Listed are published articles related to Acupuncture and enhanced fertility:
Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in the management of female infertility: a systematic review.
Complement Ther Med. 2011 Dec;19(6):319-31. Epub 2011 Oct 5.
CONCLUSIONS:
Our review suggests that management of female infertility with Chinese Herbal Medicine can improve pregnancy rates 2-fold within a 4 month period compared with Western Medical fertility drug therapy or IVF. Assessment of the quality of the menstrual cycle, integral to TCM diagnosis, appears to be fundamental to successful treatment of female infertility.
Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMJ. 2008 Mar 8;336(7643):545-9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39471.430451.BE. Epub 2008 Feb
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2200 Kernan Drive, Kernan Hospital Mansion, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA.
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate whether acupuncture improves rates of pregnancy and live birth when used as an adjuvant treatment to embryo transfer in women undergoing in
vitro fertilisation.
CONCLUSIONS:
Current preliminary evidence suggests that acupuncture given with embryo transfer improves rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in
vitro fertilisation.
Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy.
Fertil Steril. 2002 Apr;77(4):721-4.
Department of Reproductive Medicine, Christian-Lauritzen-Institut, Ulm, Germany. paulus@reprotox.de
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the effect of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in assisted reproduction therapy (ART) by comparing a group of patients receiving
acupuncture treatment shortly before and after embryo transfer with a control group receiving no acupuncture.
RESULT(S):
Clinical pregnancies were documented in 34 of 80 patients (42.5%) in the acupuncture group, whereas pregnancy rate was only
26.3% (21 out of 80 patients) in the control group.
CONCLUSION(S):
Acupuncture seems to be a useful tool for improving pregnancy rate after ART.
