Are there studies to support the treatment of IBS with herbal medicine?

Are there studies to support the treatment of IBS with herbal medicine?

Lin Chang (UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases) gives expert video advice on: Will my IBS symptoms get better?; Is there a cure for IBS?; What treatments can relieve IBS symptoms? and more...

There's actually a few studies that have demonstrated ethicacy with herbal medications for IBS, and it's usually a combination of herbs. Pretty typical herbs that would be used for GI symptoms or for a condition like IBS that have been shown, compared to placebo, that they're beneficial for IBS. Since these are, since herbal medicines are usually in combination, you'd have to get a prescription by an herbalist for the particular symptoms. I think the important point to know here though is that there's not a classic herbal remedy for IBS, and for a complementative alternative medicine provider to prescribe a medicine. It's really based on that individual's symptoms and signs. There could be a series of IBS patients, but the herbal remedy is actually designed for specific individual symptoms and characteristics for those patients. So there might be a little bit of adjustment.