便秘是指大便秘结不通,粪便在肠内滞留过久,排便周期延长或粪便干结,排便艰涩不畅的一种病症。本病主要是大肠传导功能失常所致,在临床便秘的人群中,以女性和老人居多。由于腑气不通,浊气不降,可引起腹胀、腹痛、头晕、头胀、食欲减退、睡眠不安等症状,长期便秘还会导致肛裂、痔疮、胆结石、乳腺癌、高血压病等[1]。笔者近年来收集了45例顽固性便秘患者,运用中西医结合的方法辨证施治,取得了良好效果,现报道如下。 Constipation refers to constipation unreasonable, stool in the intestine to stay too long, prolonged stool or fecal stool, poor stool defecate a disorder. The disease is mainly caused by dysfunction of large intestine conduction in the crowd of clinical constipation, mostly women and the elderly. Long-term constipation will lead to anal fissure, hemorrhoids, gallstones, breast cancer, hypertension and other symptoms caused by bowel gas barrier, turbidity does not drop, can cause bloating, abdominal pain, dizziness, head swelling, loss of appetite, 1]. In recent years, I collected 45 cases of intractable constipation patients, the use of integrated traditional Chinese and Western methods of syndrome differentiation and achieved good results, are reported below.