Dr Armour is a postdoctoral research fellow at Western Sydney University's National Institute of Complementary Medicine.

阿穆尔博士是西悉尼大学国家辅助医学研究所的博士后研究员。

It was a small pilot study of 74 women aged between 18 and 45 which found that more than half had at least a 50 percent reduction in the severity of their period pain after undergoing acupuncture treatment.

这只是一个涉及了74位年龄在18到45岁之间的女性的小型初步研究，结果发现超过一半的人接受针灸治疗后，痛经的程度至少减少了一半。

The women underwent the treatment for three months, with the effects lasting for up to a year.

她们接受了为期3个月的针灸治疗，但效果却持续了1年。

Many of the women also reported less of a need to use painkillers to treat their period pain and an improvement in secondary symptoms.

许多女性还表示，她们没那么需要止痛药来治疗痛经了，并且其他伴随症状也得到改善。

This included headaches and nausea, according to the study published in the international journal PLOS One.

根据国际杂志《公共科学图书馆•综合》发布的研究结果，伴随症状包括了头痛和恶心等。

Known in medical circles as primary dysmenorrhea, period pain is most common in women aged under 25.

痛经在医学界又被称为原发性痛经，常见于25岁以下的女性。

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