Irritblable bowel syndrome is very simple symptom. However people think that it is a incurable disease due to the education from the internists. As you know the word of syndrome means that there is no way of treatment because the cause of disease is not known. However in the view of east asian medicine, the symptom is very simple. That is a sign of the liver that is too tire to absorb the food for energization.
Now I mention the physiology and pathology and one case as follows.
I. The Symptom of IBS Lots of stool per day. Watery stool or chronical diarrhea Bad smell Dark brown or chocolate colored stool Feeling released after discharging. Much more in case of taking artificial foods. II. The Phyiology and the Pathology It is easy to think the symptom is originated from the colon because colone works for the discharge of stool. But this is the limit of western medicine based on anatomical structure. Why should the colon discharge the digested foods hastely? The reason is for the liver. This is the phyiology and patholgy of IBS.
And then what do you think is wrong with the liver? First, constitutionally the liver is weak , or the ki of liver congestive or the short of blood in liver or the humidity in liver or the unbalance with other organs or other complexive reasons.
III. Treatment Method According to the reasons of symptom, we can choose the way of treatments as follows.
To enrich the liver To release the liver To dry the liver To improver the blood circulation( for heart) To get rid of humidity( for spleen) To improve water circulation( for kidney) To evaporate fever and sweat ( for lung) and finally to design the presription with considering of the above.
IV. Why the Antidiarrheals Should Be Avoided? The cause of the symptom is in liver and other digestional organs so the antidiarrheals make the liver tired. If the medication as this should be lasted long, this will bring about severe congestion of liver Ki and finally some kinds of cancers in liver or pancreas or spleen.
V. Herbal Treatment Case The cases are too much usual to record. But as an information for the doctors and silly patients I write one of standard case as follows.
1. Personal Information(042311) Park 0 0, Aged 17, Male Student Address : Okeumdong, Sonpagu, Seoul, Korea
2. Chief Complaints He usually has loose bowels(IBS) and sometimes 5~6 times. 3. Other Symptoms and Signs He is always sleepy all day long. He usually catches a cold when he gets some stresses. He feels dry on his eyes. He sweats much even when he does not move. He usually feels bloated. He does not remember when he had felt morning erection. He feels the pain on the head whenever he faces cold wind. Pulse : A little float, big, a little tensioned. Tongue : Purple colored and watery on apex and a liitle thick and yellowish coated. Abdomen : Stiffen and pains all over upper abdomen with finger's pressing Both of CVA severe pains with finger's drumming 4. Diagnosis Liver weak and congestion Heart small Digestional organs small Lung weak. Kidney weak. 5. Pathology Weak liver makes the blood poor. Conestive liver makes fever on the head. Small heart makes poor circulation on pelvic area. Small digestion organs cannot support the liver for digestion. Weak lung worsens the kidney and the colon for the irrigation of inside water. Weak kindey worsens the colon convey lots of the water. and as a result the best way to discharge the bad products should be lots of diarrhea. We call it this as IBS. So liver is in charge of IBS but colone is never at first..
6. Prescription Please refer to above para III of "Treatment Methord". 7. Result 1st Prescription To get rid of humidity is main and other ways are secondary.
1st Result He feels easy on abdomen but other symptoms are same. 2nd Presription Same as 1st but added the herbs for purifying blood. 2nd Result Very easy on abdomen, No more diarrhea and frequent stools! Still the fatigue and the sweat remain. No pain on low back with fnger drumming. Still stiffen abdominal muscles but no pain with finger press. Wonderful! The morning erection often comes back! 3rd Prescription Same as 2nd but added the herbs for blood circulation.
3rd Result I couldn't confiorm the result imediately but after 4 months later, he come again because he felt some diarrhea facing final exam. He looked very animating and requested to new prescription for safe examination. This means IBS was treated completely in usual time.
4th Prescription Same as 3rd deleted the herbs for purifying blood but added for improving Ki
4th Result His mom brought his brother for treatment after some later and told that he was very good and studied very hard without any problems so far. |