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Abstract
Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Acupuncture: A Study of One Case
Kosin Trirutvirapong*
*Alternative Medicine Clinic, Pranangklao Hospital, Nonthaburi

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder characterized by abdominal pain together
with diarrhea or constipation, or alternate between diarrhea and constipation without any detectable patho-
logical disorder of the intestine. Gastrocolonoscopy will find no inflammation, ulcer, tumor or cancer and no
diseases of other organs that would result in functional disorder of the bowel will be detected. IBS is a chronic
disease that is not life-threatening but disabling and causing the patient suffering as available medications can
relieve only the syndrome but cannot offer a cure for this syndrome. A case study of the treatment with acu-
puncture of a patient suffering from IBS showed that one month after treatment, the patient did not have
abdominal pain, had little loose stool, daily bowel movement, and no constipation. Three months after acu-
puncture treatment, the patient became normal and did not have any more IBS symptoms. After follow-up for
five years, no relapse of IBS was detected. The result of this case study suggests that acupuncture may offer a
cure for IBS by inducing the balance of yin-yang, qi-blood and enable qi to flows smoothly. When qi flow
smoothly, pain would be relieved. As yin-yang of the body becomes balanced, the patient would then be cured
and become healthy again.
Key words: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), acupuncture