Department of Iranian Traditional Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Biomed Res Int. 2018 Mar 18;2018:3052768. doi: 10.1155/2018/3052768. eCollection 2018.
Menstrual bleeding cessation is one of the most frequent gynecologic disorders among women in reproductive age. The treatment is based on hormone therapy. Due to the increasing request for alternative medicine remedies in the field of women's diseases, in present study, it was tried to overview medicinal plants used to treat oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea according to the pharmaceutical textbooks of traditional Persian medicine (TPM) and review the evidence in the conventional medicine.
This systematic review was designed and performed in 2017 in order to gather information regarding herbal medications of oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea in TPM and conventional medicine. This study had several steps as searching Iranian traditional medicine literature and extracting the emmenagogue plants, classifying the plants, searching the electronic databases, and finding evidences. To search traditional Persian medicine references, Noor digital library was used, which includes several ancient traditional medical references. The classification of plants was done based on the repetition and potency of the plants in the ancient literatures. The required data was gathered using databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Science Direct, and web of knowledge.
In present study of all 198 emmenagogue medicinal plants found in TPM, 87 cases were specified to be more effective in treating oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea. In second part of present study, where a search of conventional medicine was performed, 12 studies were found, which had 8 plants investigated: and . Traditional Persian medicine has proposed many different medicinal plants for treatment of oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea. Although just few plants have been proven to be effective for treatment of menstrual irregularities, the results and the classification in present study can be used as an outline for future studies and treatment.
在育龄妇女中,月经过多是最常见的妇科疾病之一。治疗方法基于激素疗法。由于在妇科疾病领域对替代药物治疗的需求不断增加,因此在本研究中,根据传统波斯医学(TPM)的药学教科书尝试概述用于治疗月经稀少和闭经的药用植物,并回顾常规医学中的证据。
这项系统评价于 2017 年设计并进行,旨在收集有关 TPM 和常规医学中月经稀少和闭经草药的信息。本研究有几个步骤,包括搜索伊朗传统医学文献并提取催经植物、对植物进行分类、搜索电子数据库以及寻找证据。为了搜索传统波斯医学参考文献,使用了 Noor 数字图书馆,其中包括几本古代传统医学参考文献。植物的分类是基于植物在古代文献中的重复使用和效力。使用数据库,如 PubMed、Scopus、Google Scholar、Cochrane Library、Science Direct 和 Web of Knowledge,收集所需的数据。
在本研究中,在 TPM 中发现的 198 种催经药用植物中,有 87 种被指定为治疗月经稀少和闭经更有效。在本研究的第二部分中,对常规医学进行了搜索,发现了 12 项研究,其中有 8 种植物被调查: 、 、 、 、 、 、 。传统波斯医学提出了许多不同的药用植物来治疗月经稀少和闭经。尽管只有少数几种植物被证明对治疗月经不调有效,但本研究的结果和分类可以作为未来研究和治疗的大纲。