Ulcerative Colitis

"Ulcerative Colitis" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for ulcerative colitis.

Content Related to Ulcerative Colitis

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "ulcerative colitis" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "ulcerative colitis" - 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.

Within TCM, "ulcerative colitis" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: blood stagnation, kidney yang deficiency, liver qi stagnation, spleen and stomach damp heat, spleen qi deficiency, and/or spleen yang deficiency.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

• View EX Huatuojiaji at T12 (Sides of Spine at T12)
  
      .5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous processes of T12
  
      T12 innervates the transverse colon and is used for colon issues such as constipation, diarrhea, or colon cancer. Used  extensively within the Tam Healing System and Tong Ren Therapy. May be needled and used with tuina and/or tonren thera…