The joy of pregnancy is often disturbed by threatened miscarriage. While professionals from conventional medical background hold ‘wait and see’ approach, acupuncture has been found surprisingly effective in the attempt to stabilize and save the pregnancy.

Signs of threatened miscarriage:

Causes:

More than often the cause of a miscarriage remains unknown. Normal work and exercise won’t cause miscarriage although overwork and excessive exercise may pose danger to pregnancy. But some conditions can make expectant mothers more likely to have miscarriages, including:

Chinese medicine perspective

The main reason of the occurrence of a miscarriage is that Kidney qi is deficient that can not hold up the fetus.

Kidney qi deficiency is the underlying factor here, which may be caused by others factors including qi or/and blood deficiency, blood heat. And those factors are often found intertwined in practice.

Acupuncture

I normally use a protocol which I have found useful in practice. About four points are chosen.

Chinese herbal medicine

Want to say something about herbal medicine here. It is understandable that most women don’t want any herbs during their pregnancies. But, Chinese herbal medicine has been used to treat fertility problems for thousands of years, some herbal formulas are extremely effective in pacifying the fetus and saving the pregnancy, especially in cases of recurrent miscarriages (I will discuss it in the later post).  Therefore, I feel that I have the responsibility to inform every patient such an option. The choice is yours.

Clinical experience