Traditional Chinese medicine prescription for detoxification and bowel cleansing

Dachengqi Decoction for excessive heat accumulation, Liumo Decoction for qi stagnation and intestinal blockage, Zengye Decoction for yin deficiency and intestinal dryness, all prescriptions need to be adjusted after syndrome differentiation, and it is strictly forbidden to take them on your own for a long time.

Many people's understanding of "detoxification and bowel cleansing" is "diarrhea". In fact, this is completely wrong. The real bowel cleansing is to expel the dregs and gas accumulated in the intestines without damaging the function of the intestines themselves. If you have diarrhea and feel weak after drinking the prescription, you must have used it wrong. Not long ago, when I was doing a free TCM science clinic in the community, I met a 62-year-old Aunt Zhang. She said that she had heard a short video saying that "intestinal toxins are the root of all diseases." She drank 30g of raw cassia seeds and senna leaves every day. After drinking it for half a month, defecation became more comfortable. However, I had stomach pain after eating something cold, and my eyes turned black when I stood up after squatting for a long time. When I took a pulse, I saw that the spleen and stomach were completely exhausted. This was a typical case of improper use of laxative bowel cleansing prescriptions.

For people like Aunt Zhang who are usually afraid of the cold and have a weak spleen and stomach, even if they don't have bowel movements for a few days, they must not use strong medicine like Dachengqi Decoction. Dachengqi Decoction is specially designed for people with real heat syndrome - for example, after eating hot pot and barbecue for three days, the gums are swollen, the breath is bad, the stomach is swollen and hard, and it still hurts when you press it, you haven't pooped for five or six days, and your tongue is red and yellow, and the coating is as thick as a coating. For wax, in this case, use 12g of rhubarb (lower back), 9g of Glauber's salt, 12g of Citrus aurantium, and 15g of Magnolia officinalis. Boil it and drink 1-2 doses. After defecation two or three times, the anger and constipation will be discharged together, and you will feel comfortable immediately. Drinking more will not help.

If you don’t have that much anger, you just sit for a long time and don’t exercise, your belly is bulging, you want to fart but can’t, and your bowel movements feel like squeezing out toothpaste, and a little bit sticks to the toilet every time you poop, this is qi stagnation blocked in the intestines, Liu Mo Decoction is suitable, the basic prescription is Wu Yao , Agarwood, Citrus aurantium, Betel nut, Agarwood, and Rhubarb. If the symptoms are mild, I usually let them take 3g of each of Aigonia, Acosta, and Citrus aurantium, make hot water and drink it as tea. After drinking it for a long time, the gas in the stomach will gurgling and go down, and the defecation will be smooth, and it will not be as uncomfortable as laxatives.

Some people usually have dry mouth and tongue, and their stools are as dry as sheep feces. Their anus hurts when they defecate, and their tongues are red and have no coating. This is because there is not enough body fluid in the intestines.

Speaking of which, there are quite big differences between different schools of traditional Chinese medicine in terms of ideas for bowel cleansing. The old doctor from the Typhoid Sect who I had treated before would never hesitate to prescribe Dachengqi Decoction to patients with excessive heat syndrome. He said that "the six fu organs are used to unblock them." If the blockage is so severe, it should be unblocked first, so as not to keep the evil energy stagnant in the body. However, if a teacher from the febrile disease school encounters the same situation, he will often add a little Polygonatum odoratum and Dendrobium to the prescription, fearing that the diarrhea will be too severe and damage the body fluids. Especially for those who are thin and prone to night sweats, they will not let you have diarrhea too much. Both ideas are actually correct, but the focus is on different people.

Oh, by the way, many people on the Internet now say that traditional Chinese medicine for bowel cleansing can cause cancer and cause melanosis of the colon. This is really not groundless - I met a little girl who works on the Internet a while ago. In order to lose weight, she drank the famous Internet-famous bowel cleansing tea containing senna leaves every day for three months. Now she can't have bowel movements without drinking it, and her colon has been slightly melanotic after a colonoscopy. In fact, this problem is not caused by traditional Chinese medicine, but by using the wrong method: anthraquinone laxatives (senna, raw rhubarb, cassia, aloe, etc.) are fine for short-term use, but if taken continuously for more than 3 months, there is indeed a possibility of inducing colonic melanosis. Therefore, all prescriptions for clearing the intestines are to stop the disease, that is, the medicine is stopped when the stool is clear. It must not be taken as a daily health care thing.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the "detoxification and intestinal cleansing" mentioned by Chinese medicine never allows you to pull out the contents of the intestines by external force. It essentially helps the intestines to restore its own peristalsis function. If you eat takeaways that are heavy in oil and salt every day and sit still for more than ten hours, no matter how many intestinal cleansing prescriptions you drink, they will only treat the symptoms. If you really want your intestines to be comfortable, walk twice more after meals and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, which is more reliable than any magical prescription. If you really suffer from long-term constipation, don’t look for prescriptions on your own. It’s only right to seek a regular Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose your symptoms first and find out what kind of constitution you have, and then adjust the prescription.