What is acupuncture for irritable bowel?

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder characterized by abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, and changes in bowel habits, usually persistent or recurring, and relieved by bowel movements. According to the statistics of developed countries, irritable bowel syndrome accounts for more than one-third of the patients in gastroenterology outpatient clinics, and even more than half of the patients in some cases. In our country, the epidemiological statistics of irritable bowel syndrome has no authoritative large sample statistics, the existing epidemiological data show that the incidence of irritable bowel syndrome in our country is 0.82% ~ 11.5%, the incidence of large differences in the reasons for the diagnostic criteria are different. Although irritable bowel syndrome is not a fatal disease, it brings great inconvenience to patients’ life. Due to the multifactorial and complexity of the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome, the effect of western medicine in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome is not very good, and there are more adverse reactions, while Chinese medicine has more studies on the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and its efficacy is better, especially the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with acupuncture. Irritable bowel syndrome belongs to the category of “diarrhea”, “constipation” and “abdominal pain” in Chinese medicine, and the malfunction of liver excretion is the basic mechanism of irritable bowel syndrome. According to the theory of TCM diagnosis and treatment, irritable bowel syndrome is mainly caused by liver depression and spleen deficiency, so the treatment should be based on the legislation of liver and spleen strengthening, and the acupuncture diagnosis and treatment can also be based on this method. Prof. Wang Guobin is a famous veteran Chinese medicine practitioner in China. Prof. Wang pointed out that irritable bowel syndrome is related to the dysfunction of spleen, kidney and liver. Chinese medicine theory believes that the spleen is the foundation of the latter day, can be transported into the body’s required essence, at the same time, has the role of fixation, if the spleen and stomach function is damaged, will lead to the spleen to lose the function of transporting, water and grain can not be converted into the body’s required essence, but instead of harmful to the body of the wet, and turbid and mixed and down, the hair for diarrhea; kidney in Chinese medicine theory is considered to be the foundation of the human body of the innate, the Secretary for the two stools, the Lord of the sealing and storing, if the kidney yang If kidney yang is damaged, the role of the body’s vaporization and gasification is weakened, manifested as dysfunction of the two stools, resulting in diarrhea; Chinese medicine theory believes that the liver is the main excretory and regulates the qi, if the liver is dysfunctional, will lead to qi stagnation, qi does not pass will lead to pain, so the “pain in the liver blame”. Therefore, Prof. Wang proved through theoretical reasoning and a lot of clinical practice that the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome from the regulation of the functions of liver, kidney and spleen has a good clinical effect. Here are some common acupuncture treatments for you. 1, ultrasound pulse conductive therapy. Ultrasound, acupoint therapy, moxibustion, heat therapy, electrotherapy, negative pressure cupping and other therapies integrated into one of the therapies, can play a soft tissue, enhance the role of drug penetration and absorption. 2, transcutaneous electrical stimulation of acupuncture points. This is a kind of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupoint acupuncture combined with the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapy, this therapy through the skin will be low-frequency pulse current input to the body’s specific acupoints, in order to achieve the purpose of reducing pain. And music therapy is through the psychological and physiological 2 ways to reach the purpose of treatment of a means of disease. 3.Spiritual Turtle Eight Methods. The use of ancient philosophical doctrine of the nine palace gossip, combined with the human body qi meridian qi blood convergence, take the twelve meridians and qi meridian 8 points, according to the time of day and dry deduction to make the time to take a traditional acupuncture method, a combination of the classic therapy of the study of the Zhouyi and acupuncture.