Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine & IBS

Irritable Bowel Syndrome is defined as a motility disorder involving the small and large intestines associated with different degrees of abdominal pain, constipation, or diarrhea, largely as a reaction to stress in a susceptible individual.  Pain can be triggered by eating and relieved with bowel movement.  Bloating, flatulence, nausea, mucous in stools, feeling incomplete after a bowel movement, pain in the rectum and even bowel incontinence can be seen in some patients.  The western medical treatment involves (more…)