Among the various types of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, this is the most common type.

This is a case where patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease experience discomfort in the upper digestive tract along with abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by intestinal inflammation.

Key symptoms include loss of appetite, inability to finish a single serving despite being an adult, and indigestion and bloating when overeating beyond the standard amount. Symptoms include nausea, aversion to food smells, frequent retching, and even vomiting. Heartburn or reflux of acidic fluid may also occur. Patients often need to go to the bathroom during or immediately after a meal.

Patients also frequently experience indigestion, uncomfortable belching, and severe motion sickness. Indigestion may occur even when stressed. There are also many cases of accompanying reflux esophagitis.

While experiencing such indigestion, they also have inflammatory diarrhea, and diarrhea may worsen when the abdomen is cold or when eating cold food.

This second type is also frequently seen, a type that generally has no digestive disorders but is sensitive to spicy foods.

Eating spicy food easily causes heartburn or diarrhea. When having this type of diarrhea, the area around the anus may feel stinging or burning. This phenomenon is called 'anal burning' because it feels like the anus is burning.

Despite frequent bowel movements and loose stools or diarrhea, there is often a feeling of incomplete evacuation or tenesmus where one does not feel refreshed after a bowel movement.

Patients of this type often show only diarrhea and bloody stools without digestive disorders. Occasionally, symptoms such as fever due to inflammation or chest tightness may accompany it.

Usually, this is a type that often feels cold and experiences rhinitis symptoms showing allergic reactions to seasonal changes, cold wind, or dust.

Symptoms of rhinitis worsen with allergic reactions to seasonal changes, cold wind, dust, or pollen, and in addition, abdominal pain or diarrhea occurs. Sometimes, minor digestive disorders may also accompany it.

It can be a type of rhinitis with clear runny nose, or it can be accompanied by hypertrophic rhinitis where the nose is completely blocked. Since rhinitis is also an immune system disease, there are often cases where it needs to be treated together.

Alternatively, a type that feels colder than others and is more sensitive to cold without rhinitis symptoms is also included here.

In the case of the respiratory type, digestive problems are often accompanied, so digestive disorders may also be present, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish when it overlaps with the upper digestive type.

If 2 or more causes overlap, they can be treated step by step.

A typical case of this type is just having severe diarrhea with a cold abdomen without other symptoms.

Simply put, diarrhea worsens when eating cold foods like cold water or drinks. Patients say they usually digest well, but are afraid to eat because the diarrhea is so severe. Diarrhea in this type is often very severe, with many cases having 10-15 bowel movements a day.

Because they often cannot wait 1-2 minutes to go to the bathroom when they feel the urge, it is common for them to have to wear adult diapers.

Symptoms are very severe, and there are many cases that do not respond at all to steroids or other Western medicines, so it is a type that is difficult to treat in Western medicine.

It is also a type that must be treated appropriately according to the cause to see improvement.

This type involves impaired body fluid circulation, leading to inflammation and edema.

Mainly, the face or hands and feet swell easily in the morning. They swell in the morning and subside slightly during daily life, or in severe cases, the swelling persists all day.

There are many cases of frequent urination in small amounts, and often there is a feeling of residual urine, where urination does not feel refreshing even after voiding. Occasionally, there may be nocturia, waking up at night to urinate.

Due to poor body fluid circulation, there may be a slight thirst.

The sixth type is when large intestine movement function is reduced.

Because intestinal movement is reduced and weakened, stool often does not come out easily even after going to the bathroom due to the urge to defecate.

The stool is not diarrhea but has form, yet it may come out in lumps like rabbit droppings. Alternatively, even if the stool is loose like diarrhea, there is often a feeling like constipation and it is difficult to pass stool.

Also, because there is no strength in the large intestine to push the stool, there is a feeling of incomplete evacuation even after passing stool.

Among the various types of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, this is the only one that is not a diarrhea type. Patients with colonic hypofunction type have a lot of discomfort in having bowel movements, so they sometimes think, 'I wish I could just have refreshing diarrhea instead.'

For the colonic hypofunction type, the large intestine movement needs to be activated for stool to be excreted smoothly. Once bowel movements become comfortable, the feeling of incomplete evacuation disappears, the frequency of bowel movements decreases, and inflammation decreases.

Treatment for the colonic hypofunction type is not very difficult, but because treatment must continue until strength returns to the large intestine and stool can be passed easily without herbal medicine, it may take longer to complete treatment.