위축성 질염의 한약 치료 임상 연구에 관한 체계적 문헌 고찰 = Review on Clinical Studies of Traditional Korean Medicine Treatment for Atrophic Vaginitis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review clinical studies of traditional Korean medicine treatment (herb medicine) on vaginal atrophy.


Methods: Key words “Vaginal atrophy”, “Vulvovaginal atrophy”, “Vaginal dryness”, “Atrophic vaginitis”, “Herb medicine”, “Acupuncture”, “Moxibustion”, “Catgut embedding” were searched on 11 database systems (PMC, CENTRAL, EMBASE, CNKI, KTKP, KISS, NDSL, OASIS, DBpia, KMBASE, RISS) on May 31th 2019.
In all searches, limits were set for MeSH (human) and language (English, Chinese or Korean).


Results: 18 controlled clinical trials were collected in accordance with the selection and exclusion criteria. The types of intervention were herbal medicine, and types of herbal medicine were decoction, cream, suppository, oil, ect. The study results and methods of intervention were analyzed.


Conclusions: Among the 18 trials, 5 studies showed that herbal medicine with hormone or antiprotozoal therapy was more effective than hormone or antiprotozoal therapy alone. And 2 studies showed that herbal medicine treatment was more effective than oil treatment of topical use. There was no abnormal vaginal bleeding, breast swelling and pain in TCM group.

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