How bitters can increase fertility and combat unexplained infertility

The first time I heard someone say that bitters can increase fertility and cure infertility, I thought it was unscientific. I discarded the home remedy philosophy that bitters can make a woman conceive. Not until I started researching the causes of unexplained infertility. Bitters work very well because they increase fertility and fight infertility through different mechanisms. This ranges from improving your overall health to toning the reproductive organs specifically. Yes, bitters balance hormones, tone the ovary and make the ovary release healthy eggs.

The problem with many infertile patients is that they do not associate infertility with ‘fertile nutrition’. Good nutrition is the foundation of a healthy body. Remember that a healthy ovary is found in a healthy body. When the ovary is healthy, it produces a healthy egg (ovum) and a healthy egg produces a healthy pregnancy leading to the birth of a healthy baby.

How do bitters increase fertility? Well, bitters tone and refine the five pillars of health: mind and mood, ingestion, digestion, circulation, immune system.

The bitters stimulate the bitter receptors on the back of the tongue to eliminate the craving for refined sugar. This in turn stimulates the vagus nerve (the tenth cranial nerve) responsible for the release of digestive enzymes. Every time your digestion improves, your overall health improves. Also keep in mind that sugar is the cause of 250 diseases, including autoimmunity and free radical damage that can slow down the reproductive organs, including the ovary.

Bitters also help the detox work of the liver and kidneys. Estrogen is cleared in the liver, which is also responsible for balancing all reproductive hormones. The liver pushes waste products that are soluble in water to the kidneys to be eliminated through the urine. The strength of the kidneys governs the reproductive organs according to Chinese medicine. Detoxification also helps the body remove contamination from disease-fighting antibodies that initiate tissue repair and degeneration. This can increase the fertility of the ovaries and eliminate ovarian cysts and premature ovarian failure. Bitters are known to correct irregular menstruation, which is a sign of anovulation and hormonal imbalance.

Once infertility is diagnosed, stress tends to set in. The body is not designed to handle excessive stress. Mental stress releases stress hormones that cause oxidation, immune depletion, inflammation, and fibrosis. Bitters are adaptogens that help the body cope with stress. Adaptogens tend to tone the internal organs and return them to their normal physiological function.

Bitters also remove estrogen dominance by removing excess estradiol (the bad estrogen) while increasing the level of progesterone and testosterone secretion. Without hormonal balance, the ovary, immune system, and ovulation also get out of balance. In fact, hormonal imbalance causes fibrosis diseases in most women that have been blamed for unexplained infertility. These include uterine fibroids, anovulation, polycystic ovarian disease, endometriosis, endometrial hyperplasia, adenomyosis, irregular periods, and luteal phase defect. Bitters help remove growths or tumors, including blockage of the fallopian tubes due to adhesions.

Specifically, bitters not only help mature eggs, but also aid in ovulation and propel the released eggs into the fallopian tube to be fertilized by advancing sperm. Keep in mind that once the pregnancy test is positive, bitters are no longer needed.

Bitters that are effective (used in combination with other herbs) include gentian (called bitter root), bitter leaf (common in African folk medicine), goldenseal, dandelion leaves, and watercress. Chinese bitters are a form of gentian or bitter root found in Europe.

You take bitters constantly for a month to regularize your periods and stop if your period starts again. Then take during the second month and stop if pregnancy occurs. By then it is no longer necessary. If not pregnant, take it after your period ends for six days and stop just before ovulation begins. Continue the cycle if there is no pregnancy. It takes an average of two months to get pregnant with bitters.