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Tcm And Endometriosis-related Infertility

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In chinese medicine, diseases and imbalances are diagnosed as patterns. A pattern is defined by the signs and symptoms that a person exhibits, and patients will often present more than one pattern.

Chinese medicine believes that blood travels both in the blood vessels and also in the energy meridians of the body. It sounds strange to say that blood can circulate in an energy meridian, but blood has several aspects in chinese medicine. There is the physical aspect of blood – the blood that you see when you cut yourself – and this physical aspect only circulates in the blood vessels. There is also the energetic, or functional aspect of blood, which can travel in both blood and energy vessels. The whole article is published in edit


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Cigarette Smoke May Harm Fertility
New research suggests that exposure to other people's cigarette smoke may damage a woman's fertility, especially if she needs the help of an infertility clinic to get pregnant.


It has long been known that smokers have reduced fertility, but the effect of secondhand smoke on the ability to get pregnant is unknown.


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