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http://dx.doi.org/10.15204/jkobgy.2019.32.1.048

A Literature Review on Syndrome Differentiation of Dysmenorrhea  

Lee, Ji-Yeon (Dept of OB & GY, College of Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University)
Kim, Jeong-Hwan (Dept of OB & GY, College of Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University)
Lee, In-Seon (Dept of OB & GY, College of Korean Medicine, Dong-Eui University)
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The Journal of Korean Obstetrics and Gynecology / v.32, no.1, 2019 , pp. 48-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: This study was conducted to comprehend the syndrome differentiations of dysmenorrhea and find out their clinical symptoms, tongue images and pulse patterns by analyzing previous studies. Methods: The following researches were collected by searching the medical journals published from November, 2007 to October, 2017, from KISS, OASIS, CNKI. : researches on the syndrome differentiation of dysmenorrhea, researches on the criteria of diagnosis of syndrome differentiation of dysmenorrhea, randomized controlled trials (RCT) used syndrome differentiation for treating dysmenorrhea. Results: By investigating the frequency of syndrome differentiations used in RCT studies, the frequent ones were chosen. They were qi stagnation and blood stasis (氣滯血瘀), qi-blood deficiency (氣血虛弱), congealing cold with blood stasis (寒凝血瘀), liver-kidney depletion (肝腎虧損), blood stasis with dampness-heat (濕熱瘀阻). Conclusion: 4 syndrome differentiations were frequently used in RCT studies. And the frequency of clinical symptoms on each syndrome differentiations from each RCT study was analyzed and compared. Clinical symptoms chosen as chief symptoms in more than one reference, appeared in more than half of the references, most frequent tongue images and pulse conditions were organized. The most frequent clinical symptoms included the period and pattern of pain, the accompanying symptoms of whole-body and the pattern of menstrual bleeding.
Keywords
Dysmenorrhea; Syndrome Differentiation; Clinical Symptom;
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