Research Progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy on PCOS

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common reproductive endocrine metabolic disease in adolescents and women of childbearing age, with 55% being severe and leading to infertility. Currently, the pathogenesis of this disease is not clear. Traditional Chinese medicine attributes this condition to dysfunction of the kidneys, liver, and spleen. This disease has multiple types of syndromes, mainly divided into kidney deficiency and blood stasis, spleen deficiency and phlegm dampness, liver depression and spleen deficiency and qi stagnation and blood stasis, and phlegm and blood stasis intermingling. The clinical manifestations of each syndrome type are different. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has achieved satisfactory results in treating this disease. Targeted treatment for the disease not only regulates endocrine and metabolic disorders in the body, but also has high drug safety. This article summarizes and analyzes clinical research on the treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in traditional Chinese medicine by consulting ancient literature and modern medical journals. By using the literature review method, it summarized and analyzed the traditional Chinese medicine etiology, drug action mechanism, and positive effects of traditional Chinese medicine treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome.This provides a scientific theoretical basis for the prevention and treatment of PCOS in traditional Chinese medicine.