If you’ve landed on this page, then it’s likely that you would like to know more about pregnancy and acupuncture. It’s also likely that you’ve searched a question like “will acupuncture help me get pregnant?” or related topics to acupuncture, pregnancy or both. There are many questions about acupuncture if you’ve never seen an acupuncture specialist before. If you’re wondering about acupuncture and infertility, you might even have several more (and more specific) questions.

Will Acupuncture Help Me Get Pregnant?

Let’s talk about some basics surrounding acupuncture first – and next, we’ll discuss how acupuncture can help you.

A First Introduction: What Is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an ancient alternative treatment that involves hair-thin needles and the body’s various pressure points. It’s successfully used by thousands of practitioners and patients to bring relief to physical and mental conditions. Often, it’s recommended as a therapy that goes together well with conventional treatments for the same thing.

Can it help you? There are millions of people who say yes. If you would like to consider acupuncture as a possible addition to your treatment, speak to your doctor. Often times, they can help you track down a nearby acupuncture expert – or give advice on how to find one yourself.

Piercing Questions About Acupuncture

Acupuncture isn’t new, but it can be new to people who haven’t experienced a session before.

Some of the most piercing questions asked about acupuncture asked are these:

Are Acupuncture Sessions Going To Hurt?

When most people think of needles, they imagine the type of needles used for injections, stitches or sewing – and no, none of these needs have any practical use within acupuncture. The therapy uses needles that are as thin as hair, which makes that you’ll barely feel them going in (or out). Some are even thinner than this.

Acupuncture is seen as a zero-pain alternative treatment. Does Acupuncture Help?

Acupuncture has been said to help with many common health issues, including asthma, anxiety and pain. More specifically, to find out if acupuncture might help health issues you have, see a licensed acupuncture therapist for a consultation.

Is Acupuncture Safe?

Acupuncture is completely safe for most people. If you worry that you might be one of the exceptions due to a health condition (such as excess or easy bleeding), see your doctor first and ask for their recommendations before consulting with an acupuncture specialist.

Is Acupuncture A Replacement?

Acupuncture is best used to augment or better medical treatment, but never to act as  a complete replacement. Can acupuncture instantly cure conditions like cancer? No, but treatment with acupuncture in condition to conventional cancer treatment therapy can make the road to healing easier – and with many conditions, the same is true.

Why Do Acupuncture Therapists Carry State Licenses?

When looking for a local acupuncture specialist, it’s important to check whether they are registered and licensed to operate. When they’re licensed, you have the guarantee that they’re trained. An untrained acupuncture “specialist” can cause harm, and even do permanent damage to muscles, tissues, or nerves.

Can Acupuncture Help Me To Get Pregnant?

Acupuncture cannot cancel out or cure conditions that cause infertility – but there are many reasons why the answer to the above question can still be YES.

Treatment with acupuncture can help to alleviate anxiety and stress associated with infertility. Many times, it makes the body more receptive to any other treatments it might be receiving at the same time.

Stress, anxiety, and tension are some of the things that can have a negative effect on how infertility treatments are supposed to work. If this describes you, then a few simple sessions of acupuncture therapy could only help you to achieve your goal. Acupuncture can also make the journey easier for couples who are trying to conceive.

How Does Acupuncture Help With Pregnancy?

How exactly acupuncture can work to aid conventional fertility treatments is one of the most common questions people have once they’ve said yes to acupuncture.

Acupuncture treatments are effective because they trigger certain reactions and responses within the body through pressure points. These can, for example, trigger the body’s natural pain relief or relaxation receptors to activate – and this is the part that helps.

There are many things that can stand in the way of conception treatments, including stress. A couple of sessions with an acupuncture specialist can help to relieve excess pressure on the body and aid conventional treatments.

Southlake Natural Family Wellness

Our mission is to support the health and well-being of our patients by offering individualized, comprehensive holistic care including acupuncture, herbal recommendations, customized nutritional counseling, allergy elimination (NAET), whole food supplements, lifestyle suggestions, moxibustion, and cupping, as well as helping couples get pregnant and STAY pregnant by supporting all the paths to conception.

About Farrah Hamraie

Farrah Hamraie, L.Ac, MOM, Dipl.OM (NCCAOM), is licensed and board-certified in Acupuncture and Herbal medicine in the State of Texas with a Masters of Oriental Medicine from the Dallas College of Oriental Medicine. She is also a Diplomat of NCCAOM (the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), a Board Certified Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist, and a member of the American Association of Oriental Medicine.