A safe and natural alternative: Women turn to acupuncture to aid in fertility.
Friday, July 1, 2011 at 11:42AM 
Safe and natural, many women are turning to acupuncture for help with fertility. An old treatment with a new twist, many women are turning to acupuncture as a treatment for infertility. Acupuncture has become increasingly accepted by the medical establishment as a treatment to reduce pain and stress, and there have been multiple studies on its effects on infertility in the past decade. But even as many patients use acupuncture to successfully help them have children, scientists still are unsure how it works, or if it's effective."The stress that goes along with trying to conceive is huge," said Tierra, who has been practicing acupuncture for 18 years and uses "both acupuncture and Chinese herbs to try to restore balance to the body."
It's fairly common for patients who are undergoing fertility treatments to also use acupuncture, said Lynn Westphal, a physician and associate professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford has an acupuncturist on staff, and Westphal said she has seen acupuncture become increasingly popular in the past five to 10 years, maybe a result of more scientific studies supporting acupuncture treatment for various ailments.
A recent UC San Francisco study observed 428 couples for 18 months after they visited a Bay Area reproductive clinic and found that nearly a quarter had used acupuncture and nearly 1 in 5 had used herbal therapy to treat infertility.
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