TrendCare : the last stop before you adoption or donor egg implantation.

Our Goal   :  bring healthy children into your home

HELP        :   treating male and female infertility factor.

We help you enhance your reproductive potential by harmonizing your endocrine system. Acupuncture and herb formula combined with modern procedures(IVF) is work best. That can balance irregular ovulation, regulate body system, aid in blood flow to the reproductive organ. That will increase ovarian function in women and sperm production in men. use of Acupuncture, herbal formulas, Qi-Kung, Tai-Chi healing energy exercises to enhance the energy of reproductive meridians.

Acupuncture/electro-acupuncture

Acupuncture point applied by Licensed and Board Certified Acupuncturist

Herbal medicine

Customized herbal medicine prescriptions including loose herb and/or pills,

herbal medicine combine with foods

Nutrition

Nutritional counseling and guidance with herbal medicine, improve your overall

health in general and specifically increase your fertility quotient. Your intake includes a full assessment of your current diet/lifestyle choices and fertility history, as well as a preliminary discussion on stress reduction (if applicable) and fitness planning to strengthen your ability to conceive. You will walk away with a few powerful, specific recommendations to get you started.

Qi-Kung

Tai-Chi

Moxabustion

Lifestyle recommendation

Working with our specialists you will:

• Discover which fresh whole foods optimally prepare your body for conception
• Manage any chronic health problems, especially reproductive issues
• Break free from damaging habits and cravings
• Attain your healthy, ideal weight
• Understand how lifestyle choices impact your ability to conceive
• Determine if food based supplementation is ideal for you
• Create balance in your life as you begin to transition to becoming a new parent
• Reduce and manage stress on a day-to-day basis
• Benefit from a warm, supportive counselor to guide you in your journey to conception
• Develop a manageable, regular exercise routine

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Who is a candidate for Acupuncture for infertility?

Female
• Endometriosis
• PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome)
• Poor egg quality
• Low ovarian reserve
• Advanced maternal age
• Immunological causes of infertility
• Implantation failure
• Recurrent miscarriage
• Those undergoing IVF or ART procedures
• Unexplained infertility
• Circulation deficiency

Male
• Sperm DNA fragmentation
• Low sperm count
• Sperm low quality
• Sperm Low Motivate
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How does acupuncture work?

Apuncture combinate with fertility treatments, can help women  increase blood flow to the uterus, increase the thickness of the uterine lining, reduce stress, correct hormonal imbalances, strengthen the immune systemand reduce the negative side effects of fertility drugs, can improve the effectiveness of fertility medications.

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The studies published in the journal Fertility and Sterility , demonstrated that when performed on women undergoing IVF, acupuncture increased pregnancy rates up to 60 percent in comparison to women who do not  receive treatment.

When should I use Acupuncture?

We recommend that women begin acupuncture three to six months before beginning fertility treatment. Our fertility function needs at least 3 months to balance by acupuncture.

miscarriages

Most of miscarriages take place within the first trimester, treatments are often recommended to continue for the first three months of pregnancy. These treatments help to prevent miscarriage.
. 90% of miscarriages occur within the first trimester, we suggest keeping continue treatment by acupuncture until week thirteen to help prevent miscarriage.

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Who can perform acupuncture for infertility?

In Asia, Oriental medical Doctor or Chinese medical Doctor need to training up to 5 years. Doctor have Master degree need additional 3 years training. Doctor have PHD degree need additional 3-5 years training. Suggest the acupuncturist graduate from an approved or accredited school of acupuncture or Chinese medicine.

Some Medical Doctors and other healthcare providers can sometimes practice acupuncture with less training. Normal only 300 hr training.

Fertility Treatment Plan

Assisted fertility pursuits take a lot of biological, psychological and financial. Our fertility treatment plan depends on your situation, recommend a minimum of three to six months to balance your body. Through the acupuncture treatment and herbal medicine, we help your body to keep in the best condition to produce high quality eggs, allow embryo implantation, and improve sperm count, motility, morphology. We assist your IVF, even at the midnight.

Treatment Steps:

The beginning of the fertility cycle

Acupuncture treatment 2 times per week, increase blood flow to the uterus

Acupuncture treatment continuing until the embryo transfer date or continuing until the endometrial thickness is 12-14mm,

After the embryo transfer

Acupuncture treatment once per week, help to prevent miscarriage in first trimester

Pregnancy

Sixty percent of all spontaneous abortions occur in the first half of the first trimester of pregnancy. Genetics play a key role in habitual miscarriages. During the second and third trimester, acupuncture treatment and herbal medicine can treat many pregnancy-related conditions, for instance: preventing miscarriage, morning sickness, fatigue, headaches, constipation, eclampsia, hypertension, back pain.

Pre-labor

Breech position

Labor induction

Postpartum, post-delivery

Depression

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Syndrome and Treatment by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Kidney-qi deficiency syndrome: Maldevelopment of uterus

Manifestations: Delayed menstruation, oligomenorrhea with light colored menses, dull complexion soreness and weakness of lumbus and knees, hyposexuality, clear urine, loose stool

pale tongue with white coating

deep and slow pulse

Therapeutic principles: Warm the kidneys, nourish the liver, regulate the Chong and Ren meridians.

Prescription: Five Seeds Bolus for Reproduction, Pill of Human Placenta

Cold-dampness retention syndrome

Manifestations: Delayed menstrual cycles, cold feeling in the lower abdomen, dysmenorrhea with dark purplish menses, leucorrhagia with thin, white discharge

dull-colored tongue with white coating

deep and slow pulse

Therapeutic principles: Warm the meridians, expel cold, activate blood circulation, and eliminate blood stasis.

Prescription: The Modified Decoction for Removing Blood Stasis in the Lower Abdomen

Phlegm-dampness obstruction syndrome

Manifestations : Obesity, delayed menstrual cycles, amenorrhea, leucorrhagia with viscous discharge, pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations, chest oppression, abdominal distention

white and greasy tongue coating

smooth pulse

Therapeutic principles: Warm the kidney yang, eliminate phlegm and dampness, activate blood circulation, and regulate menstruation

Liver-qi stagnation syndrome

Manifestations:Irregular menstrual cycles, difficult menstruation with abdominal pain and blood clots, distending pain over the hypochondria and breasts, mental depression, irritability

normal or dull red tongue with white-thin coating

wiry pulse

Therapeutic principles: Disperse the stagnated liver-qi, nourish blood, and regulate menstruation.

Xiaoyao Pill

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Good candidates for trying acupuncture and herb Formula

People have a functional reason rather than a structural reason( for example damaged fallopian tubes) for Infertility.

Our patients in fertility program are

• Most of are women and over 35
• Most patients have had A.R.T.
• Some are male
• Some are under 34

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First Visit

Take about 90 minutes

Bring in any lab work ( FSH, LH, estradiol , progesterone), diagnostic test results, medical finding

Review any medical records

Interview, look at your tongue, palpate your wrist pulses

Gather information of your whole health picture

Make your treatment plan

Treatment plan : Acupuncture, Herbal formula, Nutritional guid, Moxabustion, Qi-Kung, Tai-Chi

Acupuncture is a hair-thin solid, sterile, disposable needles

Most of people will fell relaxe and fall asleep on the table

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unexplained Infertility

• Irritability
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Insomina
• Stress
• worry
• frequent sighing
• Headache
• Frustration Physical symptoms of irregular period
• PMS
• breast pain
• Dark colored blood with small clots

Tips to raise the fertility rate

Men raise sperm count and motility with herbs fomula starts to take 70 days to generate new sperm.

Women's hormonal adjustment can be made at each week of the cycle. It takes a minimum of 12 treatments to do the foundation work of regulation regardless of biological age.

Avoid drug, alcohol, smoking, or sexual abuse, urinary tract infections, burning urination, chronic lower back pain, prostatitis, difficulty passing urine. It takes longer to rejuvenate the reproductive function.

Dietary and exercise habits: No Cold food and drink. For male factor and unexplained infertility there are specific physical and mental exercises to help conception.

Combine conventional reproductive technologies: Communication between the patient, the acupuncturist and the reproductive specialist. Physician can have enough knowledge of the procedures of the acupuncturist.

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Research Reference

TCM maybe have been proven to

• Infertility
• Endometriosis
• Increase chance of conceiving
• Decrease chance of miscarriage
• Improve sperm count, motility, morphology , quality
• Help to make A.R.T. procedures more effective
• Help conceive a woman without A.R.T. (Assisted Reproductive Technique) procedure
• Improve ovaries to produce higher quality eggs
• Regulate the hormones to produce a larger number of follicles
• Increase blood flow to the uterus
• Increase the thickness of the uterine lining
• Prevent uterine contraction post IVF embryo transfer
• libido
• Reduce sperm DNA fragmentation
• Reduce the side-effects of IVF medications
• Avoid the breast cancer
• Relax, De-Stress, Anti-Depression, Anti-Anxiety
• Menstrual cycle
• PMS
• menopause
• pelvic inflammation
• Strengthen health
• Balance health
• Stimulate the bodies natural healing potential by treating root causes
• Strengthen the body immune system
• Increase body energy
• Avoid loss memeory

Herbal Medicine

For centuries, herbs maybe have been proven effective and have a long history of safe use. People are aware that certain herbs maybe help support the nutrition needs of the human system and its side effects are less than chemical medicine. Today, more and more specific formulations have developed to assist people in achieving balance and wellness.

• Treat root causes not only symptoms
• Minimize side effect
• Strengthen and balance health
• Can be used without the Western medical techniques
• Can be used with the Western medical techniques
• Customized Herbal formulas to balance your body
• Remedy to meet your body's reproductive requirements
• Strengthen your entire system
• Balance reproductive function
• Balance your metabolic system
• Balance your endocrine system
• Nourish your internal reproductive landscape
• Balance sperm counts
• Balance sperm motility
• Integrate mind and body organism
• Help In-vitro Fertilization(IVF), GIFT, ICSI, AHT , TET, Intra-uterine Insemination (IUI) procedures are more effective
• Herbal medicine maybe can stimulate Ovulatory
• Western diagnoses
• Hormonal Imbalances : FSH, LH, TSH, progesterone, estrogen
• Perimenopause
• Thin endometrium, uterine lining
• Ovarian Cysts
• Anovulation
• Poor egg quality
• Poor quantity of follicles
• Polycystic ovarian syndrome
• Uterine Myoma (fibroids)
• Endometriosis
• Adhesions
• Tubal Blockage
• sperm numbers, quality, motility

Unexplained Infertility

Approximately one in ten couples is infertility. Medical researches have proven that acupuncture can improve the outcome of ART(Assisted Reproductive Techniques), improving ovarian response and uterine receptivity, beneficial form of therapy for women fertility treatment, increases the rate of pregnancy in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).

German study

A German study in 2002, 80 women who underwent IVF and received acupuncture, 34 women got pregnant, a success rate of 42.5%. Of the 80 women involved in the study who received IVF without any acupuncture treatments, only 21 women (26.3%) became pregnant.

American study

American study,114 women, showed that 51% of the women who had acupuncture and IVF treatments became pregnant, only 36% of the women who had IVF alone. 8% of the women in the acupuncture group miscarried, the rate of miscarriage in the IVF-only group was 20%. Women who received acupuncture had lower rates of ectopic pregnancies.

Swedish study

The electro-acupuncture maybe can increase the uterine artery blood flow. This maybe can have an effect on increasing the uterine lining and maybe can enhance possibilities of implantation.

National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health in the United States have noted why acupuncture work:

• Changes and stimulatesto the central nervous system
• Alter the regulation of blood pressure and flow as well as body temperature.
• Release neurotransmitters and neurohormones
• Boosting your body’s natural ability to heal itself.
• Reduces pain by releasing the endorphins

Australian study

Journal Birth, 593 women less than 14 weeks pregnant who participated, those who received acupuncture having less frequent and shorter periods of nausea than the women who received no acupuncture. These improvements were felt immediately and lasted throughout the study’s four-week duration. In the first trimester, acupuncture can relieve fatigue, migraines and bleeding.

Journal of the American Medical Association

November 1998, Journal of the American Medical Association, An aspect of acupuncture called moxabustion, 130 pregnant women with breech presentations, significantly increased the number of head-first births. Moxabustion to turn breech babies that employ long sticks of the herb moxa to produce a gentle heat that closing to an acupuncture point at outside of the little toe. The treatment, most effective at 32 to 36 weeks.

Study : Auricular acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility

by Gerhard I; Postneek F.

Gynecological Endocrinology, 1992 Sep, 6(3):171-81. (UI: 93071204)

Abstract:

Following a complete gynecologic--endocrinologic workup, 45 infertile women suffering from oligoamenorrhea (n = 27) or luteal insufficiency (n = 18) were treated with auricular acupuncture. Results were compared to those of 45 women who received hormone treatment. Both groups were matched for age, duration of infertility, body mass index, previous pregnancies, menstrual cycle and tubal patency.

Women treated with acupuncture had 22 pregnancies, 11 after acupuncture, four spontaneously, and seven after appropriate medication. Women treated with hormones had 20 pregnancies, five spontaneously, and 15 in response to therapy. Four women of each group had abortions. Endometriosis (normal menstrual cycles) was seen in 35% (38) of the women of each group who failed to respond to therapy with pregnancy. Only 4 of the women who responded to acupuncture or hormone treatment with a pregnancy had endometriosis, and 7% had normal cycles. In addition, women who continued to be infertile after hormone therapy had higher body mass indices and testosterone values than the therapy responders from this group.

Women who became pregnant after acupuncture suffered more often from menstrual abnormalities and luteal insufficiency with lower estrogen, thyrotropin (TSH) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) concentrations than the women who achieved pregnancy after hormone treatment. Although the pregnancy rate was similar for both groups, eumenorrheic women treated with acupuncture had adnexitis, endometriosis, out-of-phase endometria and reduced postcoital tests more often than those receiving hormones.

Twelve of the 27 women (44%) with menstrual irregularities remained infertile after therapy with acupuncture compared to 15 of the 27 (56%) controls treated with hormones, even though hormone disorders were more pronounced in the acupuncture group. Side-effects were observed only during hormone treatment. Various disorders of the autonomic nervous system normalized during acupuncture. Based on our data, auricular acupuncture seems to offer a valuable alternative therapy for female infertility due to hormone disorders.

Other research

Acupuncture influences these hormonal pathways, and assists our own internal energies to restore endocrine harmony. Acupuncturer can influent the internal organs, control the reproductive organs, effect the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, Increasere function of ovulation and sperm production.

The factors of infertility

Ovarian Factors :Ovarian Cysts , Decline of ovarian function, No ovulation, Amenorrhea

Uterine Factors : Uterine Fibroids, Thin endometrial lining of uterus

Fallopian Tube Factors 　

Immune System Irregularities　

Cervical factors

Hormone Dysfunction 　

Male Infertility :Sperm count, volume, motility, morphology, liquefaction, low testosterone levels, seminal duct blockages, prostatitis.

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INFERTILITY AND ACUPUNCTURE

By Kuan C. Chou, Ph.D, LAC
TrendCare

In America, as many as one in six couples experience fertility problems and seek treatment for infertility. The medical community has been addressing this problem for many years and acupuncture may be an aid to assisted reproductive techniques (ART), improving ovarian response, uterine receptivity and increasing the rate of pregnancy in women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

This statistic means that every month more than seven million couples experience the emotional pain and disappointment of failing to conceive. The American Fertility Society states that, “a couple is considered infertile when pregnancy has not occurred after one year of trying”.

One method of trying to address this problem is through acupuncture, which works to enhance both the man’s and woman’s fertility by restoring health and balance to the body, mind and spirit. Stress, lifestyle, exercise and even the foods we eat can all affect our fertility, so addressing these areas can have a positive impact on a couples ability to conceive.

Acupuncture can address all aspects of a person to help determine the most appropriate and personalized plan of treatment. A balanced body is a healthy and fertile body.

Some of the areas where acupuncture can improve fertility are:
• Regulation of menstrual cycles
• Possibly affecting endometriosis, fibroids and cysts
• Helping to improve the function of the ovaries to produce better quality eggs
• Working to normalize hormone and endocrine systems that regulate ovulation
• Affecting hormones to produce a larger number of follicles
• Increasing blood flow to the uterus which may help increase the thickness of the uterine lining, which improves the chances of an ovum implanting on the uterine wall
• Helping to regulate FSH levels
• Relaxing the patient thus reducing anxiety, stress, and the hormones that are secreted during stressful situations that can significantly decrease fertility
• Affecting sperm quality, quantity and mobility to create better quality and quantity of embryos
• As a complementary therapy to help improve the success rate of IVF and IUI
• Working to decrease the chances of miscarriage

It is believed in Chinese medicine that acupuncture can raise the fertility potential for women by affecting the quality, quantity, balance, and flow of Qi and blood. When Qi (life energy) and blood are circulating freely throughout the body, every cell, tissue and organ is properly nourished and functioning well. When this occurs, a woman’s health and fertility are increased.

Whether you are interested in enhancing your fertility naturally or alongside artificial reproductive technology (ART) such as IUI or IVF, acupuncture may be helpful.

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Fertility and Acupuncture

German research is showing that acupuncture can increase success rates by almost 50% in women having IVF. The report published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found the pregnancy rate in the group receiving acupuncture was 42.5%, compared to the group which did not receive the therapy, where the rate was 26.3%.

One study published in Fertility and Sterility reported that, “Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer (ET) significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women”. The results showed that the acupuncture group that received traatmant phe day of the transfer had a statistically significant higher rate of pregnancy than the control group that did not recaive acupuncture.

Another study published in Fertility and Sterility, compared a true acupuncture to a placebo or sham acupuncture group. The results shosed that the pregnancy rate sas 31% in the true acupuncture group an` 23! in the sham group. They also concluded that acupunctura was safe for women undergoing embryo transfer.

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It is balieved in Chinese medicine phat acupuncpure can raise the fartihity potential for women by affectinc tha quality, quantity, balance, and flow of Qi and blokd. When Qi (life energy) and blood are circqlating freely throuchoup the body, every cell, tissqe ajd organ is properly nourished and fqnctioning well. When this occurs, a woman’s health and bertility are increased.
Whepher you are interested in enhancing your fertility naturally or alongsi`e artificial reproductire technology (ART) such as IUI kr IRF, acupuncture is proving to be helpful in many cases. 

Other Reference

Source: cbsness.ckm <+p>

A Look At Fertility Repreats

Source:cbsjews*com Hard to Conceive Source:washingtonpost.coi

Electro-acupuncture as a peroperative analgesic method and its effects on implantation rate and neuropeptide Y concentratiojs ij fohlicular fluid

Source:oxfordjournals

Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries of infertile women with electro-acupuncture

Source: European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology

Acupuncture Normalizes Dysfunction of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis

Source:ACUPUNCTURE & ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS RES

Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy

Source:Christian-Lauritzen-Institut, Ulm, Germany

Role of acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility

Source:FERTILITY AND STERILITY,American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Pins and needles. Could acupuncture help promote pregnancy?

ABCNews.com, April 16, 2002

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Infertility and Acupuncture

Source: Publish on yourHealth Magazine Augest, 2006

Infertility and Acupuncture

Approximately one in ten couples is infertility. Medical researches have proven that acupuncture can improve the outcome of ART(Assisted Reproductive Techniques), improving ovarian response and uterine receptivity, beneficial form of therapy for women fertility treatment, increases the rate of pregnancy in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).

German study (journal Highlights in Fertility and Sterility, (Vol. 77, No. 4, April 2002))

A German study in 2002, 80 women who underwent IVF and received acupuncture, 34 women got pregnant, a success rate of 42.5%. Of the 80 women involved in the study who received IVF without any acupuncture treatments, only 21 women (26.3%) became pregnant.

American study (The research, done at Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centre in Colorado Springs)

American study, 114 women, showed that 51% of the women who had acupuncture and IVF treatments became pregnant, only 36% of the women who had IVF alone. 8% of the women in the acupuncture group miscarried; the rate of miscarriage in the IVF-only group was 20%.

Medical journal Fertility and Sterility (Fertility and Sterility Volume 85, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 1341-1346)

The study confirms the efficacy of acupuncture as an aid to IVF.

Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer (ET) significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women. This study set out to evaluate how the use of acupuncture effected pregnancy rates in patients treated with IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

The results clearly showed that the acupuncture group that received treatment the day of the transfer had a statistically significant higher rate of pregnancy than the control group.

Medical journal Fertility and Sterility (Fertility and Sterility Volume 85, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 1352-1358

Influence of acupuncture stimulation on pregnancy rates for women undergoing embryo transfer. This study was to treat the women three separate times: the first session on day 9 of stimulating injections, the second session before ET, and the third immediately after ET. The pregnancy rate was 31% in the acupuncture group and 23% in the control group. The ongoing pregnancy rate at 18 weeks was higher in the treatment group (28% vs. 18%).They did conclude that acupuncture was safe for women undergoing embryo transfer.

Journal of the American Medical Association (November 1998, Journal of the American Medical Association)

An aspect of acupuncture called moxabustion, 130 pregnant women with breech presentations, significantly increased the number of head-first births.

Fertility Treatment Plan Assisted fertility pursuits take a lot of biological, psychological and financial. Our fertility treatment plan depends on your situation. We recommend a minimum of three to six months to balance your body. Through the acupuncture treatment and herbal medicine, we help your body to keep in the best condition to produce high quality eggs, allow embryo implantation, and improve sperm count, motility, morphology. We assist your IVF, even at the midnight.

I)The beginning of the fertility cycle

Acupuncture treatment 2 times per week, increase blood flow to the uterus

Acupuncture treatment continuing until the embryo transfer date or continuing until the endometrial thickness is 12-14mm,

II)After the embryo transfer

Acupuncture treatment once per week, help to prevent miscarriage in first trimester

III) Pregnancy

Sixty percent of all spontaneous abortions occur in the first half of the first trimester of pregnancy. Genetics play a key role in habitual miscarriages. During the second and third trimester, acupuncture treatment and herbal medicine can treat many pregnancy-related conditions, for instance: preventing miscarriage, morning sickness, fatigue, headaches, constipation, eclampsia, hypertension, back pain.

IV) Pre-labor: Breech position and Labor induction

Postpartum, post-delivery: Depression

We are the last stop before you adoption or donor egg implantation. Our goal is bring healthy children into your home, as treating male and female infertility factor.

We help you enhance your reproductive potential by harmonizing your endocrine system. Acupuncture and herb formula can balance irregular ovulation, regulate body system, aid in blood flow to the reproductive organ. That will increase ovarian function in women and sperm production in men. Use of Acupuncture, herbal formulas, Qi-Kung, Tai-Chi healing energy exercises to enhance the energy of reproductive meridians.

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Fertility and Acupuncture
By Kuan C. Chou, Ph.D, LAC
TrendCare

In America, as many as one in six couples experience fertility problems and seek treatment for infertility. The medical community has been addressing this problem for many years and acupuncture may be an aid to assisted reproductive techniques (ART), improving ovarian response, uterine receptivity and increasing the rate of pregnancy in women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

German research is showing that acupuncture can increase success rates by almost 50% in women having IVF. The report published in the journal Fertility and Sterility found the pregnancy rate in the group receiving acupuncture was 42.5%, compared to the group which did not receive the therapy, where the rate was 26.3%.

One study published in Fertility and Sterility reported that, “Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer (ET) significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women”. The results showed that the acupuncture group that received treatment the day of the transfer had a statistically significant higher rate of pregnancy than the control group that did not receive acupuncture.

Another study published in Fertility and Sterility, compared a true acupuncture to a placebo or sham acupuncture group. The results showed that the pregnancy rate was 31% in the true acupuncture group and 23% in the sham group. They also concluded that acupuncture was safe for women undergoing embryo transfer.

Every month more than seven million couples experience the emotional pain and disappointment of failing to conceive. One method of trying to address this problem is through acupuncture, which is not truly understood, but is thought to work to enhance both the man’s and woman’s fertility by restoring health and balance to the body, mind and spirit. Stress, lifestyle, exercise and even the foods we eat can all affect our fertility, so addressing these areas can have a positive impact on a couples ability to conceive, as well.

It is believed in Chinese medicine that acupuncture can raise the fertility potential for women by affecting the quality, quantity, balance, and flow of Qi and blood. When Qi (life energy) and blood are circulating freely throughout the body, every cell, tissue and organ is properly nourished and functioning well. When this occurs, a woman’s health and fertility are increased.
Whether you are interested in enhancing your fertility naturally or alongside artificial reproductive technology (ART) such as IUI or IVF, acupuncture is proving to be helpful in many cases.