“It is estimated that infertility has affected approximately 8%–12% of couples during reproductive age around the world (121). A Global Burden of Disease Survey reported that the age-standardized prevalence of male infertility has increased by 0.291% per year over the past 20 years (122). The current clinical therapy has shortcomings such as unsatisfactory efficacy, high cost, and many adverse reactions. Acupuncture, an adjuvant therapy, has aroused the curiosity of many scholars because of its controversial efficacy and mechanism. The merits of acupuncture in treating male infertility mainly include the following: (1) the advantages of acupuncture for male infertility include no side effects, few adverse effects, and low cost; (2) the combination of acupuncture and conventional therapy can improve the efficacy of male infertility; and (3) from the perspective of TCM, acupuncture can regulate the body as a whole, thereby treating male infertility.” Read Entire Article on the Studies of Acupuncture for Male Infertility by clicking this.
As Doctors of Acupuncture & Oriental medicine, we do differential diagnosis to see what imbalance we may need to treat using herbs, nutrition, acupuncture, acupressure and other regulating lifestyle modalities. We may diagnose Kidney Essence Deficiency, Kidney Yang deficiency, Spleen Qi deficiency, Blood Stagnation, Damp Heat using TCM diagnosis. From this we will create a customized treatment protocol.
Western medicine may look for a diagnosis sperm count, motility, morphology, DNA fragmentation, and viscosity issues along with possible varicocele, hormonal imbalances and oxidative stress that may be contributing to blockage of sperm flow. Other contributing factors may be radiation, chemo and drugs that affect the male reproductive hormones and glands.
With 5,000 year old time tested medicine, we treat “what we see” so if there is too much heat and dampness (inflammation) we help to cool and drain this with special foods, herbs and acupuncture, or if exhausted with adrenal fatigue, we use tonifying foods and treatments. This is why holistic medicine is so powerful as there is no one size fits all, we simply identify with a differential diagnosis the imbalance and treat what we seeing using the amazing God given tools from nature.
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We always cleanse first before we strengthen. The same hormones that affect women’s hormones can affect men: Click here to learn more.
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Fertility is Natural, Trust Nature.
Dr. Shasta Ericson DAOM