Abstract:  Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common chronic disease of the digestive system. In recent years, the prevalence rate has been increasing, seriously affecting the quality of patients’ life. At present, the treatments of IBS include drug therapy and nondrug therapy. Drug therapy is mainly to relieve clinical symptoms, unable to achieve satisfactory results and if the situations are repeated with long-term use, they will not only increase the gastrointestinal burden of patients, causing nausea, vomiting and other adverse reactions, but also increase the economic burden of patients and the burden of medical institutions. As a safe and effective treatment, non-drug therapy was attracted increasing attentions from scholars, opening up a new path for clinical treatment of IBS. This article has reviewed the exercise therapy, psychotherapy, diet therapy, probiotics therapy and acupuncture therapy related to IBS in recent years, providing theoretical and practical basis for the further exploration of scientific treatment of IBS.

Key words:  , irritable bowel syndrome, non-drug therapy, exercise therapy