Markers of Ovarian Reserve Viewed Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine

I have recently blogged about the Ovarian Assessment Report (OAR) that we can now order for Acubalance patients. I wanted to share an excerpt below from an article by Randine Lewis, author of The Infertility Cure, where she provides a fairly detailed overview of how Chinese medicine views these individual hormones and their related tests.  Although Acubalance can order these hormonal tests for you, we are looking at the results through a different lens than your IVF doctor.  Our main interest in these results is to compare your OAR before starting your Acubalance preconception program to after you have completed a minimum of four months of treatment to see if we can objectively measure a change in your ovarian reserve.  Currently we track subjective changes such as improvements in your menstrual cycle (flow, color, pain, PMS, clots etc.), sleep, digestion and elimination, energy sleep, sense of wellbeing, etc.  The objective measure using the OAR along with the areas of health we track will provide you and your Acubalance Practitioner more information to evaluate your progress.  The good news is we have seen women with poor ovarian reserve along with cancelled IVF cycles still conceive naturally.  Click here to watch a video of women who had been diagnosed with poor ovarian reserve and told she needed donor eggs who ended up conceiving naturally after using Chinese medicine.


Excerpt from article by Randine Lewis - Click here to read full Article

 "....Within the last ten to 15 years, reproductive medicine has been making quite a fuss over high FSH levels. Chinese medicine doesn't focus so much on the unqualified meaning of laboratory values like Western medicine does; we view lab results energetically according to what is behind them, rather than providing meaning to the absolute numerical value.

The body energetically views the ovaries as "essence", an elemental potential, like the primordial follicles within them. Follicles are only potential until they begin to interact with their internal environment, which is responding to cues coming from our interpretation of our external environment. All of this is subject to change, when we change our internal environment, and our response to our external environment.
Although Western medicine views the reproductive system as an ever-deteriorating disease process waiting for intervention, Chinese medicine employs a different lens. We view the body/mind/spirit as an ever adaptive system, which, when given appropriate environmental cues, has a miraculous ability to manifest its highest potential...." Read Full Article Click Here

• To find a practitioner trained in Randine Lewis's Fertile Soul Method please click here
• To read more about the Ovarian Assessment Report (OAR) and watch an informative video click here
• Watch  video of a woman who conceived naturally using Chinese medicine despite being diagnosed as poor ovarian reserve.  Click here
• Read more personal stories Click Here

Lorne Brown B.Sc., CA, Dr.TCM, FABORM
Acubalance Wellness centre
Founder, Clinical Director