[Treatment of adenomyosis patients by bushen huoxue sanyu decoction: a clinical study].

OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical efficacy of Bushen Huoxue Sanyu Decoction (BHSD) in treatment of adenomyosis (AM) patients. METHODS: Seventy AM patients of Shen deficiency blood stasis syndrome (SDBSS) were randomly assigned to two groups, the CM treatment group (50 cases) and the Mirena group (20 cases). Patients in the CM treatment group were treated with BHSD, one dose per day. Levonorgestrel intrauterine system (Mirena) was placed in the uterine cavity of those in the Mirena group. The therapeutic course for all was 3 months. Changes of dysmenorrhea, menstrual quantity, SDBSS, CM syndrome, uterine volume, and serum CA125 levels were observed before and after treatment. RESULTS: Compared with before treatment in the same group, scores for dysmenorrhea integral, scores for menstrual quantity, scores for SDBSS, and scores for CM syndrome all decreased in the two groups after treatment (P 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: BHSD could effectively alleviate main symptoms of AM patients of QSBSS such as dysmenorrhea, profuse menstrual blood volume, and increased uterine volume, and lower scores for QSBSS and the total score for CM syndrome.