title: Complementary and alternative medicine for functional gastrointestinal disorders.
abstract: Patients suffering from functional gastrointestinal disorders are likely to search elsewhere when conventional therapies fail them. Enthusiasm for complementary and alternative medicine use and research is clearly growing. Studies of acupuncture and herbal therapy for functional gastrointestinal disorders in the Western literature have often been limited by poor study design but these interventions may have promise and are discussed here.
authors.affiliation: Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. ktillisch@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tillisch
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000628:therapy; D008517:Phytotherapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal