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Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Dysmenorrhea Caused by Endometriosis: A Review of Utilization and Mechanism Table 5 Acupuncture for dysmenorrhea.
Treatment; sample number (n ) Control; sample number (n ) Total clinical effect rate Model used Therapeutic effects and actions Refs. Acupuncture; n = 25 Mifepristone; n = 25 T: 92.0% vs. 52.0% Human study Pain score↓, CA-125↓, recurrence rate↓ [74 ] Moxibustion; n = 27 Ibuprofen; n = 27 Human study VAS score↓, the days of dysmenorrhea↓ [77 ] Acupoint catgut implantation therapy; n = 36 Acupuncture; n = 36 T: 96.97% vs. 90.63% Human study PGF2α ↓, VAS score↓ [86 ] Electroacupuncture; n = 36 Mifepristone; n = 36 T: 94.4% vs. 91.7% Human study Pain score↓, CA-125↓, recurrence rate↓ [90 ] Auricular acupuncture; n = 37 Herbal decoction; n = 30 T: 91.9% vs. 60.0% Human study β -EP↑, dysmenorrhea score↓[96 ]
Note: T (total effect rate) = number of effective cases/total number of cases; effective case refers to the patients or animal models whose signs and symptoms were improved after treatment.