SUN Mingsheng, MA Xingsha, LIU Xiaojia, CHEN Jiao, ZHENG Hui, ZHAO Ling, LIANG Fanrong

(College of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Chengdu university of TCM, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China)

Abstract:  Primary dysmenorrhea is one of the most common clinical disease in gynecology, it  affects the life and work  of  the  patient  in  varying  degrees.  Modern  medical  treatment  with  non-steroidal  antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and combined oral contraceptives (COC),  it has a lower acceptance to treat this  disease  by  the  method.  External  therapy,  as  the  safe  and  no  side-effect  therapy,  more  and  more  be recognized by patients with the development of the motherland medicine.  In this paper,  according to the therapy  method  of  different  treatment  site,  we  will  summarize  the  external  therapy  for  the  treatment  of primary  dysmenorrhea  in  recent  years.  In  order  to  provide  a  reference  for  the  treatment  of  primary dysmenorrhea by external therapy of traditional Chinese medicine in the clinical application. Meanwhile there is a prospect that broaden someone's scope of mind to use different treatment site for external therapy of traditional Chinese medicine in the clinical application.

Key words: acupuncture, external therapy , primary dysmenorrheal, different parts of the medicine, review