Digestive Disturbances

In Chinese Medicine, the ‘Gut’ is literally, as well as figuratively at the centre of many disease processes. The stomach and spleen processes as the centre of your health is an ancient concept in Chinese Medicine, only now just beginning to be understood in western medical thought.

Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture can be powerful medicines to build the spleen and stomach energy and keep your digestion working effectively and problem free.

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine explores and explains the connections not only between your food intake and lifestyle factors (for example stress) but also the medicines and herbs you may take, and the way in which you ‘digest’ things. Not only your food, but ideas, your environment, and the relationships between you and the world around you.

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine may help in the treatment of GI tract disorders, by:

• Regulating pathways between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
• Activating peripheral neurological mechanisms to relieve GI tract pain and the Enteric Nervous system
• Releasing numerous peripheral neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and cytokines participate in the analgesic process in visceral pain.