| Fertility is an area that I have worked with extensively in my practice. It can be taken as a guarantee that the healthier you and your partner are the stronger is the probability that you will be able to conceive and grow a child. This might sound so obvious it hardly needs mention but in fact it is a point that is usually lost right from the beginning when it comes to the massive medical arena of ’fertility’.
One size fits all?
What happens instead is that the problem itself is all that is seen and so any amount of treatments are bought to bear on it to get the desired result. In practical terms this translates to women or couples spending an enormous amount of time and money to enhance their fertility (or to treat the reason there is a problem if a reason is known to exist) and there isn’t at all the sense of looking at ‘how healthy am I as a person in general’.
Rather than believe there is some magical combination of drugs, hormones, herbs and vitamins that will somehow give you the edge on the odds it just plain works better to drop that whole idea of the right ‘formula’ from the beginning and look at each person as the unique individual that they are.
TOP | CONDITIONS TREATED A-Z or BY GROUP
What should he do?
1. He needs to have an honest look at how good his health is in reality and It may well be that the best thing to do in this regard is to find a good herbalist who is practiced in holistic medicine.
2. He should definitely get a sperm test.
3. He should be prepared to do some internal cleansing, especially if there are lots of damaged sperm showing up. This does not require any extremes of diet or medicine, read my take on this here
‘what is detoxification’, ‘the cleansing diet’
4. There truly are no ‘magic formulas’ to guarantee conception but I can truthfully report excellent before and after sperm test results with virtually all the men I have worked with using herbal tonics such as Ginseng, Damiana, St Johns wort, Licorice root and Withania along with increasing the nutrients vitamin C, Zinc and Omega-3. Everyone involved who sees the good numbers going up is assured that what we are doing is getting results and all men can relate to that.
TOP | CONDITIONS TREATED A-Z or BY GROUP
What should she do?
1. She should firstly definitely have a good look at her general health too. Again I think using the services of a good herbalist is the best way to start doing this. It is one of the quirks of human existence that we often can’t see ourselves as well as someone outside us can by looking in.
2. The cleansing process is possibly the right place to start actually doing something for women just as much as it is for men.
3. Fertility tonics for women are a deep subject and I have great respect for some of the leading herbalists in our field who have written and shared in depth in this area. A short list of my own favourite herbs to use for women's fertility are Vitex, Shatavari, Black Cohosh, Raspberry leaf, Paeony, Dong Quai and Cramp bark.
I could not personally say that any one or more of these will be better than any of the others when it comes to assisting in fertility. The fact is that each of them can work marvellously well in helping a woman in both her general and reproductive health. Another reason I strongly encourage you to find a good herbalist who is practiced in working in this area to guide you in person.
TOP | CONDITIONS TREATED A-Z or BY GROUP
|