Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Health Issues/Symptoms Connections
"Inflammatory Bowel Disease" Issue / Symptom Connections
Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for inflammatory bowel disease.
Content Related to Inflammatory Bowel Disease
It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "inflammatory bowel disease" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "inflammatory bowel disease" - i.e. the "cause(s)".
For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.
Some acupuncture points are considered "empirically" related to a specific condition or diagnostic pattern. While this would rarely, if ever, dictate the entire composition of a treatment, the following point should be considered, possibly even more so within the context of acupressure:
- View UB 25 (Large Intestine Shu)
1.5 cun lateral to GV 3, level with L4.
Main point for low back pain especially when related to constipation a/or menstruation. Combine with local points such as GV 3, UB 26, Shiqizhui (between L5 and S1), UB 31, UB 32, GB 30 & distal points such as GB 34, GB 39, GB 41, UB 4…
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