A Literature Study on Irritable Bowel Syndrome

과민성(過敏性) 대장증후군(大腸症候群)에 대한 문헌적(文獻的) 고찰(考察)

Objective & Methods : Irritable Bowel Syndrome is occurred frequently in daily life. Nevertheless. medical treatment of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome is almost dependent on western cure, but that cure is not effective enough. So we chose the oriental medicine textbook that were dealing with the oriental concept and the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. we got these results. Results were as follows : 1. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is characterised by recurrent or chronic abdominal pain, with distension, disturbed defecation and psychic problems without organic lesions. 2. The etiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome include stress. disharmony of liver and spleen, the coldness of spleen and kidney and the lack of qi or yin, etc. 3. The oriental treatments of Irritable Bowel Syndrome are warming spleen and kidney, easing liver and stopping diarrhea. 4. The internal medication of Irritable Bowel Syndrome was the most used 11 times Tongsayobang(痛瀉要方) and 10 times Yijungtang(理中湯). 5. The most many used herb were Atractylodjs macrocephalae rhjzoma(白朮), Gjnseng Radix (人蔘), Cjnnamomj Cortex(肉桂), Polyporus(猪笭), etc.