Research progress in mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome

• Published in: Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi Vol. 41; no. 20; p. 3715
• Main Authors: Zhou, Xian-Ying, Zhou, Li, Sun, Zu-Yue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 15.10.2016
• Subjects: Anovulation; Female; Humans; Hyperandrogenism; Insulin Resistance; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - drug therapy; Pregnancy; mechanism; traditional Chinese medicine; polycystic ovary syndrome
• ISSN: 1001-5302
• DOI: 10.4268/cjcmm20162003

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder, which is characterized by hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance and chronic anovulation, and has become a serious threat to the health of adolescents and women of childbearing age.At present,lowering androgen, improving insulin resistance and inducing ovulation are the main methods adopted by doctors to treat the disease, but the adverse reactions of the western medicine and the long-term treatment are hard to be accepted by the patients. PCOS treated by traditional Chinese medicine has achieved a certain effect in recent years.Traditional Chinese medicine is relatively safe and has more effect in many links and targets in improving the symptom of endocrine and metabolic disorder in patients with PCOS. This paper expounds the traditional Chinese medicine pathogenesis of PCOS through clinical and experimental aspects of the literature research：correcting endocrine hormone disorder,the effects of the expression of gene and regulatory factors,improving insulin resistance,correcting lipid metabolic disorder,improving the pregnancy outcome and improving ovarian morphology to summarize the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in PCOS research results in recent years.