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CHINESE MEDICINE & WESTERN MEDICINE FOR FERTILITY & CONCEPTION
Together we can do it. Change your diet, use acupuncture and herbal
treatment. Get balance and harmony back and most likely pregnancy will be
on the way.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that a women’s body must be gently
nourished and encouraged to bear fruit. It works to rebalance the delicate
interplay of energies that occur each month, causing a woman to produce a
healthy egg capable of fertilization and to prepare her uterine lining to
receive that egg. And meantime, the whole body’s harmony is also very
important in order to suit the changes of pregnancy. In my near 20 years
of practicing TCM, I have found that most hormonal imbalances respond to
Chinese medicine treatment very well. Many patients come to me having been
diagnosed with high FSH levels, luteal
phase defect, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis,
and so on, or having gone through months or years of trying to get
pregnant using assistant reproductive technology (ART). And many of them
are delighted to discover that after three to six months of the dietary
changes, herbs, and acupuncture treatments that I prescribe, they become
pregnant.
Western medicine relies on scientific measurements to determine the
problem, and then it provides to overcome that particular effect. Chinese
medicine, on the other hand, looks at the patients, the whole body,
seeking imbalances in the system rather than focusing on disease.