Si Tuyi′s experience of treating endometriosis dysmenorrhea with benefiting qi and mass-eliminating method
XU Mingtao1 ZHENG Weilin2 LIANG Xuefang1
1.Department of Gynecology, Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510120, China;
2.the Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510405, China
Abstract:Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease. Dysmenorrhea is a typical symptom of endometriosis, and it is aggravated year by year with the increase of local lesions. Professor Si Tuyi believes that endometriosis dysmenorrhea is mostly a mixture of intermingled deficiency and excess syndrome. The main pathogenesis of endogenous dysplasia is “blood stasis” and “qi deficiency”, qi deficiency is the basis and blood stasis is the external. Professor Si Tuyi advocates benefiting qi, removing blood stasis and mass-eliminating as the major treatment for endometriosis dysmenorrhea, eliminating and supplementing, with the regulation of menstrual cycle, benefiting qi root-securing, regulating qi and blood, expelling blood stasis and mass-eliminating, determination of etiologic factors based on differentiation, suiting measures to individual conditions. Professor Si Tuyi has rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis dysmenorrhea, and its curative effect is remarkable. It is worthy of inheritance and promotion.