Natural Fertility & IVF Support

Natural Fertility

Natural Fertility 

Yonghe Chinese medicine provides Pre-conception support, acupuncture and herbal medicine treatment may improve and stimulate your body condition hence increase your chance with natural fertility.

Chinese medicine treat may also help with the unexplained reason for infertility, Morning Sickness, Malposition of Foetus, Pre-Birth & Labour Induction.

 

IVF support:

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used to treat infertility both for men and women for a few thousand years. The researchers find out that patients who received acupuncture in these trials had greater pregnancy rates than those who did not.

The aim of treatment while trying to increase fertility is to improve blood flow to the ovaries and endometrium.

This may improve the follicle development, the quality of the eggs and the thickness of the uterine lining.

  • Improve the function of the ovaries to produce better quality eggs
  • Reduce the side effects of drugs used in IVF
  • Help with emotions such as anxiety and stress
  • Improve the quality of sperm
  • Regulate fertility hormones for follicle development and increased implantation, for e.g. FSH, LH, and Oestrogen
  • Promote successful implantation

 

DIFFERENT STAGE OF IVF & ICSI TREATMENT

1. Preparing the body for IVF or ICSI 

  • Before trying to get pregnant, it is important to ensure that the body is ready. 
  • Get Chinese medicine treatments 2~3 months prior to IVF is recommended to prepare the body for treatment and to ensure that both partners are in their optimum state of health and healthy lifestyle. However, if you missed this window, do not worry, we will work out the treatment plans for you.
  • IVF Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine  improve the menstrual cycle and promotion ovulation, regulating hormones and improve sperm quality and quantity. There are also many cases that patients got naturally pregnant before starting or during the breaks of IVF with the help of Chinese medicine treatments.
  • Because IVF procedure could be a stressful time for couples, Chinese medicine may help the body to relax and calm the mind. 

 

2. During the stimulation phase

  • Chinese medicine may help to increase the effectiveness of ovaries respond better to the stimulation drugs by producing more follicles and maintain healthier eggs.
  • It may also thicken the lining of the uterus to prepare for the transfer of embryos and increases the chances of a successful implantation of the embryo.
  • Reduce the side-effects of the drugs.

 

3. After Egg collection 

  • After the egg collection, Acupuncture may reduce local tissue trauma to create a suitable environment for the arrival of an embryo.
  • Due to the hormone level are still very high and the empty follicles often fill up with fluid in which your ovaries become swollen and abdominal cramping, rapid weight gain, vomiting, breast soreness and shortness of breath. A small number of women may develop Ovarian hyperstimulation (OHSS) at this stage, Acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine can help to relive those symptoms quickly.
  • Increasing blood flow to the uterus, and increasing the thickness of the uterine lining.

 

4. On the day of embryo transfer 

  • On the day of the embryo transfer, it is important for the uterus to be in good condition for a successful implantation.
  • Traditional Acupuncture treatment on this day may help relax the uterus and increase its blood flow, creating better conditions to help increase the chance of a successful implantation.
  • The research suggests that two acupuncture treatments on the day of embryo transfer can significantly increase pregnancy rates.

 

5. After embryo transfer (Before the pregnancy test)

  • Acupuncture and Chinese medicine may influence blood flow to the uterine lining and helps encouraging implantation process.
  • Calm the mind for relieving stress and anxiety.

 

6. If you successfully pregnant

  • You can still do Acupuncture or taking Chinese herbal medicine to stimulate blood flow to the blastocyst, Acupuncture helps to maintain the health and strength of the blastocyst-corpus-luteum relationship, which can maintain the proper level of progesterone.
  • After 6 weeks, the placenta takes over the role of secreting progesterone. The Chinese medicine treatments can increase blood flow to the placenta for protecting and nourishing your growing baby.

 

References:

1.     Mayo Clinic (2021) In vitro fertilization (IVF). Retrieve from https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716

2.     Xie Liangzhen et al (2020) Chinese herbal medicine for assisted reproduction technology. Retrieve from https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/fulltext/2020/09110/chinese_herbal_medicine_for_assisted_reproduction.25.aspx

3.     Fan Qu et al. (2012) Does acupuncture improve the outcome of in vitro fertilization? Guidance for future trials. Retireve from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876382012010670