These days, it is common to find women who are struggling to conceive turning to acupuncture for infertility. While this field of medicine has a success rate of 50%, women are opting for it because it is a very gentle and relaxing experience. Its growing popularity has made it not just more accessible but also affordable. 

How Acupuncture Helps

However, acupuncturists say that this therapy is all about better communication with the body. According to them, with age women’s ovaries and brains do not communicate as well as they used to when women were younger. 

Acupuncture has proved to strengthen that connection. For this reason, acupuncture is good therapy for fertility, or it can be a secondary or supportive therapy along with Western medicine. When used together, acupuncture is known to boost fertility among women by a whopping 26%. Usually, women who could never be pregnant, or those who have miscarried or who want to conceive again are candidates for using acupuncture for fertility.

This therapy is known to increase blood flow to the female reproductive organs which work slower with stress or increasing age. Stress and tension are common in women trying hard to conceive. For them, acupuncture is a good choice of treatment as it focuses not just on the physical but also on one’s mental health.  

What to Expect

When you meet an acupuncturist for the first time, there are questions asked both by the acupuncturist and the patient. The acupuncturist will want to know your entire medical history. He will ask questions regarding your lifestyle habits and your concerns about increasing your fertility. He will also feel your pulse, examine your tongue and conduct an exam. 

You can take this opportunity to ask him to show you the needles he will use for you. You need to check not just its slimness but also whether it is packaged or not. It should be unused for hygiene reasons. 

What the Acupuncturist Will Do

Once he is satisfied with the answers you give him regarding your lifestyle habits, he will try to stimulate certain pressure points in the stomach, head and lower legs. You feel relaxed when he stimulates pressure points in your head while stimulating pressure points in the stomach release more fresh blood to your ovaries. Pressure points in the legs when stimulated encourage the release of blood to the reproductive organs that originate in the feet.

He will place needles in these parts of your body for about 25 minutes while you rest and relax. Your next few visits will be of shorter duration and will not include consultation.

After this, your acupuncturist will set up appointments for you for the week. About three sessions a week at the acupuncture wellness center, each lasting an hour will be scheduled, comprising a 20-minute discussion between you and him, followed by a 40-minute session involving the use of needles.   

After a typical session, do not perform physically demanding activities like a workout. 

Benefits of Acupuncture for Fertility

One of the biggest benefits that acupuncture brings to infertile women is the reduction of depression. Depressed women who are trying desperately to conceive get a lot of help from acupuncture as it is known to provide relief from stress and anxiety. 

Conclusion

By getting rid of depression and anxiety among women, women can conceive easily. Acupuncture is also known to be of help to women on IVF. Besides, the cost of this treatment, though not insured, is affordable and is therefore worth trying.