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Eastern Medicine Offers Hope for Infertility |
| Section: LIFE / HEALTH |
| Author: Carol Ann Pearce |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,443 Words, 8,236 Characters |
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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 suc...
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...ent will be more efficient," he says. This is a future that may be gradually dawning in the West.
Meanwhile, in China, the Institute of Materia Medica is painstakingly isolating the active elements from Chinese medicinal herbs--over 5,000 of them--to document their healing powers. This documentation may eventually lead to greater acceptance throughout the Western medical community. vbcrlf
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