Acupuncture Shows Promise In Improving Rates Of Pregnancy Following IVF

An intriguing bit of research showing a 10% improvement in pregnancy rates using acupuncture. Here's the synopsis: Acupuncture Shows Promise In Improving Rates Of Pregnancy Following IVF and this is the summary of the results.

"acupuncture given as a complement to IVF increased the odds of achieving pregnancy. According to the researchers, the results indicate that 10 women undergoing IVF would need to be treated with acupuncture to bring about one additional pregnancy. The results, considered preliminary, point to a potential complementary treatment that may improve the success of IVF and the need to conduct additional clinical trials to confirm these findings."

Of course be careful of the preliminariness of this and also note, as I keep saying with complementary therapies that degrees of proven success are not endorsements of the traditional explanations for them therapies; you can get something right for the wrong reasons or impose on some results an incorrect interpretation. This is not proof that chi philosophy is right, merely that some people with that way of looking at things made a useful discovery at some point which they were able to harmonise with their beliefs.