Keywords
Obesity
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Review
Submitted : 2021-07-06
Accepted : 2021-07-21
Published : 2021-08-05
Abstract
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) as a relatively common clinical reproductive endocrine disease, the incidence is increasing year by year and the treatment is difficult, among which obese PCOS accounts for nearly 50% of the total. In recent years, non-drug therapy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been effective in the treatment of PCOS. This article summarizes the relevant literature in the past ten years from acupuncture, acupoint embedding, moxibustion, and auricular points, and observes the effects of TCM non-drug therapy on endocrine and glucose and lipid metabolism in obese PCOS patients. The impact of various indicators such as body mass index, body mass index, etc., and discuss the problems in such treatments, as well as put forward suggestions to achieve the purpose of better guiding the clinical treatment of obese PCOS.
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