31 cases of climacteric syndrome are outpatients and the clinical manifestations are afternoon fever, sweating or alternating heat with cold, upset, insomnia, palpitation, dreaminess, anxiety, irritability or alternating joy with grief, vertigo, headache, weakness of lumbar and knees, red tongue, thin tongue coating and rapid pulse. Treatments: prescription of self-made Chang Xin Tang: Sheng Di, Nu Zhen Zi, Han Lian Cao, Suan Zao Ren, Bai Shao, Shan Zhu Yu, Gou Qi Zi, Tu Si Zi, Dang Gui and Xiang Fu. Add Fu Xiao Mai and Yin Chai Hu for spontaneous perspiration and night sweating; add Zhi Mu, Wu Wei Zi and Zhen Zhu Mu for upset, insomnia, palpitation and dreaminess; add Gou Teng and Xia Ku Cao for anxiety, irritability, vertigo and headache; add Sang Ji Sheng and Yin Yang Huo for weakness of lumbar and knees; add Dang Shen and Bai Zhu for poor appetite and loose stools; add Zhi Gan Cao, Da Zao and Fu Xiao Mai for alternating joy with grief or delirious. One dose for one day, and one course is two weeks.
Treatment results: 16 cases are marked effective, 14 are effective, and one has no effect.
Key words: Chang Xin Tang, climacteric syndrome
Writer: Yansen Li
People’s hospital, Luzhou, Sichuan (646000)
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