Colitis - Chinese Medicine explanation and treatment
Colits - chronic inflammation of the colon - is an extremely painful condition marked
by frequent bouts of blood-streaked diarrhoea. If the patient has not already
undergone food allergy tests, these should be undertaken before treatment
begins.
In Chinese Medicine colitis has a variety of causes, from deficiency and cold in the stomach and spleen to dampness and heat, qi stasis, blood or food stagnation of possibly a yin deficiency.
Colitis is a troublesome and relatively
common complaint which seems to respond rather more positively to Chinese Medicine remedies
than to modern medicine, which usually treats the patient with steroids
or by surgery to remove the most severely affected parts of the colon. A Chinese Medicine practitioner will prescribe Dandelion,
poria, astragalus, peony and ginseng for a patient with colitis.
Professor Song Ke
