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[Irritable Bowel syndrome]Disease Causes & Mechanisms

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2020-07-15 09:05:45

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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #32cd32; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Disease Causes:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">internal damage by the seven affects, unregulated eating and drinking, unregulated stillness (i.e., rest) and stirring (i.e., acitivy), iatrogenesis, and habitual bodily vacuity due to former heaven natural endowment, enduring disease, and/or aging</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #32cd32; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Disease Mechanisms:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The modern Chinese medical literature is unanimous in saying that the root cause of IBS is always a disharmony between the liver and spleen. Due to emotional stress and frustration, the liver may become depressed and the qi become stagnant. Qi stagnation then results in abdominal distention and pain. Due to worry, lack of exercise, overfatigue, improper diet, or over or prolonged use of antibiotics, the spleen may become vacuous and weak. Spleen qi vacuity results in fatigue, lack of strength, and downward diarrhea. In addition, these two disease mechanisms mutually engender each other. When the liver becomes depressed, it commonly counterflows horizontally to assail the spleen, thus causing or worsening spleen vacuity may cause or worsen liver depression. This is because spleen function when it receives an adaquate supply of blood to nourish it. Hence liver depression and spleen vacuity typically go hand in hand in clinical practice. In addition, because of their monthly loss of blood, women''s spleens must work harder at producing blood than men''s spleens must. This also predisposes women in particular to spleen vacuity and explains why three times as many women as men suffer from IBS.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If the liver becomes depressed and the qi becomes stagnant. this stagnation may eventually transform into depressive heat. Over time, this pathological heat will damage and consume the blood, body fluids, and ultimately kidney yin. Spleen vacuity may also lead to blood and, therefore, yin vacuity because the spleen is the root of blood engenderment and the blood and essence share a common source. Since yin is supposed to control yang, if kidney yin becomes vacuous and weak, liver yang may become hyperactive. Since fire burns upward and the heart and lungs are located above the live, this pathological heat may also accumulate in the heart and/or lungs, disturbing either or both heart and lung function. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Because the spleen is also in charge of moving and transforming liquids. if the spleen becomes weak, water dampness may accumulate. Dampness which is yin, being thick, heavy and turbid, tends to percolate downward and may further block the free flow of qi which is yang, thus aggravating liver depression. Dampness may also give rise to depressive heat which then may cause the dampness to become damp heat. It is also possible for liver depression/transformative heat to stew the juices and give rise to damp heat.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In addition, if qi becomes stagnant and the spleen becomes weak, food stagnation is easily engendered. Food stagnation means food which sits in the stomach undigested. Such food stagnation may also transform into depressive heat.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If qi stagnation fails to move the blood, the blood will stop and become static. Thus, if liver depression is bad enough or lasts long enough, it may give rise to blood stasis. Blood stasis is mainly associated with pain, such as abdominal pain, headache, or other relatively severe aches and pains which are fixed in location and tend to be sharp or piercing in nature.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If spleen vacuity endures, it may eventually reach the kidneys, thus resulting in spleen qi and kidney yang vacuity. This commonly occurs in perimenopausal women and then again later in life in both men and women. Because kidney yang warms and steams te liver, kidney yang vacuity tends to aggravate liver depression. Because kidney yang also warms and steams (i.e., evaporates) body fluids, kidney yang vacuity also aggravates any accumulation of evil dampness. Further, because yang vacuity causes vacuity cold and cold''s nature is to contract and constrict, kidney yang vacuity tends to cause or aggravate blood stasis.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>» <A href="http://www.acuworld.com/research_read.asp?idx=877">Introduction of IBS</A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>» <A href="http://www.acuworld.com/research_read.asp?idx=878">Disease Causes & Mechanisms</A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>» <A href="http://www.acuworld.com/research_read.asp?idx=879">Liver-Spleen Disharmony pattern</A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>» <A href="http://www.acuworld.com/research_read.asp?idx=880">Remarks</A></DIV></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Reference: <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Treatment of Modern Western Medical Disease with Chinese Medicine</SPAN>, </SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">                Bob Flaws & Philippe Sionneau, Blue Poppy Press, 2001. p. 314-315</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></SPAN>