Acupuncture before and during the ovaric stimulation and the embryo transfer.

According to the principles of the traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment has to be according to the diagnose of the patient. The choice of acupuncture points have to be determined depending on the diagnose. The number of sessions will be decided on the level of deficiency or excess presented in the patient. Chinese medicine considers that solving the unbalance that generates a chronic pathology, such as infertility, takes more acupuncture sessions than in the treatment of an acute pathology since the former has an cumulative effect.

Therefore, according to the principles of the Chinese medicine, this could be considered an optimal protocol for the assisted reproduction cycles for acting on the ovacitary quality, improving the embryonic quality, optimizing the blood flow in ovaries and uterus, favouring the implantation in the uterus and diminishing stress, anxiety and the secondary effects the medication can have on the patient.