Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)!
Ibs is a condition of poor digestion caused by unhealthy food habits, sedentary lifestyle and largely effects large intestine. In modern medicine there is no cure for it. Only symptomatic relief in gas, bloating, cramps, constipation or lose motions or mix of these off and on. Symptoms go and come back again n again.
Ayurved has the answer. Treatment of'grahani' disease is given in ayurved. It is caused by weakness of'agni' (digestive fire) and imbalance of doshas (vata, pitta, kafa) leading to weakness of other body elements (dhatus).
Treatment by herbs and minerals, which are generally long nature treatment regimes, fetch better results by ayurved. The approach is broadly deepan, paachan and shodhan steps. Its generally confusing to decide but in my experience in ayurved spanning three and half decades, I have seen that above approach is good to begin with. When agni is flared up and digestive enzymes act well and excretions are normalized, parpati treatment is introduced which goes for about 40 days. In my lybrate tips about 2-3 years back I had written about parpati kalp. It is very effective. If food habits and lifestyle is improved, the problem doesn't come back easily. Other herbs such as aegle marmelos, zingiber officinale, psyllium husk and use of wrightia antidysentrica are of great use. Modern medicine might not have found buttermilk useful but ayurved experience strongly favours use of'takra' (buttermilk) with cumin seeds powder and other spices. Nutrition is of course important but its successful only once agni is balanced. By ayurvedic solutions, one may prevent complications of other health issues comfortably.