23 Jan

Acupuncture and herbs support for IVF Higher progesterone levels at retrieval point

A recent study led by Stanford and a biotechnology company found that “women who have high progesterone levels when their eggs are retrieved benefit from waiting to receive embryos”. What they found is a 73 percent higher pregnancy rate. The researcher said:”Higher progesterone levels may make it more difficult for embryos to implant. The new […]

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09 Jan

Ibuprofen May Impact Male Infertility

Getting pain medicine is very convenient now a day by going to grocery store and making choice in OTC stands. However, not many people realize that taking pain medicine can affect men’s fertility functions. A small study, which was published Jan. 8 2018 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, discovered that […]

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28 Dec

Moxibustion and Acupuncture works faster for breech baby

Recently there has a trend that more and more pregnant moms of breech baby came for treatment at late weeks. For moxa working in optimal time window is between 32 weeks to 35 weeks, moxa turning breech baby from 35 weeks to 37 weeks can be very difficult. People come for treatment at later weeks […]

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20 Dec

Acupuncture for fertility: a stress relief ?

It has been more than 15 years since the first research paper of acupuncture in fertility by Dr. Paulus. In her paper, it was discovered that acupuncture can help IVF success rate by more than 20 percent. Since then there are more positive papers published after that. However, till now, acupuncture is accepted by most […]

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01 Feb

Acupuncture and Chinese herbs is not just fertility enhancement for circulation and stress relief

All shall know researches have proved acupuncture and Chinese herbs can improve fertility result including with IVF/IUI. However, the mechanism of how that works can be multiple or even we still don’t know. Therefore, acupuncture helps relieving stress or increasing circulation is one set of benefit. Others are more complicated such as meridian unblocking, Organ […]

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07 Jan

Acupuncture Help Fertility

Acupuncture can help fertility by reducing the effects of stress and balancing the hormones. It may increase blood flow to the uterus and ovaries, increase the uterine lining,lessen the side effects of drugs used in IVF, strengthen the immune system, decrease chances of miscarriage, and improve quality, quantity, and motility of sperm.

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07 Oct

Acupuncture and herbs may help body improve elevated prolactin

A patients with elevated prolactin (70s) and hypothroid came for acupuncture treatment. She also has anxiety and depression. Treatment is to tonify blood and facilate menstrual period. Also herbs such as TaoHong SiWu tea plus MianHuaiTang have been prescribed. After once month of treatment, her menstrual condition is improved and breast no longer tender and […]

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01 Sep

Acupuncture and physical exercise can help blood pressure/hypertension, insulin resistance and stress for PCOS

Effects of acupuncture and exercise on insulin sensitivity, adipose tissue characteristics, and markers of coagulation and fibrinolysis in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Ph.D.,a,b Fariba Baghaei, Ph.D., M.D.,c Goran Holm, Ph.D., M.D., € d Per Olof Janson, Ph.D., M.D.,e Gunilla Olivecrona, Ph.D.,f Malin Lonn, Ph.D., € […]

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31 Aug

Acupuncture does improve egg quality for advanced age IVF.

Infertility patient advanced age 42 years old comes for acupuncture treatment. She tried four IVF 2010, 2011, 2015 and early of 2016. Each time about 10 eggs mature and fertilized. None of fertilized eggs passed the day 5. She had come for 2 months. Then she went to have IVF retrieval. 9 eggs matured. The […]

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31 Aug

Acupuncture and Herbs can regulate menstrual cycle back to normal for pregnancy

Acupuncture and Herbs can regulate menstrual cycle back to normal for pregnancy Patients has irregular menstrual cycle with short luteal phase. After months treatment, her cycle Then she later, she stopped treatment. Her cycle changed back to old form. After months of treatment, she got pregnant. And her BBT chart can show her improvement.

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