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Many modern researchers have confirmed its
benefit in the following areas:
Increase the chance of pregnancy for women
undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
Regulate
menstrual cycle
A regular cycle is between 28 to 30 day
cycle. When in good health there will be no premenstrual
symptoms (PMS, bloating, breast tenderness or period pain) or
mid cycle spotting.
Improve the quality of a woman’s fertile
mucus
Cervical mucous is extremely important
actually aids the sperm to swim into the fallopian tubes,
without it sperm will die before arriving at their
destination. Cervical mucous is produced a few days before
ovulation so the sperm can be waiting within the fallopian
tube when the egg is released.
Regulate ovulation
Ovulation occurring between days 13-15 is
optimum. Acupuncture can help regulate ovulation if you are
early or late in your cycle.
Promote an efficient menstrual
bleed
In traditional Chinese medicine the
menstrual bleeding reflects the quality of the uterine lining.
This lining appears important for implantation as women with
poor endometrial development have an association with IVF
failure or recurrent miscarriage. Chinese medicine aims to
increase the thickness and quality of this lining, it does
this through promoting corpus luteal function (which in turn
produces progesterone) and through its documented action of
increasing blood flow to the uterus (Human Reproduction
11:1314-1317), ideally it is expected that a woman will
experience menstrual bleeding for at least 3 to 5 days, fresh
red blood with no clots.
Enhance egg
development
While the genetic material for a woman’s
eggs are created when the woman is herself an embryo, the
process of the egg maturing comes under the influence of her
hormones. Clinically it also appears possible to influence the
integrity of the eggs released following acupuncture
treatment, this may be due to increasing the blood supply to
the developing follicles or by increasing the nutritional
supply to the egg via the fluids that surround and nourish it.
Improve sperm
quality
Normal sperm count values are currently
given as
• greater than 20 million sperm per ml
• greater than 50% of sperm moving vigorously (motility)
• greater than 14 % with no deformities (morphology).
A population study looking at men’s
fertility found that those men that succeeded in fathering a
child had
• greater than 48 million sperm per ml
• a motility of more than 63%
• a normal morphology of 12%
(New England Journal of Medicine 345(19):1388-1393).
This study indicates the importance of men achieving the
highest sperm count and motility possible.
88-1393).
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