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Acupuncture for Breech Baby

A breach pregnancy occurs when a baby is positioned head-up in the woman’s uterus and so the feet are pointed toward the birth canal. Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment can help in turning the ba...

How Acupuncture may Boost Immune System during Winter Time

The lovely autumn season is almost over and we are now preparing to enter our winter; but little did we know that flu virus normally spreads easily in cold weather than hot weather. Regular acupunctu...

What is cosmetic acupuncture and its benefits

All of us like the idea of aging gracefully, but in today’s busy and stressful lifestyle it is impossible for anyone to look fresh as dew all the time....

Fertility Myths and Facts to Know

Couples should educate themselves about fertility myths and facts as their first step towards embracing pregnancy. ...

Managing Postpartum Depression Naturally with TCM

Postpartum depression (PPD) or postnatal depression refers to women’s obvious depressive symptoms. Here are the causes, symptoms and treatment guide for postpartum depression....

Causes of Male and Female Infertility

Are you trying to have a baby but facing difficulties in conceiving? Are you unsure of what's causing your struggles? ...

The Best Season of the Year to Conceive

Little did we know our decision on when to get pregnant can lead to a big step in life; not only will it affect us at the time, but also throughout the life of our little one. Out of many factors out ...

How Emotion Can Affect Couple to Conceive

Having an intimate relationship between couples is highly important and considered as a fundamental human need. In our everyday basis, emotions play a big role in the development and maintenance of...

Managing PCOS with Diet and Lifestyle Changes

Continuing the popular discussions regarding P.C.O.S, this blog post will focus on how the right diet plan, specifically the Low GI Diet, can significantly improve the symptoms and severity of PCOS....

Period Pain

Period pain is technically called dysmenorrhea in Western medicine. Period pain happens from your early teenagers up to the menopause. About 80% of women have dysmenorrhea at some stage during their ...

Fertility food for pregnant women

Pregnant women usually have a low iron level which could lead to low in hemoglobin level. ...

Beans Consumption and Fertility

Beans and lentils, despite their small size, contain a very high amount of nutrients in it, such as protein, folic acid, and iron....

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease PID

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease or PID occurs when an inflammation and infection occurred within the female pelvic area, like the cervix, endometrium, fallopian tubes or ovaries. The infection often occur...

Postnatal Care and Acupuncture

Having children can be such a blissful and miraculous thing for parents, but that doesn’t mean it will be all sunshine and rainbows. Parents, especially mothers, are vulnerable to stress, physical d...

Endometriosis: Lifestyle Management

As we talked about in our previous blog posts, endometriosis is a common inflammatory gynaecological condition that happens to every 1 in 10 women in Australia. Women with Endometriosis often endure c...

Reducing Risks of Miscarriage

Miscarriage could be both physically and emotionally painful to the mother. A miscarriage is defined as the loss of the baby before 20 weeks of pregnancy. When it is after 20 weeks, it is called a sti...

Lifestyle and Fertility

About 10 to 15 percent of the couples in the world suffer from infertility. Lifestyle factors play an important role in fertility. Lifestyle factors are ways of life and modifiable habits that can inf...

Do the chances for success increase or decrease with repeated attempts IVF?

The statistic estimated that 1 in every 6 couples around the world suffer from infertility in around the world. The diagnosis of infertility could be devastating for most of the couples. However, ther...

Endometriosis: Western Approach versus Chinese Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine

What is Endometriosis or Endo? Endometriosis occurs when tissues inside the uterus lining are found outside the uterus and in other parts of the body, e.g. ovaries, Fallopian tubes, bladder, large int...

The Role of Enzymes in Fertility

What are Enzymes? Enzymes are biological molecules that catalyse or speed up the rate of chemical reactions. Enzymes are important as they are needed in order for a chemical reaction to occur at rates...

Managing Symptoms of P.C.O.S with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

PCOS – Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Having PCOS means having follicles (also known as cysts) formed on the ovaries, which indicates the ovaries’ inability to ovulate and release an egg each mont...

How acupuncture can improve DHEA hormones without taking supplements?

What is DHEA? DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a steroid hormone produced by your body’s adrenal glands. It’s located just above the kidney. DHEA hormones are responsible as precursor to male and ...

Other Alternatives to IVF

Fertility specialists usually recommend couples who want to conceive to try other alternatives first before going for IVF. Not only IVF procedures can be very expensive but it also takes lots of effor...

How Chinese Medicine Enhance Fertility ?

Chinese medicines have been around for more than 2000 years and have improved well-being for so many people around the world. There are so many functions that couple can benefit from Chinese medicine ...

How spicy food affect infertility ?

It is important for a couple who would like to conceive to consider a healthy diet. In this case, it is best to consume a different kind of food. There is no doubt that nutrition is essential for your...

When Should You Get Acupuncture ?

The best timing for acupuncture would be now. Acupuncture will be beneficial for both you and the unborn baby. Acupuncture can help develop good egg quality as well as reduce your stress level and i...

IVF 101: Everything You Need To Know About In Vitro Fertilization

More and more people are considering IVF as their solution for getting pregnant. We are here to help you make the best decision regarding your circumstances and also inform you the essential things th...

Four Ways to Combat Hay Fever this Spring

As spring is here, many people have started experiencing the symptoms of hay fever. Hay fever, which is also known as allergic rhinitis, is caused by the nose or eyes getting contact with allergens; s...

The Importance of Protein Intake for Couples Trying to Conceive

Nutrient intakes in foods play an important role in couples’ fertility. Based on a famous study called the “fertility diet”, in which it was followed by nearly 18,000 women trying to conceive an...

Improving Fertility through Couple Meditation

What is meditation? Meditation is a practice where an individual focuses their mind on a particular object and enter into a ‘stillness’ state, from disturbed to peaceful state of mind. The main pu...

The Role of Genetics in Fertility

The role of genetics in infertility Infertility is a common disease of the reproductive system where a person is unable to achieve pregnancy after 12 or more months of regular unprotected sex. There a...

How Exercise Affects Your Fertility

Many of you might be confuse is exercise has a good impact or bad ones to fertility level. This article will explain to you the benefits of regular exercise for women who want to conceive. However, th...

Healthy Diet Benefits for Infertility

Food and nutrition play a crucial role contributing to a healthy body and reproductive system. In fact, the building blocks for hormones are found in the food we consume. For instance, antioxidants in...

Preparation for natural fertility over 40

These days couples are trying to conceive late in their life cycle as more and more of them are focusing on their career goals and travelling. There is good and bad sides of this, the good side is of ...

How to Balance Your Hormones After Birth Control

Many people today has been using birth control since they are teenagers and some of the doctors actually prescribed birth control to some of their patients who suffer from Endometriosis or PCOS. Birth...

Male Fertility – Azoospermia Fertility

Usually there is 1 in every 20 males have some kind of infertility. There are different kinds of cases of male infertility such as; different shapes, no tails, two heads or no sperms at all. The male ...

5 Surprisingly Simple Habits that Enhance Fertility

Monitoring your body weight Body weight is definitely one of the important factors that needed to be monitored during pre-conception for both men and women. Being overweight or underweight for women ...

Best Food To Increase Sperm Volume, Motility and Libido

These are the top recommended food that men can have to increase their sperm counts/volume, motility (ie. the ability of sperm to swim toward an egg) and libido (ie. men’s desire to have sex) : 1.Oy...

Recovery After Women Gave Birth To A Child

How husband can support his wife after labour and conceive another one sooner? After labour, a mother really need the support from her husband in order for her to recover sooner from delivering a baby...

New Way Approaching Menopause symptoms VS HRT Treatment

Menopause symptoms? Menopause is a condition where woman’s menstrual period stop and she is unable to get pregnant naturally. There are some symptoms that women need to watch out for before they exp...

Endometriosis Diet

Painful menstruation could be the symptom of Endometriosis. Endometriosis is a disorder where endometrium found outside the uterus instead of inside. It could also lead to infertility issues for tho...

Natural Fertility

At Dr Christine Fertility Clinic, we encourage women to conceive naturally by going to regular acupuncture treatments combine with Chinese herbal medicine. We believe that women should monitor their b...

Healthy Life Starts with the Basic – FOOD

Today’s lifestyle has a significant effect on our food consumption, which can impact our healthiness and hence fertility level as well. Modern people like to order fast food or frozen food that has ...

How lifestyle may impact male infertility

How lifestyle may impact male infertility It has been known for centuries that women always blamed for the cause of infertility that happened in couple. However, did you know that male factor happens...

Post Natal recovery through Acupuncture

Our acupuncture fertility clinic is not only focusing on fertility for couples who want to conceive, but we also focus on helping new mothers for post-natal recovery through acupuncture. Acupuncture p...

Male Fertility and Acupuncture

The role of acupuncture in male fertility is very essential as it will increase the sperms count as well as improving the quality of the sperms (motility, numbers and shape). Over the past decade, mal...

Role of Acupuncture in Pregnancy Care

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Now that you are pregnant, what are the things that are necessary and important for the growth of the fetus inside your womb? We believe that acupuncture has a signi...

Why Acupuncture?

Our goal is to not only to help our patients to get to their optimum health and well-being, but also to assist women to conceive. There has been numerous use of acupuncture for treatment of varying d...

Top 11 Fertility Superfoods

1. Asparagus. It contains folic acid. It is always strongly recommended for women who try to conceive to consume folic acid supplements. According to study, it can reduce the risk of ovulatory failur...

How effective is Acupuncture in helping women with endometriosis to conceive naturally?

What is Endometriosis and the symptoms? Women who experiencing difficulty in conceiving could have endometriosis symptoms. Around three quarters of them would have painful menstruation or pelvic pain....