Allergy tests are valuable however, generally speaking food allergies don't play a small role in managing IBS. There are a variety of individual tests for intolerances but there isn't a standard panel of tests that you can have to detect them.
DNA testing is not only hokey some knowledgeable health professionals consider to be fraudulent. A variety of machines that are used in for this and similar tests have been around since the 1950s. They have been throughly tested. Everyone of them has been found to be based on fictitious science and misleading to the public. Some jurisdictions prosecute. It is a matter of buyer beware!
There have been quite a few clinical trials of acupuncture and IBS. No beneficial effects for IBS symptoms have been found. One of the recent trials tested true acupuncture and sham acupuncture on 250 IBS patients. The study did not find evidence to support the superiority of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture in the treatment of IBS.
There is a whole industry out there that is making a good living off the ignorance of the general public about health and science. The IBS segment of the population seems to be particular vulnerable to sham tests and cures. Hopefully someday health professionals will have a better understand of the causes and cures and then maybe the size of this questionable industry will shrink considerably
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Hopefully someday health professionals will have a better understand of the causes and cures and then maybe the size of this questionable industry will shrink considerably 
