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| Therapeutic approaches | Clinical indication | Specifications | Efficacy | Precautions |
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| Herbal products | EM with chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and infertility | According to TCM practitioners’ judgment of the disease, propose appropriate TCM prescriptions | Alleviate dysmenorrhoea
Shrink endometriotic lesion
Promote pregnancy
Reduce recurrence rate | Patients who are allergic to some foods and pollen should take the herbal products with caution |
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| Acupuncture and Moxibustion | EM with chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and infertility | Take the appropriate acupoints and choose needling, auricular point, or moxa-moxibustion therapy, according to the disease status of patient. 30 min is a course of treatment for acupuncture (needling, auricular point); 40–50 min is a course of treatment for moxibustion | Alleviate dysmenorrhoea
Promote pregnancy | Some patients may occur fainting condition |
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| CHM enema | EM with chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and infertility | Ask the patient to take the left lateral decubitus position. Put the boiled TCM herbal liquid into 20 mL syringe, with the temperature of 38~40°C. With a disposable catheter connection, slowly push TCM herbal liquid into the rectum. Tell the patient to relax and keep the TCM herbal liquid more than 2 hours | Alleviate dysmenorrhoea
Shrink endometriotic lesion | Unfit for predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients |
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| Microwave physiotherapy | nonacute phase of EM | Ask the patient to take supine position.
Put the microwave physiotherapy instrument facing patient's lower abdomen, with the distance of 35–45 cm. 30 min is a course of treatment | Alleviate dysmenorrhoea
Shrink endometriotic lesion | Attention to operating time, adjusting the distance of microwave physiotherapy equipment, so as not to scald patients |
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