What medicine is good for mucus in stool

Stool sometimes reflects a person's physical condition, so don't underestimate it. People often have symptoms of mucus in their stools. Some people may think that it is due to eating raw or cold food and that it will be fine after two days. In fact, this situation is mostly caused by a weak stomach and intestines, blood-sucking worms or bacterial dysentery in the body. This means that the body is relatively damp, and the body's resistance is weak, which will lead to this situation. The best way is to seek medical attention for examination and treatment.

Introduction

In case of enteritis, the increased mucus is evenly mixed in the feces; in case of colitis, the feces have gradually taken shape, and the mucus is not easy to mix with the feces; the mucus from the rectum adheres to the surface of the feces. The mucus of simple mucus stool is transparent and slightly viscous, while the purulent mucus is yellow-white and opaque. It is seen in various types of enteritis, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, and acute schistosomiasis.

Overview

The stool is sticky and frozen, or red or white, accompanied by abdominal pain, tenesmus, and occurs 2-10 times a day. This is called mucus stool and is also one of the main symptoms of dysentery. Because the stool is sticky and frozen and feels uncomfortable when discharged, it is also called "intestinal dysentery" and "defeated stool" and is divided into "white dysentery" and "red dysentery" according to the color of the sticky and frozen stool.

Etiology and pathogenesis

Feeling cold and damp

Being exposed to cold and dampness or eating too much raw and cold food can damage the stomach and intestines. The spleen is weak and cannot function properly, water and dampness stagnate inside the body, the middle yang is insufficient, the dampness turns into cold, the cold and dampness are contained inside the body, and improper diet can cause the cold and dampness to block the intestines, obstructing the qi of the large intestine, causing qi stagnation and blood stasis. The qi and blood combine with the foul qi in the intestines and turn into pus and blood, causing dysentery due to cold and dampness. Their stools are mostly white frozen.

Cold stomach

People with weak spleen and stomach, who are affected by cold and damp air, or who suffer from damp-heat dysentery and take excessive cold and cool foods, will suppress the middle yang. Once the middle yang is damaged, the spleen will not function well, the qi of the large intestine will be blocked, qi and blood will easily stagnate, and qi and blood will mix with the foul air in the intestines and easily turn into white jelly. All of these are due to spleen yang deficiency and insufficient circulation in the middle part, which leads to gastrointestinal dysfunction and the production of white frost. Once the circulation in the middle part is improved, the white frost will disappear.

Damp-heat accumulation

When you first feel the summer heat and dampness, or eat too much strong wine, rich, sweet and fatty foods, you will generate damp heat, which will accumulate inside your body, causing abdominal qi stagnation, stagnation of qi and blood, and turning into pus and blood, which will cause damp-heat dysentery and produce red and white frozen mucus in the stool. If damp-heat dysentery does not heal for a long time, the damp-heat evil will linger, and the remaining damp-heat evil in the stomach and intestines will never be cleared, and the foul things in the intestines cannot be completely eliminated, resulting in persistent mucus in the stool.

Liver Wood Overcomes Earth

People with strong Liver Wood are prone to the Liver Wood going against the Earth, causing disorder of gastrointestinal Qi and generating dampness, heat or cold and dampness. Foul things cannot be discharged normally and accumulate in the intestines, which is the source of mucus, white jelly and other things. Or it may be originally damp-heat dysentery, which has not been cured for a long time. The person has strong liver qi, which can easily suppress the spleen and earth, resulting in mucus that lasts for a long time.

Spleen deficiency and dampness-heat

If dysentery does not heal for a long time, the vital energy of the spleen and stomach will be damaged, while the damp-heat evil will often linger, resulting in spleen deficiency, damp-heat evil and other problems. This type is the most common clinically. On the one hand, there are symptoms of spleen deficiency such as poor appetite, sallow complexion, thin muscles, fatigue and weakness; on the other hand, there are symptoms of damp-heat accumulation in the colon such as diarrhea with red and white frozen substances, abdominal cramps, thundering, bloating, difficulty in defecation and constipation. If the spleen is weak, the vital energy will be weak, so it is not suitable to expel evil spirits. If the evil spirits linger, they cannot be expelled quickly due to the spleen deficiency, resulting in a tricky situation where one has to take the vital energy into consideration when trying to expel the evil spirits, but one has to replenish the vital energy but it is weak and the evil spirits cannot be expelled.

Clinical significance

It may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fever and general discomfort. In case of enteritis, the increased mucus is evenly mixed in the feces. In case of colitis, the feces have gradually taken shape and the mucus is not easy to mix with the feces. The mucus from the rectum adheres to the surface of the feces. Simple mucus stool mucus is not transparent and slightly viscous, while purulent mucus is yellow-white and opaque. It is seen in various types of enteritis, bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery, and acute schistosomiasis.

Dietary precautions and care

Patients with this disease should avoid raw, cold, spicy, greasy, and fishy foods, and are absolutely prohibited from drinking alcohol. The diet should be light and strong alcohol and rich flavors are not suitable. In daily life, you should pay attention to the temperature, add clothes in time, avoid catching cold, and insist on exercising, such as running, Tai Chi, etc., which is beneficial to recovery from illness. This disease is also one of the chronic and stubborn diseases. Treatment requires patience. If the medication is not effective, it will cause the disease to recur repeatedly, which is extremely detrimental to the recovery of the disease. In clinical practice, the author has concluded that Tong Simu Ban Decoction can be used as the main ingredient to treat chronic enteritis with mucous stools, or Weichang Yin can be used alone for treatment. The addition or subtraction of the medicine according to the symptoms can achieve good therapeutic effects.