Finding Relief from IBS
Control Symptoms, Restore Comfort
SHEN is most likely to help if episodes occur when you’re facing an important task and feel inadequate. Or you’re about to have a meeting with your boss. Or you become severely stressed just before the attacks.
Case Example: The client complained of lower back pain and indigestion, reporting bowel issues she has experienced her entire life. She feels guilty about her husband’s death three years ago and for not caring for her mother, despite her efforts. She feels anger towards these guilty feelings. She regularly takes prescribed laxatives.
Her first SHEN treatment induced gut rumbling and flatulence, causing her intense humiliation. After the treatment, she released waves of anger and sadness. After her second session, her bowel loosened to near diarrhea. Two days later, she stopped taking the laxatives, and her bowel resumed normal function for the first time in many years. Further sessions produced no additional rumblings or flatulence. Her back pain improved during the first session and ceased after the second. Her bowel now functions normally.
At the last contact two months later, she reported no further back or bowel complaints. She also reported feeling more assertive and experiencing less guilt as she began to distance herself from her mother. She is no longer taking laxatives.