Herbal Medicine and Reproductive Health: Natural Approaches to Overcoming Male and Female Reproductive Health Problems and Improving Fertility [Paperback]

A comprehensive text-book for herbalists, nutritionists and other healthcare practitioners,?providing detailed information on reproductive health in both men and women.

This in-depth and much needed book, will enable practitioners to gain an in-depth understanding of a wide range of reproductive health problems from both an orthodox medical and an energetic/holistic perspective.

It provides detailed advice on case history taking, clinical examination and orthodox investigations, together with comprehensive sections on diagnosing Ayurvedic and TCM patterns of disharmony, which may contribute to reproductive health problems.

Herbal Medicine and Reproductive Healthalso explores in detail how to overcome reproductive health problems and improve fertility with herbal medicine, nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Marie Reillyis an experienced medical herbalist and teacher, lecturing internationally on reproductive health. She qualified from the College of Phytotherapy in 2004 and was awarded a Masters degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine based on her research into the treatment of female functional infertility with herbal medicine. Marie also studied endobiogenic medicine with Dr Jean Claude Lapraz, and Ayurveda with Dr Vasant Lad. Today she runs a successful multidisciplinary clinic in Lismore, Ireland.

A comprehensive text-book for herbalists, nutritionists and other healthcare practitioners, providing detailed information on reproductive health in both men and women.

- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INTRODUCTION

PART I: FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

CHAPTER ONE - Organic infertility: conditions leading to anovulation
- Amenorrhoea
- Hypothalamic amenorrhoea
- Hypopituitarism
- Hyperprolactinaemia
- Ovarian insufficiency and early menopause
- Thyroid hormone imbalance
- Systemic lupus erythematosus