Western medicine assumes that female infertility is mainly caused by disorders of ovulation, inflammation, tumours and abnormalities of the reproductive organs.
Traditional Chinese medicine assumes that infertility is mainly due to irregular menstruation, liver congestion, spleen and kidney deficiency and emptiness in the Chong and Ren meridians. The treatment focuses on warming the kidney, regulating qi and blood.
Symptoms
Chronic lower abdominal pain
Dysmenorrhoea
Hypermenorrhoea
Hypomenorrhoea
Amenorrhoea
Our clinical practice and experimental research over the years have shown that acupuncture has a regulatory effect on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. Acupuncture promotes follicular development and ovulation, endometrial function and tubal peristalsis, reduces uterine artery resistance and thus improves endometrial tolerance. The treatments improve the embryo implantation rate, the pregnancy rate and the live birth rate.
During the IVF phase, acupuncture can improve egg and sperm quality, increase egg maturity, increase egg production, fertilisation rate and embryo quality, and reduce the incidence of drug-induced hyperstimulation syndrome during ovulation stimulation. Acupuncture can ease the pain of egg retrieval and relieve the nausea, dizziness and vomiting caused by anaesthetics. In addition, acupuncture can relieve patients' anxiety or depressive states, improve sleep and other symptoms, thus improving their quality of life.