艾灸治疗原发性痛经研究进展

Clinical Research Progress on Common Moxibustion in Treating Primary Dysmenorrhea

原发性痛经是最常见的妇科疾病之一,其发病率高且严重影响女性的身心健康和生活质量。艾灸是中国传统且有效的治疗方法,具有温经散寒、调和气血和疏通经络等功效。此文概括了近几年来艾灸在原发性痛经的临床应用情况,主要介绍艾炷灸、艾条灸、温灸器灸和温针灸等多种灸法,发现艾灸治疗原发性痛经具有一定的临床疗效。

Primary dysmenorrhea is one of the most common gynecological diseases,which seriously does harm to women’s physical and mental health and quality of life with a high incidence.Moxibustion,a traditional and effective treatment,which is known as the functions including warming meridian and dispersing cold,reconciling qi and blood,and dredging meridians and collaterals in China.This article not only summarizes the clinical application of moxibustion in treating primary dysmenorrhea in recent years,but also introduces a variety of moxibustion methods,such as moxa⁃cone moxibustion,moxa⁃stick moxibustion,warming moxibustion apparatus and warming needle moxibustion.Through a large number references,there are same connections between moxibustion and primary dysmenorrhea,to be specific,moxibustion has certain clinical effects on primary dysmenorrhea.