Irritable bowel syndrome: common integrative medicine perspectives.
10.1007/s11655-011-0759-2
- Author:
Richard NAHAS
1
Author Information
1. Seekers Centre for Integrative Medicine, 942 Merivale Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Z 5Z9, Canada. richard@seekerscentre.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Food Hypersensitivity;
complications;
immunology;
Glutens;
immunology;
Humans;
Integrative Medicine;
Irritable Bowel Syndrome;
complications;
microbiology;
pathology;
therapy;
Mind-Body Therapies;
Wound Healing
- From:
Chinese journal of integrative medicine
2011;17(6):410-413
- CountryChina
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Previous reviews have highlighted complementary and alternative medicine therapies that are used to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) based on published clinical trial data. Here the author describes and comments on a number of potentially relevant factors that have been commonly emphasized by practitioners who treat IBS and patients who have the disease. They include gluten and other food allergies, the candida syndrome and biofilm, interference fields and post-infectious IBS, as well as mind-body factors.
