Premature Ovarian Failure In The Western Research Overview And Progress

Premature ovarian failure(POF) refers the first menstruation age normal or the puberty retarded, the second sexual character growth normal female in 40 year old of before appears stops menstruating continually and the reproductive organ withers, and was accompanied by the follicle stimulating hormone and the luteinzing hormone ascension, but the estrogen reduced the syndrome. There is no record of premature ovarian failure in the traditional Chinese medicine, but according to its characteristic it can be belong to "amenorrhea", "infertility", "female hysteria ", ect. its primary pathogenesis is kidney deficiency, liver stagnation, spleen deficiency, disorder of qi and blood also is the important pathogenesis which this gets sick, according to the research of the traditional Chinese medicine prescription and the acupuncture and moxibustion, its therapeutic methods may include syndrome or disease differentiation and treatment, special recipe of TCM, herbal therapy on artificial menstrual cycle treatment, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture and moxibustion. The western medicine aspect, this gets sick cause of disease still not really clear, the research discovered that the inherits, the immunity, the medical source, the environment, the infection and the psychological factor is related, the treatment plan needs to rest on its cause of disease pathological change and patient's birth requests the overall evaluation. The author summarizes comprehensively its recent development in TCM and western medicine, through consulting the research results of domestic and foreign and the literature in recent years. And there is introduction of my professor'congnition about the cause of disease pathogenesis and the clinical treatment experience, finally also proposed in the current POF research existed question and forecast.