The unique advantage of Chinese Medicine for Infertility
Infertility can be categorized as primary infertility and secondary infertility.
Primary infertility refers to couples who have not been able to achieve pregnancy after at least 1 year of trying to conceive.
Secondary infertility refers to couples who have been pregnant at least once in the past but have not been able to achieve pregnancy again after at least one year of trying to conceive. Secondary infertility is believed to be more common than primary infertility; furthermore, some reports indicated that up to 20% of women who had their first full term delivery have been diagnosed secondary infertility. Many factors may affect the secondary infertility,
- Age
- Irregular Menstruation
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
- High FSH
- Stress
- Smoking, alcohol and caffeine
- Surgeries or Infections
From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, infertility is mainly because of renal dysfunction of the liver and spleen. Kidney essence has the main function for reproduction; when the kidney is going through spermatogenic dysfunction, male patients may have impotence, be unable to ejaculate, low sperm, weak sperm, and even dead sperm.
Traditional Chinese medicine has been used to treat infertility for almost two thousand years. The significant results have drawn more attention nowadays. The treatment of infertility with Traditional Chinese medicine has its unique advantages: a variety of therapies with higher efficacy.
In terms of treatment, Traditional Chinese Medicine is ideal for treating some diseases that are often difficult to treat with conventional medicine, such as dysmenorrhea for women, and for men most of the functional diseases.
