Acupuncture and Infertility Research 

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of treating women’s health problems, with texts from 200 BC describing medicinal plants to treat infertility. Today Traditional Chinese medicine specialists have adapted and incorporated these traditional applications into modern fertility treatment.

This has resulted in clinical feed back and research suggesting that acupuncture is capable of significantly enhancing fertility.

This reseach has included:

• The effect of acupuncture in increasing pregnancy rates when used prior to and post embryo replacement
• The effect of acupuncture in increasing blood supply to the uterus and ovaries
• The effect of acupuncture in regulating hormones directly involved in follicle development and implantaion
• The effect of acupuncture in increasing sperm motilitly and reducing the presence of abnormal sperm
• Abstracts and details of publication for this research are available here

Acupuncture also offers woman and their partners the opportunity to prepare for conception through optimising their health.

This can be directed at specific health problems such as polycystetic ovarian syndrome and irregular menstrual cycles through to general health problems such as stress and can be used as a sole treatment or used in conjunction with western medical fertility treatment.