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Constipation means difficult or infrequent bowel movements. According to International Society for Bowel Hygiene, less than three bowel movements in a week are considered as constipation.<\/span><\/p>\n Traditional Chinese medical believes that constipation is caused by intestinal disfunction. Bowel disturbances can be caused by a variety of factors, such as poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, physical illness, sitting for too long at work, or not drinking enough fluids.<\/span><\/p>\n Traditional Chinese medical suggests that the problem of constipation can be improved from the way of lifestyle, exercise, and acupoint massage.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Ensure enough sleep<\/span><\/p>\n 2. Reduce stress<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Drink warm water every morning and ensure adequate water intake<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Avoid sitting too long at work, get up and move your body from time to time<\/span><\/p>\n 5. Avoid looking at your phone when going to the toilet and concentrate on going to the toilet<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n 1. Slow walking and appropriate brisk walking for 30 minutes every day<\/span><\/p>\n Walking slowly can help intestinal peristalsis, so as to achieve the effect of laxative.<\/span><\/p>\n Abdominal breathing is a deep breathing exercise that can help reduce stress and anxiety, helps with digestion and bowel movements by relaxing the diaphragm and gastrointestinal.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. \u201cHegu\u201d LI.4 Point <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Abdominal massage<\/span><\/p>\n For abdominal massage, we can rub the abdomen clockwise for <\/span>5-10 minutes or <\/span>rub it until it feels warm. It is better to do it every morning. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Constipation means difficult or infrequent bowel movements. According to International Society for Bowel Hygiene, less than three bowel movements in a week are considered as constipation. Traditional Chinese medical believes that constipation is caused by intestinal disfunction. Bowel disturbances can be caused by a variety of factors, such as poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[439,430],"tags":[636],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tcm-health-preservation-en","category-tcm-prac-chong-en","tag-visions-tcm-usj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17759,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions\/17759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLifestyle :<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sleep-1024x683.jpg\")
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\nExercise :<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/gaigai-1024x683.jpg\")
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\n2. Abdominal breathing<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/breath.png\")
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\nAcupressure:<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n
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\nLI.4 point belongs to the large intestine meridian of Hand Yangming. We can press and rub the LI.4 point, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and help defecation.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/vstcm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/massage.jpeg\")
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