Chinese medicine as complementary therapy for female infertility.
Chin J Integr Med
; 23(4): 245-252, 2017 Apr.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27484764
ABSTRACT
Chinese medicine (CM) has been used in clinical treatment for thousands of years in China, Japan, Korea, and other countries. CM is at present attracting many attentions around the world for reproductive health care and disease prevention, including treatment of female infertility. This review focuses on the CM treatment for female infertility patients, and supplies a summary on the efficacy, safety, and mechanism of some Chinese herbal medicines, herbal medicine-derived active compounds, and acupuncture. A large number of researches have reported that CM could alleviate or even cure female infertility by regulating hormone, improving reproductive outcome of in vivo fertilization, affecting embryonic implantation, curing polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, relieving mental stress, and regulating immune system. Meanwhile, a few studies claimed that there was little adverse reaction of CM in randomized controlled trials. However, up to present there is a lack of adequate evidences with molecular mechanistic researches and randomized controlled trials to prove the CM as an effective and safe treatment for infertility. Thus, utility of CM as a complementary medicine will be a feasible method to improve the outcome of female infertility treatment.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Traditional Medicines:
Medicinas_tradicionales_de_asia
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Medicina_china
Main subject:
Complementary Therapies
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Infertility, Female
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Chin J Integr Med
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japan