The Holistic prevention, management and treatment of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: TCM recommended Foods for Spleen Yang deficiency - Turmeric

By Kyle J. Norton
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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome


Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is defined as endocrinologic diseases among reproductive-age women caused by undeveloped follicles clumping on the ovaries that interferes with the function of the normal ovaries associated with a high risk for metabolic disorder(1) as resulting of enlarged ovaries(2), leading to hormone imbalance(excessive androgen and anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) )(1)(3)(4)(5), induced Hirsutism(6)(7), reproductive disorder(10(12)), risks of type 2 diabetes(9)(10)(11), metabolic syndrome(10)(12) and early cardiovasular disease(8)(13), acne(10)(14), endometrial cancer(18)(19),weight gain and obesity(15)(16)(17). The syndrome effects over 5% of women population or 1 in 20 women. Unfortunately, according to studies, women with PCOs after the reproductive age, are associated to continuously increase risk of type II diabetes, with no increasing altered glucose tolerance(20), CVD and hypertension(21).

In Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective


While conventional medicine focus of using synthetic medication to induce ovulation and assisted artificial insemination for infertility couple, if the medicine fail, traditional Chinese medicine views polycystic ovarian syndrome in different approaches. Polycystic ovary syndrome, according to traditional Chinese medicine is a medical condition characterized by accumulative of fluid over a prolonged period of time causes of dampness and phlegms(1247a)(1247b) build up on the ovaries due to the effects of vary differentiations, affecting not only the women’s menstrual cycle, but also ovulation and fertility(1247a)(1247b).

PCOs Treatment according traditional Chinese medicine


Depending to differentiation, most common diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome can be classified into



Spleen yang deficiency


Spleen yang deficiency is a serve form of spleen qi deficiency, characterized by a condition of inability of spleen in distribution of fluid and nutrient to the body organs, in removal and descend the turbids(2072), causing malfunctions functions of the organs and fluid retention. Prolong period of spleen yang deficiency may induce the development of phlegm, including women with PCOs.
Women with PCOs diagnosed by spleen yang deficiency may also experience yang vacuity impelled cold expression of additional symptoms of abdominal pain(2074), lack of appetite(2076), fatigue(2075), lightheadedness(2075) and headache(2075), weakness of the four limbs(2077), diarrhea(2073)(2076), chilliness(2077), edema(2074), pale, swollen, wet tongue(2076) and weak, slow, deep pulse(2072),....
In the review of the Data base provided by PubMed, spleen qi deficiency may alter certain metabolic pathways, such as the energy, protein, and glycolytic metabolisms(2078), body weight and motor behavior(2079), skeletal muscle function(3080), blood glucose, lipid metabolism and fat-islet axie.(2081),.....

Foods for Spleen yang deficiency

Spleen yang deficiency can be managed and treated in part with a diet of fresh and cooked warming foods.


6.  Turmeric
Turmeric is a perennial plant in the genus Curcuma, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to tropical South Asia. The herb has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for its effect on high lipids (2118)(2119), pain(2120)(2121), rheumatoid arthritis inflammation(2122)(2123), periodontitis(2124)(2125),  tumors(2126)(2127)(2128), herpes(2129)(2130), coronary atherosclerosis(2131)(2132), neurodegeneration(2133)(2134), leukemia(2135)(2136),.............. as the acrid, bitter, aromatic, warm food enhances the stomach, liver, spleen channels(2117).

Phytochemical constituents(2117)
1. Beberine
2. Tumerone
3. Dihydroturmerone
4. Curcumin
5. Demethoxycurcumin
6. Bisdemethoxycurcumin
7. Borneol
8. Zingberene
9. Arabic gum
10. Curcumol
11. Zingiberen
12. Phellandrene
13. Eucalyptol
14. Etc.

In metabolic syndrome differentiation(2137)(2138), turmeric has shown to reduce risk of complications of diabetes and cardiovascular disease(2145) through attenuated expression of, lipid-profile (cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and TG)(2137)(2138), fasting glucose(2137)(2138) hypoglycemia(2139)(2140)(2142) and hypolipidemia(2139)(2141)(2142), weigh loss(2138)[body mass index and waist circumference)], insulin resistance(2144)(2143), hypertension(2145)(2146), obesity(2147), c-reactive protein (CRP)(2137)....via glucose and lipid metabolic (2148)(2149), antioxidants(2150)(2151)(2152) and anti inflammatory(2153)(2154)(2155) pathways.
Berberine (BBR), its major chemical constituents also exerted the effect in improving some of the metabolic(829) and hormonal derangements in a group of treated Chinese women with PCOS(829).


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