Wendy Leung: Are you frustrated that after being diagnosed with IBS no one's been able
to explain what causes it and what it actually is?
Watch this video for a real answer from a medical system with centuries of experience.
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If you're frustrated and in the dark about your irritable bowel syndrome and what causes
it by the end of this video you'll have a lightbulb moment and you'll understand what
is going on with your body.
I'm Wendy Leung, Holistic Health and Happiness Coach, Licensed Acupuncturist,
and Powerhouse IBS conqueror.
I never get tired of seeing my clients faces light up when I teach them about Eastern Medicine
and show them why IBS is not a forever thing and now it's your turn.
If you know you have IBS that means you've already been put through the ringer of diagnostic
tests and come out the other side with no results.
To the Western medical system IBS is a last ditch diagnosis for digestive issues when
they've ruled out Crohn's, Colitis, Celiac, and other inflammatory bowel diseases.
To make things worse rarely can anyone explain what IBS is and what causes it, but from the
Traditional Chinese medicine system IBS is actually well understood, simply put IBS is
emotional and mental stress plus weak digestive system, what we call Wood Overcontrolling Earth
or Liver Invading Spleen/Stomach.
Let me step back and explain a little bit about how to body work in TCM.
There are five major organ systems each with their own jobs and responsibilities, each
with their own personalities, and each with their own vices, I think in pictures personally
so I like to think of them as little characters.
The two main TCM organ systems affected by your IBS are Liver (or Wood element)
and Spleen/Stomach (or Earth element).
Now keep in mind that we are talking about TCM organ systems
and not your physiological organs.
Think about how you know that your digestive system is out of whack even through your doctors
are telling you that there's nothing physiologically wrong with your stomach or your intestines.
By the way, comment below if your doctor's ever told you that since there's nothing physiologically
wrong with you that your symptoms can't be that bad.
We know better, right?
Here, when I'm talking about the TCM organ systems instead of imagining the actual physical
organs inside your body imagine these pictures instead.
The Liver is an energetic fan. Picture how a table fan circulates air: that's how the
Liver makes sure that energy and blood flow smoothly throughout the body.
The Liver is temperamental and it's easily affected by stress and emotions and when it
acts out it's a bit of a bully and it causes all sorts of problems in other organ systems.
The Spleen and Stomach together are the digestive fire. They are responsible for processing
food into nutrients for the body.
Picture a campfire, in order to keep the fire alive and controlled the right fuel needs
to be added so in order to keep our digestive fire happy we need to eat the right foods
that can be easily digested and processed into nutrients.
The wrong foods can weaken our digestive fire, make it sluggish, or even put it out all together.
Here's the thing: some people can eat whatever they want and nothing bad ever seems to happen
and that's because they've got a strong, healthy digestive fire.
Then there's other people who can't seem to eat anything without getting bloating, crampy
pain, constipation, diarrhea, smelly gas... the works! And that's because they have a weak
digestive fire so any wrong step will trigger bad results.
What happens if your digestion is already weak and stress comes to bully it?
IBS happens.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that the digestive fire can be strengthened and the emotional bully can
be kept in check which means that we can stop liver from invading spleen/stomach and that
we can keep IBS in check which means that IBS is not a forever thing.
Does it make sense to you now?
Emotional and mental stress plus already weak digestive system equals IBS.
Now you know exactly what IBS is and what causes it and your next burning question is,
okay so how do I control it?
Well, I've got a free online class that teaches you the three essential shifts to tame your
tame your IBS and reclaim your life for good
even if you feel like you've already tried everything.
The link to attend that class is below and also to the top right on the banner.
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