In last week’s blog I identified how acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can be used to regulate the menstrual cycle, improve the thickness of the endometrial lining and increase cervical mucous. There are other fertility related concerns which are also treated at the Fertility & IVF Acupuncture clinic, some of these are:
Egg quality: This clearly is a necessary requirement to aid conception. Even before the modern advancements in the understanding of treating infertility, the Chinese have always had their own version of improving egg quality. This can take time to successfully treat, but it is very treatable.
Ovulation: The absence or the regulation of an unreliable ovulation is one of the most easily treated fertility problems. This is a situation in which acupuncture tends to be more effective than herbal medicine.
Men’s problems: This can be further divided up into three areas, these are: sperm count; morphology; and motility. Sperm count is very difficult to treat. During my time in clinical practice I have not witnessed nor heard of any patient who was able to have a severe deficiency in their sperm count successfully treated. Mild cases are however treatable. Problems with morphology (the shape of the sperm) and motility (the movement if the sperm) are more easily treated. On average, both of these take no less than two to three months to turn around.
