Dysmenorrhea can be caused by qi and blood deficiency, qi stagnation and blood stasis (blood stagnation due to lack of qi flow), cold and dampness stagnation, and dampness-heat stagnation, etc., and need to be diagnosed and treated by a professional physician, with different medications for different types of symptoms, and there is no such thing as what is the most effective thing to take.
If due to deficiency of qi and blood, the uterus is not nourished by dysmenorrhea is generally manifested as a vague pain in the abdomen, gently rubbing, pressure will feel comfortable, accompanied by low menstrual flow, pale color, such patients can take some drugs to replenish qi and blood, such as eight precious soup.
If the dysmenorrhea is caused by Qi stagnation and blood stasis, it usually manifests as stabbing pain or cramping pain in the abdomen, accompanied by breast swelling and pain in the chest and ribs, or low menstrual flow, or poor menstrual flow and other discomforts, this kind of patient can take medicines to promote Qi and blood circulation (to promote the operation of gases to make the blood flow), such as Taohong Siwu Tang, and so on.
If the dysmenorrhea is caused by cold and dampness stagnation, it usually manifests as cold pain in the abdomen, low menstrual flow, dark and lumpy menstruation, fear of cold and other discomforts, you can take medicines to warm the menstruation and disperse the cold (warming the meridians and channels of the human body and getting rid of the coldness in the body) such as Wenjing Tang.
If the dysmenorrhea is caused by dampness-heat stagnation, it is usually manifested as pain in the abdomen, refusing to be pressed, with burning sensation, accompanied by lumbosacral pain and other discomforts, you can take gynecological thousand gold tablets and other medicines.
There are many causes of dysmenorrhea, patients should go to the hospital in time after the discomfort symptoms, clear condition under the guidance of the physician to use drugs for treatment, not blindly take drugs.