The Clinical Study of Acute Mastitis Patients’Constitutional Types of Traditional Chinese Medicine / 浙江中医药大学学报

Objective]Through judging the constitutional types of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) of acute mastitis patients, do statistics and analysis of the distribution of the acute mastitis patients’constitutional types of TCM, and study their laws, in order to provide guiding basis of constitutional theory of TCM for preventing and early treating mastitis. [Method] By means of questionnaire method, judge the constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients according to the classification and judgment of constitution of TCM ,and analyze the results by statistical methods. [Results] The number of the constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients from high to low is as follows: dampness-heat constitution is 65 cases, energy-stagnant constitution is 52 cases, yang-deficiency constitution is 51 cases, qi-deficiency constitution is 37 cases, yin-deficiency constitution is 34 cases, phlegm-dampness constitution is 32 cases, blood-stasis constitution is 29 cases, normal constitution is 12 cases, and special-natural constitution is 7 cases. Individuality constitution has 9 cases, two and three mixed constitution each has 12 cases, four and five mixed constitution each has 9 cases, six mixed constitution has 14 cases, seven mixed constitution has 11 cases, eight mixed constitution has 1 case. In the main constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients, dampness-heat constitution(54 cases, 70.13%) is most, followed by normal constitution(12 cases, 15.58%) and yang-deficiency constitution(5 cases, 6.49%). In the individuality constitution and two mixed constitution, the proportion of dampness-heat constitution(60 cases, 39.47%) is highest, and that of yang-deficiency constitution(34 cases, 22.37%) is also higher. This shows that: 1. Dampness-heat constitution is the most common constitutional type related with the occurrence of acute mastitis, and yang-deficiency constitution is the second. 2. The acute mastitis patients have a variety of constitutional types such as dampness-heat constitution, energy-stagnant constitution etc. Mixed constitution is common and complex. May be it is associated with the particular period of postpartum lactation period. [Conclusion] Constitution as internal factors of disease has an important influence on occurrence and development of acute mastitis. It has great meaning to adjust prejudiced constitutional types of TCM as dampness-heat constitution and yang-deficiency constitution for preventing and early treating acute mastitis. This reflects the TCM thought of“treat unoccurred disease”.

Study on Correlativity of TCM Syndrome Types with Sexual Hormones in Patient of Hyperplasia of Mammary Glands / 中医杂志

Objective:To explore relation of TCM syndrome types in patient with sexual hormones of hyperplasia of mammary glands,so as to establish objective indexes of TCM syndrome types of hyperplasia of mammary glands.Methods:112 cases of hyperplasia of mammary glands were divided into 3 types:stagnation of liver-Qi,intermingled phlegm and blood stasis,disharmany of thoroughfare vessel and conception vessel.Level of estradiol(E_2),progestin(PT),testosterone(TT),prolactin(PRL),follicle- stimulating hormone(FSH)and luteotropic hormone(LH)during ovulatory period in the patients were determined.The relation of hormone level with TCM syndrome types was analyzed.Results:Level of LH and E_2 decreased,PRL and PT increased and level of TT and FSH did not significantly change during ovulatory period in the patient of hyperplasia of mammary glands.LH and E_2 level in the patients with stagnation of liver-Qi or intermingled phlegm and blood stasis was significantly lower than normal values,and the level of PRL and PT was significantly higher than that of normal values.The level of LH and E_2 was also lower than the normal value in the patient with disharmany of thoroughfare vessel and conception vessel,but the level of FSH was significantly higher than normal value.Conclusion:The patient of hyperplasia of mammary glands during ovulatory period manifests endocrine dysfunction,and the patients with different TCM syndrome are different in secretion of sexual hormones; Changes of sexual hormones can be used as objective indexes of TCM syndrome types and basis of clinical medicinal application.

Relation among TCM Syndromes,Sex Hormones and Molybdenum Target Radiography Image of Mammary Hyperplasia / 中医杂志

Objective To explore the correlation between the TCM syndromes of mammary hyperplasia patients and their sex hormones,molybdenum target radiography image to establish the objective indexes for its syndrome differentiation.Methods According to the TCM syndrome differentiation,the 346 patients with mammary hyperplasia were diagnosed liver qi stagnation syndrome,phlegm and blood-stasis syndrome,and chong and ren dysfunction syndrome.Their pituitary gonad stimulating hormones,including estradiol(E2),progesterone(PP),testosterone(PT),prolactin releasing hormone(PRL),follicle-stimulating hormone(FSH),and luteotropic hormone(LH) were measured during ovulatory period.At the same time,the molybdenum target radiography examination was given.Results The level of FSH,LH and E2 in mammary hyperplasia patients during ovulatory period was obviously lower,the level of PRL and PP was obviously higher,and the level of PT was not obviously changed.The comparison among groups showed that the level of FSH in chong and ren dysfunction patients was higher than that in liver qi stagnation patients,but the level of LH of the two was just opposite;the level of E2 was lower in an order of liver qi stagnation,phlegm and blood-stasis,and chong and ren dysfunction patients;the molybdenum target radiography image showed that there was mainly the lobular hyperplasia in liver qi stagnation and phlegm and blood-stasis patients and then the nodular type;but there was mainly nodular hyperplasia in chong and ren dysfunction patients and then the lobular type.Conclusion The pituitary gonad stimulating hormones of mammary hyperplasia patients were disordered in the duration of ovulatory period.The level of sex hormones and change of molybdenum target radiography image were different in different TCM syndromes and they can be used as one of the objective indices in TCM syndrome differentiation for diagnosis.

ANALYSIS OF ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE LEVELS DURING MENSTRUAL CY-CLE IN PATIENTS WITH FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE OF BREAST / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

The blood and urine estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P) were measured in 133 patients with fibrocystic disease (FCD) of breast and 17 healthy subsjects during menstrual cycle phases. According to the characteristics of the secretion, the patients were divided into five types. Type A (54 patients): The secretion peak of E2 and P appeared beforehand and secretion of P was prolonged and E2 decreased significantly in ovulatory phase. Type B (16 patients): The secretion peak of E2 disappeared in ovulatory phase although the secretion of P was normal. Type C (16 patients): The secretion peak of P deferred its disappearance and maintained at higher level till pre-menstrual period and sc did E2: the secretion of E2 decreased in ovulatory phase. Type D (41 patients): The secretion peak of E2 in ovulatory phase was normal but could not return to normal level in pre-menstrual period, in the mean time the secretion of P also deferred its disappearance. Type E (6 patients): There was no secretion of P and the blood and urine concentrations of E2 deccreased in all phases. The average value of E2 in the patients with FCD was compared with that of healthy subjects. The concentration of E2 in all the patients increased in follicular and pre-menstrual phases. However, the concentration of E2 in ovulatory phase was much lower in the patients than in healthy subjects.