Does Fertility Acupuncture Help?

You mustn't think that acupuncture is just something that dodgy practitioners in back alleys in Chinatown offer you. In some cases, acupuncture is accepted by mainstream medicine, too. Fertility acupuncture is one of those rare cases.

Now this is not to make you think that the medical community has tossed all traditional medical knowledge out the window in favor of acupuncture. Fertility acupuncture to the medical establishment, is only something that works in an assistive role. No doctor at this point believes that you can just accept acupuncture and it will help you get pregnant even if you're not using traditional fertility methods.

If you want to go with a few obscure studies, they do say that acupuncture can help on its own. Mainstream medicine though, only accepts acupuncture in a supporting role.

The science of acupuncture obtains its results in a rather unconventional way. According to the belief system in acupuncture, the body is filled with a kind of vital energy that they call Qi. Many diseases, they believe, merely occur when the body loses the plot on how to balance its energy. To help the body do this, acupuncturists locate energy hubs on the patient's body and try to redirect energy flow with those little needles.

It was only in the year 2002 that researchers discovered that acupuncture could quickly help in cases where women suffered from infertility. The research was done in Germany. Scientists there took up a group of 160 women who were in the process of getting treated with IVF, and tested them with fertility acupuncture. The results of the test were unequivocal. The research concluded that the women did get more easily pregnant with IVF, when they received, fertility acupuncture.

Ever since then, there's been quite a lot of research done on fertility research. They believe that acupuncture might help you relax your muscles, and that it might help the body send more blood to the uterus. The stress-relief benefits of acupuncture might help too, they say. All of these can certainly help a woman's attempts to become pregnant.

Even more surprising, they've found that fertility acupuncture can actually help with male infertility too. Of course, men don't have IVF or anything. You can't help them as they try to get pregnant. You can only treat a man in a general way to perhaps help sperm production,or motility. And this, acupuncture is said to be able to do.

Researchers have found that with regular acupuncture, men with fertility problems are able to produce better quality sperm – sperm is less damaged and more alive.