IBS

IBS: The gut-brain-microbiome connections

For over 4000 years, the system of classical traditional Chinese medicine described fundamental connections of the bowel and the “lung.’  This linkage guided acupuncture and Chinese medicine practitioners ever since. Hippocrates is said to...

IBS: A condition without a cause

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is identified clinically as a “syndrome” and as such it is defined by a collection of symptoms rather than a definite patho-anatomical disease  entity with pathological markers. Various clinical (and...