Clinical Study Of Dysmenorrhea With Cold Stasis Treated By Shaofuzhuyu Tang

The word dysmenorrhea refers to symptom complex that may encompass lower abdominal discomfort, backache, nausea, vomiting, and so forth, which influence the patients' quality of life and work to different extent. These symptoms may appear before or after or in the course of menstruation. Dysmenorrhea is one of the most common gynecologic disorders. Estimates of incidence among menstruating women are about 50%, and 10% to serious degree. Therefore, the research about treatment and prevention can have a significant effect on clinical work.It was found that most of the primary dysmenorrhea was caused by blood stasis due to cold stagnation in this study on the basis of theories on western medicine and TCM, related researches and developments, and practices. Method: 30 patients with primary dysmenorrhea due to cold stasis were treated by Shaofuzhuyu Tang. The lower abdominal pain and other clinical symptoms were compared with before and after the treatments. Result and conclusion: Shaofuzhuyu Tang can warm meridians to disperse cold and activate blood and regulate qi to alleviate pain. The symptoms may be relieved through the treatment and the effective rate reached to 53. 33%.