Treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine [electronic resource].
Lyttleton, Jane.
London : Elsevier Health Sciences UK,
2013.
The second edition of this popular text systematically addresses all aspects of treatment of infertility using Chinese medicine. Clinically focused and with a new easy-to-navigate design, the book begins by covering all the essential fundamentals you will need to understand and treat infertility, before going on to look at what Chinese medicine offers in the way of treatment for functional infertility in men and women, gynecological disorders which contribute to infertility and relevant lifestyle factors. Jane Lyttleton importantly devotes a large part of the book to discussing ways in whic
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Front Cover; Series Page; Treatment of Infertility withChinese Medicine; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the 2nd edition; Foreword to the 1st edition; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1 - The Fundamentals; Chapter1 - A tale of two clinics - the treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine or Western medicine; REFERENCES; Chapter2 - The menstrual cycle; BECOMING A SPECIALIST IN FEMALE INFERTILITY; THE CHINESE AND WESTERN MEDICINE APPROACH; THE ORGANS; THE SUBSTANCES; THE CHANNELS; HOW IT ALL BEGINS; THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE; THE YIN PART OF THE CYCLE
THE YANG PART OF THE CYCLEBACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD; PARALLELS BETWEEN TCM AND WESTERN PARAMETERS; REFERENCES; Chapter3 - Charting the menstrual cycle; INTRODUCTION; THE BBT CHART; HISTORY OF THE BBT CHART; CHARTING THE CYCLE FROM DAY 1; PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER; BBT CHARTS AND PATTERN DIAGNOSIS; MORE ON DISCHARGES; REFERENCES; Section2 - In The Clinic; Chapter4 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Female Infertility; INTRODUCTION; THE TWO KEY ELEMENTS: OVULATION AND MENSTRUATION; TAKING A HISTORY; TCM CATEGORIES OF FEMALE INFERTILITY; SAME DISEASE, DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; PRESCRIBING TREATMENT
TIMING OF TREATMENTSPRESCRIPTIONS; PROBLEMS IN THE FOLLICULAR PHASE OR AT OVULATION; MIDCYCLE PHASE - PROMOTING MOVEMENT OF QI AND BLOOD; PROBLEMS IN THE LUTEAL PHASE OR AT IMPLANTATION; IN THE CLINIC: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER; TREATMENT DURING PREGNANCY; MORNING SICKNESS; TOWARDS THE END OF PREGNANCY; REFERENCES; Chapter5 - Gynecologic disorders which can cause infertility; INTRODUCTION; DISEASES AND DISORDERS WHICH CAUSE OR CONTRIBUTE TO INFERTILITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; AMENORRHEA AND DISORDERS OF OVULATION; POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME; REFERENCES
Chapter6 - Blockage of the Fallopian TubesINTRODUCTION; CAN CHINESE MEDICINE TREAT FALLOPIAN TUBE BLOCKAGE?; DIAGNOSIS OF TUBAL BLOCKAGE; THE STRUCTURE OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES; DAMAGE TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE TUBE; FUNCTIONAL BLOCKAGES; ADDITIONAL TREATMENTS FOR STRUCTURAL BLOCKAGES; REFERENCES; Chapter7 - Male Infertility; INTRODUCTION; WHERE AND HOW SPERM ARE MADE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; DECLINING SPERM COUNTS; AGE AND SPERM; DIAGNOSIS OF MALE INFERTILITY IN TCM; TCM TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY; IVF PROCEDURES; DIET AND LIFESTYLE; REFERENCES
Chapter8 - Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, immune infertility, and ectopic pregnancyMISCARRIAGE; THREATENED MISCARRIAGE; INEVITABLE MISCARRIAGE; RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE; IMMUNE-RELATED MISCARRIAGES; EARLY PREGNANCY; MISSED ABORTION; MALE FACTOR TREATMENT; CONCEPTION TIMING AND MISCARRIAGE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Section 3 - Combining Chinese AndWestern Medicine; Chapter9 - Assisted reproduction technology and in vitro fertilization; INTRODUCTION; IVF STATISTICS; THE ART CLINIC; REFERENCES; Chapter10 - Assisted reproduction technology and traditional Chinese medicine
INFERTILITY PATIENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT NEEDS
The second edition of this popular text systematically addresses all aspects of treatment of infertility using Chinese medicine. Clinically focused and with a new easy-to-navigate design, the book begins by covering all the essential fundamentals you will need to understand and treat infertility, before going on to look at what Chinese medicine offers in the way of treatment for functional infertility in men and women, gynecological disorders which contribute to infertility and relevant lifestyle factors. Jane Lyttleton importantly devotes a large part of the book to discussing ways in whic
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