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Acupuncture and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 17.08.2007
Published:2010-06-28
Get that Good Gut Feeling! Research by The Journal of Gastroenterology. Vol. 41(5)(pp 408-417), 2006 states:
The stimulatory effects of acupuncture on GI motility may be beneficial to patients with constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), who show delayed colonic transit. In contrast, the inhibitory effects of acupuncture on GI motility may be beneficial to patients with diarrhoea-predominant IBS, because enhanced colonic motility and accelerated colonic transit are reported in such patients