It takes about 24 to 48 hours for food to enter the stomach and intestines, be digested and absorbed, and finally turn the residue into feces and be discharged from the body. A healthy person has a regular bowel movement time, regular defecation once a day, and the stool is not dry or thin, smooth defecation, easy after the stool, and happy mood. Constipation is a pathological phenomenon in which the number of bowel movements is significantly reduced, once every 2 to 3 days or longer, or the time of bowel movements is irregular, the feces is dry and hard, often accompanied by difficulties in defecation and poor bowel movement. It is common in the elderly and frail people with reduced activity. It is not a specific disease, but a symptom or manifestation of a variety of diseases. There are many causes of constipation, such as: mechanical injury caused by certain diseases of the digestive system, diabetes, etc., poor nutrition, old and weak people and pregnant women, irregular living, or drug abuse, etc. Chinese medicine believes that constipation has the following causes: 1, Yang Sheng body, gastrointestinal heat, or improper diet, excessive consumption of spicy food and fatty sweet thick taste caused by heat in the stomach and intestines, fluid injury, which leads to dryness of the digestive tract, bowel movement is not smooth. 2, emotional and mental discomfort, qi stagnation; or excessive thinking, strain on the spleen and stomach; long seat and little movement, qi and blood stagnation; large intestine conduction weakness. 3, deficiency of qi and blood, common in the long-ill elderly and pregnant women, qi deficiency without power, blood deficiency does not moisten, the intestine is not moistened. 4.Patients with Yang deficiency and weakness, Yin and cold do not produce Yang energy, fluid does not work, and the intestines are not smooth. The main clinical manifestations of constipation: prolonged interval of stool for more than 2 days, dry stool, difficult or poor discharge, accompanied by abdominal distension or abdominal pain, belching and regurgitation, loss of appetite. As the number of stools decreases and the interval time is prolonged, the stool accumulates in the intestine, producing various toxic gases and toxins, causing deterioration of the intestinal environment, gastrointestinal dysfunction, slow intestinal peristalsis, and toxins reaching various parts of the body through blood circulation, resulting in dull complexion, rough skin, dilated pores, brown spots, acne, fine wrinkles, and accelerated aging, as well as obesity, fatigue, irritability, and insomnia. Insomnia, bad breath, hemorrhoids, etc. Constipation can also have an impact on liver and kidney function. In particular, some patients with hypertension and heart disease have a higher chance of cardiovascular events due to constipation. Therefore, for patients with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, constipation is also very dangerous. Constipation can also lead to high fever and cough if a person has a cold. Therefore, the treatment of constipation can prevent the occurrence of many diseases, through the treatment of constipation, many diseases will also receive a peculiar effect. Chinese medicine treatment of constipation highlights the principle of treating the root of the disease and treating the evidence, including the method of clearing heat and inducing stagnation, the method of regulating qi and opening the abdomen, the method of tonifying qi and nourishing blood, and the method of warming yang and dispersing cold. Patients with constipation symptoms should not casually use laxative drugs on their own to prevent their intestinal function from weakening, causing dependence on drugs, or long-term use of laxative drugs, forming intestinal damage, leading to colonic melanosis and inducing the occurrence of intestinal cancer. Patients with constipation symptoms should use medication correctly under the guidance of doctors, and should not use laxatives indiscriminately or use them for a long time to prevent adverse consequences. In short, it is important to consume foods rich in fiber as much as possible, eat more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, and avoid smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and spicy food. Here is a homemade laxative food porridge for your reference: appropriate amount of rice, bonito, white potato, sausage, raisins a little salt boiled into a dry and thin porridge, morning and evening consumption, may help your constipation. In addition, for the treatment of constipation, exercise is also important, especially abdominal exercise can play the role of intestinal massage, which is conducive to the large intestine conduction to relieve constipation.