The Treatment of Infertility with Chinese and Western Medicine: A Discussion

In late Spring 2012 a group of Chinese and Western medical experts in the treatment of infertility came together in Zurich. The meeting was the result of their collaboration on a forthcoming textbook on the treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine. The primary author, Professor Yuning Wu - one of the most eminent fertility specialists and gynaecologists working in China - is the chief doctor and professor of integrated Chinese and Western medicine at the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The other authors are Michael Haeberle, a reproductive endocrinologist, and Celine Leonard and Esther Denz, both senior students of Professor Wu and clinicians specialising in the Chinese medical treatment of infertility. Finally, Inga Heese, a Chinese medicine practitioner working extensively with infertility, and Peter Deadman, co-editor of the Journal of Chinese Medicine - both editors of the forthcoming book - were on hand to ask questions and engage in the discussion.