The difference between Western reproductive medicine and traditional Chinese medicine in their approach to the treatment of infertility
Western reproductive medicine can do the following things: promote the development of follicles with the help of certain drugs, stimulate ovulation with other drugs, perform intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization. Western reproductive surgeons can also perform the often necessary operations to create a favorable environment in which polyps, fibroids, uterine abnormalities and cervical abnormalities are present. Without these types of interventions, many infertile women will never have children.
Traditional Chinese medicine can often regulate systemic dysfunction. This means that TCM can contribute to helping patients with osteotrope PCOS without Clomid or sometimes with less Clomid. In patients with painful obesity in patients with PCOS, weight loss is of paramount importance for increasing the ability to conceive, because excess fat stores androgens and converters of androgens into estrogen, thereby creating a hormonal imbalance that illicitly conceives. Acupuncture and herbal medicine along with changes in the physical and vital rhythm can lead to weight loss and related health benefits.
In a patient with endometriosis, acupuncture and phytotherapy cannot eradicate endometriosis, but can reduce the inflammatory environment associated with this disease. An interesting example of this is a patient with stage 1 endometriosis who does not experience pelvic distortion, but cannot become pregnant. Why not? Her husband's sperm is beautiful and different from endometriosis, but does not contribute to the influence of infertility factors. Even other autoimmune disorders were excluded as possible factors. Infertility is associated with an inflammatory prenatal environment that either destroys embryos or makes the uterine lining unsuitable for an embryo that is trying to implant. Acupuncture and herbal medicine can often regulate this environment, reducing this inflammatory process.
Male factor. Many males have low sperm count as a result of a minor vertexcell. Surgeons do not work on small viriosecules, because this advantage does not exceed this risk. The cause of vericocele is the union and stagnation and overheating of the blood in the pampinous plexus. The pampinous plexus refers to the veins in the testicles. Spermatozoa are caused by blood circulation and stagnation. Acupuncture and herbs can consistently move qi (energy, metabolism, blood circulation) and blood in the testicles. As a result, the blood less freezes, the blood flow is more functional, and the heat decreases, which contributes to an increase in the number of spermatozoa. Even in the face of a major vancocele, surgical outcomes are successful in 50% of cases. This means that even with operations 50% the likelihood that the score will remain low. One of the reasons for this is that prolonged stagnation of blood and heat in the testicles causes tissue necrosis (death), and sperm cannot be adequately produced.
The definition of success can only be done after surgery. Recovery time after surgery is six months. The reason this happens is that the inflammation caused by surgery requires a lot of time to reduce. The use of acupuncture and phytotherapy after a verikocelectomy reduces the recovery time by about two months, resulting in a total recovery time of four months instead of six. People with any semen abnormality should refrain from hot baths, saunas, or cycling for long periods of time, since all these actions increase the temperature of the testicles.
What about a patient who wants to do IVF with her own eggs, but her FSH is 20, and her doctor claims that the only option is a donor egg? The doctor is essentially correct. He or she treats this patient as a person who either does not respond to stimulation with gonadotropin, and therefore does not produce either eggs or produce too little to justify the continuity of the IVF cycle. Thus, a reproductive endocrinologist offers the option of an egg donor with complete integrity and with the best interests of the patient. But here is what I have seen more than a few times: I will treat the patient with acupuncture and herbal medicine, and its numbers will be regulated. Not necessarily the "ideal" but the levels that will ensure that the reproductive endocrinologist will have the appearance of a second glance. Subsequently, many IVF cycles ended with a large number of successful results and many failures. But I decided not to pay too much attention to the failures. Success, which would never have happened, would be if acupuncture and herbal medicine were not used for the patient, who was told that the only option is a donor egg. In other words, the inclusion of TCM has only growth potential.
Failure of implantation explains a significant amount of infertility. Almost every patient about whom I report that her lining is “beautiful,” according to her reproductive endocrinologist. However, the scientific truth is that the lining morphology is not analogous to intra-endometrial vascularization. This means that even if the lining can be thick, it does not mean that enough blood flows to the lining. That is why sometimes even in the absence of any observable or diagnosed pathology, infertility appears. It has been shown that acupuncture and phytotherapy increase endometrial vascularization and thereby increase the implantation potential.
Idiopathic patient. Idiopathy means the absence of a known cause. What is unknown means that the limited Western medical diagnostic capabilities available today are only capable of diagnosing what they can, and not what they cannot. In other words, there are many undiagnosed causes of infertility that are yet to be discovered and that today have no remedies. Over time, this will change. This should by no means be a derogatory commentary on Western reproductive medicine. IVF brought millions of children to the world and created many happy families. These successes would have been impossible in a barren population. before this incredible technological breakthrough.
Traditional Chinese medicine, based on its diagnostic method, is not part of its medical vocabulary, has a word similar to idiopathic. In other words, all cases of infertility can be diagnosed and treated. There are no sacraments or impossible cases. Each case can be analyzed, differentiated, diagnosed and treated.
TCM can often establish a treatment protocol in which Western medicine can offer nothing but a donor egg. TCM uses specific herbal formulas prescribed for a particular patient for a particular disorder, taking into account the entire patient, as well as their pathology. The whole person is treated not only by his illness. What does the whole person really mean? This means that if a patient has a bad marriage, low libido, chronic headaches, arthritis, depression, anxiety, frustration, history of operations, history of psycho-emotional trauma, work she hates, dying mother, low self-awareness —esteem, smoker, drinker, stress lover, etc., etc., these things can contribute to its sterility.
How? Because the mind, spirit and body are inextricably linked. Not convinced? Well, then why, when you are very tight, you get a headache or an abdominal pain. Why, when you are very depressed, you have no energy? Why is it that when you pray, do you feel more empowered? Why, when you look better, you feel better, and when you feel better, you have more energy, and when you have more energy, you are less likely to become sick, and when you do not often suffer from depression, you do not suffer from chronic depressed?
Because the mind, spirit and body are inextricably linked. That's why TCM doctors treat the whole person; only treating a disease is similar to treating a cancer patient with analgesics for their pain.
That is why the best treatment option for reproductive disorders (as well as all disorders) is the integration of both methods of medical expertise. The TCM app will help the Western Reproductive Medical Protocol succeed in a shorter period of time. Or TCM may be the difference between success and failure in a western medical setting; remember that IVF has a success rate of 30%, which means, on the contrary, that it has a 70% failure rate.
Herbs. Herbal medicine, when prescribed by a certified herbalist, is not only safe, but also safer than Western drugs. Can herbs interfere with Western medicine in the IVF cycle? No. I gave herbs to patients when they took Western medicine for thirteen years. All that has happened is the production of babies. Can a western medical institution suffer from herbs or acupuncture? I will leave it for you to reply.
Here is a medical quiz. If you had the choice to do something that could improve your chances of conceiving, this would be:
1. Meditation
2. Prayer
3. Yoga
4. Acupuncture
5. Herbal medicine
6. Change your diet
7. Reduced stress
You are correct; all this will help. But can you identify two things above that have a three thousand year history of successful infertility treatment? There are only two in the list.
What I find surprising is that each infertile couple does not include acupuncture and phytotherapy as part of their protocol to conceive. Some people say they don’t believe it. “How can you not believe that it is scientifically proven to be effective in countless Western scientific studies?” As far as I know, very few studies have been done in the field of medicinal herbs and fertility opportunities, but there have been many studies on acupuncture.
I am a staunch supporter and a staunch supporter of western reproductive medicine. But TCM successfully bred infertility for 2930 years longer than Western medicine. And I want parity. Not for my ego or for the confirmation of medicine, which I am so proud of, but because parity will provide real care for the patient; improve patient care than we already have; more successful results, more families donated to those who should, but cannot have them.
Based on the information I provided here, I concluded that not using traditional Chinese medicine as part of the care and reproductive health protocol was very short sighted.
