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Eastern Medicine Offers Hope for Infertility
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10583 |
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LIFE
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2 / 1986 |
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Carol Ann Pearce
Carol Ann Pearce is free-lancer living in New York. Ms.
Pearce is listed in both the International Who's Who in
Authors and Who's Who in Women. In 1978, she received the
Langston Hughes poetry award and in 1980 was honored by the
Poetry Society of America. |
One of the defiant problems many Western women face today is infertility. Shifting patterns of work and home life, longterm use of contraceptive pills, a high energy drain from combined career and family responsibilities have joined to produce a nightmare situation. Women in their thirties decide to have a family and find they cannot. Western infertility experts respond with medicines and high-tech fertilization techniques which can be enormously expensive with no guarantee regarding the type of result, either successful or deleterious; sometimes in the form of unwanted and heart-breaking side effects such as multiple births.
On the other side of the medical coin, classical Chinese medicine, often referred to simply as "traditional medicine," offers a less disruptive and often successful approach to combating infertility. Arising out of the Far East and including herbal prescriptions and acupuncture, this option is generally becoming more acceptable.
Ai Ja Lee, Ph.D. and practitioner of oriental medicine since 1965, now with the New York City Oriental Holistic Center, says, "It is natural for a woman to get pregnant. If she cannot, then it's safe to say something is out of balance. When you lose the balance by an external or internal reason--external can be the season or weather, or stress; internal can be an emotional or hormonal problem--then the yin and yang balance is disturbed and you cannot conceive."
Dr. Lee stresses that a woman's energy level must be high if she wants to have a baby. To build up this energy level, Dr. Lee prescribes a combination of herbs which she imports from mainland China. However, she suits the
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