Experience Organization of Zhejiang School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Dysmenorrhea
[Objective]To summarize ancient Zhejiang school of traditional Chinese medicine's experience in treating dysmenorrhea and explore its characteristics.[Methods]The treatises and medical records on dysmenorrhea in ancient Chinese medical literature of Zhejiang school were extracted and sorted out,and the pathogenesis and treatment characteristics of dysmenorrhea were summarized.[Results]"Qi and blood imbalance"is the main pathogenesis,advocating the Qi and blood syndrome differentiation method based on the principle of deficiency and excess of cold and heat.Differentiating syndromes lays in three aspects:whether menstruation has been delayed,how much menstrual blood color is,and pain before and after menstruation.There are 8 types of dysmenorrhea syndromes recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books of the Zhejiang school:blood Qi deficiency syndrome,blood deficiency with stagnation syndromes,blood deficiency with cold syndrome,blood deficiency with heat syndrome,insufficient Chongren syndrome,liver Qi stagnation syndrome,Qi stagnation with blood stasis syndrome and cold coagulation stasis syndrome.Ten essential medicines are recorded for dysmenorrhea:Campsis Flos,Paeoniae Radix Alba,Verbenae Herb,Corydalis Rhizoma,Sparganii Rhizoma,Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum,Actinolitum,Pulsatilliae Radix,Receptaculum Nelumbinis,Folium Nelumbinis.[Conclusion]The pathogenesis of dysmenorrhea in Zhejiang school of traditional Chinese medicine is based on the theory of"Qi and blood".The fundamental principles of"warming and tonifying"and"clearing and transforming"are to treat the root cause,regulate Qi and blood flow,and treat diseases based on syndrome differentiation and seeking the root cause.
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