Traditional Chinese Medicine "improves fertility treatment"
Traditional Chinese medicine 'improves fertility treatment'
A team from the University of California in the US spoke to 22 female 18 to 34-year-olds who had beaten the illness.
New practice model recommended for IVF treatment
Monday, 9th January 2012
A new practice model has been recommended for IVF fertility treatment after a study analysed the rate of miscarriage among women receiving medical help to conceive.
Researchers in Israel have found traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can improve western fertility treatment.
Cellular biologist Dr Shahar Lev-Ari and TCM practitioner Keren Sela of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Medical Center tested 123 women having problems conceiving, who were between the ages of 28 and 46.
All of the participants were receiving intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment, but 29 of them were also being given Chinese herbs such as Chuanxiong and PeoniaAlbae alongside weekly acupuncture sessions.
The group provided with TCM as well as western medicine had a 65.5 per cent success rate when it came to conception compared with 39.4 per cent of the control group.
It was described by the authors as an even more surprising result, considering the average age of the women receiving alternative therapies was higher than that of the participants who had only IUI.
The study was published in the Journal of Integrative Medicine - a peer-reviewed publication established in 2002.
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