Accumulating evidence showed that acupuncture is helpful but not limited to the following digestive disorders:

Irritable bowel syndrome
Crohn’s disease
Ulcerative colitis
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (resource other than acupuncture)
Biliary syndrome
Cirrhosis

Acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and moxibustion have been shown to have several beneficial effects in rats with TNBS-induced colitis, including (1) improving weight loss and diarrhea; (2) ameliorating inflammatory profiles with reduction of neutrophil myeloperoxidase activity (MPO), decrease of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression, increase of serum IL-10, and downregulation of serum TNF-α and IL1-β and colonic TNF-α mRNA expression; and (3) attenuating adhesion and macroscopic damage scores.

IBS: Irritable bowel syndrome; AQP: Aquaporins.
Action mechanisms of acupuncture-moxibustion for IBS include the regulation of gastrointestinal motility, visceral hypersensitivity, brain-gut axis, neuroendocrine, and immunity.

Representative References:

Ma XP, et al. Acupuncture-moxibustion in treating irritable bowel syndrome: How does it work? World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(20): 6044-6054
Song G, et al. Acupuncture in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2019; 25(7): 1129–1139.

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Clinical Evidence and Scientific Mechanism

Accumulating evidence showed that acupuncture is helpful but not limited to the following digestive disorders:

Irritable bowel syndrome

Crohn’s disease

Ulcerative colitis

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (resource other than acupuncture)

Biliary syndrome

Cirrhosis

Representative References: