Infertility and Sexual Disorders
18 Infertility and Sexual DisordersAndreas A. NollFormulas: Jacqueline Peineke This chapter is concerned with the effects of sexual disorders in the context of fertility treatment. On the one hand, such…
Supporting the Couple in Successful and Failed Fertility Treatment
25 Supporting the Couple in Successful and Failed Fertility TreatmentAndreas A. Noll, Gudrun Kotte, and Sabine Wilms* The success of fertility treatment depends on a large number of factors. In…
Formula Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang—Decoction for Treating Infertility
15 Formula Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang—Decoction for Treating InfertilitySimon Becker, Young-Ju Becker Introduction Wang Qingren, a physician during the Qing dynasty, is the author of the famous book Yi…
PCO Syndrome and Fertility
21 PCO Syndrome and FertilityJacqueline Peineke The term polycystic—or better: polyfollicular—ovaries refers to ovaries that contain 10 or more immature follicles with a maximum 9 mm diameter and whose central…
Early Menopause
17 Early MenopauseStefan Englert Introduction Western Diagnosis When menopausal symptoms occur long before the age of 50, it is standard practice from the perspective of Western medicine to order a…
Chinese Medicinal Therapy in Threatened or Recurrent Miscarriage and in Pregnancy
14 Chinese Medicinal Therapy in Threatened or Recurrent Miscarriage and in PregnancyWalter Geiger, Karin Rudzki Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss from the Perspective of Western Medicine Let us first explain…
Chinese Dietetics
13 Chinese DieteticsBeatrice Trebuth When friends and family members all around are having babies, couples with an unfulfilled desire for children have a hard time. Expectations and pressures are great;…
Guanyin—Goddess of Fertility
3 Guanyin—Goddess of FertilityAnnette Jonas Introduction A book about fertility treatment in Chinese medicine would be incomplete if it did not mention Guanyin, the Goddess of Fertility. This would mean…
Fertility Treatment—Its Social and Cultural Context
1 Introduction 1 Fertility Treatment—Its Social and Cultural ContextAndreas A. Noll This introductory chapter is intended to survey the meanings and problematic of the wish for a child in the…
