These studies give hope! Read about how acupuncture and herbal medicine improves your chances of a successful pregnancy.
Effectiveness of acupuncture on pregnancy success rates for women undergoing in vitro fertilization: A randomized controlled trial.1
“Three sessions of acupuncture before and after ET (embryo transfer) significantly increased the pregnancy rates in women with unexplained infertility.”
Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy2
“the pregnancy rate for the acupuncture group is considerably higher than for the control group (42.5% vs 26.3%; P=.03).”
Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women: a prospective, randomized trial3
“Clinical and ongoing pregnancy rates were significantly higher in the acupuncture group as compared with controls.”
Clinical pregnancy = 37 of 95 [39%] vs. 21 of 87 [26%]
Ongoing pregnancy = 34 of 95 [36%] vs. 19 of 87 [22%].
- Pinar Gursoy Guven, Yasemin Cayir, Bunyamin Borekci,
Effectiveness of acupuncture on pregnancy success rates for women undergoing in vitro fertilization: A randomized controlled trial,
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Volume 59, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 282-286, ISSN 1028-4559,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjog.2020.01.018. ↩︎ - Paulus WE, Zhang M, Strehler E, El-Danasouri I, Sterzik K. Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy. Fertil Steril. 2002 Apr;77(4):721-4. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03273-3. PMID: 11937123. ↩︎
- Lars G. Westergaard, Qunhui Mao, Marianne Krogslund, Steen Sandrini, Suzan Lenz, Jørgen Grinsted,
Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women: a prospective, randomized trial,
Fertility and Sterility, Volume 85, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1341-1346,
ISSN 0015-0282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.08.070. ↩︎