功能性便秘的中医药研究进展

Research Progress in Traditional Chinese Medicine on Functional Constipation

功能性便秘(Functional Constipation, FC)是一种慢性胃肠疾病,临床上较为常见,具有多种致病因素和诱发因素,因此难以保持稳定持久的临床疗效。大多数功能性便秘患者病情较长,且反复发作,导致生活质量下降,影响患者身心健康。研究功能性便秘的中医药治疗方法,可为临床治疗提供思路。通过从中医辨证分型、中药治疗、中医内治外治结合治疗、中西医结合治疗等方面研究中医药治疗功能性便秘的进展,发现中医药治疗功能性便秘疗效显著,相较于西医治疗有其独特的优势。

Functional constipation is a chronic gastrointestinal disease, which is more common in clinical practice, and has a variety of causative and predisposing factors, so it is difficult to maintain stable and long-lasting clinical efficacy. Most patients with functional constipation suffer from prolonged and recurrent episodes, resulting in decreased quality of life and affecting their physical and mental health. The study of Chinese medicine treatment of functional constipation can provide ideas for clinical treatment. The progress of TCM treatment of functional constipation has been studied from the aspects of TCM diagnosis and typing, TCM treatment, combination of internal and external TCM treatment, and combination of TCM and Western medicine, and it is found that TCM treatment of functional constipation has remarkable efficacy and has its unique advantages compared with Western medicine treatment.