男性更年期的中醫治療

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Treatment of Male Climacteric Syndrome (Andropause)

男性更年期症候群主要是指男性更年期機體代謝和性腺功能發生生理性衰退，引起以精神神經症狀、植物神經功能紊亂和性功能障礙為主要的一系列臨床表現。臨床症狀可見五心煩熱、心煩意亂、頭暈頭痛、急躁易怒、個性怪異,或失眠多夢、心悸健忘、胸悶脅痛、神疲乏力、飲食無味,或畏寒肢冷、腰膝酸軟等。隨著我國生活水準提高，人口老齡化增快已經成為當代研究領域的一個新熱點。男性更年期可歸屬到傳統醫學「腎虛」範疇，中醫治療男性更年期症候依據體質的不同採用辨證論治方式治療臨床上可取得一定的療效。

Male climacteric syndrome (andropause) primarily refers to the physiologic decline of organic metabolism and sexual gland function in aging males. This is a condition that can induce a range of clinical manifestations, such as psychological and emotional symptoms, autonomic nervous system disorders, and sexual dysfunction. Clinical symptoms include vexing heat in the five hearts, vexation and emotional disturbance, dizziness and headache, impatience and irascibility, behavioral changes, insomnia and profuse dreaming, palpitations and forgetfulness, chest distension and rib-side pain, fatigue, taste impairment, aversion to cold and cold limbs, and limp aching lumbus and knees. As the nation’s quality of life improves the trend towards an increasingly aging society continues to evolve, and these developments have made the area of geriatrics a focus of the medical research field. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), andropause can be classified as 'kidney vacuity,' and the method of pattern identification as the basis of determining treatment is used. This method takes into account each patient’s unique body constitution and symptoms and has proven to be clinically effective.