What types of infertility can acupuncture and herbal medicine treat best?
Acupuncture and herbal medicine best treat infertility due to hormonal imbalances. For example: acupuncture is suitable for women wanting to normalize their FSH levels to be considered a “good” candidate for an IVF cycle. There are other clients whose uterine lining fails to thicken properly; acupuncture and herbal medicine may be quite effective in helping the lining to increase in thickness. An excellent candidate for acupuncture and herbal medicine are those diagnosed as “unexplained infertility”. There is no apparent explanation as to why this individual is not conceiving; she is perfectly healthy and presents with no pathology from the western model and understanding of the body. There is usually a TCM explanation for “unexplained infertility” as well as a treatment plan which makes sense from the TCM perception of the human body.
