How does traditional Chinese medicine treat acute ulcerative colitis?

Acute ulcerative colitis is quite harmful to health and often causes symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and constipation. When patients have acute symptoms, they are also prone to obvious symptoms such as bloody stools. At this time, timely treatment is required. Certain Chinese medicines can be used for conditioning. For example, Chinese medicines for the treatment of ulcerative colitis have a good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, as well as stopping bleeding, and also have a good effect of replenishing qi and blood.

1. Clear away heat and detoxify

This is the commonly used treatment for this disease. The medicines include: Pulsatilla, Qinpi, Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron chinense, Pueraria lobata, Hedyotis diffusa, Portulaca oleracea, etc.

2. Stop bleeding

Commonly used medicines include: Sophora japonica flowers, Platycladus orientalis leaves, Rubia cordifolia, etc.

3. Acid-retaining, antidiarrheal and anti-allergic drugs include:

Black plum, Schisandra chinensis, and pomegranate peel. These are excellent astringent and antidiarrheal products and have anti-allergic effects.

4. Drain the liver wood and strengthen the spleen earth

Patients with this disease often have the sign of liver wood riding on earth, so this method is selected. The medicines include: Bupleurum, Corydalis, Curcuma, Gentiana, etc. Commonly used spleen-strengthening and qi-regulating medicines include: tangerine peel, magnolia bark, bitter orange peel, perilla leaf, bergamot, etc.

5. Nourish Qi and Blood

Use this method with caution during the acute phase. For those with obvious signs of spleen deficiency, you can choose spleen-tonifying and antidiarrheal medicines such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed, and water chestnut. For those with severe spleen deficiency, add astragalus and white atractylodes.

The importance of the above treatment principles should be determined according to the condition of the disease. Basic formula for the acute phase: 15 grams of Pulsatilla striata, 15 grams of Qinpi, 20 grams of Pueraria lobata, 10 grams of Sophora japonica, 10 grams of Platycladus orientalis, 10 grams of Prunus mume, 10 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 10 grams of Bupleurum chinense, 10 grams of Citrus aurantium, and 10 grams of Corydalis yanhusuo. Add or subtract according to symptoms.