• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2000

Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS) is the most common disease in the western male, and it is founded in $70{\sim}80%$ patient who has Gastrointestinal trouble. It is characterized by the formation of disorders of Gastrointestinal tract, for example, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain& discomfort, stool urgency, and so on. The etiology of IBS is uncertain, but the majority of patients has emotional problems. The aims of this study are to investigate and summarize the current trends of treatment for IBS so as to suggest the effective and available way to treat this disease. In Oriental Medicine, the IBS is recognized as Stagnation of the Iiver-qi(肝氣鬱結), Incoordination between the liver and the stomach(肝胃不和). So the point of treatment of IBS is Invigorating the spleen and relieving the depression of Iiver-qi(疏肝健脾), Regulating the function of the liver and the flow of qi(調肝理氣), Regulating the stomach and lowering the adverse flow(和胃降逆), and the treatment can be approached in several ways through herb drugs, acupuncture. Some of the herb drugs have substances which promote gastric and small intestinal emptying. Acupuncture and moxibustion therapies stimulate the meridian points of LR(足厥陰肝經), ST(足陽明胃經), LI(手陽明腸經), SI(手太陽小腸經) and is reported to be effective for releafing syndromes. Anal therapy, attachment of herb drug to umbilicus are annunced as the effective treatments. So, this study of the approach and application of these treatments on IBS would be necessary.

• 한국한의학연구원논문집
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.327-336
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• 1996

IBS(Irritable bowel syndrome) means disorder of intestinal motility. To increase the cure rate of IBS, we have observed and analysed 26 persons who have administered Ansinbobitang(安神補脾湯), Ansinbobitang(安神補脾湯) consists of herb medicines which have tranquilizational(安神), reinforcing the spleen(補脾), and tonifying the kidney's Yang(補腎陽) effects. From this study we obtained as follows. 1. 16 cases of IBS patients were male and 10 cases were female. Male of female ratio was 1 : 1.6, and the peak age in incidence of IBS was in End and 3rd decade. 2. Duration of IBS attack, the most frequence is $0{\sim}1$ year and $3{\sim}5$ years. 3. Seasonal distribution of IBS attack reveals the peak occurrence in autumn. 4. Duration of treatments, the most frequence is $2{\sim}3$ weeks. 5. Ansinbobitang(安神補脾湯) shows 88.5% of effective rate.

• 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.