#Report findings of acupuncture healing trial#
Within the 3-month intervention approximately 20 percent of trial participants resumed their menstruation.
#Report findings of acupuncture healing series#
A prospective consecutive case series study of a course of 3 months of acupuncture for amenorrheic women with premature ovarian failure has found, compared to baseline, serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinising hormone (LH) were decreased ( Z = 4.68, p = 0.001) and estradiol (E2) was increased ( Z = 4.48, p = 0.001). Ĭlinical case reports support the value of acupuncture in the lead up to conception, although no clinical trial has been reported to date that either supports or contradicts this case-based evidence. This emphasis in clinical practice has also been reported in the UK. In a survey of Australian and New Zealand acupuncturists it was found that general fertility health treatments were the most common treatments administered to women. Research of Chinese medicine's supportive contribution to fertility largely consists of case reports. Outside the context of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) clinics, there has been little research that supports the role of acupuncture in promoting women's reproductive health. Acupuncture is increasingly used as an adjunct to assisted reproductive technologies and more widely in the complementary health care system. In Western settings acupuncture is used as a primary intervention for fertility problems. Chinese medicine has been used to treat female fertility problems using a range of methods throughout its history.
As the biomedical response to infertility IVF remains “absent, inaccessible, or unaffordable for the majority of the world's infertile couples”, populations may utilise their traditional medical health systems. Estimates of the number of couples encountering fertility problems vary from one in six to one in ten, with 9% currently cited as the probable global average. The acupuncture protocol tested influenced women who received it compared to women who used lifestyle modification alone: their fertility awareness and wellbeing increased, and those who conceived did so in half the time.įertility problems have become a major presenting condition in gynaecological clinics. Those receiving the acupuncture conceived within an average of 5.5 weeks compared to 10.67 weeks for the lifestyle only group ( p = 0.422). There was no statistical difference in the pregnancy rate with seven women (adjusted p = 0.992) achieving pregnancy during the course of the study intervention. Changes in menstrual regularity were not statistically significant. There was a statistically significant increase in fertility awareness in the acupuncture group (86.4%, 19) compared to 40% ( n = 8) of the lifestyle only participants (Relative Risk (RR) 2.38, 95% confidence interval (CI) of 1.25, 4.50), with an adjusted p value of 0.011. In a pragmatic randomised controlled trial sub/infertile women were offered an intervention of acupuncture and lifestyle modification or lifestyle modification only. This study asked whether providing a multiphasic fertility acupuncture protocol to women with sub/infertility would increase their awareness of fertility and achieve normalisation of their menstrual cycle compared with a lifestyle control. Evidence points to acupuncture offering an opportunity to promote natural fertility. Assisted reproductive technologies are often inaccessible. The global average of couples with fertility problems is 9%.
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