The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babies - Softcover

Lewis PhD, Randine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316159212 ISBN 13: 9780316159210

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark, 2005

Synopsis

A groundbreaking alternative approach to treating infertility using traditional Chinese medicine-on its own or in conjunction with the latest Western-based reproductive technology.
Dr. Randine Lewis offers you a natural way to support your efforts to get pregnant. In The Infertility Cure, Dr. Lewis outlines her simple guidelines involving diet, herbs, and acupressure so that you can make use of her experience and expertise to create a nurturing, welcoming environment for a healthy baby.
The Infertility Cure addresses:

• Advanced maternal age
• Recurrent miscarriage
• Immunological fertility problems
• Male-factor infertility
• Hormonal imbalances and associated conditions
• Anovulation, lethal phase defect, amenorrhea, unexplained infertility
• Endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, tubal obstruction, uterine fibroids
• Improving the outcome of assisted reproductive techniques

The Infertility Cure opens the door to new ideas about treating infertility that will dramatically increase your odds of getting pregnant-the natural way.

About this title

About the Author:

Randine Lewis, PhD, Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, is a licenced acupuncturist and herbalist who has studied both Eastern and Western medicine. She is the medical expert on About.com's infertility site, HowToMakeAFamily.com, www.pregnancy.com and www.inciid.org.

From Publishers Weekly:

Lewis, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, believes infertile couples should turn to Chinese medicine as an alternative to what she considers painful, invasive and time-consuming Western treatments. She first explains, "Traditional Chinese medicine holds that a woman's body must be gently nourished and encouraged to bear fruit.... I have found that most hormonal imbalances (which contribute to 40 percent of documented cases of infertility, yet are considered untreatable by conventional Western medicine) respond to Eastern methods of treatment." In Lewis's experience, women who have undergone three to six months of the dietary changes, herbs and acupuncture treatments become pregnant with no further effort. Lewis intersperses her somewhat technical examination of the program with anecdotes about her patients, weaving in discussions on diet, herbal supplements, acupuncture, older women and problems related to infertility. Lewis writes well and simplifies many complex concepts, such as the theory that there are four vital substances in the body (Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood), and that they're likely to be suffering from imbalance caused by energy excess, deficiency or stagnation. However, she trusts that her view is the solution for all infertile couples. Readers with infertility issues may well benefit by adopting some of Lewis's strategies, but they would also be wise to discuss her approach with their doctors before abandoning their current treatments. 41 line drawings.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0316159212
• ISBN 13: 9780316159210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320