Dong Quai – Fertility Herbs

If you ever heard about dong quai herb, you might know that it is one of the most used menopause and fertility herbs. There are a variety of other menopause and infertility herbs as well, such as black cohosh, vitex chasteberry and red clover and so on.

Dong quai fertility herbs and womb coldness

So what make it as one of unique infertility herbs and called as female ginseng? As one of renowned natural fertility boosters, how it works to enhance fertility ability?

When it comes to dong quai, fertility herbs is not the first thought coming to a lot of people’s minds. Besides menopause, actually it can do a lot more. To understand it better, we have to talk about an important notion in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) first.

Coldness of the womb is one of vital frequent TCM terms in describing female fertility disorders. What womb means in TCM is a little bit different from their counterparts of west medicine. The womb in TCM actually includes organs of womb and ovary and so on.

From the perspective of TCM, womb coldness refers to deficiency of kidney yang in females. Womb coldness might lead to infertility problems. However, womb coldness doesn’t necessarily contribute to infertility problems.

Normally womb coldness are believed to be associated closely with reproductive health, such as Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) or Pre-Menstrual Tension (PMT), cramping and irregular period due to hormone disorders.

Property of these fertility herbs

As one of the most used fertility herbs, it is believed to be warm in nature. So we think that it is a yang herb. On the contrary, Chinese herbalists believe that female belongs to yin energy, which is always associated with negative things, such as cold and deficiency.

As a matter of fact, both of male infertility and female infertility can be due to excessive negative energy. In particular in female fertility disorders due to womb coldness, the main treatment principle is to warm and tonify the womb for dispelling the pathogenic cold.

How to combine herbs for fertility with others

Although dong quai extract is one of proved fertility herbs applications, Chinese herbalists seldom use it alone. Herbalists tend to combine it with other herbs in both male and female in treatments of fertility disorders.

One of typical fertility herbal formula in TCM is the soup of dang gui, mutton and fresh ginger. All these three herbs are warm in property and good at strengthen yang energy to activate reproductive ability.

However, need to note that this formula is not an exclusive formula for infertility problem.

A experienced herbalist can give your more valuable guide on using Dong quai fertility herbs

From the point of view of a Chinese herbalist, these herbs are quite mild in nature and usually won’t cause any side effects. However, it is highly recommendable to consult an experienced herbalist before using these infertility herbs to treat the reproductive problem.

While we have to admit that dong quai is one of the best fertility herbs, it still needs a good Chinese medicine practitioner to fully release its potential by combining with other herbs.