Research Archive

Acupuncture has positive effect on IVF

Categories: Infertility

A randomised prospective controlled clinical study examined the effect of luteal-phase acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilisation/intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Acupuncture & IVF/1

Categories: Infertility

In a Danish study to investigate the befits of acupuncture in assisted reproduction (IVF and ICSI), women were randomly assigned to three groups.

Acupuncture & IVF/3

Categories: Infertility

Over a period of three years in a private practice 22 patients entering assisted reproduction therapy were given acupuncture.

A German study reported in NEWS 69, June 2002 showed that adding IVF to the treatment protocol of patients receiving IVF increased their chances of becoming pregnant by 50%. Now a further study carried out at the Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centre in Colorado Springs, USA, has compared the pregnancy rates of 114 women, half of whom received acupuncture before and after embryo transfer, whi ...

Acupuncture reduces pain after IVF

Categories: Infertility

In this study, 286 women were randomly assigned to receive either electroacupuncture plus para-cervical block or alfentanil (a powerful analgesic) plus para-cervical block during oocyte aspiration (egg retrieval).

Acupuncture boosts fertility

Categories: Infertility

A review of the medical literature on acupuncture and female fertility published in the journal Fertility and Sterility has shown that acupuncture can help reduce stress, increase blood flow to the reproductive organs and normalise ovulation and the ...

Acupuncture aids IVF

Categories: Infertility

A recent study in Germany (the Christian-Lauritzen-Institut in Ulm) has shown that adding acupuncture to the treatment protocol of IVF patients increases their chances of becoming pregnant by nearly 50%.

Acupuncture and IVF/2

Categories: Infertility

6 female patients being treated for infertility by in vitro fertilisation were referred to acupuncture due to difficulty with follicle production despite maximum gonadotropin therapy. Acupuncture was given at the same time that they began follicle-stimulating hormone injections: 3 or 4 twice-weekly treatments, on days 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and in some cases 9-11, with the final treatment on the day of or ...

Acupuncture & IVF

Categories: Infertility

Acupuncture may stimulate follicle development in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). In a small study of 6 women who all had difficulty with follicle production despite maximum gonadotropin therapy, three produced more ovarian follicles with acupuncture treatment (mean, 11.3 vs 3.9 prior to acupuncture) and all 3 conceived, although only 1 pregnancy lasted past the 1st trimester. Acupu ...

Qigong improves chronic fatigue symptoms

Categories: Fatigue

A British pilot study suggests that qigong can be used to manage the symptoms of chronic fatigue.

Acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue

Categories: Fatigue

A randomised controlled pilot study has assessed the effects of acupuncture and acupressure in managing cancer-related fatigue.

Ginseng relieves cancer fatigue/2

Categories: Cancer

A pilot study suggests that ginseng can relieve fatigue and boost energy levels in people with cancer.