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Dysmenorrhea refers to periodic lower abdominal pain occurring during or around menstruation. The pathomechanism falls into two broad categories: pain from obstruction (repletion) and pain from malnourishment (vacuity).
Key differentiation: Pain predominantly before the period suggests repletion (qi stagnation, blood stasis, cold congelation); pain predominantly after suggests vacuity (qi-blood insufficiency, Liver-Kidney vacuity). Repletion resists pressure; vacuity prefers pressure.
@misc{bencaodian-tong-jing,
author = {{Bencaodian Editorial}},
title = {Tong Jing 痛经 (Dysmenorrhea)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Bencao Dian: A Bilingual Knowledge Graph of Traditional Chinese Medicine},
url = {https://bencaodian.org/en/conditions/tong-jing},
urldate = {2026-04-17},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}© Bencaodian Editorial · Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0