Traditional Chinese Medicine and Fertility
Can traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) help improve fertility? Absolutely! Successful treatment of infertility dates back in China to the Sui Dynasty (589 CE). There are many ways TCM can help improve chances of conceiving and maintaining a healthy pregnancy. According to traditional Chinese medicine philosophy, we say that the best way to achieve a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby is to cultivate the soil in order to plant the seed, so getting your body as healthy as it can be is our focus. We utilize a broad spectrum of treatment modalities to including a combination of individualized diagnostic measures, herbal formulas, stimulation of acupuncture points, bodywork, dietary, and lifestyle adjustments. Chinese medicine enhances fertility by strengthening and balancing organ functions and production of hormones, an essential component to fertility. Additionally, by activating the parasympathetic nervous system (which induces the relaxation response) and calming the sympathetic nervous system (which initiates the stress response), Chinese herbs and acupuncture encourage the fertility process by restoring a deep relaxation to the mind and body.
Preconception Care
- Helps overcome common fertility challenges for both women and men
- Balance a woman’s hormonal cycle by regulating the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis
- Reduces stress and cortisol levels
- Help regulate ovulation
- Improves the quality of fertile cervical mucus
- Nourishes the quality of egg development
- Fosters embryo implantation
- Increases the thickness of the uterine lining
- Increases blood flow to the uterus and pelvic region
- Enhances the immune system
- Increases chances of conceiving naturally
- Increases effectiveness of Western assisted reproductive techniques
- Reduces side effects of drugs prescribed during IVF, IUI, and other related procedures
- Improves sperm quality (including morphology and motility)
Prenatal Care
- Decreases morning sickness
- Improves health, energy, and mental outlook
- Support a viable pregnancy
- Reduces chance of miscarriage
- Reduces length of labor
Postpartum Care
- Helps with a speedier recovery following childbirth
- Improves long-term reproductive health
- Lessens postpartum depression
- Improves breast milk quality
Causes of infertility TCM can make an impact on:
- Advanced Maternal Age
- Amenorrhea
- Cervical/uterine factors
- Diabetes
- Elevated FSH
- Endocrine Imbalances
- Endometriosis
- Fallopian tube factors
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Immunology factors or inflammatory factors-both specific and non-specific
- Lupus
- Luteal Phase Defect
- Male Factors
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Ovarian Cysts
- Premature Ovarian Failure
- Ovulation factors
- Stress
- Thyroid Disease
- Unexplained Infertility
- Uterine Fibroid Tumors
