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Acupuncture Fertility Success with IVF Revealed – Latest Study – 2013
Researchers have discovered that acupuncture increases live birth rates and pregnancy rates for women receiving in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments for infertility. Three major groups of infertile women receiving IVF with embryo transplantation were studied…
The Ancient Art of Infertility Treatment – WebMD
When it comes to getting pregnant, old world techniques may be just what today’s high-tech doctors will order. That technique is acupuncture, and today, even high-tech reproductive specialists are looking to the somewhat mysterious world of Chinese medicine to help those fertility patients for whom western science alone is not quite enough. …
Can Acupuncture Help You Conceive?
Most women who choose acupuncture are doing it together with traditional infertility treatments. But some couples have undergone multiple cycles of IVF or other fertility treatments and nothing seems to be working. And they hope that acupuncture might improve their chances. Find Out About The Effects Of This Ancient Chinese Practice On Fertility …
Acupuncture May Improve Sperm
Study: Alternative Treatment May Help Male Infertility Problems. Acupuncture may help some men overcome infertility problems by improving the quality of their sperm, according to a new study. Researchers found five weeks of acupuncture treatment reduced the number of structural abnormalities in sperm and increased the overall number of normal sperm in a group of men with infertility problems…
Chinese Medicine and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS, has also been known by the name Stein-Leventhal Syndrome, and includes a multi system presentation, having its effects on the …
Acupuncture increases chances of success in IVF by 65%
Women undergoing IVF were 65 percent more likely to become pregnant when they combined the procedure with acupuncture, a recent study has shown. The remarkable …
Acupuncture: Essential Part of IVF Success, Research Finds
Paul Magarelli, M.D., Ph.D., an infertility physician at the Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Center, and Diane Cridennda, L.Ac., an acupuncturist at East Winds, both centers …
Acupuncture and Fertility Research Delivers Healthy Results
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been practiced for thousands of years. Amazingly, the first written gynecological records date back to the Shang dynasty (1500 BC- …
Acupuncture May Help Some Men with Infertility Problems
A study published in the July 2005 issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility found that acupuncture helped infertile men by apparently helping improve sperm …
Fertility, Naturally – Holistic Treatment infertility
“It can be frightening, this yearning for a child – it’s hard to fathom the desperate urgency.” -Wendy Wasserstein, award-winning playwright and first-time mother at …
A Fertile Idea – Acupuncture and Infertility
Can acupuncture offer a natural fertility aid to couples struggling to get pregnant? Just ask the McSheffertys.Remember that expression, “Only your hairdresser knows for sure”? …
Alternative Medicine Infertility: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Infertility
Alternative Medicine versus Traditional Medicine. Although the goals of alternative medicine and traditional medicine are the same, their ideas about what causes a disease, the nature …
HOW TO PREPARE YOUR MIND & BODY TO SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE YOUR FERTILITY
As the Baby Boomers edge into seniority, much of the subsequent generation has placed a greater focus on developing careers than creating a family. Many …
Best of Both Worlds – Acupuncture and IVF (ART) can Improve Fertility
(This is the 2nd article in a series on fertility. Part 1, The ABCs of Fertility: Acupuncture, Babies, and Chinese Medicine was published on this …
ABCs of Fertility: Acupuncture, Babies, Chinese Medicine – Part 1
Many women get pregnant easily, but it is unlikely that they are reading this article. For other couples, having a baby may be more difficult …
Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Assisted Reproductive Technology for the Modern Couple
Background Acupuncture and Herbal Therapy are ancient Chinese methods used for the treatment and prevention of disease. These systems are as ancient and effective …
Aumento de la fertilidad con Acupuntura y Medicina Tradicional
Acupuntura y Medicina Tradicional Aumento de la fertilidad con acupuntura La acupuntura, la herbolaria y la medicina tradicional han existido desde hace miles de …
What’s in the Meaning of Low Sperm Count?
Generally a “low sperm count” diagnosis for a man is a devastating blow. The alleged measure of one’s “maleness” has somehow been tipped in the …
Reproductive Fertility Qi Gong Exercises
Preparing to have children is perhaps a new concept for an optimistic couple in a modern world. Why “prepare” to have children? Why is there …
Can Chinese Acupuncture Help with Fertility? YES!
Evidence that Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine have been used to aid fertility can be found in early medical literature dating back to 3AD. The condition …
Research – General Infertility
- Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries of infertile women with electro-acupuncture –
Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Urban Waldenstrom, Sven A. Andersson and Matts Wikland
- Acupuncture Normalizes Dysfunction of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis –
Bo-Ying Chen M.D., Professor of Neurobiology
- Effects of Electro-Acupuncture on Nerve Growth Factor and Ovarian Morphology in Rats with Experimentally Induced Polycystic Ovaries –
Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Thomas Lundeberg, Urban Waldenstrom, Luigi Manni, Luigi Aloe, Stefan Gunnarsson, and Per Olof Janson
- Substitution of Acupuncture for HCG in Ovulation Induction –
Cai Xuefen, Obstetrical & Gynecological Hospital, Zhejiang Medical University, Zhejiang Province
- Relationship Between Blood Radioimmunoreactive Beta-Endorphin and Hand Skin Temperature During The Electro-Acupuncture Induction of Ovulation –
Chen Bo Ying M.D. Lecturer of Neurobiology, Institute of Acupuncture Research, and Yu Jin, MD., Prof of Gynecology, Obstetricus and Gynecology Hospital Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
- Role of acupucture in the treatment of female infertility –
Raymond Chang, M.D., The Institute of East-West Medicine, The Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Pak H. Chung, M.D., The Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Zev Rosenwaks, M.D., The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility.
Research – In Vitro Fertilization
- Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy –
Wolfgang E. Paulus, M.D., Department of Reproductive Medicine, Christian-Lauritzen-Institut. Mingmin Zhang, M.D., Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. Erwin Strehler, M.D., Department of Reproductive Medicine, Christian-Lauritzen-Institut. Imam El-Danasouri, Ph.D., Department of Reproductive Medicine, Christian-Lauritzen-Institut. and Karl Sterzik, M.D. Department of Reproductive Medicine, Christian-Lauritzen-Institut
- Acupuncture Treatment For Infertile Women Undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm injection –
Sandra L. Emmons, MD, Phillip Patton, MD
- Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women: a prospective, randomized trial –
Lars G. Westergaard, M.D., Ph.D., Qunhui Mao, M.D., Marianne Krogslund, Steen Sandrini, Suzan Lenz, M.D., Ph.D., and Jørgen Grinsted, M.D., Ph.D.
- Influence of acupuncture stimulation on pregnancy rates for women undergoing embryo transfer –
Caroline Smith, Ph.D., Meaghan Coyle, B.Hlth.Sc. (Acup.), and Robert J. Norman, M.D.
- Effect of acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection: a randomized, prospective, controlled clinical study –
Stefan Dieterle, M.D., Gao Ying, M.D., Wolfgang Hatzmann, M.D., and Andreas Neuer, M.D.
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