Study on the Nature and Flavor Law of Herbs in Navel Therapy for Diarrhea Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome
WANG Xuan
LIU Chunmei
YU Yanpu
MA Yuxia
Abstract：Objective:To study the characteristics of navel therapy treatment for diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome(IBS)-D,and to provide a novel therapy for IBS-D. Methods:Taking ancient Chinese medical classics as the literature references ,records of diarrhea treated with navel therapy from 650 ancient tradition-al Chinese medicine books were retrieved to establish the data base using Microsoft Excel software and to be analyzed statistically. Results:There are 40 herbs for the navel therapy. Among the herbs ,warm and heat herbs appear 80 times,accounting for 62.5%,cold and cool herbs appear 26 times,accounting 20.30%,neutral herbs 22 times,accounting for 17.2%,spicy herbs appear 78 times,sweet herbs 43 times,bitter herbs 43 times,sour herbs 14 times,salty herbs 9 times,bland herbs 8 times and astringent herbs 5 times. Conclu-sion:Warm and hot herbs are predominant for navel therapy according to the nature while spicy ,sweet and bitter herbs are predominant according to the taste ,in which spicy herbs appear with the highest frequency.
Keywords：navel therapydiarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndromenaturetaste
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 18-19 )