Acupuncture for Fertility
Infertility can be one of the biggest challenges to face in life. A deep sense of loss and sadness can oftentimes result. The overwhelming price of prescription fertility drugs and mixed reviews have caused many people to turn to a more wholesome and natural approach, Acupuncture. This is a great treatment for stress and pain and has been shown to greatly contribute to fertility treatment by numerous studies.
What is Acupuncture?
This ancient Chinese technique has been reducing pain, increasing relaxation, and helping illness for over 3000 years. Chinese medical theory explains that Qi, a circulating life force, flows through passageways called meridians throughout the body. These meridians are similar to rivers, they carry life nourishment, Qi, throughout the body. Due to a number of physical and emotional factors, the body’s energy flow can become obstructed or unbalanced.
This imbalance is considered to be the root of illness and can be treated through placing thin acupuncture needles upon certain meridian passageways of the body. These treatments allow your well-being and health to be returned and for your body to return to complete balance. The amazing thing about acupuncture is that these bodily imbalances can often be detected before severe illness or western medicine even prescribes something as being wrong, allowing you to be proactive about investing in and protecting your health.
How does Acupuncture help Infertility?
In 2002 the Department of Reproductive Medicine in Ulm, Germany did a study on the effects of acupuncture to patients participating in assisted reproductive therapy (ART). Of those receiving acupuncture, 42.5% became pregnant, whereas those without having been treated with acupuncture only had a pregnancy rate of 26.3%. Through utilizing acupuncture the researchers found that blood circulation was improved in reproductive organs, helping increase the likelihood of fertilization.
When acupuncture is used with conventional infertility treatments, pregnancy rates can rise dramatically. Another way that acupuncture has been shown to increase fertility is through reducing stress; an emotion widely believed to interfere with pregnancies. The hypothalamus is a gland that triggers the ovaries to release eggs but also has an impact on human food cravings and emotions. Having a lot of emotional stress can impact the efficiency of female reproductive organs, lowering the likelihood of fertility.
Although Acupuncture can be an effective method of increasing your odds. While acupuncture can have a positive influence on women, it has also been shown in the 2005 journal, Fertility and Sterilityin, to increase the swimming strength of male sperm and their numbers.
The effects of many of these studies were not achieved after just one treatment, but usually after consistent treatment over the span of multiple months. The time-tested techniques of acupuncture can have both short term and long term impacts on your life, and the cumulative effects that could lead to something like childbirth will make it a life changing experience.
Acupuncture is a natural and holistic approach to promoting your health. By choosing acupuncture you have a chance to increase your likelihood of pregnancy, while also helping to bring to light and solve the other imbalances you may be experiencing.
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