It can be defined as infrequent or difficult passage of faeces. It can also be hardness of stools or feeling of incomplete evacuation.
Causes
Dietary factors- insufficient fiber into the diet.
Obstruction- tumors, inflammation, diverticular disease.
Disorder in the peristaltic movement as in Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD).
Ano-rectal diseases such as anal fissures, crohns disease, hemorrhoids.
Medications like diuretics, analgesics, antacids, antipsychotics and anticholinergic.
Metabolic/endocrine diseases like diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, and pregnancy.
Neurological causes like- cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis.
Gynecological causes like -pregnancy, ovarian cancer.
Psychiatric disorders such as depression.
Treatment-
General measures
Avoid the following the foods
Ò Meat
Ò Cheese
Ò Chips
Ò Ice creams
Ò Fast foods
Ò Snacks
Try the following foods
Ò Eat foods rich in fibers like
Ò Beans
Ò Raw vegetables
Ò Fresh fruit
Ò Whole-wheat bread
Ò Oatmeal
Ò Drink plenty of water- at least eight glasses per day
Ò And mild to moderate exercise daily
Homeopathic approach
In clinical practice, it is seen that the patients who are on laxatives for constipation cannot avoid it. They develop a kind of dependency for the laxative. Of course, these laxatives give a temporary relief, but it cannot root the causes that play behind. In homeopathy, the medicines are selected by considering the pathology behind constipation, and peculiarities in a patient with constipation. So a single remedy cannot be projected as the homeopathic laxative. Even so, there are a number of effective remedies in homeopathy that can prevent the constipation permanently.
The frequently indicated remedies are Nux vom , Sulphur, Lyco, Hydrastis, Ruta, etc.
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