Archive for the 'Alternative & Complementary Medicine' Category

Naturopathy is a part of traditional Chinese medicine. Naturopathy teaches you about maintaining a healthy and balanced body with proper diet, exercise, and a positive attitude.

Usually naturopathic practitioners recommend you to avoid caffeine, because caffeine consumption interferes with ovulation.

Also, they recommend you to maintain normal weight and to eat only organic foods like fruits and vegetables.

Consume the fruits and vegetables that are produced without the use of any toxic chemicals.

You need to avoid alcohol intake because excessive intake of alcohol increases the production of hormone, called as prolactin. This disturbs your menstrual cycle and finally leads to problems related to fertility.

Also, you need to avoid smoking. Smoking is very harmful for your body and this greatly reduces the blood flow to your cervix and restrains the action of cilia. Cilia are the tiny hairs in your fallopian tube that direct the egg towards your uterus.

Nutritional therapy for female infertility treatment:

For proper functioning of your body, balanced diet is very essential. Supplements are very essential to improve your fertility.

Insufficient calories and proteins from malnourishment is the main cause of infertility. So, sufficient nutrition is very essential for the treatment of any illness along with infertility.

Endometriosis is associated with poor functioning of your liver. In order to treat the condition, you will find various endometriosis natural treatment methods, which have the potential to cure and prevent from recurrence rather than just suppressing the symptoms.

Endometriosis natural treatments:

Acupuncture as endometriosis natural treatment:

Acupuncture treatment is mainly based on acupuncture points. The acupuncture points which are commonly used in treating endometriosis symptoms can be located on the abdomen, legs, feet, back and ears. Usually the needles are retained for 20-45 minutes.

The endometriosis natural treatment with acupuncture mainly needs a commitment of enough time to rebalance your body’s systems.

Chinese herbalism as endometriosis natural treatment:

This is the major part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) system. Herbs promote tissue healing through a blend of effects. This therapy doesn’t use phytoestrogens and other hormone balancing plants. The main aim of herbalism is to augment circulation to and from the areas of damage.

Herbs which are helpful in the treatment of endometriosis include: Oregon grape root, chaste berry, cramp bark, black cohosh, valerian, vervain, pasque flower, motherwort, borage, yarrow and hops [Different types of healing herbs].

Suffering from menopause symptoms? Searching for a cure other than conventional treatments?

Then you can find number of herbs for menopause treatment. These herbs help in relieving from the symptoms of menopause like anxiety, hot flashes and depression.

Most of you believe that herbs for menopause give you a great relief because they increase the levels of estrogen in your body and also reduce the severity of most common symptoms of menopause.

Two types of herbs for menopause are being in use by most of the people, one is estrogenic herbs and the other is non-estrogenic herbs. Both herbs improve your overall health by relieving from the severe symptoms.

Here are the most common herbs for menopause treatment:

Black Cohosh: This is one of the most common herbs for menopause. This herb contains phytochemicals that usually relieve from the symptoms. Isoflavones in the black cohosh helps in binding the estrogen receptors in your body.

This plant estrogen works similar to the natural estrogen which helps you in regulating your body temperature, producing lubrication in your body and strengthening your bones. Black cohosh positively effects hypothalamus in your brain, which again helps in regulating your body temperature and producing the hormones.

The use of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment is Cancer chemotherapy.

These drugs work by killing or impeding the growth of cancer cells that grow and divide rapidly.

The cancer chemotherapy cures cancer permanently, control the cancer cells growth or ease the cancer symptoms, depending upon the type and stage of cancer.

Cancer chemotherapy can be administered in a variety of ways: Orally- through mouth, Injections - Intravenously (into the vein), intramuscularly (into muscle), Intra-arterial (into the artery), subcutaneously (under the skin), Intralesionally (into the cancerous area), or topically – application of medications onto the skin.

Cancer Chemotherapy Side Effects

Cancer Chemotherapy drugs are designed to target fast-growing cancer cells. As they travel all through the entire body, they also target healthy normal cells that divide quickly. Damage to these healthy cells can lead to various side effects, which can last for short term or long term.

Hair loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, loss of appetite, esophagitis, bleeding, infection, mouth sores, dry mouth, liver damage, heart damage, nerve damage, and/or lung damage are some of the short term side effects. These chemotherapy side effects usually subside soon after you stop cancer chemotherapy.