conventional medicine plays an important role and most of the time, it
is the first treatment for a couple who for what ever reason cam not
conceive after 1 year of unprotected sexual intercourse or can not carry
the pregnancy to full term. Because of frustration, time and cost
consuming, some people may turn to tradition Chinese medicine for
treatment. In this article, we will discuss how to treat hormonal
imbalance in traditional Chinese medicine perspective.
Unlike
conventional medication, traditional Chinese medicine treat the body as
a whole and each patient is treated as one unique entity. It is
difficult to describe one method for all patient. But in general, here
are some general techniques which have been used over thousand of years
in treating infertility
I. In gerneral
After taking personal file and past personal medical recorded Your TCM practitioner usually examine
1. Your body and facial appearance
Believe
it or not, your body and facial appearance will give your herbalist
some idea about your condition. If you have a pale facial appearance, he
or she may suspect that you have yang qi deficiency.
2. Pulse reading
There are 2 types of pulses
a) Heart pulse
This
pulse will tell your herbalist how you heart works. The different
reading of irregular fast or slow may contribute to different types of
deficiency
b) Kidney pulse
Kidney pulse is specially important for
treatment of women or men infertility, as Chinese traditional medicine
view kidney as reproductive system regulator. Any deficiency may distort
the menstrual cycle in women and lower sperm quality in men.
3. Reading your tongue
Any deficiency or stagnation of qi and blood will express in the tougue color, tastbuds, etc.
II. Necessary
After
diagnosis your problem through initial examination and reading your
personal medical file and assuming that your infertility problem is not
caused by structure problem.
1. Weight
You may ask to gain or lose
some weight. The traditional Chinese medicine view the best weight for
conception is 5-10 over the BMI normal range.
2. Exercise
It
is hard to believe that some women engaging in running or playing some
kinds of sport which seem to be healthy, without knowing it may
contribute to infertility as resulting of the brain primitive reaction
to certain environments.
3. Life style change
a) Alcohol
If
you may needed to stop alcohol drinking completely, if your herbalist
suspects that alcohol has certain effected in your liver function.
b) Smoking
Even
though, everybody know smoking is no good for every body. If smoking
interferes with persistent condition, your will ask to quit smoking.
Don't worry, they have very good stopping smoking technique as long as
your are cooperative.
c) Exercise
You may ask to do some very
moderate exercise to improve blood flow to your body and reduce stress
to your nervous system, including walking, tai chi and yoga
4. Acupuncture
It
is one of the oldest traditional Chinese medicine treatment. If your
herbalist suspect that blood or qi stagnation or imbalance of chi have
interfered with normal function of your body, leading the underline
disease then you may be required a few session of acupuncture. By
applying the needle in the exact meridian point, it helps to relieve the
causes.
5. Acupressure
If the underline cause is pain related, then acupressure may be needed to stop pain or release muscles tension.
6. Breathing techniques
It
helps to relieve symptoms of nervous tension including emotional and
physical stress. anxiety and depression. It is specially useful for
stress causes of infertility, such as working in the stress occupation
and women who are under constant stress.
7. Food
In Chinese medicine, foods are classified in to five groups
a) Cool
b) Cold
c) Neutral
d) Warm
e) Hot
you
may ask to add some the specific types of food into your diet and
reduce the other, if you herbalist suspect that your diet has interfered
with normal function in your body or other specific organs. Women with
kidney yang deficiency is required to add more warm and hot food into
their diet.
8. Vitamins and minerals
When is necessary, you will ask to take certain vitamins and mineral supplement to improve your body deficiency.
9. Herbs
If medicine is necessary, herbs will be given to restore the over all health.
There
are many other types of technique that tradition Chinese medicine used
to treat underline causes of infertility and they believe each
individual is unique, there are no one type of treatment for all.
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