Acupuncture has now been proven as a viable therapy to assist in infertility treatments all over the world. Several health conditions and varied addictions has successfully been treated with acupuncture and therefore the success rate statistics with acupuncture for infertility are extraordinarily encouraging particularly for infertile couples. If acupuncture are practiced properly then there are not any side effects and virtually all people can receive acupuncture treatments with no sick effect.
Ladies that are unable to conceive can now have new hope to become pregnant, with either acupuncture for infertility as a 1st option or as a supportive treatment with their alternative infertility treatments, however what is even additional promising is that even for girls where alternative treatments have failed, some of these women now will overcome their infertility after they turn to acupuncture.
What Is Acupuncture!
Acupuncture is the oldest continuous recorded health system and it stems from China. It works on the essential principle of balancing and maintaining the bio-energetic flow during a person to help and promote optimum health. It has been observed by the traditional Chinese masters of acupuncture that an imbalance of energy either precedes or follow any type of disease condition or disharmony in the body.
Some people sit down with it as an imbalance of the yin and yang or positive and negative energy balance. The same underlying principles are applied in acupuncture for infertility treatments. This bio-energy are called Qi and flow along meridian pathways that transverse every part of the body. On these meridian pathways there are terribly specific points called acupuncture points that allow an acupuncturist to influence the Qi flow to correct imbalances by either supplementing deficiencies of Qi or draining or redirecting excess Qi or moving along blocked Qi.
Skilled acupuncturists manage to try to to this by manipulating very fine acupuncture needles, painlessly, in these acupuncture points.
How does these acupuncture treatments affect infertility?
Acupuncture as a treatment for infertility are thought of as an alternative treatment, but a holistic treatment, compared to western IVF medical treatments. As with western medical treatments, because most infertility cases are due to hormonal imbalances and disruptions, acupuncture aims to restore the hormonal balance, but do thus in assisting the body to achieve its own balance again naturally if possible.
The aim is to re-establish a traditional menstrual cycle once more, with the purpose of obtaining traditional regular ovulation to happen once more and by doing therefore to increase the possibilities of conception.
Acupuncture are just one modality of Chinese Medicine and there for work best if it's combined with the opposite modalities of this glorious health system. That is why in most cases Chinese herbal formulations, lifestyle advice, dietary recommendations and exercise can also be subscribed. Varied research studies has currently shown that the success rate of IVF improves dramatically if combined with acupuncture treatments and a few IVF clinics now offer acupuncture as an in-clinic option.
Acupuncture work exceptional well for functional irregularities of the reproductive system like hormonal imbalance, irregular menstruation and irregular ovulation. Sadly most structural issues like ovarian tube blockages, twisted tubes, fibroids etc. can not respond fully with acupuncture and does need surgical intervention.
Thus what are the issues when investigating acupuncture as a potential treatment for infertility?
Most acupuncture treatments are administered in one among 2 ways.
The foremost common type of acupuncture treatment consist of a highly trained and skilled acupuncturist administering the treatment by the painless insertion of sterile, disposable, ultra thin acupuncture needles into the rigorously selected acupuncture points and then manipulating them to get the required effect.
Then there's also another kind that has started in the late 1950's. This is often electro-acupuncture, where the acupuncturists, instead of manually manipulating the needles to obtain the specified result, attach tiny electrodes to the needles and stimulate them with small electrical currents. If electro-acupuncture is applied incorrectly then it will be quite uncomfortable to most people. Most sensitive people, pregnant girl and those with pacemakers are advised against electro-acupuncture and should advise the acupuncturist if they fall during this category at all.
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Howard has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in Acupuncture, you can also check out his latest website about:
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