Infertility may be overcome in women and men and can help you conceive naturally. Acupuncture and Chinese herbs prepare the internal environment of a woman to a healthy state and may improve sperm quantity and quality.

Chinese medicine may also be used for habitual miscarriage, discomforts of pregnancy (such as nausea and lower back pain), and help postpartum recuperation.

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine strengthen and balance your general health, helping to make Assisted Reproductive Technology (A.R.T.) procedures, such as IVF, more effective.

Chinese medicine has clinically proven that it can help
to improve the success rate of IVF in a number of ways:

1. Relax the patient and decrease their stress.
2. Improve the function of the ovaries to produce better quality eggs.
3. Regulate the hormones to produce a larger number of follicles.
4. Increase blood flow to the uterus and increase the thickness of the uterine lining.
5. Prevent the uterus from contraction.
6. Lessen the side effects of drugs used in IVF.
7. Strengthen the immune system.
8. Improve semen to create better quality and quantity of embryos.
9. Decrease chances of miscarriage.

I have seen many women who have tried IVF several times unsuccessfully, become pregnant while incorporating acupuncture with IVF treatment. They all attribute it to the acupuncture and say that their experience was much different and easier while incorporating the acupuncture. Patients experience less side effects from the Western drugs and feel more at ease throughout the process.

Stress has been shown in many instances to decrease your chances of conception, whether you are a woman or a man. Therefore, it is so important that you incorporate a stress reduction program into your life when you are trying to have a child. The success rates for fertility procedures such as I.V.F. and G.I.F.T. increase when you use stress reduction techniques. This is one of the reasons why acupuncture can help you.