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acupuncture fertility cairns

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Ovulation Help

Some of the women I treat are not able to get pregnant because they are not ovulating. There can be lots of reasons why someone isn’t ovulating and I always advise these women to have a western medical workup but often all they need is regular acupuncture and sometimes a specially tailored herbal formula.

It turns out that acupuncture can have a powerful effect on the ovaries. Dr. Jin Yu of Shanghai Medical University in China was able to get rabbits to ovulate with acupuncture alone. Apparently rabbits do not ovulate until they become sexually active (who knew!), but Dr. Yu was able to take non-ovulating rabbits and affect them using just a few acupuncture needles so that their reproductive systems woke up.

Acupuncture dramatically improves pregnancy rates in women undergoing IVF — A study in Germany that was published here in the USA divided 180 women who were having IVF into two groups of 80 women. One group had IVF with acupuncture and one group had IVF without acupuncture. The group that had acupuncture had a pregnancy rate of 42.5% versus the group that had no acupuncture that had a pregnancy rate of 26.3%. That’s almost a 50% better outcome in the acupuncture group.

Acupuncture can reduce the effects of stress on the body and lower stress related hormones that can impede fertility. The same study we talked about above also examined previous studies on the effect of acupuncture on depression and stress related illnesses. It concluded that acupuncture is a viable option to relieve stress in women that are undergoing fertility treatment. This is particularly important because it is known that stress plays a very important role in failure to conceive. A study that was published in Fertility and Sterility in 2001 looked at the state of mind of women going through IVF. It concluded that the women who were most stressed and worried about the procedure were likely to have 20% fewer eggs available for retrieval and a fertilization rate that was 19% less than more optimistic women.