A medicine composition, in a dosage form and therapeutically-effective amounts for the treatment or improvement of dysmenorrhea or a condition characterized thereby, the composition comprising active ingredients derived from Cinnamomi ramulus, Poria cocos, Moutan cortex, Persicae semen, and Paeoniae radix alba, quantified in mass percentages, the active ingredients comprising, by weight of the medicine composition:
- 0.433-0.740 parts by weight of gallic acid,
- 0.011-0.054 parts by weight of p-hydroxybenzoic acid,
- 0.097-0.201 parts by weight of oxidized paeoniflorin,
- 1.235-1.991 parts by weight of paeoniflorin,
- 0.012-0.094 parts by weight of ethyl gallate,
- 0.294-0.702 parts by weight of 1,2,3,4,6-O-penta-galloylglucose,
- 0.045-0.135 parts by weight of benzoic acid,
- 0.021-0.062 parts by weight of cinnamic acid,
- 0.101-0.236 parts by weight of benzoylpaeoniflorin,
- 0.045-0.511 parts by weight of cinnamaldehyde,
- 0.728-1.202 parts by weight of paeonol,
- 1.114-1.492 parts by weight of amygdalin,
- 1.851-3.702 parts by weight of water-soluble polysaccharides,
- 30.198-40.206 parts by weight of alkali-soluble polysaccharides, and
- 9.966-15.438 parts by weight of monosaccharides and disaccharides.