• 대한한의학방제학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2006

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.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1913-1917
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• 2004

This study was designed to report the clinical effects of oriental medical therapy on a patient whose irritable bowel syndrome did not improved under western medical therapy, Herbal medication, acupuncture and moxibustion therapy were applied to the patient for 12 days. The status and frequency of feces were checked and self-recognized symptoms (abdominal pain and bowel sounds) were checked to evaluate improvement. According to the above evaluation items, the treatment was beneficial. The status and frequency of feces became normal. Abdominal pain and bowel sounds ceased. The above results suggest that oriental medical therapy is beneficial for the patients with irritable bowel syndrome.