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Irritable Bowel Syndrome :: Hypnosis Could Provide Long-Lasting Benefit

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Irritable bowel syndrome: a little understood organic bowel disease?
Prof Nicholas J Talley MD a Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Prof Robin Spiller MD b
Irritable bowel syndrome affects 10% of adults with an unexplained female predominance. Although only a few people see their family doctor, the disease causes reduced quality of life and represents a multi-billion pound health-care [...]

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Hypnosis Strikingly Reduces ‘Fasting Colonic Motility’

A study titled Physiological effects of emotion: assessment via hypnosis was published in the The Lancet,  Volume 340 on 11 July 1992 of 18 adults with IBS found that hypnosis “strikingly” reduced colonic motility, thus decreasing diarrhea and cramping.
Assessment of the physiological effects of physical and emotional stress has been hampered by a lack of [...]

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