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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 Ovulatory dysfunction infertility Recent TCM Research [Keywords:] Infertility, (female) sexual; no ovulation; TCM therapy; Review Ovulatory dysfunction is caused by one of the main female infertility, accounting for 25% of female infertility patients and 30% [1]. Clinical manifestations of chronic anovulation or ovulation abnormalities, including luteinized unruptured follicles, luteal defects and luteal phase defect. Is a Chinese medicine amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, infertility and other areas. Ovulation is the treatment of ovulatory dysfunction, an important treatment of infertility. Doctors tend to take oral clomiphene citrate (CC) or human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) treatment, the ovulation rate may be high, but the pregnancy rate is very low, and sometimes cause side effects. In recent years, Chinese medicine treatment of ovulatory dysfunction, infertility has made some progress, the relevant data are summarized below. 1 Etiology and Pathogenesis of 1.1 The understanding of modern medicine, women’s reproductive function depends on the hypothalamus - pituitary - ovary - uterus axis to maintain, in the axis of the adjustment under the coordination of a variety of sex hormone secretion, leading to cyclical follicular development, ovulation, luteal formation, luteal atrophy, the formation of physiological menstrual cycle. If this reproductive axis dysfunction, which may cause follicular dysplasia, no ovulation, or luteal dysfunction, which lead to menstrual disorders and infertility. Because in vivo a variety of factors, such as the environment and climate change, mental anxiety, excessive fatigue, malnutrition, and the hypothalamus, pituitary, ovary, or thyroid gland, adrenal gland diseases and other reasons, so that regulate ovulation cycle, the level of estradiol and the cycle disorders can not be provoked ovulation luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion peak occurs, or low enough to re-stimulate the follicle-stimulating h