Chinese medicine helps with intestinal diseases

Study: Chinese medicine helps with bowel disease

18/05/2011

Rumble in the gut and mild abdominal pain - symptoms that, if only for a short time, usually associated with harmless causes. If acute symptoms such as diarrhea, debilitating tiredness or exhaustion are added, there are sometimes food intolerances, allergies, intestinal infections and chronic inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. In addition to conventional medical treatments sufferers are increasingly looking for alternatives in Chinese medicine. And rightly so, as a recent study of the TCM Clinic on Steigerwald illustrates: So explained 79 percent of patients, an improvement in their symptoms two years after hospital stay.

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, disorders of the digestive system are often maladjustments of the immune system. For infections such as flu, the body usually has an optimal healing time of up to two weeks available. „Preventing stress such as stress or malnutrition as well as premature drug administration of the body to an adequate immune response, so remain unhealed remnants that overwhelm the immune system and sometimes lead to permanent disorders of the digestive tract“, explains Dr. Christian Schmincke, general practitioner and TCM expert from the Klinik am Steigerwald. So Chinese medicine starts with the causes, the immuno-deficits. Specialist dietetics, Chinese herbal therapy, acupuncture, Qi-Gong and Tuina massages are the cornerstones of the treatment in order to rehearse and sustainably strengthen immune behavior. (Pm)