Needles and Herbs Women look to the East for fertility help
By K. Oanh Ha
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

After three years of trying to conceive and three failed attempts at in vitro fertilization, Tracey Carroll, 33, desperately turned to the East for help. She sought the needles and herbs of an acupuncturist.
In fact, her new in-vitro doctor insisted. After she had her fourth session of getting pricked, her menstrual cycle became regular for the first time in three years. Carroll also swallowed 18 pills of “smelly, yucky herbs” with ingredients derived from cow spleen and pituitary gland believed to regulate her hormones.

Six months later, Carroll is expecting twins, due in December — and believes acupuncture played a large role. Carroll is among an increasing number of American women who are turning to alternative, Eastern medicinal arts for problems with infertility, menopause, weight loss and even dry skin. Once dismissed as mystical quackery by many medical doctors, acupuncture treatments are now recommended by some in-vitro specialists to increase fertility. Meanwhile, other women turn to ayurveda — a 5,000-year-old practice from India that incorporates mind, body and spirit — to ensure health. Women use it to rid their bodies of toxins and dull skin.
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Jeanie Marie Kraft, L.Ac. MyAcuDoc.com
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