Fertility
At Eastern Healing Center, we are here to offer you safe, natural, and gentle treatment plans to increase your chances of getting pregnant. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for many centuries to enhance fertility, healthy pregnancy, and childbirth. Fertility Treatments at our clinic may include acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal medicine and these are known to provide a calming and relaxing experience. Because it is non-invasive, patients who are undergoing IVF, IUI, or cycle monitoring can safely receive Acupuncture.
For couples trying to conceive, we recommend that both the male and female receive treatment at the same time to enhance the chances of conception. Studies have shown that while 40% of the time infertility results from female factors, another 40% of the time it is due to male factors, and 20% of the time it is a combination of both women and men.
For women, our treatments can help:
- Make the menstrual cycles more regular
- Reduce menstrual cramps and PMS
- Manage endometriosis
- Thicken the uterine lining to optimize ovarian function
For men, Acupuncture and Herbal medicine can aid in:
- Increasing sperm production and percentage of healthy sperm • enhancing motility (sperm movement)
- Increasing levels of hormones responsible for fertility
*Please note that acupuncture needles are never inserted into the genitals. The needles are, instead, painlessly inserted into acupuncture points in various other parts of the body
For those implementing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), acupuncture treatments and herbal medicine can be used in conjunction to help maximize your fertility potential. Our treatments can help to improve blood circulation to the reproductive organs, balance hormones, optimize implantation and reduce miscarriage rates. Recent studies have shown that patients with unexplained infertility issues have had a conception rate of more than 60% when treated with Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (1). Moreover, Acupuncture has been proven to “improve the structure of the endometrial lining; an important part of successful implantation” (2).
1. Park JJ, Kang M, Shin S, Choi E, Kwon S, Wee H, Nam B, Kaptchuk TJ (2010). “Unexplained infertility treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine in Korea”. J Altern Complement Med. 16(2): 193-8
2. Shuai Z, Lian F, Li P, Yang W (2015). “Effect of transcutaneous electrical acupuncture point stimulation on endometrial receptivity in women undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer: a single-blind prospective randomized controlled trial”. Acupuncture in Medicine, 33(1), 9-15. https//doi.org/10.1136/acupmed-2014-010572
