The treatment of nourishing the kidney in menstrual cycle in Shanghai

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gynecology school is an important theoretical method used to regulate menstruation and promote pregnancy. CAI Xiaosun

the seventh-generation heirs of

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gynecology school and national old Chinese medicine experts academic experience inherit work guiding teacher

believes that the basic pathogenesis of infertility is deficiency of kidney qi and disharmony between the Chong and Ren

combined with the characteristics of women’s menstrual cycle

the annual rhythm

and the principle of nourishing the kidney and regulating menstruation. In the treatment of infertility

we have formed the therapy of nourishing kidney in menstrual cycle

which is characterized by warming the liver and kidney

promoting conception and regulating menstruation

and cultivating vitality. The connotations of nourishing kidney are rooted in the theory of the kidney governing reproduction in Chinese medicine

derived from the theory of the generation and restriction among the five elements

and based on the method of promoting conception and regulating menstruation practiced by several generations of

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gynecologists. The

Yushen Tongluo

Formula and

Yushen Peiyuan

Formula created by practitioners of

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gynecology are formulas that seek yin within yang

and seek yang within yin

and they can also be innovatively combined with traditional Chinese medicine external treatment. Combining multiple method for treating infertility yield good clinical effects.