The Study Of Menstrual Disorders Of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome With Abdominal Acupuncture

Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common female endocrine disorder. PCOS is a complex, heterogeneous disorder of uncertain etiology. Common symptoms of PCOS include:menstrual disorders, high level of masculinizing hormones,, obesity, infertility, hirsutism, metabolic syndrome and so on. It accouts for20%～60%of endocrine disorder in gynecologic clinic. About75%of the women who have PCOS manifest as menstrual disorders, however,20%have normal period. PCOS can cause failure in ovulation, further more it causes menstrual disorder such as oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, delayed menstrual cycle, and infertility.It also causes metabolic syndrome such as hyperinsulinemia, insuline resistance, hyperlipemia, which can have a high risk of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases in future.The Abdominal-acupuncture is a new therapy that sorted out by professor Bo Zhiyun, which is basic on the Chinese medicine theory and the navel-control system. It is proved to be good at treating chronic diseases which is pertaining to the viscera.ObjectiveThis clinical study is to investigate the safty and validity of treating PCOS menstrual disorder with Abdominal-acupuncture through small and randomized sample research, and then try to find a new effective treatment for this kind of disease.MethodsTo select90standards-compliant PCOS menstrual disorder patients, and divide them into three groups averagely and randomly, namely Abdominal-acupuncture group, Common acupance group, Western-medicine group. One group will take a treatment as follows:1、the Abdominal-acupunture groupPrescription:Conducting the Qi Back to Its Origin(Zhongwan Ren12, Xiawan Ren10, Qihai Ren6, Guanyuan Ren4), fusiguan(both ST24and ST26), Dahe(KI12), guilai(ST29), lower-rheumatism Points, Qixue(KI13), qipang(KI15), all of both sides. The treatment will be done two to three days once for30min.30days will be a course, and it will be2courses totally,12times one course. The treatment will stop,if period come,continue the third day after the period.2、Common acupuncture groupPrescrition:qihai(Ren6), guanyuan(Ren4), both Zigong(EX-CA1), both guilai (ST29), sanyinjiao(SP6), zusanli (ST36), all of both sides. The treatment will be done two to three days once for30min.30days will be a course, and it will be2courses totally,12times one course. The treatment will stop, if period come, continue the third day after the period.3. the Western-medicine group:Prescription:Ethinylestradiol and Cyproterone Acetate Tablets,1tablet po qd, for21days continously, begin from the5th day of the menstrual cycle. The medicine will be taken for3months.All patients will take3months of those treatments and3months of follow-up observation. The details of their menstruations, and the main sex hormones androgen will be recorded. And the menstruation will be tightly observed during the courses. Then we will evaluate the effects of treating the PCOS menstrual disorder with the Abdominal-acupunture.ResultsWhen the research is finisshed, we summed up the results by comparing the menstruation, the level of androgen of three groups, as follows:1. Through the observation and comparion of the menstruations of all the patients during the treatment and the follow three months,we find that abdominal-acupuncture therapy and common acupuncture therapy have remarkable and almost the same effect (P>0.05) for improving menstrual disorders, and both are better than western medicine therapy (P<0.05).2. Through the observation and comparion of the level of the androgen of all the patients before the treatment and when the treatment finlished, we find that abdominal-acupuncture therapy and common acupuncture therapy have remarkable and almost the same effect (P>0.05) for improving the high level of musculinizing hormone, however, western medicine therapy is much better than both of the formers (P<0.05).3. Through the observation and comparion of the menstruations of all the patients the follow three months after the treatment finished,we find that abdominal-acupuncture therapy and common acupuncture therapy have remarkable and almost the same effect (P>0.05) for improving menstrual disorders, and both are better than western medicine therapy (P<0.05).4. By comparing the total effective rate for the menstrual disorders,of the three grouds, we find that abdominal-acupuncture therapy and common acupuncture therapy have remarkable and almost the same effect (P>0.05) for improving menstrual disorders, and both are better than western medicine therapy (P<0.05).ConeluosionThe results of the study show that abdominal-acupuncture therapy can improve the menstrual disorders and high level of musculinizing hormone of the PCOS patients remarkably, and the effect is almost the same as common acupuncture therapy. However, as for improving high level of musculinizing hormone, western medicine is much better than both of the formers.In brief, the Abdominal-acupuncture therapy is a new effective treatment of the PCOS menstrual disorders, which is worth to be further researched and applied.