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Fertility Types Based On Traditional Chinese Medicine

 

What Is Your Fertility Type?

With the general precepts of this program out of the way, let’s talk about what’s really important in your quest for natural fertility: you. Not every approach to improving fertility will work for every person, no matter what most fertility clinics seem to think.
Nor should it: we are all individuals and should be considered as such when we receive any kind of health care. The operative question isn’t “What works?” It’s “What works for me?”


This is exactly where Western medicine so often gets tripped up, tending to a one-size-fits-all style of treatment. It also happens to be the core strength of traditional Chinese medicine: considering the whole person as an individual, as well as how he or she fits into universal patterns. This can create its own problems, as Chinese medicine can get complex to the point where it may be impenetrable to all but the experts. So what we’ve tried to do is combine the strengths of the two systems, then distill the result down into something accessible and practical. Our aim is to make the information and its application as clear and simple as possible, so you can use your time and energy efficiently in arriving at a plan that will suit you best.


To that end, we’ve pooled our clinical experience to create five fertility types to help you identify the general pattern at work in your body: Tired, Dry, Stuck, Pale, and Waterlogged. These types were inspired by the patterns used in traditional Chinese medicine, although here they are pared down to focus on the most telling details relevant to fertility. When we sat down to review this system, we discovered (happily, but not really to our surprise) that almost all Western diagnoses divide neatly into these categories. So we’re pleased to present a system that can unify East and West, to give you direct access to the best each has to offer for your particular situation.


THE FERTILITY TYPES
Which brings us back to the fertility types. Your goal is to find your balance within your type, whatever it may be. But the way you identify your type has mostly to do with the ways in which you fall out of balance. Symptoms occur when something in your body tips one way or the other, and those symptoms are the hallmarks of your type. They may be annoying or downright unpleasant, but consider them crucial notes to yourself, messages from your body about where you need to restore balance in order to restore optimal health.




Your type (Tired, Dry, Stuck, Pale, or Waterlogged) pinpoints the pattern of what’s going on in your body as you prepare to conceive. It points you toward the conception strategies that will be most useful to you, as well as the fertility problems you are most likely to encounter.

Perhaps it goes without saying, but a complete individual medical diagnosis, whether Chinese or Western, is much more precise than any book-based system could be. A Chinese medical diagnosis in particular is very subtle and complicated. Chinese medicine emphasizes the interconnectedness of everything; practitioners are taught to look for patterns of dysfunc-tion rather than specific symptoms. Any one symptom must be considered in relation to the whole person. So if you are interested in getting a full Chinese diagnosis, you should consult a licensed, board-certified acupuncturist. Presumably, you already know the importance of working with your own conventional doctor as well.

Our focus in this book is on strategies you can implement on your own, at home. When it comes to information and advice that requires the involvement of a health care practitioner, we want to help you understand your situation, in layperson’s terms, and prepare you to speak intelligently with your health care provider about it. We all have to be our own advocates if we want to be sure to get the best health care. We have to be responsible for ourselves as we go through the system. Our goal is to give you all the tools you need—information, vocabulary, self knowledge—to negotiate the health care system successfully. If you want to be sure you have all the tests you should have, to rest easy that all your options have been considered, and to have access to the treatments that are best for you, you’re going to need to know what they are and how to talk to your doctor about them.

This is an especially challenging task when you are taking advantage of two systems of care (not to mention the fact that both partners in a couple need their own individualized care). But though the systems may be separate, they are also complementary. You may just need to build the bridge between them if your doctor and/or acupuncturist isn’t fully able to do so. This book uniquely prepares you to do exactly that.




HOW TO FIND YOUR TYPE
The first step is to figure out your fertility type. That will be your key to unlocking all this book has to offer.

All the new information that’s about to come at you may seem overwhelming at first, but don’t worry; you don’t have to memorize all the types or even keep them all straight in your mind. You do need to read about all of them to identify your type, but once you do that, you can put all your focus on just the information that applies to you. The whole typing process will, in the end, narrow the field of information you need to concern yourself with. But for now, don’t try any shortcuts. Don’t stop reading when you get to one familiar-sounding type. You may find another that fits you even better farther on.

Next up is a brief explanation of the type from a Chinese medicine perspective, then an example of a real patient who is that type. At the end of each chapter are checklists to fill out, summarizing all the key characteristics of the type, with special sections for women, women who keep a BBT chart, and men.
A BBT chart will give you a lot of information that can help determine your fertility type and identify specific fertility issues. Your doctor or other health care practitioner may find useful information there as well. But it isn’t necessary to keep a chart to find your type or to benefit from this book. If you have trouble figuring out your type, doing a BBT chart may clarify things. Those of you who don’t want to bother keeping a chart, just skip that section of the checklists.

In the checklists, you will find a lot of detailed statements about your menstrual cycle and your period. Chinese medicine puts a lot of emphasis on the quantity and quality of blood flow during the period, as well as the color, whether there are any clots, and more. Your answers will reveal much about your reproductive health in general and help you arrive at a diagnosis. My (Jill’s) Chinese teachers taught me that the period should start like a river, become a sea, and end as a stream. It should start with a flow, not spotting, become stronger, and then ebb away smoothly, again without spotting. Where your cycle differs from this description helps point the way to a diagnosis.

As you read through the descriptions of all the types, you will probably recognize yourself in one (or possibly two) of them. Complete the checklists to determine which type fits you best. For most people, one will clearly be the winner; you might even figure it out from reading the general description. Or you may have a lot of checks on several lists; the one with the most points is your type. If you end up with a tie (or within a few points of a tie), you may be a combination type. If you take the full descriptions into account, whichever one seems more like you is your dominanttype, but you’ll be best served by following the advice for both types. If there’s a conflict, follow the advice for your dominant type. An acupuncturist can help you sort out the nuances of mixed patterns, and we certainly encourage you to pursue that if you are so inclined.

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