Clinical observation of combined acupuncture & medications in treating dysspermia infertility

Objective: To observe the curative effect of combined acupuncture and medication on infertility due to seminal abnormality. Method: Thirty-eight patients with seminal abnormality were separately treated by acupuncture and traditional Chinese medications (“Erxian Decoction”) plus Clomiphene. Results and Conclusion: The total effective rate was 96.0% in the acupuncture plus traditional Chinese medication group (26 cases) and 66.7% in the acupuncture and western medication groups (12 cases). Statistical analysis showed a significant difference (P<0.05). The cure rate and the pregnancy rate were 38.5% and 30.8% respectively in the acupuncture and traditional Chinese medication group. Both of them were higher than 8.3% and 8.3% in the acupuncture and western medication group respectively, but there were no statistically significant differences. In the two groups of patients, seminal volume, liquefaction time and viscosity and spermatozoal density, death rate and one-hour survival rate took a significant turn for the better after treatment as compared with before treatment (P<0.05). In the acupuncture and traditional Chinese medication groups of patients, symptoms markedly improved after treatment as compared with before treatment.