Yaron Seidman - Curing Infertility with Ancient Chinese Medicine: How to Become Pregnant and Healthy with the Hunyuan Method

Not only will this book deepen your understanding of Chinese medicine, but also provide you with valuable insights of our close relationship with nature.

TAIKEN JO, TCM,

D IRECTOR OF ACURA A CUPUNCTURE C LINIC , T OKYO , J APAN

Doctor Seidman truly understands what the classics were about and has shown us all the secrets to a long life and never ending health.

ANDREW ORR,

D OCTOR OF T RADITIONAL C HINESE M EDICINE , B RISBANE , A USTRALIA

Dr. Seidman has reinvigorated the backbone of Chinese Medicine and applied it to modern reproductive medicine in an intriguing marriage of East and West.

ZEV ROSENBERG, L.Ac.,

C HAIR , D EPARTMENT OF H ERBAL M EDICINE , P ACIFIC C OLLEGE OF O RIENTAL M EDICINE

Yaron Seidmans book on treating infertility with Chinese medicine is an excellent example for the clinical power of the classical approach. Insightful, practical, clinically useful.

HEINER FRUEHAUF, PHD

F OUNDING P ROFESSOR , S CHOOL OF C LASSICAL C HINESE M EDICINE , N ATIONAL C OLLEGE OF N ATURAL M EDICINE , P ORTLAND , O REGON

Dr. Seidman makes an important contribution to the body of knowledge on how Traditional Chinese Medicine offers women a natural and effective pathway to fertility.

JOANNA ZHAO, L.Ac.

A CADEMIC D EAN & C LINICAL D IRECTOR , F IVE B RANCHES U NIVERSITY S AN J OSE , C ALIFORNIA

Yaron Seidmans work is recognized as a significant adjunct to conventional infertility treatment programs. Women need to be aware such alternatives exist.

EDWARD JACOBSON, MD FACOG

G REENWICH G YNECOLOGY & W ELLNESS , LLC G REENWICH , C ONNECTICUTL

HOW TO BECOME PREGNANT AND
HEALTHY WITH THE HUNYUAN METHOD

YARON SEIDMAN, DAOM
FOREWORD BY KAROL J. CHACHO, MD

S KYHORSE P UBLISHING

Copyright 2013 by Yaron Seidman

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For my mother and father, who by making the correct choices in life, taught me the traditional values necessary to lead my children down a path toward health, well-being, and fulfillment.

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Like most aspects of modern medicine, the treatment of infertility has become a high-tech process. Acronyms such as IVF (in-vitro fertilization), ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) and PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) have become all too familiar to couples considering or undergoing infertility treatment. In most areas of medicine, high-tech advances constitute major strides in the conquest of disease. With infertility, these advances have also made treatment a cold, clinical process rather than the natural process that most couples anticipate.

The first IVF baby was born in 1978 and the process became clinically available in the mid-1980s. Prior to that, reproductive endocrinologists using proven techniques helped many infertile couples achieve pregnancy. Although some of those techniques, such as surgery to correct pelvic problems, were certainly clinical, many were more natural, involving hormone treatments, tracking of the menstrual cycle and properly timed intercourse. Most of these techniques are still available today but have fallen by the wayside thanks to the contemporary approach of high-tech infertility treatments.

This clinicalization of infertility treatment has also extended into the realm of traditional Chinese medicine, a discipline where the personal touch has always been held sacred. Because of peer reviewed research, certain ancient Chinese techniques have gradually been accepted by Western infertility medicine. Most notably, IVF pregnancy rates have been shown to improve with acupuncture. Consequently, many current practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have geared their practices toward these findings and learn only those aspects of eastern techniques that relate directly to IVF or other Western treatments. They do not study many of the ancient Chinese remedies and treatments that for thousands of years have helped couples conceive.

In this book, Yaron Seidman explores in depth this loss of traditional techniques of infertility treatment and discusses alternatives to the contemporary approach.

He proposes the adoption of an innovative combination of the best of noninvasive Western reproductive medicine and the best of traditional Chinese medicine backed up, if necessary, by modern high-tech treatments. The majority of infertile couples would undoubtedly prefer this combination of natural techniques versus going directly to drugs, injections, and plastic cups.

Karol Chacho, M.D.,

Board Certified Infertility Specialist

and Reproductive Endocrinologist

Chinese medicine, known as the science of time, preceded modern science by at least 3,000 years. In Curing Infertility with Ancient Chinese Medicine we will travel the path of this ancient discipline step by step to discover its genius. Though primarily intended for infertility patients, the book is also aimed at Modern Chinese medical practitioners, most of whom lack any training in the classical ways.

To truly grasp the essence of Ancient Chinese medicine, we must leave modern thinking patterns behind. If viewed from the perspective of Western medicine, the disciplines meaning and enormous value will be missed entirely. If approached with an open mind, an amazing world will open.