Can internal hemorrhoids be cured by taking medicine?

Hemorrhoids are a common disease. For many hemorrhoid patients, defecation is a torture. A common question is that blood in the stool is caused by constipation. People often don't care when the amount of blood is relatively small, but when blood is discharged from the anus alone, it has reached a more serious level, so patients should seek medical attention in time. Hemorrhoids are generally divided into two types, internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids. Generally speaking, the incidence of internal hemorrhoids is relatively high. So, can internal hemorrhoids be cured by taking medicine?

Improper diet, excessive consumption of strong alcohol, rich food, spicy, cold and stimulating foods, or irregular hunger and satiety, or careless daily life, sitting or standing for long periods of time, carrying heavy loads for long distances, or excessive sexual intercourse, or long-term diarrhea and dysentery, long-term constipation, pregnancy and childbirth, compression from abdominal tumors, etc., can all cause internal rheumatism, dryness and heat, and imbalance of qi and blood, resulting in blockage of the meridians, and blood stasis and turbid qi flowing into the anus to form internal hemorrhoids. The characteristics of internal hemorrhoids are painless bleeding in the stool, and hemorrhoids may prolapse in the later stages. Patients with internal hemorrhoids may have frequent urge to defecate due to a distended feeling in the anus, or they may be afraid of bleeding and dare not defecate, which may lead to constipation due to poor bowel movement. Constipation can also be divided into deficiency and excess. Excess constipation is caused by internal accumulation of excess heat, which burns body fluids, causing dryness and constipation in the gastrointestinal tract, dry and difficult stools, and abdominal distension and pain. Deficiency constipation is caused by qi deficiency, failure of the lungs to descend, weak conduction of the large intestine, or blood deficiency and dryness of body fluids, causing dryness and constipation in the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal distension and constipation, palpitations and spontaneous sweating. The treatment is mainly based on clearing heat and moistening dryness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and invigorating Qi and astringing.

[Treatment method] For excess syndrome, it is advisable to clear away heat and cool blood; for deficiency syndrome, it is advisable to strengthen the spleen and retain blood.

【Prescription】

1. Host

(1) The prescription for clearing heat and cooling blood is Liangxue Dihuang Decoction (Qi Kun's "Surgery Dacheng") with modifications

Prescription: 15 grams of raw Rehmannia root, 9 grams of red peony root, 9 grams of Citrus aurantium, 9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis, 12 grams of Sophora japonica flower, 12 grams of Sanguisorba officinalis, 9 grams of Coptis chinensis, 9 grams of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 6 grams of Licorice root, 6 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata, and 9 grams of Paeonia suffruticosa root. Take it in decoction, 1 dose per day.

For constipation, add 12 grams (beaten) of Trichosanthes seeds and 12 grams (beaten) of hemp seeds.

(2) Guipi Decoction (from Yan Yonghe's Jisheng Prescription) is recommended as a prescription for strengthening the spleen and tonifying blood.

Prescription: 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 12 grams of Poria cocos, 9 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 15 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, 9 grams of Angelica sinensis, 9 grams of Bletilla striata, 6 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis charcoal, 3 grams of Panax notoginseng powder (to be taken with water), 9 grams of Sophora japonica charcoal, and 6 grams of donkey-hide gelatin (to be melted and taken with water). Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

2. Chinese patent medicine

(1) Zanglian Pills, 9 grams each time, twice a day, with warm water. Applicable to empirical evidence.

(2) Take Dandou Pills, 3 pills each time, twice a day, with warm water. Applicable to empirical evidence.

(3) Guipi Pills: 9 grams each time for honey pills and 6 grams each time for water-honey pills, 3 times a day with warm water. Suitable for deficiency syndrome.

(4) Shiquan Dabu Pills: 9 grams each time for honey pills and 6 grams each time for water-honey pills, 3 times a day with warm water. Suitable for deficiency syndrome.