs. For patients whose long-term medication is ineffective or seriously affects their normal life, they can undergo cleansing enemas in the hospital, etc. In addition, patients who have thick and hard stools and do not improve after a period of life intervention need to go to the hospital to find out the cause.