Tianjin Medical Journal ›› 2025, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (2): 219-224.doi: 10.11958/20242298

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Research progress of traditional Chinese medicine in treating diarrhoeal irritable bowel syndrome based on intestinal flora

ZOU Quan(), CHEN Nuo, YANG Jingjing, WU Zhijiu()   

  1. Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Proctology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
  • Received:2024-12-23 Revised:2025-01-13 Published:2025-02-15 Online:2025-02-26
  • Contact: E-mail:wuzhijiu336@163.com

Abstract:

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a kind of gastrointestinal dysfunction disease characterized by abdominal pain and abnormal defecation accompanied by changes in frequency or fecal character as the main clinical symptoms, and diarrhea-type irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) is the most common. It has been found that Chinese medicine therapy has achieved good results in the treatment of IBS-D through multi-component, multi-target and multi-pathway targeted regulation of intestinal flora. Therefore, based on intestinal flora, this paper reviews the relationship between intestinal flora and IBS-D, the understanding of Chinese medicine on IBS-D and intestinal flora, and the role of Chinese medicine therapy on intestinal flora.

Key words: irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, gastrointestinal microbiome, therapy of traditional Chinese medicine

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