Ignoring this essential bodily function can lead to several complications that significantly affect your quality of life.

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frequent bowel movements, or diarrhea. It can also change the physiology of the intestine. There are neurons in the bowel that communicate with the brain. Stress affects the neurons in the bowel, ...

Although discomfort and bloating have persisted, the severe and debilitating spasms have gradually disappeared, replaced in the past 5 years with another more disruptive symptom: bowel urgency. This ...

1 Graduate School, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China 2 Anorectal Surgery Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China ...