Identifying Chinese Herbal Medicine Network for Endometriosis: Implications from a Population-Based Database in Taiwan

Table 1

The top 5 most commonly used herbal formulas (HF) for endometriosis.

Rank	Name	Ingredients	TCM indications	Prevalence; (%)	Dose; (gm/day)	Duration; (days/visit)
1	Gui-Zhi-Fu-Ling-Wan (GZFLW)	Cinnamomum cassia, Poria cocos, Paeonia lactiflora or Paeonia veitchii, Paeonia suffruticosa, Prunus persica	Blood stasis in the uterus	28.1%	4.14	12.7
2	Jia-Wei-Xiao-Yao-San	Paeoniae alba, Bupleurum chinense, Atractylodis macrocephala, Poria cocos, Angelica sinensis, Mentha haplocalyx, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Zingiberis Officinalis Recens, Paeonia suffruticosa radicis, Gardenia jasminoides	Liver Qi stagnation and spleen deficiency	17.2%	4.24	11.6
3	Dang-Gui-Shao-Yao-San	Angelica sinensis, Ligustici Chuanxiong, Paeoniae alba, Atractylodis macrocephala, Poria cocos, Alisma plantago-aquatica	Liver blood deficiency and disharmony of liver and spleen	15.0%	4.42	10.8
4	Shao-Fu-Zhu-Yu-Tang	Foeniculum vulgare, Zingiberis Recens, Cinnamomum cassia, Angelica sinensis, Ligustici chuanxiong, Paeoniae Rubra	Qi stagnation and blood stasis	11.9%	4.35	10.0
5	Wen-Jing-Tang	Evodia rutaecarpa, Cinnamomum cassia, Angelica sinensis, Paeoniae alba, Ligustici Chuanxiong, Panax ginseng, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Equus asinus, Ophiopogon japonicus, Pinellia ternata, Zingiberis Recens	Deficient cold and blood stasis	11.1%	4.00	11.6