Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treatment of Immune Infertility
Kidney deficiency is the root cause of immune infertility,while dampness and blood stasis are the manifestation.Its basic pathogenesis are insufficient endowment,kidney essence impairment,and improper diet,leading to deficiency of kidney,liver and spleen.The pathogenesis factors including dampness,blood stasis,heat and toxin and so on caused by infections,environmental polluntion and contacting toxic chemicals,which accumulated in semen chamber.Over time,the immune barrier is damaged,leading to the formation of anti-sperm antibodies by the immune system and reduction in sperm motility and infertility.This paper summarized the treatment of this disease in the past 20 years.It is believed that by using traditional Chinese medicine,combination of tradi-tional Chinese and western medicine,acupuncture,acupoint catgut embedding and other means,phy-sicians focus on replenishing kidney to treat the root cause,taking into account liver and spleen,activating blood and removing dampness to treat the manifestation,taking into account heat turbidity,playing the role of anti-inflammation,regulating immunity and improving sperm motility rate,highlighting the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine.There are 52 references.
immune infertilityanti-sperm antibodydeficiency of liver and kidneyaccumulation of dampness-heat and blood stasisreplenishing liver and kidneyactivating blood and removing dampness