Women's Health

Chinese medicine can help improve the success rate of assisted reproductive techniques in the following ways:

Stress reduction, relaxation
Regulate hormones - better egg quality
Improves ovarian blood flow - increases ovarian response
Improve ovarian function - more follicles
Strengthens the immune system - overall health & well-being
Increases blood flow to the uterus - improving endometrial lining (implantation)
Improves sperm counts, motility and morphology
Lessens side effects from hormonal treatments
Higher live birth rate (prevent chance of miscarriage)

Introduction

I am utilizing in my treatment program the classical techniques and medicinal substances of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The purpose of this program is to help women who desire to have children to become pregnant, maintain a healthy pregnancy, and deliver healthy babies.

Fertility vs. Infertility

Every year, I am approached by dozens of women struggling with infertility. It is very rare that my clinic is the first stop on a woman's quest to become pregnant. In fact, if you are like most of the women who turn to me for help, you have probably tried several other approaches before considering the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is not uncommon to hear from my fertility patients that we are their "last hope," or that they have already "tried absolutely everything."

Despite the tremendous diversity that I see in the woman who come to me for help, the one thing that most of my new patients have in common is that they tend to relate with themselves as "being" infertile. In the sub-culture of fertility treatment, people tend to get labeled (or to label themselves) infertile. Women of child bearing age should be physiologically capable of having children. In other words, unless there is something structurally wrong with a woman's reproductive anatomy, or she is either too old or too young to be physiologically capable of conceiving a baby, a woman, by definition, is fertile.

If I am fertile, why can't I become pregnant?

Even though a woman's basic state is one of fertility, there are a number of factors that can impede or obstruct her ability to become pregnant. In other words, your body is essentially fertile, but there is some kind of interference that makes it difficult for you to become pregnant. If a woman's body is truly infertile, no amount of treatment can change that condition. If, on the other hand, a woman's body is basically fertile, but there are interfering factors that inhibit her ability to become pregnant, then those factors can be identified and treated.

The value of using Traditional Chinese Medicine to enhance fertility is that it has a particular genius for identifying and differentiating the various types of interference that inhibit the ability to become pregnant.

Wellness and Fertility

Another integral concept at the foundation of the program holds that wellness, like fertility, is also my underlying foundational state. Fundamentally, our bodies are well, vital, and healthy, and yet, there are interfering factors that limit or inhibit our access to that dynamic state of wellness.

In order to get the most out of this program it is absolutely essential that you understand the relationship between wellness and fertility. In contrast to the dominant western view of fertility, Traditional Chinese Medicine does not attempt to affect a woman's reproductive system in isolation. By contrast, the Eastern approach to fertility takes as axiomatic that the female reproductive system is integrally connected to all of the other vital systems of the body. According to this view, an imbalance, or a malfunction in some seemingly unrelated area of the body could create serious implications for the reproductive system.

It is about restoring your overall health to its fullest potential because I believe that the state of the body's fertility is a reflection of a woman's overall health. This is not to say that women who have fertility issues are intrinsically unhealthy. You may have difficulty in the area of fertility, but consider yourself to be a healthy person overall. What this does mean is that fertility problems indicate some underlying disharmony or malfunction in the body. This may be hormonal, it may be physiological, and it could even have its root in the emotions. All of these factors can lead to Qi stagnation, which, in turn can affect fertility. I hope that you and your family will choose a holistic approach to your healthcare, and work with me to return the whole of your system to optimal functioning as an avenue to fertility.

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