I think that the reason I am leaning towards removing it is because they do not "unblock" tubes here in any dr.'s offices that I have spoken with near Atlanta. They said that the success rate of a healthy birth after trying to open tubes is actually lower than if one bad tube is removed and we just go forward trying to conceive with the good one. The problem with mine is that it has fluid in it that could potentially be leaking into my uterus and making it hard to conceive and/or putting me at more of a risk for miscarriage or tears in my uterine wall if I do get pregnant with it still there. I had a miscarriage in January and it was the hardest thing I have ever been through. I don't think that I can go through that again knowing that there was something that I could have done to prevent it, you know?
I'm not against the herbal remedies--I know that you are totally right--Eastern Medicine has been making progress for years and years without documentation of all of it so we sometimes blow it off in the Western World even though it probably works. I'm just scared of getting pregnant and my messed up tube causing another miscarriage. It's a big decision that I'm not sure about yet...
Thanks for your advice, though!