Patient's question:
The first child I had before the New Year was quite normal. But now I'm preparing for a second child, and it's been a long time since I got pregnant. I suspect it's my problem. Please ask: How is female infertility treated?Doctor's answer:
Hello, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can be used to treat female infertility. TCM believes that the recurrence of female infertility is primarily caused by insufficient innate kidney qi and disharmony of qi and blood in the viscera. According to TCM theory, infertility is classified into types such as kidney deficiency (yang deficiency, yin deficiency), liver stagnation, phlegm-dampness, and blood stasis. Different types should be treated with different medicinal diet therapy. Below are the dietary and medicinal recipes for kidney deficiency infertility:Kidney Yang Deficiency Infertility:
Symptoms include delayed menstruation, reduced volume with pale color, or amenorrhea, dull complexion, sore waist and legs, and pale tongue with white coating.
[Recipe] Snow Lotus Chicken Soup:
30g snow lotus flowers, 1 chicken, 10g each of poria, astragalus, and Codonopsis.
[Instructions]: Wash the herbs and cook them with the chicken until tender. Eat the meat and drink the soup, 1-2 times daily. After consumption, cook and eat again after a few months.