Women's Health

Infertility and (Habitual) Miscarriage

With career choices and obligations in America, couples start families later in life so that there is an increased likelihood of infertility and/or miscarriage. Oriental medicine treats the conditions that compromise the good health of a man or a woman before conception, increases a woman’s chance of becoming and staying pregnant to term, and helps restore the woman’s health after childbirth so that she may become pregnant more easily the next time.

Infertility and miscarriage occur for a variety of reasons:

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can help to cleanse the body of accumulated toxins, and restore the body’s natural hormonal cycle to its most reproductive-ready best. The typical fertility patient in Ms. Chaudhuri’s practice is 35 years or older, female, who has had either multiple miscarriages or is in the midst of A.R.T. (Assisted Reproductive Technology). Once Ms. Chaudhuri begins to take the patient’s medical history, finds out a glimpse of the patient’s lifestyle, and puts together her constitutional picture, she sees a woman who, rightfully so, is in a hurry biologically to get pregnant, and whose body’s systemic balance is upset by multiple miscarriages, invasive procedures and over-stimulating hormonal medications. She uses acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to create the needed uterine environment for successful conception. This treatment strategy might entail regulating menstrual cycles, improving blood quality and quantity, regulating hormone levels, changing diet, helping the patient to stop smoking (check out “How Oriental Medicine Helps With Smoking Cessation” on home page), reversing the toxic damage to the body from the smoking, enriching the ovulatory stage, etc. After a few months of receiving Oriental medicine, a patient revisiting A.R.T., in concert with acupuncture, has an improved chance for both conception and helping the embryo tether securely to the uterine wall.

If you are planning to get pregnant, and are in your 30’s or 40’s, the treatment you will receive from acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine will enhance your reproductive health and help postpartum recuperation to occur more quickly.

It is a Chinese custom for families to focus support on the new mother, as well as on the baby, in order to help her recover from pregnancy and childbirth without residual health issues. Traditional Chinese medicine considers postpartum an opportunistic time to literally change the mother’s constitution for the better.

Acupuncture can provide profound stress reduction. Oriental medicine can remove the manifestations of a life lived unsynchronized. Once the daily stressors that our society places on us are removed, a better uterine environment for the IVF, GIFT, egg donation, etc. can be created, and success is more attainable; a zygote can remain tethered to a healthy endometrium wall, and grow with all the nourishment it needs.

Additionally, for those women who smoke, and are having difficulty becoming pregnant, it is important that they realize that a preliminary period of time is necessary to clear out the affects of smoking on the body. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can help to effectively resolve this damage more quickly.

Pregnancy and Postpartum
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can provide safe and gentle alternative methods in order to avoid over-medicalization of birth. In today’s society, birth usually takes place in hospitals. However, women in greater numbers are interested in a more natural birthing environment with midwives and birthing centers due to a desire for more control and less intervention during the birth of their children.

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine enhance the energy a mother requires to deliver her baby. Additionally, Oriental medicine has the amazing capability of making difficult conditions in pregnancy and postpartum take a turn for the better.

Maya Chaudhuri has had great success in treating traditionally unspoken of acute conditions. These conditions are dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, fibroids, uterine and ovarian cysts, frequent urinary tract infections, Candida, vaginal and urethral vestibulitis, migraines, anemia, joint pain, perimenopause symptoms such as hot flashes, fatigue, headaches, vaginal dryness, changing characteristics in menstrual cycles, acne, night sweats, low libido, and preventing further degeneration of bone density, etc.