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KMID : 0644120120250040027
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Journal of Oriental Gynecology
2012 Volume.25 No. 4 p.27 ~ p.37
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Correlations of Cold and Heat Pattern between Menstrual Symptoms and Whole Body Symptoms
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Hwang Jae-Ho
Yun Young-Jin
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Abstract
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Purpose : Dysmenorrhea is mostly depending on the causative factor, which usually falls under the categories of Cold and Heat pattern in traditional Oriental medical theories and diagnosis. Thus, we investigated menstruation symptom and sign related to dysmenorrhea and verified the validity of Cold and Heat pattern identification.
Methods : We investigated menstruation symptom and sign related to dysmenorrhea in total 14 gynecology-medical books including ≪Exemplar Of Korean Medicine (Dongui Bogam)≫ and whole body symptom and sign identifying Cold and Heat pattern at the same time. A survey based on this investigation was carried out targeting women of childbearing age.
Results : According to 14 gynecology-medical books, polymenorrhea is relevant to Heat pattern, oligomenorrhea to Cold pattern and darkness of menstrual blood is relevant to Heat pattern. Among the total of 343 womens, 196 subjects suffered from dysmenorrhea. The number of dysmenorrhea with polymenorrhea(Heat pattern) was 6 person, with oligomenorrhea(Cold pattern) was 27 person. And the number of dysmenorrhea with darkness of menstrual blood(Heat pattern) was 39 person. As the result of checking correlations of menstrual symptom scores and whole body symptom scores, there was no significance of Cold and Heat pattern between menstrual symptoms and whole body symptoms.
Conclusions : The results suggest that the period of menstrual cycle and the color of menstrual blood provides some informations of Cold and Heat pattern identification. But considering with other whole body symptom and sign is needed for more precise result.
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KEYWORD
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Dysmenorrhea, Cold and Heat, Symptom and Sign, Pattern Identification
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