| 中文摘要 | 第3-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-17页 |
| Introduction | 第23-25页 |
| CHAPTER 1: BASIS OF UNDERSTANDING FEMALE INFERTILITY AND REPRODUCTION IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AND WESTERNMEDICINE | 第25-81页 |
| Section 1: Infertility Defined | 第25-27页 |
| 1.1. Definition of Infertility | 第25页 |
| 1.2. Prevalence of Infertility | 第25-27页 |
| Section 2: Historical understanding of female fertility in Chinese medicine | 第27-35页 |
| 2.1. Understanding of women's body, conception, and fertility | 第27-32页 |
| 2.2. Suwen Chapter One | 第32-33页 |
| 2.3. Arrival of Tian Gui | 第33-35页 |
| Section 3: Women's reproductive anatomy and physiology in TCM | 第35-47页 |
| 3.1. Fundamental Elements and their Relationship to Fertility and Reproduction | 第35-40页 |
| 3.2. Organ-Zangs and their relationship to fertility and reproduction | 第40-45页 |
| 3.3. Bao Gong, Bao Mai, and Bao Luo | 第45-47页 |
| Section 4: Menstruation | 第47-59页 |
| 4.1. Menstruation Cycle in TCM | 第48-51页 |
| 4.2. Pathophysiology of Menstrual cycle | 第51-57页 |
| 4.3. Comparison and parallel relationship between Western and TCM | 第57-58页 |
| 4.4. Clinical usefulness of acupuncture and TCM in regulating menstrual cycle vs. Western medicine | 第58-59页 |
| Section 5: Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis of Female Infertility in TCM | 第59-66页 |
| 5.1. Etiology | 第59-60页 |
| 5.2. Female TCM pathophysiology of infertility | 第60-65页 |
| 5.3. Recent survey of TCM pattern diagnosis in female infertility | 第65-66页 |
| Section 6: Western medical causes of female infertility | 第66-71页 |
| 6.1. Functional causes of infertility | 第66-70页 |
| 6.2 Disorders of the Pelvic Region | 第70-71页 |
| Section 7: Age and infertility | 第71-75页 |
| 7.1 Aging and its impact on fertility | 第71-72页 |
| 7.2 Aging and fertility in TCM | 第72-73页 |
| 7.3 Folliculogenesis and oocyte quality | 第73-75页 |
| Section 8:Western medicine treatments of infertility | 第75-81页 |
| 8.1 Drug therapy | 第75-77页 |
| 8.2 Surgical interventions | 第77页 |
| 8.3 Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) | 第77-81页 |
| CHAPTER 2: ACUPUNCTURE CHANNEL THEORY AND ACUPUNCTURERESEARCH RELATED TO FEMALE INFERTILITY AND REPRODUCTION | 第81-141页 |
| Section 1: Acupuncture channels and their relationship to Fertility | 第81-126页 |
| 1.1 The Jing Luo | 第81-82页 |
| 1.2 The Functions of Channels | 第82-83页 |
| 1.3 Twelve Primary Channels and their relationship to fertility | 第83-102页 |
| 1.4. Luo Connecting channels | 第102-107页 |
| 1.5. Divergent Channels | 第107-108页 |
| 1.6. Other Influential Point Categories | 第108-111页 |
| 1.7. Extraordinary Vessels:Ren Mai, Chong Mai, Du Mai, Dai Mai and their relationship to fertility | 第111-125页 |
| 1.8 Membrane 'Huang' | 第125-126页 |
| Section 2: Researched Mechanism of acupuncture to date | 第126-129页 |
| 2.1. Researched mechanism of manual and electro-acupuncture | 第126-129页 |
| Section 3: Selected acupuncture research in female infertility and reproduction | 第129-138页 |
| 3.1. Acupuncture Research in Disorders of ovulation | 第129-132页 |
| 3.2. Disorders of the Pelvic Region | 第132-133页 |
| 3.3. In Assisted Reproduction | 第133-138页 |
| Section 4: Summary of recognized physiological mechanism of acupuncture in female reproduction | 第138-141页 |
| 4.1. Change in output of the CNS | 第138-139页 |
| 4.2. Reliving stress | 第139页 |
| 4.3. Modulating immune response | 第139-140页 |
| 4.4. Effect on the Blood flow of the uterine arteries and ovaries affecting oocyte quality and endometrial receptivity | 第140-141页 |
| CHAPTER 3: CLINICAL APPLICATION OF ACUPUNCTURE IN TREATMENT OFFEMALE INFERTILITY | 第141-167页 |
| Section 1: Traditional acupuncture point selection according to pattern diagnosis in treatment of female infertility | 第141-152页 |
| 1.1. Ancient Acupuncture point selections for female infertility | 第141-142页 |
| 1.2. Acupuncture point selection commonly found in contemporary TCM general and gynecology textbooks written in English | 第142-149页 |
| 1.3. Acupuncture point selection on Ren Mai, Chong Mai, Du Mai and Dai Mai in treatment of female infertility their clinical application | 第149-151页 |
| 1.4. Frequently used extra pointsin treatment of female infertility | 第151-152页 |
| Section 2: Acupuncture treatments in regulation of menstrual cycles and menstrual pathologies in treatment of female infertility | 第152-161页 |
| 2.1. Acupuncture treatments according to the menstrual phases | 第153-158页 |
| 2.2. Acupuncture treatment strategy according to the menstrual pathology | 第158-161页 |
| Section 3: Acupuncture treatment strategy in during ART Support | 第161-165页 |
| 3.1. The Delphi consensus study on determining the best acupuncture practice during different phases of an ART cycles | 第161-164页 |
| 3.2. Acupuncture Support for ART cycles | 第164-165页 |
| Section 4: Acupuncture treatment in support of Advanced Age related infertility | 第165-167页 |
| Discussion | 第167-172页 |
| Conclusion | 第172-174页 |
| References | 第174-183页 |
| Appendix A-List of Abbreviations | 第183-184页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第184-185页 |
