VIEWS ON 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.