Elaina Greenberg, experienced Acupuncturist, discusses how Acupuncture & TCM is used for treating Ulcerative Colitis successfully in her practice. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a sort of inflammatory bowel disease that affects the large intestines. UC causes inflammation and ulcers along the lining of the colon. There is no treatment for UC, but working with your physician and starting a treatment program can decrease the seriousness of your symptoms. This may also bring about periods of remission, which is when your symptoms go away. Classic medication for this condition consists of anti-inflammatory drugs and immunosuppressant drugs. These medications work to prevent inflammatory reactions. Even if medications improve your symptoms and quality of life, UC is a lifelong illness. Episodes of bloody stools, diarrhea, and stomach pain may return.
When medication alone does not maintain your body in remission, it may be time to check into alternative or complementary treatment programs like acupuncture. Notice significant lessening of pain and inflammation after 5 or 6 acupuncture visits. The overall treatment is between 1 to 2 months, depending on the seriousness of the condition.
Besides acupuncture, dietary adjustment associated with your body type is advised to help alleviate the problems and to avoid future occurrences. Although food allergy and intolerant evaluations with skin prick test, oral challenge test, and IgE blood test might show harmful foods that are causing the problem in your intestines, a body type identification will show extra ingredients, which are the culprit.
Symptoms and complications of ulcerative colitis: Inflammation can lead to the colon becoming empty often, and more frequently, causing diarrhea. Tiny open sores formed on the surface of the lining of the colon can lead to blood in the stool. The inflamed lining also generates a larger than normal quantity of intestinal mucus, which occasionally contains pus. The symptoms of ulcerative colitis may fluctuate based on the amount of inflammation and colon infection.
Typical symptoms include:
- Abdominal pain
- Appetite and weight loss
- Fever
- Bloody diarrhea with mucus
- Dehydration
- Tenesmus
- Fatigue
- Anemia
When inflammation has penetrated deeper into the walls of the colon, severe complications like profuse bleeding from acute ulcers and perforation of the colon may emerge. Other complications like cirrhosis, inflammation of the eye, arthritis, or osteoporosis may occur when the immune system triggers inflammation in other areas of the body. From the view of TCM, ulcerative colitis could be caused by the invasion of the exterior pathogenic factors, inherent deficiencies, or an unbalanced diet. Constitutional deficiencies usually refer to spleen, gut, and kidney deficiencies. The invasion of exterior pathogenic factors refers to damp-heat or damp-cold. An unbalanced diet like one high in cold or raw foods may harm the spleen and stomach by blocking functions in transforming and transporting nutrients and food. Therapies, including acupuncture, could bolster a change of diet.
An organ in TCM isn't just an anatomical structure, but a set of orderly units which operate together through the meridian system. So when speaking about a spleen or kidney deficiency, it doesn't mean that there's harm to the physical organ, ordinarily. In TCM, the belief is that every patient is viewed as an individual, with a strong link between body and mind, and to their surroundings.
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