Well, as my wife says, when you marry a doctor of TCM, you get used to talking about bowel movements, it even may pop up at the dinner table, as food, digestion, and bowel movements are intimately related ! As with any holistic thinking, your bowels are an expression of health, mainly digestive, but also may be great indicators of other underlying problems that should be investigated. Someone has even made an attempt to standardize the appearance of stool so that reporting to your physician is easier, its called the Bristol Stool Scale if you are interested in deepening your understanding even further. Otherwise, please read on and commit this information to memory. As my favorite old Chinese teacher always said in school, ‘your body is your best friend, listen to what it is telling you!’.

So, what is normal?