Dr. Tao Ma’s Specialty

Dysmenorrhea

World Journal of Acupuncture & Moxibustion. 5(3):  28-30, 1995.

120 dysmenorrhea patients with 87% showing marked improvement with acupuncture compared to 32% of 44 given medication.

Infertility: Assisted Reproduction Therapy

Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy. Fertility and Sterility vol. 77, no. 4, April 2002. Clinical pregnancies

Acupuncture Group:	34 of 80 patients (42.5%) successfully became pregnant
Control group:	21 of 80 patients (26.3%) successfully became pregnant

CONCLUSION: Acupuncture seems to be a useful tool for improving assisted reproduction therapy pregnancy rate.

Menopause syndrome: Hot Flashes, Night Sweating, Mood Swings

A comparison of acupuncture and oral estradiol treatment of vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women. Climacteric. 2004 Jun;7(2):153-64.

Acupuncture is a viable alternative treatment of vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women. As demonstrated by the decrease in number of flushes during the 24-week follow-up period.

Obesity in menopausal women

The effeciveness of low-calorie diet or diet with acupuncture treatment in obese peri- and postmenopausal women. Ginekol Pol. 2003 Feb;74(2):102-7.

The results testify to the higher efficacy of the complex low calorie diet and acupuncture treatment in comparison to the low calorie therapy alone in the lowering of BMI and body weight.

Acupuncture seems to be an additional useful healing method in treatment of menopausal obesity.

Endometriosis

PCOS

Uterine Fibroids

These are sample articles of recent research involving acupuncture trials, for more info, visit www.pubmed.gov.