Acupuncture and Infertility at Aletris in Scottsdale, AZ
Chinese medicine has a long history of treating women’s issues such as menstrual irregularities, cramps, PMS, heavy bleeding, and ovarian cysts. Included in this list is also infertility. Oftentimes, a Chinese medicine diagnosis is completely different that a traditional Western diagnosis of “we don’t know why you aren’t getting pregnant.” A Chinese practitioner will use your symptom picture as a diagnostic tool for an imbalance in your overall energy and then address the imbalance with acupuncture and/or herbal medicines.

A woman’s 28 day cycle is a complicated orchestra of hormones from the brain, the ovaries, the adrenal glands, and the uterus. All work together to create a natural and fertile 28 day cycle. If an imbalance exists, women will not menstruate or ovulate properly. Traditional Western medicine has very few treatments to coax the body to fall in line with this rhythm. Their approach is to drive the body to ovulate with injectable drugs or cover over a “sick rhythm” with birth control pills.

Acupuncture works to gently balance the subtle energies in your body that create hormonal rhythms and restore fertility. It works by addressing disturbances in qi and removing blockages to qi. These are determined by tongue and pulse diagnosis, as well as a lengthy current and past medical history intake.

Because acupuncture and TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) does not use western diagnosis (such as ultrasound or bloodwork), it is vital to also have a complete medical work up with an ALETRIS naturopath prior to or during your treatment. This will rule out any source of infertility for which acupuncture would not be appropriate – such as a structural problem or active infection.