Mammary hyperplasia belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine "milk fetish" and is the most common breast disease in clinical women.The main clinical manifestations are breast pain, nodules or lumps, etc. It is a non-inflammatory and benign comprehensive disease occurring in the breast tissue.At present, the clinical treatment of MGH mainly focuses on pain relief and elimination of lumps. Western medicine mainly uses hormone drugs, surgery and other treatments, which have large adverse reactions and lack of effective therapies, while Chinese medicine has many therapies, and has the characteristics of good efficacy and few adverse reactions, which is the main method for the clinical treatment of breast hyperplasia.In order to better summarize the clinical experience and research direction of TCM treatment of mammary hyperplasia, this article collected the literature of TCM treatment of mammary hyperplasia in recent years.

Wang Weigang, Liang Xiaojuan, Li Na, Nan Ye, Zuo Yufei. Progress of clinical research on treating Mammary gland hyperplasia with traditional Chinese medicine. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 12: 13-19. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2024.061203.

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