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Fertility Help Thanks to Naturopathy
For couples who have been trying for a long time in vain to get offspring and could find no help on the medical side, may possibly offer the natural healing a helpful support - this opinion is in any case. Michael Teut, Senior Physician and Head of the Charité Outpatient Clinic for Prevention and Integrative Medicine in Berlin, who explains his thesis in an interview.
Naturopathy can in some cases help to support a long-awaited wish for a child. Picture: Kzenon - fotolia The basis of a naturopathic treatment in the case of an unfulfilled wish for a child is the physician after initially - as in alternative healing generally accepted - the vote of the therapy in view of the individual background of each patient. Therefore, an intensive discussion between therapist and patient takes place, in which u.a. on the personal situation, but also on previous illnesses or complaints, lifestyle and eating habits or the social environment is spoken. According to the insights gained from this interview, an appropriate treatment method would then be chosen - this could e.g. in the taking of suitable homeopathic remedies or medicinal plants, in procedures such as acupuncture, yoga or massages or in a change in lifestyle in the form of healthier diet, increased exercise, smoking cessation, etc. - because these factors may also lead to infertility under certain circumstances.
During the entire therapy care is taken in naturopathy not to focus only on a single area, i. So in this case, the momentary childlessness, but it would instead tried to look at the patient as possible in all its complexity - what Dr. Michael Teut means that the entire physique and psyche of the patient is taken into account. In the case of a permanently unfulfilled wish for a child to seek help in naturopathy, in the view of the physician may be useful both as an alternative and complementary or supportive to reproductive medicine, the latter being especially for younger women and men - the "right way" hang but ultimately always on the respective cause of infertility. As far as potential side effects are concerned, they would be relatively low according to the experts - a small risk exists only in the use of medicinal plants, as it could lead to allergies.
Whether a naturopathic therapy now actually helps to fulfill the long-awaited desire for a child or not at all, the physician could of course not be generalized, but on the one hand depends on the causes of the current childlessness and on the other but also on the age of the patients - but still would have A study by the University of Heidelberg has shown that women who have not become pregnant for years have given birth to a child after a homeopathic therapy in just over 20% of the cases. But as hopeful as this may sound to many women and men, people who no longer feel the body's own healing processes (such as tubal obstruction or spermatic duct obstruction or lack of semen production) should, according to Drs. Teut waive a naturopathic therapy. (Sb)