How can acupuncture increase the chances of becoming pregnant?
A study at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center provided supportive evidence that Acupunctre and the use of Treational Chinese Medicine helps:
-Improve uterine arterial blood flow, which thereby increase the chances of a fertilized egg implanting
-reduce stress hormones that can inhibit or interfere with ovulation
-normalize hormones that requlate ovulation, ensuring that an egg is relaeased every menstrual cycle. This is especially important for women with irregular cycles trying to conceive.
-improve ovulation in women with PCOS (polycysitic ovarian syndrome).
-improve pregnancy ratesw in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).
-lower FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) levels by improving the condition of the ovaries.
Acupuncture and herbs are the major parts of Treaditional Chiense Medicine (TMC). It can hellp a lot on fertility issues. The treatment is to bring your body back into balance, then conception and pregnancy happen naturally. A group were able to conceive, compared with 39.4 percent of the control group, who received no herbal or acupuncture therapy.
Acupuncture and in-vitro fertilization
A study, published in the April, 2002 edition of the medical journal Fertility and Sterility, found that acupuncture increases the chances of becoming pregant for a significat number of women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF)/
Researchers included 160 patients undergoing IVF for the study. The patients, who were all required to have good quality embryos, were evenly and randomly divided into two groups similar in age and diagnosis.
When the patients were examined using ultrasound six weeks after their IVF procedures, the differences in pregnancy rates were notable. In the control group, 26 percent of the women, or 21 out of 80 patients, became pregnant. Of the patients who had received acupuncture treatments, 42 percent of the women, 34 out of 80, became pregnant.
IVF Plus Acupuncture= Higher success rates
In the study half of the women received standard IVF. The other half were given acupuncture treatments before and after.
In the Acupuncture group, 4.5 percent of patients became pregnant, while in the IVF group 26.3% of patients conceived.
These results were reported by a reutable journal of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine "Fertility and Sterility" in April 2002.