...Chunjuan Shen; Manxiang Wu; Defeng Shu; Xiaojie Zhao; Ying Gao Background/Aims: In recent years, acupuncture has become more and more popular in the management of subfertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of acupuncture during in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment...

...Sven Lyrenäs; Helen Lutsch; Jerker Hetta; Fred Nyberg; Gunilla Willdeck-Lundh; Bo Lindberg Pain experience and the amount of analgesics needed during labor were studied in 32 primiparous women who had received repeated treatment with acupuncture (AP) during the month prior to term and in 16...

... which were used in the field of gynecology and obstetrics. Acupuncture (used in 94.1% of responding clinics) and homeopathy (used in 83.0% of responding clinics) were without doubt the two procedures that were used most often. Clear differences regarding both choice of therapy and frequency of use...

... preterm delivery. In oriental medicine traditionally, an acupuncture of LI-4 controls for the function and motility of the uterus. In this study, acupuncture treatment on the LI-4 acupoint in nonpregnant and pregnant rats was evaluated for its efficacy in the expression of COX-2 enzyme and uterus motility...