RESUMO
This paper reports the effects of common marine medicinal animals and their clinical applications in gynecological diseases for the fist time in Nanji Archipelago National Marine Nature Reserve of Zhejiang Province. The results show that pharmacological effects of 93 species, which belong to 5 phyla, of marine medicinal animals are obvious in clinical applications of gynecological diseases. According to pharmacological effects, marine medicinal animals in clinical applications can be divided into twelve groups: 1. drugs for leukorrha-gia; 2. drugs for anemia and uterine bleeding; 3. drugs for intermenstrual flow or metror-rhagia; 4. oxytocic drug; 5. lactogenic drugs,- 6. drugs for menoxenia; 7. drugs for pregnancy hypertension; 8. drugs for postpartum hemorrhage; 9. drugs for postpartum constipation; 10. drugs for mastitis; 11. drugs for amenorrhoea; 12. emmenagogue;