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

This is when patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease experience abdominal pain and diarrhea due to intestinal inflammation, while also having discomfort in the upper digestive tract.

Main symptoms include loss of appetite, inability to finish a single serving even as an adult, and feeling indigestion or bloating when overeating beyond the standard amount. They may feel nauseous, dislike the smell of food, frequently retch, or even vomit. They may experience heartburn or reflux. They must go to the bathroom during or immediately after a meal.

They may frequently have indigestion or uncomfortable belching, and have severe motion sickness. They may also experience indigestion due to stress. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is also common.

While experiencing such indigestion symptoms alongside inflammatory diarrhea, the stomach may feel cold or diarrhea may worsen when consuming cold food.

This second type is also frequently seen, a type where there is generally no digestive impairment but sensitivity to spicy food is present.

Eating spicy food easily causes heartburn or diarrhea. When having such diarrhea, the area around the anus may tingle or feel hot. This phenomenon is called 'anal burning sensation' because it feels like the anus is burning.

There are often cases accompanied by a feeling of incomplete evacuation or tenesmus where one does not feel refreshed after bowel movements, despite frequent diarrhea or loose stools.

Patients with this type often show only diarrhea and bloody stools without digestive impairment. Sometimes, it is accompanied by symptoms of rising heat or chest discomfort due to inflammation.

Usually a type accompanied by rhinitis symptoms where the patient is sensitive to cold and shows allergic reactions to seasonal changes, cold wind, or dust.

Rhinitis symptoms worsen with seasonal changes, cold wind, dust, or pollen, and subsequently, abdominal pain or diarrhea occurs. Slight digestive impairment can sometimes be accompanied.

It can be a form of rhinitis with running clear nasal discharge, or a hypertrophic rhinitis accompanied by a stuffed nose. Since rhinitis is also an immune system disease, there are cases where it needs to be treated together.

Alternatively, types with cold hands and feet compared to others, or high sensitivity to cold without rhinitis symptoms are included here.

In the case of the respiratory type, since digestive system problems are accompanied, digestive impairment may also occur, and it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish when it overlaps with the upper digestive type.

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

The typical case for this type is simply severe diarrhea and a cold abdomen without other symptoms.

Simply put, diarrhea worsens when consuming cold water, drinks, or other cold foods. They say that while digestion is usually fine, they are afraid to eat because the diarrhea is so severe. This type of diarrhea is often very severe, with many cases experiencing diarrhea 10-15 times a day.

Because there are many cases where they cannot endure the 1-2 minutes it takes to go to the bathroom once they feel the urge, it is common to see cases where adult diapers must be worn.

Symptoms are very severe and often do not respond at all to steroids or other Western medications, so it is a type that is poorly treated in Western medicine.

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

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

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

There are many cases of urinating small amounts frequently, and often there is a feeling of incomplete urination even after going. Sometimes, there is nocturia, where one wakes up at night to urinate.

Because bodily fluid circulation is not smooth, there may be slight thirst.

The sixth type is when colon motility function is decreased.

Because intestinal motility is decreased and strength is weak, even when they go to the bathroom due to feeling the urge, there are many cases where stool does not come out easily.

Stool is not diarrhea but has form, yet it may come out in chunks like rabbit droppings. Alternatively, even if the stool is soft like diarrhea, there are many times when it is difficult to pass stool while feeling like constipation.

Also, because the colon lacks strength and cannot push the stool out, there is a feeling of incomplete evacuation where one does not feel refreshed even after a bowel movement.

Among the various types of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, it is the only one that is not a diarrhea type. Patients with the decreased colon function type have a lot of discomfort in bowel movements, so they sometimes think, 'I wish I had refreshing diarrhea instead.'

The decreased colon function type needs to make colon motility more active for stool to be excreted smoothly. Once bowel movements become comfortable, the incomplete evacuation feeling disappears, the frequency of bowel movements decreases, and inflammation is reduced.

Treatment for the decreased colon function type is not very difficult, but because it must be treated until the colon recovers its strength to the point where stool can be passed easily without herbal medicine, it may take longer to complete the treatment.