Patient's question:
My menstrual cycle has been irregular for a year. I once took Chinese medicine to regulate it and used progesterone to regulate it, but it didn't work anymore and my period remained abnormal. A week ago, I had a thorough check-up at the hospital and was told I have premature ovarian failure. However, I haven't had children yet. I want to know if I can still get pregnant with premature ovarian failure?Doctor's answer:
Premature ovarian failure is a globally recognized complex condition. Western medicine has no effective treatment for this disease, while traditional Chinese medicine believes that premature ovarian failure is often caused by insufficient liver and kidney function or weak qi and blood, leading to the damage of Chong and Ren meridians, depletion of the blood sea, or blockage of the menstrual channels due to qi stagnation and blood stasis, or phlegm-dampness stagnation, resulting in one of the more severe menstrual disorders. The production of menstruation is a physiological phenomenon where the zang-fu organs, kidney qi, Tian Gui, Chong and Ren meridians, qi and blood, and meridians work in coordination to affect the (uterus). Among the zang-fu organs, the liver, spleen, and kidneys are most closely related, with the kidneys playing a leading role in the production of menstruation. The mechanisms of premature ovarian failure are mainly explained by the "deficiency theory" and the "stasis theory."