Getting pregnant isn’t always easy. According to the CDC, 6.7 million women, age 44 and younger, have trouble getting pregnant, and 6% are infertile. If it’s an ovulation issue, diet can help. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long used food therapy for fertility, and today western research confirms its effectiveness. Although foreign to western thinkers, food energetics is an important eastern concept that can guide us in making dietary choices that improve our over-all health, particularly fertility. According to TCM, the primary cause is too many cold and damp foods that stop energy from flowing freely in the body. The staunch of flow can lead to cysts, growths, and ultimatley weaken the body’s ability to become (and stay) pregnant. Cold and damp foods include ice cold drinks, smoothies, ice cream and frozen yogurt, but also energetically cold and damp, foods such as milk, spinach, cucumbers, salads, raw fruits, wheat, and tofu, whether cold or warmed up. Calcium, a key nutrient in pregnancy, should come from cooked greens such as collards, kale and broccoli; sesame seeds and soups made with bones. Bone broth nourishes the kidneys, which influence reproduction in TCM. Warming, or yang, foods – including hot chicken soup, gingery beef stew, and lamb chops – enhance fertility. Most spices, along with eggs and meats are warming and help with conception.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:49:26 +0000
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