Modern Clinical Application of Ding 1541

For hundreds of years, Ding 1541 is used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of numerous ailments, including qi and blood stasis-related disorders. It showed good efficacy in relieving irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia, and metrostaxis. Now, Ding 1541 has been widely used in various conditions, including primary dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, endometriosis, infertility, premenopausal syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, and premature ovarian failure. Compared with western medicine treatment, Ding 1541 has showed some advantages. In this review, we tried to summarize the underlying mechanisms for Ding 1541's effects. We collected clinical data and briefly analyzed these diseases based on the theories of TCM and the pathology. These data suggested that the underlying mechanisms of Ding 1541 involved increasing uterine blood supply, decreasing menstrual blood prostaglandin F2α level, improving the immune, and enhancing the function of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovary, etc.