Ulcerative Colitis & Chinese Medicine

As with acupuncture, I have not tried Chinese medicine per se. The analysis of Ulcerative Colitis from the western mentality varies little from the western assessment but the treatment involves oral and anal use of concoctions, depending on any particular person's case is made.

Traditional Chinese medicine is based on the Domo Qigong, or "Qi Approach". This approach is an inverse of western medicine. As we are advised, the Qigong approach as a selective or perhaps, milder treatment. Using the illustration of a lawn or even a rice field, Chinese medicine proponents claim that the practitioners of western medicine throw all possible firepower at any given illness. For example, it is well known that cancer treatments kill good cells as well as bad.

The Qigong approach uses a potion, both oral and anal, designed to strengthen the good parts of the body. The theory is that it will cause the good to get so strong that it will choke the "bad" parts or illness.

In addition there are physical positions that are encouraged used to strengthen internal organs involving standing, squatting, sitting and posing with arms extended.

Again, using a lawn as an example, western medicine would put weed killer on the lawn, possibly injuring good grass as much as weeds whereas eastern medicine would put a lawn treatment that would cause the grasses to grow so strong that the weeds would be choked out.

There are basically three approaches to treating Ulcerative Colitis from the eastern standpoint.

The first, used for Ulcerative Colitis, is an herbal medicinal formula administered rectally. This fluid is made up of six grams of "dragon's blood,�â'¬ï¿½ 15 grams of cuttlefish bone, 15 grams of sanguisorba root and 10 grams of rhubarb. This concoction is cut with water and administered by tube twice every day.

There is a further generalized treatment for inflammatory bowel disease, which is made up of two mixtures: one oral and one rectal. There really is no good delineation as to what they are made of but the rectal treatment is called Lio Cao Decoction and the oral fluid is called Wen Shen Jian Pi Dicoction. Ingredients can be obtained from Shujiatun TCM Hospital.

I have found two people who have been involved with Chinese medicine. One was a person trying to avoid surgery, and one was a person who hated medications such as steroids.

My sense is that most people who are interested in the Chinese medicine approach to illness favor the holistic approach to treatment, perhaps favoring the meditative side of fighting an illness.

It is certainly true that we don't know everything here in the west!