Acupuncture for your digestive problems and ibs
Feel Better again…
With acupuncture, it’s quite easy to stimulate your digestive tract muscles, helping food to move through your system at the proper rate and preventing constipation and diarrhoea. This promotes better digestion overall, reducing your discomfort and the bloating which is very common in IBS. Acupuncture also helps to regulate your stomach acid production and encourages it to stay down in your stomach by stimulating the closing action of the cardiac sphincter so your acid reflux or heartburn will reduce naturally.
Calming your gut-brain Connection
Through acupuncture, we are able to trigger your body’s own feel-good hormones like endorphins, relaxing both your body and mind. This reduces your stress, which is always a huge trigger for IBS. Acupuncture influences neurotransmitters like serotonin, which improve your mood regulation and your gut function. By enhancing your gut-brain communication through vagus nerve activation, acupuncture activates your parasympathetic state of calm and well-being so your digestion functions at its best.
Reduced inflammation
Having acupuncture decreases gut inflammation, relieving your digestive pain and discomfort. It stimulates natural healing and tissue regeneration in inflamed areas. It can also modulate your immune system activity, smoothing out the excessive responses that will cause your gut to become inflamed. These anti-inflammatory effects over time lead to significant relief of your symptoms, without medications and their side-effects.
Reduced stress levels
Because acupuncture activates the relaxation response in your nervous system, it counteracts your stress hormones like cortisol. It eases tension in your muscles and calms your nervous system, improves your sleep quality and helps you to manage the anxiety or depression you might be feeling which makes your IBS worse. Over the course of a treatment plan and along with targeted supplements and nutrition changes, acupuncture will enhance your resilience to stress and food triggers, making a huge difference to your overall well-being.
Pain and Cramping
Abdominal pain and cramping are two huge symptoms of IBS but having acupuncture is a really good way to increase the blood circulation to your digestive organs, which then supports tissue healing and reduced inflammation. Better blood flow also removes toxins and waste products from your gut more effectively, improving your functional digestive health. Enhanced blood flow will trigger endorphin release, allowing your stomach to finally feel more relaxed and reducing the pain that you feel.
If you suffer from IBS and are finding that your meds aren’t helping or are giving you side-effects, it’s worth booking in for a free chat to discuss how acupuncture could help you find a longer term med-free solution.
IBS is very common and there’s so much that we can do to help you, there’s no need to put up with it. Together we’ll look at your diet, when and how you’re eating and I’ll suggest some changes and some affordable evidence-based supplements which you can add to your acupuncture treatment plan.
