Los Angeles Acupuncture

Acupuncture for fertility Mind Body Spirit is a Los Angeles Acupuncture Clinic located in West Los Angeles near Santa Monica. Specializing in women’s health and infertility, we offer Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Nutrition, and Tai Chi/Qigong along with a number of alternative healing modalities to provide patients with the best possible standards of health care.

Treatment plans are carefully targeted to the individual needs of each patient to ensure maximum effectiveness.

Dr. Jiling Hu, a women’s health specialist with extensive education in both Eastern and Western medicine, has more than 20 years of clinical experience on acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine specializing in the following:

Acupuncture for Infertility

Acupuncture treatment for infertility is a great modality to help couples conceive naturally or to help the success of ART (assisted reproductive therapy) such as IUI or IVF.

Couples are treated with appropriate acupuncture protocols to fit the constitution of each person.

Acupuncture for Anxiety

Acupuncture is primarily concerned with regulating the individual’s life force, the body energy or ‘Qi’. It has a number of beneficial physiological effects:

Acupuncture has a relaxation response with decreased heart rate, lowered BP, stress reduction and increased energy and tissue regeneration.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can treat menopause effectively and naturally. Every woman should go through menopause with no signs or symptoms. The symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, insomnia, depression, and dryness are all symptoms of the body being out of balance. Acupuncture and herbs can help bring the body back to balance and relieve symptoms completely naturally with no side effects.

Acupuncture for Depression

Traditional Chinese Medicine does not recognize depression as a particular illness per se, but it aims to treat the specific symptoms that are unique to the individual using a variety of techniques such as acupuncture, Chinese herbs, tui-na massage, and tai chi exercises to restore imbalances found in the body.

Acupuncture can significantly increase your chances of conception
if your infertility is due to one of the following

Poor sperm quality (low count, motility, and/or morphology)
Recurrent miscarriage
Amenorrhea (no menses)
Endometriosis
Irregular and Anovulatory Menstrual Cycles
Luteal Phase Defect (LPD)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Premature Ovarian Failure (POF)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
Stress
Poor Egg Quality
Thin and Unresponsive Endometrium (uterine lining)
Cervical / Uterine Factors
Immunological Factors
Fallopian Tube Factors