Complete Treatment of a Case of Medically Refractory Ulcerative Colitis with Adoption of the Health Triangle Methods for Lifestyle Modification

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory disease affecting the mucosa in colon. Despite significant progress and expansion of therapeutic armamentarium for UC, there are currently no curative medications available some cases require colectomy. In this communication, we report case a 38 years old male patients with five-year history UC who had involvement entire colon was medically refractory. The patient received treatment steroids, mesalazine, infliximab, adalimumab, but failed to achieve remission process. He non-remitting symptoms endoscopic histologic evidence severe disease, experienced episodes lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Ultimately, advised undergo colectomy, he refused; instead, adopted lifestyle modification approach—the health triangle method. short, approach emphasizes three aspects nutrition, use herbal medicines, interventions (called aamal-e-yadavi Traditional Iranian Medicine) like oiling, cupping, phlebotomy (hejamat). These can improve cellular energy balance truly cure autoimmune if over long term. After years, reported substantial improvement symptoms, colonoscopy histology showed remission. This indicated potential efficacy safety complementary alternative approaches UC; however, method needs be investigated randomized controlled trials.