When patients come to me for fertility care, they often think of acupuncture as the treatment. The needles, the sessions, the protocol. Herbal medicine tends to be the thing they're less sure about — an add-on, maybe. Something optional. That's not how I use Chinese herbal medicine in fertility care. Chinese Herbal Medicine and Fertility: Two Modalities, Two Different Jobs First — there are skilled practitioners who work with acupuncture alone and achieve extraordinary result

How I support women through IVF — from preparation and stimulation to transfer day and the two-week wait. A look at my acupuncture and herbal medicine protocol.

When patients first come to me, they often have many questions about how Chinese medicine works, especially regarding fertility. Western medicine typically focuses on hormones and follicle counts. In contrast, Chinese medicine examines something different: the quality and abundance of four foundational substances in the body—Blood, Yin, Yang, and Jing. Understanding these four elements helps explain what we're working toward in treatment and why I approach fertility care the

Most of the people who find me have already been through more than they expected. Over more than 20 years of practice — including years inside a fertility clinic, reviewing real lab results and ultrasound reports as treatment progressed — I've worked alongside many patients through something that is genuinely hard. On the body. On the heart. On the parts of life that don't pause for a cycle to finish. What I've learned in all that time is that the most important thing isn't