1 Center of Traditional medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2 School of Post-Baccalaureate Chinese Medicine, Tzu Chi University,
Hualien, Taiwan
3 Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
4 School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
【Summary】
This case is a 36-year-old woman who has suffered from severe headache and distending pain, extending from the back to the top of the head, with a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of 8 points before menstruation. Despite taking painkillers every day, the pain was still unbearable.
In July 2022, she came to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital for medical consultation. From the aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, the syndromes could be classified as stagnation of liver and spleen deficiency, hyperactivity of liver yang, and stagnation of qi and blood stasis, deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality.
The medicine treats both symptoms and root causes by dispersing stagnated liver qi and
strengthening spleen, soothing liver and suppressing hyperactive liver and regulating qi and promoting blood circulation. After the treatment, the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was reduced to 3 points, which shows that traditional Chinese medicine has good effect on relieving women’s menstrual symptoms and pain, also can reduce the recurrence and severity of the symptoms.
【Keywords】 premenstrual headache, dispersing stagnated liver qi and strengthening spleen, soothing liver and suppressing hyperactive liver, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation
105.7 经前症候群之经前头痛病例报告
