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How Chinese Medicine works…

 

 

Reproductive health, like all health, is about balance and relativity. Traditional Chinese Medicine describes the female reproductive system as a network of energy systems with complementary organs and hormonal responses. This network responds to stress, chemicals, lack of exercise, poor eating and excess emotions – all of which can put the body off balance.


Even a slight aberration can throw the entire system off, so that it no longer functions smoothly. Yet, just as the body responds to negative influences, it also responds to gentle direction to return to balance.


In Chinese medicine, there is always a reason one part of the system does not function as it should. There will be expressions of the underlying imbalance, and when the root problem is treated, these manifestations will disappear. If you go to a practitioner of Chinese Medicine, he or she will review your symptoms and based on observations diagnose where your body is out of balance.


Prescriptions include: acupuncture, herbs, diet, lifestyle changes, or a combination of all four to bring your system back to its proper functioning.

 

If you are contemplating having treatment for a reproductive issue, then it is recommended the woman starts charting her monthly cycle. By charting our basal temperatures each day, it takes a measure of what is happening during your circle. This information is quite insightful for the practitioner, and will help during the diagnoses process and continued treatment.

 

  

 

 

Diet and Lifestyle

 

A Chinese proverb states “when the soil is well prepared, the harvest will be bountiful’.

 

Any gardener will tell you that the quality of the soil is what influences the productivity and health of the plant. Preparing the soil isn’t the most glamorous job: it takes time to turn the soil and balance the pH, and if done naturally, it can involve smelly things like manure and compost. In the same way, changing our diet an lifestyle can at times be unglamorous. We have to say no to such additions as coffee or cigarettes or stress/worry. Early nights. Skip convenience meals, preparing healthy meals instead. Mediate, exercise. You will begin to feel vitality of mind, body and soul.


Secondly you can be certain that you are doing everything possible to prepare your body for healing.

 

 

How Nutrition makes a difference…

 

A Chinese proverb states “those who take medicine and neglect their diet, waste the skill of the physician”.

 

Food adjustments to help you along the way:

 

- Alkaline foods - by also chewing foods well, saliva can have an alkalizing effect. Many contemporary sources advocate eating alkaline foods, like non-citrus fruits, vegetables, sprouts, cereal grasses. Bioflavonoids, found in many fruits and vegetables, help in the formation of healthy blood vessels, for a healthy uterus.
Avoid acidic foods (like meat, diary products and most grains).

 

- Omega 3 oils – they are key in ovulation, specifically in the process of follicular rupture (releasing the egg) and collapse (allowing the development of the corpus luteum)

 

- Eat hormone-free meats/organic foods. In natural-food circles, organic foods are touted as necessary for optimum hormonal functioning because of the pesticides, chemicals, and hormones used to treat produce and animal products contain synthetic estrogen-like substances, which occupy estrogen receptor sites and have negative effects on our organ and endocrine systems.

 

- Add more cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cauliflower to your diet. Cruciferous vegetables stimulate more efficient use of estrogen by increasing the metabolism of estradiol (one form of estrogen produced by the body). Excess estradiol is associated with breast pain, weight gain, breast and uterine cancer, moodiness and low libido.

 

- Supplement your diet with a natural, high-potency multivitamin and mineral complex, with iron, folic acid and B-vitamins. The vitamins and minerals important for reproductive health (vitamins A, C, E, B complex, zinc, selenium).

 

- Eliminate caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Nicotine ages the ovaries and makes the eggs resistant to fertilization. Alcohol is particularly damaging. One study reported that any alcohol consumed during an IVF cycle reduced its chance of success by 50 percent. Coffee constricts vessels, reducing blood flow to the reproductive area.

 

 

Pelvic Blood Flow & Fertility

 

The endometrium must be thick enough to be receptive for the developing embryo. Poor blood flow through the uterine artery correlates with lower pregnancy rates. Ovarian health and function are also affected by hormonal state and blood supply.


Therefore, anything we can do to improve blood flow to the uterus and ovaries can help increase our fertility.


Many progressive reproductive clinics in the USA use findings of this study to diagnose and treat infertility patients. They perform Doppler studies to organs. If the results show diminished blood flow, patients are sent to receive acupuncture until the pelvic blood supply improves.

 
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