fertility assistance

female fertility

In order to assist in a healthy conception and pregnancy, a Chinese medicine fertility specialist aims most basically, to balance the menstrual cycle of a woman and the address any underlying root causes that are impacting the woman's fertility.

Ultimately a woman's menstrual cycle should be regular (28-30 days), with good quality fertile mucous at ovulation with no pain or spotting when ovulation occurs. She should experience a healthy menstrual bleed that is efficient (4-5 days long) with no pain, no clots and without an extensive list of pre-menstrual symptoms that preceded it.

Many women would look at this list and laugh. At one time or another, many woman have already, or will at some stage, deviate from this perfect menstrual cycle picture. TCM has the ability to regulate the imbalances and irregularities that cause many of these deviations and in turn enhance fertility.

male fertility

At first thought, many people associate fertility issues with the inability of the woman to fall pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term. However, the incidence of declining reproductive health in males is becoming more prevalent.

Chinese medicine, both herbs and acupuncture are able to positively change many of the factors that go into male infertility. Sperm is constantly being formed with the male testes and then takes 2-3 months to develop and mature before it is ejaculated and then needed for the fertilisation of an egg. This long developmental and maturation process means that sperm can be exposed to external factors along the way which may decrease the quality of the man's sperm. Thankfully though, it also means that treatment of sperm disorders is also possible because we can start treatment of the male so as to treat the sperm as they start to form and therefore influence a healthy development of them.