Yes, herbal medicine can help women achieve pregnancy
I read with dismay your article on herbal medicine, which could unnecessarily discourage women from seeking such treatment for fertility problems (Herbal remedies ‘may hinder IVF treatment’, July 5).
“Infertile women who supplement their fertility treatment with alternative medicines may be harming their chances of becoming pregnant,” you reported. A year-long study “found that those who turned to complementary therapies … while having IVF treatment were at least 30% less likely to become pregnant than women who did not.” You didn’t mention, though, that there is a body of research evidence to contradict this study. One, Measuring the Effectiveness of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Improving Infertility (Wing & Sedlmeier), showed that Chinese herbal medicine, when prescribed correctly, actually increases fertility - 56% of the sample group were pregnant within six months of starting their final treatment. Another, The German Study on Acupuncture and ART (Paulus, Zhang, Strehler, El-Danasouri and Sterzik), demonstrated that acupuncture improved pregnancy rates during IVF - with 42% of the acupuncture group pregnant within six weeks, compared to 21% of the control group.”
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