Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Herbal Help?

Interesting article on several points. This researcher says that several of these herbal remedies seems to help with IBS but the studies they looked at have been critisised.

One critisism is the small numbers involved on some studies which is fair comment. The other is the the Chinese formulations were not clearly difined and identical for all paitents. Now within the Western tradition of medicine that's a fair critisism too, however the whole point of traditional Chinese medicine is that the formulation is tailored to the individual, maybe the researcher might consider that this is exactly WHY it was more successful than western medicine in combating the sypmtoms of IBS.