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Greenmedinfo is an excellent resource for natural, alternative and evidence based information on healing naturally. Here are a few articles on helping to heal crohn’s and other inflammatory bowel conditions.
Proven Herbal Treatments for Crohn’s Disease
These evidence-based botanical medicines proven to induce or maintain remission in the debilitating inflammatory bowel disease known as Crohn’s offer hope to those resigned to a fate of life-altering immunosuppressive drugs or surgery.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is subdivided into ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, afflicts 1.4 million Americans and typically first appears between the ages of 15 and 30 (1). Whereas ulcerative colitis is more distal, affecting the rectum and spreading upwards toward the descending and transverse colon in an uninterrupted fashion, Crohn’s disease typically involves the ileum and colon and can affect any part of the digestive tract, often in a discontinuous pattern characterized by skip lesions (2).
In ulcerative colitis, inflammation is generally circumscribed to the mucosa, whereas inflammation can navigate down intestinal crypts, becoming transmural or penetrating the entire depth of the intestinal wall in Crohn’s disease (2). Due to this disparity, Crohn’s disease can ulcerate through the layers of the bowel into the mesentery, leading to complications such fibrosis or scarring of tissue that leads to strictures or perforations, as well as intestinal granulomas and fistulas (2). Fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, and weight loss are hallmark symptoms.
Cannabis Superior To Drugs For Inflammatory Bowel Condition (Crohn’s Disease)
Crohn’s disease is a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease that chronically affects the lining of the digestive tract and is usually resistant to conventional drug-based treatment. Even with treatment the condition generally progresses to the point where surgery is required in 70% of sufferers. Surgery, however, does not usually provide a cure, with 30% undergoing surgery seeing a recurrence of symptoms within three years, and 60% within 10 years.1
Given the poor prognosis of those diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, some with the condition have been known to experiment with natural alternatives. At GreenMedInfo.com we have gathered preliminary research on natural interventions for the condition, with probiotics, boswellia and curcumin (a turmeric polyphenol) top on the list. We have also spent a good deal of time reporting on research indicating that wheat is an inflammatory food to the digestive tract and therefore should likely be avoided by anyone with an inflammatory bowel condition.
A Natural Cure for Crohn’s Disease Explained
Crohn’s is currently treated with antibiotics and immune suppression (Ciprofloxacin and Mercaptopurine) on the assumption that Crohn’s is a combination of bacterial infection and incurable auto-immune process. A 26 year old male diagnosed with Crohn’s disease by colonoscopy at age 15 reports on his history of Crohn’s disease and how it was cured in one year by vigilance and sticking to a specific plant based diet regimen and daily stress reduction. A biological mechanism for the cure is suggested: plant-based diet changes the intestinal flora, and stress reduction reduces the number of bacteria invading the intestinal mucosa, allowing the intestine to heal.
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