Patient's question:
How to treat female infertility, recently I've been experiencing lower abdominal pain, especially during my period. I'm very worried it might affect fertility, and I'm also extremely sensitive to cold and coldness. What could be the reason?Doctor's answer:
Hello, treating female infertility can be done using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM believes that the recurrence of female infertility is mainly caused by insufficient congenital 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, blood stasis, and others. Different types of conditions 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 and pale color, or amenorrhea, dull complexion, sore waist and legs, pale tongue with white coating.
Recipe: Snow Lotus Chicken Soup:
30g snow lotus flowers, 1 chicken, 10g each of Poria, Astragalus, and Codonopsis.